Chapter 4: The stepmother is too strange
Ling Xin didn't expect that the people in the jewelry shop would get out of trouble so quickly.
She could only walk into the nearest alley.
Not long after, she appeared outside the gold and silver jewelry shop.
She is a vindictive person.
The door of the jewelry shop was open, and the waiter was leaning against the counter, grimly examining his kicked abdomen.
The next second, he felt a pain in his neck and passed out.
Ling Xin closed the door.
Started to collect the gold and silver jewelry in the counter.
Originally wanted to sell a bracelet, but didn't expect such a good thing to happen? I made a fortune! I made a fortune!
That's almost enough of the entanglement along the way.
She also took away the cabinet that had previously stored the silver, there was still more than 170 taels of silver left in it.
There was still some grain in the backyard, but not much, so she took it all away.
She also found a newly made long gown in the shopkeeper's room, changed into men's clothes, and successfully left the city gate.
The shopkeeper who returned to the store after his fruitless search was so angry that he fainted when he saw the counter had been looted.
When they were approaching Linjia Village, Ling Xin looked the same as when she left the village, except that she had an extra cart.
There were some things piled on it, covered with oil paper.
From a distance, she saw a figure flashing in front of the dilapidated gate of her house.
A bad premonition rose in her heart.
There is nothing worth remembering in this empty house.
Then... remembering people!
She heard the sound of children crying from a distance.
"Why don't you take them away quickly?" Li Cuilan said sarcastically and proudly: "Five taels of silver for seven children, you've made a fortune!"
"All of them combined don't even have as much meat as a sheep. That's why I've agreed to it, otherwise I wouldn't have taken them!" The matchmaker said this, but she was already very happy in her heart.
Although these children are a little thin, they are all very good-looking.
Boys can be sold for a good price, and girls can be sent to Kyoto City to be raised. When they grow up, they can be sold to the fireworks industry, which can definitely bring in a considerable amount of money.
"We have already received the silver, and the person is yours. I will not return it!" Mother-in-law He Yuhua was afraid that the child would cry loudly, and the matchmaker regretted it, so she pushed the silver deeper into her arms.
For the sake of this family's burden, she paid two taels of silver to buy her daughter-in-law.
It was time to start fleeing from famine, and she had to sell the younger one to earn some silver.
Lin Dabao kicked and beat hard with his hands and feet, trying to break free from the restraints and save his younger brothers and sisters.
But he was so small, it was obviously in vain.
There was an extremely deep hatred in his eyes, and he wished he could engrave this group of people deeply into his mind.
In his anger and despair, a cold voice came along with a creaking sound: "Let's see who dares to touch them today?"
These light and cold word made the men holding the children feel a chill, and their hands naturally loosened a little.
Lin Dabao was the first to break free from the restraints, and immediately rushed over to rescue his brothers and sisters.
"Who are you?" The matchmaker was in her early forties, her face full of calculation and disdain.
Not to mention in Linjia Village, she has some influence even in the town. Would she be afraid of a little village woman?
"The children's mother!" Ling Xin said as she took a few steps forward, grabbed Lin Qibao and kicked the man away.
Then she comforted Qibao who was crying almost to death.
Feeling her care, Qibao's voice gradually became calmer.
"Don't worry about her, she is their stepmother and she has no say. I am their grandmother and I decide who to sell!" He Yuhua shouted angrily, fearing that her money would be wasted.
Ling Xin didn't say much, and pulled out a half-meter-long machete from the cart: "I count to three, get out of my house!"
"How dare you really chop?"
Ling Xin held the baby in one hand and the machete in the other, with an indescribable momentum, she shouted directly: "Three!"
The matchmaker: "..." Damn, you have no martial ethics. Where are the one and two?
Ling Xin swung the machete and scaring everyone away.
The matchmaker saw that this guy was really a tough guy.
She quickly changed her mind, ran out and grabbed Li Cuilan: "I've handed over the money to you, and I'll ask you for the person too!"
Li Cuilan panicked and glanced at her mother-in-law: "Mom..."
She was a bully, and she was afraid of these people.
He Yuhua was anxious: "I don't have any money!" Anyway, the money in her pocket would never come out.
"Mom, what should I do?" Li Cuilan's eldest daughter Lin Meilan pulled her mother's clothes, her face turning pale with fear.
The matchmaker's eyes immediately fell on her face.
Although she was not as pretty as those little kids, she was of good age, so she saved a few years of food to raise her.
Li Cuilan saw the matchmaker looking at her daughter and got anxious: "Mother, I did everything according to your instructions, you can't just ignore me!"
He Yuhua was indifferent: "It's a waste of food to keep the lost money at home."
"Grandma..."
"Mother..."
But He Yuhua didn't feel any guilt: "Take her away and we'll be even!"
"What are you thinking?" The matchmaker laughed angrily: "We agreed to give seven for five taels of silver, you want to get rid of me with just one?"
She winked at the four thugs, her face trembling: "Search for me, if you can't find any money, break their legs. This little girl is our reward for our hard work!"
Lin Meilan was so scared that she begged: "Please don't arrest me, you take Erya away, she is prettier than me, she will definitely sell more... and her..."
She pointed at Ling Xin and continued to cry: "After she got married, my third uncle became paralyzed. and they never had sex..."
Ling Xin held the baby in one hand, and the hand holding the knife turned slightly.
The matchmaker glanced at Ling Xin through the low wall and immediately gave up the idea.
Not only is she ugly, she's also wild!
"Stop talking nonsense, take her away!"
Li Cuilan saw her daughter being carried up, she quickly stepped forward to stop them: "You can't do this, Meilan is getting married soon, and we can still get two taels of silver as a betrothal gift."
The matchmaker didn't care about that, and ordered her men to forcefully seize five taels of silver from He Yuhua and took the crying Lin Meilan away.
He Yuhua sat paralyzed on the ground, feeling sorry for the five taels of silver she had earned: "Damn it, that was my life-saving money... You all will die a miserable death, oh my God, is there any justice in this world..."
Li Cuilan was kicked several times by the gangsters and didn't dare to chase after them. In the end, she turned all her anger to Ling Xin: "Do you still have a conscience? You just watch Meilan being taken away? She is your niece, she is only fifteen years old... You are so cruel!"
"You'll suffer the consequences if you do evil!" Ling Xin did not want to bother with these top-notch people, nor did she want to waste her words with them. so she took the babies into the house.
Several kids entered the house and stood in a row in front of the window, looking at Ling Xin with curiosity and disbelief.
The stepmother was too strange, so strange that she seemed like a different person.
Ling Xin: "..." Isn't it just a different person?
"Mom..." With tears still in her eyes, Lin Liuya stumbled towards Ling Xin unsteadily.
She liked her current mother!
Ling Xin gently touched her head: "Be good..."
She was holding Qibao in her arms, otherwise she wanted to pick up this adorable girl and give her a few kisses.
Sanbao pulled Sibao: "Evil... Did stepmother just touch Sixth Sister's head just now?" Did he see it wrong?
Sibao's long eyelashes flickered, and he was also surprised and nodded.
Wuya looked at Liuya with envy, she hesitated and dared not move forward.
Ling Xin was not a very careful person, and didn't notice Wuya's hesitation.
She put Qibao on the bed: "Go wash your hands and get ready for dinner!"
The eyes of the six cute babies fell on her again.
Did they hear it right? The stepmother said to prepare dinner?