Chen Hong was startled and quickly called the children in front to come back and join her.
They walked back and found Director Jin and Mrs. Guan. The group of them went to the scene of the incident to watch the excitement.
When we arrived, wow! There were so many people, it seemed like half the village had come.
Honestly, since Chen Hong married into the village seven or eight years ago, apart from the village committee elections held every three years, she has never seen so many villagers in one place!
I don't know what extraordinary thing could have happened in the dead of night, or in the woods, that could have attracted the whole village to come and watch.
People were packed tightly together under and behind the trees. It seemed that most of the villagers had come, except for the elderly who couldn't walk and the little children.
Once they got closer, Chen Hong and the others stood outside the crowd and watched for a while before they understood what had happened inside.
It turned out that a young girl from the Wang family in this village was dating a young man from another village, but her family disapproved. So the two young people secretly arranged to meet in a grove of trees outside the village.
Unexpectedly, the villagers came out to catch cicada nymphs, and the girl's brothers discovered their secret rendezvous. They then beat up a boy from the neighboring village with a group of their own brothers.
The girl was deeply in love with the boy. When she saw her boyfriend being beaten, she couldn't stop him and cried out in distress.
The boy was surrounded by three or four boys and punched and kicked, and he was also seriously injured.
With his head bruised and his face covered in blood, he kept screaming and begging for mercy.
This kind of thing hasn't happened in the village for many years, and it's really taken everyone by surprise to make it this big.
Where had Director Jin and Mrs. Guan ever seen such a scene? In Beijing, group fights and brawls are not uncommon.
However, most of those events occurred before 2000, especially in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, when Beijing's "wan zhu" (a derogatory term for local bullies) each had their own territory, and forming gangs was very common.
If a fight were to break out, it would be quite common for knives and guns to be used. However, those people follow the rules, and they always arrange a place in advance for a fight. Ordinary people would rarely see such a thing.
After 2000, with armed police and public security officers all over the streets of the capital, who would dare to call themselves a "troublemaker" or form gangs? Did they think that the national law enforcement agencies were just sitting around doing nothing?
Even some vicious forces don't dare to go against the country; they've long since gone out of business or gone underground.
As for group fights, people of Jinyuanyuan's age, like Mrs. Guan, have never witnessed them firsthand, but they have heard about them from others.
Kids like Fang Xiaoying and Guan Tao, born in the 1990s, have never seen such a bloody fight scene before!
Fang Xiaoying was so frightened that she huddled next to her mother. "Mom, why are they really hitting me? Will they kill me?"
Sister Chen Hong, why is no one in your village trying to stop the fight? Are you just going to stand by and watch someone get beaten to death?
The man was bleeding so much, it was terrifying! And the girl was crying so pitifully!
Chen Hong saw that Yu Yang and the other boys weren't scared at all, and kept pushing forward, trying to get into the inner circle to watch the excitement.
She grabbed Yu Yang and Xiao Hao with one hand each. When Wang Xin saw that they had been caught, he didn't dare to go forward alone.
"Aunt Hong, let me go first. We can't see from outside. We're small, so let's go out and see if any outsiders have come to cause trouble."
Xiao Hao tried to struggle a bit more and squeeze in, but Chen Hong yelled at him and made him behave.
"What are you looking at? You still want to squeeze forward? If a fight breaks out again, and the crowd gets chaotic, everyone will trample you flat."
Didn't your kindergarten teachers teach you to avoid dangerous places and stay away from crowded areas?
Why do kids have so much of a gossip-loving mentality?
Haven't you heard that large crowds can easily lead to stampedes? Besides, you're so young, what can you possibly understand?
"All of you stay right here. If anyone disobeys, don't blame me for beating them!"
When Xiao Hao heard that Aunt Hong was angry, he stood obediently beside her and dared not move again.
Seeing that they had behaved themselves and stopped trying to squeeze into the crowd, Chen Hong then explained to Fang Xiaoying and the others.
"There's always a reason why someone is pitiful! You're young and don't understand some things. That girl isn't innocent; she's the one who deserves to be hit the most."
In our rural area, it's not that you can't have a romantic relationship. But you have to get your family's consent and you don't have a marriage contract.
If they truly like each other, they should ask a matchmaker to formally propose marriage.
The woman's family has agreed, and the engagement is official, so dating is no longer a problem.
There must be more to their story than meets the eye. Otherwise, if they were secretly dating and their families found out, the man would have to ask someone to propose marriage to them.
They don't just start hitting people for no reason. We can't get involved in this; it's not over tonight, there's bound to be more trouble!
Fang Xiaoying shrank back. "They've beaten someone up like this and it's not over yet? What else can happen? This is so barbaric. Will they call the police?"
Chen Hong shook her head. "In rural areas, unless it's a serious matter that could lead to death or disability, generally no one will call the police."
Most of the time, they find an acquaintance to mediate, apologize where necessary, and settle the matter privately.
They knew how much force they used when they hit him. Don't be fooled by the boy's blood-covered face and how badly he looked injured; he was only slightly injured and it wasn't worth the police responding.
Even if you call the police, what good will it do? All you'll get is a scolding and a verbal warning from both sides, according to public order regulations, and that's it.
If everyone were strictly controlled, the two rooms in the town's police station would be overflowing with people they caught every day, leaving them nowhere to put them.
Don't worry! Clan or village officials will step in and resolve this soon; it's nothing serious.
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