Chapter 155 Shaken
Gu Mingyue couldn't think of any good idea for the time being so she had to put the matter aside.
Something also happened in Gu Laoer's family today.
Xiao Yao was playing with other kids from the same village, but for some reason, the kids suddenly started fighting.
Xiao Yao was also beaten, his nose and face were bruised and swollen, and his delicate little face was almost ruined again. He ran home crying.
Lin was shocked when she saw his appearance.
"My grandson, what happened to you? Did you have a fight with some kids? Who beat you up like this? Tell grandma right away and I'll take you to settle the score with that person."
"Grandma, they all called me a wild child that no one wanted. I have no father or mother. I was so angry that I started fighting with them. They were fine, but I didn't get any advantage."
Lin wanted to understand the whole story, but he couldn't be in a hurry for the moment. How could he go to settle the score with others so quickly? If he went to settle the score with others when it wasn't their fault, wouldn't that mean they were in the wrong?
So she asked, "Weren't you playing nicely at the beginning? How did you end up fighting? Why did they say you were an orphan? You are such a bunch of rude kids. You have a father and a mother, and you go out to do things every day."
"How come you got beaten up so badly? What should we do? Without the little doctor here, we can't treat you. We don't know medical skills and can't treat you. What should we do? If this delicate little face is ruined, it will be hard for you to get married when you grow up. Who would want to marry an ugly man?"
After hearing what her grandma said, Xiaoyao cried even more sadly.
When Gu Laoer came back from the fields and saw his grandson like this, he quickly asked his son to take him to the village chief's house.
Because they knew that the village chief had medicine for treating facial injuries and they could apply it to their children.
When the village chief saw the child become like this, he was furious.
"How could they beat you up like this for no reason? It's really hard for your child. I don't know where your parents are and when they will come back. The village chief will definitely seek justice for you and stop the children in the village from bullying you."
After saying this, the village chief went out and asked his wife to apply medicine to the child.
In fact, the cause of the incident was like this.
Xiao Yao wanted to play with them, but they didn't take him with them, and then they said a lot of nasty things.
"Go away, you unwanted wild child! We don't want to play with you. Your father and mother don't want you anymore. Why are you still hanging around in our village?"
"Don't talk nonsense. My father and mother just went out to do something. My grandma told me that they will not be back. They will come back to pick me up after they finish their business."
"You are such a little fool. My father and mother said you were a little sickly child and told us to stay away from you so as not to infect me. If your father and mother really loved you, they wouldn't have left you alone in this small mountain village and ignored you. They must have run away and didn't want you anymore. Who would drag a little sickly child like you around?"
Xiao Yao retorted angrily. His mother had told him since he was a child that he should never suffer any grievances that he shouldn't suffer and should not let himself down. He should be more generous and would get sick if he let himself down. So he tried his best not to let himself down since he was a child.
At that time, one of the children saw that he couldn't win the argument, so he started fighting with him. Those children were very strong and beat him until his face was bruised and swollen. Fortunately, the poison in his body did not relapse, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
That's why Xiaoyao ran back to his grandma's house crying.
The families of the children in the infected areas are aware of the situation, but the parents of those children can turn the tables and blame others.
"That was the girl from the Gu family who taught their children to be rude. How could a boy be so unreasonable and even beat someone up? Village chief, you are too nosy. This is just a fight between children, and it's nothing. You came to us in person, which is too biased. If one of our children was beaten more severely than him, you might not help us even if we went to ask you for help. That's the difference."
The village chief sighed and said, "I've said it before, I've always been fair in my dealings. How can you say I'm biased? If I were biased, I would only favor one family. How could I be so fair? Over the years, you're the only one who says I'm biased. Who dares to say I'm biased?"
The parents of these children were speechless. It was indeed the village chief. This is a job. They were wrong this time, but they must not admit that they were wrong at this critical juncture.
If I admit that I was wrong, I would definitely be scolded by the village chief.
So they could only deny it and put the blame on a child.
"If you don't pay the medical expenses to that child today, I will not leave your house. Your own family members will do the same. I educate my own children well. Let your own children bully a weaker child. You know that the child is sick. If the disease breaks out, it will cost the child's life. Do you know that?"
The mother of one of the children looked disdainful. She said, "To put it bluntly, he is a sickly child. The adults in his family didn't take any advice and let the child run out to play with us. You can't blame us for anything wrong. Besides, it wasn't us who let him out. Besides, if he gets sick and dies, it has nothing to do with us."
The village chief was so angry that his face turned blue when he heard this. He pointed at the woman and said tremblingly, "How can you say such a thing?
It is not the child's fault that he is sick, and it is normal for him to want to play with his friends. Not only do you parents fail to educate your own children, but you also say such cold and mean words. It is simply unreasonable! ”
In fact, the village chief also understood the implication of this statement, which was that he did not want to pay for the medical expenses.
They all came from poor families, and if it wasn't their own children who caused the trouble, they wouldn't want to take the money at all.
When their child came back, they had already thought about it. The child had been beaten black and blue, and the medical expenses would cost a lot of money. If these families pooled together, it would be possible, but if only one person took it, it would be impossible for him to take so much.
So the village chief is not so unreasonable as to ask others for so much medical expenses.
But before the medical expenses arrived, a neighbor came running over and said to the village chief in a hurry: "Village chief, go home quickly, your in-laws and mother-in-law are here to take your grandson home."
When the village chief heard this, he was so angry that he ran back home quickly.
The mother-in-law was holding her child and was about to go home, but when she saw the father-in-law coming back, she immediately became a little scared.
The couple are considered well-known in their village, but their positions are not higher than that of the father-in-law. After all, the father-in-law is the head of the village and his words still have prestige.
They still didn't dare to offend the village chief easily. If they did, it would be disastrous if they were not allowed to let their son return in the future.
The couple came today to have a good talk with the village chief. They wanted to bring their grandson home. After all, this grandson has their family name, Li, instead of the village chief's family name, Gu.
The father-in-law planned to explain the situation to him by reason and appeal to his emotions.
"My dear relatives, this child has been born for several months, and no one in our village has seen him yet. We want to take the child home to cherish him for a few days. Of course, my daughter-in-law can also go back with us."
The village chief's wife snorted coldly: "Our daughter dare not go back to your house. What if something happens? Your family's land is a Feng Shui treasure land. If something happens, they will come to settle the score with us later. Instead of this, I'd rather let my daughter stay at her parents' house. Anyway, your grandson doesn't have our surname, so what do you have to worry about?"
Your young man's parents don't think so. They feel that their grandson has been born for several months and it is time to take him home to show his relatives and friends.
The village chief would definitely not agree, because once his grandson goes home, his daughter must go back with him. After all, such a young child needs to be with her mother and needs to be fed. If they take the child back, they will definitely not be able to take good care of the child. The time will come for them to feed the child with rice soup. What should they do if such a young child drinks rice soup and any problems arise?
So he also explained the reason and moved them emotionally, saying: "I don't want my daughter to be wronged after marrying into her husband's family. Instead of that, I'd rather let her stay at her parents' home. If my best friend goes back with you, if something happens to your family, it will all be blamed on my best friend. I used to have a daughter, but she died of illness when she was young, leaving only this little girl. I don't want her to live an unhappy life in the future. If you insist on taking the child back, then take the child back. My daughter will never go back with you."
It’s over now. What’s the point of bringing their grandson back if their daughter-in-law doesn’t let them go back? Now my grandson is still young, and it is the time for him to be breastfed. His mother is not around. I can’t just give him rice soup to drink. What if he gets sick from it?
Just when the two families could not hold back, Anniu held the child and said, "Then you can take the child home first, and send him back to me when he is hungry. This way I won't have to go to your house, and you don't have to worry about what will happen to your village because of my bad luck. As long as I don't show up in your village, it will be fine. But you also have to take care of the child quietly. It will be in time to send him back when he is hungry."
Since their own rules said so, the village head and his wife had nothing to say, so they agreed to take the child back, but it would only take a few hours. If the child was hungry, they must send him back, otherwise they really didn’t know what to do.
The young man of the Li family accompanied his parents and the children back home.
They were walking home with their child and originally wanted to hire a donkey cart, but the donkey cart was a bit too bumpy to carry people. What if, by some chance, they couldn't hold the child firmly, that would be the end of them.
So they planned to walk back, but by the time they got back it would be almost night.
It may be impossible to send it back when it is almost evening, so you can only send it back tomorrow.
But Anniu was extremely worried at her mother's house.
The village head's wife saw her worried look and quickly brought a bowl of drink to comfort her. "Don't worry, the child will be fine. They will definitely send the child back tomorrow morning. After all, the two old people are old and will definitely not force the child to stay at the in-laws' house and not send him back."
After the child was taken back to his parents-in-law's home, he was quite well behaved at first, so the mother-in-law called your young man in to talk to him.
"My child, what are your plans for the future? Do you want to stay in your wife's family for the rest of your life? Do you want to take care of your mother-in-law and father-in-law until the end of their lives? Do you not care about me and your father anymore?"
"Father and mother, please don't force me, okay? I said I would marry my wife because you were afraid that he would bring disaster to the village and our family, so we came up with this idea. There's nothing wrong with me staying in my wife's family, and you don't have to bring this kind of thing up every time. You were wrong in the beginning, so you can't blame us."
"Son, are you confused? You are our only son. If you stay at your wife's family's house, what will happen to your father and I? Will there be no one to see us off when we are old and buried? Then your father and I will have nothing to do in our lives, right?"
The young man of the Li family listened to his mother's crying, feeling helpless and confused. He looked at the baby sleeping peacefully in the cradle, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Mother, I also know what you are thinking, but I am here to protect you and the child. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved at the same time. Besides, I have always been a filial child. You also know that I will not leave you alone. After a hundred years, I will come back to wear mourning for you and be filial to you. I will not stay at my parents-in-law's house every day, but will come back to see you often."
Of course, Li's mother knew that her son was a filial son, but there was a difference between living in her daughter-in-law's parents' home and living in her own home. She didn't want others to talk about them anymore, saying that her son was a live-in son-in-law.
So she said what had been hidden in her heart for a long time.
"Son, you have to know that you are the son of our Li family, not the son-in-law of their Gu family. You know what they say. You? People in the village say that you are the son-in-law of the Gu family, a son-in-law who married into the family. This makes your father and I ashamed to raise our heads when we go out, let alone walk in the crowd."
This put the young men of the Li family in a difficult situation. After all, their parents were unwilling to let their wife come back, so they could only stay at his father-in-law and mother-in-law's house. As for what others would say, they had no choice.
If it was just him who was in trouble, then he could just never come back and wouldn't have to hear those gossips.
When your mother saw that her son did not answer, she just said, "Think about it carefully once in a while, and you'd better give us an answer tomorrow morning." Then she went back to her room.
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