Chapter 70 The Angry and Rebellious Old Father (1) (1/2)
Lin Shiheng, who is happy to be a father, checked the general plot of this world.
This novel is written from the perspective of the heroine. It mainly tells the story of the heroine, the daughter of a general, who was born in a chaotic world. Although she is a girl, she has a smart brain that is no less than that of a man. Because she has been following her father since she was a child, she is very talented in marching and fighting.
Since the world was in chaos, various princes rebelled, the emperor did evil things, and the people were living in misery and rose up in rebellion. The emperor, who only cared about pleasure, was worried about the betrayal of his subordinates and couldn't wait to tie his subordinates on a boat. Then the emperor with three thousand beauties in the harem came up with a bad idea.
Marry the general's daughter, that is, the heroine, as a concubine.
Originally, it was a good thing for the family to have an imperial concubine. In most cases, the general should agree. Unfortunately, in this book, the heroine is the general's only daughter. She has been raised in the palm of her hand since she was a child. The father and daughter have a good relationship. How can he be willing to let his pearl marry an emperor who is about to end as a concubine?
The emperor was going to die, and he was still thinking about harming his daughter, so the heroine's father also had the idea of rebellion, but he had been a minister for a long time, and he didn't think about becoming a king, so he simply joined the then-powerful Third Prince.
The plot is about how the heroine led troops to fight in person as a daughter, assisted the Third Prince to take the throne with her father, and married the Third Prince's son and had a happy family.
In this story, the Third Prince's son is a natural general, brave and extraordinary, and has never lost a battle. In the later part of the plot, he was named the crown prince by the Third Prince who ascended the throne. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be the next emperor.
In this perfect happy ending story, Lin Shiheng's body only occupies a few words.
He is the father of the Third Prince's son.
To be precise, the father who likes to be a father.
Before the chaos, the Third Prince pretended to be a playboy in order to paralyze the Prince, and flirted with him everywhere. During one flirtation, he pretended to be a rich young man and had a love affair with a woman. When the two were most emotional, he even gave her the jade pendant he wore.
After that, the Third Prince had enough fun and disappeared in the vast crowd without saying goodbye. The woman had been waiting for her lover to marry her wholeheartedly, but she didn't expect that she had given her body to him, and her lover disappeared just like that. When she cried bitterly and didn't know what to do, she found out that she was pregnant.
After all, the truth cannot be hidden. Her depressed look still attracted the attention of her family. After being asked, she couldn't help but tell everything. Her parents wanted to beat her to death, but after all, she was their own daughter, so they bought abortion pills for her to abort the child and just pretended that nothing had happened.
The woman didn't want to have an abortion, and her parents said that if she refused to have an abortion, the child would be born without a father, and they would definitely be thrown into the pig cage with her.
In a hurry, she found the original owner who loved her to take over.
The original owner was born a carpenter, without a father or mother, and had been supporting himself by working as a carpenter in the village. Although his family was poor, he was born with a good appearance. In addition, his strong body from long-term work also attracted many women in the village who wanted to find a son-in-law.
However, he only had a crush on the woman who had a fleeting love affair with the third prince. After an "accident" and being intimate with the person he liked, he was so happy that he quickly took all his wealth to the woman's house to ask for marriage.
Things went smoothly. She married him, and six months later, they gave birth to their eldest son "prematurely".
What puzzled the original owner was that his wife had no interest in husband-and-wife affairs. He loved her and didn't want to force her, so he married her but lived a life of abstinence for five years.
Unfortunately, until the child was five years old, the woman who waited for the third prince with all her heart did not wait for her lover to pick her and her child up, and finally died of depression. Before she died, she talked to the child alone and left the jade pendant to him.
A five-year-old child should not have known anything, but perhaps this child was gifted, and he actually remembered his mother's story of his life and never left the jade pendant.
One year after his wife passed away, the original owner saw his son become skinny because he was not good at cooking. He married a foreign woman who fled to his doorstep, and the two gave birth to three sons together.
After that, the eldest son grew up and wanted to join the army. The original owner was reluctant but had no way to stop him. She was worried that if he died in an accident, there would be no descendants to commemorate him in the future. She spent the family's limited rice and grain to hire a daughter-in-law from the neighboring village.
After the two hurriedly consummated their marriage, the eldest son left home to join the army. The hired daughter-in-law was also pregnant, but she didn't expect that she would not return for seven years.
Seven years later, as soon as he came back, he severed ties with his father, who had no blood relationship with him, divorced his wife on the spot, refused to recognize his own daughter, left behind 1,000 taels of silver, and never came back.
The son he had raised for so many years was not his own, which was a bolt from the blue for the original owner. The 1,000 taels of silver was like a reminder of what kind of ungrateful person he had raised. The original owner, who was too deeply shocked, pushed the 1,000 taels of silver to the river that night and poured it all in.
When the family found that the 1,000 taels of silver and his father were missing, they hurried to look for him, only to find that he had gone crazy.
Of course, a madman could not tell where he had taken the 1,000 taels of silver.
It goes without saying what one thousand taels means to this family.
But the three sons in the family did not blame their father, but continued to take care of him honestly. The original owner was crazy for ten years. Although the family was poor during these ten years, they were well taken care of by their sons and daughters-in-law. The daughter-in-law who was divorced by the eldest son stayed because of the kindness of the three sons. The daughter who was divorced by her husband was not of the blood of the Lin family, but she was taken in under such circumstances. She was so grateful that she took good care of the original owner with them.
The original owner was crazy for ten years and was well taken care of for ten years.
Until the tenth year, the third prince ascended the throne and found his biological son who was wandering among the people and named him the prince. This matter was also passed down as a good story. Even though he was crazy for ten years, the original owner still talked about this matter. He got up in a daze in the middle of the night and drowned in the river.
His wish was very simple, to make the rebellious son suffer, and to make his real relatives, including the eldest daughter-in-law, live better than the rebellious son.
After checking the original owner's memory, Lin Shiheng also roughly understood why he was so obsessed with this son.
Because he was the child born by his beloved, he loved this eldest son very much. The specific degree of love can probably be described by the three words "partiality".
The family had no money but to support the eldest son to study, and the other three sons? Just have food to eat.
He had enough money to buy clothes but didn't buy them for himself but for the eldest son. He wore leaky clothes with unknown layers of patches like other people in the family.
Every time the family ate meat, 80% of it would fall into the eldest son's bowl. Even if it was a normal meal, the eldest son who didn't have to work in the fields would eat more than the three sons who were busy doing farm work every day.
For the three biological children, the original owner was not a good father, but for this eldest son who was not related by blood, the original owner really put him in his heart and loved him.
Maybe at the beginning it was because this was the blood of himself and his beloved, and after loving him for more than 20 years, it really hurt to the bone.
Even knowing that he was not his own blood, the original owner would be sad and angry, but he never thought of giving up his eldest son.
In the end, it was the other party who gave up first.
He would go crazy, and the biggest blow he received was not "my eldest son is not my own", but "the child I cherished never regarded me as a father".
And until the moment before his death, he suddenly realized that he had let down his wife and three sons in his life. He never cherished those who were good to him, but treated the ungrateful wolf with all his heart, and even went crazy for this ungrateful wolf.
If it happened again, he would definitely make up for the family members he had let down.
The Lin family included the second wife he married later, three sons, and the eldest daughter-in-law and granddaughter who had nothing to do with the Lin family in a strict sense, as well as a few little rascals.
The descendants of the Lin family have always been quite prosperous. The second, third and fourth rooms of the grandchildren have two sons, and only the eldest room, which the original owner loved the most and wanted the most, has a granddaughter.
This also made the original owner very dissatisfied. After all, his beloved eldest son has no news now. What's the use of a granddaughter? If something happens to the eldest son, he can't even smash the pot for his father, not to mention the issue of incense and worship in the future.
This dissatisfaction turned into anxiety when his son did not return. Although anxious, the eldest daughter-in-law and granddaughter lived a good life. There was no special treatment. They were treated the same as other daughters-in-law and grandchildren in the family. Until the original owner was too worried about his son, he couldn't help but spend money to invite a passing fortune teller to calculate when his son would return.
The fortune teller counted with his fingers and said, "Old man, your son is good in every way, but he is unlucky. He married a wife who is incompatible with him. If you want your son to return safely, you should let the eldest daughter-in-law kowtow sincerely 100 times every day, and maybe you can resolve this incompatible fate."
He actually said this vaguely.
Anyway, the blame was passed to the eldest daughter-in-law. If the original owner's son could not come back, it was because the eldest daughter-in-law was not sincere enough. If he came back, it was the result of his guidance. Anyway, whether he came back or not, he was the one who could predict it accurately.
The routines commonly used by these swindlers may not deceive those dignitaries, but they can deceive the original owner who has only dealt with carpenters all his life.
He really believed these words, but he did not think of asking the eldest daughter-in-law to kowtow. He only wanted to ensure the safe return of his son. When he came back, he announced that he would divorce his son's wife and let the eldest daughter-in-law return to her parents' home.
The family was shocked. Although the original owner had always been partial and the eldest son had always had a faint relationship with them and looked down on them, the eldest daughter-in-law had been married for seven years, doing housework and serving her parents-in-law and sisters-in-law. Although she only gave birth to a daughter, it was because she only consummated the marriage once. No matter from which aspect, she was impeccable.
Besides, in this world, if a woman is divorced and returned home, she will be despised by everyone.
Isn't it a sin to send someone back when she has done nothing wrong?
The three sons and daughters-in-law, including the wife who never dared to speak loudly to her husband, could not help but persuade him that even if he believed the fortune teller's words, he could just let the eldest daughter-in-law kowtow 100 times a day, and why he had to send her back home after divorce.
The original owner was so angry that he fell to the ground on the spot. This frightened his wife and son and daughter-in-law so much that they dared not stop him. Just when he was about to drive away his daughter-in-law in order to let his eldest son return smoothly, his eldest son came back.
He raised 1,000 taels of silver and used this money to buy years of upbringing and father-son affection.
After that, he became crazy.
He betrayed the people who were good to him, and was betrayed by the people he was good to.
It can be regarded as retribution.
[Ding! Mission: Protect the Lin family, please complete the mission as soon as possible. ]
Lin Shiheng leaned against the wall and felt his current physical condition.
He was very strong. Although he was a grandfather now, he was not yet 45 years old. In addition, he had been working for a long time and no one in the family would be short of food and drink. His physical condition was much better than other people in the village.
The reason for his coma was, on the one hand, anger, and on the other hand, it was caused by long-term anxiety about the eldest son's delay in returning.
The current time point is that he got the fortune-teller's fortune-telling result yesterday. When he returned home, he insisted on driving away the eldest daughter-in-law. The family persuaded him collectively, but he fainted in anger. The second son went to the county to invite a doctor overnight. He said it was nothing serious, but the original owner did not wake up, which immediately made the whole family panic.
If the eldest son did not come at this time, the eldest daughter-in-law would be driven out as the original owner wished.
He supported himself with his hands, squinted slightly, and moved his ears.
There was the sound of horse hooves stepping on the ground. It seemed that they had arrived.
The next moment, the sound of horse hooves neighing came from outside.
The third son, who was chopping wood outside, rushed into the house with excitement on his face, "Dad! It's the eldest brother who is back, Dad, the eldest brother is back on horseback with many soldiers!"
The whole family knew how much the head of the family loved the eldest son, because it had always been like this since memory, and there was no jealousy. They were just happy that the eldest brother was back, and the father who had been worried about him didn't have to worry about it, and would not think of driving away the eldest sister-in-law.
Lin Shiheng glanced at his silly son. He looked pretty good. To be more precise, the three biological sons of the Lin family all looked pretty good. After all, the original owner had always looked good. The wife he married later was just pretty, but it was obvious that the three sons looked like their father. Their temperaments were the same as their mother's. They were kind and gentle. Basically, they were the type who worked hard and had no negative emotions.
Like now, he was just happy for his eldest brother who came back safely. He never thought about how much his eldest brother looked down on them.
Lin Shiheng retracted his gaze and showed joy on his face, "Hurry, help me up. I want to see my son."
The third son happily helped him put on his coat, helped him get off the bed, and walked to the door excitedly. At this moment, Mo Chenke, the leader, got off the horse and stood at the door with a frown and disdain without going in.
The Lin family's yard is quite large. Although the house is a bit dilapidated, the family members are diligent and clean it up properly. Not only do they split a part of the land to grow vegetables, but they also raise chickens and ducks. Although there are not many, they will also be a source of income when they grow up.
These chickens and ducks, which seem to represent money in the eyes of farmers, are disgusting to Mo Chenke, especially when he sees the chicken droppings on the ground, which makes him even more unwilling to step in.
Just as he was waiting impatiently, a middle-aged man in the room, who was supported by a tall man and limping weakly, looked at him with red eyes and shouted at him:
"My son!!!!"
"You are finally back. Daddy has been worried about you for the past seven years, fearing that something has happened to you. Why don't you come in after returning home? Come in quickly, the third brother's family, kill a chicken quickly to nourish my Guangyao's body..."
Before Mo Chenke had time to speak, he heard the man in front of him who he had called dad for more than 20 years talking a lot.
He frowned impatiently and avoided Lin Shiheng's hand.
"No need, I came here today to tell you something."
Under Lin Shiheng's increasingly pale face of disbelief, he told him that he was not his biological son and that he had found his biological father.
"Guangyao...you, you are not my child?"
The Lin family members who came out after hearing the noise watched Lin Shiheng's face with a look of great shock and his voice trembling, and they were also shocked.
No one knows better than them how much Dad loves his eldest brother, but now, his eldest brother is not his biological son?
Mo Chenke did not feel as distressed as his three sons when he saw Lin Shiheng's appearance, but frowned and said impatiently: "Don't call me Lin Guangyao, I have changed back to my father's surname now."
The name Lin Guangyao is rustic and embarrassing to him. Every time he introduces himself to others, he introduces himself as a courtesy name and never says his real name.
But now it's good, he has found his biological father and recognized him. His father is the third prince, and he may be the future emperor. He will be a high and mighty prince, and he will have nothing to do with these lowly poor people who have to be happy for a long time to eat a piece of meat.
As soon as these words came out, Lin Shiheng, who was supported by his son, couldn't even stand steadily.
"I, you... Guangyao, are you really not my biological child?"
"Really."
When he heard this, his peach blossom eyes that had charmed countless women when he was young dimmed instantly. But even though he looked like he was about to collapse from the blow, Lin Shiheng still murmured with a sad look in his eyes: "It's okay, it's okay... It's a good thing that you have found your biological father... Dad will still love you like before."
Mo Chenke sneered, he still wanted to love himself?
What to love?
With patched clothes, or not eating meat for a month?
Since he knew that his biological father was someone else at the age of five, and might even be a big shot, he has been looking forward to finding his biological father and leaving this poor family.
Now, he finally got his wish.
Unwilling to waste more words with a father who has no blood relationship with him, Mo Chenke directly stated that since he has recognized his biological father, it is natural to sever ties with the Lin family who has no blood relationship with him.
"Of course, we are father and son after all, I won't let you suffer any loss, come on, bring up the silver."
Two boxes were brought up, Mo Chenke walked forward, opened the boxes, and revealed the silver inside.
"This thousand taels is enough for you to live a lifetime."
In this era where twenty taels are enough for a well-off family to live a rich life, one thousand taels is simply a sudden wealth for the Lin family. The third prince has been fighting since he started his army, and the silver in the captured cities naturally belongs to his new owner, so he is not short of money.
This time, knowing that his son was going back to sever ties with his adoptive father, he generously allocated three thousand taels from his private treasury to thank the Lin family for their upbringing.
He was born a prince, and he had never lacked food and clothing. Naturally, he didn't think that the three thousand taels were nothing. However, Mo Chenke had been growing up in the Lin family. He knew that one tael of silver was a lot for them. Therefore, he deducted two thousand taels on the way here and only allocated one thousand taels. Anyway, one thousand taels was enough for the Lin family.
What Mo Chenke didn't expect was that Lin Shiheng's eyes never looked at the white|flower|silver taels, but stared at him with red eyes and persistence: "I don't want silver, I just want my son."
"So many years of father-son relationship, do you really want it like this!"
Mo Chenke didn't expect it to turn out like this. It stands to reason that Lin Shiheng should be very angry after knowing his life experience. According to his plan, when Lin Shiheng was angry or couldn't help cursing, he would announce the severance of the father-son relationship, which would seem more reasonable at that time.
Unexpectedly, even if he knew that Baibai had helped others raise their son for more than 20 years, Lin Shiheng still didn't want to give up his son.
Is it because he saw that he came here with such a big scene, so he couldn't be satisfied with this thousand taels?
He didn't want to stay in this place any longer, so he simply got on his horse and said directly: "Since I have already recognized my biological father, there is no reason for me to be your son anymore."
"If you don't want to be my son, then what about your wife? What about your daughter!"
It would have been better if he didn't say it. Once he said it, Mo Chenke's face turned ugly. If he had known that he was the son of the third prince, he would never have listened to the Lin family and married a peasant woman.
After investigating that this peasant woman had given birth to a daughter for him, the regret in his heart became more and more obvious. Now his father's intention is very clear. He hopes that he can marry the general's daughter who is very good at fighting. The general has only such an only daughter. If he can marry her, all the soldiers under his command will become his.
Think about it, how could the daughter of a pampered general marry someone as a concubine?
Therefore, the wife he married before must be dealt with.
And the daughter he has never met.
Mo Chenke sat on his horse, looking down at the people in the courtyard, and accurately fixed his sight on the woman holding a six or seven-year-old girl.
Although he hadn't seen her for seven years, he still recognized that this was the wife who had only consummated the marriage in a hurry.
This time, he could only apologize to her.
"It was not my wish to marry a wife at the beginning. Since I didn't go to the government office to handle the household registration, she is not my wife."
In front of his wife who looked at him with a pale face holding her daughter, he took out a divorce letter from his arms and threw it lightly on the ground.
"From now on, men and women are married and have nothing to do with each other."
"Okay! Okay!!"
Anyone who is not blind can see that Lin Shiheng has been furious. The third son who was still in shock hurriedly supported him, very worried that his father who had just woken up would faint again.
"Brother, don't be like this. You want to break off relations with the Lin family because there is no blood relationship, but sister-in-law has done nothing wrong. If you divorce her, how will she live in the future? Dad was in a coma yesterday and just woke up today. Don't be angry with him. Let's talk it over..."
Mo Chenke sat on the horse and looked at the girl who was holding his hand and looking at him with red eyes. The blood relationship made him want to take a closer look at his daughter, but when he thought of the daughter of the general, he gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and pulled the reins to control the horse to turn around.
Just as he was about to leave this place, Lin Shiheng's trembling voice came from behind.
"Since you have abandoned your wife and daughter and severed ties with my Lin family, I will not keep you any longer. But remember, Lin Guangyao of my Lin family is dead. No matter how much you regret it in the future, I will never acknowledge you as my son again!"
Regret?
His biological father is a prince, and he is now leading troops and has a high status. He will soon marry the daughter of a general. How can he regret it?
Mo Chenke didn't even want to turn around and say anything. He rode away with his men on a fast horse.
"Dad..."
Looking at the dust raised by the horse's hooves, the Lin family yard fell into silence. Mother Lin looked at her husband worriedly, opened her mouth to persuade him but didn't know how to persuade him. The other sons and daughters-in-law didn't know how to start either.
Raising someone else's son for more than 20 years, even if they were honest and loyal, they couldn't stand it.
Compared to the Lin family who were still in shock and worry about Lin Shiheng, Sister Lin had a pale face and eyes full of despair.
When her father-in-law thought her husband was his biological son, he wanted to drive her back to her parents' home. Now that he knows that her husband is not his child, how can he allow her to stay in the Lin family?
And her daughter, if she had been driven out of the Lin family before, although her daughter's life might not be as good as before, the Lin family is kind-hearted. Even if her father-in-law is angry with her daughter, her uncles and aunts will take care of her.
But now, her husband has given her a divorce letter and also said that he is not of the blood of the Lin family. Her daughter is not the granddaughter of the Lin family at all. In this situation, no matter how much her father-in-law loved her husband before, he would never keep her and her daughter.
Although a person who is divorced and sent home will be despised and ignored by her family, if she wants to live, she can still survive.
But if she takes her daughter back, let alone whether her family is willing to let her in, just the pointing and pointing of people around and being left without food and money are enough to make her and her mother unable to survive.
Mrs. Lin thought of it in despair. Her husband had just given the Lin family one thousand taels, but he never mentioned giving her some food.
He knew clearly that the Lin family would not keep her in this situation, and her family would not take in a divorced daughter with a child.
In this situation, she could not survive with her daughter without silver and food.
Not only did she give up on them, but she also wanted to force them to death.
She only hated herself for being too shocked and not rushing to kneel down and begging him to take her daughter away when the cruel man left. But if he did it on purpose, he would not stay even if she begged.
Originally, she thought that being almost kicked out of the house yesterday was the most terrible thing in the world, but today, she completely overturned this idea.
What does it feel like to be plotted to die by the husband who should have been with her for life? Her eyes were full of tears, but she didn't care to think about it anymore. She knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed desperately.
"Dad, Mom, please don't chase me away. Please, I'm still young. If you chase me away, I'll definitely die. I can do farm work and take care of the family. I also do embroidery and sell it in the county. Please don't chase us away..."
"Aunt, hurry up and kowtow to Grandpa."
As she said this, she pulled her crying daughter to kneel down and kowtow to Lin Shiheng.
The three brothers were at a loss. Second Sister-in-law Lin was already panicking. She hurriedly went forward with her two younger sisters-in-law to help her up. But Sister-in-law Lin knew that this was her daughter's last chance to survive. She kept knelt on the ground and refused to get up no matter how she was pulled.
Watching her forehead quickly turn purple and red and bleed, Lin's mother, who had been silent all the time, spoke to her husband carefully: "His father, Wei Niang has to do a lot of work. Her family has never treated her well. It's hot summer now, and it's a mess outside. It's hard to tell who is good and who is bad. Why don't we keep her here? She can be considered a strong laborer."
She was a refugee, two years older than Lin Shiheng. At first, she followed her father, mother, and siblings. Later, her siblings died of starvation. Then, her father was beaten when he was fighting for food with others. He had a high fever and died that night. Finally, her mother couldn't stand the hunger and jumped into the river to commit suicide.
This refugee career lasted for six years. What she feared most was starvation. At first, she was hungry and was willing to do anything as long as she was given a bite of food. Therefore, when her husband asked her for a wife who needed to do housework, she agreed without hesitation.
After marrying her husband, she was quiet but diligent. She cleaned the house inside and out and treated her step-son as her own son. She would never go west if her husband said east, because even though she had settled down for so many years, she was still the refugee who was satisfied as long as she could have enough food.
She rarely expressed her opinions and just did things silently. She just couldn't bear to see Sister Lin kneeling on the ground and kowtowed miserably.
As soon as Mother Lin spoke, the three sons hurriedly followed and persuaded her: "Yes, Dad, there is chaos outside now, and Sister-in-law can't survive with a child."
"Let's settle down first. After all, my eldest sister-in-law has been filial to you and mother for the past seven years. If she leaves our home and something happens outside, we will feel guilty for the rest of our lives."
"Dad, just help my eldest sister-in-law."
Lin Shiheng frowned and leaned against his third son, "Second daughter-in-law, help the eldest daughter-in-law up."
"Hey!"
Second sister-in-law Lin quickly agreed, holding up the dizzy eldest sister-in-law Lin with one hand: "Sister-in-law, Dad asked you to get up, get up quickly."
Mrs. Lin stood up quickly, fearing that her slowness would displease her father-in-law. At this moment, her forehead was covered with dirt and blood, and the purple patch looked particularly scary, but she didn't know it herself, as if she couldn't feel the pain. Her swollen eyes looked at Lin Shiheng cautiously, desperately and full of hope.
"Remember, our Lin Guangyao is dead. He died on the battlefield. His body is gone. From now on, you are the widow of our Lin family. Remember?"
Is he going to leave her and her daughter behind?
Mrs. Lin was overjoyed and nodded frantically: "I remember it, Dad, I remember it."
Lin Shiheng didn't look at her again, but waved to his granddaughter who was standing next to her mother with red eyes and looking at him timidly, "Auntie, come here."
Auntie Lin was only six years old. Although she had never seen her father since she was born and her grandfather disliked her for being a girl, he was indifferent to all the children in the family. Therefore, Auntie Lin didn't feel that she was treated specially. In addition, her uncle and aunt were all good to her, and her brothers and sisters also loved to play with her, so her temperament was always lively.
But yesterday, her mother was almost kicked out, which made her panic and she didn't know what to do. Add to that everything she experienced today, and these things together obviously scared her. At this moment, her big eyes were full of tears. At her mother's urging, she hesitated and walked over timidly.
Children from poor families mature early. She also knows some things. She knows that her father doesn't want her and her mother anymore, and now, she and her mother may be kicked out.
Can't cry.
Grandpa doesn't like children crying.
He will kick her and her mother out if he sees her crying.
The little girl with tears on her face walked up to Lin Shiheng. Although her eyes were full of tears, she still managed to force a smile on her face. She begged in a tender voice with tears in her voice: "Grandpa, don't chase Auntie away. Auntie can catch insects and feed chickens, sweep the yard, and deliver meals to uncle and auntie..."
Lin Shiheng squatted down and stretched out his hand to wipe the tears from his granddaughter's face, "I won't chase you away, Auntie, remember, your father is dead, you are our Lin family's granddaughter."
Auntie Lin stretched out her hand and wiped her tears while nodding, "Auntie remembers."
Knowing that Sister-in-law Lin and Auntie Lin would not be chased away, the three brothers of the Lin family and Lin's mother were relieved.
After Lin Shiheng finished speaking to his granddaughter, he stood up, "Second, third, and fourth sons, take your wives to move the silver into the house."
"Oh, okay!"
The three sons quickly agreed and obediently moved the silver.
Fortunately, they live in a remote place with few neighbors around. Otherwise, if people see that there is so much silver in their family, it is hard to guarantee that they will not attract some bad people if it is spread out.
If they saw so much silver before, they would definitely be overjoyed, but now they know clearly that the silver was obtained by the eldest brother breaking off the relationship with his father, so the three brothers kept silent.
Since childhood, they have seen how their father put the eldest brother in his palm and loved him, and witnessed with their own eyes that he did not want the silver but wanted the eldest brother not to break off the father-son relationship. The three of them were not happy. It is good to have silver, but if their father was so angry that he kicked his legs to the sky, their backbone would be broken.
They were raised to be too naive, but they were filial to each other. At this moment, they were full of thoughts such as how angry their father was and whether he would be angry and hurt his body.
No matter how much silver there is, it is not as important as their father.
The three daughters-in-law were actually a little happier when they saw so much silver, but they were all honest people, and no one asked to share the silver. They followed their husbands and carried the silver into the house silently.
Lin Shiheng was already sitting in front of the table waiting for them. Sister Lin held her daughter's hand and dared not to help. She was standing timidly in the corner. Mother Lin stood behind her husband and carefully put the water on the table: "Dad, drink some water."
He took a sip and still had a gloomy face. This scene made the six people who came in feel nervous. They immediately shrank their necks, lowered their heads and put down the silver. No one dared to say a word.
Lin Shiheng knocked on the table with his hands and looked at the silver with heavy eyes.
"Second son, go find out in the afternoon if there are any bandit dens nearby."
"Third son, go to the county blacksmith shop and ask how much silver it costs to make an iron spear. If you make more, can it be cheaper?"
"Fourth son, you are fast, go to the surrounding counties tomorrow and find out how many people are rebelling now and what kind of armor they are wearing."
The three sons didn't quite understand what he wanted to do. After agreeing, they asked cautiously: "Dad, why are you asking these questions?"
"The armor that the rebellious son is wearing is not from the orthodox army of our dynasty. He must have followed some rebel army. He spent a thousand taels at once. Either he is in a high position now, or his father is in a high position."
He became more and more angry as he spoke. He slapped the table with a slap, and the table made a loud bang, which frightened the Lin family members who were listening quietly and trembled all over, not daring to breathe.
But Lin Shiheng said viciously: "I have only heard of fathers abandoning sons, but never heard of sons abandoning fathers. I have raised him for so many years, and I have raised such an ungrateful person. I will not rest in peace until I cut this ungrateful person into pieces!"
The Lin family members were frightened by the angry head of the family, and they all held their breath and dared not speak.
"Fourth brother, tomorrow you go find out which rebel group this rebellious son is in, and then come back and tell me."
"The second and third wives will go to the street to buy rice tomorrow, and take 20 taels of silver. The fourth wife will take your mother to buy cloth, black, for four people, and buy clothes for everyone in the family."
The Lin family didn't understand what the head of the family was supposed to do, but they all nodded in agreement, not daring to refuse.
Standing in the corner, Sister Lin saw that everyone in the family had been assigned work, and she stepped out carefully.
"Dad, do you want me to do anything?"
"You?"
Lin Shiheng turned his head and glanced at her.
He told her the reason for keeping her without any concealment.
"Just live well."
"Kill that rebellious son for me!"