Eat My Childless Life: The Little Fisher Girl is Poor and Fierce

Chapter 4: Taking the Green Tea's Path, Leaving the Green Tea with Nowhere to Go

"Li, Village Chief, what brings you here?"

While Lin Chang'er was still searching her mind for the identity of the person who had come, Lin Houde had already gone up to greet him with a smile.

Lin Chang'er then remembered that the middle-aged man who came in with Gu Jingzhe was Zhou Hai, the village head of Linshui Village. Several strong men from the Zhou family came with them, along with some villagers who had come to watch the excitement.

However, in the original owner's memory, the Gu family were outsiders who were timid and low-key, and had almost no presence in Linshui Village, and had no relationship with the Zhou family.

It was quite unexpected that Gu Jingzhe, this little kid, could invite him here.

Lin Chang'er's eyes darted around. Taking them to the yamen would indeed teach them a lesson, but it wouldn't put them in jail for life.

She had already arrived in this godforsaken place, and even though she was extremely unwilling, she had no choice but to accept reality.

As the saying goes, it's not the thief you should fear, but the one who has his eye on you. Since they'll be seeing each other all the time, it'll be easy for that bastard Lin Houde to find something to annoy her.

Furthermore, when it comes to favors, it's fine once or twice, but if it happens too often, it becomes tiresome.

If everyone has to ask Magistrate Wu to make decisions, how can he achieve any political achievements?

Moreover, to be fair, she and Magistrate Wu did not have any real personal relationship.

But if Zhou Hai were to stand up for their family today, things would be different.

Zhou is the largest surname in Linshui Village. The clan has a good tradition and its members are very united. Zhou Hai himself is fair and just and always keeps his word.

Therefore, the youngest village head in the village's recorded history was highly respected in Linshui Village, which Lin Houde was still quite wary of.

As she was thinking this, Zhou Hai, having already avoided Lin Houde's smiling face, said coldly, "What's going on here?"

“This isn’t…” Lin Houde replied with a chuckle.

Lin Chang'er interrupted, stammering, "Uncle Village Head, our family's trivial matters shouldn't have troubled you to come all this way. It's just that the Lin family is going too far, coming to our door under the guise of standing up for me to steal Sanlang's pension."

As you know, I was stripped of my family line and have no descendants. I severed all ties with the Lin family long ago.

"Two taels of silver in compensation saved Sanlang's life. Our family was already struggling; now that we've lost our biggest source of income, how are we supposed to survive if we give that compensation to them?"

As Lin Chang'er spoke, she started to cry. She didn't wail loudly, but silently shed tears with red eyes.

Given her slender build and head injury, she looked pitiful as she swayed precariously in the wind.

Before she transmigrated, she was a businesswoman. What kind of people hadn't she seen in the mall? What kind of situations hadn't she experienced?

Reading between the lines is a basic skill.

This scene caused the women of the Gu family to sob softly, and even the old people and children watching the commotion at the gate had tears in their eyes. The burly men couldn't bear to watch either.

Before Lin Houde could even offer a defense, they began to accuse him.

"They drove their niece to the brink of suicide before, and now they're eyeing the man's compensation money. How can they be such heartless uncles and aunts?"

"Bah! The Lin family is so unethical. Aren't they afraid that Scholar Lin will come back in the middle of the night to settle scores with them?"

"This is really making life unbearable! Instead of calling him Lin Houde, he should be called Lin Quede."

The farmers were honest and straightforward, and they didn't hold back in their conversations, so the Lin family members who were still there heard everything clearly.

Being pointed at and scolded like that, everyone felt ashamed. Several of the relatives raised their hands to cover their faces, as if that would prevent others from recognizing them.

Lin Houde never expected that the Gu family's brat would invite Zhou Hai. He felt embarrassed and covered his face with his sleeve. He then nudged Yang Cuihua beside him with his elbow, signaling her to think of a solution.

Yang Cuihua, thick-skinned, glanced around and then pointed at Lin Chang'er, saying loudly, "You are turning black into white. If we hadn't heard that you caused the deaths of the Gu family, would we have made this trip?"

You heartless bastard! Who were we all working for? In the end, you turn around and slander us!

As she spoke, she sat down on the ground and cried loudly, "Big brother, you can see everything from heaven... It's not that we don't care about Chang'er, it's that she doesn't want us to care. It's hard to be a good person..."

Yang Cuihua's outburst prompted Lin Houde and Lin Dashan to immediately chime in, one calling her "elder brother" and the other "uncle."

The scene was noisy, and the villagers who had originally spoken up for Lin Chang'er fell silent, causing Lin Chang'er to frown.

Lin Chang'er cursed "old green tea" and then cried out, "Father, your daughter is useless! Not only did I fail to protect any of the property you left behind, but I also failed to protect any of it."

She was almost sold to a wealthy man as a concubine. Luckily, my daughter survived; otherwise, she would have died today and been sold again.

Father, if you truly have a spirit in heaven, please take your daughter with you! Father…

Her heart-wrenching cries immediately drowned out Yang Cuihua's commotion.

Immediately, Zhou Hai roared, "Lin Houde, if you don't explain things clearly today, I'll invite the elders of your Lin family to the ancestral hall to discuss this."

Lin Houde was startled by the shout. He certainly couldn't say anything about selling someone to a dead man as a wife, so he stammered, "Well, well..."

The onlookers, however, were very curious and urged, "What is it?"

Just then, a child's voice rang out in the air, "They say that a wealthy man's son is dying and needs to find someone to marry him..."

Since my mother is gone, I can not only make my grandmother pay me back.

"If I sell my mother, what else can I make a profit from..."

The one who spoke was Gu Jingzhe, who had asked Zhou Hai to uphold justice. After he finished speaking, Gu Bailu ran up to Zhou Hai and choked out, "Village...Village Head Grandpa, Dad...Dad said he wants...he wants me and my brother to protect Mother."

Please, please, please help us! Don't, don't let them sell our mother!

The little girl's small shoulders trembled, and she could barely speak. She looked even more pitiful than the frail Lin Chang'er.

This made the villagers who were watching even angrier, and after the two children said that, there was nothing that the people at the scene didn't understand.

The Lin family wasn't there to stand up for Lin Chang'er; they were clearly there to extort money and make a quick buck, taking advantage of her and leaving her with nothing. They were utterly shameless.

Seeing that their scheme had been exposed, Lin Houde and his family naturally refused to admit it.

Lin Dashan immediately pointed at Gu Jingzhe and said fiercely, "You little brat, what nonsense are you spouting?"

Gu Jingzhe stood up straight, his small frame ramrod straight. "I'm not making this up. I heard it with my own ears."

"Hey, you little bastard, you dare to talk back..."

Lin Dashan rolled up his sleeves and was about to grab him when he was stopped by two members of the Zhou family.

Zhou Hai was furious and shouted, "Jingzhe is only a few years old. He can only repeat what the adults say. Do you think he made up all these rumors to slander you?"

Seeing this, Lin Chang'er collapsed to the ground and cried out, "Sanlang, how could you leave all by yourself! How are we, a widow and her children, supposed to live! Sanlang..."

Her crying aroused both sympathy and anger among the villagers, who couldn't help but hurl insults at her.

"Pah! They'll do anything for money, aren't they afraid of losing face and having a child born without an anus?"

"They have no shame at all, always bullying their niece. Why doesn't God strike them down?"

"Everyone has seen what kind of people the Lin family are. Don't push your daughter into a fire pit. They live like slaves and even after they die, they can still make money for them. It's such a tragedy!"