Chapter 71: Encountering A Wolf In The Deep Woods
Zhou Shi’s younger brother was originally a bully who feared the strong, and the reason he chose to come to Lin Xin’s home and make trouble was that he had always known that Lin Xin and her younger brother were targets for his sister’s family to bully. Moreover, after Lin Lao Er and his wife died, some of the things his sister took from Lin Xin’s home also ended up in his hands, so he felt completely secure facing Lin Xin.
Yesterday, someone from their village came to Willow Forest Village to visit relatives, and after returning, they spread the recent events at the Old Lin Family throughout their village as gossip, and it got more and more exaggerated. In the end, it became that Zhou Shi was already down to her last breath and about to die. His mother was terrified, so she told him to come and check.
The daughter-in-law of the Lin Family’s eldest branch had always looked at him unfavorably, and her gaze was very off when he entered the door. Before he could think about it carefully, his niece took him into the room.
Seeing his sister’s miserable condition with his own eyes, and hearing his niece tell him firmly that all of this was caused by Lin Xin, with his sister tacitly agreeing to this statement, he immediately returned to the village and called over a few friends he usually hung out with, planning to cause trouble for Lin Xin.
Who would have thought that they didn’t even see her face and were beaten so humiliatingly, and were told that what his niece and sister said were all lies, just to use him. This completely shattered his long-held impression of his older sister and niece, and exceeded what he could bear, especially since the friends he called were also beaten and were now pressing on him.
Now he only felt a surge of malice blocked in his chest, and he felt suffocated if he didn’t vent it.
“Get up, get up, I’m being crushed to death by you all.” Zhou Shi’s younger brother said with difficulty.
“Bro, when we came, you said the money we get back would be shared with us. Now we got nothing and even got beaten. What do you say?” The friends climbed off him and started asking.
“Wait until I go back and ask my sister. Don’t rush me.” Zhou Shi’s younger brother sat on the ground, panting as he spoke.
“Hmph, I knew your niece was no good. She even dares to push her own biological mother and tell such a big lie to deceive us. If she were my daughter, I’d have slapped her with two big palms long ago. This is just pushing us over to get beaten! Bah! What a black-hearted little bitch!”
“Exactly. If she hadn’t kept stirring things up, we could have at least talked nicely to them! Who would have thought we’d get beaten right away? Ouch, it hurts so much.” This person spoke while rubbing his bruised mouth.
“Let’s go, go back and settle accounts with that bitch!” Zhou Shi’s younger brother was also full of anger, so he got up and led everyone back to the Lin Family.
“Lin Duo! Get out here!” As soon as he entered the door, he roared.
Lin Duo sat expressionlessly hugging her knees next to Zhou Shi, completely ignoring her uncle’s roar.
“You, your uncle he, he’s······” Zhou Shi said with difficulty.
“Heh, do I need to ask? He definitely didn’t win the fight! Useless trash. So many people couldn’t beat one Lin Xin, and he still has the face to come back!” Lin Duo said disdainfully.
“You, how can you, say that······”
“Why can’t I say that?” Lin Duo turned her gaze to her biological mother. “Don’t you always say that after a woman marries, her maternal family is her backing? You usually sent so many good things from home back to your maternal family. Now that there’s trouble, shouldn’t he come to support you? Who knew he was useless, wasting all those good things from home for nothing.”
“You, you this, dead, dead girl, what are you, saying······” Zhou Shi was so angry that she raised her hand to hit Lin Duo, but because her body was too weak, it only lifted halfway before dropping powerlessly.
“What words? The truth!” Lin Duo clapped her hands and stood up, glancing at her sideways with thick schadenfreude in her eyes. “Your younger brother didn’t get any good from Lin Xin either. Guess how much angrier Father will be?”
After saying that, she jumped off the kang and walked toward the door. She hadn’t had good intentions when she instigated her uncle to go to Lin Xin’s home for trouble earlier. Now that he had returned so angrily, he would definitely settle accounts with her, so it was better for her to dodge first.
Who knew that just as she reached the door, the room door was kicked open. She came face-to-face with her bruised and swollen uncle. As soon as he saw it was her, without a word, he slapped her with a palm. With a “pa” sound, it sent her tumbling onto the kang, and half her face went numb from the pain right away.
“Brothers, we got beaten for nothing today, so we definitely have to take some benefits back. Whatever things in this room you like, just take them. If that little bitch dares to stop you, just beat her.” After saying that, he was the first to go to the edge of the kang, rummaged out everything from the kang cabinet, shouldered the kang cabinet, and swaggered away.
The others looked at each other, then also picked up the large pieces of furniture in the room and followed to leave. The last one, with really nothing left to take, actually hugged away a thick cotton quilt that had just been taken out from the kang cabinet, muttering while walking about being slow and suffering a big loss.
Xu Shi was hiding in the room and saw it all. She pursed her lips and thought to herself that this family should probably be split. Otherwise, following the way the third branch was causing trouble, it felt like the family would be torn apart by them.
She completely forgot that she had also been one of those wholeheartedly causing trouble back then.
The people left, and the room door was wide open. Zhou Shi looked at the empty room and grief welled up in her heart. She started crying sobbingly.
Lin Xin still didn’t know about the events at the Lin Family. She led Gao Yong and the others directly to the place where they had found several wild ginseng roots last time. Although there were none over a hundred years, there were always some sixty to seventy years old. She just didn’t know if they could use them.
“Whoa, there really are some! Miss Lin, you’re too amazing. It’s like this stuff grows in your family’s backyard. You want it, and it’s there.” Ling Qing said while carefully digging up the ginseng.
“This is deep mountain, and generally villagers don’t dare come in, so they can be left here. These years aren’t that long. I don’t know if they suit your needs.” Lin Xin looked at the three wild ginseng plants: one around seventy years, and the other two probably thirty to forty years.
“They’ll do. Yi Xuan is awake a bit longer now. Old Cui said the dosage can be slightly reduced later. Too much tonifying isn’t good either.” Ling Qing replied.
“As long as they can be used, you dig here first. I’ll go over there to see if there’s any prey.” Lin Xin casually pointed in a direction and said.
“How about having Yong Bro go with you! What if you run into a wild boar or wolf pack or something? It’d be dangerous.” Chu Yu said kindly.
“Yeah, how about I go with you! If there’s really a wild boar or something, it can add a dish for us.” Gao Yong also said.
“No need. If there’s really a wild boar or wolf pack or something, who is in danger isn’t certain!” Lin Xin waved her hand and walked briskly in the direction she had pointed earlier.
The dense forest might hide unknown dangers for others, but for Lin Xin, this was her favorite place. Rich wood energy entered her body through her pores, and after she refined it with her supernatural ability, it fed back into the forest. Both sides gained immense benefits.
Suddenly, a long wolf howl came from not far ahead, filled with grief, deep helplessness, and attachment.
Hmm? There’s a wolf?
She had just been thinking about finding a bodyguard for Lin Nan. Could this be it? But what happened to this wolf? Why was it howling so miserably?
Lin Xin pondered as she quickly ran over there, soon seeing a very small cave. At the entrance was a Big White Wolf whose white fur was almost soaked in blood. Facing it were twenty or thirty ugly hyenas, baring their teeth and looking for a chance to attack it.
Babies, I forgot to publish the update the day before yesterday, missed a day, sorry!
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