"You're coming back soon? I doubt it, and I don't think you'll dare to come back."
"What are you waiting for? Why should we wait! Da Ya, open the door now. I've made it clear that if the water chestnuts are dried, you have to return them to me according to their dry weight."
The five children of the Fan family followed Shuiqing's teachings, remaining calm and composed. No matter how much the crowd shouted, they politely told each other to wait for their parents to return.
After shouting and cursing for a while, Wang Mazi and the others were parched.
But there were five children on the other side, surrounded by several layers of people, and the old village chief was also there to keep watch. They couldn't fight back, they could only yell and curse.
Damn it, we don't even have a sip of water. This won't last much longer.
Fan Damu glanced at the thatched hut and urged, "It's just a thatched hut, how can it stop us grown men?"
The second son just separated from the family, and I know he has several sacks of rice, millet, and corn—enough for us to divide!
When Zhang the Bald heard that there were several sacks of grain, his eyes lit up.
Wang Mazi immediately chimed in, "Good! They took our things and won't return them, so it's only right that we take back what's ours!"
When Jiang Hehu heard that they were going to take their grain, he panicked.
Thump, thump, thump, she ran up to them, opened her arms to block their way, and said, "No, Mom and Dad will be back soon!"
They will return it to you when they come back; you can't go to my house to get it yourself!
"My parents aren't home, how dare you enter our house and take our food?"
Wang Mazi didn't care. Taking advantage of his age, he roared, "Why can't we take your grain? Are you allowed to take our chicken head rice, but we're not allowed to take yours?"
Everyone, please be the judge, what kind of logic is this?
“That was agreed upon!” Xinghui replied loudly in return.
"Tsk tsk, who told you that? Your parents are lying! Lying, you understand?" Fan Damu chimed in from behind every now and then.
Upon hearing this, Baldy Zhang exclaimed, "Yes, it's a lie, it's a lie!"
"Your parents are liars, big liars beget little liars, you're all a bunch of little liars!"
"Shameless! He's cheating the whole village. Doesn't he fear retribution?"
"Give me back the grain I worked so hard to harvest all day!"
...
The five children of the Fan family are, after all, just kids. The eldest, Yan Qiu, is only eleven years old. They could tolerate it before, but now that their parents are being scolded, they can no longer bear it.
As the eldest sister, Yan Qiu stood in front of her younger brothers and sisters, displaying the composure and demeanor of an elder sister.
She slightly raised her chin, tilted her head back, and said, her voice trembling with anger, "My parents are not liars!"
You broke your word, went back on your promises, and have absolutely no credibility. Fine, you don't need to say anything, our family will return it to you!
"You're all talk, what good are your words, you little brat? You say you'll back out, fine, then back out!"
"Tsk, can you even be in charge? A little girl like you dares to talk big like others, it's hilarious!" Fan Damu shouted again from the crowd.
The old village chief frowned deeply.
Just as Li Changlin was about to speak, he heard a clear voice coming from afar.
"She's the one who can manage the household and make the decisions in our family!"
Hearing the familiar voice, Yan Qiu's previously suppressed anger dissipated, and she turned her head towards the source of the voice with tears in her eyes, "Mother!"
"Mother!" The other four children saw Shuiqing at the same time, and the five children ran towards her as quickly as weary birds returning to their nests.
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