"Da Zhuang, you're getting married in a few days!"

At this moment, a man in a blue striped shirt walked over, holding a cigarette with an arrogant attitude.

I recognize him, the man who was chopped to death and dismembered alive.

He is considered a small rich man in the village, known as Big Onion Brother.

When my grandparents gossip, they always mention him.

Rumors have it that he made some shady business deals and earned a lot of money, but for some reason, he had to hide back in the village.

He's not well-educated, always arrogant and offending people, but he did build a cement road around the mountain for the village.

Now, he is the reason why cars can enter the village.

The people in the village detest his arrogance and domineering behavior, yet they still praise his wealth and generosity.

He squatted on the stone steps, flicked the cigarette ash, then looked at Da Zhuang who was selling vegetables, teasing him, "Da Zhuang, I heard your wife, Ah Chun, was kicked out by her ex-husband's family for cheating. Is it true?"

Da Zhuang just glanced at him without retorting.

He then gleefully sprinkled salt on Da Zhuang's wound, saying, "Look at you, poor and afraid, which good woman would dare to marry you? Now you've married someone else's wife for nothing, aren't you afraid of ending up with nothing?"

I bit my lip, glaring at him fiercely, truly a foul-mouthed troublemaker for the whole village!

Da Zhuang wasn't angry, just grinned foolishly.

Well, his parents passed away early, and he has a mild intellectual disability, that's why he's been alone till now.

"How dare you! Da Zhuang is getting married, are you feeding him with your rice?" An old woman around sixty retorted the rich man.

"The fool Da Zhuang is getting married! Marrying a promiscuous young wife!"

As the children under the banyan tree chased and played, suddenly shouting obscenities and throwing small stones at Da Zhuang, singing, and tossing stones at his head.

"The fool Da Zhuang is getting married! Marrying a promiscuous young wife! In the future, not only poor but will also have to steal! Everyone, lock your doors! Da Zhuang has a promiscuous young wife!"

Seeing Da Zhuang just dodging, these kids ran over, snatched his vegetables, and threw them around.

"Stop messing around..." Da Zhuang finally chased after them.

...I was shocked, my values were somewhat shaken.

Such malicious words coming from the mouths of children? How could it be possible?

No, behind the children, it must be that the parents had ridiculed Da Zhuang countless times, leading to this rhyme.

They bullied Da Zhuang fearlessly, and the elderly under the banyan tree didn't intervene, even laughing along.

An icy chill swept over me, as a bystander, I couldn't bear it, let alone him being the victim.

When he raised the cleaver, what was going through his mind?

Was it the ridicules from the neighbors?

Was it the ruthless remarks of the children?

Was it the indifferent onlookers of the elderly?

I thought, what should I do, what can I do?

Just as I took a step forward, a man in brown clothes passed by me.

He took out a wad of RMB from his wallet, walked up to Da Zhuang, and directly threw the money in front of him, smiling, "Da Zhuang, here's the money for getting married!"

The money fluttered down like flower petals onto the ground.

"Wow! Money!" The kids scrambled to grab it.

"Don't snatch, don't snatch! It's for Ah Chun!" Da Zhuang urgently shouted, anxiously trying to retrieve the money from the kids.

Some mischief-makers held onto the money, refusing to let go.

Da Zhuang tumbled and rolled, chasing around the banyan tree several times before finally retrieving the money.

But the scattered vegetables had already been trampled to pieces.

The adults who were watching were laughing so hard, they couldn't close their mouths.

It seemed like other people's pain was his greatest source of joy.

Da Zhuang held the money, licked his fingers, counted it several times, then showed a silly smile, looking at the man in brown clothes and said, "Brother Dong, wasn't the pay supposed to be 2300? Why is there only 1800?"

"You fool, Da Zhuang..." The man called Brother Dong took the wallet in his hand and tapped it on Da Zhuang's head, grinning, "I've given you the money, and you didn't even manage to snatch it back, now you're questioning if I cheated you on the money?"

"But..." Da Zhuang looked sad, a bit aggrieved, muttering softly, "I agreed with Ah Chun... that it was supposed to be 2300."

Dong playfully tapped Da Zhuang's head with the wallet, teasing, "Your wife is a greedy one, she cheats and steals, not a good person!"

"Brother Dong, please don't speak ill of her, alright?" Da Zhuang apologized with a smile.

"Da Zhuang, you're old, uneducated, and can't do anything, and it's not easy for Brother Dong to be willing to take you to the city to work and earn money. Take what's good and leave, don't complain!" A man playing chess under the banyan tree raised his voice.

He then whispered to the person next to him, "This kid Dong has a dark heart. He made Da Zhuang work for him, paying him just over a thousand a month, but ended up cheating him out of 2000 for half a year, and now he's even deducting a few hundred."

"Ah, the fool Da Zhuang has the money but nowhere to spend it. In the end, it's not cheap for that woman who steals other people's husbands. Why do you think she married the fool Da Zhuang? Thought he was silly? Thought he was old? Just because he has low-income support, won't starve to death."