As Mingyue and his group gradually approached the halfway point on the hillside, the figures of several people in the woods below the hill slowly appeared.
I saw a sturdy village woman, pulling a fat boy who looked like a small hill, and shouting at the man and two children beside her with excitement:
"He Laosi, look at what your two children have done. They beat my Jinbao into a pulp. If you don't give me an explanation for what happened today, I will never forgive you, He Laosi's family."
The crying fat boy was so loud that Mingyue and the others were attracted by the sound.
The man was He Laosi. The girl that He Laosi was holding was also crying, but her voice was so thin and small. No one knew how long she had been crying. She was crying until she was twitching and hiccuping.
The little boy next to He Laosi, that is, his son He Dashu, stood up and loudly refuted: "It was He Jinbao who scolded my sister first. He said that my sister was a money-loser and a troublemaker, and also called my sister a jinx. Then I pushed him..."
The village woman's voice became even louder, revealing a hint of sarcasm: "Is my Jinbao wrong? He Xiaohua is a jinx, a money-loser and a burden. She killed your mother with illness and made it impossible for your father to find a wife. If I had a daughter like this, I would have drowned her long ago. Only your family still treats her like a treasure."
After hearing this, He Dashu clenched his fists and was about to rush forward, but He Laosi grabbed his wrist.
He Laosi smiled and apologized: "Mother Jin Bao, these are just the children playing around, why don't we just forget about it?"
Seeing this, the village woman felt more justified: "Who is joking with you? Look at our Jinbao's head, it's all bruised. If this hurts his head, it will delay Jinbao's future studies and his chances of becoming the top scholar. Can you take responsibility?"
He Laosi lowered his head a little, and looked more and more uneasy.
He Dashu shook his head and denied it: "No, he clearly hit his head against the tree."
The fat boy didn't say anything, he just kept crying and shouting in pain, making the village woman's face even more ferocious.
The village woman pointed at He Laosi and shouted, "He Laosi, my Jinbao is the youngest in the family. We all love him dearly. If you don't give me an explanation today, don't blame me for being rude to your child, and don't blame me for no one in the village being willing to find you a wife in the future."
He Xiaohua was frightened by her appearance and cried even harder.
He Dashu stood in front of his sister to protect her, and said angrily: "She-devil, if you want to do something, just come at me. Who is afraid of who?"
He Laosi shook his head at his son and sighed helplessly: "Then what do you want to do?"
The village woman smiled smugly, then lowered her head and asked her son: "Jinbao, tell me, how do you want to deal with those two wild cubs?"
He Jinbao was also a half-grown child, but he had inherited his mother's hatefulness. He bared his teeth and said, "Mom, I want He Dashu and He Xiaohua to crawl into my crotch, and I want them to kneel down and kowtow to me and admit their mistakes."
The village woman didn't care how much her son said. She just looked up at He Laosi and said, "Did you hear that? As long as they do what Jinbao said, I won't pursue this matter."
He Laosi hesitated for only a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
Then He Laosi persuaded his son and daughter to crawl into He Jinbao's crotch and kneel down to him.
He Dashu naturally refused, and He Xiaohua cried even harder.
Lv Wu, who watched the whole process, shook her head and couldn't help but say to her mistress, "Miss, that woman is so unreasonable and that man is so cowardly."
The other strong servants also nodded repeatedly, looking down on the man.
As a father, he actually helps outsiders to deal with his own children. How cowardly.
Moreover, these two children look about six or seven years old, and are old enough to remember things. If they really kneel down and crawl into someone's crotch today, I'm afraid they will never be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives.
Seeing He Laosi forcing the unconvinced He Dashu to kneel down, Mingyue finally shouted, "Stop it."
Then she led a group of people down the hillside.
Seeing so many outsiders, the village woman suddenly lost some of her momentum. However, He Laosi was still holding He Dashu, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.
When Mingyue and the others came to her, the village woman's eyes lit up when she saw Mingyue's dress, and she immediately changed her expression to flattery: "Miss, are you going to our Hejia Village?"
As she spoke, the village woman's eyes were always on the hairpins on Mingyue's head, so that Luwu could not help but stand in front of Mingyue, fearing that she would offend her own lady.
Mingyue ignored the village woman and looked at He Laosi, shouting coldly: "Why don't you let go?"
He Laosi didn't even dare to look at Mingyue. He subconsciously loosened his hands and stood there with his head down.
Instead, He Dashu looked at Mingyue with sparkling eyes and said something shocking: "Sister, are you the fairy who came to save me and my sister?"
After hearing this, He Xiaohua stopped crying, but just stared with her eyes wide open and hiccuped.
Mingyue walked closer and touched her head, then looked at He Dashu, chuckled and asked, "Then are you willing to go with me?"
He Dashu took his sister's hand and said without hesitation: "I want to take my sister with me."
Mingyue nodded: "Okay, then you and your sister will follow me."
He Dashu then smiled and said, "I am willing, and so is my sister."
He Xiaohua looked at her brother, then at the fairy sister, and nodded vigorously.
Mingyue then looked at He Laosi and said, "Big brother... can I have a word with you?"
He Laosi nodded with a stiff face.
Seeing Mingyue and He Laosi's family were about to leave, the village woman became anxious.
"No, you can't just leave like this. Those two bastards haven't kneeled down to my Jin Bao yet..."
The village woman's voice gradually disappeared under the cold eyes of the bright moon.
Mingyue held He Dashu in one hand and He Xiaohua in the other, and led the way.
He Laosi followed behind with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.
When He Jinbao saw the wild boy leave like that, he started crying again.
But the village woman remembered Mingyue's eyes just now, and she didn't dare to say anything at all. She could only coax her son: "Jinbao, don't cry, don't cry, wait until those people leave, mother will take you to find the wild cubs and make them kowtow to you and admit their mistakes."
However, the village woman didn't know that she would never have this opportunity again.
Because, "You want to adopt Xiaohua and Dashu?" He Laosi looked at Mingyue in surprise, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong.
Mingyue patted the two children's hands, sent Luwu away to play with them, and then nodded: "Yes, you name a price, I want to adopt them and take them away, and they will no longer have any relationship with you, He Laosi."
He Laosi stared at Mingyue: "I won't sell my child."
Mingyue sneered, "Yes, you don't know how to sell children, nor do you know how to raise them. You will only make them give in unconditionally, live in fear, and always suffer injustice. In the future, you will become the second you, a coward."
The expression on He Laosi's face froze.
(End of this chapter)