Chapter 389: Chapter 20 Harvest
Surrounded by seven or eight fierce-looking village n, the old man stood amidst a few won whispering to each other behind them.
In front, Ma Dongqin, supported by a few military wives, had disheveled hair and her clothes were torn and tatty. Her face and hands were wounded. Beside her, her four-year-old son Shuanzi clutched the hem of her clothes. His red-rimd eyes and the tear tracks on his cheeks, along with his shock and fear, made him all the more pitiable.
Lin Xiaoguai frowned as Yun Shengnan beside Ma Dongqin hurled insults, “Bullshit, your Yang Family is a nest of rats and snakes, not a single decent one among you! Yang Tiezhu just took the Yang na, you really think you sired him? If you considered him your own son, would you have forced him to join the military to save on food expenses? If it weren’t for that, would Yang Tiezhu have died? Dongqin would have married Yang Tiezhu a long ti ago, then what would that Yang Tieniu, that animal, matter? Didn’t you say before that Dong Qin was Yang Tiezhu’s wife? What’s summoned here is a military wife, if you don’t let her co, are you planning to turn Yang Tieniu’s wife into Yang Tiezhu’s wife? You’ve got your calculations all wrong, Yang Tieniu and his wife are official on paper.”
Her words stung sharply; the old man was choked with anger and shouted, “What do you know, you shrew? Yang Tiezhu took my surna Yang, he’s my son Yang Youfu! As for Dongqin, what if she’s Yang Tiezhu’s wife. She’s just a child bride I bought with money, just like any cow or sheep, what she can or cannot do is up to to decide. Moreover, Yang Tiezhu died more than a decade ago, yet Shuanzi is only four years old, nothing but a bastard child. What makes her a Yang Tiezhu’s wife? She’s just a little whore!”
Everyone was incredulous at his words. Dongqin was one thing, but the old man knew full well Shuanzi was his own grandson and still he called him a bastard, how heartless and shaless must one be to do such a thing?
Yun Shengnan was livid, but Ma Dongqin, who had been silent all this ti, suddenly looked up and shouted, “You old scum, Shuanzi is not a bastard, he’s your grandson!”
“Wow, look at you, you whore, daring to curse your own father-in-law.” Used to enduring humiliation, the defiant child bride suddenly learned to fight back, which incensed the old man even more. Pointing at her, he shouted, “Not a bastard, then what is he? Co on, tell , where did this child co from? Don’t tell Yang Tiezhu ca back as a ghost to sleep with you?”
Lin Xiaoguai imdiately frowned upon hearing these obscenities.
Then Yun Shengnan retorted fiercely, “Even if Yang Tiezhu beca a ghost, he would be after your life. And my Aunt Xiuzi, if you hadn’t kept slandering Dongqin as an adulteress and tried to push her into the river in the dead of winter while she was heavily pregnant, how would my Aunt Xiuzi have rushed out of bed without even putting on a coat to save Dongqin? And then, how would she have succumbed to a cold?”
“Moreover, Dongqin may be a child bride, but she wasn’t bought by you; it was Yang Tiezhu’s own mother who bought her for Yang Tiezhu. It’s not your place to criticize her!”
Having listened for a while, Lin Xiaoguai felt there was no point in arguing further and walked over to the South Gate, telling the gatekeeper Uncle Xu, “Uncle Xu, call 110.”
The police arrived quickly, and after Lin Xiaoguai explained the situation, these troublemakers were charged with creating a disturbance.
Seeing the police arrive, these country folk who had never seen much of the world beca terrified. As brash as they had been before, they now cowered. Gone was the cursing; they now wore long faces, acknowledging their faults, and were chased out looking ashad and disheveled.
Although today’s incident was not Ma Dongqin’s fault, it had started with her, so Lin Xiaoguai thought a small punishnt would serve as a warning and thus decided to dock a day’s pay from both her and gatekeeper Uncle Xu.
Even though Uncle Xu’s pay was docked, Lin Xiaoguai did not bla him too much. After all, he was nearly fifty and missing a leg. With those village n arriving in groups, even if he had wanted to stop them, he was too weak to act, and it was wise to temporarily stand aside.
At the sa ti, she began to consider hiring a few ex-soldiers to act as security on the farm, because incidents like today’s should only happen once.
This was also manageable; she would just bring it up with Shen Chi later.
To Lin Xiaoguai, this event was rely a minor episode, one whose only purpose was to improve the farm’s security system.
After that, the farm beca a hub of activity. Since this was the first year, many things had to be figured out. She even temporarily entrusted the gift shop to Shen Zhangming, taking charge of the farm’s supervision herself.
“Quickly, over here, turn over the grains, from left to right, don’t ss up the order!” Mr. Feng shouted as he inspected the area all around.
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