When Huang Shi returned and heard about the foolish thing his son had done, he didn't say a word and immediately tied the man to the old elm tree at the entrance of the village.
"Father," Huang Shan said, his face filled with shame and indignation, "what are you doing?"
Can't you play well at home?
Why does it have to be at the village entrance?
With so many people coming and going, it's embarrassing.
"What are you doing?" Huang Shi roared at his son, his eyes blazing with fury. "I'll teach you a lesson, you good-for-nothing bastard!"
I risked my life to clean up his mess, and this brat does the deed of pretending to have amnesia like a woman.
Let's see if he can't beat this bastard to death!
As he spoke, he raised the rattan cane and lashed it out with a series of cracking sounds.
The commotion attracted almost the entire village.
Everyone cares about their reputation; family scandals shouldn't be aired in public. Huang Shi's practice of hanging his child at the village entrance and beating him is truly unprecedented in Huangjiakou.
The Huang family members, who had just returned, didn't even have time to rest before all coming to the village entrance to see what was going on.
"Father," Huang Shan pleaded, "Let's fight at home, okay?"
Hanging at the village entrance and being beaten by onlookers, how is he supposed to face people in Huangjiakou after this?
"Now you know it's shameful?" Huang Shi sneered, cracking the rattan cane a few times. "Why didn't you feel ashamed when you did those disgusting things? How could I have given birth to such a worthless wretch!"
"Third Brother," Fourth Brother Huang advised, "When a child makes a mistake, we can just talk to him and teach him a lesson. It's a bit much to hang a grown man up at the village entrance and beat him."
"That's right, put him down right now. Who beats someone while they're hanging them at the village entrance?"
"You have no idea what that brat has done!"
Huang Shi sighed and slowly said, "What happened last night was caused by him. If he hadn't been so reckless, grabbing someone's weakness and then being discovered, Qingfeng Temple wouldn't have taken action against Huangjiakou."
"Father," Huang Shan pleaded, his face pale, "Don't say it!"
Upon hearing this, the crowd suddenly fell silent.
Huang Shi continued, "What's even more hateful is that this brat made a mistake, and a bunch of us risked our lives to clean up his mess, while he comfortably lay in bed all night, and then pretended to have amnesia. Isn't that disgusting?"
The onlookers were indeed disgusted.
This is something no human could do.
Can amnesia erase the past?
Does amnesia absolve one of responsibility?
That doesn't make sense!
"Hit them! Hit them hard!" Brother Huang let out a long breath. "I support you!"
If his son were like that, he'd skin him alive.
Everyone makes mistakes, but you can't be a coward. A real man should dare to admit and take responsibility for his mistakes.
That cowardly coward who pretends to be stupid and runs away doesn't deserve to be a descendant of the Huang family at all; he deserves to be beaten to death.
Feeling the contemptuous gazes of the crowd, Huang Shan, hanging there, felt as if all his clothes had been stripped off.
He didn't think that much at the time, and he didn't know what would happen later. He just didn't want people to mention the stain that Qin Shi had on her reputation, which she could never wash away in her lifetime, so he thought of doing something crooked.
However, he miscalculated one thing: Doctor Gu's medical skills were very high. He could tell his condition just by taking his pulse and then exposed it without any mercy.
"Father, I was wrong!"
“Now you know you’re wrong, but it’s too late,” Huang Shi asked while smoking. “What were you doing when your mother stayed up all night taking care of you? What were you doing when your father was out there fighting with a knife? You’ve ruined yourself for a woman, and who have you been fair to?”
"You've caused your cousins to be hunted down, made Huangjiakou a target, and brought shame upon the second branch of the family. What happened to all the lessons your grandfather and I taught you over the past twenty years? Have you given them all to the dogs?"
As he spoke, Huang Shi grew increasingly angry, and his blows became heavier and heavier, surprising even Huang Xiaosan.
"Mother, I never thought that my uncle would be so impulsive."
“This wasn’t an impulsive act,” Jiang Nuan sighed, “it was out of love for his son!”
Having a son like his nephew must have been a real worry for the eldest brother and sister-in-law.
My older brother just got back and he already has to clean up his son's mess. It's really tough on him.
“How can it not be impulsive?” Huang Xiaosan pointed at Huangshan. “Hanging him up at the village entrance and beating him without giving my cousin any face, and even revealing everything, my cousin will probably have a hard time holding his head up in the future.”
"No, keep watching, you'll find out in a bit."
After saying this, Jiang Nuan closed her mouth tightly and stopped speaking.
As Huang Shi whipped him, Huang Shan's clothes were torn to shreds, and his body was covered with countless wounds, with blood gushing out, which was quite frightening.
Before long, the onlookers couldn't sit still any longer.
"Chieftain," Huang Sheng said with great reluctance, "that's enough. If you keep hitting him, something bad will happen to the child."
You can't just beat someone to death, can you?
Although Huang Sheng was also very angry, he felt that Huang Shan did not deserve to die.
After all, last night was a close call, and we still gained so much.
“No,” Huang Shi said firmly, “If we don’t teach him a lesson, he’ll just keep doing it again.”
“Father, I really know I was wrong,” Huang Shan’s hoarse voice rang out. “Put me down.”
Hanging from the tree for so long, he felt like his arms were going to break and his body was burning with pain. He wished he could just pass out.
However, even this humble request was not granted by God.
He had to endure his own father's merciless beatings, as well as the villagers' staring at him like he was a monkey and their undisguised contempt.
Upon hearing this, Huang Shi stopped what he was doing. "Tell me what's wrong?"
"The mistake was... acting impulsively!"
"That's only one aspect; it's not enough!"
After saying this, Huang Shi continued whipping.
Sister-in-law Huang felt very sorry for the child, and tears kept flowing down her face. She could only cover her mouth to keep herself from making a sound.
Her son made a huge mistake this time. If she continues to cover it up, he will only go further astray.
"What a fine child," Old Man Huang sighed, "how could he have changed so much!"
It was so fast that it caught people off guard.
He couldn't even find the reason.
Even now, Old Man Huang is unwilling to admit that Huangshan has always had problems, and instead attributes it to: people have changed.
“My daughter-in-law wants to know too,” Sister-in-law Huang said, wiping away her tears. “I shouldn’t have married the Qin family girl in the first place.”
It's no wonder the son went crazy after suffering such a great humiliation for no reason.
No one could accept something like this.
“It’s too late to regret it now,” Old Huang shook his head. “When I find a wife for Dashan in the future, I must find out about the woman’s ancestors for eight generations, so that I don’t encounter any more disgusting people.”
“We also need to establish rules,” Sister-in-law Huang said, “Qin Shi is someone we spoiled, and we absolutely cannot let this happen again.”
A daughter-in-law should act like a daughter-in-law; otherwise, she will only cause trouble.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Nuan frowned. "The main problem lies with Da Shan himself. He is indecisive and soft-hearted, wavering back and forth, yet unwilling to accept the outcome, which is why he caused all this trouble."
She really couldn't listen to it anymore.
These people seem blind to their own nephew's serious problem, instead blaming everything on Qin Shi.
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