Chapter 50: Lin Xin, You’ve Gotten Me Into This Mess
After they finished making two stretchers, Lin Qi also brought over several aunties from the village. Walking at the very front were the most nosy Lin Shenzi and another Yao Da Niang.
“Where’s the person? Where is she? Get up quick and let us old sisters take a look.” Lin Shenzi walked over excitedly, and conveniently pushed Lin Jing, who was blocking her way, to the side.
“Auntie, you······” Lin Jing glanced at Lin Qi beside him, who was standing there dumbfounded not knowing why everyone was looking at him like that, and struggled to open his mouth but couldn’t say anything.
“Oh my, isn’t this Lin Duo? Why are you staying here so early in the morning? Quick, tell Auntie what happened to you?” As Lin Shenzi spoke, she walked toward Lin Duo. When passing by the two men on the ground, she glanced at them, and that one glance stunned her.
Then, she suddenly pounced over and hugged one of them, bursting into an earth-shattering wail:
“Oh my heavens! What’s wrong with my little Shu? Wake up quick and tell Mom, who hurt you? Was it that little bitch Lin Duo? I told you the Old Lin Family has no good people. This girl has been sneaking around looking for you these past couple days, it definitely wasn’t anything good. You wouldn’t listen, and now what are we going to do~”
“What? One on the ground is Lin Shu?”
The aunties following behind her all exchanged a meaningful look and quickened their steps in unison.
Her pounce and shout woke up Lin Shu, who had originally been unconscious. Intense pain immediately swept through his nerves, and a horrific scream burst from his throat: “Ah~”
“Son, tell Mom where it hurts. Mom will get you the doctor. Right, get the doctor, go down the mountain first!” Lin Shenzi couldn’t care about Lin Duo anymore and started dragging a young man nearby to get him to carry her son down the mountain.
“Auntie, Jing Bro already had us make litters. Let go of me quick so we can carry Shu Bro and Wang Laizi down the mountain.” The young man grimaced as he pried open Lin Shenzi’s hand gripping his arm. This old madam was so old but still had such strong grip strength, it hurt him to death.
“Ah~” Inevitably touching the wound when his body was moved, the now conscious Lin Shu let out another pig-slaughtering scream, scaring the young man carrying his upper body so much that his hand shook and he nearly dropped him.
Wang Laizi, still unconscious, luckily avoided that ordeal.
Lin Shenzi stared blankly at her son’s blood-soaked pants, her heart turning ice-cold. Her son’s injury looked unusual at a glance; he was probably deposed from now on. Poor him, still a big lad without a wife!
Thinking of this, Lin Shenzi suddenly hated with all her might—hated Lin Zhou and Zhang Wang for not discovering them sooner, hated Lin Jing and the others for not carrying her son down the mountain faster, and hated the person who did this to her son······
Right, the person who did this to her son!
She turned her head to look at Lin Duo and just happened to see the bloodstained stone in her hand. Her mind went “buzz” and she lost all reason. She stood up and pounced toward Lin Duo, knocking her to the ground and starting to slap her face left and right relentlessly.
Yao Da Niang was squatting beside Lin Duo talking to her. Lin Shenzi’s action also knocked her down, and her waist hit a protruding stone, the pain nearly making her pass out.
Several elder aunties went over to help her up, but as soon as they moved her, she let out a cry of pain: “Ah~ It hurts so much, no, my waist is broken. Don’t move me.”
Lin Jing felt the world go dark before his eyes. What the hell was all this!
With no other choice, he had to have everyone make another stretcher to carry Yao Da Niang down too.
Now it was great: the original two stretchers became three. The people going down the mountain changed from a group of lively young lads to silent young lads, Lin Shu wailing in agony, Yao Da Niang groaning “ouch ouch,” the unconscious Wang Laizi, and the crying and shouting Lin Shenzi. It was quite a lively scene.
Finally reaching the foot of the mountain, the Village Chief, Old Clan Leader, and many villagers were gathered there waiting. Seeing the blood-drenched Lin Shu and Wang Laizi, they were all shocked. After they were carried off to find the doctor, they began murmuring among themselves.
“Whoa, who knows what those two were up to. The one who did this was ruthless enough.”
“Injured in that place, what else could they have been doing? Definitely up to no good, and got cleaned up for it!”
“Who knows who they were trying to mess with.”
“I knew something would happen to them sooner or later, staring at the village young ladies and young wives all day.”
“If you said Wang Laizi, I wouldn’t argue, but Lin Shu wasn’t usually like that!”
“He was just pretending well usually!”
“Hey, look, isn’t that Lin Duo from Lin Laosan’s family, the one about to get married?”
“Right, it’s her. Oh my, how did she end up so miserable? Look at that swollen face; her mom probably can’t even recognize her now!”
“Hiss~ Lin Duo beaten so badly, Lin Shu and Wang Laizi turned into that… could it be······”
“I’d say it’s almost certainly her. Can Lin Shenzi let Lin Duo off now?”
“There’ll be a good show to watch later.”
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Everyone’s discussions entered Lin Duo’s ears word for word. She knew she was done for.
Hehe, Lin Xin, you’ve harmed me like this. I absolutely won’t let you get away with it! Just you wait!
The Old Lin Family was in chaos right now too. Usually, Lin Duo got up earliest at home. After getting up, she first had to make breakfast for the whole big family, then boil water for everyone to wash up, feed the chickens, tidy the courtyard, wash all the clothes everyone changed out of. Only after everyone else got up could she eat.
Previously, these tasks were shared with Zhou Shi, but now that Zhou Shi was pregnant, she didn’t do them. Everything fell to Lin Duo and her sister Lin Zhi. Yesterday, Lin Zhi had watched Lin Duo leave and was so scared she couldn’t sleep until nearly dawn, when she finally closed her eyes and thus got up late.
Last time, Old Madam Lin was beaten too severely by Old Man Lin. Although she could move now, she still lay on the kang waiting for her daughters-in-law and granddaughter to serve her, scolding if anything was not to her liking.
This morning, everyone got up to find the stove still cold and Lin Duo not at home, so Old Madam Lin cursed Zhou Shi bloody from the kang.
Unable to find Lin Duo, with no choice, Xu Shi went into the kitchen to make breakfast for everyone. Her family had two sons; none could go hungry.
At that moment, someone came looking for Lin Laosan and Zhou Shi, saying Lin Duo had stayed overnight on the mountain with Lin Shu and Wang Laizi last night and was now at the foot of the mountain. The Village Chief and Clan Leader were calling them over.
As soon as they arrived at the place and saw Lin Duo’s state, Lin Laosan stepped forward and slapped her across the face with a palm strike, spinning her in place. She didn’t stand steady and fell to the ground. Covering her cheek, her eyes looking at Lin Laosan flashed with bone-deep hatred.
“You shameful thing, still daring to glare at me like that? I’ll beat you to death right now!” Lin Laosan was infuriated by her gaze and went up to kick her in the shoulder, sending her sprawling to the ground.
“Go ahead, beat me to death! Anyway, you never treated me like a daughter. Even if I was harmed by someone, you definitely wouldn’t care about me, wuwuwu······” Lin Duo lay on the ground sobbing.
“What? She said someone harmed her? Who?”
“This girl is too unruly. How can she have that attitude toward her dad?”
“Hey, Lin Laosan went too far with that. After all, she’s his daughter he’s raised for over a decade.”
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