Niu Dazhuang was the first to react. He stared in disbelief and raised his voice, "What do you mean by that? What do you mean Miss Song did it on purpose?"
Because they couldn't get the vegetables, the people were angry and rude: "What can she mean? She promised to give us vegetables, and now she says the vegetables are gone. What is she doing if not deliberately playing tricks on us?"
Furious and frustrated, Niu Dazhuang's tone also became angry: "Bullshit, it's not Miss Song's fault that the vegetables were burned."
"Besides, those dishes belong to Miss Song, not you. Even if she really doesn't give you any, you have no reason to blame her!"
There were still many people waiting outside the restaurant to get their food. When they heard the noise coming from the restaurant and learned that the food was ruined, a group of people changed their faces one after another.
Their focus was not that the food was ruined, but that the food was ruined. The food that Song Qianning promised to give them was gone.
Like the two common people, they all began to feel resentful towards Song Qianning, and their eyes towards her also changed.
"Bah! What vegetables were destroyed? It's clearly a lie. Only a fool would believe it. The truck was carrying vegetables, how could it possibly catch fire? Nine out of ten times, Song Qianning regretted giving us the vegetables."
"If you don't have the skills, don't take on the job. She was the one who first said she wanted to share the food with us, and now she's telling everyone that the food is gone. If she didn't do it on purpose, what could she do?"
"I thought Song Qianning was a good person, but she's just a fake. She takes on jobs without any skills. I think she was deliberately lying when she said she wanted to buy groceries for us. Who knows if she really bought them or not?"
"God bless you, how could Song Qianning be so mean? She didn't want to give it to me, but she insisted on telling everyone that the food was cooked. She really thought no one could see through her little thoughts. I thought she was a good person."
The people's voices of blame continued to be heard, and almost everyone believed that Song Qianning was pretending to be kind and deliberately used the burnt vegetables to deceive them and gain their gratitude.
Feeling the gazes from all around, Song Qianning, who had been silent all the time, gradually became colder in expression and her heart instantly became chilled.
This group of people actually thought of her like this.
As she felt a chill in her heart, Song Qianning suddenly recalled another incident.
In the past, when they were in heaven, there were many gods who could not bear to see the people suffer and would help them when they were in trouble.
At first, the people were grateful to the gods for saving them, but not long after, the original intentions of those mortals changed, and they thought that it was the gods' duty to help them.
Later, when they prayed again, the gods did not appear. The mortals became resentful and not only stopped offering incense to the gods, but also destroyed the gods' temples. This happened more than once.
How similar is this situation to those times when gods helped the people but were eventually blamed and their temples were destroyed?
We are all mortals, we are all greedy, and we all turn kindness into resentment.
Maybe they were indeed grateful to her at the beginning, but now that they saw that she could no longer help them, all that gratitude turned into resentment.
Blame her for not being able to help them any more.
After opening his eyes again, seeing that the people were getting more and more outrageous, Song Qianning shouted coldly, "Shut up!"
Because of her sudden cold shout, the people who were about to blame her subconsciously shut their mouths.
After they shut their mouths, the people finally realized what was going on and looked at Song Qianning with increasingly unpleasant eyes.
"Hey, why do you care whether we talk or not?"
"That's right, you were the one who said you would help us first, and now you're telling us the food's gone. If that's not just fake kindness, what's wrong with me saying a few words to you?"
"I knew she wasn't a good person. She was pretending to be nice a few days ago, but now she can't help but show her true colors."
Glancing at the people and listening to their anger and blame, Song Qianning's eyes were calm and his expression was level.
Stared at by her calm gaze, the people, feeling bored, lowered their voices, and some of them pouted and glared at her unwillingly.
Until the voices of the people died away, Song Qianning said calmly: "Now that you have finished speaking, it is my turn to speak."
"The burning of the food has nothing to do with me. I bought those with my own money. I wouldn't be so idle as to burn the food I bought myself. Whether you believe me or think I'm playing a trick on you is your freedom. Similarly, it's my freedom to help you or not."
"You may have forgotten that I am just an ordinary citizen like you. At most, my situation is a little better. I am willing to help you because I am kind-hearted."
As Song Qianning spoke, the faces of the people turned pale and blue, which was a very interesting sight.
Taking in their expressions, Song Qianning smiled with a slightly sarcastic look.
The people who blamed her were still saying she was a good person a few days ago, and even wanted to kneel down to thank her.
"Including those dishes, I want to give them to you so that they are yours, not for you to regard my help as your own."
"I still say the same thing. It's my freedom to help you if I want to, and it's also my freedom not to help you if I don't want to. If you don't want to help, you can go to the government for help."
"It's the government that raised taxes, not me, so I'm not the one you should blame."
Now, the crowd was completely quiet. Those people who had angrily accused Song Qianning stood there silently. After getting rid of their anger, many people's minds became clear.
Song Qianning was right. It was the government that raised taxes. The key to the problem was that the government increased taxes, not her.
Even if she really didn't want to give them food, they had no reason to blame her.
As time passed, a strange silence spread among the people.
A group of people looked at each other, many of them had red faces, and each one was more silent than the other, with a variety of expressions.
Niu Dazhuang heard clearly what the people said at first. He glared at them angrily and cursed them in his heart.
He had watched Song Qianning distribute so much porridge and food to the people before.
When the porridge and food were first distributed, the people all said that Song Qianning was a good person, and they kept saying good things about her.
Now it turns out that there is only something wrong with the food, but you are blaming me like this. It is really heartless!
If Song Qianning had not taken the initiative to give them porridge and distribute food, half of them would have been so hungry that they would have had to chew on tree bark or even starved to death. They relied on Song Qianning's things to fill their stomachs and avoid being forced to starve to death by taxes.
Those foods were all Song Qianning's own, and she had used up all her reserves for this.
It is no exaggeration to say that Song Qianning is their adoptive parent and savior. It would be fine if they didn't know how to be grateful to their savior, but how could they have the nerve to blame her?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and Niu Dazhuang opened his mouth to complain to Song Qianning.
Turning around, I realized there was no one beside me. Song Qianning, who had been standing there, had left without me noticing when.
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