Tian Leran certainly exaggerated some dangers, but she wasn't the least bit cowardly. She straightened her back and sneered, "You don't believe me? Then try it, just touch a hair on her head today, and I'll make sure you end up in jail!"
The boy's family members didn't want to back down just like that and still wanted to regain some face, but some elders from the village started to persuade them.
"Isn't it just kids fighting? Which family's children don't fight? Is there really a need to make such a big fuss?"
"Old Man Hu's family, you should stop causing trouble, too, bullying one child with so many of you, it really isn't right."
"Exactly, if the police really came, they'd probably side with the vulnerable group, definitely the child. Then you'd be in trouble!"
"Listen to us for once, let's downsize this matter and forget about it, after all, in the future, we are all from the same village."