Chapter 154: It Wasn’t Me
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
It must be said, the ticket seller indeed had the knack for twisting the truth.
However, everyone on the bus wasn’t blind; they could all see that it was Lin Yan who started the trouble. Jiang Xia, not being a fool herself, played the weak card at the right moment. With tears in her eyes, she looked at the crowd, her patched clothes making her look pitiful.
“It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me. She was the one who started it.”
As soon as Jiang Xia’s words fell, Jiang Chuan stepped forward, his brow furrowed as he said, “We’re just simple villagers. Our clothes may be old, but we’ve been minding our own business. We never thought we’d be targeted as soon as we got on the bus. She even tried to hit my child. Can you good folks please help us out and tell us if we’re in the wrong?”
The passengers on the bus, while enjoying the spectacle, weren’t foolish when it came down to it. They’d watched the whole thing unfold – the young girl nearly getting hit
Despite Jiang Xia’s old clothing, she was clean, and her little face was fair and tender. Had she been slapped, the swelling wouldn’t have gone down in a day.
Moreover, they had paid for their bus ride. Why should they be kicked off the bus? It wasn’t Lin Yan’s bus, was it? Just because she was uncomfortable, does that mean no one else should be allowed to ride? That’s completely unreasonable!
Thinking about this, everyone grew to despise Lin Yan, and started to chatter.
“I saw it! The young girl was just defending herself. Lin Yan was the one who started it. Now she’s playing the victim – she isn’t trying to frame someone, is she?”
“I saw it too! She was the one shouting about teaching the girl a lesson!”
“We’re not blind!”
“That’s right, that’s right!”
A wave of discussion swept through the quiet bus. Everyone was standing up for justice and criticizing Lin Yan.
After a long discussion, everyone agreed that Lin Yan was utterly unreasonable. Seeing that she couldn’t hit Jiang Xia, she was trying to frame her again.
Hearing this, Lin Yan’s lips turned pale with anger.
She raised her trembling hand, pointing at Jiang Xia, “It was her who scared me with a toad first, how am 1 framing her?”
Lin Yan, who had lived in the village since childhood, was not afraid of anything but toads. Every time she saw one, she would avoid it by three meters, and she was terrified of any creature that resembled a toad.
Upon hearing this, everyone laughed.
“Everyone knows that toads only appear in the rainy season. It’s drought everywhere now, how could I have gotten one?” Jiang Xia timely spoke, clarifying everyone’s doubts.
Even the three girls from Lin Yan’s village turned to Jiang Xia’s side upon hearing her words.
She was right. Finding a toad in the dry season was even harder than expecting a rain shower.
“Sister Lin Yan, did you perhaps see wrongly?” One of the girls asked carefully.
“Never mind the toads, even if there were snakes, they would have been caught and eaten by now,” another girl murmured.
“We’re just about ready to eat tree bark in our village,” grumbled the youngest girl, beginning to show some dissatisfaction with Lin Yan.
Yet Lin Yan was too panicked to care about the girls’ ‘betrayal.’ She pointed fearfully at the basket behind Jiang Xia and insisted, “Impossible! I saw it very clearly. The thing I fear most is toads! 1 couldn’t have seen it wrong! Maybe it’s in her basket!”
“No! It must be in her basket!” Lin Yan seemed to be trying to validate her claim, turning to the ticket seller for support.
By this point, almost everyone on the bus, except for the ticket seller, believed Jiang Xia.
The ticket seller was a peacemaker, trusting neither Lin Yan’s words nor Jiang Xia’s.
With two swift steps, she reached Jiang Xia’s side and, while Jiang Xia was distracted, she lifted the rag that covered the basket.
She didn’t say anything for a long moment after looking inside, leaving her stunned.
This time, the people who were watching the show could not wait any longer. They all asked,” What’s wrong? What exactly is in this basket?”
“Wild vegetables? Where did you get these wild vegetables from?” The ticket seller came to her senses and questioned Jiang Xia and her father..
