Ding Guixiang uttered malicious words: "Back then, my brother only gave her a dowry of two hundred yuan. Do you think she's worth anything?"
Shen Jingyan immediately retorted angrily, "So you're worth something? Even if you paid two hundred, no one would want to marry you!"
When it comes to smearing someone and making personal attacks, Shen Jingyan doesn't hold back at all. The original owner of this body grew up being insulted by Chen Feng, and Shen Jingyan knows very well that the best way to shut up a villain is to speak even more harshly than her.
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As expected, Ding Guixiang and Granny Ding's faces turned a deep liver color from anger.
Lu Peihong cast an approving glance at Shen Jingyan.
Because of their work and status, they are required to maintain polite and friendly relations with ordinary people. Even if they are insulted or beaten, they cannot fight back, as this is a regulation from above.
When she encounters educated and reasonable people, things are fine; she can communicate calmly. But when she encounters people like Granny Ding and her daughter, who are uncultured, unreasonable, and have particularly vicious tongues, Lu Peihong sometimes really has no way to deal with them.
With Shen Jingyan's verbal sparring skills and physical suppression, Lu Peihong knew that she might not be able to reach any results today, but she felt inexplicably happy.
Lu Peihong said, "As I just said, the owner of that compensation can only be Comrade Shen Yulan. I suggest you return the compensation to Shen Yulan first. Of course, Comrade Shen Yulan is not such an unreasonable person. Seeing that you are a widow and her child, we can sit down and negotiate. Comrade Shen Yulan should be willing to contribute a portion of the money as a subsidy for you."
Shen Yulan, who hadn't uttered a single word since entering the courtyard, nodded very kindly.
Granny Ding always valued money more than life itself. Seeing that she couldn't win an argument or a fight, and was even beaten until her face was swollen like a pig's head, she simply lay down on the ground with a "thud," rolling around and howling like a banshee.
"This is outrageous! This is outrageous! The daughter-in-law is trying to steal her mother-in-law's coffin money! The Women's Federation is trying to drive this old woman to her death! Everyone come and see!"
Ding Guixiang added fuel to the fire by shouting, "If you want money, you'll have to step over my mother's dead body!"
When Shen Yulan saw the way Ding Pozi and her daughter were making a scene with tears, tantrums, and threats of suicide, she started to have second thoughts.
She gently tugged at Shen Jingyan's sleeve: "Jingya, look at them... let's just forget about it..."
The crying of Granny Ding and her daughter attracted many curious neighbors to watch, most of whom were confused and just focused on the excitement.
Seeing that things were about to escalate and have a very negative impact on the Women's Federation, Lu Peihong pulled Shen Jingyan and Shen Yulan aside and whispered:
"Young comrades, we've explained everything to this mother and daughter. They're in such a state that we can't talk to them. Let's go back first. Whether you continue talking tomorrow, or you two go directly to court to file a lawsuit, you can discuss it tonight, okay?"
After thinking it over for a while, Chen Jingyan agreed.
As soon as the person left, Granny Ding nimbly stood up from the ground, patting her bottom triumphantly and saying:
"Hmph! A bunch of arrogant little bitches, they dare to mess with me!"
By the time we got back to the county, it was past noon.
Shen Jingyan found a small stall and ordered two bowls of wontons.
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Shen Yulan ate without tasting anything, and after finishing, she wanted to go back to the guesthouse to pack her luggage.
"Jingya, I think we should just let it go. I don't want the money anymore. I don't want to see that mother and daughter anymore. It's too upsetting."
The word "retreat" does not exist in Shen Jingyan's dictionary. When it comes to saving lives in the apocalypse, she can fight her way out of a group of hungry zombies. Would she be afraid of two shrewish women?
A shrew is simply someone who uses the most unreasonable methods to force kind and reasonable people to compromise.
Unfortunately, this tactic doesn't work well against Shen Jingyan.
"Sister, legally speaking, this money is yours. A robber stole your money and then insulted and verbally abused you. Can you tolerate that? Can you swallow this insult?"
Shen Yulan said with a worried look, "Then what other options do you have? Even the comrades from the Women's Federation couldn't persuade them, so what can we do? We can't exactly go to her house and rob her, can we?"
If it weren't illegal to take back what belongs to you, Shen Jingyan would really like to grab a big axe and rob it!
"We live in a society governed by law, and we must abide by the law! If reasoning doesn't work, then let's take it to court!"
Shen Yulan hesitated and couldn't make up her mind.
Shen Jingyan could only patiently persuade her, and couldn't bear to criticize her weakness.
The two rested at the guesthouse for two hours, and Shen Jingyan was already thinking about how to prepare materials and evidence for the lawsuit.
In the afternoon, the two sisters went to the Women's Federation again, only to find that the entrance was packed with people. Everyone was craning their necks and standing on tiptoe, pushing and shoving forward as if they were all eager to see a spectacular show.
Amid the noise, Shen Jingyan heard the wailing of Granny Ding and Ding Guixiang, as well as the voices of Lu Peihong and the staff of the Women's Federation.
After the two squeezed into the crowd and saw the current situation at the entrance of the Women's Federation, Shen Yulan's face turned ashen.
Ding Pozi and her daughter gathered a group of relatives from who-knows-where and posted a bunch of big-character posters at the entrance of the Women's Federation. The words on them were obscene, either personal attacks against Shen Yulan or vicious curses against the Women's Federation.
Even worse, they carried wooden buckets and splashed chicken blood at the entrance of the Women's Federation, making a mess of the originally clean gate and steps.
While busy dispersing the crowd of onlookers, Lu Peihong was also being pulled and pushed by Granny Ding and others, resulting in her clothes being torn and her hair being disheveled.
Several women's federation members were also chased and beaten by Ding Pozi's relatives.
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