Chapter 256 Lin Luodan ran away from her wedding
"Since your daughter is unwilling to become our son-in-law's concubine, then we cannot give you these thirty taels."
Upon hearing that Lin Luodan had run away, the first thing Zhang Mama thought of was not to send someone to chase after her, but to take back the thirty taels of silver from the Lin family and leave without looking back.
"Hey, hey, Granny, Granny, don't go yet. Let's go and bring that girl back, then we'll send her to your son-in-law."
Old Man Lin, whose face was bruised and swollen from being beaten during the day, saw that his thirty taels of silver were about to slip away, so he quickly told his wife to stop Granny Zhang.
"Hehe, you are the funniest family members I have ever seen. It is the first time I have ever seen someone so enthusiastic about sending their daughter to someone else to be a concubine."
“You wanted to send your daughter to work for our son-in-law, but our young lady wasn’t happy about it. It’s good that she’s gone; she’ll be out of the way.”
What woman would willingly part with her husband? Her young lady is no kind person.
It's good that Lin Luodan escaped; she's lucky to be alive. Otherwise, if she had fallen into her young mistress's hands, she would have been crippled or killed.
She's done bad things her whole life, so today she's finally doing something good by letting that girl go; consider it a way to accumulate some good karma for herself.
Granny Zhang was no pushover either, and she didn't take Old Madam Lin's tantrums seriously.
Seeing Old Madam Lin run over, grab her leg, and throw a tantrum, the man's eyes narrowed. He ordered the maids and servants who had come with him to come over, drag Old Madam Lin aside, and then swaggered away.
"The Lin family's feng shui is really bad. It's one thing for their daughter-in-law to run off to become someone's concubine, but this family is too heartless. They actually thought of giving their daughter/granddaughter away to become someone's concubine."
"You say I should be a concubine, fine, but being a concubine in a wealthy family would at least give me some respect. The problem is, you're sending me to a poor family like the Wang family. I think the Lin family is obsessed with money..."
Exhausted from reading gossip all night, the villagers sighed in disbelief and subconsciously decided to stay away from the Lin family's bizarre situation.
You can't get too close to this kind of person, lest it ruin your reputation and affect the future of your children.
For a time, the Lin family was like rats in the street, hated by everyone.
"Please, please help me find Luo Dan!" Seeing that the money had vanished, the Lin family cursed Lin Luo Dan in their hearts for being so unreasonable.
He wanted to criticize the villagers for their inaction in not helping them stop Lin Luodan, but when he thought about how he still needed to ask for help, he awkwardly begged the villagers who were watching.
"Don't drag us into your family's mess..." They're not stupid enough to help find Lin Luodan to be their concubine; they're not going to do something so despicable.
To avoid being bothered by shameless old people, all the villagers left at once.
The Lin family was left alone in the yard, slapping their thighs in regret, cursing Lin Luodan as a good-for-nothing who, even at her age, didn't know how to earn money for her family and repay them.
The so-called repayment was to obediently endure being a concubine in the Wang family, suffering Zhang Yanniang's insults and beatings.
The Lin family couldn't sit still when they thought about the thirty taels of silver in Zhang Mama's hands.
Even though the villagers had no one to help them, the whole family mobilized to search for Lin Luodan throughout the village.
Lin Luodan's mind was filled with thoughts of escaping to the deep mountains; being a concubine and being the principal wife meant completely different things.
She had seen Zhang Yuanwai's first wife either scolding or beating her mother when she visited her before.
The Zhang family was still a wealthy family, but the Wang family had nothing except for my title of Xiucai (a scholar who passed the imperial examinations).
She wanted to find a way out for herself, but not to jump into a fire pit; Lin Luodan was still very clear-headed about this.
Because she was thinking about escaping the Lin family. Deep in the mountains, shadows loomed large, and even though Lin Luodan was afraid, she dared not stop, fearing that the Lin family would chase after her, kidnap her, and take her back to exchange for those thirty taels of silver.
While wandering aimlessly through the woods, I suddenly saw a light coming from a cave.
Lin Luodan cautiously approached the cave, thinking that it would be good to hide inside for a while.
"Who's there?" Lin Yi, who was on night duty, heard footsteps approaching and immediately shouted towards the source of the sound.
"Lin Yi, what happened?" Lin Er heard Lin Yi's voice and thought that the people Lin Luoxi had mentioned had come to do bad things, so they all grabbed their weapons and stood next to Lin Yi.
"You all need to be alert, it looks like someone is approaching." You tell your companions what you've discovered.
"I want to see who's so bold as to cause trouble on Miss's turf." They've been at the Lin family's house for two days, and it seems they haven't had a chance to earn any credit except for working. Now that they hear someone is approaching, they all get excited.
Lin Luodan was so frightened when she saw that the cave entrance was full of men that she took a step back.
Just as she was trying to escape, she stepped on a tree branch, making a sound that immediately revealed her location.
"Brothers, he's over there, let's get over there quickly." Lin Yi also heard the sound of tree branches breaking, grabbed his weapon and rushed ahead.
"Let's go, let's grab someone and go get the reward from Miss." Lin Er waved excitedly and immediately caught up with Lin Yi.
Just as Lin Luodan was trying to escape, she was already surrounded by Lin Yi and the others.
"This woman seems to be..." Lin Yi thought he had made a contribution tonight, but who knew that under the torchlight, she was actually a woman wearing a red wedding dress.
When Lin Yi and the others suddenly saw Lin Luodan wearing a red wedding dress, they thought they had run into that thing.
But upon seeing Lin Luodan's face, he spat out a curse.
Who else could be wearing a wedding dress here but the girl from Lin Daguang's family that we beat up tonight?
If the father is like that, this woman won't be much better.
"Could you gentlemen please let me go? Or at least let me stay for the night?" Lin Luodan immediately feigned pitifulness when she saw that she was surrounded by young men.
"Take you in? Bah, brothers! This woman showing up here in the middle of the night is definitely a trap. Don't be fooled by her." Lin Yi, seeing Lin Luodan's pitiful appearance, was completely unmoved and loudly warned his brothers behind him.
"Lin Yi, don't worry, we wouldn't even look at someone like that."
"By the way, Lin Er, go back and inform Miss that we've caught the Lin family's daughter and ask her what to do with her," Lin Yi said, holding a rope as he told Lin Er to go down the mountain to inform Lin Luoxi.
"Okay!" Lin Er agreed without thinking and turned to run down the mountain.
Seeing the direction Lin Er ran in, Lin Luodan asked incredulously, "Is your young lady that bitch Lin Luoxi?"
Why is Lin Luoxi living a better and better life? Now she even has so many farmhands. These young men must be the farmhands from the Lin family that are the talk of the village.
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