"Who is here? It's late at night and we can't sleep!" Lin Pingmao's eldest daughter-in-law Chen Zhi opened the door cursing while wearing her outer clothes.

When he opened the door and saw that it was Lin Changxi, he couldn't help but frown and said, "Changxi, why are you here at this time? Oh, Rui'er is back!"

The kinship in Linjia Village is almost within the five generations. Lin Changxi's father, Lin Rui's grandfather, was named Lin Ping'an. He was a brother of the village head Lin Pingmao. Lin Pingmao was two years older than Lin Ping'an, but Lin Ping'an died before him.

Lin Changxi calls Lin Pingmao "uncle" and Lin Rui calls him "great grandfather".

"Auntie!" Lin Rui greeted her as a greeting.

Chen Zhi nodded reluctantly. She had never liked this nephew. He was ambitious and had high expectations. He drank and gambled and owed a lot of debts, emptying out the whole family!

He still has the nerve to ask Zhenniang for money to do that stupid business, without even considering whether he is cut out for it!

"Sister-in-law, I'm really sorry to bother you so late. We came to see the village head uncle because we really have something!" Lin Changxi had a pleading look on his face, his heart in turmoil. Even at this time, he still couldn't make a decision and just wanted to hear his uncle's opinion.

Chen Zhi looked at Lin Changxi's anxious expression and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Lin Changxi nodded repeatedly.

Chen Zhi was worried and asked again, "You're not borrowing money, are you?"

Lin Rui touched his nose awkwardly. He knew that his father had come to the village head uncle to borrow money several times for his disappointing son, and had often been looked down upon by this aunt.

Lin Changxi was also embarrassed and waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no."

Chen Zhi then knocked on his father-in-law's door: "Dad, Changxi and Rui'er are here to see you!"

"I'll be right there." An old voice sounded, and then candles were lit in the room.

"You guys go and talk to it. I'll go back to the house first. If I don't sleep so late at night, I have to go to the fields to work early tomorrow morning!" Aunt Chen Zhi muttered as she walked into the house.

After a while, Lin Changxi finally saw Lin Pingmao. As if he had seen a savior, he asked Lin Rui to tell the village head uncle in detail about what he had seen and heard along the way.

Lin Pingmao didn't take it seriously at first, but the more he listened, the more serious his expression became: "Rui'er, is everything you said true?"

Lin Rui nodded. "Grandpa, the rice and flour grains in Longting Town are already rationed. If anything goes wrong, the grain store owners will immediately seize the grain and stop selling it, and the people in the entire town will go hungry. When people are hungry, they will do anything. Now that this sign has appeared, we must prepare early. The outside world is too chaotic, and Linjing may not be able to be saved."

Lin Changxi also agreed: "Yes, uncle, in order to inform you of this situation, my Rui'er didn't even do business in town, and drove the ox cart back!"

Lin Pingmao glanced at Lin Rui with his eyelids lowered. "Business? Oxcart?"

Lin Changxi's face was filled with pride for his son. "Yes, Rui'er made some money from this business, and he exchanged it for an ox cart to take us away from Linjia Village."

This time, Lin Pingmao really looked at Lin Rui seriously. Lin Changxi might not know what his beloved son was doing in the town, but he knew it all. He was a man of all trades, such as eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. How could he not believe that he would become a good person one day?

Lin Pingmao looked at the father and son and said, "Let me think about it."

Lin Changxi wanted to say something, but Lin Rui tugged at his sleeve and said, "Dad, uncle has to be responsible for so many fellow villagers, so he must be very considerate."

The original owner was unreliable to begin with, so earning their trust was incredibly difficult. He'd originally thought that if his fellow villagers banded together, their safety would be greatly increased, but the original owner's unreliability meant that if pushed too hard, even this route might not work.

"Dad, you go to the mountainside to find my eldest sister, and I'll go to Xufu Village to find my second sister. We must meet at home before dawn."

The original owner's eldest sister married a hunter from outside the village. She had no land in Linjia Village and could only rely on hunting in the mountains to make a living. Her life was very hard.

The second sister married a family surnamed Jiang in Xufu Village next to Linjia Village. The two villages were very close, less than 800 meters away in a straight line. Lin Rui ran and reached his second sister's in-laws' home in just three or five minutes.

Following the original owner's memory, I walked to the yard of my second sister's house. It was brightly lit in the middle of the night. I saw a lot of people watching, and I could hear a woman crying in the yard.

"Jiang Chengcai, you and your cousin have been having an affair for a long time, and you're so anxious to get me home, aren't you just trying to save a spot for her?"

"We've been together for so many years, and yet you're so heartless!"

"Alright, Lin Zaozao! You still have the nerve to blame my son. Don't you think about how many years you've been married and how you're finally pregnant? And what a shame it's a girl. You've been eating and drinking for free at my Jiang family for so many years, and I still haven't settled the score with you!"

The old woman with triangular eyes was mean and cunning. She kept pushing and shoving the pregnant Lin Zaozao with saliva flying everywhere. The old woman was used to doing physical work for many years and had a lot of strength. She had bad intentions and just wanted to push Lin Zaozao to cause a miscarriage, so as to save trouble for her son and niece.

Lin Zao Zao was pushed and staggered. He took two steps back and was about to fall to the ground, but was held up by a pair of strong hands.

Jiang Chengcai looked at Lin Rui behind his wife and his expression changed slightly. Then he said as a matter of course: "Lin Rui, you came at the right time. Take your sister back quickly. Our Jiang family can't afford such a jealous woman!"

Lin Zao Zao turned around and saw that it was her brother who came. She was suddenly filled with sadness. She guessed that he came to ask her for money to buy wine again, and he was not here to support her at all!

"Sister, are you okay?" Lin Rui helped Lin Zao Zao stand carefully, looked at Jiang Chengcai and asked, "How is my sister jealous?"

"She can't even tolerate one of my concubines, how can she not be jealous!" Jiang Chengcai originally cherished the years of love between the two of them and was ready to give his cousin the status of a co-wife, but his mother said that his cousin's belly was round and it was very likely that she was pregnant with a son. When he grew up and was married, he would say that the son was born by a concubine, and no good girl would be willing to marry him.

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