"Gu Tieniu, go to hell!"
Lin Qing and Gu Nanxun were eating when a loud roar was heard, and a rock came hurtling towards them. Gu Nanxun saw the flying rock and quickly lunged at Lin Qing. He used all his strength to grab Lin Qing and roll on the ground. The rock barely grazed their faces, and blood instantly flowed down their cheeks.
"Nanxun, you're bleeding..."
Seeing blood streaming down Gu Nanxun's face, Lin Qing hurriedly took out a handkerchief from her bosom (in her spatial storage) and wiped the blood from Gu Nanxun's face. Fortunately, the wound was not deep.
Lin Qing raised her head and glared fiercely at Gu Changhe, then walked to the corner of the room, grabbed a carrying pole from the corner, and started whipping it at Gu Changhe.
Although Gu Changhe was a man, he was already old, and Lin Qing, nourished by the spiritual spring water, was much stronger than an ordinary man. In no time, Lin Qing beat Gu Changhe so badly that he ran away with his head in his hands.
"Xiao Lin, the educated youth, stop! Stop hitting him!"
Seeing Lin Qing chasing and hitting Gu Changhe, the villagers who had come to watch the commotion quickly tried to dissuade her.
"You old hag, what are you doing! And what are you all standing there like idiots for?"
As Gu Changhe ran, he kept glancing towards Lin Qing. When he saw Wang Dahua, his wife, daughter-in-law, and daughters standing there unmoved, he roared angrily. He was being chased and beaten while his wife, daughter-in-law, and daughters were just watching.
Once they came to their senses, Wang Dahua and her family rushed towards Lin Qing, but before they could reach her, they were struck by Lin Qing's carrying pole and were instantly in so much pain that they dared not go any closer.
"You're really useless."
With the help of his family, Gu Changhe, after catching his breath, said unhappily, "It's shameful that with so many women in my family, we couldn't do anything about a single educated youth."
Seeing the crowd fighting, Gu Changhe secretly circled around behind Lin Qing, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it at Lin Qing's head.
In a flash, Gu Nanxun grabbed the wheelchair beside him and hurled it at the stone. The stone bounced off the wheelchair and crashed into Gu Changhe. The force of the wheelchair combined with the stone struck Gu Changhe's leg, and with a "crack," Gu Changhe's right leg was broken.
"Ouch... my leg."
With Gu Changhe's loud shout, Lin Qing and Wang Dahua's family, who were fighting, stopped what they were doing. Seeing Gu Changhe knocked to the ground by the wheelchair, Wang Dahua cried out and rushed towards Gu Changhe.
"Old man, what's wrong with you! Oh my god... I can't live anymore, my own son is going to kill me."
Wang Dahua was seen hugging Gu Changhe and wailing loudly.
"Shameless! You think you can hit us and we can't fight back? You deserve it."
Seeing the shameless behavior of the Gu family, Lin Qing was so angry that she cursed them out.
"Quick...quick, help me check my leg, my leg, my leg is broken."
Gu Changhe was in so much pain that he was sweating profusely, but when he saw Wang Dahua still wailing there, he was so angry that he almost fainted.
"Young Lin, come quickly and take a look at Old Gu, his leg is broken."
"I won't look... Even if every member of the Gu family dies in front of me, I won't look at them."
"Young Lin, stop joking, saving lives is the priority."
An older woman in the crowd saw that Lin Qing was unwilling to treat Old Gu, so she tried to persuade her.
"Who's joking? I'm not joking. I won't save that family. I won't save someone who wants me dead."
Hearing the old woman's words, Lin Qing coldly replied, "How could I possibly save their family? I wish I could kill them. I can't forget the scene when the stone flew towards me and Gu Nanxun. If Gu Nanxun hadn't reacted in time, they would probably be dead."
"Xiao Lin, please stop being temperamental. No matter what the conflict is, saving lives is the priority."
The captain, who rushed over, heard Lin Qing's words and offered his disapproving advice.
The captain also felt that Lin Qing was being a bit immature. No matter what the conflict was, human life was at stake, how could he just stand by and watch someone die?
"Captain, if I were to stab you with a knife right now, would you come to my rescue?"
After hearing the captain's words, Lin Qing looked at the captain coldly and said.
"Young Lin, what are you saying? You're perfectly fine now!"
The captain also said unhappily.
"Does the captain mean he wanted to kill me and Nanxun, and that it's our fault we didn't die? We should have been killed by him, right? We should have been stoned to death by him, right? Is that what the captain means?"
"Young Lin, that's not what I meant. I just felt..."
Before the captain could finish speaking, his wife pinched him.
"Tie Niu, are you just going to stand by and watch your father die? Your father is in this state and you don't even care."
Seeing that Lin Qing refused to save Gu Changhe no matter what she said, Wang Dahua angrily yelled at Gu Nanxun.
"You all want him dead, so why did he save you?"
Before Gu Nanxun could speak, Lin Qing interrupted. She didn't want Gu Nanxun to refuse. She knew Gu Nanxun wouldn't force her, but in this era, filial piety could be a powerful force. Although they had severed ties, letting Gu Nanxun stand by and watch someone die would still damage his reputation.
"I'll say it again: we've severed all ties. Even if you hadn't tried to kill me today, I wouldn't have cared about the Gu family's affairs anymore. As for Qingqing's unwillingness to save you, that's her prerogative."
Gu Nanxun understood Lin Qing's meaning; she didn't want him to take the lead, fearing it would damage his reputation. But she didn't know that he had never cared about such things. He only cared about Qingqing now, and he wouldn't let the Gu family harm her. He also wouldn't hide behind Qingqing forever, letting her always stand up for him. For a man to let his woman stand up for him was a sign of cowardice.
"Xiao Gu, how could you say such a thing? Old Gu is still your father. No matter what he did wrong, he's still your father! How could you just stand by and watch someone die?"
"Yes, Xiao Gu, you should persuade Xiao Lin, the educated youth. What you are doing is wrong."
"You don't need to persuade me anymore. He's not my father, and I have no relation to the Gu family."
"..."
Although everyone around him criticized him, Gu Nanxun didn't care.
"Don't bother looking for him, I don't have a son like that..."
Seeing Gu Nanxun's unyielding attitude, Gu Changhe suddenly felt a pang of sadness. Although this son wasn't his biological child, and he had never shown any affection for him, he knew that Gu Nanxun truly no longer cared about their family. He was about to lose this son completely.
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