Chapter 4

“Xu girl, you really have a bad temper. You’re so aggressive right from the start.”

“Although I’m not always at home, the people downstairs always know whether my Erya has gone out. Even if she goes out, she must go out through the main door downstairs. They are chatting at the main door. They won’t lie, right?”

As soon as Mrs. Chen said this, an old lady who lived on the first floor spoke up: “It seems so. Except for cooking yesterday, I was in the yard all the time.”

“I did see Erya go out to buy groceries yesterday morning and come back. She even said hello to us, but I haven’t seen her come out once since then.”

Xu Leshu chuckled: “Grandma Chen, I meant she was at home, not out. She pushed me at the staircase on the second floor, where there was no need to go out the door downstairs.”

“I asked her to make sure she had not left your house except for going out to buy groceries in the morning, not the front door of this building.”

Mrs. Chen looked at her with scrutiny, thinking that she was just spoiled by her family and had a bad temper, but she didn’t expect that she was actually quite smart.

“Xu girl, since you don’t believe us, there is nothing we can do. Didn’t you say you have evidence that it was my Erya who pushed you down the stairs? Then what evidence do you have?”

A smile slowly formed on Xu Leshu’s pale face, and she turned to look at two children, one big and one small, in the crowd.

“Xiao Yu Lele, come over here for a moment. Did you see Sister Chen Erya pushing me yesterday?”

Li Xiaofen, who was eating melons and holding her bowl, suddenly heard her calling her two children.

The children are on vacation now and the weather is hot, so she let her eldest daughter and her younger brother rest at home, so she saw this?

Not to mention the mother herself was surprised, even everyone else and Chen Meihong were looking at the two children in surprise.

Chen Meihong didn’t even dare to breathe. She clenched her hands tightly and didn’t even notice that her palms were scratched by her nails.

Now a pair of eyes were fixed on the brother and sister, and their eyes were slightly red.

“Xiao Yu Lele, is what Sister Xiao Shu said true? Did you see Sister Erya pushing Sister Xiao Shu downstairs yesterday?”

Xiaoyu looked up and inadvertently met Mrs. Chen’s eyes. She was so scared that she took two steps back and hid in her mother’s arms.

But he still nodded and said, “My brother and I were sleeping at home yesterday, but he wanted to go out and play, so he didn’t fall asleep. But mom asked me to stay at home with him and not go anywhere.”

“So I kept pulling my brother to sleep, and when he was about to fall asleep, I heard Erya and Xiaoshu quarreling.”

“When my brother heard the noise, he got up and tried to open the door to see what was happening, but I heard they were arguing so loudly that I held him back and only opened the door a crack.”

“Just listen…”

“Xiaoyu, you should know what you are saying. Don’t lie at such a young age.”

Mrs. Chen interrupted Xiaoyu. Now she understood that the brother and sister really happened to see it.

But she couldn’t be allowed to continue talking, otherwise the reputation of her Chen family would be completely ruined.

Xiaoyu was so scared that she hid deeper, her body shaking a little.

After all, he was just a nine-year-old child, and he dared not speak after being glared at by Mrs. Chen.

Li Xiaofen raised her head but before she could say anything, she was overwhelmed by a voice.

“Who are you threatening, Aunt Chen? How can my little child Xiaoyu lie?”

“Mom.” Li Xiaofen seemed to have found a backbone when she saw her mother-in-law coming over. She didn’t dare to confront this old lady Chen.

“Grandma.” Xiaoyu saw her grandma coming and quickly hugged her waist: “I didn’t lie, grandma. Yesterday my brother and I really saw sister Erya pushing sister Xiaoshu down the stairs.”

Zhao Hua patted her granddaughter on the shoulder and said, “It’s okay, grandma is here. Tell me everything you saw. Grandma is here, and no one dares to scare you.”

As he said this, he glared at Mrs. Chen.

With grandma around, Xiaoyu continued, “I just heard Sister Erya say something like if she gets married, her in-laws will beat her to death, but grandma will live.”

“Later, Sister Xiaoshu said loudly that even if I didn’t lend you the money, you don’t have to curse me and grandma, and the two sisters started arguing.”

“Later, Sister Xiaoshu said to let her go and she wanted to leave, but Sister Erya kept holding Sister Xiaoshu’s hand tightly. Sister Xiaoshu reached out and pried Sister Erya’s hand away.”

“Finally, Sister Xiaoshu screamed, and I saw Sister Erya quickly retract her hand, and finally ran upstairs in a panic.”

“You lied. Why did you lie? Tell me, did Xu Leshu give you any benefit? Why did you slander me?”

Chen Meihong’s eyes were red as she grabbed Xiaoyu’s hand and spoke loudly with a ferocious look on her face.

“Wow… I’m not lying, it’s you

My brother and I saw the person who pushed Sister Xiaoshu down. ”

Seeing that she had scared her daughter to tears, Li Xiaofen quickly pushed her away and held the child in her arms to comfort her.

“How could you be like this, kid? You are really vicious. You can even harm such a young child. If anything happens to my child, I will not forgive you.”

Looking at the red mark on the child’s wrist, he glared at Chen Meihong lying on the ground.

When Lele saw her sister being bullied, she got so angry that she pushed Chen Meihong.

“You bad guy, you were the one who pushed Sister Xiaoshu. I saw it.”

Chen Meihong shook her head: “No, it’s not me.”

She shouted at him loudly: “You are all lying. Xu Leshu must have bribed you.”

Old Lady Xu stepped forward and slapped her in the face: “You black-hearted person, my daughter is always so nice to you and always thinks of you for a share of the delicious food, but you actually pushed my daughter down the stairs.”

“You ungrateful bastard, now that both kids have seen it, you’re still trying to make excuses.”

As if that sentence irritated her, Chen Meihong pushed Old Lady Xu away.

He shouted at her at the top of his lungs, “I’m an ungrateful wolf. Thinking of me, isn’t that like giving alms to a dog?”

“Am I a dog to Xu Leshu? She usually gives me some leftovers and makes me wag my tail and beg for mercy.”

“Apart from my school and the staff quarters, who else is friends with Xu Leshu? She’s arrogant, has a bad temper, and offends people everywhere.”

“Who does she think he is? He is just the second daughter of an ordinary working-class family. If it weren’t for an old woman like you, how could she have such a good life?”

“We are both second daughters, but why does Xu Leshu get unconditional love from her family, while I have to do endless housework all day long?”

“If I have no choice, they will beat me up. Even Chen Xiaobao can tell me what to do. Why?”

Xu Leshu looked at her coldly: “That’s just what you think. I treat you as my best friend, and the food I gave you was specially saved by me. I never thought you would think this way.”

“Huh…”

Chen Meihong simply sat on the ground: “Why are you still pretending to be so high and mighty when you give me something? This is your true heart that you treat me as a friend. Forget it, is it true or not?”