Chapter 112: If We Can’t Afford to Provoke, Can’t We Afford to Avoid?
The chubby boy was so heavy, a little fatty weighing at least five or six years old. His mother struggled to hold him in her arms, her steps unsteady as she walked and cursed, “Dammit! Yun Qinghuan, your son beat my son like this! If you don’t give us mother and son an explanation today, I will never let you off easily!”
Fatty’s mother, Liu Ni, came running over, her layers of fat jiggling. She started cursing the moment she caught sight of Yun Qinghuan’s family from afar.
Yun Qinghuan’s eyebrows twitched as she looked at the obese mother and son. To be honest, seeing two people so fat among the generally sallow and thin villagers in this era was quite rare.
Liu Yuzhi was not one to be trifled with. Seeing her curse her daughter-in-law, she immediately retorted, “Liu Ni, let me tell you, watch your mouth! If I hear you cursing again, be careful I don’t rip it apart!”
Her tone was fierce.
Liu Ni was indeed intimidated. She had heard before that Liu Yuzhi was a tough one, and if truly provoked, she would really hit someone.
Reluctantly, Liu Ni put her son down, pointing at the bruises and red scratch marks on Fatty’s body, saying, “Auntie, it’s not that I’m being unreasonable. Look for yourself, your two children ganged up on my one child. He’s covered in red and blue marks and bled a lot. Fatty is our only son. If anything happens to him, I won’t live!”
The mother-in-law behind her echoed, “If anything happens to my precious grandson, your two children won’t have it easy either.”
Her tone was gloomy, and the way she glared at Wa Dan and An An was very unkind.
Yun Qinghuan frowned, disliking the old woman’s gaze, and subconsciously wanted to pull An An behind her.
However, the mischievous Wa Dan was unconvinced and directly shouted, “Fatty was the first to call An An names and even tried to hit me! What? Is Fatty allowed to bully us, but we can’t hit him back? He’s even bigger than us and still couldn’t beat us, yet he has the nerve to come looking for trouble! Fatty, we’re not playing with you anymore!”
The way children interact is simple. If they are unhappy, they have a fight, but very few children would ask their parents to stand up for them. In their eyes, that would be betrayal!
Fatty also became anxious and quickly tugged at his mother’s sleeve, his gaze evasive, “Mom, let’s just forget it?”
“How can we forget it?” Liu Ni gave her son a look of disappointment mixed with anger. “You’ve suffered such serious injuries. How can we not get some compensation money to make up for it?”
Saying that, she turned to Yun Qinghuan and Wang Zhuyun, “I’m not asking for much. Each of your families should compensate us five yuan for medical expenses, and have your two children apologize to my child.”
She even acted as if she was reluctantly letting them off the hook.
Yun Qinghuan was so angry that she laughed, “Why don’t you just rob us? What’s wrong? Just your child got hurt, and our children are perfectly fine?”
She rolled up An An’s sleeves, showing the surrounding villagers the mark, “Such a big bruise! Who knows how much force your Fatty used! This is his stomach, the softest and most vulnerable part. I haven’t even asked you for money for an examination yet, and you’re already trying to extort us?”
Wang Zhuyun was not to be outdone and directly pushed her son Wa Dan forward, “Comrade Yun is right! Our Wa Dan also suffered quite serious injuries. I haven’t even asked you for medical expenses yet, and you’re already trying to extort us! Don’t you have any shame?”
The few people immediately started arguing.
Yun Qinghuan was too lazy to argue with them and directly said, “I already said that according to the children, your Fatty started it first. He cursed and hit people. We can’t just have our children stand by and let him beat them up. Don’t argue anymore. Just let these children confront each other, and we’ll know who was wrong, won’t we?”
The children were still young and were the least likely to hide their emotions and lie.
Yun Qinghuan asked Wa Dan to first tell what had happened yesterday.
Wa Dan looked up at his own mother, Wang Zhuyun, who encouraged him, “Tell the truth, Mom will stand up for you.”
At this moment, Wa Dan also knew that if he didn’t tell what had happened yesterday, Fatty might make his family pay compensation. He was so young and knew that money was hard to earn at home.
He glared at Fatty, feeling that he was really a disgrace to them children for actually complaining to adults!
Then Wa Dan told the truth. This child was lively and had a bit of acting talent, playing three roles himself, and his performance was quite vivid.
When he talked about Fatty calling An An a motherless stray, his imitation of Fatty’s expression was also very similar.
Even though they already knew why the children had fought, seeing Wa Dan reenact it, Yun Qinghuan still felt uncomfortable and lovingly touched An An’s head.
The surrounding people also looked at Fatty with condemnation. Fatty’s family was relatively well-off, otherwise he wouldn’t be so fat, but he was indeed very unlikeable.
Perhaps because Fatty was the only child in his family, everyone doted on him, indulging him to the point of becoming unruly. He liked to bully other children whenever he was slightly unhappy.
Although other families were not as well-off as Fatty’s, which child wasn’t a precious treasure doted on by their family?
Fatty beating other children like this naturally made their parents’ hearts ache, but Fatty’s mother Liu Ni and his grandmother were both unreasonable people. If you went to their door to argue, they could stand at the village entrance and curse for two whole days.
Although being cursed at wouldn’t cost you any physical harm, it would still leave you feeling extremely uncomfortable.
In addition, not wanting to cause trouble, they could only teach their own children to avoid playing with Fatty if possible. If they couldn’t afford to provoke him, couldn’t they afford to avoid him?
As a result, not many children were willing to play with Fatty.
Hearing Wa Dan say that Fatty had cursed An An first, many sensible women said, “Liu Ni, you heard it too. Your child bullied someone else’s child first. Don’t be unreasonable.”
Liu Ni glared at them. “Do you believe what a child says? Wa Dan must be lying.”
Wang Zhuyun was displeased. “My son is very honest and never lies. Don’t pin your son’s bad habits on my son.”
Liu Ni asked her own son, winking at him, “Tell them, did Wa Dan lie?”
However, Fatty didn’t catch his mother’s hint and just glared angrily at Wa Dan, “It was true! I didn’t lie! My mom said An An is just a motherless stray! His mom will marry another man in the future and have a bunch of younger brothers and sisters with that man, and she won’t want him anymore!”
“Wow!”
The onlookers looked at Liu Ni with a mixture of amusement and disdain.
What her own son said couldn’t be a lie, could it?
Didn’t Fatty learn that from her before going out to curse An An?
At this moment, An An’s eyes also turned red, his small hands clenched into fists as he looked at Fatty angrily. “I’m not a stray! You’re the stray! Your whole family are strays!”
Liu Ni’s face was particularly ugly after being exposed by her own son. Hearing An An’s words, she became even more furious. “You little stray! I didn’t say anything wrong! Your mother will remarry in the future and have a bunch of younger brothers and sisters for you!”
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