Grandpa Lin saw that Liu Hai and Jia Si were standing at the entrance of the main room and refused to leave. A large group of villagers were also standing in the courtyard, all reluctant to leave, their faces full of gossip and watching the excitement with great interest.
Grandpa Lin rubbed his head, feeling a headache coming on. What a mess this was! He wished he had gone back to the city and not gotten involved in all this trouble.
Grandpa Lin looked at Jas and Liu Hai and said, "You like Piaoxue and are willing to do things for her. It's your own choice. Just because you like Piaoxue doesn't mean Piaoxue has to like you back. You can't morally blackmail Piaoxue into reciprocating your love."
"You love yourselves, and the snow isn't wrong either."
Grandpa Lin sighed regretfully at this point, "If you had been born a few decades earlier, and Piaoxue was a boy and you were girls, she could have married you both. It's a pity you were born in the wrong era and the wrong gender."
Lin Qinghuan was stunned by her grandfather's words. The regretful tone and the lament of being born at the wrong time shattered Lin Qinghuan's worldview. Lin Piaoxue had completely inherited her grandfather's bad genes, and her values were incomprehensible.
Uncle Lin and Father Lin had black lines on their foreheads and their mouths were twitching. Is this how humans talk? Aren't they afraid of setting a bad example for their descendants?
The Lin family relatives and Li family friends were stunned by what Grandpa Lin said. After they came to their senses, they looked at each other in disbelief. The old man's thinking was really hard to comprehend.
“Grandpa, the country stipulates monogamy, but some men do have multiple wives, as long as they don’t cause trouble. As long as they can live in harmony, no one will care if you have a hundred wives. If Jas and the others are willing to have multiple husbands and serve my sister, it would be a happy ending for everyone,” Lin Qinghuan said.
Grandpa Lin secretly rolled his eyes. He had only said it casually, but Qing Huan actually took it seriously. Besides, Lin Piaoxue wasn't some stunning beauty, nor did she have any amazing wealth. Why would those men fawn over her?
Jas and Liu Hai were completely dumbfounded. The Lin family actually wanted more than a dozen of them to marry into the Lin family.
Are they hallucinating, or have the Lin family gone mad?
Everyone in the main room and the courtyard was stunned. Even Lin's father and uncle were completely bewildered.
Li Qiang looked at Grandpa Lin and Lin Qinghuan speechlessly, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Wang Cuihua blushed and shouted, "No, my Qiangzi can't share a husband with so many men."
Lin Qinghuan looked down at her toes, her shoulders trembling.
My goodness! She was just talking nonsense and making things up, but I can't believe Wang Cuihua actually believed her.
Lin Qinghuan suppressed her laughter and looked at Wang Cuihua seriously, saying, "My father runs a brick factory, so supporting more than a dozen sons-in-law is no problem. At worst, Li Qiang can be the legal wife, and Liu Hai and Jia Si can be concubines. On the first and fifteenth of the month, my sister can stay in Li Qiang's room."
Lin's father looked at Lin Qinghuan with tears in his eyes. He had no ability to support more than a dozen sons-in-law. Nowadays, no one's daughter would find more than a dozen sons-in-law at once. It was unreasonable.
Jas and Liu Hai's faces turned pale and then red, like a palette of colors.
Lin Qinghuan approached her father and whispered in his ear, "Dad! With more than a dozen sons-in-law working for you, you don't even need to pay them wages. Just feed them three meals a day. It's a sure-fire way to make money."
Lin's father looked up at the sky speechlessly. He liked to take advantage of others, but he was also afraid of being gossiped about.
Everyone's eyes kept darting back and forth between Lin Piaoxue and Liu Hai; Lin Piaoxue's charm was just too great!
Wang Cuihua had never been so humiliated. She was so angry that she pointed at Lin Piaoxue's nose and cursed, "You better find a way to resolve this, or I won't go through with this marriage. Anyway, my Qiangzi is hardworking, reliable, and capable. There are plenty of men who want to marry him."
Wang Cuihua looked at Lin Piaoxue with disdain. She really didn't know what was so good about this girl. It was bad enough that she had caused her two sons to turn against each other, but now she had caused this mess during the engagement. How was she going to live in the village after this?
Li Qiang, having seen a lot of the world, looked at Lin Piaoxue with some hesitation. As the saying goes, a wife should be virtuous. Lin Piaoxue is flirting with so many men. What if she cheats on him one day?
Jas and Liu Hai looked extremely displeased. They had only come to see why Lin Piaoxue had abandoned them for Li Qiang, and to cause her trouble, but now they were the ones who had been manipulated and made a laughingstock. And now they were being asked to be her concubines? They weren't women; it was an insult to their dignity.
Jass, being impulsive, flew into a rage and said, "Do you think this is ancient times, and Lin Piaoxue is a princess? You actually want to have male lovers? Do you want me to go to the police station and report you?"
Lin Qinghuan puffed out her chest and said confidently, "A concubine is considered half a mistress, with a higher status than a male concubine. You are rather unattractive, and ancient princesses would not have looked at you. Besides, our Lin family did not force you into marriage. You came to our door demanding an explanation. My grandfather was enlightened and wise. Considering your devotion, he gave you an explanation and allowed my sister to reluctantly take you as concubines. Even if the police come, we are in the right."
Lin Qinghuan shook her head and sighed, "You don't know how to be grateful. Instead, you harbor resentment and have wasted my grandfather's good intentions. You are heartless and worse than pigs and dogs. No wonder my sister left you and chose to marry Li Qiang."
Grandpa Lin couldn't help but chuckle as he watched Lin Qinghuan spout her fallacies with such confidence and arrogance.
Jia Si and Liu Hai almost made Lin Qinghuan vomit blood with anger. They wished they could tear Lin Qinghuan's mouth apart, but they were in Baiyun Village and at the Lin family's house, so they dared not make any rash moves and could only swallow their anger.
Jia Si and his gang used to bully Lin Piaoxue for her sake, but seeing how angry they were now, they felt much better.
Liu Hai glared at Lin Qinghuan with a gloomy face. "It's only right to pay back debts. We don't care who Lin Piaoxue marries, but she has to pay me back the six hundred yuan she borrowed from me first."
Wang Cuihua's face darkened upon hearing this; six hundred yuan was no small sum.
Jass chimed in, "Yes, I came here specifically to collect my money today." He then glanced at Lin Piaoxue, "Piaoxue, you still owe me five hundred yuan. When are you going to pay me back?"
Lin Piaoxue remained silent with a cold expression.
The others approached Lin Piaoxue one after another, demanding the money she had borrowed from them.
"Lin Piaoxue also lent me a hundred yuan. My family is struggling financially, so please don't renege on your debt."
"Lin Piaoxue, lend me fifty yuan..."
"Lin Piaoxue, you borrowed eighty yuan from me, now give it back to me."
"You also owe me my 120 yuan."
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Lin Piaoxue looked at Jas and his group with a gloomy expression, her heart sinking. It seemed that Jas and his group were determined to embarrass her today and would not stop until they had completely humiliated her!
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