Chapter 18

Lin Qing wants to apologize to Mrs. Zhao in front of everyone. Does it mean that the marriage between the two families is not cancelled?

Otherwise, why would she apologize?

When almost everyone in the village gathered under the stage, Lin Qing, the main character, arrived.

Mrs. Zhao held her head high, looking triumphant.

She was very arrogant.

“That little girl dared to throw urine at me. Just wait and see how I deal with you!”

Lin Qing looked at Mrs. Zhao coldly. “You can just dream about it.”

She stood straight on the stage, looking calmly at the villagers. “Everyone, you should know that the Zhao family wants to break off the engagement with us.”

“I invited all of you elders here today to judge for yourselves and hear how the Zhao family bullied our Lin family.”

Villagers: “Okay, okay. Tell us slowly. We will judge fairly.”

Mrs. Zhao’s eyebrows jumped. What did she mean?

Lin Qing looked at the uncles and aunts in the audience with clear eyes.

“Uncles and aunts, please listen to my explanation of how Zhao Huizhou and I got engaged. I wasn’t familiar with Zhao Huizhou at all. I only played with Zhao Huoyan, not him.”

“When the Zhao family came to propose marriage, my father and mother both disagreed. It was the Zhao family who spread rumors throughout the village, saying that the Zhao family and the Lin family were going to get engaged.”

“Later, Zhao Huizhou knelt in my family’s courtyard, begging my parents to agree to the marriage. He also shouted that he would definitely treat me well. This made everyone in the village think that we had something going on.”

“At that time, even if I said we didn’t have anything, no one would believe me. Even my father and mother thought we had something.”

“Uncles and aunts, I couldn’t explain myself. In the end, I could only get engaged to Zhao Huizhou.”

The scene was silent.

The uncles were confused.

The aunts were turning around too fast, so they couldn’t stop.

If this is the case, the Zhao family is quite sinister.

This is equivalent to forcing Lin San’ya into a marriage using tricks.

The aunts standing in front of Mrs. Zhao had changed their expressions.

They quietly moved a few steps away.

What’s going on? Just because she played with their child, she was targeted?

If they stand close, will they also be targeted?

Although there’s nothing to be targeted for…

But what if?

Mrs. Zhao’s face turned black and red. “You’re talking nonsense! It was clearly you who begged our Zhao family to get engaged. If Huizhou hadn’t insisted on marrying you, I wouldn’t have even stepped foot in your house.”

“I begged you? Who was it who spread rumors throughout the village saying that the Zhao family and the Lin family were going to get engaged? And who was it who knelt in my house and wouldn’t leave, no matter how much we chased them away? Mrs. Zhao, are you saying that everyone is a fool?”

The aunts said: “Yes, we are not fools. We still remember Zhao Huizhou kneeling at Old Lin’s house, crying and begging Lin Dahua to agree to the marriage.

By the way, it was you, old woman, who spread rumors throughout the village saying that your family and the Lin family were getting engaged.

At that time, you didn’t show any reluctance at all.”

Mrs. Zhao’s lips twitched, and she wanted to retort. But Lin Qing didn’t bother with her. “Whether it was your Zhao family using tricks or our Lin family begging you, it doesn’t matter.”

Mrs. Zhao’s face trembled: “It doesn’t matter?

It doesn’t matter what you say!”

“What matters is that Zhao Huizhou begged for this marriage on his knees. Mrs. Zhao, even if you want to break off the engagement, you should let Zhao Huizhou come to me, kneel down properly, and tell me that he wants to break off the engagement.” Lin Qing said in a resounding voice.

Lin Qing’s words echoed throughout the village.

There was a power that moved people’s hearts.

Many people were thinking, yes, if you want to break off the engagement, Zhao Huizhou should come back and beg the Lin family to break it off.

How you schemed then, you should make up for it now.

Some people couldn’t stand it anymore and started to mock Mrs. Zhao. “Your Huizhou likes Lin Qing, but you want to force him to marry Cui Cuifang. What can your Huizhou do when he comes back?”

He can’t do anything. If you break off the engagement, what will the girl from Old Cui’s family do?

If he does something, Zhao Huizhou is a real jerk. He tricked the girl into marrying him, and she waited for your son all these years. She’s already twenty years old, and you just say you don’t want her anymore?

Once things are brought to the surface, they are like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger.

Everyone now looks down on the Zhao family.

What about the apology they promised? Mrs. Zhao’s head was a little confused. She stared at Lin Qing fiercely. “You want Huizhou to kneel down and beg you to break off the engagement? You’re dreaming!”

“Then I won’t break off the engagement.” Lin Qing turned to the villagers and said, “I’ve wasted your time, elders. I was forced by the Zhao family. I believe you elders know the truth. Today, this farce ends here.”

It’s a loss to argue with unreasonable people.

She had said what she wanted to say. If she continued to argue with Mrs. Zhao, the villagers would only be confused.

Today, Mrs. Zhao was completely dumbfounded. She couldn’t think of any rebuttal, which actually confirmed what Lin Qing said. If the villagers thought about what happened back then, they would basically believe Lin Qing.

Her goal was achieved.

Lin Qing bowed to the villagers sincerely, tears welling up in her eyes as she covered her face and left.

This garlic juice is really spicy.

The aunts: “Look how wronged the child is.”

Mrs. Zhao: …

So…where’s the apology?

That night, every household talked about how the Lin family was wronged by the Zhao family before going to bed.

Everyone felt sorry for Lin Qing.

Mrs. Zhao was furious. She went home and pointed at Zhao Huoyan’s nose and cursed, “It’s all your bad idea! You made me look like a fool.”

Zhao Huoyan cried in grievance.

She was talking about using the money from the medicinal herbs, not asking Lin Qing to apologize.

How could she be blamed for this?

It’s true that daughters are like weeds, while sons are like treasures.

Zhao Huoyan felt like a poor little thing, crying her heart out.

Old Zhao sat on the bed, annoyed and shouted, “Stop arguing! It’s even harder to break off Huizhou’s marriage now.”

Mrs. Zhao clutched her chest, feeling like she was about to suffocate.

Lin Dahua and Wang Lanfeng finally got a good night’s sleep.

Big Sister was also too excited to sleep. She whispered to her husband, “You know, those who go to school are really smart. We’ve been arguing with Mrs. Zhao every day, but we couldn’t make it clear. We only made ourselves look worse. But those who go to school are different.”

As for how they are different, she couldn’t say.

They are just smart.

“In the future, our Yangyang and Tiantian will also go to school. If they want to go to high school, we will sell blood to support them.”

Deng Sheng yawned. “Okay, I’ll listen to you. If we don’t have money, I’ll go sell blood. Go to sleep, my wife. We have to go to work tomorrow.”

The Cui family.

Second Aunt Lin, another day of heart attacks.

No, a little girl can even subdue Mrs. Zhao. How can she be worse than a junior?