Seeing his brother and sister being so cautious, Chen Ruiyu comforted them, "I'm fine, really! Just like you said, everyone loves me. I have no memory of that woman since I was a child. I'm just sad for a while at most."
"Really?" Chen Xinyue's eyes lit up.
Chen Ruiyu nodded heavily.
Both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
In the afternoon, Chen Wenjun went out alone and picked up his youngest son.
Lin Qin called her workplace and stayed home with her children.
It was almost evening when Chen Wenjun returned with his youngest son.
The whole family had dinner as if nothing had happened.
Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin went to the study.
"Today I asked Wen Feng and Gao Lei to help me check He Chunhong's whereabouts over the years. With a two-pronged approach, we found a lot of information."
Seeing that he was in a good mood, Lin Qin thought it was good news, so she sat down and asked, "What do you mean?"
Chen Wenjun pulled out a crumpled document from his pocket and said, "It's all here. She went to Xinxu with her parents' family that year, and the next year she remarried a local Tanka man under the arrangement of her parents' family. She also gave birth to a son and a daughter.
Her husband died three years ago, her son was rebellious and became a hooligan, and her daughter went to work in another place and rarely came back.
Some time ago, her son killed someone and escaped. The police are looking for him. She was afraid that the police would come to her house, so she hid back in Nanxi. Now that she knows Ping An has a promising future, she will not let him go so easily. However, they probably don’t know that I still have those materials in my hands. Let’s wait and see. If the He family dares to come and make trouble, we will call the police and settle the old scores at the same time! "
Lin Qin knocked on the table from time to time and fell into deep thought. As they were all women, she knew clearly that He Chunhong would never let Ping An go. If there was no blood relationship between them, Lin Qin would have wanted to deal with He Chunhong.
For now we can only wait and see.
Neither the couple took the initiative.
As a result, the next morning, when Lin Qin was about to go out, she was blocked at the door by a group of people.
She glanced around and saw He Xia and He Chunhong in the crowd, with expressionless faces. She finally set her sights on the village chief Chen Yintao.
"Is there something wrong, village chief?"
Seeing that Lin Qin was asking knowingly, Chen Yintao looked a little more embarrassed and flattering, "Lin Qin, yesterday He Xia and the others brought He Chunhong to look for her, saying that He Chunhong came back to recognize her son, and you stopped them. They insisted that I make the decision for them. I don't know what happened, so in order to give everyone an explanation, I can only come with them to ask, I have no other intentions."
He didn't want to make this trip at all, but most of the people in the village were surnamed Chen and He, and all the relatives from He Chunhong's family had come together, so he couldn't just do nothing.
Lin Qin understood what he meant, and her unhappy expression eased a lot. She sneered and said, "Village Chief, I heard an interesting story. Would you like to listen to it too?"
"What are you listening to! Let Ping An come out! An ungrateful, white-eyed wolf who doesn't even recognize his biological mother. What kind of person is he! I tell you, Lin Qin, others may be afraid of you, but I am not! If we don't make this matter clear today, no one will be able to think well!"
The person who spoke was He Chunhong's cousin and He Xia's nephew, named He Yong.
Lin Qin sneered, "Very good! I also want to make this matter clear, so that no one can mess up our family's life! Village chief, what do you think?"
Chen Yintao nodded wildly, "That's right, the problem still needs to be solved."
Lin Qin's smile deepened. "In this case, please ask the village chief to go back and find all the elders of our Chen family, especially those who know the details of the year. It's best to call them all over! I, Lin Qin, will not let you make a wasted trip. I will hold a banquet in the village ancestral hall in a few days. Please enjoy a good meal!
I heard that our village is going to build a temple, and we can also do our part.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Yintao immediately spoke earnestly, "Just wait, I'll ask Ah Cai to go back and call everyone you're looking for!"
"Lin Qin, what do you want to do?" He Xia shouted in a timid manner. Lin Qin's behavior was completely beyond her expectations. She had no idea what Lin Qin was going to do next.
Lin Qin leaned lazily against the door, with her arms folded across her chest, and looked at He Xia and He Chunhong with a half-smile, "I want to see how shameless people can be!"
"You!" He Xia put her hands on her hips and cursed, "If you hadn't taken away the souls of Chen Wenjun and his son, how could Ping An not recognize his biological mother? It's all because of you, a vicious stepmother!"
The He family members nodded one after another, agreeing with He Xia's statement.
He Chunhong immediately burst into tears, which attracted the sympathy of her fellow clansmen, and they looked at Lin Qin with even more anger.
Chen Yintao's face darkened as he listened to the pointing and criticizing. He shouted, "What are you arguing about? Even I don't know much about what happened back then. You know nothing!"
Those were all old stories from more than ten years ago. Chen Yintao was only in his early thirties. He was just a young boy back then and had no idea about Chen Wenjun's family affairs.
The old men who intervened back then have passed away one after another over the years, leaving only three or four participants alive. Two of them are severely hard of hearing, two have lived on the bottom of the boat all year round and have severe rheumatism, and some of them have some memory loss. He couldn't find anyone to help him.
Only Chen Yongding and Zhou Shuifang could find out, but they only knew that He Chunhong abandoned her husband and child and ran away. Some people said that He Chunhong might have killed the child, but there was no evidence.
It is also difficult for him to be the village chief.
The He clan members were dissatisfied, but they endured it because Chen Yintao was the village chief.
After about half an hour, villagers surnamed Chen finally arrived one after another. They were all middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old.
As soon as Zhou Shuifang and Chen Yongding arrived, they pointed at He Chunhong's nose and cursed her.
"He Chunhong! It was you who abandoned your husband and children! It was you who couldn't bear hardship and difficulty, and it was you who tried every means to abandon the child! Now that you see Ping An has become successful, you want to run out and reap other people's fruits. Who do you think you are!" Zhou Shuifang shouted angrily.
He Chunhong just cried, pretended to be pitiful and tried to gain sympathy, but she didn't respond.
He Xia was so angry that she started to curse at Zhou Shuifang, "Your family and Chen Wenjun are in the same boat. You didn't like our Chunhong before, and now you are throwing dirty water on her and slandering her. Be careful that the thunder will strike you to death!"
"Me!" Zhou Shuifang rolled up his sleeves in anger.
If they were not on the water at the moment, with both parties in their own boats, she would definitely rush over and fight with He Xia.
Chen Yongding saw that his wife was getting emotional and could no longer persuade her. He quickly looked at Lin Qin and asked, "Where is Wenjun?"
"I went out in the early morning. Don't worry, uncle. I can handle this matter." Lin Qin looked confident.
Chen Yongding was extremely worried. How would Lin Qin handle the situation when the matter became so serious? Was he going to let them fight with the man surnamed He at the doorstep?
Oh! If only his father could live two more years.
He knows peace best!
Chen Yongding sighed repeatedly. (End of this chapter)
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