This is terrible! My future prime minister keeps trying to kiss me forcibly.

After many twists and turns, Li Yuemei arrived at Lin Xiucai's house.

“Young Master Lin, I…” she stammered, her words tinged with shyness and joy, “I… I’m pregnant, we’re going to have a child.”

After saying that, she gently stroked her flat stomach.

Lin Mo's expression froze, his tone filled with obvious suspicion: "What did you say?"

"I'm pregnant." Li Yuemei's joy remained undiminished, and she was already imagining the wealthy life that would soon follow.

However, the man was not as happy as she had imagined; instead, his face was gloomy.

"Young Master Lin, what's wrong?"

Lin Mo's eyes were filled with hostility, his face was like a dark cloud, his expression twisted for a moment, but he quickly regained his refined scholarly demeanor.

He whispered, "Yuemi, this child has come at the wrong time. We have nothing to give him now..."

Li Yuemei subconsciously took two steps back, her fingertips trembling, and even the muscles in her cheeks were trembling slightly.

"What do you mean? What do you mean?!"

As she spoke, her voice unconsciously rose.

Lin Mo was worried that her hysteria would cause unnecessary trouble, so he reassured her, "That's not what I meant. You go back and rest well, and I'll think of something."

Hearing this, Li Yuemei breathed a sigh of relief: "Why don't you come to my house to propose marriage?"

"Alright, alright, let me get ready. You just need to wait at home." Lin Mo just wanted to get rid of her now, trying not to provoke her, and only saying what she wanted to hear.

Having received Lin Mo's assurance, Li Yuemei happily went home.

Little did she know that the gentleman Lin Gongzi in her heart was staring at her back with a sinister look in his eyes, the fierce light in his eyes was undisguised and chilling.

......

Early mornings by the river are the time when villagers gather to chat, gossip, and gossip about everyone's business.

"Have you heard? He Jing sold that wild boar he hunted for a full ten taels of silver!"

"My goodness, I've never seen so much money in my entire life."

"That's right! Their smoked meat, the kind that's always hanging outside, sells for sixty coins a pound."

"Good heavens, this could buy so much brown rice and flour!"

"What are you saying? If you're rich, why would you eat coarse rice and coarse flour?"

"That's true."

"..."

It was barely dawn, not yet the hour of Mao (5-7 AM).

The entire Dongyuan Village was still bathed in the pale moonlight, and it was the time when everyone was deep in sleep.

A figure quietly slipped into He Jing's courtyard.

Under the cover of darkness, the figure searched high and low before finally finding what it was looking for. After successfully obtaining a piece of smoked meat, the figure planned to leave quietly.

at this time.

"Woof woof woof—woof woof woof—"

Little Black, seeing the uninvited guests arriving at its home, barked frantically.

All that could be heard was a figure in the darkness speaking in a low voice: "Go! Go! Get out of here!"

As Xiao Hei stepped forward, he was kicked away by the shadowy figure.

"Woof woof woof—woof woof woof—"

"Get out of my way, you little beast!"

In an instant, the lights in He Jing's room came on, and then the lights in Ye Xiaoxiao's room also came on.

The shadowy figure panicked at the sight of the candlelight and tried to escape, but Little Black held onto one of its trouser legs tightly.

"Stupid dog! Let go! Let go now!"

Enraged, the man grabbed something and threw it at Xiao Hei.

Little Black cried out in pain, and had no choice but to let go.

Seeing that he was about to be discovered, the man panicked and didn't bother to leave the yard. Instead, he jumped out of the storage room and climbed over the yard fence.

Unexpectedly, visibility was poor in the darkness, and the man had no idea how high the fence was. As he fled in panic, his trouser leg got caught, and he was unable to move.

The fence was more than a foot higher than the fences of ordinary houses, so the man couldn't get up or down. With a "whoosh," his pants were torn by the sharp bamboo strips, and his buttocks were also ripped open, bleeding profusely, yet he was stuck on it tightly.

"what--"

With a scream, the bamboo fence could no longer bear the weight and flipped over.

The sharp bamboo sliver pierced even deeper into the flesh.

"what----"

The man let out an even more pitiful howl.

When Ye Xiaoxiao and He Jing came out with lanterns, following the commotion, this was the scene they saw.

A large section of the bamboo fence in the yard had collapsed, and next to the fallen fence lay a man groaning in pain. It was unclear where he was injured, but his pants were stained with blood.

Even so, he still held the smoked meat tightly in his hand, unwilling to let go.