Chapter 150 Jiang Nuanzhi: My poor son!
Li Junping pursed his lips tightly, his eyelashes trembling, his body stiff, and mechanically said, "From a fight."
Seeing that Jiang Nuanzhi remained silent, he added, "I was the one who hit him. If you want to punish me, I will accept it. If... I have to pay compensation, I will pay it back when I earn money in the future."
"Ha! Did you hear that! Even your little beast, your son, said that!" The woman changed her words halfway through her sentence when she met Jiang Nuanzhi's cool gaze, but still had a gloating look on her face.
Ping'er pursed her lips, not even looking up at Jiang Nuanzhi, and said only, "I... I'll go back and kneel down."
Jiang Nuanzhi pulled him back immediately.
"You haven't finished speaking yet, why are you leaving? Let me ask you, why did you hit him?"
Li Junping's tense body stiffened for a moment. Having been in so many fights, this seemed to be the first time someone had asked him why he hit someone…
In a daze, she looked up at Jiang Nuanzhi and saw her slightly worried eyes. For some reason, her nose suddenly felt a little sore.
"...Does it matter why?"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "Important. Of course it's important."
As Li Junping pursed his lips, pondering how to speak to her, he suddenly felt a pinch on his butt. He froze instantly.
He looked up at Jiang Nuanzhi with disbelief. Then, Jiang Nuanzhi winked at him. He was completely stunned.
Seeing that the child was stunned and didn't speak, Jiang Nuanzhi secretly pinched his little bottom again and asked very seriously, "Think carefully again, what exactly caused the fight? Did anyone steal your things, bully you, or scold you?"
Li Junping's face instantly turned bright red. The pent-up emotions in his heart dissipated completely in a daze. He subconsciously wanted to reach out and rub his bottom, but with so many people watching, he clenched his little fists tightly and said with a stiff little face, "He... stole my food first. The roujiamo and guolao that you made for me were very delicious. He insisted that I give them to him! When I didn't give them to him, he took them! When he couldn't take them, he threw them on the ground and stomped on them."
He also said I was a bastard born of a father but raised by no mother, a sinner, and a lowly person. I couldn't stand it, so I took action.”
"My poor son!" Ping'er hadn't even finished speaking when Jiang Nuanzhi pulled her into her arms. "I only bring my son a little bit of food to fill his stomach every day, and it gets stolen from him. How can you say such vicious things at such a young age? Does he deserve to die because of his sins? Does he deserve to have all the food given to you?"
“That child is tall and strong, while my son is so thin. I find it strange that my son doesn’t look like he can beat him. You’re bullying people at school, and now you’re bullying them at my home. This is truly outrageous!”
After he finished speaking, the onlookers around him looked rather strange.
"That seems to make sense. The Li family's child is thin and small, and is more than half a head shorter than that child. How could he possibly beat him?"
"That's really true."
"Don't listen to her nonsense! Her wolf cubs are vicious! Besides, my son is usually very honest and well-behaved, he would never swear! It's this woman who instigated her child to lie! These lowly people are good at bewitching people, don't believe her!"
"oops!"
Jiang Nuanzhi suddenly cried out in fright, and the next second she rolled up Ping'er's sleeve: "You guys have gone too far, how could you beat my son like this?"
When everyone looked over, they saw a long, red wound on Ping'er's arm, which was shocking to behold.
"How could you be so heartless! My child is so young, and you're going to smear him! This lady even said that your son is honest and well-behaved and doesn't swear! But you keep calling us inferior people, which shows what kind of person your child is!"
Jiang Nuanzhi wiped away her fabricated tears: "I wouldn't have bothered looking for you, but you actually came to my door? Now I'm asking you for money too, my son's wound needs treatment!"
Li Junping was stunned by Jiang Nuanzhi's appearance. He looked at her with her hands on her hips negotiating with others, and then glanced at the wound that had appeared out of nowhere on his own.
After thinking for a moment, he sat on the ground, rolled up his trouser leg, and tugged at Jiang Nuanzhi's sleeve: "Mother, he kicked my leg and broke it."
Jiang Nuanzhi looked down and saw Ping'er's leg, which was covered in bruises, and a hint of heartache flashed in her eyes.
He did give Ping'er an approving look, then raised his voice even higher: "Fellow villagers, look at this! Does this family have any sense of reason? Not only did they beat my son like this, but they also came to my house demanding money, asking for a hundred taels right off the bat, and they want to take everything from my house. How is their behavior any different from that of bandits?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the people around immediately began pointing and whispering about the woman.
The woman's face flushed red and then turned pale: "All of you, calm down! Don't listen to this wicked woman's attempt to shift the blame! They knocked out two of my son's teeth! This is a lifelong problem."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Nuanzhi went straight over to examine his son's teeth.
She pinched the child's chin and looked him up and down, then said, "Ma'am, you can't extort money like this! Your son is going through the teething stage, isn't he? Everyone come and see, I can see half of his little teeth have come in. It's not a problem at all. These molars are supposed to fall out anyway. You're not waiting for your son's teeth to fall out so you can come to my house and extort money from him, are you?"
As she said this, Jiang Nuanzhi frowned and looked at the child's clothes again: "This blood is not right either."
She sniffed it, frowned, and said, "Big sister, this isn't human blood at all, it's chicken blood, isn't it? Hmm."
"You, you, you're talking nonsense!"
"I'm talking nonsense?" Jiang Nuanzhi raised an eyebrow: "Look at the sign at my door. I'm a veterinarian. Do you think I can't tell the difference between human blood and chicken blood? Why don't you ask a few of the older ladies over there to come up and smell it? Human blood has a salty, fishy smell, but chicken blood has a fishy, musty smell. You can tell just by smelling it."
"Furthermore, elder sister, this is too far-fetched. The two children's fight must have happened several days ago. I haven't been home these past few days; I brought Ping'er some food I made for him to take to the academy a few days ago. It's been so many days, and you haven't even changed the children's clothes. And you're still saying you're not here to extort money?"
Upon hearing this, the surrounding crowd understood and immediately began pointing and whispering about the woman.
"After all that, it turns out they were just trying to extort money."
"Who says otherwise? They're desperate for money!"
"These two look honest and simple, but I never expected them to be so ruthless as to harm their own children. You really can't judge a book by its cover!"
The woman's face flushed red and then paled, and her eyes flashed with a fierce glint as she looked at Jiang Nuanzhi.
With a defiant and reckless rage, she roared, "You wretched woman, this is your own fault for refusing to listen to reason! It was only a hundred taels of silver, and we could have let it go. But now, don't blame me for reporting you to the authorities! Your whole family will be in jail!"
(End of this chapter)
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