After leaving the Song residence, the village chief carried Xingxing away until he was sure the people from the Song residence couldn't hear him anymore. Then he earnestly said to Xingxing, "Xingxing, although we were in the right today, it's not always enough to be in the right. Like when we entered the Song residence, there were so many servants and guards. If the other side is domineering and unreasonable, and we anger them, we might get tied up and beaten."
“If they attack us, the whole village will fight them together. They can’t beat us.” Xingxing said not to be afraid. Yegou Village is our own territory. We shouldn’t be afraid of a later Song family.
“But they are rich and powerful, and have more helpers. We can’t compete with officials by marrying into our village.” After saying this, the village chief silently shut his mouth, thinking that Xingxing was still young and how could she understand such complicated intricacies.
“Uncle Village Chief, are you saying that Master Song has officials backing him up, but we don’t have anyone backing us up? No one in our village is an official, and we don’t have broadswords, only hoes and axes. We can’t beat the officers with knives.”
Who says the little girl doesn't understand? She's very smart.
"That's right, so we need to be more careful with our words in the future, and speak according to the situation and the person. Don't get yourself into trouble because of a moment of anger. We need to be patient first, and as long as we're alive, we can always make a comeback." The village chief said as he walked.
Xingxing wholeheartedly agreed, "Xingxing understands. Let's keep a low profile from now on. Once our eldest and third brothers pass the imperial examinations and become high-ranking officials, we can stand tall and loudly retort."
The village chief grinned, “You’re right. Dongsheng will also take the imperial examinations and become an official. The more officials our village has, the more people will support us.”
"It's a pity that my second and fourth brothers don't like studying, so they probably have no hope of passing the imperial examinations. But there's still hope for my fifth brother." Xingxing was already planning how to help her fifth brother improve his studies.
Zhou Wufu: He got shot even while lying down. His future dream is to become a miracle doctor, not an official. Thanks for the invitation.
When the village chief took Xingxing home, Zhou Laoda also returned from town, bringing back a truckload of bricks. The foundation for his house had already been dug, and in a couple of days they would hire people to help them start building the house.
"Why bother you to bring Xingxing back? She has Xiaohui and Xiaohei with her. It's such a short distance, she can come back by herself." Zhao Guihua was a little surprised. The little girl had only been gone for a short time, so how come she came back so quickly, and the village chief even had to bring her back personally?
"Something happened. I just went to the Song residence." The village chief told Zhao Guihua and Zhou Laoda about how Song Yuanwai's youngest daughter had made things difficult for Xingxing.
Old Master Zhou frowned and said, "That Master Song seems like a reasonable person, so how come his child is so unruly and unreasonable?"
“In wealthy families, the inner quarters are managed by the mistress of the house, while the masters only care about the family business and other external affairs. It seems that Master Song doesn’t care much about his children. Xingxing and I went to reason with him earlier, and he was quite polite.” The village chief followed Zhou Laoda and his wife into the house and sat down in the main room.
"They've only just moved in and they're already bullying us. They don't respect the people of our village at all." Zhou Laoda was furious that his daughter had been wronged, but when he heard from the village chief that Master Song had a good attitude and said he would bring his children to apologize in person, his expression softened.
“We don’t need any apology. We just hope that the eighth young lady of the Song family can stay away from us in the future and stop picking fights all the time. I don’t think that Song’s wife is a good person either. Otherwise, how could she raise such a child?” Zhao Guihua hugged Xingxing, her face full of indignation, and her tone rose again and again.
The village chief looked somewhat embarrassed. He calmly advised, "The Song family is not one that our village can afford to offend when we marry. I understand how you feel right now, and I also feel sorry for Xingxing for being wronged. However, we can't fight them. Since they have already lowered their stance, let's be patient and not act impulsively, or we will be the ones who suffer."
Zhao Guihua naturally understood this principle; otherwise, she would have rushed to the Song residence to argue with them long ago. However, she was still deeply resentful. At this moment, seeing Xiao Hui and Xiao Hei running into the main room, happily wagging their tails and shaking their heads, she felt as if she had found an outlet for her anger.
Pointing at Little Gray and Little Black, he scolded, "Look at these two stupid dogs! They've grown so big, yet they don't know how to protect Xingxing. What were they doing when the servants from the Song family came to stop people? They even let people insult and humiliate Xingxing!"
"Stupid dogs, they usually seem quite clever, how come they're so useless at crucial moments? What's the point of keeping them? Stew them all tonight, the village chief can stay and eat dog meat."
Zhou Laoda and the village chief: "?"
Forget it, let them keep quiet. When a woman gets angry to protect her child, there's no reasoning with her; it's indiscriminate attack.
Little Grey and Little Black seemed to understand Zhao Guihua's words, and ran away sobbing.
"Mother, my second and fourth brothers said that Little Gray and Little Black need to be taken to the mountains for training so that they can learn to hunt and unleash their wild nature. If they are always kept at home, they will become like rabbits in their burrows and forget even the most basic skill of digging holes."
Xingxing had previously thought that her second and fourth brothers were fooling her, but after what just happened, she also felt that Xiaohui and Xiaohei were too unhelpful. If they had been able to stand in front of her, she wouldn't have been so helpless.
“If that’s the case, then starting tomorrow, we’ll take Little Gray and Little Black with us whenever we go up the mountain. We must train them to be capable, otherwise we’ll have raised them for nothing.” Previously, Zhao Guihua was always worried that the dogs were being trained too fiercely by Erfu and Sifu, and that they might cause trouble. It’s better for poultry and livestock to be docile.
Now she understood that this animal, just like a person, was too docile and had no temper. It was truly pathetic that it didn't know how to fight back when bullied.
After venting her anger, Zhao Guihua felt a little better and her chest felt less suffocated. She said she was going to cook and asked the village chief to stay for dinner, but she didn't yell about killing the dog anymore.
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