The younger sister-in-law falsely accused the sickly uncle and ran away with the baby

Lin Yihao looked helpless and recounted what happened today.

Mr. Lin and Mrs. Lin were both stunned by their daughter's audacity.

"You silly child! How could you gamble with your reputation?"

"What if the child backs off?"

"What are you going to do next?"

"Why would you risk your reputation on a man's heart? Didn't you say you didn't want to depend on anyone, or rely on anyone? Why are you so bold now?"

Lin Qinxin knelt down straight and kowtowed three times to her parents.

Mrs. Lin wanted to stop him, but was pulled back by Dean Lin.

"Let this rebellious girl kowtow! I want to know where you, this rebellious girl, got such courage from?"

After Lin Qinxin finished her kowtow, she looked at her parents with a determined gaze. "Dad! Mom! I'm an unfilial daughter. I've always made you worry about my marriage, but I've always refused to marry. I don't want to waste my time in the backyard like you did. Although Dad has only loved you for so many years, the rumors and scolding from my grandparents and uncles have weighed down my heart. Every night when Dad is out socializing, I see her crying silently in the house."

"Later, grandparents passed away one after another. Because you spoke too bluntly, you offended people in Kyoto. So, under the pretext of taking grandparents' coffins back home, you resigned from your official position and returned home!"

"After you came back, you were negative for two or three years. Your mother wanted you to go out and become a teacher, but you felt that such a small place couldn't accommodate your talent."

"Let the mother take care of the backyard and not interfere with her husband."

"But you know what? There was no money left at home at that time!"

Dean Lin didn't expect that discussing his daughter's marriage would actually involve himself. He even didn't understand why his daughter didn't want to get married and didn't want to rely on a man. She had her own reasons.

"Your grandparents had just died during that time, and I was framed. I had no choice but to come back, so it's normal to feel depressed. I know I neglected you back then, and the official position I held was only a small one, but the money I earned for your father was enough to cover our expenses for those years."

Lin Qinxin kowtowed to her father again, "Dad! I don't blame you at all, but have you forgotten? You are kind-hearted. When you saw this poor scholar with no money to study, you helped him with some. When you saw that the parents of that poor student were seriously ill, you gave them money to buy medicine. Even when people from your clan came to ask for money, you gave them more, fearing that they would have a hard time."

"But you haven't considered that your official position is so low, and the money you earn each month is only enough for our family of four and two servants to live on."

"You're out there trying to save face and gather friends, so you easily give away money, but Mother and I have to live frugally and think about how to increase our income and reduce our expenses."

"I clearly remember the first quarrel you and mother had. It was because she was out tending to her dowry shop, and you saw her. You thought it was shameful for a lady from a scholarly family to go out and do such things."

"At that time, I was wondering why men could go out and earn money, but women couldn't?"

Mrs. Lin thought of the grievances she had suffered at that time and couldn't help but burst into tears again.

Dean Lin looked at his tearful wife, then looked at his daughter with eyes full of determination, and finally fixed his gaze on his son!

"How come I didn't know about it at the time?"

Lin Yihao nodded, "Father! This is true. Mother never mentioned this to you because she wanted you to feel at ease in the front yard. Even when my younger sister and I wanted to go find you and talk to her about this, she stopped us and said it was not easy for you out there!"

Lin Qinxin sighed, "Yes! It's not easy for my father out there, but is it easy for my mother?"

"At that time, I didn't understand and didn't know how to help my mother, so I turned down all the messages from my close friends asking me to go out and play!"

"Because going out costs money!"

"You often say that I'm aloof and don't want to interact with others, but you don't know! I just don't want to embarrass my mother any further."

"My daughter~" Mrs. Lin rushed to her daughter again and hugged her tightly. She didn't expect that her daughter, who was so young, would start to care about her as a mother!

She even thought that her daughter's personality was just like that...

She suddenly felt a surge of regret. Why hadn't she cared more about her daughter back then? Why had she been so cowardly? Why had she let her daughter and herself suffer so much in vain for so many years?

Dean Lin looked at his wife and daughter with a guilty look on his face.

He really didn't expect that behind his happy and comfortable life, his wife and daughter had to endure it in silence!

He thought he had been very tolerant towards his wife, daughter and son throughout his life, and had never let them worry about money...

"Then...those two years...how did you get through?"

"It was Uncle Bowen, your least favorite, who secretly helped me! My brother and I copied books every day and sold them in his bookstore. That's how we barely made ends meet!"

Dean Lin sighed deeply. He had never expected that the person who would help him in the end would be his despised brother! When he despised him for being a money-grubber, was he also despising himself for being old-fashioned?

"Dad knows he did something wrong, but what does this have to do with what you did today?"

Lin Qinxin smiled and said, "Because I've made up my mind! If he's willing to come forward, then I'll be determined to be him!"

"If he's unwilling to come forward, it means I have poor judgment and trusted the wrong person!"

"But! After something like this, my reputation will get worse and worse. No one would want to marry a woman with such a bad reputation as me!"

"That's perfect! I don't want to get married. Instead of hurting the elders' feelings and causing them to feel alienated from me and force me, it's better to divert the hatred. That way, you won't always force me."

Dean Lin was stunned for a moment, then laughed helplessly, "My daughter! It's indeed a good plan. Dad never knew when you became so powerful."

Lin Qinxin looked directly into her father's eyes. "Dad, I've always been like this. I've never changed. It's just that you've never understood me, and you've never thought that besides getting married and having children, I have any other destiny!!"

"Dad! Mom! Times have changed. Women no longer want to be locked up in the backyard, like a tool for bearing children. If they can bear children, they'll be kept. If they can't, they'll be divorced!"

"We want to get out. We've seen how our mothers are forced to stay married, and we've seen all the injustices in the world. So we want to survive on our own, to carve out a way out for our descendants and for the women who haven't grown up yet."

Lin Qinxin's words were so powerful that they made the three people present feel admiration!

But Madam Lin was still very worried. "But! My daughter, that man will inherit the Marquisate in the future. With so many eyes staring at him and wanting to establish a relationship with him, his backyard will only become more chaotic in the future."