The woman's face stiffened, and she argued, "Isn't it because our family is poor and can't bring out anything decent? Besides, Scholar Song is so compassionate, would he really be missing such a meager token of gratitude from our family? Scholar Master, don't you agree?"
Song Chongjin's expression turned cold, and before he could speak, several classmates couldn't hold back: "I say, lady, you're being unreasonable! Brother Song saved your child, even though he wasn't expecting anything in return, but for you to shame him publicly like this, worried he'd use it to extort you, isn't that quite disgraceful?"
"Exactly, what could your family possibly offer that Brother Song would covet? What a joke!"
