Chapter 97: Settling Accounts with Song Shuyan
Song Shuyan watched the frail figure of the young man passing by and couldn't help but ask Grandma Qin, "Grandma, I think Qin Jin is quite sensible and kind. Why do the villagers always call him a scoundrel?"
Grandma Qin sighed, "The villagers gossip and bully him for being an orphan. Sometimes when Ajin hears something unpleasant, he retaliates with all kinds of pranks."
"Some kids are mean-spirited. They would poke at Ajin's sore spots and curse him in front of him. Ajin naturally couldn't stand it. If he couldn't convince them, he would resort to violence. He didn't care about his life, and over time, everyone became afraid of him."
"The bad boys from the three villages knew he was a good fighter, so they always looked for him to play with, trying every possible way to get him to join their gang and do some sneaky things together."
Grandma Qin was filled with sadness.
The first time she heard the villagers calling Qin Jin a second-rate person, she had a fierce quarrel with them.
After knowing the whole story, she kept educating Qin Jin, telling him that he should not lose the basic moral bottom line of being a human being.
Grandma Qin spent countless efforts to bring Qin Jin, who was gradually going astray, back on track.
If someone asks him to partner with them to do something immoral, he will refuse.
Song Shuyan understood. The village was big and there were all kinds of people. Some people just liked to talk nonsense and poke fun at others. They bullied the weak and feared the strong.
Grandma Qin and her grandchildren are both elderly and young, and there is no pillar in the family. They are not the best targets for bullying in the eyes of some mean people.
"Grandma Qin, you have worked hard."
This one sentence almost made Grandma Qin cry.
Grandma Qin wiped her eyes and smiled with a dry mouth, "What's the point of saying bitter or not? Who in this world doesn't suffer?"
In Grandma Qin's view, the educated youth also had a hard life. They went to school and learned to read and write, but in the end they still had to work in the fields with the villagers.
The two chatted as they returned to the doorstep and met Dong Yuxiang, who was angrily dragging the crying Arong towards Grandma Qin's house.
"mom!"
"Mom!...Don't go!"
"Wow, wow, wow..." Arong cried very sadly.
She was being dragged forward but refused to move, using all her strength to resist and using her foot to brake with all her might.
"Mom! ...Please...don't go..."
"Wow, wow, wow..." She was heartbroken.
When her mother came home from work and saw that her hair had become so short, she became furious and asked her who cut it for her.
She explained that she had lice in her hair and she asked Song Zhiqing to cut it. Her mother insisted on getting back at Song Zhiqing, saying that he had cut her hair without her consent. She was young and ignorant, but wasn't Song Zhiqing, who was older, also ignorant?
Arong really couldn't understand what cutting hair had to do with being sensible or not.
She felt very embarrassed as she was being dragged away.
I feel ashamed towards Song Zhiqing.
When the other mothers of children whose hair had been cut saw Dong Yuxiang's reaction, they also pulled their children and joined the team to attack Song Zhiqing.
Half the kids were brainwashed.
"Just because she says she has lice, does that mean she has lice?"
"How can you go out and meet people with your hair cut like this?"
"Chinese New Year is just two months away, and I don't even want to embarrass myself by bringing you out to visit relatives!"
When the children heard this, their eyes widened and they burst into tears.
Is it really that ugly?
"Song Zhiqing, you must give me an explanation!"
Seeing Song Shuyan coming from the path, Dong Yuxiang dragged the sobbing Arong over and attacked Song Shuyan angrily.
Song Shuyan was stunned for a moment.
Arong quickly hid himself behind his mother, nervously tugging at the hem of his mother's clothes, his shoulders shaking, still sobbing, with his head lowered and staring at his toes.
"What do you mean?"
"Did you cut my daughter's hair?"
Song Shuyan nodded calmly, "It's me."
"Okay! Just admit it! Why did you cut my daughter's hair?"
The other mothers pulled their daughters to agree, "Yes! Why cut our Ni'er's hair!"
The mothers poked their children's foreheads in disdain and said, "Look at how short their hair is, it's just like a boy's!"
"How can she go out and meet people?"
Song Shuyan chuckled, "Why can't girls cut their hair short?"
"Why can't I go out and see people after cutting my hair short?"
Dong Yuxiang cursed, "Don't you think your hair is too short? Why don't you give yourself a haircut like this?"
Song Shuyan remained calm and composed. "Only by cutting it this short can we completely prevent lice from surviving in children's hair!"
"If you have lice, just smother them with camphorwood oil. There's no need to cut your hair."
"yes!"
Song Shuyan sneered, "Then have you bored the child?"
"I...I'm busy. I can't find the time."
"Yes, no matter what happens to our child, it's not your turn, Song Zhiqing, to take care of him, right?"
"A dog chasing a rat, meddling in other people's business!"
Grandma Qin put the vegetables she had just picked into the house and came out to criticize the aunts, "You really are like a dog biting Lu Dongbin!"
"The child came to us willingly and asked for a haircut, and Song Zhiqing couldn't resist, so he cut it. How come you're saying it as if Song Zhiqing tricked the child into cutting his hair short?"
"I don't care!"
"Song Zhiqing cut my daughter Arong's hair like this without my consent. She must give me an explanation!"
"What happened?" Zhou Jingshen frowned slightly when he heard the noise, and looked coldly at the aunts who came to cause trouble.
The aunts saw that he was tall and strong, and stood in front of Song Shuyan with an upright posture.
The momentum weakened a bit.
"Anyway... Song Zhiqing is wrong in this matter!"
"It's...it's that she cut the child's hair so short without our consent."
"Yeah, I understand."
"So what do you want?"
"How do we resolve this?"
Zhou Jingshen looked at the aunts with a cold gaze.
Several aunts have crashed.
Ah, how to solve it?
They looked at Dong Yuxiang, hoping that she would take the lead.
They came here with Dong Yuxiang. Before they came, they really hadn't thought about what else they could do besides scolding Song Zhiqing. Dong Yuxiang's eyes rolled, "I want Song Zhiqing to compensate my Arong for her hair!"
Several aunts were stunned. No, her hair was cut off. Wasn’t Dong Yuxiang deliberately making things difficult for Song Zhiqing?
Song Shuyan pointed her slender white finger at the wasteland ahead. "The cut hair is thrown over there. Do you want to pick it up?"
Dong Yuxiang choked and glared at Song Shuyan, "I want you to restore my Arong's hair to its original shape!"
"I can't do it." Song Shuyan said very bluntly.
"I can't do it..." Dong Yuxiang rolled her eyes, "Then you have to compensate my family with 20 eggs to nourish Arong and help his hair grow as soon as possible."
"hiss--"
"Twenty eggs!"
"Dong Yuxiang is so brave!"
The aunts looked at each other and joined in, "We want twenty eggs too!"
"right!"
Song Shuyan glanced at the aunts jokingly and said slowly, "Do you want eggs..."
It turns out he was just looking for an excuse to blackmail her.
"How about I cut my hair short like this to make amends?"
Aunts: "!!!"
Zhou Jingshen: "No cutting!"
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