Chapter 69: Go and save the teacher
Hearing the people around her scolding her, Xuemei became even more angry and shouted at the villagers, "You are still supporting such a person. Have your consciences been eaten by dogs?"
From the conversation between the teacher and Lan Xin and her daughter, Xuemei could guess that the teacher was not a good person. She couldn't understand why so many people were speaking up for the teacher when she was clearly trying to get rid of a harm to the people.
In fact, she didn't understand how much power a teacher had in such a small mountain village. You know, any educated person would not be willing to come to this small mountain village to teach and educate.
What's more, as a scholar, he naturally has some classmates with whom he has a good relationship, and these classmates may have already become minor officials.
The official position may not mean much in the eyes of Liu Hu and others, but in such a mountain village, it is enough to shake the world.
After all, it was a time of chaos and anyone with ambition would go to the imperial court and seek merit through war, so it was very difficult to study in a small mountain village.
On weekdays, the teacher had some minor blemishes, and everyone tolerated it as much as they could. If he really left the mountain village, there would be no place to send the children to school.
Since the child could not go to school, he could only work in the fields with himself, and it was impossible for him to learn martial arts.
Xuemei became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. She jumped off her horse and kicked the teacher with such force that he fell to the ground.
"Little girl, please forgive me when you can. I think it's better to forget it."
"Yes, little girl, I don't know how the gentleman has offended you. I am here to apologize on his behalf."
"Don't be so shameless. You are a foreigner, but you are bullying the locals here. Do you think there is no one in our village?"
"Brothers, no matter how powerful she is, she is just one person. Let's all attack her together and see what she can do."
If there is incitement, there will be people who believe it. After this sentence was spoken, the men who had just returned from the fields picked up their hoes and were about to beat Xuemei.
Xuemei looked at this group of unreasonable villagers, and she became angry and slapped them several times. Several burly men fell to the ground instantly. Xuemei looked at everyone coldly and said indifferently: "If anyone dares to take another step forward, don't blame me for being rude."
The villagers, who were originally furious, looked behind Xuemei and suddenly became silent. They wanted to stand up for the teacher, but they did not have the courage to face Xuemei.
"Hmph, a bunch of cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong." Looking at these villagers, Xuemei sneered and continued to bully the teacher.
At this time, an old man in his fifties, leaning on a cane, slowly walked forward and said to Xuemei: "I am the village chief of this village. If you have any problems with him, please tell me. I can make the decision for you."
The village chief originally wanted to protect the villagers and wanted to see how the villagers beat Xuemei, but when he saw the villagers suffering, he had to step forward and pretend to be righteous.
Xuemei looked at the old man. Even if she was arrogant, she was too embarrassed to fight him. She stopped whipping the horse and said to the village chief, "This man is taking advantage of me for free. He is so arrogant even without money. Shouldn't the village chief be fair?"
"But what about your tofu?" The village chief said in a neutral tone after hearing Xuemei's words.
How could the village chief not know what kind of person the teacher is, but he could do nothing about it, after all, he was the only educated person in the whole village.
Xuemei could hear the hidden meaning of the village chief, and sneered, "Can't I do anything about it if it's not my tofu? Helping the weak when seeing injustice has always been my principle."
The village chief didn't expect that just because of a few pieces of tofu, someone would be injured like this. I'm afraid the teacher's medical expenses will be more than the money for a few pieces of tofu.
The village chief was thinking about how to get Xuemei to stop. Just as he was about to step forward to argue, something happened to the teacher.
As luck would have it, while Xuemei was talking to the village chief, Luo Fanchen's little bug also came to the teacher's side and slowly crawled into the teacher's clothes.
The teacher was originally lying on the ground grimacing and wailing, but suddenly, he became silent, with a complicated expression on his face, and then he covered his neck and twitched.
This scene frightened the villagers, some even shouted loudly: "Oh no! Someone is killing someone! Someone is killing someone!"
This shout made everyone scatter in panic, fearing that Xuemei would do something else to them.
It's okay to watch the fun, but if you risk your life for it, it's not worth it.
Xuemei was also stunned by the scene before her. She knew the strength of her hands well and knew it would only cause some minor injuries but not death.
Moreover, judging from the teacher's appearance, it was definitely not just a superficial injury, it seemed like he had internal injuries. You know, she didn't use any internal force when she hit the teacher just now.
Thinking that her teacher died because of her, she realized that something was wrong. Although she had a bad temper, she had never killed anyone.
"I, I didn't kill anyone. I just wanted to teach him a lesson." Xuemei murmured, stepping back, unable to believe what she was seeing.
After all, the village chief was the head of the village and had seen some big scenes. Looking at the teacher's appearance, he grabbed Xuemei's hand and said, "Why don't you send him to the clinic?"
"Yes, yes, yes." The village chief's words made Xuemei regain her sanity, and she wanted to go forward and help the teacher up.
When the village chief saw Xuemei was about to step forward, he said to a middle-aged man beside him, "There's a murder case here, why don't you report it to the police?"
"Yes, yes, yes." The people next to him were also frightened. After being reminded by the village chief, they immediately understood and hurried away.
Xuemei didn't care what the people around her were doing. She picked up the teacher and threw him on the horse, then shouted to the village chief, "Where is the nearby clinic?"
"There is a village doctor in our village. I don't know if he can cure him . Why don't you send him to the village doctor first?" The village chief pointed in a direction.
Xuemei looked at the teacher's condition and feared that it would be too late to send him to town, so she could only pray that the village doctor could cure the teacher's illness.
If the disease cannot be cured, it would be good if my life can be extended for a few days. But when I am gone, who will care whether the teacher is dead or alive?
"The exact location." After Xuemei settled the teacher, she said anxiously to the village chief.
The village chief also knew that this matter could not be delayed, so he pointed in a direction and said, "Go along this road, the second to last house from the left is it."
Xuemei thanked the village chief, then patted the horse's butt. The horse felt pain and ran like mad in the direction the village chief pointed.
"Haha, she can beat people and save them at the same time. Xuemei is quite an interesting girl." Luo Fanchen looked at Xuemei and laughed.
He beat someone up, but he still had to send him to the hospital for treatment. Isn't that like taking off your pants to fart ? If it were Luo Fanchen, he would have killed the teacher long ago.
Ah Si finished the food in his hand, took some from Luo Fanchen while he wasn't paying attention and said, "It's obvious that you've never encountered such a situation before, so you're so flustered. Who is born to kill?"
"As for me, when I killed someone for the first time, my body was filled with excitement. I even felt that the people in front of me were not enough. I wanted to kill a few more to satisfy my desire." Luo Fanchen recalled the first time he killed someone. He closed his eyes and was full of enjoyment. He didn't even notice that Ah Si took his things.
Liu Hu looked at Luo Fanchen's intoxicated expression and interrupted, "What kind of poisonous insect did you use on that teacher? The symptoms do look a bit scary."
