San Niu burst into tears, frightened by Shu Ying's cold gaze, and Zhao Lijuan quickly went to comfort her.
"You've always acted like a capitalist, so what evidence do you need? Don't think that saying all this useless stuff will wash away your stain. No wonder the kid is so arrogant and domineering; it turns out that the upper beam is crooked, so the lower beam is crooked too."
Shu Ying was amused and annoyed; she was quite adept at playing the victim.
"You say that evidence isn't needed, then I'll say that you're also a capitalist. If everyone is free to speak without responsibility, how many people would be wrongly accused and die?"
Shu Ying stared intently at Zhao Lijuan: "I heard on the very first day I arrived that you had designs on my husband. That was so many years ago that I didn't take it to heart. But if I don't care about evidence, I'm going to say that you seduced my husband, that you wanted to destroy my family, and that you are a criminal who ruined military marriages."
Those are all old, trivial matters. On their wedding night, Xie Zhiyan didn't want any misunderstandings between them over trivial things, so he told her everything that seemed a little off.
Shu Ying didn't want to bring up the past and wanted to give the two adults some face, but Zhao Lijuan was too aggressive, and those past events became a sharp sword in her hand.
The people around Zhao Lijuan looked at her strangely. Some of the older women who had been there longer knew about these things, but when Shu Ying brought them up, the fig leaf that had been hidden by the peaceful life was torn off.
Zhao Lijuan blushed with anger and frustration: "You, you're clearly talking nonsense! You need to provide evidence for what you say. My husband and I are doing great."
Shu Ying's eyes held a hint of sarcasm: "Why do you need evidence to speak? When you slandered me, you didn't have any witnesses or physical evidence. Everyone speaks with their mouths, do you think you're the only one who can talk a good game?"
Junjun was too young to understand these things, and he was completely unaware of the subtle power struggles between the adults. He just kept lying in the sandpit, rolling around wildly.
"They ruined my Great Wall! They're despicable capitalists! They're going to go to the countryside to collect cow dung! Mom, tell Dad to beat them to death!"
Li Meng looked at Shu Ying with some embarrassment, trying to pull the child out of the sandpit.
"Jun Jun, be good. The little boy didn't do it on purpose. Let's go home first, okay? Mommy will go home and get you some candy."
Junjun cried his heart out: "Mom is a bad person. I don't want to eat candy. I want them to pay me back for the Great Wall."
He rolled around in the sandpit, crying and screaming at the top of his lungs, which annoyed several parents nearby.
Li Meng could only try to pull the child up, but a three-year-old child can be incredibly stubborn and strong; it's not something a woman can hold down.
Li Meng blushed with shame. She didn't want to get involved in the affairs between Zhao Lijuan and Shu Ying. Everyone in the compound lived their lives peacefully and quietly, without forming cliques, in order to live a good life.
But the child is young and has clearly been used as a pawn. And now, Shu Ying has the upper hand, making the crying child the target of everyone's anger.
When Gu Hao returned from training, he saw a crowd gathered on the playground. Hearing his son crying from afar, he rushed over.
Here were his wife and children, and standing in front of him were Shu Ying and their two children. He asked Li Dongfang, the only person he could talk to, and learned the whole story. He then lifted Junjun up with one hand.
"Apologize to them!"
He spoke seriously, and Junjun cried and made a fuss.
“I did nothing wrong, I don’t want to apologize. They were the ones who damaged my Great Wall first, and Dad is a bad guy too.”
Gu Hao, unable to bear it any longer, slapped him hard on the buttocks.
"I'm telling you that you're not learning good things at such a young age. You're only three years old, and you already know how to form cliques and frame others. Who taught you these bad habits?"
Junjun cried even harder, tears and snot streaming down his face, while Yueyue shrank back behind Shuying.
Li Meng turned her head away. The child's correct values had not yet been formed. He needed to be educated when necessary, but seeing him still resort to violence, she still felt sorry for him.
"The child is still young, and principles must be taught gradually. Don't be too impatient, we..."
"It's precisely because he's still young that he's easily manipulated. If we don't teach him a lesson this time, he won't remember next time. This time, when he went to the battlefield, Commander Xie saved so many people. When we were surrounded, it was the fathers of these two children that you bullied who saved your dad!"
He became increasingly angry as he spoke, because what soldiers cannot tolerate most is the bad habits and evil practices of their descendants.
"If it weren't for their father, you would be an orphan now, and you'd be the one being bullied! How could you team up with others to bully them? He trampled on your Great Wall, but why?"
Junjun kept sobbing, "Yes, it was Brother Potato who pushed him down."
Li Chunyan's expression was rather unpleasant, and Gu Hao's anger, which had been rising in his chest, finally subsided somewhat.
"Dad knows you're a good child, but if it weren't for their father, many of the kids playing here wouldn't have a father. You don't know how heavy the debt of saving a life is. Even without this connection, you can't bully people, and you can't spread rumors without evidence. Just because people say what others say doesn't mean it's right, and just because most people say it doesn't mean it's right."
He knew the child wouldn't understand, but there were things he needed to say to his wife, and also to everyone present.
"You must have a scale in your heart, knowing what is right and what is wrong. If you turn black into white and cannot distinguish right from wrong, then you are truly unworthy of being human."
Li Meng wiped Junjun's tears with one hand: "Tell your father that you have remembered what he said, go apologize to your older brother and sister, and say that you will never do it again."
Junjun kept sobbing, his body trembling like a sieve. He wiped the snot from his face, his little face was red from crying, and his body was covered with a layer of sand. He opened his mouth but his voice was choked and he couldn't say a complete sentence.
"Brother Yangyang, Sister Yueyue, I'm sorry, I will never do it again."
The two children were at a loss and looked at Shu Ying.
Shu Ying didn't say anything, but just patted his head, and the surroundings immediately fell silent.
Gu Hao held his hand and said, "No matter what, you can't be an ungrateful person. If I see this again, I'll beat you up every time I see you. Go home."
Junjun wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve, not daring to resist in any way. Li Meng quickly followed and soon left the sandpit, this place of trouble.
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