Chapter 122 : Finding someone to testify

Old Mrs. Chang opened her mouth in shock as she watched the female comrade who was sitting on someone and slapping them.

Chang Guangming pointed at Su Xieqiu and said, “Grandma, Mom, Aunt Su is fighting with someone. Should we go help?”

Li Xiao’e looked at him in surprise and asked, “Guangming, is that the aunt who saved you?”

“Yes,” Chang Guangming said anxiously. “Mom, let’s go and save Aunt Su quickly, or someone will beat her!”

Li Xiao’e’s mouth twitched when she heard her son’s words. She thought, your Aunt Su is very good at fighting, we don’t need to rescue her.

Li Xiao’e then looked at her mother-in-law, seeing the disbelief on her face. She too wanted to laugh. This Comrade Su was not quite the same as described by her mother-in-law and the team leader.

The captain’s eyebrows furrowed, and his face turned livid as he shouted, “Stop it, Zhenyu’s wife, what are you doing?”

He had just been praising her for being virtuous on the road, and now he saw her fighting someone in such a rude manner. Wasn’t this a slap in the face?

When Su Xieqiu heard the captain’s voice, she paused, pinched Zhang Qianyun’s chest a few times, then stood up and put on her shoes.

Chenchen, who was not far away, saw that they stopped fighting. He quickly dropped the corn cob in his hand and ran over with his sister.

He looked at Su Xieqiu with admiration in his eyes and whispered, “Aunt Su, you are amazing.”

Su Xieqiu winked playfully at him before turning to look at the captain.

Then she saw Old Mrs. Chang and Chang Guangming standing nearby, along with a woman who looked very similar to Chang Guangming.

Su Xieqiu guessed the woman was probably Chang Guangming’s mother.

She cleared her throat awkwardly and was about to approach them to greet them.

Just then, she heard Han Meili crying, “Captain, that bitch Su Xieqiu beat me and my second sister-in-law. You have to take charge of this.”

Su Xieqiu, displeased upon hearing this, didn’t even bother greeting anyone. Instead, she decided to handle the situation first.

She had used quite a bit of force today and couldn’t afford to let the two men discuss their story, as it would be disadvantageous to her.

Su Xieqiu glared and immediately retorted, “Han Meili, you really have a way of twisting the facts. It was you and Zhang Qianyun who first called me shameless. You even called my two children bastards. I ignored you, but you took advantage of my husband being away and beat me with a stick. Am I just supposed to sit there and let you beat me for no reason?”

She pointed at Zhang Qianyun and said, “And you, I didn’t even say anything to you, and you hit me with a corn cob. If I don’t beat both of you, who should I beat?”

“You hit me with the corn cob first,” Han Meili cried, tears and snot flowing.

Su Xieqiu pinched her waist and questioned her, “If you hadn’t called my child a bastard, why would I have hit you with a corn cob? Let me tell you, if I hear you say that again, I’ll beat you every time I see you and even tear your mouth apart.”

Han Meili was speechless after being scolded. What Su Xieqiu said wasn’t wrong, it was indeed she who had started the insults first.

If this had been a private dispute at home, she could have come up with a few excuses. But when she cursed earlier, her voice had been loud, and many people had likely heard it.

At that moment, Zhang Qianyun staggered to her feet from the ground.

She had been badly beaten today, pinned down by Su Xieqiu and humiliated in front of so many people.

Zhang Qianyun glared at Su Xieqiu, her face full of humiliation, and said, “I’m going to the commune to sue you.”

“Okay, let’s go now. Whoever doesn’t go is a coward. Not to mention the commune, even if it’s the county or the province, I’ll go with you. It’s also a good opportunity to settle the matter from last time.”

Su Xieqiu stared coldly at Zhang Qianyun and Han Meili, smiling as she added, “Let everyone see how vicious you two are. You didn’t kill me last time, but now you’re trying to beat me up in broad daylight. I don’t believe you’re so arrogant that I can’t defend myself.”

Han Meili was so angry that she became incoherent after hearing Su Xieqiu accuse her so publicly.

“You bitch, what you’re saying is nonsense. It was you who beat us both, but now you’re accusing us of being vicious. You’re such a mean bitch.”

Su Xieqiu glanced at her with disdain. “A little girl like you, and you open your mouth to call me either a bastard, a whore, or a slut. I don’t know how your mother taught you, or maybe this is just a family tradition?”

When Han Meili heard Su Xieqiu bring up her mother, she stamped her feet in anger and was about to start cursing when the captain shouted, “Shut up, everyone.”

Han Meili shrank back in fear and didn’t dare speak again.

When Su Xieqiu saw the captain’s face turn pale, she thought he must be angry with Han Meili and Zhang Qianyun. She didn’t think she had done anything wrong.

“What happened? Who started it first? Tell me one by one. If anyone dares lie, I won’t let her off.”

The team leader was nearly mad with anger. He had never seen anything like this before. They were even fighting over peeling corn.

He cursed inwardly, thinking that Han Baoguo and Yang Lanhua didn’t know how to teach their children. How could a family be so good at causing trouble?

Su Xieqiu saw that Zhang Qianyun was about to speak, and knowing that this woman was good at playing word games, she took the initiative to tell the whole story.

The captain looked very unhappy and asked Zhang Qianyun and Han Meili, “Is what she said true?”

Zhang Qianyun quickly defended herself, “Captain, I really didn’t participate in the fight at first. I was trying to stop them, but Su Xieqiu grabbed my hair and started beating me. I was really wronged.”

“Do you always hit people with something before trying to break up a fight? You hit me on the head with a corn cob that big. You were trying to kill me. Hitting me in the face is the least of my worries.”

Su Xieqiu’s face was dark as she walked toward Zhang Qianyun step by step, still speaking of her viciousness.

“Zhang Qianyun, do you think I don’t know what you’re thinking? Even though Han Meili was the first to attack today, you must have been the one behind it. You wanted to use her to kill me without taking any responsibility.”

“I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense,” Zhang Qianyun said, enduring the pain on her body and face, trying her best to deny it.

She was afraid everyone would really believe it, and even more afraid that this would get back to her in-laws. How could she survive in the family in the future? Her mother-in-law alone could destroy her.

Su Xieqiu didn’t want to talk to her anymore and directly addressed the captain “Captain, I know you have a lot to do every day, and I don’t want to waste your time. Could you ask the people who work with us if what I said is true?”

The team leader glanced at her and then asked the people who were peeling corn, one by one.

He asked all the questions, both to prevent people from lying and to avoid future retaliation against those who testified.

The old men and women didn’t want to get involved, but when the captain asked, they couldn’t help but answer.

Although they didn’t want to offend the troublesome Yang Lanhua, Han Zhenyu and his wife were not easy to deal with.

Everyone weighed the pros and cons in their minds and decided to tell the truth.

An old man in his sixties or seventies spoke first “What Zhenyu’s wife said is pretty much right. It was indeed Meili and Zhenhua’s wife who started it.”

Several other old men and women nodded in agreement.

Finally, Yang Chunhua’s mother-in-law added, “It was Zhenyu’s wife who first hit Meili with a corn cob, and then the three of them started fighting.”

Her words were vague, but the implication was that all three of them were at fault.