When the neighbors rushed into the hall, they saw Grandma Tian covering her face and crying.
When Grandma Tian saw the neighbors coming, she put down her hands that were covering her face, showing them the obvious slap marks.
"Fellow villagers, you also saw the wound on my face," Grandma Tian pointed at Chen Guihua who was sitting opposite her and cried, "She wants to beat me to death. Come on, help me beat her!"
As soon as Grandma Tian finished speaking, Shen Guihua widened her eyes and looked at everyone.
"You only know that I beat her, but do you know why I beat her?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the few people who wanted to grab Chen Guihua stopped in their tracks. Yes, there must be a reason to beat someone!
Seeing several people pause, Chen Guihua continued, "Grandma Tian is Tian Cuihua's biological grandmother. Not only did she abuse her own granddaughter, she even sold her. Shouldn't such a person be beaten?"
When everyone heard what Chen Guihua said, they all looked at Grandma Tian with wide eyes. An old lady asked, "She said you wanted to abuse Cuihua and sell her off. Is that true?"
Grandma Tian would never admit to these accusations that made her lose face. She shook her head decisively and said, "Don't listen to her nonsense. I didn't do that!"
"You dare not take responsibility for what you did, huh?" Chen Guihua glanced at Grandma Tian and then at the crowd of onlookers. "Look at the Tian family's grandchildren outside the courtyard. Why are they all white and plump, while Tian Cuihua is so skinny?"
Everyone hadn't paid much attention to their grandchildren before, but after Chen Guihua mentioned this, they nodded and turned to look at them again and again, and found that there was indeed an obvious difference.
Where did this gap come from? Without Chen Guihua pointing it out, everyone could guess that Tian Cuihua, who had no parents, must not have had enough to eat here.
Then everyone started talking in a low voice, and one or two aunties spoke louder and directly accused Grandma Tian of doing the wrong thing.
When Grandma Tian saw that everyone was against Chen Guihua, she was so angry that her teeth were itching.
"Don't talk nonsense," Grandma Tian said, one hand on her waist and the other hand trembling as she pointed at Tian Cuihua. "It's obviously because she's picky about food. She won't eat this or that. That's why she's so thin!"
Is this... worthy of belief?
Regardless of whether everyone believed what Grandma Tian said or not, Chen Guihua directly lifted up the clothes on Tian Cuihua's back in public, revealing scars of varying depths.
Judging from the shape of the scars, they were probably left by being whipped.
"Everyone, take a look for yourself. If you say the child is so thin because he's picky about food, then how do you explain the injuries behind it?"
In fact, when Shen Guihua saw Grandma Tian calling Tian Cuihua to her arms and Tian Cuihua showed resistance, she guessed that Tian Cuihua might have been bullied by Grandma Tian. Then she looked inside through the child's collar and really saw some vague scars.
But she didn't expect that when she lifted up the clothes on the back, there would be so many scars, which made her heart bleed.
"Grandma Tian, please explain to me what exactly happened to Tian Cuihua's back injuries?"
There was a tone of crying and grief in Chen Guihua's voice.
Everyone pointed at Grandma Tian again, wondering how this old woman could do such a thing? This was her own granddaughter!
Grandma Tian saw that the situation was not good, but she still wanted to struggle.
She pointed at Shen Guihua and gritted her teeth, trembling all over, saying, "She is a human trafficker. Everyone has been deceived by her. She is here to steal Cuihua from me."
The people in Tianjia Village had rarely seen Chen Guihua before, and they felt that she looked a little unfamiliar.
Compared with the word "human trafficker", the evil things that Grandma Tian did to the children are not so obvious.
When Chen Guihua heard Tian Cuihua call her a "human trafficker", she was not angry, but smiled triumphantly.
"I'd like to ask all the villagers of Tianjia Village to go to the public security team. When the police arrive, I want to see whether they will arrest me, the so-called human trafficker grandmother, or the child's own grandmother who abused her."
Grandma Tian still refused to give in. "You...you, you are not Tian Cuihua's grandmother, you are a human trafficker. When the police come, they will definitely arrest you."
"Oh, really?" Chen Guihua raised her eyebrows. "Do you think the police are just there to eat and do nothing? They can just go to the household registration department and find out if I'm Tian Cuihua's grandmother. But you won't be able to explain the child's injuries clearly."
Grandpa Tian, who was standing next to Grandma Tian, actually felt sorry for Tian Cuihua, but he was used to being afraid of his wife, so most of the time he just watched and didn't dare to say a word.
Now that he saw that Chen Guihua had said so much, he decided to be brave for once and tried to persuade Grandma Tian to let Tian Cuihua go.
"Grandma, I think we should just let it go. Now that my in-laws are doing well, we can just give Cuihua away. This will also be a good thing for Cuihua!"
Grandma Tian glared at Grandpa Tian angrily, and just as she was about to say something, she fainted in Grandpa Tian's arms.
"Grandma, Grandma, don't scare me... Grandma..."
When everyone saw Grandma Tian faint, they immediately forgot about her argument with Chen Guihua and went forward to check on the situation with concern.
Chen Guihua also pretended to be kind and stepped forward to ask, "In-laws, are you okay?"
But when Chen Guihua approached Grandma Tian, she stepped hard on her foot.
The sudden pain made Grandma Tian scream and jump up.
She opened her eyes and saw that it was Shen Guihua who stepped on her just now. Her wrinkled face twisted and she roared in displeasure, "Why did you step on me?"
"I was treating you," Chen Guihua explained with a smile, "Look, when I kicked you, didn't you wake up? Haha..."
Everyone was not stupid. They knew at a glance that Grandma Tian was pretending to be unconscious, and they all shook their heads helplessly.
Grandpa Tian was really embarrassed by his wife's shameless behavior. How could he end up with such a wife!
"Grandma, let me make the decision this time," Grandpa Tian said, looking at Tian Cuihua who was hugging Chen Guihua's thighs. "Cuihua, you should live a good life with grandma in the future. Grandpa will visit you when he is free."
Tian Cuihua looked at Grandpa Tian, not quite understanding what he meant, nodded and said "Okay".
Although Tian Cuihua is young and doesn't understand many things, she has been smiling at Chen Guihua since she entered the yard. She held her in her arms to make her laugh, and even helped her make Grandma Tian, who bullied her every day, cry. She can feel the sense of security brought to her by this woman who calls herself "Grandma", so when Grandpa Tian asked her to live with Chen Guihua, she was happy.
"But what about the two thousand yuan?" Grandma Tian frowned when she saw this scene.
"Grandma, stop talking about money all the time. People are all made of flesh and blood. Why can't you take a step back for Cuihua's sake?"
"I won't talk about money, just let her take Cuihua away," Grandma Tian snorted coldly, "Am I sick?"
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