There were only a few dishes left to wash, so Xiaoxiao chased Song Yan out of the kitchen.
Song Yan used a special wooden comb to groom Bai Shuang's fur.
Just like a child, Bai Shuang gets angry if you ignore her.
The door was violently pushed open.
"Auntie, you'd better hurry and see! There's been a group fight." The one who came was Hu Youguang's eldest daughter, who was about sixteen or seventeen years old this year.
"A group fight broke out?" Song Yan wondered, "What does a group fight have to do with me?"
The child hurriedly pulled Song Yan away. "Wei An has called more than a dozen children from the literacy class, and they're currently blocking Ji Dagang's house."
Wei An went to deliver dumplings, so how did it turn into a group fight? Song Yan was a bit of a headache. She found that Wei An, despite his young age, was quite the braggart.
"...Do you submit?" Wei An's voice asked.
“Are you bandits? How dare you smash up my house? You dare touch a single hair on my head!” came Sun Lan’s voice.
"Such a shameless wretch, that's why you have such a shameless younger brother. We're going to beat you up, so what?" It sounded like the voice of Erzhuang's wife.
"Your whole family is bullying me, aren't you?"
"You didn't give Aunt Xiaochun any food, and Sun Dabao even stole the dumplings I was giving to Aunt Xiaochun. Classmates, beat up Sun Dabao!" Wei An's childish voice was unusually shrill.
"Ah! Help!"
The courtyard of Ji Dagang's house was noisy and chaotic.
Chen Xiaodong grabbed Ji Dagang by the neck, rendering Ji Dagang unable to do anything.
Sun Lan was surrounded by several women, led by Er Zhuang's wife. When Sun Lan saw her younger brother being beaten, she tried to help. The women surrounding her didn't let her get away with it. They held her tightly, pinching her repeatedly.
Four or five boys held Sun Dabao down, while Shuan and Wei An beat him with wooden sticks.
"Are you still going to steal Xiaochun's food?" Shuanzhu asked.
“I won’t dare again, I’ll never dare again, I’m going back to the Hexi Brigade.” Sun Dabao cried.
Song Yan felt it was best not to be too violent with children. She reached out and pulled Wei An back. "Okay, whatever it is, let's... What happened to your face? Who hit you?" Wei An's lips were red and swollen.
Sun Lan, who was crying and wailing, immediately stopped talking.
Wei Ping recounted what had happened.
Wei An quietly called Ji Xiaochun out and gave her dumplings. Unexpectedly, Sun Dabao secretly followed them out. He immediately tried to snatch the dumplings, which Wei Ping and Wei An certainly wouldn't let him have. But the two little ones simply couldn't get them back.
Sun Dabao snatched the dumplings and started eating. Wei An got anxious and called Hei Zai over. Hei Zai was quite fierce, so Sun Dabao cried and called her "sister."
Sun Lan hit Wei An because Wei An's dog had scared his younger brother.
In just a short while, the commotion attracted people from the neighborhood.
Wei Ping didn't say anything more. Wei An, having suffered a loss, couldn't accept it, and of course, some of the literacy class students came out to watch the commotion! So Wei An called for the literacy class students to assemble…
"Wei An, come here!" Song Yan commanded. "Does it hurt?"
"Auntie! It hurts! She hit me." Wei An had never been hit before. As she spoke, tears streamed down her face.
"Oh my god! Who hit her like that? Ever since Wei An was born, our family has never laid a finger on her." Aunt Wei was heartbroken.
Wei An pointed at Sun Lan, while Song Yan stared at her with eyes that seemed to be filled with knives.
“She bullied my brother first,” Sun Lan said, sounding somewhat unsure of herself.
"Such a big kid, bullying a younger one isn't enough, adults can intervene when kids fight!" Song Yan's words had barely left her lips when she slapped Sun Lan across the face. At that moment, she forgot about the inappropriateness of violence.
To everyone's surprise, Song Yan immediately took matters into his own hands, saying, "My own child hasn't done anything wrong, it's not your place to educate him."
Sun Lan was about to curse after being hit, but Song Yan was a bit intimidating, and the women in front of her looked like they were about to attack her, so she opened her mouth but didn't dare to say anything.
Sun Lan had heard that Song Yan could catch rabbits, hunt, and shoot arrows. She somewhat regretted taking action.
Sun Dabao stood there dumbfounded. It turned out that her older sisters had never been wronged in the village when they threw tantrums. "You're all bullying me! You're all bullying me! Waaah!" she burst into tears.
Song Yan grabbed Sun Dabao and dragged him over. "You actually dare to steal things? Who taught you that?"
Sun Dabao was scared and spoke the truth. "That brat Ji Xiaochun doesn't deserve to eat good food. The good food should be mine, and the dumplings should be mine."
Everyone says life under a stepmother is tough, but life under a sister-in-law is tough too.
Everyone looked at Ji Xiaochun with pity; the child was so pitiful, already thin. After Sun Lan entered, the child became even thinner and more unsightly.
Actually, the root of this matter lies with Ji Dagang; everyone is watching Ji Dagang.
At first, Ji Da didn't realize anything was wrong, but why were people looking at him like that...? Ji Da lowered his head just now, and he never said a word to Sun Lan.
Song Yan sighed inwardly. Ji Dagang felt no pity for his sister, nor did he realize his mistake. He was just too afraid to look up under everyone's pressure.
Song Yan: "This is their family matter, I shouldn't interfere. But everyone can see that Xiaochun has injuries on her face. Xiaochun, why were you beaten?"
Ji Xiaochun pursed her lips, a hint of stubbornness in her eyes as she looked at her brother. Unlike yesterday when she cried, these tears were held back, refusing to fall.
Aunt Cheng came out. "Dagang! We've all watched you grow up. Life isn't easy, and finding a wife isn't easy either. But your sister is young, and it's not easy for her either. You have to leave her a way to survive! A person shouldn't live a life where people talk behind their backs, right?"
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