Chapter 4 Mei Xiaoran Got Beaten

“I didn’t……My hand only just slipped and accidentally bumped into Lingling, but Mei Xiaoran said that I deliberately pushed Lingling down to the waste pool, she also scolded me together with everyone, and forced me to jump down! “

Once Qi Yao’s mom heard this she exploded loudly, “Mei Xiaoran, even if my family’s Yaoyao did something wrong it’s still not your place to correct her, why did you discredit my daughter?”

Mei Xiaoran tightly held the buns in her arms, unhappily replied, “Whatever your daughter said you also just believed it? Why don’t you ask others? There are so many people on the reservoir this afternoon, have you asked them all and what did they say?”

Qi Yao mom’s loud voice had long disturbed the neighborhood in the small street, everyone usually had nothing to entertain themselves with, and this was also the time where people were just off from work, so there were some of them that stretched their necks out and looked outside.

“Mei Xiaoran, you are just a little girl, yet dare to talk nonsense already? I really wanted to ask your family’s adults, how did they actually teach children?”

Qi Yao’s mom can’t help but to say that, while she grabbed Mei Xiaoran and walked forward, obviously for she had already known that Mei Xiaoran’s family lives in the east end of the small street and plans to make a scene there personally.

In that era, adults generally didn’t shield their shortcomings, when one’s child had a dispute with another family’s child, it was the adults who used their fists to solve the problem. Mei Xiaoran knew her dad’s temper, but she didn’t want to be beaten for no reason, so she cried out, “Haven’t seen a parent as biased as you, your family’s Qi Yao almost killed a person, I saved the person, not only you didn’t thanked me, but came to me to look for trouble, really so shameless!”

A neighborhood that knows the inside story came out and persuaded: “Liu Fang, it is indeed your daughter who was in the wrong today, we had also heard from the children, f it were not for Mei Xiaoran who caught Ouyang Ling in time, Ouyang Ling would have fallen into the waste pond, what a really risky thing. “

Liu Fang is the name of Qi Yao’s mom, when she heard the words of the neighbor’s, she immediately asked them ferociously, “Will you believe the words of a child? Look at how pitiful my family’s Yaoyao cries become? “

“Your family’s Yaoyao is also a child, and didn’t you believe it too?” That neighbor becomes unhappy, had never seen such a foolish mother.

During the commotion, Mei Xiaoran has already been dragged onto the door by Liu Fang.

Liu Fang didn’t go in, instead yelled loudly towards the courtyard door, “Mei Zhonghua get out here right now, your daughter accused my daughter today, you must give me an explanation or else it will not end here today!”

Mei Zhonghua is Mei Xiaoran’s dad, at this moment the grown-ups in the family are not yet back, Mei Xiaolei was a coward and one that was afraid of problems, seeing his sister being pulled back home, was so scared that he didn’t dare to even make a noise.

Liu Fang continued to yell towards the courtyard’s door, it then alarmed another household, the Du family who lives on the west side.

Mei Zhonghua’s family was farmers from the countryside and has only moved into the city for the past two years, the room they stayed in was rented from the Du family. The Du family’s livelihood is very good, some of the brothers are working in the neighbouring cities, so in this old residence the only one remaining was the youngest elder, Du Chengjun’s family. From the total of five rooms, two was intended for leasing, with the Du family occupying the west room and main room, totaling three rooms that were inhabited.

Du Chengjun’s daughter-in-law Li Cuiping heard someone yelling at the entrance, and she instantly exploded in anger. Flicked open the bamboo curtain and came to the courtyard, she then scolded toward Liu Fang, “What are you yelling at my house’s door for?”

Seeing Li Cuiping, Liu Fang froze for a moment, she and Li Cuiping knew each other.

Li Cuiping is not a warm-hearted person, purely because Liu Fang has affected her life, and no one wants someone to be yelling in front of their house’ door!

“Li Fang, do you think that your daughter is qualified to be a daughter, and other’s daughter is not qualified to be a daughter then?”

Li Cuiping took Mei Xiaoran away from Liu Fang’s hands roughly, “I know Ranran’s character, she can’t do this lack of virtue’s kind of thing. Wasn’t this Ouyang Ling your family’s relative? You can just directly go to the relative’s house to ask the situation clearly, what disturbance are you making at my door for? “

Liu Fang opened her mouth wide, “Cuihua, you still want to protect this child? She almost forced my girl to jump into the waste pond today!”

“Isn’t your daughter standing well here?” Li Cuiping said disapprovingly, still she really didn’t believe that Mei Xiaoran could do that kind of thing.

At this time among the crowd that was watching the commotion two children appeared which were Lu Xia and Wang Ke, both of them explained again all at once about the matter, and when it’s done Wang Ke even added, “I really saw it all with my own eyes, Qi Yao wanted to harm other but failed, and now came to slander Ranran, her face is really thick! “

This time it made Liu Fang feel very embarrassed, she can only scold Wang Ke, “You this little girl, what is your little tongue wantonly mumbling about?”

“I didn’t, it was clearly Qi Yao who pushed Ouyang Ling down the dam.”

Wang Ke felt very much wronged, and she couldn’t understand that it was clearly Qi Yao who pushed Ouyang Ling today, but it turned into Qi Yao’s mom who came to make trouble for Ranran.

Once she said this, Lu Xia also helped to chime in, “That’s right, it was Qi Yao who pushed the person down, and many of us saw it. It was Xiao Ran who was quick and caught Ouyang Ling in time, otherwise it would be miserable today!”

Several children testified together, but it didn’t get Liu Fang to stop, she still refused to leave.

At this time Mei Zhonghua came back, seeing that there were so many people gathered in front of the door, he became a little nervous, rushed in to see, found out that it was Liu Fang, couldn’t help squeezed a slight smile onto his face, “Sister in-law*, it’s you?”

(TN : in this matter it was not his real sister-in-law, but only as a general term for married women)

“I came exactly for you!”

Once Liu Fang saw Mei Zhonghua, her face grew longer, pointing at Mei Xiaoran and complained, “Your daughter falsely accused my daughter today, and almost forced my daughter to jump into the waste pond, what do you say that should be done?”

“Ranran, how could you dare do that?”

Mei Zhonghua didn’t say anything else, pulled Mei Xiaoran over and directly beat her.

Mei Xiaoran was also stunned by the strike and suffered several hits before she recovered, “Dad, it wasn’t me who falsely accused her, it was Qi Yao herself who pushed Ouyang Ling down at the reservoir, I even saved Ouyang Ling, how can it be said as a false accusation! “

“You even learn to retort?”

Mei Zhonghua directly slapped Mei Xiaoran’s face once and her ears were only left with the “buzzing” sound, nothing else can be heard thereafter.

Li Cuiping couldn’t stand to see it anymore, stepped forward to protect Mei Xiaoran and viciously swore to his face, “How was there a dad like you? Your daughter was bullied and you don’t even know how to protect her, instead you beat your daughter like this? “

When Qi Yao saw this scene, she was ecstatic. She secretly pulled Liu Fang’s clothes, as a signal for Liu Fang to put another fire on: Mei Xiaoran angered her today, she also had bad luck, for she herself was not so easy to be bullied. Her mom will protect her, unlike other parents that didn’t consider whether a child has done something right or wrong outside, will beat first then talk later.

Liu Fang was unwilling to show her weakness: “Cuihua, what do you mean with this word, my daughter was also being bullied.”

Seeing that these two women was about to quarrel, Mei Zhonghua started to be even more ruthless, and scolded Mei Xiaoran at the same time, “Look at how mischievous you are, Aunt Liu and Aunt Li started to quarrels because of you, see how I will deadly beat you today. “

Mei Xiaoran originally wanted to explain, but she knew her dad’s temper too well for he deadly wanted face-suffers alive*, so the more she said the more mistakes she made, the harder she will get beaten then. She simply firmly hugged the bun in her arms and allowed her dad to hit however he wanted.

(TN : puff oneself up at one’s own cost)

The people that were standing aside couldn’t bear to see it anymore and forcefully pulled Mei Zhonghua away, “Older Brother Mei, even if the child did something wrong, you shouldn’t beat them to death, just what are you doing?”

At this time, Mei Xiaoran’s mom Li Mingyun also came back. When she saw that Mei Xiaoran was beaten like that, she came over angrily and held Mei Xiaoran in her arms, furiously roaring towards Mei Zhonghua, “Mei Zhonghua, what do you want to do? Is there anyone who beats children this way without asking first like you? “