"Lin Shikang, you heartless bastard! Our clansmen have benefited from following you without any reward, and now your daughter has even killed my son! I'll beat you to death!"
The Fang couple beat Lin Shikang up again.
Seeing her son being beaten again, Madam Fan cried anxiously, "Don't hit him! Don't hit him! Lin Mingfu, you son of a bitch, were you also bribed to deliberately frame Shikang? When you followed us in Gansu and Ningxia, in the capital, how did Shikang treat you? Don't you have any self-awareness? You are all ungrateful bastards!"
"You and your son are the ungrateful bastards!"
"The Yang family tightened their belts and saved food from their own mouths to help you, but what did you do? Now that you've become successful, you abandon your wife and children. Aren't you afraid that Yang Cui and Yang Liu's parents will rise up from the ashes and take you away?"
Lin Shikang and Fan were so angry they almost vomited blood.
Fang said again, "Clan leader, people like them don't deserve to live in Lin'ancuo. Expel them from the clan and drive them out!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Shikang and Madam Fan's expressions changed drastically.
Lin Gouya was also in a dilemma. Looking at Lin Sanjin and Lin Qi, he didn't know how to resolve the situation for the time being.
Lin Sanjin said, "Fang family, we are also very saddened by what happened, but at least Shikang built a private school for the clan and found a way out for the children in the clan."
Lin Sanjin did not agree with expelling Lin Shikang from the clan.
"Heh, a way out?" Niu Dan laughed. "Lin Shikang is penniless now, where is he going to find someone to teach him?"
"Niu Dan, what do you mean?" Lin Gouya asked anxiously.
Do you know where Lin Shikang got his money?
"Niu Dan!" Lin Shikang gritted his teeth and glared at Niu Dan with resentment, wishing he could rush over and tear his mouth apart immediately.
"Why are you being so fierce? Is there something you can't say?" Fang said angrily, protecting her son.
"Lin Shikang comes from the countryside and has been dismissed from his post for so long, yet he can still come up with so much money. Haven't you thought about why?"
Niu Dan's reminder made the villagers start to think deeply.
"That's because he relies on women! General Cen may be a son-in-law, but his official position and wealth were all earned through his own hard work. What does Lin Shikang rely on? His balls! His shamelessness!"
Niu Dan's words were filled with contempt for Lin Shikang.
"Shut up!" Lin Shikang, enraged, rushed over to hit him.
"If you dare hit my son, I'll fight you to the death!" Lin Youliang and his wife Fang beat Lin Shikang up again.
“That’s because the princess was willing to spend money on my son. This is my son’s job! What do you know, you little brat!” Fan Shi glared at Niu Dan with her triangular eyes.
"He spends the money women earn from selling their smiles without a care in the world. He's not only capable, but also shameless. I feel ashamed to have a clansman like him!"
"Spending money from women's prostitution?"
"What's the meaning?"
Who sells smiles?
Hearing the whispers of his clansmen, Lin Shikang turned pale, and Meng Ruyan swayed precariously, terrified.
Niu Dan didn't mention Meng Ruyan's name, and continued, "Now that they've stopped selling smiles, the princess has fallen from power, and Lin Shikang has lost his source of income, who will pay the private school teachers and embroiderers? Who will solve the employment problem for the girls after they learn their skills?"
The Lin family is nothing like the Zhou and Yan families now. The Zhou family has made a fortune thanks to Yang Cui, while the Yan family has nothing and can't afford tuition at all.
Lin Shikang can take on the teaching job, but there are two embroiderers. The wages for just the two embroiderers alone would be ten taels of silver a month. Who can afford that?
Embroidery is not something that can be learned in a short time. Even if you learn just the basics and learn to embroider a handkerchief with a simple pattern, it will take at least half a year. Six months would cost sixty taels of silver, which would be almost enough to drain the Lin family dry.
"Shikang, is what Niu Dan said true?" Lin Sanjin looked at Lin Shikang, eager to know the answer.
"Does this mean we have to pay for the tuition ourselves?"
"Shikang, can you still afford to pay?"
"Shikang..."
...
The clansmen surrounded Lin Shikang, pressing him for answers.
Overcome with anger, Lin Shikang coughed up blood and fell into a deep sleep.
"Son (Lin Lang)!" Fan Shi and Meng Ruyan were extremely anxious.
Madam Fan immediately went to invite Physician Qi, who was now working for Yang Cui. Upon hearing that it was for Lin Shikang's treatment, Physician Qi refused without hesitation.
He claimed that he would never treat such an ungrateful and shameless person who lives off women!
Despite Fan's tears and pleas, Doctor Qi refused to go.
Lin Shikang was unconscious for a day and a night. During this time, he had a very long dream.
He dreamt that Yang Cui had jumped into the water and died, but had not opposed him.
He dreamed that after graduating from high school, he married into the Wang family and married Wang Mengyun. The couple lived in harmony and had three sons and two daughters, enjoying a happy and fulfilling married life.
Meng herself was not sent to Gan Ning, Daya was not bullied, and Princess Xilan did not fall from power; they were always her helpers...
I dreamt that I served as a junior official for half a year, and then my career took off like a rocket, rising step by step. Both the current emperor and the third prince who later ascended the throne trusted and admired me...
Within six years of entering officialdom, he wielded immense power, second only to the emperor.
Lin Shih-kang felt that this was the life he should be living!
Lin Shikang vomited blood and fell into a coma. He tricked women into selling their smiles to support him. The news that Lin Daya had killed her own clansman spread like wildfire.
Immediately afterwards, rumors spread that Meng Ruyan was the one who sold smiles to earn money to support him.
In addition, Meng Ruyan was already very beautiful, so many men with ill intentions immediately set their sights on her. Yin asked Meng Ruyan with a smile, "How much do you charge for a night? Do you have many tricks up your sleeve? Are you wet? Are you tight?"
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