Eat My Childless Life: The Little Fisher Girl is Poor and Fierce

Chapter 18: Sister Chang Shows Off Her Skills, Zhou Lizheng Decides the Outcome with One Strike

This is a sign of a guilty conscience!

Lin Chang'er's gaze locked onto him. "Really not? Children who lie will have their noses rot. Every time they lie, a piece of it will rot away, until they become noseless monsters that everyone will want to kill..."

Her expression was serious and her tone earnest; she didn't seem to be bluffing at all. Yu Ergou instinctively covered his nose.

Taking advantage of the situation, Lin Chang'er tempted him, "Aren't you afraid?"

Yu Ergou turned pale with fright. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, Guo Dabao told us to do it."

Guo Dabao angrily pointed at Yu Ergou, "Yu Ergou, what nonsense are you spouting?"

Yu Ergou argued, "I didn't want to in the first place, and neither did Brother Sanniu. You forced us to become your followers and do bad things with you."

Brother San Niu, say something! Do you want to become a noseless monster? Ah…

Yu Ergou was about to say something when Guo Dabao tackled him to the ground.

He pinned Yu Ergou down, beating and cursing him, "I'll beat you to death for betraying me..."

Li Sanniu couldn't break up the fight, and the three of them ended up wrestling.

Guo Dabao was strong and sturdy, and he was evenly matched with the other two. Most of the villagers watching disliked the children and shouted "Stop fighting!" but no one actually intervened to stop the fight.

Guo Dabao confessed without being asked, but Lin Chang'er wasn't in a hurry. After Li Sanniu and Yu Ergou got a good beating, Guo Dabao also got injured.

Then he grabbed Guo Dabao by the back of his collar and lifted him up, saying, "You're so young and already talking about fighting and killing. What will you be like when you grow up? Guo family, what do you have to say for yourself?"

Guo Dabao's mother's face turned pale and then red, but she still stubbornly argued, "Isn't it normal for children to fight? What bad intentions could they possibly have?"

How could you, an adult, lay a hand on my child? Let go of my precious baby right now!

Lin Chang'er was shocked. She had been careless. What was the point of reasoning with a scoundrel?

She suddenly shoved Guo Dabao back. Guo's family member wasn't paying attention and stumbled, both mother and son falling to the ground.

Lin Chang'er didn't even glance at them, and said with a fierce but weak tone, "Don't tell me that children don't have bad intentions. Who knows if your son is born bad or if you deliberately taught him to be? Otherwise, how could he be so vicious at only nine years old?"

"Bullshit!" Guo Dabao's mother hugged Guo Dabao and stood up. "You damned wretch, we all toil in the fields, why is your child so precious? Your second sister-in-law is mute, and she won't even let people call her that?"

"You come knocking on my door over such trivial matters, spouting nonsense and ruining Da Bao's reputation. I'll fight you to the death today..."

As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves and pounced on Lin Chang'er.

Lin Chang'er dodged to the side and went behind her, kicking her in the butt. Guo Jia fell flat on her face again.

Lin Chang'er couldn't resist mocking, "The saying 'like father, like son' is indeed true. I was wondering how Guo Dabao could be so full of lies and have no compassion at such a young age. It turns out he's just imitating others."

My family is precious not only for our children, but for everyone in our family. Unlike you, who doesn't understand propriety, morality, or shame, and doesn't know how to respect or love yourself.

Since you don't care, then everyone can call you cross-eyed from now on; I imagine you'd be happy with that.

Guo Dabao's mother was born with cross-eyedness, and what bothered her most was people talking about it.

The surrounding villagers burst into laughter upon hearing this.

This really hit a nerve with the Guo family. Guo Dabao's mother felt she had lost all face and dignity, and screamed, "Lin, are you trying to force my son and me to our deaths while my husband is away?"

Lin Chang'er remained unmoved and coldly said, "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you. Don't try to morally blackmail me."

At this moment, Guo Dabao shouted, "You, a bastard whose entire family died, what are you showing off with your flowery language? You brought so many people to bully us today, but when my father comes back, he will definitely beat you all to death!"

The scene fell silent instantly, and all the villagers' eyes were fixed on Guo Dabao.

Lin Chang'er's eyes turned cold. Could this be an extraordinary boy?

But he wasn't afraid at all, and said with a half-smile, "You've reminded me, I'm an extinct family, what am I afraid of? Our Gu family are honest and upright people, not causing trouble doesn't mean we're afraid of trouble. If you dare to bully my Gu family again..."

With a cold "ha," he took the wooden stick from Gu Silang's hand, gripped both ends with his hands, and exerted force.

With a "crack," the wooden stick broke in two. Lin Chang'er casually tossed it to the ground. "Your father, right? Tell him to come."

With her home in turmoil, she couldn't do business properly. Taking advantage of the large crowd, she would make some threats, hoping to intimidate as many people as possible.

Clearly, the villagers at the scene were all taken aback; who would have thought that the young lady from the scholar's family had such a skill?

The way they looked at Lin Chang'er changed; they realized they couldn't afford to offend her.

Just then, the crowd parted to make way, and Zhou Li walked in from outside. He was carrying a hoe on his shoulder and wearing straw sandals covered in mud, clearly having just returned from the fields.

He looked at the two opposing houses and asked, "What happened?"

Before Guo Dabao's mother could even speak, the villagers started telling her everything, with those whose families had been bullied by Guo Dabao taking the opportunity to persuade her.

"Look at his brute strength, in a few years, he might actually be able to kill someone."

"Who can argue with that? He's only nine years old, and he's already so ferocious. When he grows up, will this village ever be peaceful?"

“I wouldn’t dare live in the same village as someone like that. What do you say, Village Head Zhou?”

When Guo Dabao's mother heard that they were actually urging Zhou Hai to drive her out of the village, she cursed inwardly, but she also felt a sense of fear.

Finally, looking at Zhou Lizheng, she said nervously, "Brother Hai, you and Da Bao's father grew up together and have a close friendship. You can't really send us away just because of a few words they said, can you?"

Zhou Lizheng, with a dark face, called Yu Ergou and Li Sanniu over to ask them what had happened before replying to her, "You still dare to talk to me about friendship? Brother Guo works hard on the boat to support you all, how has he wronged you! Why are you trying to harm him like this?"

Don't you, as his mother, know what Da Bao has done? You're still trying to smooth things over. Do you really want to raise him into a bully who preys on men and women?

"You have one day to go to the Gu family and apologize according to the rules. If you can't properly discipline Da Bao in the future, I don't mind having Brother Guo find someone else to manage him."

Interfering in his brother's family affairs and forcing him to divorce his wife and remarry—what a terrible thing to do! Zhou Hai was truly furious.

"Brother Hai!" Guo Dabao's mother felt a chill in her heart, and her face turned deathly pale.

Zhou Lizheng ignored her and turned to Li Sanniu and Yu Ergou, saying, "You two are the same. Go back and tell your parents what happened. If you dare to hang out with Guo Dabao and bully people again, you can forget about staying in Linshui Village."

Although Li Sanniu and Yu Ergou were bound to get a beating, they were overjoyed to be rid of Guo Dabao and nodded eagerly.

The villagers who were watching the spectacle also applauded and cheered.

Zhou Lizheng ignored them and said to Lin Chang'er, "The sun is strong. Sanlang's wife, take the children back first. If the three families don't show some attitude, then we'll talk to you."

Lin Chang'er nodded, thanked him, picked up Gu Xiaoman, and went back with the other children.

The brothers Gu Dalang and Gu Erlang had gone up the mountain early in the morning to cut bamboo to make a trap, and they had returned by now. Hearing that Lin Chang'er had taken a few children to demand an explanation, they waited at the gate of the courtyard.

As soon as Gu Silang returned, he vividly recounted what had happened at the Guo family's residence.

When Gu Dalang and Gu Erlang heard this, they felt both relieved and ashamed.

Especially Gu Erlang, when he reached out to take Gu Xiaoman and saw the little dumpling grinning and calling "Dad", his eyes turned red.

This wasn't the first time his wife had been called mute, and even his two-and-a-half-year-old son knew to defend her. His sister-in-law even came to confront him directly, but he remained silent. He felt guilty, but his admiration for Lin Chang'er grew even stronger.

He looked at Lin Chang'er, his voice slightly choked, "Sister-in-law, thank you!"

Lin Chang'er waved her hand, "We're family, so let's not be so formal. Sanlang is gone, so it's time for my eldest and second eldest brothers to stand up for themselves. We should live our lives to the fullest, and we should rather die bleeding than die a cowardly death."

Gu Dalang and Gu Erlang exchanged a glance and made a decision without saying a word.