Chapter 141 To hell with the seven-story pagoda!
"What exactly are your father and Da Ya hiding from us?" Lin Wangshi asked curiously, looking at the wide-open courtyard gate where Lin Dayu and Lin Luoxi had disappeared. Various unpleasant thoughts kept flashing through her mind.
"I don't know, but I don't think Father and Second Sister are going to do anything shady."
“We’ll just sit here and wait for them to come back. Let them tell us themselves.” Lin Wentao has never liked internal conflicts and feels that it’s better for family members to ask each other face-to-face if there are any issues.
"That's true. You should go take a shower first. Go to bed early and get up early. We have a lot to do tomorrow."
Having been married to Lin Dayou for almost twenty years, Lin Wangshi knew Lin Dayou's personality very well and naturally knew that Lin Dayou would not do anything to betray her.
Now that Lin Luoxi has regained consciousness and is quite capable, even if Lin Dayou wanted to do something that would be detrimental to family harmony, I believe Lin Luoxi would not agree.
The strange noise made him feel as if a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders, and he felt much more relaxed. He then began to arrange for the children to wash up.
Lin Luoxi, who had run out, thought that Lin Dayou would tell his family what had happened to them the night before, so she ran towards the back mountain without any worries.
Unexpectedly, Lin Dayou, who should have been at home explaining things to his family, failed to overcome his fear and it caught up with him.
Lin Ruoxi had just reached the cave entrance, her hands on her knees, trying to calm her heart, which was pounding in her throat from the intense running and jumping, when a ghostly voice echoed from inside the cave, making her hair stand on end.
"You've finally arrived! I thought you'd forgotten about me." The tone was full of resentment, and anyone who didn't know better would think Lin Ruoxi was that heartless man. The owner of that voice was none other than the little beauty who had been waiting patiently and had finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
"Hehe, you know I'm busy all day long," Lin Luoxi said, feeling a little embarrassed by the words spoken by the owner of the voice in the cave.
He didn't believe the person inside the cave wouldn't know about the huge commotion they'd made on the back mountain today.
When Lin Luoxi ran over, she thought everyone in the cave had already left, since the people who came today were from the government.
"Miss Lin, this is no reason for me to go hungry for a day." The owner of the voice in the cave naturally recognized Lin Luoxi and spoke by name.
"Oh!" Lin Luoxi didn't seem to care when the other person spoke.
"Oh, you can just say 'oh' and that's it. Food, I want food, I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow." The people inside the cave heard the indifference in Lin Luoxi's tone and flew into a rage.
If he weren't still injured, he would have rushed up to Lin Luoxi and roared at her.
"You surnamed Meng, that's enough! We saved your life last night, and instead of being grateful, you dare to yell at me. You wait, I'll make sure you stay here and fend for yourself." That's just how Lin Luoxi is; if you soften your tone, she might back down.
But if you get stubborn, she can be more stubborn than anyone else.
What's more, they went through a lot of trouble to rescue Meng Huai'an last night, and this guy didn't mention the reward at all, and even dared to complain to her. It seems he hasn't been starving and still has the energy to yell at her.
"Miss Lin, Miss Lin..." Meng Huai'an, who was unable to move inside the cave, heard Lin Luoxi's footsteps heading out of the cave and called out anxiously.
He was really afraid that Lin Luoxi would abandon him and leave him to go hungry for another night.
"Hmph!" Now that she's scared, it's too late. If I don't give her three to five thousand taels of silver, she won't be so easy to talk to.
"Miss Lin, Lin Luoxi..." Meng Huai'an heard Lin Luoxi's footsteps walking out without stopping, and anxiously called out her full name.
"Shout louder, or I won't care if the wild beasts in the mountains come down."
"And we saved you, shouldn't you at least show some gratitude..." Lin Luoxi said directly when she saw that Meng Huai'an had woken up but showed no intention of repaying her.
“Miss Lin, don’t be so materialistic. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. You should…” Meng Huai’an coughed lightly and began to preach when he heard Lin Luoxi’s straightforward desire for revenge.
"To hell with the seven-story pagoda! What should I be doing? If I weren't realistic, I wouldn't have risked the lives of the entire village to bring you back here and hide you away." Lin Luoxi interrupted Meng Huai'an's endless rambling with profanity upon hearing his shameless words.
It's true that a well-fed person doesn't know the hunger of an starving person. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she naturally doesn't know the hardships of ordinary people like them. She even said not to be so realistic. If she weren't realistic, she probably wouldn't even be able to afford dirt to eat right now.
If he had known Meng Huai'an was this kind of person, he should have just stood by and watched him die. It would have saved him the trouble of running up in the middle of the night, worried he might go hungry.
"Uh!" This was the first time Meng Huai'an had ever seen a woman behave so rudely, lacking any of the reserve and elegance of noble ladies in the capital.
However, Lin Luoxi in this state was much more vibrant than those other women, which Meng Huai'an found quite novel.
"Miss Lin, please don't be anxious. I haven't finished speaking yet. I will definitely give you the reward. Here is a thousand taels. Take it first..." Meng Huai'an saw that Lin Luoxi was so excited and was afraid that she would really leave him here.
It would be dishonorable to starve to death in a cave instead of being killed by those assassins.
Sensing something was wrong, he quickly reached into his pocket, pulled out a silver note, and handed it to Lin Luoxi, roughly where she was standing.
"That's more like it." Upon hearing that there was a thousand taels, Lin Luoxi immediately changed her angry expression, smiled sweetly, and stepped forward to take the paper handed to her by Meng Huai'an.
With the existence of this space, after drinking the spiritual dew, Lin Luoxi's vision was completely unobstructed in the night, and she could clearly see the numbers on the banknotes in her hand.
"Young Master Meng, are you taking advantage of my illiteracy? It's just one hundred taels, but you insist on calling it one thousand taels. Do you think your life isn't worth that much?"
When Lin Luoxi saw the number on the banknote, she glanced at Meng Huai'an with a slightly mocking smirk.
"Huh?" Could he have given me the wrong money? He quickly reached out and continued to rummage through the places where he could hide his money.
As it turned out, the places where he had hidden the money were all empty, and all the banknotes he had hidden were gone.
It's estimated that he lost his silver notes during the fight with the assassins.
“Miss, how about this? I’ll send someone to deliver the silver after I get back. Is that alright?” Meng Huai’an quickly tried to calm Lin Luoxi down when he heard her tone about to explode.
"Of course, I believe that Young Master Meng is a man of his word."
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