Chapter Ten Rolling Knife Meat

  The couple in the earth house got more and more fierce, followed by a burst of scolding and fighting sounds. Before long, a tall and thin man walked out of the earth house with torn clothes and scratch marks on his face. He glared at the earth house, spat, and cursed as he quickly walked away.

  A plump woman rushed out of the cave, her eyes red and swollen, tears streaming down her face. She pointed at the man's back and shouted loudly: "You coward, you scoundrel! Your son is dead and you don't even dare to avenge him! Don't think I don't know that you've been eyeing Xiuying from a young age because of her good looks, wanting to win her favor. Unfortunately, she still married someone else, and in the end, you got nothing but your own death wish!"

  Seeing her husband walk out of the yard without looking back, the fat woman cried loudly by herself, and then scolded: "You don't dare to go find her, I won't let her off, I'll take my son to her house right now, if she doesn't compensate me, we'll die together at her house!"

  After that, he turned around and rushed into the kiln cave, carried out the corpse of the fat child from the kiln cave, and headed towards Luo's house. As he walked, he cried loudly, attracting many villagers to follow him and watch. A woman curiously asked another woman: "What is this 'Rolling Knife Meat' going to do?" "What can Rolling Knife Meat do? Of course, it's looking for someone to quarrel with, I don't know which family will be unlucky this time!"

  A stout woman walked into the courtyard where the big cow lived, kicked open the slightly ajar wooden door with one foot and strode in.

  She was greeted by the loud barking of a big yellow dog. Just as the big yellow dog was about to pounce on the fat woman, a clear and crisp female voice came from inside the wooden house on the second floor: "Big Yellow, come back!"

  The curtain was lifted, and Luo Xiuying's figure emerged from the wooden house on the second floor, standing still at the staircase entrance, her eyes calmly gazing at the plump woman, as if she had known all along that she would appear.

  In the empty space of the courtyard, three adjacent circles were drawn. Dà Niú, Shuǐ Shēng and Xiǎo Juān stood in each circle, holding a large stone in their hands, standing still under the scorching sun, it was unclear whether they were practicing or being punished.

  As they saw the stout woman rush into the house, the three of them looked at each other in shock, and finally cast their eyes on the corpse in the woman's arms. Dà Niú clearly remembered that just yesterday, this familiar figure was still playing with him.

  The stout woman put her son's body on the ground, took a few deep breaths, stopped crying, looked up at Luo Xiuying and shouted in a loud voice: "Luo Xiuying, your son took my son to the creek and didn't take care of him. He let my son be bitten to death by wolves! Today you must give me an explanation, or else I'll sit in your house and not leave!"

  Lu Xiuying walked down the wooden stairs, silently sighing in her heart. This woman's arrogance and unreasonableness were unmatched in the village. She had originally hoped that her husband would understand some reason and be able to control his wife, but instead he was still being scolded by her. Feeling suffocated, yet with a calm expression, she said: "Fatty sister, no one expected this unexpected event. The children in the village have hands and feet, they run out to play every day, and no one has ever stopped them. If we're to blame, it's because us adults didn't take good care of them, what does it have to do with the children?"

  "It's all because of your family's Big Cow and Water, they're the ones who took my son to that faraway place to play, that's why he got bitten by a wolf! If my son was sleeping at home, this wouldn't have happened!" The fat woman shouted loudly, then suddenly sat down beside the corpse, wailing and crying uncontrollably: "My son, you died so miserably! You were bitten by a wolf, and nobody took care of you, they only cared about saving the rich people from the neighboring village! Who let your father be so useless?!"

  Lu Xiuying saw the fat woman shouting and her anger rising, her face also looking ugly, said: "Fat sister, I hear what you mean, your son was bitten to death by a wolf, or my son deliberately arranged it? Then I want to ask, yesterday afternoon before eating lunch, who was at our door calling for our big cow? As for Shengsheng and Xiaojuan, they didn't even play with your fat Duan!"

  After finishing speaking, he looked at the villagers surrounding the door and said: "All of you come to judge for yourselves. With so many children gathered together in the village, you can ask each one of them individually whether it was Fat Duan who first came to call my Big Cow, or whether it was he who suggested going to the riverbank to play in the water?"

  Among the crowd outside the courtyard, several clear voices of children who were watching the excitement came over, all testifying to what Luo Xiuying had just said.

  The fat woman opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word. The village children had nothing to do and gathered together every day to play in the water, frolic, and herd cattle and sheep. Nine out of ten times, it was her own son who went to find the two big cow brothers first, and yesterday was no exception.

  Bowing her head to look at her son's body, she couldn't help feeling indignant and angry. Seeing no one speaking up for her, her anger surged, her face twitched, and she raised her plump arm, shouting: "Luo Xiuying, if it weren't for your two brazen sons, my Chubby wouldn't have dared to go to the creek alone! If he hadn't gone to the creek, he wouldn't have been bitten by a wolf! No matter how you put it, it's all because of your sons' fault that mine is dead! Your son didn't even get a scratch on his hair, what do you have to say for yourself? Return my son's life to me!"

  Dà niú, Shuǐ shēng heard the fat woman making unreasonable trouble, pointing her spearhead at his own brother. Already extremely angry, he then heard the fat woman shouting "thief son" one after another, and was even more furious. Shuǐ shēng raised the stone in his hand and rushed towards the fat woman to hit her, angrily saying: "Dare to come to my home to make trouble, I'll smash you to death!" Dà niú then rushed to the side of the big yellow dog and said: "Big Yellow, bite her!"

  Fortunately, the stone held by Shuisheng weighed over 20 kilograms and the two were far apart, so it didn't hit the fat woman. However, she was frightened and rolled away to one side to avoid it.

  The big yellow dog barked and rushed towards the fat woman, who let out a loud "ah" and covered her head with both hands, trembling with fear.

  "Get out, Dahuang!" Luo Xiuying shouted angrily. The big yellow dog had already rushed to the woman's face, but did not dare to resist its master, and retreated reluctantly to the side of the big cow with a low growl, its eyes still staring fiercely at the fat woman.

  The fat woman finally let go of her hands, looked at Luo Xiuying, and then looked at the villagers surrounding the courtyard. She fell to the ground, kicked her legs wildly, pointed one hand at the sky and pounded the other on the ground, wailing loudly while crying: "Heavens! You... you open your eyes and take a look... see what kind of people this family is! ... This child is only nine years old... a nine-year-old kid dares to kill someone with a stone, it's simply a beast! No wonder since childhood, he didn't drink human milk, but wanted to drink leopard milk! Yesterday, he just killed my son, and today he wants to take my life too!"

  Daniu and Shuisheng, both with pale faces and clenched teeth, their eyes blazing with fury, yet not daring to leave the circle drawn by their mother. Shuisheng snatched a small stone from Xiaojun's hand and hurled it at the fat woman's head.

  Lu Xiuying stepped forward quickly, blocking the way in between, her right hand stretched out to block the stone, and with a swift motion, she hooked it downwards. The stone, about the size of a human head, landed steadily in her hand.

  Lu Xiangying threw away the stone and quickly walked to Shuixing's face, slapping him with a loud slap: "Your father and I taught you two brothers martial arts every day, in order to let you kill those harmful wolves and tigers, not to use it to kill people!"

  Five clear finger marks floated on the swollen face of Shui, who was furious and shouted loudly: "She scolded us first!"

  "What's wrong with scolding you? How did your father teach you every day? A man should be born to stand up for himself, can't even bear a little bit of grievance?" Luo Xiuying was annoyed in her heart by the unreasonable trouble caused by that fat woman, and seeing Shuisheng talking back made her even more angry.

  At this moment, the big cow threw away the stone he was holding in his hands, clenched his fists and was about to rush towards the woman. Luo Xiuying pulled him back, slapped him with one hand and scolded: "You little rabbit, you don't even listen to me? If you're not obedient, then don't take others out to play. If you have the ability to take others out, you must also have the ability to bring them back!"

  Xiao Juan saw her two brothers being beaten and let out a "wa" sound, then started crying.

  "What are you crying about? If you cry again, I'll hit you. Every day, you're like a boy, running wild and free, without any feminine demeanor at all. How dare you cry? You three get back in the house now!" Ro Xiu Ying scolded.

  Three little ones did not dare to disobey their mother, and obediently walked into the first floor hall, with Shuǐshēng walking last, "Bang" sound, closing the door with force.

  The fat woman saw Luo Xiuying scolding her child and suddenly forgot to cry!

  Lu Xiangying turned around and shouted at the stout woman, "Your husband is also a hunter, and many wild boars and wolves have died at his hands. Why haven't those beasts rushed to your home to demand their children?"

  The fat woman's face turned red with rage, pointing at Luo Xiuying and trembling as she said: "What did you say? Does your words mean I'm not even better than a beast? You...you..." For a moment, she couldn't find the right words to express her anger and was speechless!

  Lu Xiuying said, "Hunters hunt, wolves are hungry and eat people, this is the most normal thing. Is there still a reason to talk about it? There were over ten children playing by the stream in the whole village, but the evil wolf only targeted your son. Why? It's because your son couldn't climb trees, that's why he was bitten to death by the wolf! Can you blame the other kids? If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for spoiling him too much, so much so that he can't even climb a tree, and that's why he ended up like this today!"

  The fat woman saw Luo Xiuying's furious expression and didn't dare to speak for a moment.

  Lu Xiuying glanced at the growing crowd at the gate of the courtyard, not wanting to argue with this fat woman anymore. She knew that when encountering people like her, it was useless to reason with them. After all, she couldn't just pick her up and throw her out of the courtyard. Suppressing the anger in her heart, she said: "Since my ancestors first settled in Hanshui Village, dozens of children have died at the mouths of wolves. Which mother wouldn't feel heartbroken? But this is also an unavoidable thing, wild beasts are born to eat humans, you can't force wolves to eat grass!"

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