Chapter 300 Trash
Murder?
Tang Xuewen was indeed taken aback. He wiped his sweat and said, "Stop talking nonsense. The prison isn't your private property. You can't just say I'm guilty of murder."
Song Lubai looked at Tang Xuewen with the eyes of someone looking at trash and said, "You should pray that your wife isn't pregnant. If you kick the child out, and you can live with yourself, then you're heartless. Let's see if she'll still continue living with a heartless person like you."
Song Lubai didn't give this piece of trash another glance. She said to the women around her, "From now on, if the men in your families hit you, none of you should tolerate it. If you do, you're a coward, and you'll have to suffer that cowardice for the rest of your life. That's your own fault. Don't be afraid of divorce. We don't have much, except for a lot of single men. We all have hands and feet, so don't worry about not being able to support ourselves!"
She doesn't like Miao Feng, and she's not speaking up for Miao Feng now. She simply hates men who act domineeringly at home. Her husband is the regimental commander, so her words carry some weight. She's saying what she wants now.
Many men found this outrageous, with some saying, "Which couple doesn't fight? You can't just get a divorce every time you fight, can you? What kind of life is that? Who lives like that?"
Zhao Hongying said excitedly, "Can we women beat you men? The regimental commander is an officer, and he knows that it's wrong for men to hit women. Tang Xuewen, you're a grown man, and you use all your skills to beat your own women. Tell me, is that right?"
As expected, the man objected. Song Lubai overheard a woman in the crowd whispering that divorce was shameful.
She didn't know how shameful divorce was, but she knew that this idea had long been deeply ingrained in people's minds.
"Divorce is not shameful; what's shameful is living a life where you're treated like an animal. Everyone has hands and feet; you can support yourself even after a divorce."
Among the crowd was a woman from the Women's Federation named Guo Yanhong. She raised her voice and said, "If you're married, live your life well. It's not a sign of a man hitting a woman. Your real strength is outside the home. Two people are together because they want their lives to get better and better. If you don't treat her well, won't she want to stay with you? If a man doesn't treat his wife well, he should just give her up. Someone else will want to treat her well. If there are any family conflicts in the future, just come to our Women's Federation. We will mediate what we can. If we can't mediate, and the man is too awful, then we support divorce."
"Tang Xuewen, why don't you go to the health center to see how your wife is doing? Once she's discharged, you'll have to come here to learn from us."
Song Lubai's eyebrows shot up. "Study? He beat someone up like that and that's what studying is?"
That's too lenient on him!
She felt that if a woman really suffered a miscarriage from being beaten, it should be treated as murder!
Guo Yanhong thought for a moment and said, "After the study session, we still need to clean up our regimental headquarters and deal with the excrement in the public toilets."
Song Lubai felt that this was not much of a punishment, but there was really nothing she could do. Even if the couple took the matter to the police station, the police station would not do anything to Tang Xuewen.
Tang Xuewen had been criticized by everyone and was already embarrassed.
He was genuinely afraid that Miao Feng wouldn't stay with him, so he lowered his head, clenched his fists, and headed to the health center.
Song Lubai turned her gaze away and walked home.
Zhao Hongying followed behind her and said, "Xiao Song, let's go to the health center to see Miao Feng this afternoon."
After a month or so of getting to know each other, Song Lubai and Zhao Hongying got along quite well. Zhao Hongying's way of addressing Song Lubai had changed from "the regimental commander's wife" at the beginning to "Song Lubai" and now to the affectionate "Little Song".
Song Lubai shook her head: "I'm not going. You can go by yourself."
Miao Feng didn't like her, so she didn't bother to go see her.
Zhao Hongying felt a little guilty, as she had a feeling that Miao Feng's incident today was somehow related to her.
"Alright then, I'll go check on her."
The health center in the production and construction corps could only treat minor ailments like headaches and fevers; it couldn't cure anything more serious. Fortunately, there was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor in the hospital who could take pulses. After taking Miao Feng's pulse, the doctor confirmed that she had miscarried.
Miao Feng clutched her stomach and cried loudly, hating Tang Xuewen with a vengeance.
To be honest, she didn't know she was pregnant, and she had no feelings for the child. She just couldn't accept being beaten like this by Tang Xuewen.
Other people's husbands are good at making money and treating their wives well, while her husband doesn't do any work when he comes home, he just waits to be fed, and he even hits her when he's unhappy.
When Tang Xuewen entered, Miao Feng stared at him with tears in her eyes.
Tang Xuewen asked hesitantly, "What did the doctor say?"
Miao Feng: "You kicked the child away, Tang Xuewen, you beast, you beat the child to death! Divorce! I'm not living with you anymore!"
Tang Xuewen's forehead veins throbbed. He swallowed his anger and said, "I promise I won't lay a hand on you again. I don't agree to a divorce, and don't even think about it. You know why this happened today."
Miao Feng, of course, refused to admit her true feelings and stubbornly said, "I don't know why, but you're accusing this person today and that person tomorrow. You've offended all the men in that area. Do you think this is the old society where women can't go out? Can't they talk to other men when they do go out? It's really unfair to compare yourself to others. Why don't you take a piss and look in the mirror? Does anyone in the neighborhood have a good word to say about you?"
Tang Xuewen was about to lose his temper.
"I'm speaking to you nicely, don't push your luck!"
Miao Feng was so angry that she was panting heavily. "I'm shameless! Can't you understand human language? I want a divorce. I'm not going to live with you anymore. Get out of here!"
There was another woman in the ward. Seeing the two of them like this, she lowered her head and went out the door to call the medic.
Tang Xuewen clenched his fists, suppressing his anger. "You stay in the hospital and rest. I'm going to work. I'll bring you food this afternoon."
Tang Xuewen reached the door, and Miao Feng, craning her neck, said, "Stop pretending to be a good person. Stop dreaming that I'll continue living with you. I'll see who's blind enough to marry you after we get divorced."
Tang Xuewen could no longer tolerate it, so he turned around, went back, and pinned Miao Feng to the bed and started to assault her.
Miao Feng screamed at the top of her lungs, and blood started flowing from her lower body again.
Even the medics couldn't pull Tang Xuewen away after they came in.
The neighbor who took Miao Feng to the health center had already left. The neighbors didn't know that Tang Xuewen had beaten someone at the hospital again, but the regimental headquarters was so small that the news spread in just one afternoon.
Everyone knows that Miao Feng miscarried because of Tang Xuewen's beating. Tang Xuewen even went to the health center and beat people again. No men are speaking up for him anymore.
Song Lubai heard it from Zhao Hongying.
Zhao Hongying had just come out of the health center when she turned into Song Lubai's yard and started chattering.
Song Lubai was sitting in the yard sorting through the mushrooms she had picked at noon.
Some mushroom stems have worms inside, so you have to cut them off.
Zhao Hongying smacked her lips as she looked at the mushrooms. These mushrooms were delicious even without meat, and tasted even better than meat.
"I think Tang Xuewen really doesn't want to live anymore. He even beat people up at the health center. How could he do such a thing?"
Song Lubai said, "That's perfect. Let him stay a bachelor and see if any fools will dare to marry him in the future."
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