Chapter 33: Turbulence (1)

And just as An Ji, who was hiding in the shadows, was about to show herself, the person who intended to cause trouble was driven away. Feeling frustrated, she continued to lurk. She hadn’t missed hearing the words of the troublemaker, Lai Pilin.

However, if her Mistress found out that her future husband was molested by Lai Pilin and she even wanted to take action, would she be blamed for neglecting her duty?

No! She must make up for her mistake.

“Xiao Yu’er, are you alright?” Dropping the firewood, Xiao Liang supported him worriedly.

Seeing that Lai Pilin had left, Fang Ziyu, still feeling nauseous, patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, thanking him, “I’m fine, thanks to you, Xiao Liang. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to drive her away by myself.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? It’s only natural. But what if Lai Pilin comes back?” Xiao Liang blamed Fang Ziyu for being too polite and then worried.

Fang Ziyu furrowed his brows, a hint of disgust flashing in his beautiful eyes. He decided that if she dared to come again, he would use the dagger Chen Xin give him.

“If she comes back, we’ll drive her away like this.” Fang Ziyu said.

“Xiao Liang, you’re also frightened. Let’s go inside.”

“Okay.”

But Fang Ziyu and Xiao Liang hadn’t rested for long when there was a commotion outside.

It turned out that on her way home, Lai Pilin became more and more itching to see Fang Ziyu’s beauty. Thinking of her mother’s temperament, she came up with an idea.

Back home, when Lai Pilin’s father saw the red marks on his daughter’s face, he put down what he was doing and hurried to Lai Pilin, asking, “What happened to you? Did you go out with those people to steal things and get caught and beaten? Why are you so careless?”

Lai Pilin immediately cried, “Dad, you don’t know, the new man from the end of the village hit me.”

“What? Why did he hit you?”

“He’s already mine, but he refuses to marry me.” Lai Pilin said somewhat guiltily.

“What?! You… haven’t you heard that his fiance is a young lady from the official family?! Are you trying to kill me?! How did I give birth to such a thing?!” Saying that, he sat on the ground and cried.

“Dad, don’t listen to their nonsense. There’s no fiance. I squatted there for a few days and didn’t see a single woman.” Lai Pilin impatiently looked at his father.

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“Really?” Lai Pilin’s father had only heard hearsay and hadn’t seen Chen Xin. He thought his daughter wouldn’t lie to him.

“Really.” Lai Pilin nodded affirmatively.

“Okay, let’s go and settle the score with that little rascal. How dare he hit my daughter? It’s his blessing to marry our family.” He said resentfully, but his expression immediately cleared up, and he got up, pulled Lai Pilin, and went out, shouting for people to come to reason along the way.

Lai Pilin revealed a smug smile of success. How dare that bitch hit me? I’ll ruin his reputation and let everyone know that he belongs to me, Lai Pilin. Let’s see how proud you are.

But neither Lai Pilin nor his father knew that this was absolutely ^[2]“poking a hornet’s nest” means causing a lot of trouble or provoking a very dangerous and uncontrollable situation.poking a hornet’s nest, a suicidal act.

As they walked on the village road, Lai Pilin’s father shouted loudly with his sharp voice, “Let’s come and reason with us. My daughter was beaten like this by others.”

But the villagers ignored them, silently mocking them, thinking, Who doesn’t know what kind of person your daughter is? She deserves to be beaten for being lazy and doing bad things. But before they could finish listing the “crimes” of the father and daughter, a sentence from Lai Pilin’s father almost made them choke with anger.

“It’s all because of that fox from the end village. He’s already belong to my daughter, yet he dared to hit her. Just wait, when he marries over, I’ll make sure he’ll become a concubine.”

The villagers immediately exploded with anger, questioning and cursing the father and daughter. One villager shouted loudly, “Don’t talk nonsense. Miss Chen is the fiance of the young master. Lai Pilin must be lying.”

“That’s right, Laipi, don’t ruin the young master’s reputation.”

“It’s you again, you rat shit. Lai Pilin, get out of Linjia Village.”

“Get out.”

“Get out.”

Lai Pilin’s father and daughter didn’t expect to be so disliked. Although they had a bit of an idea in their hearts, they only had an intuitive feeling at this moment. It turned out that they were so unpopular in the village.

“Lai Pilin, how dare you to say this is true?” A stern voice rang out behind everyone.

Everyone turned around, only to see that even the village chief had come out, especially when the villagers heard the village chief’s question, they were all confused and puzzled.

Only the village chief herself knew that her hands were shaking, because she was the only one in the village who knew that Chen Xin was going to leave for a few days and had asked her to take care of Master Fang.

But the words of Laipi made her feel like her heart was in her throat. If it was a lie, it was okay, but if it was true, the village chief felt that she would definitely be held accountable and would not have a good ending.

Under her management, such a thing happened, and the premise was that Miss Chen had vowed to her that there would be no problem when she asked her to take care of Master Fang. She didn’t expect that such a thing would happen under her nose in just a few days!