Chapter 145: He’s Your Lover, Isn’t He?
Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin exchanged a glance, stood up and went to the courtyard, opened the door and saw Gao Yong’s face suppressing anger.
“What happened?” he asked in surprise.
“You all hurry over and take a look, Old Chu he, he was schemed against by someone.” Gao Yong angrily stomped his foot, pulled Mo Ziyuan to go, and when they reached the door, he turned back to look at Lin Xin who was a step slower, “Miss Lin, is there a young lady named Lin Ju in your village, do you know her?”
Lin Ju? Lin Xin racked her brains for a moment before finding a silent figure in her mind.
She nodded, “I know this person, what did she do?”
“Her mother brought her to our house, saying that she was ruined by Old Chu, and insisting that Old Chu marry her!” Gao Yong was furious, gritting his teeth as he spoke.
“Chu Yu ruined her…?” Lin Xin was speechless for a moment. Although Chu Yu’s appearance was not as good as Mo Ziyuan and Meng Yichen, he was still a handsome guy, and with Lin Ju’s plain looks, unless he was blind, he certainly wouldn’t look at her.
“How is that possible?” Gao Yong immediately bristled.
“I also think it’s impossible, so I’ll go with you to take a look!” Lin Xin was quite curious too. In her perception, Lin Ju was the type who existed at the bottom of the family, beaten and scolded, starving and freezing, swallowing her anger, and moreover, her daily movements had nothing to do with Chu Yu, so how did this mess happen?
“It’d be good for you to go take a look, that mother of Lin Ju has an incredibly sharp tongue, she curses without taking a breath, we can’t even get a word in, and we don’t dare to lay hands on her, as soon as we take a step forward, she lies on the ground and throws a tantrum and rolls on the ground.” Gao Yong held out the back of his hand to show Lin Xin the two scratches on it, “See? This is what she scratched me with when I tried to stop her and make Old Chu take responsibility.”
Lin Xin thought it over in her mind again, and recalled many of Lin Ju’s mother’s “great achievements,” and her gaze toward Gao Yong carried sympathy.
If the several troublesome middle-aged women in Willow Forest Village were ranked, Lin Ju’s mother would definitely be in the top three, she was a character who combined throwing a tantrum and rolling on the ground, fighting and cursing, and scheming behind the scenes.
This time Chu Yu had been targeted by her, it probably wouldn’t end well.
Lin Xin narrowed her eyes, before when she and Cui Shi were stopped at the village entrance, and now Chu Yu had this issue, she had a strange feeling, as if someone didn’t want them to leave the village.
Her house was not far from Mo Ziyuan and their house, and as soon as she stepped out the door, she heard the commotion from over there, with a woman’s shrill scolding, a girl’s sobbing cries, men’s angry low roars, and the villagers’ various discussions.
Seeing Gao Yong bringing Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin over, the watching villagers automatically made way for them.
In the courtyard, a short and fat woman was standing with hands on hips cursing, behind her a slender girl was covering her face crying, Chu Yu stood opposite her, his chest heaving with anger, unable to get a word in, while Zhou Qi and others behind him looked furious but dared not speak.
“······You look all proper like a person, but you actually did such a thing, and won’t admit it afterward, now my daughter has your child in her belly, you have to marry her whether you want to or not, otherwise I’ll risk my life and won’t let you go.” The short and fat woman saw Lin Xin, her voice suddenly rose a pitch, and her gaze toward her carried a bit of smugness.
“I’ve said the child in her belly has nothing to do with me, I hadn’t even seen her before today, even if your daughter can’t get married, she can’t pin it on me!” Chu Yu had been pointed at and cursed by Lin Ju’s mother, and now he was anxious too, speaking without thinking.
Lin Ju, who had been shrinking behind the woman, heard his words, and she who had only been sobbing burst into loud cries, while the villagers outside began to criticize Chu Yu one after another, saying he dared to do but not admit, saying he toyed with women, saying to drag him to drown in the pond, in short, all sorts of things.
Lin Xin had been observing the mother and daughter since entering the door, and found that their gaze toward Chu Yu didn’t look like looking at someone who ruined a girl’s chastity and got her pregnant, but like looking at a tool that could profit them, their eyes full of greed and the smugness of a scheme succeeding.
Also, every time they made a fuss for a while, they would glance toward the villagers, Lin Xin quietly followed their gaze with her peripheral vision, and sure enough saw that person whom Lin Zhi kept looking at when blocking the horse carriage before, he was standing at the back of the watching villagers, quietly watching the farce in the courtyard.
This made her previous feeling even stronger, it really seemed someone didn’t want them to leave!
She tugged at Mo Ziyuan’s sleeve behind her, secretly pointing that person out to him, “Do you know that person?”
Mo Ziyuan looked closely, shook his head, “Not sure, the build looks a bit familiar.”
“Never seen this person in the village before, did he come with you to pick up Tao Tao?”
“Probably, this time the ones I brought are all Your Majesty’s people, I’m not very familiar with them either.”
“Last time Cui Old’s horse carriage was blocked by Lin Zhi, this person was among the crowd watching, today Chu Yu is being troubled at the door and he’s here again, I guess both these matters are related to him.”
“I’ll go check and find out, if he came with me, then it means the road back to the Capital City with the Crown Prince won’t be peaceful, and then we’ll really have to rely on you to protect him.” Mo Ziyuan felt inexplicably irritated, if Your Majesty’s people had already been infiltrated, was the Capital City side safe?
“This person is just having people cause us trouble, but hasn’t made any big incidents, I don’t think it’s about doing anything to us, rather like planning to delay our departure time.” Lin Xin voiced her feeling.
Mo Ziyuan suddenly understood, could it be there’s a change in the Capital City, and Your Majesty deliberately wants them to return later?
As they were speaking, suddenly Lin Ju’s mother started attacking Chu Yu, actually stepping forward to tear at his clothes wanting to hit him, because she was a woman, Chu Yu only blocked her hands without counterattacking, and in just a moment, his face and the back of his hand were scratched with bloody marks.
Lin Xin saw this, stepped forward a few steps to her back, grabbed her collar with one hand and yanked back hard, making Lin Ju’s mother stumble back a big step.
“Who dares to sneak attack me, tired of living, let me see······ so it’s you little bitch, what’s this, is he your lover? You blocking me from beating him!” Lin Ju’s mother saw it was Lin Xin, and the malice in her eyes erupted like a volcano without warning.
Lin Xin naturally wouldn’t indulge her, after letting go of her collar, she swung her hand round, with two crisp “palm palm” sounds, Lin Ju’s mother’s face immediately showed two extremely symmetrical palm prints.
