"I want to ask those present here," Fang Qin began, her voice strong and clear, "when Ziling was two years old, he nearly drowned in a tub at the hands of his stepmother. At four, he was heartlessly abandoned in Clear Water Town. Until he was nineteen, a leg injury was left untreated, resulting in a lifelong disability, all because the household was too miserly to part with several taels of silver. When he could no longer work, he was cruelly thrown out of the house to fend for himself. Can this be called maternal kindness?"
She paused, scanning the crowd, and continued, "As for Jiang Youfu, his character is despicable, attempting to assault me. It was fortunate that Ziling came to my rescue. Yet Youfu, infuriated and ashamed, grabbed Ziling by the neck and cursed him as a harbinger of disaster. Is this what we call respectful brotherhood?"
