Chapter 163 Taking the Path of the Extreme, Leaving the Extreme with No Way to Go
Lin's mother was so angry that her chest heaved, her hands on her hips, her fingers almost poking the woman's eyes:
"Bullshit! Why are your parents and grandma in jail? Don't you have any self-awareness?!" Her voice was loud and clear, making the surroundings buzz.
"Your mother is shameless! She was having an affair with some random guy, and my daughter caught her red-handed! Afraid of being exposed, she made up her mind and conspired with her mother-in-law to sell my daughter to that old, childless man so he could marry her off to his dead son in a ghost marriage!"
Lin's mother glanced around at the villagers watching and decided to speak frankly. This matter couldn't be kept secret any longer; rather than let people gossip, it was better to tear down this veil of secrecy!
“If it weren’t for my Baozhu and Sanlang risking their lives to rescue her, my Dani would have been nailed into a coffin and buried with the dead long ago!! And her grandma and her parents, in order to prevent my sister from going to rescue her, conspired with that old hag to beat my sister to death. When she was sent to the hospital, the doctor said there was no hope and told us to prepare for her funeral. Later, my sister stubbornly held on to her daughter’s last breath and came back to life.”
The villagers' discussions exploded like water being poured into a pot of boiling oil!
"What?! A living person being used in a ghost marriage? And they almost beat the little girl's mother to death?"
"Good heavens! Is this something a family could do?"
"Could it be that Li Dani's father was stolen and adopted by that old woman?"
"What a joke! She still has the nerve to come here crying? Forcing her cousin, who was almost killed, to raise her brother?!"
"Exactly! This kid isn't dead, his parents and grandparents aren't all gone! Logically speaking, it's not like his distant cousin is supposed to raise him, is it?"
"Pah! Her skin is thicker than a city wall! Her parents wanted someone else's daughter dead, and she has the nerve to bring her brother to beg for food? What a shameless person she is!"
The woman's face turned pale and then red from the scolding, but instead of feeling guilty, she stubbornly raised her neck and howled defiantly:
"Li Dani didn't die, did she? We're still family, even if we're broken, our bones are still connected. How could they be so cruel? They had to send my parents and grandparents to jail?!"
She pointed sharply at the chubby boy next to her, raising her voice even higher, and said shamelessly, "Besides! When my second uncle and aunt get old and die, they'll still be counting on my brother to break pottery and carry banners for them! Not to mention that they'll support my brother, all the family property they earn in the future will belong to him."
The surrounding villagers were astonished:
"Ha! Good heavens!"
"This is the first time I've seen someone talk about 'eating the property of the childless' so confidently!"
"You shameless bastard!"
Lin's mother could no longer contain her anger. She rolled up her sleeves and rushed forward, grabbing Li Zhaodi's hair and slapping her face repeatedly with her large, fan-like hands.
"Ouch—!" Li Zhaodi screamed in pain as she was beaten. Seeing this, the chubby boy next to her, Li Yaozu, his eyes reddened, and like a small cannonball, he rammed his head into Lin's mother's lower back!
"You dare!"
"Let go of my aunt!"
Hu Zi, Li Dani, and Li Erni reacted quickly. The three children pounced on Li Yaozu and pinned him to the ground, slamming their little fists into him!
When the villagers saw this commotion, they rushed over to "break up" the fight, but their "breakup" was quite skillful. Basically, they held Li Zhaodi down so she couldn't move, and Lin's mother took the opportunity to give her a good beating.
Lin Baozhu mingled in the crowd, moving with the noisy people, her feet occasionally crushing Li Zhaodi's fingers or ankles—
"Ah—my hand is broken!!!" Li Zhaodi screamed like a pig being slaughtered, her face contorted in pain.
Upon hearing this, everyone abruptly released her, only to see Li Zhaodi's wrist hanging limply, clearly dislocated, and her face a bruised and swollen mess, beyond description.
In contrast, Lin's mother remained calm and composed, except for her slightly disheveled hair.
"What are you doing now?!"
The captain hurriedly pushed his way through the crowd. He glanced at Li Zhaodi, who was lying on the ground, disheveled, with messy hair and a face covered in bloodstains, and turned away in disgust. Then he saw Lin's mother hugging Li Dani, loudly wailing in distress.
"My poor niece! She was almost killed! My heart aches for her!"
The captain's lips twitched, and he sighed, speechless: Where did that energetic spirit he had when he was beating people go?
Before he could even speak, Lin's mother's "crying and complaining" had seamlessly shifted to him:
"Captain, you have to stand up for us! Look at this, we took the child in to care for her for a few days out of pity, and this heartless cousin, with her blood-eating brother, is forcing us to raise her! Is there no law? Is there no justice?"
Li Zhaodi glared fiercely at Lin's mother, who was wailing without shedding a tear, and screamed in her hoarse voice:
“Li Dani! Li Erni! If you still want to be surnamed Li, then obediently go back to Li Family Village! Serve Yaozu well! And tell your good-for-nothing parents that they must get my parents out! Otherwise—” She stared at the two sisters with vicious eyes, her voice cold: “Otherwise, after they die, don’t expect my brother to smash earthenware pots and carry funeral banners for them so they can’t be reincarnated.”
"Pfft!" Lin Baozhu let out a light laugh that she made no attempt to hide.
"Even the foot-binding cloths of the Qing Dynasty don't stink as much as the stuff in your head! What era are we living in? Still smashing earthenware pots?"
She looked at Li Zhaodi with a sneer, "What's wrong with my aunt's family? To give up their hard-earned money for a final commotion after they die, just to feed you bunch of ungrateful wretches? Wouldn't it be better if he left the money to his daughter and son-in-law so they could live comfortably in their old age?"
"You're talking nonsense!"
Li Yaozu wiped the blood from his nose with his arm, his face covered in blood, and jumped up and down screaming, "My mother said it all! Everything in my second uncle's family belongs to me! Li Dani and Li Erni are two good-for-nothings. Their dowries will all go to me when they get married. What right do they have to ask for my things?"
Looking at the disheveled siblings before her, Li Dani's small body trembled slightly. She clenched her fists, stepped forward, and shouted, "Li Yaozu! Listen up! My things—"
She took a deep breath and continued, "Even if I lose it, burn it, or throw it into the river to feed the fish, I will never let you touch even a speck of it!"
She whirled around, her gaze piercing Li Zhaodi like torches, mimicking her grandmother's old scolding tone and gestures, slapping her withered thigh repeatedly with her thin hand: "And you—Li Zhaodi! When you got married, your mother 'borrowed' three brand-new cotton quilts from our family! All these years, we haven't even seen a trace of one! What kind of black smoke rose from our ancestral graves to give birth to such a good-for-nothing who betrays her family and only thinks about shoving things at her husband's family?!"
Li Zhaodi: "???"
She was completely stunned, then her face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, her lips trembled, and she couldn't find the words to refute him.
Lin Baozhu stood in the crowd, a smile of admiration on her lips, looking at the thin figure slapping his thigh with a stubborn look in his eyes.
This girl is a promising talent. I only gave her a little guidance yesterday, and today she's already putting it into practice, leaving Li Zhaodi speechless. Seeing Li Zhaodi's contorted face, I felt incredibly pleased.
This is called following the old path of the best, leaving the best with nowhere to go!
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