One parent said icily, "Why can't we blame him? Maybe it was precisely because he broke my son's legs that my son met with this terrible disaster."
"Exactly! How could someone with two broken legs evade Death Doom?"
"A teacher who breaks the legs of students about to take part in a trial-is he fit to teach anyone? Pah!"
"Qin Fangyang is the murderer!"
"A life for a life-that's only right and proper!"
Li Changjiang grew angrier still. "Everyone, you're twisting reason! If their legs were broken, how did they walk out of their homes at five thirty in the morning? How did they walk out of the city? Were you really comfortable letting them go?"
"It's Qin Fangyang's fault, whatever you say! My son is dead now, and Qin Fangyang has to pay with his life!"
"That's right! Qin Fangyang must pay with his life!"
"That vicious teacher got our children killed! We must be given a satisfactory answer for this!"
"..."
For a time, vicious words surged like a tide.
Li Changjiang realized that there was simply no reasoning with them now, and no one was listening to him at all.
People were strange that way. Faced with many accidents they could accept, everyone would be reasonable and fair. They were also eager for the other party to be reasonable and fair.
But faced with certain things they found utterly unacceptable, almost no one would listen to reason! Much less spare a thought for fairness!
Especially when such things happened to a group, they became even less inclined to reason.
As for the solemn promises these parents themselves had made yesterday not to let their children go out, every one of them had selectively forgotten. They dared not remember, much less admit that their own indulgence had killed