Chapter 183 Little Master Liang
When she met the eyes of the three wolves, she was so frightened that she stopped crying.
One of the male wolves took two steps toward her.
Song Chunxue forgot her fear. She noticed that even the wolves were a family of three, while she had become a widow and was hiding here crying, about to become the wolves' prey. What would happen to her children?
Grief overwhelmed her like a flood; she pounded her chest and wept bitterly.
The wolf stopped, perhaps feeling sorry for her and not wanting to disturb her. It then turned and walked into the depths of the ditch with its mother and cubs.
Even now, she still feels lingering fear when she thinks about it.
The next day, the weather was still relatively warm, and Song Chunxue went to the field with Lao Si to pull up corn stalks.
Around noon, I ran into Li Dazui, who was sitting by the roadside.
They tacitly agreed that they wanted to talk about what happened last night.
"You weren't scared last night, were you? My cousin has had a tough life. After her husband was buried, she must have felt so sad that she couldn't sleep because she was all alone on the bed," Li Dazui sighed. "Sigh, I couldn't sleep last night either."
Song Chunxue didn't speak, but the fourth brother spoke up.
"Why was she crying so loudly? I was so scared my hair stood on end. I didn't fall asleep until dawn. She cried six times in a row," the fourth brother said in a low voice. "I hope she won't cry again tonight."
“You little rascal, you’re too young to understand. What are you afraid of? My cousin used to be the most timid person, she was too scared to go out at night, but last night she was alone in the night and cried three times on that road. She was so sad that she probably wasn’t afraid at all, she even wanted to see Cheng Laosan’s ghost.”
At this point, Li Dazui wiped away his tears, "They are all pitiful people, even ghosts wouldn't have the heart to bully them."
Song Chunxue remained expressionless as she watched Li Dazui cry, feeling no sadness whatsoever.
"Then you can cry by yourself for a while, we're going home to cook." Song Chunxue pushed the cart from behind. "Fourth brother, let's go."
"Sigh, what's the point of eating? I have no appetite. Life is meaningless." Li Dazui sat on the edge of the ground, his fingers clasped together on his knees. "I heard you sold all your sheep. Are you going to be a lazy bum from now on?"
"Hmm, there are still a few left unsold. Would you like to buy two?"
"Forget it, I can barely support myself." Li Dazui changed the subject. "Yesterday afternoon, I heard your eldest son beating his wife. Chen Feng was screaming and crying as she was beaten. That kid has finally made something of himself."
Song Chunxue couldn't help but laugh, "Is being able to beat your wife considered a sign of success?"
"It's not like that for others, but it's different for your boss. Chen Feng is so arrogant. He's only been behaving himself for a few days and he already dares to curse people. I heard that Chen Guangcai even came here secretly, but he didn't dare to come up from the ditch. He said a few words to Chen Feng and then left."
Song Chunxue raised an eyebrow, "He still dares to come?"
"Yes, I heard he was quite ill, yet he still managed to travel this far."
Song Chunxue didn't hear what was said after that.
Even if Chen Guangcai comes, so what? That's the boss's business.
In a few days, Song Chunxue planned to go to the county to buy a courtyard house as soon as possible, as this was the most important thing.
In the evening, Sanwa returned from school and ate absentmindedly.
The fourth brother nudged his arm. "What's wrong? Were you scared out of your wits last night?"
“No,” Sanwa said, snapping back to reality, “a girl came to the school today. She is the second daughter of Master Liang.”
"Huh?" The fourth brother asked curiously, "Doesn't he have a son and a daughter? How come there's a second daughter? Who did he have her with?"
“No, he gave birth to her himself,” Sanwa said. “Everyone says that when that girl was little, her parents thought she was too naughty and not like a girl at all, and that her birth chart was unlucky for her father.”
At this point, Sanwa felt a pang of pity. "Everyone says her parents disliked her very much. They scalded her with boiling water and pulled out her hair, so she used a wooden beam as a ladder against the wall and ran away. She hasn't been home for eight years."
The fourth brother was shocked.
"How could that be? He was our teacher. He was very kind to the students at the school. Sometimes when it rained heavily and we couldn't go home, he would take out steamed buns and share them with us."
How could he be so cruel to his own child?
Sanwa said with lingering fear, "But we saw that girl today. Her hair was very sparse, and there were indeed marks from being burned. She was very short. Her shoes fell off while she was playing, and she had six toes on her feet. Moreover, she herself said that for the past eight years, she had been sleeping in a cave in the ditch. Sometimes she would huddle together with wolves for warmth so that she wouldn't freeze to death in the winter."
The fourth brother was dumbfounded.
Song Chunxue remained calm; she knew about this from her past life, and what they said was true.
Sanwa looked at Song Chunxue and asked, "Mother, have you also heard that since he was lost and left unattended for eight years, how was he found?"
Song Chunxue ate the boiled potatoes with pickled vegetables, swallowing them so quickly that she almost choked.
"Because his second daughter was very sharp-tongued. Although she had almost starved to death over the years, she was young and liked to go to the school to play with the children. When the teachers from other villages and towns heard that her father was also a teacher, they filed a complaint with the county government and had no choice but to bring her back."
"What?!" The fourth brother slammed his hand on the table. "This is outrageous! If nobody cares, he'll just let his daughter starve to death?"
“You’re too young to know, do you know why he only started teaching here in the last two years?” Song Chunxue knew this Mr. Liang all too well; the things he had done were simply outrageous.
"Why?" the fourth brother asked curiously. "Could it be that he killed someone?"
“What’s even worse is that. In the past, there were quite a few families in the villages around here that sent their daughters to school. One of them was twelve or thirteen years old and caught the eye of your little teacher Liang. She got pregnant, and the news spread like wildfire. So he found someone to teach her elsewhere for five or six years, and only came back when everyone had almost forgotten about it.”
Song Chunxue said irritably, "Look at those teachers who were transferred to places too far from home, they must have done something wicked."
The fourth brother rubbed his cheeks, still not quite believing it.
"He doesn't seem like it. How could he be that kind of person?"
Sanwa spoke gently, "Actually, many people were talking about this at school today, and I thought it was false."
"And then what happened to that girl's child? She herself must have gotten married long ago, right?" The fourth brother was very puzzled. "Didn't that girl's family try to get justice?"
"It's said that he took a few taels of silver and it was resolved a long time ago." Song Chunxue sighed. "You can know a person's face but not their heart. When you go out in the future, never trust people easily. Who knows what they did in the past?"
The fourth son still didn't understand, "Then why did the teacher bring the child to the school? Isn't he afraid of what people will say?"
"If he was afraid of what people would say, would he have done so many immoral things?" Song Chunxue said earnestly. "Evil will be punished and good will be rewarded. He will get his comeuppance sooner or later."
Sanwa didn't quite believe that statement. "But I see him doing just fine now. His wife often comes to the school to cook for him, and he even bought a fine horse. He's so impressive. Most of the wicked people in this world live a life of ease and success, while good people are poor and die young."
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