Reborn as a Superpower Girl in the 80s
Chapter 117 Cold-blooded Enough

Chapter 117: Chapter 117 Cold-blooded Enough

Luo Qiao had heard the commotion from afar and asked the people sitting on the bridge, "What’s all this about?"

One of the old men glanced towards the Sun Family who were at the center of the argument and said, "Well, no one is willing to take care of Stone, alas, such a sin!"

The Second Wife of Sun Family and the Third Wife nearly reached their work hour squabbling, yet no conclusion had been drawn, so the brigade leader couldn’t stand it anymore and came over to mediate.

Unexpectedly, Kong Yuru retorted, "It’s easy for you, brigade leader, to talk without feeling the pain; would you be willing to raise a freeloader in your home?"

Sun Yuru was well aware that Stone was already eight years old; children his age had started school last year, and several more were rumored to begin this latter half of the year.

Her son, Sun Shengyuan, had started primary school the previous year, and if they didn’t allow that "wild seed" to go to school this second half of the year, she feared the villagers would surely talk the Sun Family to death, especially since the three households indeed shared the compensation money meant for Sun Mei’s next of kin.

The brigade leader didn’t expect Kong Yuru to be so unreasonable, so he said bluntly, "You are Stone’s closest kin. Sun Mei’s compensation was six hundred yuan and you dare to call Stone a freeloader now.

Your Sun Family really knows how to devour others without spitting out the bones, truly having lost all conscience. After splitting up the compensation, you still have the audacity to say such things.

Ever since that child started living with you, has any of your households ever treated him kindly? Isn’t he sent to fetch pigweed from the mountain at the break of dawn each day? What are the children of your households doing at that time?

In all these months, which household has given him a full meal, or made a piece of clothing for the child? And now you say that he’s a freeloader, how can you even utter those words?"

Now the villagers coming out to work were unsettled, learning that so much compensation money had been given for Sun Mei; the Sun Family was truly cursed.

Li Xiulan stood among the crowd, pumpkin seeds in hand, cracking them and saying, "Kong Yuru, I didn’t think the Sun Family could be so shameless.

Spending the money his mother earned through her death and still daring to call him a freeloader, you didn’t even take care of him when he got hurt."

She turned to the onlooking villagers and said, "You don’t know, do you? Since last night, no one from the Sun Family has taken food to the clinic, even claiming that besides the twenty-yuan deposit for the hospital, they won’t give any more.

Look at how heartless they are, aren’t they afraid that Sun Mei will come to have a ’talk’ with their families tonight?"

At this point, Doctor Gao also stepped forward and said, "The child’s burns are severe, almost considered to be third-degree, and yet, last night none of you brought him any food.

Grandma Sun, what a grand display from the Sun Family, such cold-heartedness."

All at once, the gathered villagers by the riverbank started discussing the matter aloud.

Someone said, "Ning Ziping and Sun Mei used to have such a good relationship; if it weren’t for the ol’ Sun Family always sponging off them, they would have led a very comfortable life. Later on, Sun Mei and Ning Ziping started arguing frequently because of the Sun Family members coming over to mooch off them."

"Exactly, if it wasn’t for the Sun Family, Ning Ziping wouldn’t have left so decidedly. Remember when the Ning Family came to visit? Just see the Sun Family’s attitude, making all those demands that ended up driving the Nings away."

"That’s just one side of it, though. No matter what, Ning Ziping did Sun Mei wrong. No matter how good it was in the past, in the end, he still listened to his parents and abandoned Sun Mei and his son."

"Sun Mei was foolish back then, she shouldn’t have left Stone behind. She should have let him go back to the city with his father. Maybe he could have found a nice family to marry into, and she wouldn’t have passed away so young."