She Only Cares About Cultivation

I thought this matter was over here, but the next morning during class, the old lady’s son, the useless husband of the deceased woman, actually mocked her in public.

"Just look at how you look. I didn’t say you’d be single all your life, so why do you say I’ll never find a wife? What if I do find one? Will you kneel before me and admit you’re wrong?"

An Yi didn’t bother to respond to him, and simply told the person maintaining order beside her.

"His wife hasn’t even been dead a month, and he’s already eager to find someone new. I just want to ask the girls sitting here, would you dare to marry such a person?"

"Would the two young gentlemen please take this scum out? I never want to see him in my classroom again. He may not love her, but at least don’t harm her. Isn’t he afraid that his wife and child will come looking for him in his dreams at midnight?"

Then she returned to her lesson, "You’re all curious about how someone like me from outside ended up in Liujiatun, right? To avoid the gossip of the talkative women, I’m going to officially introduce myself today. My father was a famous general in the Anti-Japanese War, known as a fierce general in the three northeastern provinces before his death. I was born to his first wife but was sold to a remote southern village by the second wife. After countless hardships, I finally escaped."

"After escaping, I found out that everywhere had become a war zone. I stumbled and fell along the way. Because I’m ugly, no one wanted me, which provided me an invisible protective disguise. Plus, I could ride horses, shoot guns, and had learned some martial arts, so I survived the wartime. I’ve worked as a nanny, teacher, nurse, and even cooked in the rear. After Japan’s surrender, I returned to the Northeast to find my family, only to discover that my father had long since died. With nowhere to go, I wanted to find a peaceful village to settle down, so through my father’s comrades, I came to this place."

"Because of the chaos of war, my mom and I also lost contact. My father’s comrades have been helping me find them all these years, but there’s been no news. So my past isn’t as you imagine. What girl would willingly be cursed and despised maliciously? It’s been so many years, why not let it go? They want to forget, but when you sprinkle salt on their wounds time and time again, have you thought about how much their hearts ache? Who can understand the tearing pain? Zhang Ying loved her child more than anyone, and just because she went to the toilet, the child was born. You can have sympathy for the child, but please don’t attack someone who has already died for the child."

"I know that some words are not appropriate for me, an outsider, to say, but I still want to say them. The great leader said it once: women can hold up half the sky. Why then do I see women making life difficult for other women here? Aren’t we all women? Why use the most malicious words to attack and hurt others? And that Old Lady from the Liu family, who came to my house to ask me to find a wife for her son. Haha, living in the same village, the daughter-in-law’s body hasn’t even turned cold yet, and she’s already arranging for the next one? Listen for yourselves, isn’t this excessive? I’ve never seen such a malicious person in my life."

"I’ve also found out that Zhang Ying’s three daughters were abused by their father and grandma. I hope the village chief and secretary will take this seriously. The oldest is eight years old, and the youngest is only two. How could they bear to do that?"

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"Aren’t you capable? You’ve already adopted one, and you can’t stand others raising Zhang Ying’s three daughters, why don’t you take them home for yourself? Liu Fugui would love to sell the daughters to you. If you don’t take them, when the new wife comes in, those three daughters won’t survive under a stepmother either. After all, they are their biological children, right?"

Through familiarization over this period, she instantly recognized the speaker was Liu Caixia’s biological mother, Liu Fugui’s aunt. They were one big family. Her words sounded insincere. An Yi gave her a careful look and smiled, saying, "So, are you morally kidnapping me?"

Thinking for a moment, An Yi turned around and wrote these four words on the backboard, "Now let me talk about what moral kidnapping is."

"Simply put, it’s a phenomenon where people use overly high or unrealistic standards in the name of morality to coerce or attack others and influence their behavior. For example, soldiers are supposed to sacrifice themselves to save others, or they will be condemned; doctors are supposed to save lives, or they will be scolded; rich people should give all their money to help the poor, or they’ll receive condemnation and curses... So, is everyone in the Zhang family dead? You want to push the children onto me? Why should I help you raise them, just for them to grow up and then honor you? What a wishful thinking, really calculating. No wonder you are the calculating old mother who calculated your daughter for eight years. To be honest, I quite admire you."