Chapter 115 Unreasonable Aunt
Li Fuqiang then complained to Lu Jingshen, "Jingshen, you don't know, Wensong is getting more and more ignorant as he grows up. Now he lies every day. Your aunt and he are worried to death."
Li Wensong said to Li Fuqiang with tears in his eyes: "Dad, I didn't lie. I swear I didn't. Why don't you believe me?"
Li Fuqiang also said with a reasonable face: "How can your aunt wrongly accuse you? You are not a child anymore, why are you getting more and more ruined as you grow older?"
Ai Xiaoxia couldn't stand it anymore. After half a day of contact, she could tell that Li Wensong was an honest child. Even if she didn't know him completely, it was obvious that Li Fuqiang was being influenced by her.
She asked Li Fuqiang, "Uncle, why can't it be that my aunt wrongly accused Wensong? You can't just listen to one side of the story, right?"
At this time, my aunt Yuan Jing came back from outside. She had eavesdropped on a few things at the door. After hearing this, she couldn't help it. She walked in with a gloomy face and said to Ai Xiaoxia viciously: "Who do you think you are? What right do you have to meddle in the affairs of our Li family?"
Without waiting for Ai Xiaoxia to speak, Lu Jingshen walked over to Ai Xiaoxia and said to Yuan Jing, "Xiaoxia is my wife. Please be careful with your words. Although you are my elder, you should also be polite. As for your family affairs, we are not interested in intervening. However, you have wronged Wensong and framed him, affecting his future. I have no choice but to intervene. Wensong's mother was very good to me. Before she left, she asked my mother to take care of Wensong. Xiaoxia and I are here today on my mother's behalf."
Yuan Jing was intimidated by Lu Jingshen's aura. She didn't dare to step forward, but she didn't give in. "How could I have wronged him? Didn't I raise him all these years? Did I give him less food and water? Even if I didn't have any merits, I still worked hard."
Ai Xiaoxia grew angrier the more she looked at Yuan Jing. She turned to her and said, "Wensong is a minor. You've falsely accused him of theft, and it will haunt him forever. Living with that scar is incredibly hurtful, far more serious than a beating. Oh, and you've beaten him a lot, haven't you? I see a lot of scars on Wensong's arms. It's truly cruel for a stepmother to mistreat her adopted son like this."
Yuan Jing felt guilty, swallowed her saliva, blinked and looked at Li Wensong: "Li Wensong, tell me, have I ever abused you?"
Li Wensong didn't say anything because he was indeed abused, but he was still afraid of his stepmother and was scared of being beaten, so he didn't dare to speak.
Yuan Jing was so angry that she picked up the broom on the edge of the kang and ran towards Li Wensong to hit him.
Lu Jingshen grabbed the broom and threw it on the ground: "Aunt, that's enough. You're doing this in front of us. If there's no one around, how much more cruel can you be?"
Yuan Jing didn't hit anyone, but she was furious. She ran to Li Fuqiang, hugged his arm, and cried aggrievedly, "Fuqiang, I can't live like this. If I don't educate my child and he grows up bad, people will say I'm irresponsible as a stepmother. If I educate him, people will say I'm abusing him. I can't live like this. I'm so miserable."
It was only then that Ai Xiaoxia noticed Yuan Jing. She was very pretty and seven or eight years younger than her uncle. No wonder her whispering was so effective.
And this woman would really say that beating a child can be justified. Most simple-minded men would probably follow her advice.
She turned to Yuan Jing and asked, "Aunt, does educating a child mean you beat them to death? Have you ever seen anyone in the village educate their children this way?"
Yuan Jing still looked reasonable: "Whose family? Every family is like this. What boy hasn't been beaten? Parents are angry and hit a few times. Do they really beat their children to death? Li Wensong is still missing arms and legs now?"
Ai Xiaoxia pulled Li Wensong in front of Li Fuqiang and rolled up his sleeves. "Uncle, look for yourself. Boys can be naughty, sure, but did your parents beat you like this when you were little? These new wounds are covering the old ones. How often did they beat you?"
Yuan Jing was frightened. She hugged Li Fuqiang and started crying, "Fuqiang, they wronged me. It was Wensong who was naughty and went to the mountains to scrape it. We are together every day. Do you think I really hit him so hard?"
Lu Jingshen said to Li Fuqiang, "Uncle, we are both men. You know a lot of things. It all depends on where your heart leans. But it's not a good thing for Wen Song to continue like this. If he really develops a mental illness in the future, his life will be ruined. You have to think it through."
Li Fuqiang fell into deep thought. He knew that his wife was a little willful, but after all, his eldest son was not his biological son. He could accept a little grievance as long as he had enough food and drink. However, looking at his eldest son's injuries, he felt a little uncomfortable.
Seeing Li Fuqiang silent, Yuan Jing became a little flustered. She held Li Fuqiang's hand and said, "Fuqiang, I know I've done some things wrong, but I was still a grown woman when I married you. Now I'm a stepmother to a child that old. I'm really inexperienced. It's not easy for me either. You can't let others instigate you. I just said your sister looked down on me, and you see, they're just trying to make trouble."
These words hit Li Fuqiang's soft spot, and his heart was tilted again. He said to Lu Jingshen: "Jingshen, what do you mean today? What? Did your mother ask you to break up our family?"
Lu Jingshen sighed and looked at Li Fuqiang: "Uncle, don't you know what kind of person my mother is? Over the years, why have we come to your house without any major problems? Aren't we just afraid that my aunt will be unhappy and affect your life? In fact, you also understand that there are many things you don't want to admit or accept. I won't force you. This is your life. I don't want to say anything else. This time I also came for Wensong's matter. I heard that you want him to go to the construction site to work with the villagers?"
He knew that Li Fuqiang knew everything and had no intention of getting them divorced, but they would regret what they had done to Li Wensong in the future, and time would prove it.
Li Fuqiang nodded and said, "Many young men in this village are going there. If he goes along, he will be taken care of by the villagers and can also earn money. Isn't that great?"
Lu Jingshen said, "Uncle, Wensong is still a minor. He should finish junior high school. Even if he wants to work in the future, it's better to be educated than not. Those without any education will just be forced to work hard, but those with some education can do more. If they develop well, they will earn more money in the future."
Before Li Fuqiang could say anything, Yuan Jing rushed in and said, "We don't understand what you're talking about. We're just an ordinary family. We want him to go out and earn money as soon as possible. There are so many hard workers in this village, we don't need one more."
Ai Xiaoxia also realized that Yuan Jing was an unreasonable shrew and selfish, and she just wanted Li Wensong to make money for her as soon as possible.
There was no need to say too much now. She said to Lu Jingshen, "Jingshen, Wensong will be kicked out to work anyway, so let's take him away."
Lu Jingshen understood his wife's sense of justice very well. He really admired Ai Xiaoxia's righteousness and nodded.
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