To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Yun Yanlai meant that Lin Jiagui was involved in gambling, and this matter could be serious or minor. He wanted to hear Lin Qingping's opinion.

People like Yun Yan are all shrewd and calculating.

He had met almost all the members of the Lin family and had a basic understanding of their personalities. If it were based on the character of the eldest sister of the Lin family and Lin Jiagui, Yun Yan would not have much contact with them. However, the two sisters of the Lin family were like good bamboo shoots emerging from bad bamboo, and his own younger brother had quite a bit of interest in Lin Qingyun. Therefore, he had to weigh this relationship carefully.

Lin Qingping felt utterly ashamed.

She tried desperately to cover up her family's dirty deeds and desperately to protect her second sister's self-esteem in front of the Yun family. But her mother always managed to peel off the layer of skin she was trying to put on, making her look like a clown in front of the Yun family.

She couldn't imagine how distressed her second sister would be if she were here right now.

"Comrade Yun Yan," Lin Qingping took a deep breath and said, "I'm so sorry that you've been dragged into this embarrassing situation that has affected my family..."

"No, no, no, don't say that," Yun Yan hurriedly said. "If I felt it was difficult, I wouldn't have come to you. We're friends, and it's only right that we help each other. Don't talk about dragging each other down."

Lin Qingping shook her head. Saying something like "I have powerful backers" twenty or thirty years from now, and it would become a nationwide sensation, with extremely negative consequences!

"Comrade Yun Yan, thank you for coming all this way to tell me about this." Lin Qingping said in a low voice, "I still want to apologize to you for my mother's behavior. In addition, everyone must be responsible for their own actions. Since my brother dared to gamble, he should pay the price for his actions. Just handle official business as it is. There is no need to go against principles for him."

Yun Yan was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

This is different from what many people think.

Some people would go to great lengths to find a solution when someone in their family got into trouble. Even Liu Yan was like that; whenever her family had any problems, they would come to him for help.

Lin Qingping smiled bitterly. Anyone would think she was heartless, right? Her only brother, her closest relative, and she wouldn't even help him when she could?

In her past life, she was bound by those words for far too long...

Phrases like "You only have one younger brother" and "Your own brother" are her magic weapons for spending money without reservation.

"Are you sure?" Yun Yan asked again.

“Confirmed,” Lin Qingping said. “Please tell me you are not familiar with my mother, or do not know her. Please handle this officially.”

“Okay.” Yun Yan changed the subject and called Zhiyuan out for a chat. When he left, he said, “I’ll bring Xiaoshan to your house to play often in the future, so he can learn more from Zhiyuan.”

Seeing Lin Qingping and Zhiyuan's stiff smiles, he laughed even harder, "Are we from Xiaoshan that unwelcome?"

As Lin Qingping requested, the Yun family ultimately did not interfere in Lin Jiagui's affairs. Lin Jiagui was sent to a labor camp for gambling and officially went there after his finger injury healed.

Wu Axiu cried her heart out, venting all her anger on Lin Qingping, believing that Lin Qingping was the one who caused Lin Jiagui to suffer this.

So Wu Axiu still came to the door and started cursing at the house where Lin Qingping was now living.

He hurled all sorts of nasty insults, like filth, until the neighbors came out to watch.

"Hey, isn't that the woman who wanted to demolish the house last time?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's the one from Comrade Xiaolin's family, the one who sold his daughter for five hundred yuan."

"Why are you here again!"

"Is Comrade Xiaolin home? Having a mother like that is really a headache."

The Lin family's affairs were nothing new, being the talk of the town.

Lin Qingping opened the door, and her mother grabbed a broom and started hitting her.

Lin Qingping prevented her from hitting him, but Wu Axiu didn't stop and continued to lunge forward, smashing a flowerpot with a broom.

"The flowerpot cost fifty yuan. You're losing money," Lin Qingping said coldly.

"What did you say? I'm your mother! I broke one of your flowerpots and you want me to pay for it?" Wu Axiu was so angry that she was incoherent and couldn't even grasp the point of why she came here.

“These aren’t my flowerpots. This house belongs to the Gu family. You broke the Gu family’s flowerpots!” Lin Qingping pointed at the wall, then at the window. “Here, here, do you want to keep smashing them? You can smash them, I’ll keep track of the damages. Just bring the money later.”

The word "money" is like a thorn in Wu Axiu's side!

If she had any money, her son wouldn't be in such a pitiful state!

"Lin Qingping! I'll strangle you!" Wu Axiu lunged at him. "I can't just smash other people's things! Can't I handle my own child?"

But Lin Qingping is much younger than her, so how could she possibly pounce on her?

As the mother and daughter were arguing, the courtyard gate opened, and the second sister's voice rang out, "Sister, they're here."

"What are you making a scene about?" came an angry shout from Lin Qingping's father.

Her father came, along with the village secretary.

That's right, Lin Qingping sent a telegram back, asking the Party Secretary to bring her father over.

Her father arrived yesterday, and she arranged for him to stay in a hotel. Her second sister just went to invite him over.

Upon seeing Lin's father, Wu Axiu burst into tears, wailing, "Old man, what will become of our poor son! It's all because of those two wretched girls! Those two wretched girls are the cause! They live a life of luxury and comfort, while they ruined our Jiagui, sending him to jail! Old man, what can we do... Even if we beat those two wretched girls to death, we can't save Jiagui..."

Lin Qingping let her wail, and only said to the Party Secretary, "Party Secretary, this time you have really gone to so much trouble. It's really too much trouble for you to come all this way. If my mother continues to make a fuss, I'm afraid it will cause even bigger trouble and cause more problems for the village."

Lin Qingping had already mentioned Lin Jiagui's gambling-related re-education through labor yesterday when Lin's father and the Party Secretary arrived. Her father smoked one pipe after another, filling the whole room with smoke, but he didn't say anything.

Lin Qingping took out the IOU for five thousand yuan from Yunqi.

“This money was borrowed from my classmate by Lin Jiagui. They kept pressing for it back, and I couldn’t pay it back. I had to beg my older sister to mortgage the house to someone else so that I could barely scrape together enough to pay it back.” Lin Qingping pretended to be heartbroken. “Mother said I don’t care about my brother. How much care do I have to take care of him? Did I take him gambling? Did I make him borrow money to gamble?”

The neighbors who had gathered to watch had already started talking about it.

"My God, gambling! How could you dare to do that!"

"Yes, what a family! Two sisters got into universities in the capital, but the brother did illegal things. How could they be born like this!"

"Five thousand yuan! How long would I have to work to earn five thousand yuan! Comrade Xiao Lin is too stupid!"

Hearing the argument, Wu Axiu jumped up and down, scolding Lin Qingping, "What's wrong with five thousand yuan? You're the older sister, and you only care about living a good life yourself. You won't even give your younger brother five thousand yuan? If I hadn't raised you from infancy, would you have the good life you have today?"