Rebirth from the Ashes - Chapter 300
Chapter 300: Get A Blind Girl At Home
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
These people, who were now standing here as relatives and friends, liked to take advantage of Old Shen’s glory and swarmed him like flies.
However, when Old Shen was facing difficulties, not one of them lent him a penny. They had shown their hatred for the rich and their ugliest side to the fullest. If Old Shen were to go bankrupt, they might even celebrate with a great fanfare!
“Tangtang, you can take Xixi home first!” Shen Zhangqing looked at his niece with a loving smile.
He liked this niece very much, and she was peas in a pod with his daughter. It was a pity that at the age of 14, she suddenly went blind. They went to every hospital and did countless tests, but they still could not find out the cause of her blindness and it could not be cured.
Shen Tang held Shen Xi and smiled sweetly, “Let’s go!”
The last time Uncle Zhangqing came back to pay respects to his ancestors, Shen Xi had a replacement class and could not come back, so Shen Tang was sad about it. Auntie Yun said that Shen Tang could follow them back to the capital, but Shen Tang was afraid that she would be an inconvenience to them because she was blind.
The group of people who gathered there looked at Shen Tang with various expressions. There was sympathy, disdain, and contempt. Not far from them, a few women were gossiping about her quietly.
“How many blind dates did she go on this new year?”
“I think she hasn’t stopped since the twelfth lunar month. I see men come and go one after another.”
“So no one’s interested in her?”
“She just has high standards since she has such a rich uncle and such a talented sister. They wanna pick and choose!”
“A blind girl wants to be picky? She’ll be lucky for others to choose her!”
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Shen Xi, who had just reached the door, stopped suddenly. Her eyes swept over like a cold blade as she glared at the group of gossiping women as a stern warning. She then let go of Shen Tang’s hand.
The gossiping women only felt a chill down their spines. Their scalps instantly tingled and they started to break out in cold sweat. They looked around warily and found that Shen Xi was shooting daggers at them, and they were frightened so they stopped talking.
“Xixi,” Since Shen Tang went blind, her hearing improved by the day. Naturally, she also heard the women’s gossip. She held Xixi’s hand and smiled bitterly, “Let’s go home. Don’t mind them.”
‘What’s the use of listening to gossip? Since they like to talk, let them talk.’
Shen Xi really wanted to cut off their tongues to let them know the consequences of bad-mouthing others.
Shen Tang dragged Sheng Xi away.
Seeing them leave, the group of gossiping women snorted disdainfully and started chatting again a short while later.
She was such a beautiful girl, but it was a pity that she was blind.
Shen Tang should be a little more self-aware since she was blind, but she had such high standards and was not interested in normal men. After so many blind dates, none of them were to her fancy. Did she want to marry a god?
Shen Xi and Shen Tang always had a good relationship since they were children. They were the only two girls in the family. Shen Tang was five years older than Shen Xi and taught her to walk, sing, dance, and draw. They would play together and were inseparable.
After Shen Tang lost her vision, she took it hard and became more reserved and introverted. She did not go out much, but her relationship with Shen Xi was still as good as before.
Later, when Shen Xi learned to dance, she went to the capital and returned to the Su family. Then, they never met again.
Shen Xi found out about Shen Tang’s fate from the book.
They had not yet put up the Spring Festival couplets at home because Shen Zhangqing told Yun Jinping that Shen Xi and Fu Qingxuan would write them when they got back.
Once again, Shen Xi and Fu Qingxuan got to work on writing the Spring Festival couplets.
Shen Feng and Shen Tang assisted.
Shen Tang could not see, but she was nimble and could do anything. After two attempts at tearing the paper with a ruler, she quickly got the hang of it.
“Yo, the great dancer is writing the couplets!”
“Come, come, come! The Shen family’s daughter is writing Spring Festival couplets. Her calligraphy is really beautiful.”
“It’s even better than the one I bought! Zhangqing, will you ask Xixi to write one for us too?”
Somehow, one of the neighbors passed by the Shen family’s house and saw them writing the couplets, then gathered all the neighbors around to ask for the couplets.
Shen Zhangqing was a good-tempered person and was very concerned about his daughter, but he could not refuse the neighbors. “Xixi, just write a couplet for each of the uncles and aunties to make them happy.”
Shen Xi nodded and looked at Fu Qingxuan, then said in a light voice, “If you don’t wanna write it, you can go back to rest.”
She did not care about her hometown’s neighbors and wanted to reject them. However, for the sake of her parents, she had no choice but to write the couplets.
Fu Qingxuan said, “I’ll write it.”
However, those who came to ask for a couplet wanted Shen Xi to write it personally.
They wrote couplets into the evening because more people came over to ask for a couplet that their door threshold almost broke from being stepped on by hundreds of people.
Shen Zhangqing was a very sentimental person. He thought that since they were all from the same village, he put out several tables in the courtyard and served the neighbors good food and drinks.
However, these people took his kindness for granted. They did not just ask for a couplet, but even stayed for food and drinks. When they were done eating, they shouted for more and really treated the Shen family’s home as their own.
Shen Xi’s hand was cramping up from writing.
Fu Qingxuan pitied her and almost stormed out to yell at the neighbors. ‘Who the hell are they?!’ They said that they just wanted to come over to get an auspicious couplet, but it looked more like they came to collect debts.
Shen Zhangqing also pitied his daughter. He looked at the people standing in the courtyard and stopped them at the door. He did not know most of them, but he still said politely, “Neighbors! I’m sorry, but it’s getting late and my daughter’s tired, so we’ll stop writing today. Thanks for your understanding.”
“You’ve written couplets for the others, why not us?”
“Yeah! It’s just a few words, how tiring can it be? We came all the way here and waited for so long! I think you just don’t want to give us the couplets!”
“Shen Zhangqing, since you got rich and your daughter became successful, you look down on us poor people, right?”
Someone took the lead and made a scene. Once they heard that they would stop writing and they could not get the Spring Festival couplets, they were upset and started an uproar.
Shen Zhangqing was the most reluctant when it came to offending fellow neighbors, but he was annoyed when he heard their harsh words. “My daughter only has one pair of hands, so how can she write so much? If you still want the couplets, get Feng and the rest to write for you. If not, just leave!”
“That won’t do! We want the words written by this famous dancer!”
“What kind of attitude is that? We’re your neighbors! Since others can have it, why can’t we?”
“Yeah, we want the words written by the dancer, so if I put them on my front door, maybe some luck will rub off on us and there will be a dancer in the family!”
A mob never followed the law. With someone taking the lead, even if the rest of the people felt a little guilty earlier, they became bolder and more self-righteous. It was clear that they would not rest until they got what they came for, revealing their greedy and ugly side. They were persistent and would not leave until they got the couplets.
Fu Qingxuan was angry and clenched his fists. His long, narrow phoenix eyes were on fire. ‘What the hell is this?! A bad environment really does have a bad influence on people.’
Shen Xi’s eyes turned cold and a little murderous. She slowly put down the brush she was holding and lifted her head to speak.
Shen Tang, who had been silent, suddenly spoke in a clear and pleasant voice, “Since the person cutting the paper is blind, aren’t you afraid that you’ll get a blind girl at home when you put these up on your door?”
