Chapter 140: I’m Not Wrong, Lin Xin Is
Young Master Mo didn’t rush to leave either, just standing there watching that villager run up to Lin Duo and say something. Then he heard Lin Duo’s weak scream: “What? It can’t be such a coincidence. He must be lying to you. He just wants to kill me. Take me over to him, quick!”
“I say, Duo Yatou, Young Master Mo has no grudge against you. Why would he harm you? You’re injured like this. If you don’t get treated by a doctor in time and something happens, won’t your family blame us then? Since you insist on finding Old Cui, we have no choice but to carry you home. As for your family finding someone to treat you, that’s their business.” The returning villager finished speaking without caring about Lin Duo’s reaction and turned back directly to continue clearing the path.
Lin Duo was both angry and in pain. Her vision went black intermittently, and her whole body kept shivering with cold. She felt that she was probably really going to die.
In a daze, she saw Young Master Mo standing under the tree coldly watching her. A strong desire to survive suddenly surged in her heart. She used all her strength to shout towards Young Master Mo: “Young Master Mo, hurry and get Old Cui to come treat my injuries. The reason I ended up like this is because of Lin Xin. You must cure me.”
“Tch,” Young Master Mo glanced at her disdainfully. “Are you crazy? You ran up the mountain in the deep night by yourself. What does that have to do with Xin’er? If you keep slandering her without reason, no need to wait for your injuries to kill you. I’ll make sure to kill you first!”
“You······you······” Lin Duo looked at his cold and indifferent eyes and brows. Despair surged into her heart like a tide. No, she wasn’t willing. Why? Why could Lin Xin live so well, with a noble person from the capital city speaking up for her, while she was harmed like this, not even sure if she could survive.
Lin Duo gritted her teeth and used all her strength to shout loudly: “Just because yesterday at noon I said a couple extra words to you and Lin Xin saw it, she took a dislike to me. Last night she broke into my home, dragged me to the woods, and even called hyenas to bite me. Otherwise, why would I go to the mountain in the deep night? And take Lin Zhi with me?”
With her saying this, some people actually believed it. After all, Young Master Mo was a young master from a wealthy family in the capital city. If they could latch onto him, not to mention rising to prominence, good days would definitely be assured. Who wouldn’t want to seize such a person!
Besides, Lin Xin had enough strength to punch a wild boar to death. Taking a scrawny girl like Lin Duo to the mountain would be too easy, so······ could it really be Lin Xin who did it?
“Heh,” Young Master Mo chuckled in disbelief. “You probably don’t know yet. I fancy Xin’er and want to marry her, but she hasn’t agreed yet. So what you said about her retaliating just because you spoke to me is utter nonsense. I actually hope what you said is true. At least that would prove I hold some place in her heart. It’s just a pity······”
“Impossible, absolutely impossible. You’re lying to me and to everyone, right? How could Lin Xin refuse such a good thing? You must be covering up the truth for her, right?” Not just Lin Duo, even the surrounding villagers didn’t quite believe Young Master Mo’s words.
“I’m too lazy to argue with you. Your heart is dirty, so you think everyone else’s is too. You like climbing high branches, so you think Xin’er does too? Xin’er can live very well on her own. My existence is merely icing on the cake for her. You wouldn’t understand these things.”
After Young Master Mo finished speaking, he cupped his fists towards everyone. “Old Cui really isn’t home. The villagers down the mountain all know it too. You’d better hurry and take her to find another doctor. I’ll take my leave first.”
“Alright, Young Master Mo, see you.”
Young Master Mo went down the mountain first. On the way, he ran into several groups of villagers chopping wood or digging wild vegetables. In casual chat, he unintentionally mentioned how Lin Duo had wrongly accused Lin Xin, even speculating if it was because she feared Old Cui wouldn’t treat her, so she framed Lin Xin.
So, when Lin Duo was carried home and asked her parents to get Cui Shi to treat her injuries, what she got was her parents’ cold stares and words that stabbed into her heart like knives: “You just know how to bring trouble to the family all day. You slander Lin Xin like this and still want Lin Nan’s master to treat you? How can you have such a thick face! Since you still have the strength for these crooked thoughts, your injuries clearly aren’t that serious. No need for a doctor then. Just rest and recover on your own.”
After saying that, Lin Laosan and his wife slammed the door and left, leaving Lin Duo lying on the broken wooden board bed in stunned silence.
After a while, the door to the wood shed was pushed open a crack again. Lin Zhi’s thin little figure squeezed in through the door crack.
“Sister, how are you?” She held a palm-sized medicine can in her hands and came to Lin Duo’s bedside, asking softly.
Lin Duo looked at Lin Zhi’s hands and face, which had no scars at all. Anger gradually welled up in her eyes. When the hyenas surrounded them, there were only the two of them on the mountain. She ended up covered in wounds, without a single piece of good flesh, but Lin Zhi had no injuries whatsoever. What happened then was obvious. Since you betrayed me first, don’t blame me for retaliating against you.
“Sister? You’re not speaking because the pain is too much, right?” Lin Zhi didn’t notice Lin Duo’s gaze towards her growing increasingly sinister. She placed the can in her hands in front of Lin Duo like offering a treasure. “This is the ointment from Lin Nan’s master. I stole it from my parents’ room. As long as you apply it, it won’t hurt anymore.”
Lin Zhi looked at that medicine can, and the sinister look in her eyes faded. Who wanted to die if they could live? As for revenge, better to wait until she could survive first!
Thus, Lin Duo closed her eyes and let Lin Zhi apply the ointment to her wounds.
As expected of Old Cui’s things. Once the ointment was applied, she first felt a burst of coolness, and soon the fiery stinging pain eased a lot. At least it was no longer so unbearable.
As the pain on her body lessened, Lin Duo, who hadn’t slept all night and had expended a lot of energy, fell into a deep sleep.
Lin Zhi looked at her sleeping sister, then at the broken bed she was sitting on. Her gaze became complicated.
She had already heard what Lin Duo said in the mountain. She also agreed with her sister’s view. Their appearing in the deep mountain in the middle of the night must be inseparable from Lin Xin.
And she knew the reason very well. It must be because of that snake.
When she secretly placed that snake at Lin Xin’s home door without her sister knowing, she had hesitated. But that person was right. It was Lin Xin who wronged their family first. She was just venting for herself. It wasn’t a poisonous snake anyway, just to scare her two dead kids at home.
If Lin Xin hadn’t treated her and her sister so excessively, she wouldn’t have agreed to do that for that person. Who made her willing to feed and house a little brat of unknown origin so well, while she and her sister, as cousin sisters, went hungry every day and she acted like she couldn’t see it!
“I’m not wrong. Lin Xin is the one who’s wrong. I just wanted to make her uncomfortable a bit. I didn’t do anything wrong at all!” Lin Zhi said to herself firmly once again.
