Chapter 91.1: Wet Body and Nosebleed
He had just taken a bite of the
remaining half bowl of noodles when he saw a figure running out of the skewers
shop next to the snack bar.
White T-shirt, blue shorts,
ponytail.
The legs beneath the blue shorts
were long and straight, white, slender, and well-proportioned.
Beautiful legs with a double top.
He couldn't help but put down his
chopsticks, his eyes following the girl's figure, moving into the chaotic
battle between the two groups.
The girl who had called her, Huang
Ying, seemed to be her name. Seeing her appear, Huang Ying was more excited
than seeing a family member. Huang Ying pulled her aside and quickly explained
the whole story of the chaos.
"Wang Shu, Qiu Yun, Liu Liu,
and I were classmates. She was incredibly innocent and nicknamed
"Little." She was completely deceived by an older man. She was on an
internship and was spotted by a client of the company. The older man pursued
her fervently. Having grown up without a father, she couldn't resist and
started dating him. He lied to her and said he was single, and she had always
told us she planned to marry him after graduation. But today, come and admire
that fierce, shrewish auntie across the street. She's the wife of the prodigal
older man."
Huang Ying quickly informed the
girl with slender white legs that the older man's wife was adamant that Wang
Shu was deliberately being a mistress and refused to accept the claim that she
was being a mistress. So, she brought her men to rant about it, and then, after
ranting enough, she ordered them to strip Wang Shu naked and parade her through
the streets.
He saw the girl, stunned.
"What a ridiculous story! Why didn't they call the police? They'll all go
quiet once the police show up!"
Huang Ying told her, "It'll be
bad if we go to the police station."
She then swallowed and said,
"Okay, I'll have a debate with this woman, but let's make it quick. I
haven't even finished my skewers yet."
He overheard this, feeling a bit
amused as he sat at an outdoor table in the snack bar.
He saw the girl first go to Wang
Shu to verify the situation. She asked a few questions, like, "You really
didn't know the old man was married?" She observed Wang Shu's expressions
and emotions through her answers to determine if she was lying.
He figured she wasn't blindly
chivalrous; she had her own judgment.
The girl named Wang Shu showed her
her phone, which looked like a chat dialog box.
He watched the girl nod after
reading the phone screen. She patted Wang Shu on the shoulder and said,
"Senior, I get it. He did cheat on you. Wait for me to help you argue with
Auntie."
He guessed the chat screen must
have proof of an older man cheating on a younger woman, so he added a text like
"I'm single" and sent it over from the chat window. He watched the
girl bravely step forward and reason with the middle-aged woman on the other
side, who was cursing and spitting.
She said kindly and gently,
"Auntie, please calm down."
The middle-aged woman then yelled,
"Who are you calling 'Auntie'? Do you think I'm a vegetable vendor?"
She immediately corrected herself,
"Well, Auntie, please calm down."
He almost laughed again.
He heard her crisp yet clear
reasoning, "Auntie, this isn't my senior's fault. It's your husband who
pretended to be single and took advantage of my off-campus internship to pursue
her. Actually, my senior is innocent. So if you really want to criticize her,
you should take your men back and capture your husband alive to criticize him.
You've mistakenly identified the target of class struggle."
The middle-aged woman glared at
her, lashing out at her. "Stop talking nonsense! Have you grown all your
hair yet? You're trying to sow discord with me. I tell you, little bastard,
your crude tricks are beyond my reach."
The middle-aged woman's tongue was
unpleasant, and her words were unpleasant to the ear. He rarely heard such
vulgar language, and he frowned in utter displeasure. If he hadn't wanted to
see how she would respond, he would have gotten up and left, sparing his ears
any more pollution.
The middle-aged woman spoke with a
dirty, presumptuous air. Seeing the girl wasn't anxious or angry, she smiled
and said, "Aunt, this is the thing. My great-grandmother has passed away.
If you really want to be my great-grandmother, then I wish you the same as she
did. Rest in peace."
He raised an eyebrow. She was truly
a sharp-tongued person, ruthless without even a single curse word.
The middle-aged woman immediately
became even more enraged, yelling at her, "Who are you cursing to death,
you little bastard? I'll kill you if you die! You little bastard, if you walk
down the street today, you'll get run over!"
She pointed her finger back and
forth in front of her and her four senior classmates, cursing, "You
thought your institutions of higher learning could produce good people, but all
you've produced is a bunch of vixens, vile little bitches, shameless and
despicable. You've read your books like dogs, you've lost all sense of shame.
Your parents and teachers can't teach you those bastard brains. They can't
teach you to live with dignity. Okay? Today, I'm going to teach you a
lesson."
A stream of obscenities filled his
ears, and he frowned, his instincts viscerally unsettled. He was thankful the
alley wasn't crowded right now. Aside from a few shop owners and a few
customers standing at the door watching the fun, no one else had flocked in to
watch. Otherwise, it would have been a truly unbearable farce.
Her four senior students couldn't
help but explode upon hearing this. They tried to argue with the middle-aged
woman, but their words were too stilted to come out, and they were immediately
outmatched.
She remained smiling, seemingly
unmoved. But he noticed a fierceness in her eyes. This only intensified his
interest.
She was a woman who held her
composure, one who wouldn't be easily provoked into losing her composure.
She remained gentle and said to the
middle-aged woman, "Auntie, if you insist on speaking like this, peppering
your sentences with curse words and peppering them with personal attacks, then
I won't be polite."
Her expression changed, her smile
disappearing, and her serious, imposing side emerged. She transitioned from
"courtesy first" to "force later."
"You say our institutions of
higher learning can't produce good people, yet your husband still licks our
students' boots, wailing and gesturing to the heavens and the earth, claiming
his wife was hit by a car and killed years ago. And you, Auntie, licks your
husband's boots like crazy, unconcerned with his verbal accusations of
wife-killing, and even less willing to confront him about his infidelity. So,
in this chain of licking, you're the lowest of the low. You call my senior
sister despicable and shameless, but aren't you calling yourself even less
despicable and shameless?"
She said this with a sigh on her
face, a look that could truly infuriate someone. He couldn't help but curl his
lips. He thought the middle-aged woman across from him should learn from her
how to curse without using profanity and still infuriate someone to death.
He heard the girl named Huang Ying
whisper something in her ear.
From the distance, their voices
were too quiet, so he couldn't make out what they were saying.
But he noticed that Huang Ying
seemed to make a "immediate" sound with her lips mid-sentence. He
figured Huang Ying was probably telling her to try and stall for time, to
prevent the shrewish auntie from the other side from ordering the others to
rush over and strip Wang Shu's clothes. The boys from our class would be
arriving soon.
The middle-aged woman, either
having cursed enough or unable to curse enough, had already begun to gather her
companions to prepare for the stripping.
He couldn't help but hesitate.
Should I leave now and avoid this mess, or wait and see?
While he was hesitating, he heard
the girl say to the people around the middle-aged woman, "To all the
friends brought by this aunt, I'm telling you, you really shouldn't resort to
violence. This is the truth. I'm a law student at the law school. Our professor
is incredibly famous. Under his guidance, we've made it as easy as cleaning the
house. I've already called the police, and they'll be here soon. If you really
resort to violence, we'll lie down immediately. Once the police arrive, we'll
examine our injuries and then sue you. Then, none of you can escape. You'll all
go to jail. And once you're in jail, your children's future will be ruined. It
will affect their future Party membership, promotions, and political
review."
Her half-truthful and half-shamed
threats had the effect of frightening some of the people on the other side.
Someone stopped the middle-aged
woman and said, "Forget it. Go back. Don't resort to violence. It will
affect your children."
The middle-aged woman slapped his
hand away, her face brimming with indignation. "That little bastard
frightened you with just a few words. What's so f*cking scary about her? I
don't believe she's that capable."
As soon as the middle-aged woman
finished her words, the girl casually recited several legal provisions for
intentional injury, defamation, and insult. Huang Ying and the others stood by,
giving her a thumbs-up.
The middle-aged woman still looked
stern, but her actions were already being held back by the legal screed.
She pointed at the bright-eyed,
white-toothed girl in exasperation and cursed, "Where the hell did you
come from, you little bastard? What the hell has this got to do with you? Get
out of here! If you keep on arguing with me, I'll strip you naked and tear you
to pieces!"
The girl immediately replied,
"You say this has nothing to do with me, then that's fine. It's also none
of my senior's business. Ultimately, this is a matter between you two. One of
you is a toad wanting to eat swan meat, and the other isn't restraining himself
and is trying to kill the swan. Oh, this swan is truly unlucky!"
After a pause, she added, "By
the way, Auntie, I'm afraid you can't follow my polite way of cursing. I just
called your husband a toad. Think about your place in society."
He couldn't help but laugh this
time. He put his fist to his mouth and coughed.
The middle-aged woman realized she
was calling her a female toad and immediately launched into a furious outburst.
The next second, a barrage of obscenities erupted from her lips.
He frowned as he listened. It was
so filthy. He had never heard so many curse words in his entire life as today.
He actually stood up and wanted to
leave, to get away from this pool of foul noise.
But he was also a little worried.
For some reason, he was worried
that the girl would suffer.
The girl, however, acted as if she
had heard nothing of the curse words, and her smile returned.
He thought then and there, she was
truly infuriating. The more angry others were, the less angry she became.
She continued to rage, grinning.
"Auntie, you're getting more and more obscene. Seriously, if we're
arguing, I'd buy you some clove and osmanthus tea. You don't know what these
two are used for, do you? They're a famous folk remedy for bad breath."
Hearing this, her senior classmates
couldn't help but cheer her up, praising her, "You're so talented! You
even use folk remedies to curse people. That's why people need to be cultured
and knowledgeable." The latter part was offensive to the middle-aged
woman.
The middle-aged woman's profanity
was unstoppable, but she couldn't overcome the civilized cursing. She finally
ended the verbal fight and engaged in a physical confrontation, shouting to her
companions, "I asked you to come here to kill her! Come here and strip
that little bitch naked!" Suddenly, her eyes gleamed fiercely, and she
declared again, "Tear this nosy little bastard's mouth apart first!"
With this, she charged at the girl,
swinging her hand.
She was a massive figure, almost
twice her size.
At that moment, he didn't know what
he was doing, only that he suddenly felt himself moving.
When he stopped moving again, he
found himself standing in front of the girl, holding the middle-aged woman's
wrist as she attempted to slap her.
Then he turned to look at her and
asked, "Are you okay?"
When she saw that it was him
blocking her path, she immediately broke into a brilliant smile.
She practically jumped for joy, her
eyes twinkling and her brows curved, calling him, "Senior, senior!"
At that moment, the middle-aged
woman called out to the people she had brought with her, urging them to move
forward.
Two people hesitated, clearly intimidated by the laws the girl behind him was mumbling. But the others rushed forward.
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