As soon as Chu Nanzhi showed his face, he saw two young women surrounding him aggressively:
"Chu, look at how these bastards you raised have grabbed my hand. Since you and your eldest brother can't take care of it, I, as the aunt, have to take care of it."
Chu Nanzhi looked at the two of them, and it was Lin Jinxiao's second sibling Qin Xianglian who was speaking. She lifted up her sleeves angrily, and there was indeed a fresh scratch on her wrist.
With her was Lin Jinxiao's half-sister Lin Jinyun, who was also looking at her with fierce eyes.
Chu Nanzhi still didn't know what happened in the courtyard, so she first looked at the little guys.
When the four little guys saw that Chu Nanzhi was coming back, they immediately ran to Lin Jinxiao and hid.
At this time, Lin Jinxiao was sitting on the edge of the stone table, holding a cane in his hand, with a sullen face, and did not want to talk to the two sisters.
Furthermore, he never asked about the money at home, and when he came back yesterday, he never heard anyone from the county mention that the county magistrate had rewarded Chu Nanzhi with money.
Dabaolin Ruiwen thought that the bad woman was going to beat him again, so he bulging his eyes and quickly explained fiercely: "They didn't listen to my father's advice and insisted on breaking into the house to get the money that grandma left for us."
Sibaolin Ruijia also cautiously tightened the package containing silver and jewelry in her hand.
Lin Jinyun stared at the package in Si Bao's hand, with a look of embarrassment on her face:
"What's the matter with us taking some money? Your grandmother has raised your father to such a big age. Is it unreasonable to use some of your family's money? You are so heartless."
As he said that, he looked at Chu Nanzhi specifically and curled his lips and said: "Now that I have made a fortune, I will forget about the kindness of raising me. It is simply unfilial and ungrateful."
"Speaking of ingratitude, I have to say a few words."
Chu Nanzhi really couldn't listen anymore. She thought of some old things from the past. Looking at Lin Jinyun, she smiled helplessly and said:
"After your father passed away, I heard that your family had a very difficult time. Who helped your mother raise you and your second brother? It must be your eldest brother."
At that time, Lin Jinxiao was only five or six years old. In addition to helping with household chores every day, he also had to go out and ask for rewards from wealthy families to earn some loose silver to supplement the family's income.
After hearing this, Lin Jinyun hesitated for a while, but then replied confidently: "But my mother-in-law didn't treat my eldest brother lightly. She even arranged for my eldest brother's marriage and asked him to marry you."
After thinking about it, she smiled proudly: "If it weren't for my mother-in-law, how could you be able to reach a scholar like my eldest brother with your family background?"
"You look down on my family so much, but everything you wear on your body and hands is not bought with my family's money. If it weren't for this marriage, how could you live so comfortably?"
As she said that, she turned her gaze to Qin Xianglian: "Without our family's five hundred taels of silver, how could your second brother marry such a wife? How could he buy so many fields?"
After saying this, Chu Nanzhi's heart became turbulent for some reason. She looked at Lin Jinyun with sharp eyes and said sternly:
"This poor man has worked so hard for your family. Not only did he not have enough meals at your house, but your mother also asked him to leave the house without even giving him a house to stay."
"Isn't that your mother?"
Lin Jinyun looked at the small courtyard and said matter-of-factly: "It's good that my mother-in-law didn't think the house your mother built was shabby. My mother-in-law has given such a good marriage to your family. What's the point of spending some money on it?"
Shouldn’t it?”
"My Chu family owes you so much. If you marry your daughter, you still have to pay money and pay for the house."
The anger in Chu Nanzhi's eyes gradually grew, and the tone of his words became more and more serious: "For a person like you, don't show me any kindness, justice and filial piety. My family has suffered a disaster and you just don't come to visit me. Why don't you come and visit me?"
You think so hard about collecting money, how can you lose your face?"
"The disaster that your family has suffered is not all because of you, so who are you qualified to say such a thing?"
Lin Jinyun also didn't expect that this woman would talk in a new way now. She couldn't speak to her at all, so she simply said arrogantly:
"Let me tell you, Chu Nanzhi, you have to give me this money today, whether you give it or not. The day before yesterday, you punched and kicked my mother-in-law, making her so sick that she can't even get out of bed."
After that, she pulled Qin Xianglian over again, grabbed her arm and said, "Look, the second sister-in-law's hands were scratched with blood by that bastard Dabao. There is no need for money to treat these."
"These little guys are staying at home well. If you didn't rush to provoke them, how could they make things difficult for you?"
Chu Nanzhi felt that the sister-in-law and sister-in-law were completely in love with each other.
She had seen shameless people, but never such shameless ones. The night before, she couldn't help but slap Chen, but it wasn't that serious. The punches and kicks were all thanks to Lin Jinxiao and the four little ones.
The guy is watching, otherwise he will be wrongly accused for no reason.
Qin Xianglian felt that she was deliberately shielding her child by saying this. She was about to come over to defend her, but she heard Lin Jinxiao say angrily: "That's enough."
When everyone looked at him, they saw him slowly raising his head and looking at Lin Jinyun, his face ashen as death: "Lin Jinyun, I have paid back everything I have owed to your family over the years. I don't want to have anything to do with you in the future."
, your aunt and sister-in-law should go back quickly, if you continue to make trouble, I will have no choice but to report it to the official."
He seemed to have given up on the Lin family.
"Brother, do you really not care about your mother anymore?"
Lin Jinyun was a little disappointed, her brows furrowed.
Just at this moment, Li Ce walked in carrying a bamboo basket, followed by two old men and a middle-aged man.
Chu Nanzhi took a closer look and saw that the two old men at the head were none other than Lin Jinxiao's mentor, Nie Huai'an, a village official from Caifeng Township, and Chang Yanjue, a great scholar from Luyan Port.
The middle-aged man is Liu Qingbo, the most upright person in the village.
Lin Jinyun seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and immediately ran over, threw herself in front of Nie Huaian, and cried loudly: "Sir, you have to make the decision for your niece."
Then he pointed at Chu Nanzhi and shouted even more aggrieved:
"This evil woman injured my mother. I came to her to ask for some money to treat my mother's illness. She didn't give it. She also let her little brats scratch my second sister-in-law. My mother went through all kinds of hardships to raise my eldest brother.
When he grows up, you are his mentor, so you can't just watch him do things that harm your filial piety."
"Oh come on, come on, you stinky girl, stop fooling yourself here."
Nie Huaian didn't want to hear these trivial things. He looked at each other with Chang Yanjue and sneered:
"Others don't know about your family's affairs, but Chang Lao and I can't. If it weren't for me and Chang Lao, the Lin family would have starved to death long ago. Da Lang treats your family well, so just calm down and calm down.
This family just escaped death, let them take a breather."
"Can"
Lin Jinyun was a little reluctant, wiping tears and letting Nie Huaian wave to stop before she could say anything else.
His face looked extremely impatient.
Seeing this, Qin Xianglian came out pretending to be polite and said:
"We shouldn't have come to say this to my eldest brother and sister-in-law, but there is a reason. The taxes have been heavy in the past two years, and there was a spring famine at the beginning of the year. The crops in the fields are not good, and the family can hardly open the pot. But my mother came back the night before and gave birth to a child.
I'm sick and now I can't get out of bed."
Then, she looked at Chu Nanzhi meaningfully, and her tone became extremely unkind:
"All this is thanks to my sister-in-law. She came here to seek justice for her eldest brother. She had good intentions, but her sister-in-law beat her indiscriminately. How could she withstand the punches and kicks of her sister-in-law at such an old age?
My eldest brother and sister-in-law shouldn't have used some money to help her with medical treatment and medicine."
"Why can't you get out of bed? You are talking nonsense with your eyes open."
Liu Lizheng, who was accompanying the second elder, felt his face swell when he heard this: "I just saw Mrs. Chen cutting vegetables in the vegetable field. I told her and she ran away. What was the reason for me? It turned out that she was holding back such a bad thing.
fart."
After saying that, Liu Lizheng impatiently scolded Qin Xianglian:
"If you two, sister-in-law, want to harm someone, you should start planning in advance. Don't embarrass yourself in front of the two elders and discredit your father. The two elders came here today for business. Get out, get out quickly."
He was extremely disgusted with those members of the Chen family. Over the years, he liked to talk about the dead Magistrate Lin whenever anything happened, and he seemed to have no way to deal with them.
The sister-in-law and sister-in-law felt disgraced after being scolded by Liu Qingbo. Mrs. Chen asked them to come over to ask for money, but she herself made trouble first, and was speechless.
Before going out, Lin Jinyun also told Mrs. Chen to stay at home and pretend to be sick. She never thought that her mother would run out to cut vegetables and Li Zheng would bump into her.
What does this mean?
Just thinking about the fifty taels of silver, she couldn't be reconciled.
Qin Xianglian was afraid that she would continue to mess around, so she forced her to escape from the yard in despair.