"Auntie, there's really no need to thank me. It's all what we should do, and everyone else helped out too."
The needle belongs to someone else.
The lighter belongs to someone else too.
It really wasn't all my doing.
Ye Wanying's words pleased the women around her, especially the two who had contributed the embroidery needle and lighter:
"Yes, yes, ma'am, please don't be so polite. Engineer Lin has helped us a lot. We're all colleagues and neighbors, so helping each other is only right. You're an elder, aren't you? We can't just stand by and watch you suffer, can we?"
"You are all good people!" Aunt Lin said with a smile, but when her gaze fell on her youngest son and daughter-in-law, her smile vanished, and her face instantly turned cold.
"Dashan, it's your decision. If you continue to protect your wife, then you're no longer a member of the Lin family!"
We didn't plan to do anything, we just wanted to put our minds at ease and have your wife go to the hospital for a check-up. The Lin family will cover the check-up fees ourselves!
Isn't that enough?
Indeed, the old lady wasn't really that bad.
Lin almost burst into tears after hearing his mother's words:
She called out, "Mother!"
Aunt Lin sat on the ground, still full of energy despite having just fainted from anger:
"Don't call me 'Mom.' If you don't answer, you're not my son!"
"Mother, please don't force your son!"
Upon hearing Lin's words, Aunt Lin was so angry that her chest trembled. This wasn't her son; he was a curse!
What do you mean by forcing him?
His wife cheated on him and got pregnant with his illegitimate child, so how could he tolerate that?
If I can tolerate it, how could the ancestors of the Lin family have tolerated it? They would be turning in their graves.
Aunt Lin's face turned pale with anger. Her daughter, who was standing closest to her, stood up and pulled a little girl, about eight or nine years old, from the crowd.
"Xiaodie, tell your uncle everything you saw on your way to school in town, without missing a single word!"
The little girl named Xiaodie was clearly frightened by what had happened:
"Mom, I... didn't you always tell me not to tell anyone?" she whispered.
Aunt Lin's daughter gently patted her daughter, then looked at the younger brother on the ground who was still protecting the woman:
"Lin Shan, if you don't trust us, you should at least believe some of what your niece says, right? Xiao Die never lies, you know that."
Many times before, Xiaodie saw your wife holding hands with a strange man while shopping on her way home from school. Holding hands, what kind of intimate relationship allows someone to do that?
Lin frowned and looked at the woman in his arms:
"Really?" he asked.
"No, Brother Shan, I can explain this. The person Xiaodie saw was my cousin from my mother's side. He's no one else!"
Just as Aunt Lin's daughter said, Lin Gong might not trust all the adults in the Lin family, but he would definitely trust his niece to some extent, as his niece never lies.
"Xiaodie, what do you say?"
"Uncle?" the little girl called out.
Lin Shan forced a smile:
"It's okay, just tell your uncle everything you saw."
Xiaodie glanced at her mother, and seeing her mother nod, she slowly began to speak:
"The first time I saw my aunt and an unfamiliar uncle was in a clothing store on the street. My classmate had just bought some clothes that were a bit too big and needed to exchange them, so I went with her. That's when I happened to see my aunt and that uncle in the store next door..."
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