Lin Minjun looked at Erwa's uncle again, "Well, I was right, wasn't I? You tricked Erwa away, locked him up, and let this man watch him. If you really want to talk about it, you are kidnapping."

"But...but it wasn't my son who suggested kidnapping. My son just failed to help watch over her for a while." The old lady's face was flushed with shame, and now her temperature was dropping little by little, and she was trembling as she spoke.

"Tell this to the police and the police station. Also, the ones who came here pretending to be paralyzed to scare the child and extorting money, it must be you and your son, right?" Lin Minjun asked again.

The old lady was speechless after being asked this question. She no longer had the arrogance and pride she had just now.

She was originally taking care of her son at home. She heard from Boss Yan that the child who beat her son was from a wealthy family. She came to ask for money excitedly. Who would have thought that they would have to go to the police station? She had never heard of blackmail or extortion before.

But if you really talk about this, even in the countryside people will spit on you because it is considered bullying other people's children and orphans!

The old lady knew that her family was not in the right, and she was immediately frightened and looked up at the sky, "Son, I suddenly remembered that it seems to be snowing today, and it seems that the cabbages in our field have not been harvested yet."

After all, mother and son are connected by heart. The boy who was pretending to be paralyzed just now immediately understood what his mother meant. "It's so cold, why don't we hurry back? If we don't harvest them now, they will just rot in the field."

"That makes sense. Let's go back quickly."

Having said that, the mother and son did not linger any longer, but walked away quickly, supporting each other.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that they were guilty and just made up an excuse to collect cabbages and ran away.

Lin Minjun did not chase after them either, because the one in trouble was not the mother and son, they were just pawns of others, and the one in trouble was the person who ordered them to come here.

Lin Minjun looked at Erwa's uncle, Yan Lao Da, and asked, "Why aren't you leaving yet?"

When the uncle saw his fellow villager leaving, he quickly chased after them and called for help. After he called out several times, the mother and son ran away as if they were hit by a dog, and no one could catch up with them. He had no choice but to go back to the corridor and stamp his feet in anger.

Hearing Lin Minjun urging him to leave, the uncle glanced at her with some frustration, and suddenly sat down on the side, "This is my brother's home, my nephew's home, why should I leave?"

Lin Minjun stared at him.

The man was obviously frightened, but he refused to leave. Sometimes he looked around and cleared his throat vigorously, as if he was waiting for someone.

The stalemate lasted for a while, and then someone came out from the second courtyard. Lin Minjun looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was Mr. Cao and his wife, walking out one after the other.

When they got here, Grandpa Cao stopped, looked over here, and suddenly said, "I just heard it in the house. Uncle, are you worried about Erwa? After all, he is only a little over ten years old?"

Yan Lao Da seemed to be enlightened at once. He nodded immediately and wanted to come up and talk to Er Wa, but Er Wa avoided him. He said angrily, "My child, you misunderstood. I don't want your things. We are relatives. How can I care about your things? I am afraid that you are not safe holding them in my hands, so I want to take you to take care of you. We country people are not good at speaking. Did I scare you? Don't think too much."

When he said this, Aunt Xu came out from behind the curtain and said, "Uncle, you weren't worried about the child's safety in the past few years. Now society is peaceful and people's background is not important anymore. You remembered it now? And Uncle Cao, you were able to hear it at home even from such a distance. You have a very sharp ear."

In the past, the eldest master would have lost his temper and left, but not today. He took a deep breath and endured it. "My daughter Xiuhua's family lives in the village next to theirs. I know a little bit about the situation. I know his uncle is not a bad person."

"I was foolish before and let my son get used to that and cause such a big disaster. I feel sorry for Erwa. So, I also think it would be great if Erwa could have someone to take care of him." Grandpa Cao said confidently, "No matter what, this child must be raised by relatives. There is a new word in society now, what is it called, custody rights? It's the issue of custody rights."

"I don't need anyone else to support me. I just need to follow my sister." said Erwa.

"Erwa, you call her sister all the time. Is Lin Minjun your biological sister?" Master Cao walked over with his hands behind his back, looking as if he wanted to prove it to the truth, and asked back.

Erwa stared at him, breathing heavily.

Of course, Master Cao would not take the hatred of a child seriously. He smiled and said, "Since she is not your biological daughter, she is a girl and will get married sooner or later. When she marries someone else, she will not have time to visit you. What will you do then? You might as well take this opportunity to go home with your uncle. There are your relatives in your hometown. What can they do to you?"

Lin Minjun: "Master Cao, I never said I wanted to get married, right?"

"When a girl grows up, she will definitely get married."

Lin Minjun: "I won't get married."

She wanted to have a baby after getting married, but she was born infertile. If she had to start over again, she would get married again and accept the urging of her mother-in-law and other aunts and uncles to have a baby. Is she crazy?

Aunt Xu looked at him for a long time. Because she had just come back and didn't understand the situation, she didn't say anything. Now she hurriedly said, "Xiao Lin, don't say angry words. You are not married, so are you going to be so careless?"

For a moment, the eldest master also wanted to speak, and Aunt Xu also wanted to speak, and the scene became a little chaotic.

Erwa's uncle looked around and realized that the little girl surnamed Lin was trying to snatch Erwa, the golden child with a courtyard house, from him. So he became particularly anxious and shouted, "What sister or no sister? My brother only has two sons, no concubines!"

He waved his hands and patted his chest, "I am Erwa's relative, how could I do this, how could I snatch the child away."

Grandpa Cao looked at the sky, turned around and said, "Uncle, it's getting late. You can't go back today. Why don't you find a place to stay and think about what to do."

Erwa's uncle yawned and saw that it was getting dark. He looked around and saw no empty rooms. He went out muttering to himself, saying that he was going out to find a guesthouse to stay in.

Judging from his attitude, he intends to fight a protracted war.

Here, Lin Minjun and Erwa also had to return to the back house. When they said goodbye at the door, Erwa suddenly asked, "Sister, can I really only give my custody rights to him?"

"I don't know about that either." Lin Minjun said after careful consideration. "But legally, you and I have no relationship."

Seeing Erwa curl his lips, she quickly added, "But let's go to the street office together tomorrow to ask. Anyway, I won't abandon you."

"Go home quickly, don't let your imagination run wild, go home and sleep first, we'll go find out tomorrow morning."

They said it would be early tomorrow morning, but the next day, the one who got up earlier than Lin Minjun was Erwa's uncle.

He came before dawn and saw that no one was awake yet. He asked a neighbor in the yard to tell everyone that he was going out to have breakfast and would pass on the message when Erwa woke up.

"Erwa's uncle told me to tell you that either Erwa goes back to the countryside with him, or they move here as a family. Xiaolin, you can vacate the house and let them live here so that they can focus on taking care of Erwa."

The messenger was an old lady, who frowned after she finished speaking: "This is such an ugly way of eating. Why didn't he just tell us to move out and give the yard to his family? He has ignored us for so many years, but now he rushes in just because he knows Er Wa has money. I have never seen such a shameless person. Judging from his uncle's appearance, he doesn't look like such a shrewd person."

The aunt who passed the message left mumbling. Lin Minjun sat in her room and waited until everyone left before she smiled sarcastically, "Your uncle couldn't come up with such an idea. Did you see that? It was Master Cao who came up with the idea behind the scenes. He was blackmailing and fighting for custody. He really tried his best to get me out."

Master Cao is a really interesting person. He treats himself like this because of his own son Cao Bin and the loss of his position as Master. But these things are ultimately their own problems. Instead of looking for the problems in themselves, they just treat others hard.

The more Lin Minjun thought about it, the more ridiculous it seemed. She couldn't think of any good solution for a moment, so she poured herself a cup of tea and drank it slowly.

Erwa was very anxious at first, but when he saw his sister so worried about her own problem, he suddenly calmed down.

"Sister, do you think there is any other way to deal with this? Do I have to go with them?" he asked.

Lin Minjun: "Not necessarily. It's not like there's no hope for the situation. We'll go to the street office and ask."

She suddenly noticed Erwa's eyes. The little boy was lying on the table, staring at the water in the cup, without saying a word.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Erwa was stunned for a moment, then suddenly forced a smile that was uglier than crying, "I just think that I shouldn't drag you down because of this matter. You see, because of me, you can't do your business today. It was because of me that you quarreled with Cao Daye's family before. We have no blood relationship, so what is the basis for it?"

Lin Minjun was speechless for a moment. She stared at Erwa and felt that this kid was mature at one moment and childish at the next. But at this moment, there was a feeling that she couldn't understand Erwa.

Erwa continued, "Sister, I will talk to the street office later and refund your rent. You can find another place to live and continue to set up your stall and live your own life. But you will always be my sister. When I don't need anyone to support me anymore, if you are willing to recognize me, I will come to find you again."

"What about you? What do you do now?"

"Me?" Erwa's raised mouth corners slowly flattened, his eyes calm, "As long as I'm here, Master Cao will dislike me. The worst that can happen is that both sides will be destroyed."

Lin Minjun's heart skipped a beat.

She felt that Erwa was being too extreme, so she reached out and touched his head, soothing him, "It's not that serious. You think too highly of Master Cao."

Normally, Erwa hates having his hair touched and always says that he will not grow taller. But today, Lin Minjun actually felt him rubbing his head against her palm.

The author has something to say:

Ahhhhh, I confess. I miscalculated the word count again. My brother is still on his way home. I will definitely update early tomorrow and will be back with the next chapter.