Seeing that the girl hadn't died and was now jumping out to cause trouble, after the initial shock, Madam Xu immediately started scolding her: "You wretched girl, what are you doing getting involved now? If you're not dead, hurry up and wash those dirty clothes your father took off, and then go to the barren slope to cut a load of pig feed..."
Wow!
What kind of mother is this!
This is an exceptional piece; authentication complete.
Lin Momo was utterly shocked and stood there dumbfounded, unable to hear what the vicious woman was babbling away.
The concepts of "a loving mother's heart" and "caring concern" are completely absent in this mother.
wrong!
The beautiful side of motherhood belongs exclusively to that scumbag brother in the family.
He was the only son in his family, bearing the heavy responsibility of carrying on the family line and upholding the household's honor.
Compared to this troublesome mother, the eldest sister, who just got married last year, is more like the real mother of the two Lin sisters.
If it weren't for this older woman protecting them, and the children's innate "newbie protection period," the two girls would surely have died young.
From the moment her daughter was born, Madam Lin let go of all responsibilities.
She seemed to believe that her mother's mission was already complete.
As for whether the young girls can stand firm, that depends on their fate.
Now, when the family urgently needs money, the first thought that pops into his mind is to take his daughter out to sell herself.
If you're sick, then just wait to die. If you die, drag them out and bury them. If you're lucky enough to survive, then keep working for your mother non-stop...
Is this all a stepmother can be like?
Lin silently grumbled to himself.
As expected, in families that favor sons over daughters, boys' happiness is the same regardless of their gender.
The misfortunes of girls, however, are all different in their own way.
After arranging her second daughter's work, Xu turned her head and saw that her son, who had taken her youngest daughter to sell, had returned. She urged him in confusion, "Zhiqiang, what are you waiting for? Can't you see your father lying on the kang waiting to be saved?"
Lin Zhiqiang first put Sanya down on the ground, then approached her with a forced smile, ready to argue with his mother:
“Mother, selling Sanya alone probably won’t get us many taels of silver. If you ask me, since Erya has woken up, we might as well sell her together. Erya is big and can do a lot of work. She looks pretty good too. If we raise her well, she might become a concubine or something. We can ask the slave trader for more silver. Who knows, if we use good medicine this time, Father will wake up right away.”
Lin Momo was so angry that "one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven."
I wanted to unleash a torrent of profanity on this utterly despicable guy.
She thought he was scared by her murderous aura, but it turns out he wasn't scared at all, and was actually plotting to sell her off too!
Lin Momo failed to save anyone and ended up getting herself killed; she was furious!
She wanted to curse and kick her own brother to death right now!
Unfortunately, she was a civilized person and couldn't learn the ways of a shrew who curses in the street. Besides, her body was weak and short of breath, which was too disappointing. Her strength just wouldn't allow it!
If you can't be forceful, you have to outsmart them.
After adjusting the battle strategy in time, Lin Momo smiled on her pale, bloodless face and said to Brother Zha as loudly as possible, "I say, Lin Zhiqiang, you're really something!"
"I apprenticed with the accountant in town for two years, but I didn't learn anything proper. Instead, I picked up a lot of crooked ideas. Not only did I gamble and drink, but I even thought about using my own flesh and blood to make money. I said it was to treat my father's illness. Maybe you've got gambling debts that you can't pay back and are trying to use our money from selling ourselves to pay them off."
"That accountant was wise enough to kick you out early on, saving himself from being dragged down by a scoundrel like you."
When you don't know how to break the deadlock, the best way is to first muddy the waters, and then seize the opportunity to defeat them one by one.
"Zhiqiang, you went gambling again!" Upon hearing Lin Momo's words, Madam Lin's legs went weak and her soul almost flew away.
Xu Zhiqiang panicked and hurriedly denied it desperately: "No, no, I didn't gamble! Mother! Don't listen to this brat's nonsense! I quit after last time. Besides, I don't have a single copper coin on me. If I wanted to gamble, they wouldn't let me in!"
As she spoke, she glared angrily at Lin Momo, who was watching the show from the side.
"Really not?" Madam Xu clearly didn't believe it.
"Really! Mother, don't you believe me?"
Xu Zhiqiang immediately put on a pitiful look and looked at his mother. If he had a tail, he probably would have been wagging it at her long ago.
He's already said that, so why doesn't Mother believe him?
Does Mother stop loving him just because he lost a hundred taels of silver gambling?
He was his parents' beloved eldest son, the only male in the family. How could his mother love money more than her son?
He doesn't want to face such a cruel reality.
Mother, don't you even think about it?
Can Yinzi call her "Mother"? Can she carry on the Xu family line? Can she establish a new household for the second branch of the Xu family?
Waaah, he's so heartbroken!
Xu's eyes flickered, and her mouth murmured, but she remained silent.
To be fair, although she selflessly devoted all her maternal love to this wonderful son, at least she wasn't blinded by greed and became a brainless fan of him, thinking that whatever her son said was true and whatever he did was right.
Before being swayed by her son's sweet talk, the last shred of reason she retained told her she shouldn't believe him.
It was because this son was a bad student and had accumulated a gambling debt of one hundred taels of silver that Master Xu, under the instigation of the other three branches of the family, angrily separated the second branch of the family.
Although Xu had always wanted to separate the family, she did not want to be kicked out in such a humiliating way.
At that time, the thought of having to repay that huge gambling debt of one hundred taels of silver made her feel like she wanted to die.
Fortunately, Old Master Xu did not abandon them to their deaths. When he threw the family out of the old house, he also threw away fifty taels of silver.
And it was made clear that the money was a loan and would be repaid in the future.
This immediately reduced the debt burden by half.
With the ten taels of silver given as a settlement for the family division, and the sale of half of the ten mu of land allocated to the family, they barely managed to scrape together one hundred taels to pay off their son's gambling debts.
Their once comfortable family situation suddenly plummeted to the subsistence level.
Still shaken, Mrs. Xu knew perfectly well that her remaining family fortune couldn't withstand her son's squandering.
While Lin Xu was suffering in her heart, Lin Zhiqiang, who was like a king in Linjia Mountain, felt that his elder brother's dignity had been offended and had already started arguing with Lin Momo.
"Hey you brat, you're usually such a quiet, wooden block, what's wrong with you today? You slept for a whole day and night and now your brain's suddenly working? Who are you being so arrogant to? Don't forget, I'm your older brother! You want me to beat you up?" As he spoke, Lin Zhiqiang raised his fist in a threatening gesture.
Lin Momo rolled her eyes. If I don't say anything now, do you expect me to sell me out?
Even a rabbit will bite when cornered. Even if her current words and actions are excessive and do not conform to the original owner's personality, she can still make excuses.
"Whoever wants a big brother who monopolizes his little sister can have him, my little sister and I don't care!"
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