As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the little girl with two tiny tufts of hair on her head shaking her head.

"you do not believe me?"

Xiao Chunhua nodded.

"why?"

"Because you have no food to eat."

Upon hearing this, Lin Hu's first reaction was disbelief; how could he possibly be starving?

Whether he's at someone else's house or outside, it's impossible for him to go hungry, especially since this is his sister's house; it's impossible for him to go hungry.

“What my little sister said is true.”

Sanhu added another sentence.

"Sanhu never lies."

Ershi followed closely behind.

Lin Hu: "..." He was about to believe him since he was so certain.

Turning his head and seeing Lin Cai coming out of the kitchen, Lin Hu immediately smiled, but then his smile froze.

Because his younger sister came out empty-handed and turned to leave.

Lin Hu: "..."

"see that!"

"My younger sister understands Mother best."

"How pitiful!"

Some people might not have had breakfast!

Poor Lin Hu, upon hearing the words of the three siblings, twitched at the corner of his mouth.

You know I pity you, yet you still shut up? Do you want a beating?

If it were any other child, he would have already scared them to tears, but he didn't dare to move at all with these children.

Hungry and with a stomachache, Lin Hu went outside and saw Scarface asleep against a tree. He went over and kicked him.

"I sent you here to watch over people, not to sleep. Were you out thieving last night?"

"You have the nerve to say that? Your dilapidated woodshed is teeming with rats and cockroaches. They practically have a meeting there all night long. How could I possibly get a good night's sleep?"

"You went to sleep on your own, and now you're blaming me?"

Lin Hu glanced at Scarface and went to wake up the two boys from the Gu family. Scarface clenched his fist and waved it behind his back.

Damn it, if I weren't outmatched, I would have already attacked. I can't stand this humiliation!

"Hey, wake up! Stop pretending to be dead. Even if you're faking it, I'm not going to let you go."

Gu Yinniu's eldest son, Gu Dashan, looked at Lin Hu in front of him and said, "If your family wants money, I can pay you money, just please let us go."

"You say you can compensate me with money? Do I look like I'm short of money?"

Gu Dashan lowered his head upon hearing his words, knowing that this person would not let him go, and he said nothing more.

Could it be that his father, Gu Yinniu, kept howling there, looking as if he had suffered a great injustice?

Scarface didn't like hearing him yell, so he kicked him directly: "Neither of your two sons are making a sound, what are you yelling about here?"

“We didn’t do anything to you, but your voice makes it sound like we’ve chopped you into pieces. Let me tell you, shut up right now, or I’ll really take a knife and slice you up.”

Scarface's menacing appearance, coupled with his unattractive face, was truly frightening. Upon hearing his words, Gu Yinniu instantly fell silent.

He just wanted them to release him; he didn't want to be tied up here. It was just a little tofu, what was the big deal? Why were they making such a fuss?

But Gu Yinniu didn't dare say these words at all. He felt that if he really said them, Lin Hu and the scarred man in front of him would probably kill him.

Lin Cai knew that her second brother had arrested the man, but she didn't care. She took Sanhu and Xiaochunhua to town.

Because they were going to the academy, Lin Cai decided to take the person there to have a look first, but as soon as they arrived at the entrance, they heard voices coming from inside.

"I asked you to buy me some red dates, and look what you bought! Why did you bring back so much useless stuff? Am I going to cook it all for you?"

“These are all recommended by the shopkeepers. They say they are top-quality items and that it’s worth keeping them at home. Why do you need to go to such lengths, Madam?”

"Buying it and keeping it at home isn't a bad deal? Then let him take it back and leave it there. So much stuff sitting there, not being eaten or drunk, where are you going to put it? To have babies and grow mushrooms?"

“It was originally a five-copper item, but you bought it for a tael of silver. Our family isn’t exactly wealthy; where would we get so much silver to make it for you?”

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of crackling sounds rang out in the courtyard. The three people standing at the door looked at each other, unsure whether they should go in or leave.

"Mother, should we go in now?"

Xiao Chunhua asked the question, and Sanhu also looked over. Lin Cai smiled at the two little ones: "Have you both forgotten what we came here for today?"

"Since we're already here, we should go in. There's no reason to go back. Besides, we brought gifts today. If we go back, who will we give them to?"

With her two children in tow, Lin Cai knocked on the door, followed by the woman's voice and footsteps.

The other person opened the door and saw Lin Cai and the two children outside. They asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"Hello, ma'am, we are Gu Tieniu from Gujia Village... This is his youngest son. I brought him here today to visit Mr. Luo."

"Do you want to enter the academy, or do you want to visit a teacher?"

Lin Cai hadn't expected the old woman to ask such a direct question. She looked at the old woman and said, "Both."

"Grandma, don't you want me to become your apprentice?"

Sanhu is usually not very talkative, but for some reason, he suddenly spoke up today. When he asked the question, the woman actually nodded.

"That old geezer is a pedantic scholar who doesn't know anything about farming or the cost of firewood and rice. If you learn from him, you definitely won't learn anything good."

"What I want to learn is knowledge, the art of reasoning and understanding, not how to live my life. Why can't I learn that?"

He had barely finished speaking when the woman burst out laughing: "Hahaha, you're such an interesting child, old woman, this is the first time I've ever seen a child like you."

"He's inside right now, you can all come in."

As the woman spoke, she opened the door and invited the people into the courtyard. Lin Cai and the others then heard the woman's voice.

"Luo Shiren, you've been dawdling for ages and still haven't come out. Are you incubating chicks inside the house?"

The dignified headmaster of Longxing Academy is serious, upright, and incorruptible in public, but who would have thought that at home he is just a timid old man who is afraid of his wife?

As soon as the woman finished speaking, Luo Shiren came out of the house: "Madam, there are outsiders here!"

"You knew there were outsiders here, and you still made me angry. Let me tell you, since you made me angry, you have to bear the consequences. You brought this upon yourself by not giving me face."

"Yes, yes, I understand. I was wrong. Please forgive me, my wife."

"Alright, alright, stop grinning like that. They've come to ask you to be their apprentice, so treat them well."

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