“This Dawang has to be taken care of. Every day, his nose is aimed towards the sky and he’s never behaved properly. When he isn’t beating others up, he’d be scolding someone else,” Zhao Guilian also joined in on the fun.
Lin Lan frowned and glared back at her, “Dawang goes to school every day and he doesn’t dare to play truant. Did he perhaps beat you or scold you? Well, do tell me when and where this happened!”
The woman rolled her eyes, but she didn’t dare to shout at her. There wasn’t anyone in the village who didn’t know about Lin Lan being an overlord who could fend for herself. Besides, with her husband being the Director of the Public Security Bureau and her recent publicity activities, there were quite a few people who were willing to look out for her.
Liu Chunfang cried, “Anyway, Dawang beat our Tietou and many people saw. You can see that his mouth is blistered, his nose is broken, his nose bridge is swollen and his head has a hole in it… boohoo.”
Lin Lan took a look at Tietou, noting that it actually looked pretty bad. Tietou was beaten up in a fairly violent manner…the big bump on his head was too eye-catching.
That brat Dawang hadn’t fought for many days. At the very least, he hadn’t engaged in fights ever since he went to school.
Why did he start again today?
She had always emphasised to him that even if he had a conflict with someone, his actions must be reasonable. If the other party was the one being unreasonable, he could go to the teacher or the cadre to have them judge it, but no matter what, violence was not the answer.
She asked Tietou, “Boy, why did Dawang beat you?”
Tietou cried and said that Dawang hit him for no reason.
Liu Chunfang said bitterly, “What else can it be? Your Dawang is trying to be the overlord all day long and he looks at no one. It’s not our Tietou’s fault that he doesn’t want to listen to your son’s orders!”
Lin Lan raised her eyebrows, “I don’t think so. Although our Dawang likes to be the king of children, he doesn’t add the less useful types into his gang.”
When she said this, there were a few women present whose children had been taken care of by Dawang. For some reason, there was a sense of sweet complacency to know that their children were worthy of being recognised by Dawang.
It was as if being favoured by Dawang was a great thing, but they felt very proud, nonetheless!
Liu Chunfang was about to die of anger as she accused Lin Lan of messing around.
Lin Lan said impatiently,”Come on, tell me clearly. Tietou, tell the truth, why did Dawang beat you?”
Seeing that Tietou wasn’t going to say anything, she immediately added, “I have a dime here and I’ll give it to you if you tell the truth.”
Tietou was immediately moved.
Liu Chunfang scolded and fixed her sights on Lin Lan, “This is called bribery— you’re using money to lure children.”
Tietou snatched the money without his mother noticing and said quickly, “Langtou hit Xiowang and damaged his harmonica. Once Dawang knew about it, he wanted to beat him. He also added that Langtou was too young and it was my fault as an older brother for not keeping my sibling in check, so he beat me up instead. Boohoo, he wronged me; Langtou doesn’t even listen to me, so why did he hit me for it?”