Chapter 85 Please Let My Brother Go
As night fell, the wind picked up again, the north wind howling through the Korean paper, and Lin Yuesha was wide awake.
At midnight, Lin Yuesha tiptoed up, carrying the offerings she had bought that afternoon, and went to the center of the courtyard.
There was no one around, and it was completely silent.
Lin Yuesha laid out a few pastries, and goosebumps rose on her skin. She was terrified that a white figure would appear behind her while she was burning paper money.
This place is eerie. Despite her fear, Lin Yuesha mustered her courage, found a broken iron basin in the corner of the courtyard, and put the paper money into it.
A moment later, the paper money was lit, and the smoke and ash drifted out, adding to the sense of dread.
“Sister Baiying, I know you have a hard life, tormented by that old hag, but your enemies are that old hag, and yes, your man.”
Lin Yuesha believes that although the white-shadowed female ghost's mother-in-law is not human, her man still bears responsibility.
Working away from home, does that mean you can completely ignore things at home? Just because someone says filial piety is paramount, does that mean you can make your wife work like a slave?
He's marrying a wife, not a maid! No wages, no money for selling herself, and she wants to act like a wealthy old lady? Where does she get the nerve? She should take a good look at herself in the mirror.
The man of the white-shadowed female ghost is, to put it bluntly, incompetent and a complete waste!
Lin Yuesha had originally intended to persuade the white-shadowed female ghost to leave, but in her haste, she blurted out everything on her mind. She truly couldn't comprehend the unequal relationships of this era.
Even if she could integrate here, her personality and thoughts were deeply ingrained and could not be changed.
Xiao Qi stood in front of the door. He had been standing there ever since Lin Yuesha left the house.
It was the middle of the night, and his younger sister was acting suspiciously. Xiao Qi wanted to see what she was up to.
"Sister ghost, I'm sorry, I've been rambling on."
After failing to get to the point for quite some time, Lin Yuesha finally realized what was happening and apologized to the non-existent white figure.
"Please, please spare my brother! He's the hope of our family and our only son. We really can't let him be bewitched by you. If he's ruined, we'll have trouble having children in the future, and our parents won't be able to bear the blow!"
Beauty can be deceiving. Lin Yuesha realized that it was useless to try to get help from her stepbrother. He was determined not to move, so she could only beg the female ghost to have mercy and find another sucker.
“My older brother has two classmates who are a good match, one named He Xing and the other named Xuan Zhi.”
To convince the female ghost, Lin Yuesha specially brought out two scapegoats.
Xiao Qi stood frozen by the door for a while. At first, when he heard the little girl's words, he only twitched the corner of his mouth, but now he was completely petrified.
The female ghost emptied his body, so he can't have children in the future? What kind of nonsense is this!
How could a little girl like her know so much?
Xiao Qi was deeply shocked.
After the initial shock, he thought it over and over. It was fine to say such things in private, but if outsiders heard them, it would be disastrous.
Indeed, after a man is depleted of his energy, he may be unable to perform well in certain areas. But how did Lin Yuesha know this?
Xiao Qi's face darkened, believing that everything was related to the Jiang family.
His younger sister was doing just fine in the village, an innocent and naive little girl. But in just half a month at the Jiang residence, she knew everything and understood things in more detail than he did!
Xiao Qi had his men inquire about the matter. They found that Lin Yuesha spent most of her time at the Jiang residence either making things or with Jiang Baozhu. Presumably, all these messy things were told to her by Jiang Baozhu!
No, I have to find a way to get my little sister away from the Jiang family, so she won't be led astray by Jiang Baozhu.
Jiang Baozhu had no idea she was being targeted; she was truly innocent, what a huge scapegoat!
Lin Yuesha kept rambling on and on, kowtowing to Bai Ying. She believed that the female ghost had heard her pleas.
The paper money just spun on the ground and was blown into the sky by the wind; it was the female ghost's response to her.
What are you doing?
The more Xiao Qi listened, the darker his face became. Helpless, he went behind Lin Yuesha and patted her shoulder.
When she was patted on the shoulder in the middle of the night, Lin Yuesha almost screamed. She was as still as a quail, not daring to move or turn around.
"Little sister, it's me."
Xiao Qi realized that as long as Lin Yuesha was around, life always had something different about it.
"Big brother?"
Lin Yuesha breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around and glared angrily at Xiao Qi, "Don't you know that scaring someone can be deadly? How come you walk so quietly in the middle of the night?"
"You know it's the middle of the night. If you don't wear an extra layer of clothing, you'll catch a cold."
Xiao Qi suppressed the urge to explode and forced himself to maintain the image of a gentle, kind-hearted person.
"I……"
Knowing she was in the wrong, Lin Yuesha said guiltily, "I'm doing this for your own good."
Indeed, it was for his own good, to prevent him from doing unspeakable things with the female ghost and emptying his body so that he would have no offspring, Xiao Qi thought to himself with a self-deprecating smile.
After the paper money was burned, Lin Yuesha tidied up the iron basin and obediently went back to her room to sleep.
The back room had been tidied up by Madam Chen. A mat was laid on the kang (a heated brick bed), and there was a mattress on top of it. The temperature was just right, and it was very comfortable to sleep in.
Having resolved a major issue, Lin Yuesha relaxed and quickly fell asleep.
The next morning, while making breakfast, Chen was still muttering to herself, "Is there a funeral going on nearby? Why is a piece of paper money floating in the yard?"
Xiao Qi glanced at his younger sister with a half-smile, then remained silent.
Lin Yuesha: "..."
After the meal, Lin Yuesha returned to the Jiang residence, where Jiang Baozhu was already waiting for her.
"Moonlight, I've been extremely bored these past two days without you here."
Jiang Baozhu said a few more words, and the people in the mansion gradually got used to it after the initial shock.
"So you didn't go out?"
Two days passed in a flash. Lin Yuesha had things to do and felt that time was passing too quickly.
"No, I'll make a list and have the servants buy all the missing decorations for the front yard house."
Jiang Baozhu led Lin Yuesha to the front yard. Inside the house, the servants laid out a wooden plank, which was then coated with tung oil. The walls were adorned with calligraphy and paintings, giving the house a brand-new look.
No wonder Jiang Huai and Madam Xu misunderstood; the furnishings were so elaborate that they didn't seem like they were for servants. However, the two of them were unaware of Jiang Baozhu's true intentions.
“My father has gone missing and hasn’t returned, but I’ve been feeling uneasy these past two days, worried that something might have happened.”
Jiang Baozhu expressed her concerns, noting that the course of this life was different from the previous one and full of unknowns.
The longer the night, the more things could go wrong. After much deliberation, she decided to bring Zhang Fang back as soon as possible and have him adopted into her family before the New Year.
"Alright, then I'll go with you."
Lin Yuesha understood Jiang Baozhu's worries. The Jiang family was different from other families; they couldn't adopt a child from the clan, so they had to find someone who wasn't related by blood.
It's fate that Jiang Baozhu took a liking to Zhang Fang.
"There's no need for Zhang Fang to sever ties with the Zhang family, as long as he's my younger brother."
Blood ties can never be severed. Zhang Fang still treats Zhang Jing as his own brother. Jiang Baozhu won't mind; she'll just think that this little guy is sentimental.
Anyway, since the family had supported the He family before, it wouldn't be difficult for them to sponsor Zhang Jing's education now.
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