Chapter 146: Don’t Blame Me And Your Father For Not Acknowledging You As Our Daughter
Lin Ju’s mother was stunned by these two slaps, covering her face in disbelief as she looked at Lin Xin. After a while, she realized she had been hit and immediately let out a wail as she lunged forward, her fingers full of grime in the nail crevices clawing toward her face.
“Hmph!” Lin Xin snorted coldly, slightly sidestepping to dodge her hands, then lifted her foot and kicked her in the stomach. Her short, fat body flew into the air, soaring more than a person’s height before crashing to the ground with a splat, where she lay humming and unable to get up.
Seeing this, Lin Ju directly hid to the side, shrinking herself into a quail.
This move from Lin Xin not only subdued the villagers, but terror also appeared on the faces of Lin Ju and her mother.
“Can we talk properly now?” Lin Xin took a step forward. Lin Ju’s mother endured the pain and scooted back a bit. Hearing her question, her gaze flickered, and she subconsciously looked toward the person standing in the middle of the villagers.
“What? Do you have an accomplice among them? Or is the father of the child in your daughter’s belly right there in the crowd watching the show?” Lin Xin followed her line of sight and glanced over, spotting Mo Ziyuan standing not far from that person, then looked away and stared intently at Lin Ju’s mother as she asked.
“You’re talking nonsense! The father of the child in my daughter’s belly is that thousand-knife killer. You little bitch, if you dare ruin my daughter’s reputation again, I’ll risk everything and fight you!” Lin Ju’s mother, having received that person’s signal, felt reassured and righteously pointed at Chu Yu and Lin Xin as she cursed.
“Whoa, you still care about your daughter’s reputation? If you ask me, what reputation does someone who fornicates without matchmaker and gets pregnant before marriage need? And they still have the face to live? They should be sunk in the pond!” Lin Xin actually didn’t want to say such harsh words, but in this backward little village in ancient times, women lived especially hard lives, and she didn’t want to make things difficult for Lin Ju.
But now this mother and daughter were dead set on pinning the child of unknown existence in Lin Ju’s belly on Chu Yu’s head, which she couldn’t tolerate. To put it bluntly, Lin Xin was protective by nature. Chu Yu was the friend she recognized, and she wouldn’t allow anyone to frame him with such dirty tricks.
Lin Ju suddenly lifted her head to look at her, her face turning ghastly pale in an instant.
“What did you say? You little bitch with bad intentions, hanging around with a bunch of men all day, who knows what shameless things you’ve done, and you have the nerve to say my daughter should be sunk in the pond? Pfft!” Lin Ju’s mother had strong combat power and directly dumped a basin of dirty water on Lin Xin’s head, the kind that couldn’t be washed clean.
The watching villagers knew that Lin Xin was close to the people living in this large house, but that was because Lin Nan and Lin Tao had both taken someone from inside as their master, and Lin Xin spent most of her time either going into the mountains or staying at home, so over the years, although there was plenty of gossip, not many people actually thought she was involved with those people.
So, as soon as Lin Ju’s mother spoke, everyone’s gazes turned a bit off, all feeling that she was clearly slandering Lin Xin out of bias for her own daughter, while also breaking out in cold sweat for her, since they hadn’t seen Lin Xin act recklessly, but her beating people was there for all to see.
“Really?” The outburst of rage from Lin Xin that everyone expected didn’t happen. Instead, she suddenly laughed, but though her smile was very beautiful, everyone felt a chill on their backs, their hairs standing on end.
“I, did I say something wrong?” Lin Ju’s mother felt the same as everyone else. She swallowed and tried to make her voice sound less shaky. “Who in the village doesn’t know you hang around with them all day? Who knows if you’re still pure?”
“Really?” Lin Xin repeated those two words, looking toward the villagers with a half-smile. Everyone whose gaze she swept over shook their heads vigorously in unison. “No, we don’t think you’re impure.”
Lin Xin was satisfied and turned back to look at Lin Ju’s mother. “See? They don’t think what you said makes sense! If I were you, I’d point out the father of the child in your daughter’s belly right now, while everyone’s here, and let him marry your daughter. If you’re still thinking of framing this child on Chu Yu, I wouldn’t mind letting you see my skills at making people tell the truth.”
“You, what you said, I don’t understand. The child in my daughter’s belly is his!” Lin Ju’s mother insisted outright that the child was Chu Yu’s.
Lin Xin looked at Lin Ju again. “What about you? Do you also insist that the child in your belly is Chu Yu’s?”
Seeing her open her mouth to speak, Lin Xin cut in first: “If you’re clinging to Chu Yu to climb high, let me ask you, with nothing to your name like this, even if you climb this high branch, can you hold on to it?”
A dark glint flashed in Lin Ju’s eyes, vanishing quickly. She bit her lip, glanced at Chu Yu, then at her biological mother, closed her eyes, and said: “To tell the truth, there’s really no…”
Before she could finish, her mother leaped up from the ground and slapped her across the face with a palm. “You bitch, what do you want to say? Let me tell you, if you don’t get him to marry you today, then you and that bastard in your belly don’t think about living! The Old Lin Family has no shameless, unwed pregnant young lady. When the time comes, don’t blame me and your father for not recognizing you as our daughter!”
“Hmph hmph,” Lin Xin snorted with a laugh and pressed: “There’s really no what in your belly?”
“I…” Lin Ju wanted to say something, but glanced at her mother and aggrievedly shut her mouth.
The villagers couldn’t stand it anymore and spoke up one after another: “Say, Lin Ju’s mother, why won’t you let the child finish speaking? Look how scared you’ve made her. Treating her like a cow or horse at home is one thing, but now with such a big matter, not letting her speak is going too far!”
“Pfft!” Lin Ju’s mother spat a thick glob of phlegm on the ground and unleashed an area attack: “You bunch of loose tongues, when is it your turn to gossip about my family’s affairs? All shut your mouths for me. If you dare babble again, believe me or not, I’ll camp at your door and curse for three days and nights!”
Lin Ju’s mother usually liked to do this. No matter who offended her, she really would camp at their door and curse for three days and nights. It was said that once her family lost a hen, she suspected the neighbor’s child stole it and cursed at their door for a full seven days, until she finally found unburnt chicken feathers in her own stove and realized her own child had gotten hungry, killed and eaten the chicken while she was out.
This matter was originally their family’s fault, and by reason they should have apologized to the neighbors, but she cursed at them for several more days, saying it was all because their child looked like a thief, causing her to mistake.
Later, the neighbors, furious, got the village head to allocate a new house site, built a house, and moved away.
After that, villagers avoided her like the plague, afraid she’d say something about how they looked and bring misfortune on themselves.
