Chapter 20: Grandma effectively throws a fit
"Think whatever you want." Tian Sangsang sighed. "Chen Ming, I just threw a little pebble at Teacher Zhou earlier, but you pushed me and ended up cutting my hand. That was an iron hoe. If I get tetanus, it could be fatal. You need to cover my medical expenses, or at least find me some medicine."
"Keep dreaming!" Chen Ming shouted angrily. "Why don’t you just become a bandit?" So delicate, huh? Tetanus, really? He had accidentally scraped his foot with an iron hoe before, and after a few days, he was fine—nothing serious at all.
Tian Sangsang’s eyes sparkled as she spoke slowly, "So it seems you can’t afford it, huh? The son of the noble village chief injures someone and doesn’t even pay for their medical bills..."
"Shut up already!" Chen Ming, easily provoked, turned bright red. "I’ll bring the medicine to your house later!"
"I’ll be waiting then."
If it were someone else striking such an arrogant, queenly pose, they might even exude some authority. But on Tian Sangsang, with her grinning and bowing, her face looked like a squashed black chrysanthemum—no matter how you looked at it, she was utterly detestable. Forget queen, she’d become a queen tortoise.
"Hmph!" Chen Ming flipped his sleeve with a huff and turned his back on her.
Tian Sangsang ignored the others, her face beaming as she picked up the hoe to resume her work. But upon seeing the wound on her hand, her smile vanished. A long cut stretched across her palm, revealing flesh beneath. Blood flowed freely, dyeing her entire palm in uneven shades of red—just the sight of it was unbearable.