Chapter 3

There were also the next generation.

Deng Yang, the son born to the eldest sister, and Deng Tian, her daughter, had resentment planted in their hearts from a young age because they lost their mother.

They hated their third aunt, Lin Qing, but they liked their little aunt, Lin Xia.

They were determined to find their little aunt.

The two children worked hard to study and leave the countryside. When they had some financial stability, they started to investigate.

But Lin Xia had already been tortured to death by a fool.

Deng Yang and Deng Tian blamed Zhao Huizhou and Zhang Hong for the deaths of their mother and little aunt.

They wanted revenge.

In the end, they ended up in prison.

He Yi, the only daughter of the second sister who died, lived a life without a mother since she was young.

Her stepmother would beat her whenever she wanted, and sometimes her father would even help.

Everyone told her that it would get better when she grew up, that she just needed to marry a good man and she would be able to endure it.

She waited for that day.

Until her stepmother wanted to marry her off to an old man for money, crushing her last bit of hope. All the suppression in her life exploded at that moment.

Late at night, when everyone was deeply asleep.

He Yi took a rusty axe and chopped up all the people in the He family, more than ten people, into pieces.

She didn’t even spare the chickens, ducks, and dogs in the house.

This case became the most shocking criminal case in Hejia Village for decades.

The Lin family, they were all cannon fodder, and all of this stemmed from Zhao Huizhou’s initial calculations.

Why was it Zhao Huizhou’s calculation?

This man was not a good person.

He was several years older than the original owner and they were not familiar with each other. The original owner used to play with his sister, Zhao Huiyan, and would often visit the Zhao family.

He didn’t want to be remembered by Zhao Huizhou.

Before joining the army, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to find a good wife when he returned to his hometown after retiring, so he set his sights on the original owner.

When Zhao Huizhou went to the Lin family to propose marriage, Lin Da hua and Wang Lanfeng were stunned. Their third daughter was only fourteen years old. Why did they want to arrange a marriage so early?

The couple didn’t agree, but they were soft-hearted and politely refused.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Huizhou turned around and knelt in the Lin family’s courtyard, begging Lin Da hua and Wang Lanfeng to agree.

If this were in some novels, it would be quite explosive. He loved her!

The members of Shanglin Village were also shocked.

Why was Zhao’s son kneeling at the Lin family’s house?

They heard that he was proposing marriage.

To whom?

To the Lin family’s third daughter.

Oh… No wonder the Lin family’s third daughter often went to the Zhao family’s house.

Don’t you think these two kids…

Tsk.

Lin Da hua and Wang Lanfeng were almost choked with anger.

The original owner was speechless.

The marriage was arranged in such a strange way.

Old Mrs. Zhao reluctantly gave the Lin family twenty kilograms of grain as a dowry. Later, she even said that without their twenty kilograms of grain, the Lin family wouldn’t have survived the famine.

So now they wanted to break off the engagement and also wanted to extort some money.

It was completely unreasonable.

Lin Qing was a little stunned after reading these background checks.

Did the Lin family dig up the Zhao family’s ancestral grave in their previous life?

In short, the Lin family’s initial tragedy began tonight…

The eldest sister saw that Lin Qing was silent, not looking like she had a plan, and her heart was also in a mess.

She hadn’t been able to sleep well these past few days. One day, she dreamed that she beat up Old Mrs. Zhao, beating her until she cried and begged for mercy, saying that their family wouldn’t break off the engagement.

She almost woke up laughing from the dream.

She couldn’t really do what she did in the dream…

Otherwise… it seemed like she could only break off the engagement.

So annoying.

Lin Qing slowly came back to her senses. Although she had only been here for a while, she had truly felt the love of her family.

In her previous life,

She was like an orphan without parents.

If it weren’t for the old man who used to fight with her for cardboard boxes who took pity on her and taught her some skills, she might not even have been able to go to college.

The only comfort in this crazy transmigration was probably having a family who loved her.

Lin Qing couldn’t let the love she had just gained disappear. “Sister, I’ve changed my mind. Even if Zhao Huizhou comes back and begs me, I won’t marry him. The Zhao family is not a good family.”

“But we can’t let them break off the engagement just like that.”

Actually, even if it was breaking off the engagement, Lin Yu hesitated for a moment, “Are you sure?”

“Yes.” Lin Qing nodded calmly.

The marriage would be put on hold for now.

It wasn’t her who was in a hurry, it should be Zhao Huizhou and the Zhao family who wanted to climb the social ladder.

She would first take the college entrance exam, stabilize herself, and then watch the Zhao family jump around.

One day, she would let everyone in the village see the ugly face of the Zhao family, who were like wolves.

Lin Qing wanted to take the college entrance exam. The Lin family was neither surprised nor particularly hopeful.

But Lin Qing’s confident attitude was better than her wanting to die.

Lin Yu and Lin Da hua breathed a sigh of relief.

They said insincerely, “Study hard. Maybe our family will have a college graduate.” Well… they were just saying that.

Logically speaking, this kind of Lin Qing was more like someone who had gone to high school.

Lin Da hua and Wang Lanfeng just thought that their daughter had come to her senses. She hadn’t studied in vain. She wasn’t like the girls in the village who would easily die.

The Zhao family didn’t come themselves to break off the engagement. Instead, they sent Lin’s second aunt to the Lin family to make a scene.

It was a bit funny.

If you want to break off the engagement, come yourself. Why send Lin’s second aunt? What’s the meaning?

Let alone the second aunt’s intentions, the Zhao family was really disgusting.

Lin Qing decided to go to the Cui family to talk to the second aunt first.

Her older sister was afraid that she would be taken advantage of, so she wanted to accompany her.

So the two sisters went to the Cui family at noon.

As for how Deng’s family would solve their lunch, Lin Yu thought very simply, before she married into the Deng family, the whole family didn’t starve to death.

Old Mrs. Deng was cooking in the house with a black face, and the second aunt wasn’t doing much better.

“What are you two doing here? Have you decided to break off the engagement?”

The second aunt said this without any guilt. She didn’t have any feelings for her nieces. If Lin Qing had shown some sense at the beginning, she, as an aunt, would have given some compensation.

In the future, when Cuifang became the wife of a cadre, she would be able to help her.

Look at what this stupid girl did, she went on a hunger strike.

Some people in the village who heard about it were pointing at her back and scolding her for being immoral.

Psh.

If the Zhao family had fallen for their daughter, you would see what kind of face they would have.

They would be no different from her.

Lin Erli thought about the stupid things Lin Qing had done these past two days and felt disgusted.

Disgusted? There would probably be many more people who would be disgusted later. Lin Qing didn’t care at all. “We’re not here to do anything. We’re just here to have a meal and ask the second aunt what her intentions are. Are you really convinced that the Zhao family sincerely wants to marry Cuifang?”

Cui Cuifang, who wanted to take advantage of the broken engagement, was also annoyed by Lin Qing these past two days.

They don’t want you anymore, why are you still clinging on?

Is it fun to be like a mangy dog?

“Don’t say useless things. Of course, Mrs. Zhao sincerely wants to marry me.”

She might not be as beautiful as Lin Qing, and she didn’t go to school for many years, but she wasn’t stupid. Did she think she could be provoked with just a few words?

Psh.

Lin Qing really didn’t want to deal with someone like Cui Cuifang.

In the novel, Cui Cuifang didn’t have a good life after being rejected by Zhao Huizhou. In the end, she married an old man who had lost his wife and was more than ten years older than her.

After two years of marriage, she was worn down like a forty-year-old woman.

She even tried to win back Zhao Huizhou.

Zhang Hong, the female lead, just sneered, and her younger sister, Zhao Huiyan, was afraid and stood up to scold Cui Cuifang.

She didn’t leave her any face.

After being humiliated, Cui Cuifang went home and was beaten by her husband.

Her life was a mess.

Seeing the two of them looking so silly, Lin Qing gave her older sister a wink.

She said that as an aunt, she did all these things, shouldn’t her nieces be able to eat a meal at her place?

Lin Yu didn’t put up with it either. She rolled up her sleeves and took a bowl to serve herself rice.

Then the two sisters each had a bowl of sweet potato rice,

They sat down to eat.

The two sisters’ smooth and efficient actions made the second aunt’s face even darker. “It’s not that I, your aunt, am heartless. Since the Zhao family is not satisfied with you, why don’t you just give up the marriage to Cuifang? If she succeeds, she will remember you.”

“Will she?”

Over the years, because Wang Lanfeng couldn’t give birth to a son, the second aunt had come to their house to cause trouble countless times. If Lin Da hua hadn’t been sensible, the four of them would have been bullied to death by the second aunt.

They were still hoping that Cui Cuifang would have a change of heart after she succeeded.

Dream on.

It’s not going to happen.

“Second aunt, did you think about what I said just now?” Lin Qing said as she ate.

The second aunt frowned. If the Zhao family didn’t sincerely want to marry Cuifang, why would they make such a fuss? What were they trying to achieve?

“Don’t I, a person of this age, know if it’s sincere or not?”

PS: This story is set in a parallel world, focusing on melodramatic plots. Please relax your mind and don’t be too critical. Love me a little more, okay?