"Stop! Stop hitting him!"
"Zhou's family! Cunzhi's mother! Stop! Are you trying to kill her?"
When the people from Guangming Road Subdistrict Office arrived, Pang Zijuan had already been beaten to a pulp by Chen Suwen and her mother-in-law.
To prevent Chen Suwen and her mother-in-law from actually beating someone to death, they quickly separated them.
Chen Suwen didn't really intend to kill anyone. After the neighborhood committee staff came to mediate, she reluctantly let go of Pang Zijuan.
"Waaaaah, Aunt Yao, you have to stand up for me! Waaaaah... Look at her, that old hag Chen Suwen beat me up so badly! Waaaaah..."
Pang Zijuan finally burst into tears and complained to others; she simply couldn't keep up the pretense of being stubborn anymore.
She only wanted Chen Suwen to receive the punishment she deserved; she couldn't let herself suffer this injustice.
Yao Huijuan frowned at her, then looked at Chen Suwen, "Cunzhi's mother, why are you fighting again?"
Yao Huijuan knew that the Zhou family and the Wu family had become enemies because of the adoption of Zhao Lexin.
But she also felt that Chen Suwen did the right thing.
Zhao Lexin's parents are heroes, but their child was abused by the Wu family. Chen Suwen was right to help them out of injustice.
At that time, Yao Huijuan was worried that she would be questioned by her superiors.
After all, the residents of Guangming Road had abused the hero's orphan right under her nose. She had failed in her duty to watch the hero's child being mistreated.
Having been warned by her superiors last time, Yao Huijuan was genuinely curious to know how these two had gotten into a fight this time.
"You deserved it if I hit you, didn't you? Who told you to help your son hit my grandson?" Chen Suwen was unreasonable and domineering, pointing at Pang Zijuan who was being helped up by the street office staff and cursing her.
"Your two sons are good-for-nothing bastards. It's none of my business if they end up in jail eating peanuts."
"But what you shouldn't have done was to let your son beat my grandson!"
"Don't you know that our Zhou family only has this one precious grandson? If we break him, we couldn't afford to pay for it even if we sold you."
"Hitting you was the least I could do; at least I didn't hit your son too!"
"Let me tell you, Pang Zijuan, if you provoke me again, I'll not only beat you, but I'll also beat your husband and your son!"
Chen Suwen spoke with righteous indignation, and his threats were made openly and legitimately.
Yao Huijuan listened to Chen Suwen's harsh words and then looked at Zhou Xian, who was being held by Zhou Cunzhi. The blood in the child's mouth had been cleaned and was no longer flowing.
But the red marks on the little boy's face, and the abrasions on his wrists and the backs of his hands, showed that he hadn't held back during the fight.
Yao Huijuan frowned and looked at Pang Zijuan, "Pang Zijuan, did you lay a hand on Zhou Xian?"
"I didn't!" Pang Zijuan knew very well that Zhou Xian was the only precious grandson of the Zhou family, and she also knew how protective Chen Suwen was of her own, so she didn't lay a hand on him.
She was just helping her son hit Zhao Lexin; she didn't lay a hand on Zhou Xian at all.
Zhou Xian fell and was scraped when he was pushed and shoved by Zhao Lexin and her son while he was helping her. She did not hit him at all.
"I didn't hit him! It was clearly that old hag Chen Suwen who deliberately hit me. I'm innocent, Aunt Yao."
Pang Zijuan refused to admit that she and her son were at fault first; she claimed that Chen Suwen's beating of her was Chen Suwen's fault, and that she was not at fault.
"Oh, you didn't hit my grandson? Where did the injuries on his face come from? Where did the injuries on his body come from?"
"You not only hit my eldest grandson, you also hit my eldest granddaughter."
"Pang Zijuan, do you think that just because Lexin stayed at your house for a month, she can be bullied by you?"
"Zhao Lexin is my granddaughter, Chen Suwen! I can bully my own daughter, but none of you can!"
Chen Suwen spoke with great confidence, especially when she said she could bully her own son.
When Yao Huijuan and other staff members of the subdistrict office heard this, their lips twitched.
Yao Huijuan and the others did not just listen to Chen Suwen or Pang Zijuan, but asked other people to see if they knew the cause of the matter.
After all, there are residents around where they were fighting, and they would hear the noise when the children were fighting.
Those who knew the cause and course of events, especially the children, began to tell their stories all at once.
From the moment they played with toys and sand with the Zhou family's children, to the time when the brothers Wu Cheng and Wu Xuan came over to try and snatch toys but failed, they directly hit Zhao Lexin.
Then, Pang Zijuan, an adult, came over and helped the Wu brothers, Wu Cheng and Wu Xuan, bully the Zhou siblings.
“Wu Cheng’s mother is really scary. She hit Le Xin and called her a jinx. She’s a bad person.”
Several other children who were close to Zhao Lexin and Zhou Mei complained that Pang Zijuan had gone too far.
It's really too much for an adult to bully a six or seven-year-old child.
Hearing what everyone said, Yao Huijuan looked at Pang Zijuan disapprovingly and said, "You deserved to be beaten."
"Didn't we warn you last time? How dare you bully a little kid like Lexin?"
"What grudge do you have against them?" Yao Huijuan looked at Pang Zijuan with a face full of disapproval.
"What grudge do you hold against me?" Pang Zijuan's words were filled with resentment. "She made me lose my job, she caused my husband Acheng's father to get a major demerit... What grudge does she hold against me?"
"If it weren't for her, how could I have lost my job? If it weren't for her, how could my family have ended up like this?"
Pang Zijuan already disliked Zhao Lexin because of Chen Qixue, and after the last incident, she resented her even more.
It was all because of Zhao Lexin that she lost her job. How could she not hate her? How could she not resent her?
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