Chapter 22: The Crime of Gender 22
The village chief suppressed his anger and continued in a cold voice, "From the beginning until now, you weep for the wife, you weep for the mother, but none of you has even mentioned the Second Miss lying there, not knowing if she’s alive or dead!
The Second Miss is also your flesh and blood! Do you, father and son, feel even a tiny bit of compassion for the Second Miss? Any remorse? Any concern for whether she might actually die!
Qin the Third, you even said that even if the Second Miss died, you wouldn’t hold anyone accountable, so others have no right to pursue it!
That is a human life! The life of a child, your own flesh and blood! How can you be so dismissive!
If you can treat your close relatives in this way, then you surely disregard the lives of others even more. Qin the Third, no matter how filial you are, if you disregard the lives of others, you are nothing but a heartless, hypocritical person!"
The village chief, being who he is, immediately turned people’s mood around with this speech! The villagers, who had previously felt a faint sense of sympathy for the Qin Family, suddenly felt a chill in their hearts and, upon reflection, realized this to be the truth.
If Qin the Third could say something like that just for the sake of his mother, even ignoring the death of his own niece, then if anything were to happen to those of us who have no relation to him, he’d probably just treat it as a joke, without any feeling!
Thinking even deeper, he might even take pleasure in our misfortune, and with this thought, people’s discomfort rose, the previous slight sympathy vanished, replaced instead by a growing sense of disgust!