Chapter 47: Naughty Child
Song Shuyan was helped by Song Tianming to a big tree, where the shade of the tree swayed and the sunlight cast bright shadows.
"Brother, there are ants here!"
Song Shuyan pointed at a group of small ants crawling in the grass, and Hua Yan was pale.
Song Tianming took a quick look and said calmly, "It's okay, this kind of ant doesn't bite."
Song Shuyan was half-believing and half-doubting.
Knowing that she liked cleanliness, Song Tianming moved another big stone for her to sit on.
"Take a rest. Call your brother if you need anything. You can go back to the Youth League Home by yourself when your feet don't hurt anymore." If this piece of land was not a little far from the Youth League Home, he would have wanted to send his sister back to the Youth League Home.
Song Shuyan's eyes were filled with tears. He sniffed, nodded, and watched his brother go back to work.
In the wasteland, the villagers looked up and saw that Song Zhiqing was resting again. They all shook their heads, saying that city people are just pampered.
Song Shuyan held his chin and admired their arms that were sweating and swinging hoes. The bulging muscles had smooth lines and were full of strength.
“Pah…”
A small stone hit Song Shuyan's feet.
She looked up and saw a child of seven or eight years old staring at her with a bad face and a look of resentment.
Song Shuyan’s head is full of question marks?
She picked up a small stone and threw it back, "Hey, kid, what are you doing?"
The child picked up more stones and threw them densely like a pea shooter.
"Beat you to death, you evil woman!"
"Pushed my grandma into the river and cheated her out of money!"
Song Shuyan limped and ran to hide behind a big tree, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Brother!"
"Brother! Someone threw a rock at me!"
The child was shocked. He didn't expect the woman to be so shameless.
Isn't it a one-on-one duel?
Why are you calling for help?
He turned and tried to run.
Zhou Jingshen, who had run ahead, grabbed his hands and brought them in front of Song Shuyan.
Zhou Jingshen kept glancing at her from the corner of his eyes.
Seeing her being hit by stones by a child was both infuriating and funny.
I was also afraid that she would really be hit by a stone. She is so delicate that she would cry if bitten by an ant. Wouldn’t she cry if she was hit by a stone?
He threw down the hoe and walked towards the child angrily.
Then I heard her shouting "brother" at the top of her lungs.
Seeing that Zhou Jingshen had already run over to solve the problem, Song Tianming didn't bother to pay any more attention.
When Chen Du wanted to go over, he stopped him, "Okay, my sister is playing with a child. If there are so many of us, the villagers will think we want to bully other people's children."
Shen Du was annoyed that he had gotten there first.
This proves that Zhou Jingshen is not focused enough at work!
"Tell me, why are you throwing stones at me?"
The kid snorted and turned his face away.
"You won't tell me, right?"
Song Shuyan pulled out a piece of dogtail grass, his eyes sparkling, "Comrade Zhou, hold his feet down, I'll interrogate him!"
Zhou Jingshen cooperated with a cold face.
The child had no shoes and his feet were covered in mud.
Song Shuyan wasn't sure whether the soles of children's feet would be itchy when they ran around the village barefoot.
She picked up some foxtail grass and gently stroked it across the soles of his feet, trying it out.
The little boy twisted his body and laughed.
“Stop!…Hahaha…it’s itchy…it’s itchy to death…!!”
"explain!"
“Why are you picking up rocks and throwing them at me?”
Song Shuyan frowned and looked at him fiercely.
A smile flashed across Zhou Jingshen's brows, and he tried hard to maintain his cool image.
The kid struggled, "Hmph!"
"Bad woman!"
"You took away the subsidy my grandma was going to give my family!"
"Who is your grandmother?" A light bulb went off in Song Shuyan's head. Oh, could it be the one who pushed her into the river?
Song Shuyan touched his chin and looked at the child carefully. A child of seven or eight years old should be able to understand what people say, right?
She explained, "It was your grandmother who pushed me into the river first. She compensated me because I was washing clothes when she pushed me, and my clothes were washed away by the river. Shouldn't she compensate me for my clothes?"
The child was angry, "What kind of clothes are so expensive at twenty yuan!"
"It's none of your business. It's your grandma's fault for being so mean and evil, hurting others and herself!"
The child had a stubborn face, his flat mouth trembled, he wanted to cry but held it back.
Over in the wasteland, someone saw a conflict happening here.
"Hey, do you want to go over and take a look?"
"What are you looking at? Can Song Zhiqing bully a child?"
"Awen is a very naughty kid. Song Zhiqing is probably just playing a joke on him."
"That's right, Comrade Zhou is obviously sensible. Let's not interfere."
"Don't say it, these three together look a bit like a family of three."
Song Tianming: "..." Bah! His sister couldn't give birth to a child this big!
Shen Du frowned, threw away the hoe, and strode towards the big tree.
Song Zhiqing asked a lot of questions and finally found out what the old woman had said to the child.
It turned out that the child was the only son of the old woman's eldest son. Three years ago, the child's father was laying electric wires in the city for someone and had an accident, in which he was electrocuted and turned into charcoal.
The factory paid a sum of money as compensation.
The money is in the old woman's hands. She has agreed that as long as her daughter-in-law does not remarry, she will give her daughter-in-law two dollars a month for living expenses.
It was time to give the money this month, and the daughter-in-law asked the children to ask the old woman for it. The old woman made an excuse that she had given the money as compensation to Song Shuyan, and now there is not a penny left in the family!
The daughter-in-law naturally knew that this was a lie.
But the child took it seriously.
Come and settle the score with Song Shuyan.
"Hahaha!" Song Shuyan tapped Awen's forehead. "You're not going to believe your grandma's nonsense, are you?"
"She didn't even want to give you or your mother any money!"
"The compensation I received was advanced by the captain. What does it have to do with her?"
"She didn't pay a cent out of her own pocket!"
"I advise you to call your mother, ask your grandparents and uncle to come to the village and ask your grandmother to return your father's compensation!"
"Otherwise, this money will go into your uncle's pocket."
Awen's pupils shrank. What Song Zhiqing said was the same as what some gossipy aunts in the village said!
Grandma said that they were trying to sow discord and that it was not true.
She kept the money because she was afraid that his mother would take the money and remarry.
His mother promised him that she would not find him a stepfather, but his grandmother didn't believe it.
"What are you talking about?"
Chen Du walked over and stood behind Song Shuyan.
Song Shuyan was overshadowed by his figure and felt a little pressured, so he moved to the side.
"Nothing... nothing." Song Shuyan didn't want to tell Awen about his family affairs in front of him, for fear of hurting him.
Zhou Jingshen let Awen go and sternly warned him, threatening him, "Don't throw stones at people next time, or I'll call the police to arrest you!"
Song Shuyan felt pressured as he stayed in the same space with the two of them.
"My feet don't hurt anymore, I'm going to help pick up the rocks!"
After saying that, she slipped away.
There are many stones on the wasteland, scattered everywhere.
If you move some stones away, you can still see earthworms. When the earthworms see the light, they burrow into the soil.
There was a child who was acting so mean that he picked up an earthworm and tried to scare Song Shuyan.
Song Shuyan pulled out a piece of flying grass, ripped off the leaves, and whipped his calf.
When the children saw this, they followed suit and broke off some flying grass to use as swords.
The children who were playing with earthworms also threw away the earthworms.
"Look at the sword!"
"Hahaha!"
A burst of laughter.
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