Chapter 179: Arguing Partway
Chapter 179: In Defense
Mengyu continued speaking, "Even a servant in a landlord’s house gets to eat, but at the Jiang Family, I often went hungry. They always found excuses to not let me eat.
Classmate Zhang Shuiyu from Class 38, seeing me starving, often shared her food with me. Also, Aunt Zhang from the village, who is under the Five Guarantees, occasionally gave me something to eat. Despite that, I still suffered from hunger often. Back then, I was frequently so hungry that I became gaunt and pale.
What I’m saying is all true, you can go and investigate it.
Therefore, to say that Jiang Huaiyu’s parents raised me is not entirely correct. If I were the Jiang Family’s daughter, then I shouldn’t have been treated this way. If I was a servant, I should have been paid for my work, but in reality, I received neither the treatment of a daughter nor that of a servant. I started working at the Jiang Family from the age of five and have been working for eleven years now, but I have never received a single cent for my labor."
The crowd had already begun to despise Jiang Family’s parents.
"Thirdly, classmate Cai Yingdi said that Jiang Huaiyu’s parents provided for my education, which is not true either.
Jiang Huaiyu started attending school at the age of seven, but I wasn’t allowed to until I was ten years old. I went to the head of the production team, and only because he wanted to prevent a new illiterate person which could affect the village’s reputation did he agree and allow me to go to school. But—"
Mengyu paused here and looked at her classmates, "Who amongst you had to earn their own money to go to school since they were a child?"
The classmates looked at each other, and no one dared to admit they had to earn their own money for schooling.
Mengyu continued, "You have grown up living with your biological parents and cannot understand the suffering of someone like me who doesn’t live with their parents.