Chapter 15: Dad, Are You Trying To Beat Mom To Death?
Next, the two discussed in detail how to use the clan leader’s little grandson to trick Lin Nan out. Lin Xin, listening outside the window, several times wanted to rush in and beat them up fiercely but ultimately held back each time.
After more than half a shichen, the Lin family old couple finally finished discussing and planned to sleep.
Lin Xin took out a seed from the space, gently poked a hole in the window paper, threw the seed inside, and surprisingly didn’t alert the two people still awake in the room.
Watching the seed land on the kang between the old couple, Lin Xin gave a wicked smile, activated her wood element ability, and saw the seed suddenly come alive, bouncing a few times in place, then bursting open from the middle, with a small black flower obscenely wriggling out from the crack.
As soon as the seed burst open, Lin Xin first coated herself with a layer of water film, then jumped onto the rooftop and lifted a roof tile to look down.
“Old man, what did you eat tonight? Why is your fart so stinky?” Old Madam Lin was the first to not stand it and spoke up.
“When did I fart?” Old Man Lin also couldn’t stand the smell, pulled the quilt up to cover his nose, so his words came out muffled.
“If it’s not you and not me, then where did this stench come from?” Old Madam Lin also imitated Old Man Lin, covering her nose with the quilt.
“Go check if some rat or something died in our room.”
“You always boss me around, why don’t you go?” Though unwilling, Old Madam Lin still endured the stench, covered her nose, and searched around the room.
“There’s nothing, I searched everywhere, no dead rat.”
“Then forget it, just endure it, it’ll pass. Sleep first, we still have things to do tomorrow!”
“You dead old man, how to endure with it so stinky?” Old Madam Lin grumbled incessantly as she lay down to sleep, but couldn’t fall asleep no matter what, tossing and turning on the kang.
“If you won’t sleep, get out!” Already stinking enough, with someone beside her who wouldn’t settle down, Old Man Lin finally lost patience and kicked Old Madam Lin’s leg.
Old Madam Lin immediately wilted, not daring to speak again or move, covering her nose and shrinking into the bedding.
“One, two, three······” Lin Xin patiently began counting. When she reached thirty, Old Man Lin suddenly sat up with a “whoosh,” his two eyes bulging like copper bells, staring straight at Old Madam Lin’s bedding, then pounced fiercely, sitting on her through the cotton quilt and punching left and right with his fists.
“Ouch～” Old Madam Lin screamed miserably while struggling desperately, but unfortunately she had lost the initiative and was bound in the quilt, so she could only take the beating. Soon she had no strength to resist, left only with wailing screams.
Oil lamps successively lit up in the rooms of Lin Laoda and Lin Laosan next door.
“Your hand is still injured, if the situation looks off, stay back and let third brother go up, got it?” Xu Shi was too lazy to move herself and softly instructed her man.
“Don’t worry.” Lin Laoda put on his outer clothes, carefully protecting his hand wrapped like a dumpling, and walked out of the room, just in time to run into Lin Laosan coming out as well, with Zhou Shi following behind him holding an oil lamp.
“Big brother, you also got up hearing mother’s shouts?” Lin Laosan asked with a yawn.
“Exactly, don’t know what happened, mother is screaming so miserably.”
“What about dad? Did you hear dad’s voice?” Lin Laosan suddenly realized that from beginning to end, it seemed only Old Madam Lin’s voice.
“No,” Lin Laoda shook his head, exchanged a glance with Lin Laosan, and both quickened their steps into Old Man Lin’s room.
“Holy crap, why is it so stinky in the room!” Lin Laosan, walking in front, was nearly made to vomit as soon as he entered and hurriedly covered his nose and retreated. Lin Laoda was right behind him; if he hadn’t dodged quickly, that hand would probably suffer secondary injury.
When Lin Laosan came out, he didn’t close the door, and the stench spread from the doorway to the courtyard. Strangely, the smell that made it impossible to breathe inside the room couldn’t be smelled at all once it reached the courtyard.
“Why did you come out again?” Lin Laoda asked his brother irritably.
“Didn’t you smell how stinky it is in there?” Lin Laosan was even more irritated; even now he was still feeling waves of nausea.
“Are you crazy? What stench? Where’s any stench?”
“Don’t believe me, go in and smell it yourself. I nearly got stunk to death.” Lin Laosan said while stepping aside from the doorway.
Lin Laoda didn’t believe it and stepped right into the room.
As soon as he entered, he yelled “Ouch” and shouted loudly: “Laosan, Laosan come in quick, dad and mom are in trouble.”
Hearing this, Lin Laosan ignored the stench and hurried in, seeing Old Madam Lin wrapped in the quilt, Old Man Lin riding on her smashing down with fists relentlessly. Old Madam Lin could no longer scream, left only with low groans. Lin Laoda had only one hand usable and simply couldn’t pull away the mad Old Man Lin.
“Dad, are you trying to beat mom to death?” Lin Laosan rushed over, hugged Old Man Lin around the waist to rescue his mother, but for some reason, Old Man Lin’s strength had become extraordinarily great. Lin Laosan, a grown young man, surprisingly couldn’t budge him at all.
“B-big brother, I-I can’t hold dad, wh-what to do······” Lin Laosan used all his strength, veins bulging high on his forehead.
“You hold him for now, I-I’m going to call people.” With that, Lin Laoda ran out quickly and frantically pounded on the neighboring door, shouting loudly: “Sixth uncle, sixth uncle, open the door quick! Something happened in our house.”
In the quiet night, even the slightest sound could amplify endlessly, let alone Lin Laoda shouting at the top of his lungs.
First, the village dogs started barking one after another, then one oil lamp after another was lit. Many people woken up came out sleepily to see what had happened.
Lin Xin sat on the rooftop watching the chaotic scene below, her gaze cold and grim. You actually wanted to sell my younger brother; have you prepared for my revenge?
Once the whole village was thoroughly lively, she gently put the roof tile back, patted her butt, and went home to sleep.
She needed to rest well; there was a big show waiting for her to watch tomorrow!
Back in the room, Lin Nan was still sleeping like a little pig, his little face flushed red, probably because he’d been in a happy mood these past two days. He’d shed the timidity from their first meeting and regained the innocence befitting a three-year-old child.
Hehe, the one I raised.
Giving herself a thumbs up, Lin Xin lay down contentedly and soon fell asleep.
The next morning before dawn, the courtyard gate at home was banged on “bang bang.”
Lin Nan, not yet fully awake, was startled into a shiver, eyes not even open as he instinctively rolled into his sister’s arms, mumbling in a daze: “Sis, noisy, scared.”
Lin Xin patted his back. “Don’t be scared, don’t be scared. Someone’s knocking at the door; sis will go check.”
Lin Nan mumbled a few times, turned over, and fell asleep again.
“Who is it?” Lin Xin, yawning nonstop, opened the door.
“Xin Yatou, the clan leader wants you to quickly take Nan Xiaozi to the Lin Family Old House.” The visitor was Zhao Shi, the wife of Lin Lao Er’s cousin Lin He within five degrees of mourning. She had a somewhat shrewish personality and had secretly helped the original owner more than once; she was a good person.
“What happened, Fifth Aunt?”
“Sigh, something big happened. Where’s Nan Xiaozi? Quickly call him out and come with me!” Zhao Shi felt upset just thinking about the commotion at the Lin Family Old House and didn’t want to say much to Lin Xin, just kept urging her to hurry over.
“Nan Nan hasn’t woken up yet, Fifth Aunt wait a moment; I’ll go hug him out.”
“Alright, hurry up. The weather’s starting to cool; remember to put an extra piece of clothing on him.”
“Got it.”
Guessing it was because last night’s incident had blown up, Lin Xin no longer delayed. She went back to the room, wrapped Lin Nan in a small quilt, held him in her arms, and followed Zhao Shi to the Lin Family Old House.
