Chapter 703
When Lin Yuan arrived at the old house of the Lin family, it was already surrounded by villagers.

Although it is the old house of the Lin family, it was actually divided into two long after Lin Jiazhong and Lin Jiaxiao separated.A half-person-high wall was built in the middle of the former large courtyard, and the former gate was even removed and replaced with two simple small gates. Looking from a distance, there was a sense of depression.

Looking at the person who came, Lin Jiazhong felt guilty and embarrassed, and clenched his hands tightly.Behind him, Ma Shi, with bloodshot eyes, was blocking the door nervously, holding a shovel handle tightly in his hand.

"Hey, Lao Lin, it's not the old brother, I don't miss the old love, it's really you..."

The person who spoke was an old man in his fifties. Although his hair was gray, he combed it meticulously, and the dark blue slanted-breasted robe on his body was not wrinkled at all.

The old man was standing in the middle of the yard, and there were seven or eight young men behind him. The small yard became even more crowded because of these people.

Lin Jiazhong's face turned pale, and he glanced at the young men, all of whom he was familiar with, and sighed: "Steward Qi, I, I have difficulties, I wanted to fill up the hole quickly in the past few days, But, but..."

This butler Qi is the butler of the squire's family where Lin Jiazhong worked. Speaking of which, he has worked with Lin Jiazhong for more than ten years, and he still has a good impression of Lin Jiazhong.It's just that I didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Jiazhong, old brother, I really can't do anything about this matter. As an accountant, you actually guard against yourself, not to mention the master, no one will let you go easily."

Butler Qi shook his head helplessly, "I'm not talking about you, old brother. You dare to touch the new account that the master has collected for a mere 56 taels of silver. Jiazhong, if you need money for urgent matters, you can tell me. Based on our ten-year friendship, will I not give it to you?"

Lin Jiazhong blushed at what Steward Qi said, and lowered his head, not knowing what to say.

It wasn't until this moment that Lin Yuan figured out what was going on.

It turned out that after Lin Yongcheng was caught stealing that day, the old village head asked Lin Jiazhong to replace the 56 taels of silver. He took it privately from the accountant of the owner's house.

No, now that the Dongchuang incident has been revealed, they have sent someone to settle the accounts.

Butler Qi said again: "Jiazhong, you didn't go to the mansion to do anything these few days, are you trying to raise money? Hey, you are also pitiful. When the master saw that you didn't come, he looked at the account books himself, and it turned out. Forget it. , It's too late to say anything now, if you make up for the lack of money earlier, maybe I can say something nice to you, brother, but now, brother, I have nothing to do."

Lin Jiazhong bit his lips, his voice was difficult and trembling: "Steward Qi, master, what did he say? Is he going to put me in jail?"

As soon as the word prison was mentioned, Lin Jiazhong's voice trembled even more, and the scene of his youngest son who died tragically appeared in front of his eyes.

Ma Shi trembled even more, and his lips began to tremble.Afterwards, she also asked Lin Jiazhong where the money came from, but he just didn't say anything. Later, when he asked urgently, Lin Jiazhong said that he went to Li's mansion to ask Lin Siyu for it.

At that time, she still thought that it would be good to have a daughter who would be a concubine for the magistrate of the county. Who knew that after a few days of comfortable life, someone came to her door and said that the money was stolen!
"The master, the master, did you really steal it?" Mrs. Ma asked cautiously, shrinking her neck when she saw Lin Jiazhong's eyes staring like copper bells, but still boldly said: "Qi, housekeeper Qi , you don’t want to arrest me and go to jail! We pay money, pay money!”

"Shut up! What are you meddling with, an old woman, when a man talks!" Lin Jiazhong's eyes widened, the whites of his eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, and he looked very scary.

Mashi swallowed hard and stopped talking.

But housekeeper Qi gently persuaded him: "Jiazhong, what my brother and sister said is right. The master is not a person who doesn't care about feelings. He knows the situation in your family. The reason is that your eldest son is not in good health, and you followed him After more than ten years of work, the master said that as long as you can pay back the 56 taels of silver, he will not send you to the Yamen."

After a pause, Housekeeper Qi said again: "Jiazhong, the master is showing you a great favor. If you change to another family, you will definitely be asked to pay back the money and have you taken to the yamen. Besides, the 56 taels The interest on the silver is not calculated, you should understand the painstaking efforts of the master."

Lin Jiazhong's complexion became paler, and even his lips began to tremble. After a long time, he hugged his head with both hands and blamed himself in pain: "I, I'm sorry, master, I'm sorry for him!"

Speaking of which, this old man Huang treated him kindly. When Lin Yongle committed a crime and went to prison, he even helped Lin Jiazhong take care of it.Later, it was Lin Jiazhong who advanced his wages to help him relieve his urgent needs.Now that he found out about Lin Jiazhong's self-stealing, this old man Huang didn't report to the police immediately, and gave him another chance to reform.

How could Lin Jiazhong not regret it?
It's just that when he secretly took the money back then, he was more or less lucky, saying that he was taking advantage of loopholes, or bullying Mr. Huang with a kind heart, in short, the development of the matter to the present situation was beyond his expectation.

"Steward Qi, let me plead with the master, okay? I really know I'm wrong!"

This time Steward Qi was not so easy to talk to, and shook his head resolutely: "To tell you the truth, before I came, the master had already told me that he didn't want to see you anymore. As long as you hand over the money, the two dollars you advanced He doesn't want a month's salary, but you can never go back to be an accountant again."

what? !

Although he had expected such an ending, when these words really came out of Steward Qi's mouth, Lin Jiazhong was still shocked, his body swayed, and he managed to stand still.

"Can't go back? Yes, who would trust a thief to handle the family's account?"

Lin Jiazhong laughed at himself, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were extremely firm: "It's just, Steward Qi, you should also know the situation in our family. The 56 taels of silver are for emergency use of our son. If you ask me to pay it back, I, I really I don’t have the ability. Originally, I thought that I could use my wages to pay off the debt, but now, I don’t even have this opportunity.”

Butler Qi narrowed his eyes: "If you don't have any money to pay back, then there are only two ways to go, either follow me to the Yamen, or use your house to pay off the debt!"

Perhaps this is the purpose of Butler Qi bringing those young men here!
Lin Jiazhong's expression changed drastically, and he looked at his yard with some confusion. This house is already the only property left by their family. Do they really want to take it out to pay off the debt?

Lin Yuan followed Lin Jiaxin and quietly watched what happened in the yard. Because of Lin Yongcheng's incident, Lin Jiazhong's family has long been the focus of Lin Jiaao's attention, so when Steward Qi brought someone to find him, almost everyone in the village They all followed to watch the excitement.

It's just that now, there are many discussions and people watching the excitement, and there are no ones who can really help.

When Lin Jiazhong was in trouble, Lin Jiaxiao on the other side of the wall suddenly raised his head, and said in a neutral tone: "Of course we are selling the house, but can you sell this poor house for 56 taels? I don't mind Mr. Huang." That’s how I think of you, besides, your house won’t be occupied in a long time, so what are you using this house for? Waste!”

Lin Jiazhong's heart was chilled by Lin Jiaxiao's sarcastic words, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin Jiaxiao with ice-like eyes, his voice was low and hoarse: "Old man, don't worry, I will definitely not talk to you If you borrow money, you don’t have to stand there and talk without back pain! Go back and pretend to be your grandson!”

Being scolded by him like this, Lin Jiaxiao also became angry. Originally, he was bitter about Lin Yuan buying Lin Jiazhong's piece of broken land at a high price, but now hearing his ugly words, he was even more angry. where to come.

"Whose grandson are you scolding! Is what I said wrong? Your son can't even stand up now, you think I don't know? Huh, the doctor has already said that your son will not live for half a year, and you just don't believe it. He also offered him five stones to eat! Your son was killed by you!"

Lin Jiazhong swayed like five thunderbolts, and Ma Shi on the side worriedly wanted to step forward to help him, but stopped timidly, rolled his eyes, and immediately pointed at Lin Jiaxiao and scolded: "The third child , you don’t need to take care of our family’s affairs! You’d better take care of your woman, she’s got mixed up with that old bachelor from the village, and you’re the only fool who doesn’t know she’s been cuckolded!”

"You're a fucking idiot! You're just... what did you say?" Lin Jiaxiao's face changed before he could finish his sentence, and when he looked at the expressions of sympathy or contempt on the faces of the villagers, he became even more convinced Ma's words are not false.

"Sexy bitch! You bitch!" Lin Jiaxiao jumped off the wall cursingly, rolled up his sleeves and went back to the house to settle accounts with Li Feng'e. After a while, men shouted loudly and women screamed in the courtyard of the third child. The sound of crying.

Everyone listened eagerly, and they were immediately amused. No wonder Li Feng'e had been hanging out with the old bachelor from the village for so long and Lin Jiaxiao didn't realize that he himself had a friend in the city.And from Li Feng'e's scolding, it can be heard that Lin Jiaxiao's friend is still a brothel girl. This Lin Jiaxiao sold two pieces of land at home to redeem her body, and rented a small yard in the city. People lived a small life there.

Lin Yuan had met the old bachelor at the head of the village a few times before. Because his family was poor, he hadn't married after the age of [-], and he was quite ugly. I don't know what Li Feng'e liked about him. , actually got together with him.

Lin Yuan believed that Li Feng'e was doing it for revenge, thinking that Lin Jiaxiao was obedient to Li Feng'e at the beginning, saying that it would not be an exaggeration to put it in his mouth for fear of it would melt and hold it in his hand for fear of it breaking.But then it was suddenly discovered that Lin Jiaxiao had a woman outside, she must have been hiding from sadness rather than anger.

Lin Yuan shook her head regretfully. The Lin family's filial piety was never done properly. She never thought that she would learn from others to raise women. This good family was ruined by him just like that!
Lin Yuan turned her head, just in time to see Yang standing in the crowd with a sullen face, apparently also pissed off by the nasty things done by the young couple.It's a pity that she is so old, and she still has to bear the pointers from her children.

The third child's family did not live up to expectations, and the eldest family was even more worried.

Ma Shi scolded Lin Jiaxiao, thinking that he had successfully diverted his man's attention, but he didn't want to be happy for a while, Lin Jiazhong's big mouth had already drawn to her face, and the angry scolding sound became even more intense. It made her tremble.

"You prodigal bitch! You still give him five stone powder? Ah? You want to eat him to death, don't you? Don't you? My son was killed by you, a poisonous woman! I, I'm going to kill you today, kill you, kill him, our family will die, die!"

As he said that, Lin Jiazhong really picked up the shovel handle that Ma Shi had thrown away from the ground, and hit Ma Shi with one stick after another. Ma Shi screamed in pain, rolled on the ground, and kept talking beg for mercy.

"The head of the family, no, it's not that I want to harm him, it's him who begged me. I really, really can't bear to see my son suffer. Oh, stop beating me. The head of the family, I was wrong, I was wrong."

When Mrs. Ma shouted this, Lin Jiazhong became even more angry. When he quit Lin Yongcheng's addiction to Wushisan, Mrs. Ma couldn't bear to join forces with her son to deceive him. Now that her son is dying, she is still obsessed with continuing. Give that to my son.Didn't she know that thing would eat her son to death?

Seeing Lin Jiazhong beating and scolding Mrs. Ma, Lin Yuan didn't have any sympathy in her heart, but only felt helpless towards the ignorant Mrs. Ma and sympathized with Lin Jiazhong.As the head of the family, for the sake of his son and the family, Lin Jiazhong can take risks and guard against himself.But he didn't want to, and in the end he was cheated by the person next to his pillow. After paying so much, he didn't get the desired result after all.He was angry, maybe it was himself?

Naturally, everyone couldn't just watch Lin Jiazhong beat Ma Shi to death, someone stepped forward and pulled Lin Jiazhong away immediately, and the old village head was also invited here at this time.

After seeing Steward Qi, the old village head bowed first, and then spoke good words to Lin Jiazhong, but Steward Qi also worked for the owner, even if he wanted to make an exception, Master Huang would not agree.

Knowing the difficulty of housekeeper Qi, the old village chief sighed and said to Lin Jiazhong: "Boss, why don't you just give this house to them. Doesn't your mother have a small yard? It's enough for you to live."

Having been robbed of the shovel handle, Lin Jiazhong sat down on the ground panting heavily. Hearing the words of the old village chief, he stood up abruptly and said angrily: "If you don't give it! Isn't it going to prison? Come in! Anyway, my son is about to be killed by this stinky bitch, so what am I doing alive? It’s better to go to the prison, where there is food and drink! Let’s go, I’ll go with you!”

As he said that, Lin Jiazhong really tugged on Butler Qi's sleeve and walked out.

This time, he confuses Steward Qi: "Jiazhong, you are so confused, you think you will be fine once you enter the prison? You don't have to pay back the money?"

The old village head was so angry that he raised his crutches and hit Lin Jiazhong's back hard, his thin body began to tremble, coughing again and again: "You bastard! You bastard! Master Huang sent someone here, obviously I just don’t want you to go to the prison, I want to give you a chance to reform! You’re good, you’re still rushing in! You bastard!”

Mrs. Ma, whose nose was bruised and swollen by Lin Jiazhong, couldn't care about his injuries at this time, and rushed forward crying, "Master, you can't go to jail! If you leave, what will we do, my wife! Butler, I also have a daughter, she is the concubine of the county magistrate, just wait, I will go to her, I will go to her, she will definitely give us money!"

Before Mrs. Ma stood up and went out, Lin Jiazhong dragged her back angrily: "What are you going to do with that unfilial girl? If she is willing to give us money, I will wait here?"

"You said, what?" Mrs. Ma turned her head in disbelief, not understanding what Lin Jiazhong meant at all.

Lin Jiazhong stomped his feet angrily, spit out a mouthful, and cursed: "That unfilial girl, I asked her to borrow money, but she was fine, someone kicked me out, and threatened that if I went again, I would beat me with a stick !"

At this point, Lin Jiazhong didn't care about losing face anymore, and immediately told the scandal of going to Lin Siyu to borrow money and being bombarded.

Hearing what he said, Mrs. Ma also gave up her heart, and murmured: "It turns out that she really hates me, really hates me."

The house is not willing to give it, and there is no money, so people can't really let Lin Jiazhong be taken to prison!

Trembling, Yang walked out of the crowd, came to the old village chief and said, "Old village chief, how much silver do I have left, give them all, and we will pay back the rest slowly."

The old village chief's gray eyebrows frowned: "Where do you have any money? You can't even pay back a few taels of silver."

Yang sighed: "You can repay as much as you can, it's just..."

Yang couldn't bear to raise her head anymore, she just wronged the second child and wanted to use his money to pay the eldest brother, and she would be ashamed to see him in the future.

How can the old village chief not understand Yang's painstaking efforts to pity the parents of the world?But the money is really not enough to pay back.

Butler Qi was also very embarrassed: "Old Madam, it's not that I, Qi, don't show affection, it's the master, hey, let me tell you this, although the master is usually very easy-going, but if it touches his bottom line, he But it is not ambiguous at all, not sending Jiazhong to the Yamen is already the greatest favor to him."

This means that all the silver or the house must be obtained today.

Mrs. Yang begged for a long time and still failed to convince Steward Qi, and the old village head was also very embarrassed, 56 taels of silver, this is not a small amount for the people in Linjiaao, almost half of them have not seen it So much silver.

Of course, except for Lin Yuan's family.

It's just that Lin Jiaxin is extremely embarrassed. This matter is difficult to say, and simple to say.It was nothing more than abandoning the house, and then the three of them moved to the small house that Yang lived in now.

It's just that Lin Jiazhong still stubbornly refused to move out, because giving up the house would be like adjudging him to give up his son. Without a house, where will his son live in the future?Even if others said that his son was only a few months old, but as a father, he would not believe it.

Lin Yuan looked at Lin Jiaxin, then at Lin Jiazhong who was determined to go to the Yamen in the yard, and shook her head helplessly. What she wanted to help at this time was not her uncle, but a stubborn man who refused to believe that her son's life would not be long. It's just his father.

Although Lin Jiazhong is not a good person, he is a good father after all. It takes courage to guard and steal for his son.

"Steward Qi, I'll pay the 56 taels of silver." Lin Yuan's crisp voice sounded in the silent courtyard, Lin Jiazhong suddenly raised his head to look at her, he couldn't believe that someone was really willing to help him, or was he The "little disaster star" who has been bullied for many years.

Butler Qi was also familiar with Lin Yuan.Not only him, but even Mr. Huang knew everything about the Lin family very well. Knowing that Lin Jiazhong had severed ties with Lin Yuan's family, he said that Lin Jiazhong was stupid.

Now that Lin Yuan stepped forward to make a rescue, Steward Qi also heaved a sigh of relief and clasped his fists in thanks.

Xia Zheng had a ready-made bank note on him, and Steward Qi immediately led the people away with a happy smile. Before leaving, he didn't forget to ask Lin Jiazhong to take care of himself in the future.

As for Lin Jiazhong, his eyes were fixed on Lin Yuan, but he found that there was nothing on her face except a clear smile.There was no ridicule, no aloofness after helping him, let alone contempt and contempt.

Lin Jiazhong suddenly realized that compared with Lin Yuan, he was filthy beyond mentioning.

"You, me." After hesitating for a while, Lin Jiazhong didn't know what to say.

Lin Yuan smiled and waved her hand: "Forget it, I don't want you to thank me, because I didn't help you for no reason. If you do such a thing, you don't want to be an accountant in someone else's house in the future. I think Ah, you'd better go home and farm obediently."

"Planting land?" Lin Jiazhong smiled bitterly, but the family's land had already been sold out.

Lin Yuan said again: "I know your land has been sold out a long time ago, but if you want to grow it, I can rent it to you. As for the rent, you can just give me one hundred catties of grain every year. Why? Sample?"

One hundred catties of grain a year?A piece of land can harvest two seasons of grain a year, even the most stupid person can harvest a thousand catties of grain, but she only charges a hundred catties for rent!Anyone who has this good thing spread will go to heaven with joy.

Lin Jiazhong knew that it was Lin Yuan who was helping their family, so he nodded repeatedly, and finally he was choked up and couldn't speak: "Okay, okay, I will farm the land well, I will farm the land well."

On the way back, Lin Jiaxin's footsteps were extremely heavy. Lin Yuan knew that he was unhappy. He felt sorry for him that his daughter had to clean up the mess of the Lin family.However, Lin Yuan didn't think it was a problem at all. As she said, she didn't think that Lin Jiazhong belonged to the Lin family, but that he was a poor father with deep love and no distinction between high and low. point.

Xia Zheng held Lin Yuan's hand tightly, and she turned her head and smiled with relief.

 Finally let Lin Yuan help them, hey~
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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