My coffin, no, my brain.
Table, meat, table, meat!
"Hmm! I understand!"
After processing it in her mind for a moment, Chu Chi finally equated the table with meat. So she nodded her head vigorously!
"Good, now go back with your aunt. Remember what I told you, girls must lock themselves in the room when bathing, and no one is allowed to see, understood?"
"Mm-hmm, understood!"
After giving instructions, Lin You'an carried Lin Wanwan towards Lady Liu.
"Thank you for your trouble, aunt. My mother is a bit naive, so please take care of my sister later. Your nephew is grateful."
"No need for thanks, give me the little girl. You go talk to Chu... to your mother, tell her to come back with me."
"Alright, I understand. The child is a bit dirty, it's my fault for rushing on the road yesterday and not taking proper care of her. You can leave her old clothes there, I'll wash them when I get back."
Though still just a small child, he was imitating the way adults speak and act, making the real adults around feel a pang in their hearts.
"Enough! Lin You'an, you're a grown man, why are you dilly-dallying like a woman? Quickly hand your mother and sister over to your aunt, and come with me!"
Lin Yuanshan turned and left after speaking, not daring to let anyone see the trace of pain hidden in his eyes.
From this moment on, his eight-year-old nephew would become the man of the house for the Second Branch of the Old Lin Family.
"Yes, coming! Mother, go back with aunt quickly, and take good care of Wanwan, okay?"
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to reclaim our family fortune! Then we'll have money to buy meat for you and Wanwan to eat."
"I want to go too!"
Chu Chi's eyes lit up.
"No, you can't."
Her identity hadn't been officially recognized by the clan yet. Without the clan leader's approval, his mother was essentially undocumented, so she couldn't be running around outside now.
"You need to look after Wanwan, remember? There will be so many noisy people outside, what if she gets scared?
It's so hot out, look how red her face is from the sun. What if she gets sick later? So hurry back and give her a bath!"
Chu Chi wasn't sure if what he said was right, but she knew An'an always told the truth.
"Mm, I'll go back now!"
She turned and walked to Lady Liu, who was holding the child. Looking up at the big sun in the sky, then down at the little one's flushed face, a thoughtful expression appeared on her pretty face.
"Sister-in-law, let's hurry back now?"
"Mm, let's hurry back!"
"Then, hey, what are you doing..."
With a cry of surprise from Lady Liu, the petite Chu Chi reached out, grabbed her, and ran off at full speed with the stunned woman in her arms.
An'an said not to carry the child anymore, but he didn't say anything about not carrying adults.
This person was holding her offspring, so by carrying this person as she ran, it was equivalent to carrying her offspring.
Hmm, makes perfect sense.
I'm so clever!
Hearing their mother's cries of surprise fading into the distance, the Lin brothers couldn't help but worry.
"Sixth brother, Miss Chu, she..."
"Big brother, that's my mother!"
"Yes, yes, your mother... she won't hit my mother, will she?"
Lin Yousheng was a bit concerned.
"She won't. I've told my mother many times yesterday. As long as no one hits the three of us, she absolutely won't raise a hand against others!"
...
Watching his little cousin's small figure run up to catch up with his father, Lin Yousheng didn't know what to say. Lin Youwen took a few quick steps forward and called out again.
"Let's go, big brother. Father has already taken sixth brother into the clan leader's courtyard."
"Coming!"
Lin Yuanshan had just stepped into the courtyard with his nephew when he looked up and saw the clan leader's family sitting there eating lunch!
This man was full of pent-up anger.
I'm still starving, what right do you have to eat? You should all be hungry along with us!
He looked down and met Lin You'an's upturned eyes. His lips moved, silently mouthing a word.
Cry!
Receiving the message, the little boy immediately changed his expression, instantly bursting into tears.
With his thin face, messy hair, rolled-up sleeves, and the faintly visible bruises peeking out from his slightly open collar, how could the word "pitiful" even begin to describe it?
Moreover, the child's frail body was shaking with sobs, looking like he might faint at any moment.
Lin Yuanshan's mouth twitched at the sight.
This truly was the offspring of his Old Lin Family!
He immediately raised his hand to wipe his face, his eyes instantly turning red and his face filled with grief and indignation as he let out a loud wail.
"Clan Leader!
Second Uncle!
My Third Great-Uncle!
That Zhou family's cousin of yours, Zhou Chengguang, is going to beat our Old Lin Family's own grandson, Lin You'an, to death!"
Don't ask about the exact relationship of this "cousin" – if it weren't for the fact that their branch still needed to stay in the Old Lin Family's good graces, he would have called him a bastard outright.
He wanted to make this old man, who had grown senile and biased in his old age, open his bleary eyes and take a good look.
This was the in-law he had insisted on choosing for his brother when he was clan leader! This was the child that Zhou Chengguang, that scoundrel, had forced him to sign a contract for just a few months ago, vowing to treat him as his own and take good care of him!
Lin Yuanshan's cry was earth-shattering! Compared to his uncle's voice, Lin You'an's crying was merely a drizzle.
The Old Lin Family's Third Great-Uncle was just swallowing a mouthful of food when he was startled by this sudden, piercing cry. He instinctively tried to swallow the piece of meat he hadn't finished chewing.
Oh no, it got stuck!
"Father! Quickly, cough it out!"
"Grandfather, drink some water!"
"Great-grandfather, his eyes are rolling back..."
Some unfortunate child was so honest that before they could finish speaking, their mother clamped a hand over their mouth and dragged them aside.
Lin Yuanshan's crying stopped abruptly.
Damn, could I be that unlucky? Just shouting randomly like this, could I have actually sent the old man to his grave?
He pulled his little brat aside, trying to make their presence as small as possible.
They watched as the clan leader's entire family descended into chaos, a flurry of activity with patting and pounding until finally, they managed to make the old man cough up the piece of meat stuck in his throat.
The old man let out a long sigh of relief.
The clan leader, Lin Youtian, turned around furiously to glare at his nephew, his finger trembling with anger. If there weren't so many younger family members watching, he would have given this brat a good beating!
"Lin Yuanshan! You little rascal, you'd better explain clearly. Why aren't you at home eating lunch like a normal person, instead of coming here to wail like someone died?"
He had nearly scared his old man to death! The more the clan leader thought about it, the angrier he became, his face growing increasingly dark.
But who was Lin Yuanshan?
He had been known as the family's tough nut since childhood. His skin was so thick that even when the Zhou family had pointed at his face and cursed him, he could still smile and continue chatting as if nothing had happened.
If it weren't for Lin You'an's unwavering loyalty to his birth mother, Madam Zhou, who could have taken advantage of Lin Yuanshan?
Not a chance!
So, do you think he would be afraid of his second uncle's cold face?
