Spring scenery in the fields

The woman looked at him with a distressed look on her face: "I don't care if you hang around outside, but there are some people you can mess with and some you can't mess with."

"If you piss him off, he might kill you while you're walking at night. Then, Dad and Mom won't be able to help you get justice."

The middle-aged man took over the conversation: "Humph, no matter how powerful Shen Rongshan is, the government can still control him. I don't believe that he dares to go against the government."

"He doesn't dare, but the government needs evidence to arrest people. Without evidence, even if they arrest people, they will still release them. Aren't you afraid that he will retaliate and kill our whole family?"

The woman gave him a sidelong glance in annoyance.

"After all, it was our son who made the mistake first. If we beat him up properly and tell others about it, everyone will be on our side and say 'well done'."

His son has a bad reputation in the village, and when something happens, they just applaud.

Zhang Shuanzi tilted his head and said, "Mom, I am your son, why don't you speak up for me?"

His arm was broken and he was in so much pain. He came back and told his father that his mother had not helped him.

The woman was so angry that she slapped him on the leg: "If something like this happens, we won't be in the right if it gets out of hand. It won't be good for us if it gets out of hand. What if he gets mad and gets beaten up again? Don't you want that arm anymore?"

Then he looked at the middle-aged man squatting by the door and said, "Boss, our Shuanzi is nineteen years old. He has a bad reputation and is worried about not being able to find a wife."

"If you go and make a scene again, it will bring even worse damage to our Shuanzi's reputation. No daughter in the surrounding area will be willing to marry him."

Zhang Shuanzi bared his teeth and grinned: "Mom, no one is willing to marry their daughter to me now."

"How dare you say that? You're just hanging around with those people who don't do their jobs. If you stay at home and work hard to earn money, I don't believe you won't be able to find a wife."

He curled his lips and said, "It's not like we don't have any in our village. We have farmland at home and work in town, but we still can't find a wife."

In this case, he might as well do nothing. Anyway, he has his parents to take care of the family, so he can just eat, drink and have fun.

The woman was so disappointed with the man that she looked helplessly at the middle-aged man squatting on the ground.

"Boss, it wasn't just our son who was beaten, but also those two families."

With Liu Erfang's personality, she won't give up until she goes to the other person's house and makes a big fuss.

Her son was the apple of her eye. How could she let it go so easily when someone broke his arm? She just waited to see what would happen.

……

Shen Rongshan got up early in the morning, prepared breakfast, and went to the mountains to see if there was any prey in the trap.

"Who's inside? Come out."

Ji Wenhe was inside the house, hanging the braided bracelet on a bamboo. Hearing the obviously ill-intentioned noises outside, he put down the things in his hands in confusion.

When the woman saw her coming out, she spat at the side and said, "You are Shen Rongshan's wife. Your husband beat my son and broke his arm."

"My son is lying at home and can't move. If you don't give me an explanation today, I will make your whole family miserable."

She was followed by people from the village who had come to watch the fun. After hearing what had happened, they asked in confusion.

"Liu Erfang, your son was beaten and imprisoned. What does it have to do with Shen Rongshan? He has been working hard at home and has never wandered around your village."

"That's right. You think they are all like your son, doing no good all day, wandering from East Village to West Village."

"I think his son deserved to be beaten. He must have offended Shen Rongshan, otherwise Shen Rongshan would have broken his arm."

"..."

The whispers of the crowd made the woman's face more and more ugly, and she cursed behind her with her eyes wide open.

"I'm telling you, my son didn't do anything bad, so stop throwing dirty water on him."

"My son can't find a wife now, it's all because of you gossipers who spread rumors and ruined my son's good reputation."

"If anyone dares to talk about my son behind his back, I curse her to give birth to a son without an asshole, and he will be a drooling fool."

The crowd became restless, and a few people with sharp tongues immediately retorted.

"Liu Erfang, stop spouting nonsense. Your son is such a bad person, and you still want us to spread his name. He has pockmarks all over his face. Any girl who likes him is blind."

"You don't do your work all day, but you go and peek at a widow bathing. What kind of person would do such a wicked thing? Only wicked people like you can give birth to such a wicked child."

"If the top beam is crooked, the bottom beam will be crooked. When your husband was young, he also peeked at widows bathing. He really inherited the good tradition of your family."

Liu Erfang pinched her waist and said, "You are talking nonsense, you just spread it..."

Ji Wenhe in the yard listened quietly to their quarrel.

Two brothers stood beside her, one on her left and one on her right.

"Sister-in-law, please go into the house. Wenshan and I are here."

"Nothing, I'll see what she wants to say. Do you know this person?"

"I know her, Liu Erfang from Zhangjia Village. She's very fierce. If she can't win an argument, she'll resort to violence. She's very powerful.

The man's name was Zhang Mazi. He was born with pockmarks on his face. He was afraid of her and I heard that she often beat him. I don't know if it's true.

His son Zhang Fugui also inherited his father's pockmarked face. He is 20 years old and still unmarried. He has a bad reputation and no one in the surrounding villages is willing to marry a girl to him.

Shen Wenshan took over the conversation: "Sister-in-law, she is a powerful person. She came here today not to ask for an explanation, but to extort money."

His elder brother went into the mountains and he probably won't be back for a while.

"Sister-in-law, Wenshan, be careful. I'm going up the mountain to find my brother."

"Well, go ahead. I won't let her bully me."

Ji Wenhe wanted to see what she could do.

After arguing for a while, the woman stopped paying attention to them and turned to look at the two people in the yard.

"My son is lying in bed and is almost dead. If you don't pay me five taels of silver, I won't leave today."

She held her waist with her hands, looking very imposing, just like a gangster.

"Aunt Liu, right?" Ji Wenhe said louder. "Why do you say that my husband beat your son? Where is the evidence? Who saw it?"

"Just because my husband looks fierce, you want to blame everything on my husband. Is that right? Just because my husband looks fierce, you have to blame him for everything that happens?"

Liu Erfang took two steps forward and stood five meters away from her: "My son said it himself, it was your husband who beat him, his face..."

"Aunt Liu, my husband just came back from the battlefield and hasn't had a few days of peace. These days he has been working diligently on the farm at home, busy from morning till night."

"Everyone in the village saw it with their own eyes. How could he have the time to go to your Zhangjia Village? Besides, did anyone in your village see him?"

"Your son said he beat her, does that mean he really beat her? Who knows if your son is lying?"