Meng Yan's Transformation

Second uncle Zhang Wei tapped his empty pipe on the sole of his shoe and said, "Zian, go back and tell your sister Mengyan! Tell her not to be afraid, your eldest cousin Zhang Deren is now a teacher in her junior high school, teaching third grade math. Tell her to find her eldest cousin Zhang Deren and tell him what I said, to settle the score with that asshole teacher who punished her to weed in the hot sun, and to seek justice for Mengyan."

"Yes, it is said that it is easy to become an official if you have someone in the court. We have someone in our family who is a teacher in the school. How can we be bullied? Isn't this provoking others? I heard that your eldest cousin teaches the graduating class and is the head teacher of the graduating class. If Mengyan is in the third grade of junior high school, it would be great if she could be transferred to your eldest cousin's class. Let's see who dares to bully your sister Mengyan." Second aunt Qian Jingui also echoed.

Zhan Zi'an lowered his head and murmured to himself, "What if it was my eldest cousin who bullied my sister Mengyan? What should I do?"

"Impossible! If your eldest cousin Zhang Deren was Mengyan's homeroom teacher, he wouldn't do such a foolish and unfair punishment!" Second aunt Qian Jingui said with certainty.

Therefore, Zhan Zi'an reported to his second aunt Qian Jingui and second uncle Zhang Wei the details of how Zhan Mengyan was assigned to the class taught by his eldest cousin Zhang Deren, and how he gave Zhan Mengyan advice to arouse a sense of kinship with her eldest cousin, but still received unfair treatment.

The two of them were silent for a while, and the second uncle Zhang Wei said, "Old woman, maybe you always instilled in the children how the stepmother treated the stepson harshly, which left a shadow in the eldest son Zhang Deren's heart and made him hate Yunqing. He took Zhan Mengyan as a punching bag to avenge Yunqing."

"Oh, second aunt, it's fine if you just hate my mother Yunqing, but why did you tell my eldest cousin about your imagination?" Zhan Zi'an said complainingly.

When the second aunt Qian Jingui heard Zhan Zi'an complaining about her, she was very angry and said, "Zhan Zi'an, why can't you tell the difference? Why do I hate Yunqing? Isn't it because of you eight children without a mother? I feel sorry for you and pity you! If I hadn't often scolded Yunqing to make her cautious, I don't know how she would have treated you eight badly. Besides, I heard that Zhan Mengyan is the child of your father's comrade-in-arms, born to a Mongolian woman, and the daughter born to Yunqing died. If Mengyan is not your biological sister, why do you care whether she is punished or not?..."

Second uncle Zhang Wei interrupted Zhang Wei hastily: "Old woman, please stop talking nonsense. I asked my brother-in-law Zhan Yu, Zhan Mengyan is Yunqing's biological daughter, and Zhan Mengyan is Zi'an's half-sister, which means she is Zi'an's biological sister. That Mongolian woman traveled thousands of miles to find her husband, and she was exhausted. The child died prematurely, and she died too. Don't say that again. It's a shame to slander a child's origin!"

"Zhang Wei, you old man, who do you think is so immoral?" Qian Jingui said as he picked up the broom on the kang and hit Zhang Wei.

Zhan Zi'an rushed forward to stop them. Fearing that the two would fight, Zhan Zi'an pushed his second uncle Zhang Wei out of the house.

"This old woman, if I were young I would have beaten her up long ago. She is gossiping and talking nonsense, and she acts like she is right and beats people with a clear conscience." Zhang Wei said angrily after being pushed out of the house.

Qian Jingui also chased out of the house with a broom in hand. She was about to attack Zhang Wei again when Zhan Zi'an snatched the broom away.

Zhan Zi'an said very self-reproachfully, "I'm sorry, second uncle, second aunt, both of you don't have to be angry anymore. If you can't calm down, just beat up your nephew Zi'an first. Don't blame me for pleading for sister Mengyan. I just feel sorry for my sister. She has been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child. We brothers all like her. She is in the third grade of junior high school now. She studies very well. She will have a promising future. Her father doesn't allow her to turn on the lights at night, so she studies by moonlight. She has become nearsighted from reading books. She can't see clearly when sitting in the back row of the class. The teacher is writing on the blackboard, so I wanted to ask my eldest cousin to move her to the seat in the front, but he refused. After I knew about it, I volunteered to ask you two elders for help and asked you two elders to move her seat. I didn't expect that I was too stupid to say it well, but I made you two elders angry. I feel so sorry!" Zhan Zi'an said as he bowed to Zhang Wei and Qian Jingui to apologize.

When the two saw Zhan Zi'an's self-blaming and guilty look, they stopped making noise.