Chapter 243: Life is worse than death
When the old lady heard the word "mountain flower", she suddenly exerted force with both hands that were holding Su Nanzhi's arms.
"Shanhua? Are you our Shanhua's classmate?"
Su Nanzhi seemed not to feel the pain in her arm, and she shook the old lady's arm back.
"Yes, Auntie, I am Shanhua's classmate."
The old lady opened her cloudy eyes, but the look in her eyes when she looked at Su Nanzhi was surprisingly bright.
"Do you know why my Shanhua jumped into the river?"
Su Nanzhi's face turned pale instantly.
She looked at Grandma Zhao Shanhua and hesitated whether she should come to the Zhao family today.
At this moment, the courtyard door was pushed open again, and an old man with a hunched back looked at Su Nanzhi and said, "Girl, do you know why my Shanhua jumped into the river?"
Without waiting for Su Nanzhi to react, the old man pretended to kneel down.
"Please, tell us, otherwise how are we going to explain to Shanhua's parents after we die?"
Although Su Nanzhi stepped forward to stop the old man's actions, the old man had already knelt down on one leg and refused to stand up.
Before she could help him up, Grandma Shanhua on the other side knelt down and begged her.
After a long while, Su Nanzhi finally calmed down the two old people.
"Classmate, you are Su Nanzhi, right?"
After regaining some composure, Grandpa Shanhua sat on the chair and looked Su Nanzhi up and down.
Su Nanzhi just thought that Grandpa Shanhua had just heard her and Grandma Shanhua’s self-introductions, and she was just about to nod.
Then I heard Grandpa Shanhua sigh.
"Girls change a lot when they grow up. You used to be so dark and skinny, but now you've become a grown-up girl."
Su Nanzhi was stunned. She didn't expect that Grandpa Shanhua really remembered her.
Grandpa Shanhua seemed to be lost in his own memories.
"No wonder Shanhua said you were pretty when she came back. At that time, I even laughed at her for having poor eyesight."
"You look so beautiful now, just like Shanhua said, you look like a red flower growing on the edge of a cliff, you look festive at first glance."
Su Nanzhi didn't expect that Shanhua, who had only spoken a few words to her, actually mentioned her to her family.
"If Shanhua were still alive, she would definitely be your age."
Grandma Shanhua on the side spoke with sobs.
Grandpa Shanhua murmured, "Yes, if Shanhua were still alive, she might have been married and had children by now."
Although Su Nanzhi is usually eloquent, when facing two lonely old people, it seems that everything she says seems pale and powerless.
"Grandpa Shanhua, Grandma Shanhua..."
Grandpa Shanhua waved his hand, withdrawing his thoughts from the past, and stared at Su Nanzhi with his eyes.
"Girl, do you know why our Shanhua jumped into the river?"
When Zhao Shanhua had an accident, the police said she jumped into the water on her own.
But how could the old couple accept this result?
The granddaughter who said goodbye to them with a smile in the morning and went to school never showed up again. When she appeared again, she had become a corpse so swollen that it was unrecognizable.
They had always been well-behaved and obedient, saying that they would become workers after graduation to take care of their granddaughter, and yet she left them behind.
They couldn't accept that Zhao Shanhua jumped into the river because she was depressed. They thought someone must have harmed her.
However, Zhao Shanhua usually spends her time at home pasting paper boxes apart from going to school, and she doesn't know any of the idle people outside.
So they went to ask Zhao Shanhua's classmates, but all of Zhao Shanhua's classmates avoided talking about her death.
No one told them why Zhao Shanhua jumped into the river for no reason.
In fact, they also went to look for Su Nanzhi, but by coincidence they didn't meet her every time.
Seeing that Su Nanzhi didn't say anything, Grandpa Shanhua's eyes turned red and he looked at Su Nanzhi with a pleading look.
"Girl, please tell us. We just want to know why Shanhua jumped into the river for no reason."
Su Nanzhi let out a long sigh, "Grandpa Shanhua, Grandma Shanhua, you both promised me not to get excited after hearing this!"
Seeing the two old men nod, Su Nanzhi then recounted Zhao Shanhua's situation in the class back then.
Fearing that the two elderly people would be too excited, Su Nanzhi deliberately concealed the most cruel details. But even so, the two elderly people's reactions after listening to Su Nanzhi's story were beyond her expectations.
"Cheng Meiqin... isn't she a teacher?" Grandpa Shanhua's hands trembled violently, his rough fingers tightly gripping his cane. "How could she treat her students like this?"
Shanhua's grandmother burst into tears, her skinny fingers unconsciously tugging at the corner of her clothes: "My daughter Shanhua has been sensible since she was young. After school, she helps me feed the pigs and cook. She never talks about school... I always urge her to study hard..."
When the old man said this, he suddenly raised his hand and pounded his chest fiercely, "It's all my fault that Shanhua is here!"
Su Nanzhi hurried forward to support the staggering Grandma Shanhua.
Grandpa Shanhua suddenly stood up and staggered out the door.
"Old man!" Su Nanzhi hurriedly stopped him.
"I'm going to find that Cheng Meiqin!" Shanhua's grandfather's eyes were red and his voice was hoarse. "I want to ask her what my Shanhua did wrong!"
"My Shanhua is such a good child."
Seeing the two of them crying, Su Nanzhi also felt very sad.
"Grandpa, don't get excited." Su Nanzhi used her strength to stop Grandpa Shanhua and helped him sit on the chair.
"Calm down first, or I'll really regret telling you what I just told you."
Grandpa Shanhua was breathing heavily and it took him a while to calm down, but his red eyes showed his inner injustice.
"Thank you for telling us this, girl. Now go."
When Su Nanzhi heard this, her brows immediately furrowed.
"Old man, are you planning to fight Cheng Meiqin to death after I leave?"
Grandpa Shanhua's expression froze, obviously what Su Nanzhi said came true.
Su Nanzhi sighed, "And then?"
"I'm not saying anything harsh, but you can't even walk steadily right now, how can you fight with Cheng Meiqin?"
"In the end, it failed. Others would just say that Shanhua, who jumped into the river and died a few years ago, had crazy grandparents who were so sad that they became mentally disturbed and thought Cheng Meiqin had killed Shanhua."
Su Nanzhi knew that what she said was like digging a hole in the hearts of the two old people.
But this piece of meat is rotten meat and must be dug out.
At this moment, Grandma Shanhua, who had been crying, was calmer.
"Girl, what do you think we should do?"
Since Su Nanzhi came to them, it must be because she had an idea.
Grandpa Shanhua immediately turned his gaze to Su Nanzhi.
Su Nanzhi felt relieved.
"Although Shanhua's suicide by jumping into the river was inevitably related to Cheng Meiqin's bullying, there's no direct evidence to prove it. If you do, you'll be left with nothing to prove, and Cheng Meiqin will only bite you back."
Grandpa Shanhua was a little anxious, "Girl, are we not going to do anything?"
Su Nanzhi gave a somewhat sarcastic smile.
"Cheng Meiqin used her status as a teacher to force Shanhua to commit suicide by jumping into the river."
"Then let her never take off the hat of 'teacher' in her life, and make her live a life worse than death for the rest of her life."
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