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Chapter 438 Drowning

"Why throw yourself into the river when you're angry!"

"I'm just upset!"

"Why throw yourself into the river if you're feeling wronged?"

Gu Jinfeng "..."

Gu Jinfeng: I really want to smash her to death with the sole of my shoe.

Lin Jiaojiao also saw it, so she obediently pinched her mouth and muttered, "If you have grievances, just say them. Why throw yourself into the river? Throwing yourself into the river is suicide, not expressing your grievances."

Gu Jinfeng "..."

"Any family that marries you in the future will be very lucky."

Lin Jiaojiao immediately put her hands on her hips and said, "Absolutely! I have a job and I can earn money. Whoever marries me will be very lucky!"

Gu Jinfeng "..."

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The Lin family was going to Huang Hongmei's family home to report the death. This was something Lin Jingyao should have done, but Lin Jingyao just sat on the ground wailing, and they couldn't drag him away.

In the end, the only option was to send Lin's second son, along with Huang Hongmei's son, Huzi, to inform his maternal grandmother of her death.

Lin Jingyao naturally dared not go.

Huang Hongmei died so suddenly at such a young age. Her family will definitely ask why.

One theory is that she drowned herself. How could her family possibly accept that?

Unless they've been wronged, who would willingly drown themselves, take poison, or hang themselves?

If it's one of these reasons, without a doubt, it means they've been mistreated by their in-laws.

If he goes to announce the death, wouldn't he become a target?

So he doesn't go, mainly because he's afraid to go.

Not only did Lin Jingyao dare not go to report the death, but Qiu Yuefang also dared not go out.

Wang Xiaohui's family had previously given her a severe beating.

This time, a life was lost, and her situation would only worsen, so she stayed indoors.

Around noon, the sound of wailing suddenly rang out in the brigade. Zhong Meixian, sitting in the house, said, "It must be Huang Hongmei's family coming."

The snow outside was falling heavier and heavier, and Zhong Meixian couldn't help but sigh, "Even the weather is bad."

It was indeed Huang Hongmei's family who had come. There was a large group of them, about thirty people. The women cried all the way into the Lin family's courtyard.

Huang Hongmei had already cleaned up and was lying on the floor of the Lin family's main room.

The wives of the second and third sons of the Lin family stood guard at the entrance of the main room. As soon as Huang Hongmei's family arrived, they also shed tears.

Luo Tian had never experienced anything like this before, and she was also a little scared of the cold corpse lying on the ground, so she simply hid back inside the house.

As soon as Huang Hongmei's mother entered the door, she knelt down beside the straw mat, one hand on the ground and the other pounding her chest, crying, "My poor girl, why did you think of doing this..."

Lin Guangqian asked his second and third sons to find benches for the men from the Huang family to sit on, and also asked them to pour tea.

The Huang brothers didn't buy into the discussion at all; they went straight to the point and asked, "What's going on?"

"Why would someone jump into the river when everything was fine?"

These words seemed to be directed at Lin Guangqian, but his eyes were fixed on Lin Jingyao, who was kneeling on the ground.

Lin Jingyao remained silent, as if he were mute.

Lin Guangqian didn't dare to say a word.

It was Huang Hongmei's eldest daughter who spoke up, crying, "My mom and grandma had a fight, and my uncle helped grandma beat my mom."

Upon hearing this, the men of the Huang family began to look around the room, trying to find Lin Jinghui.

Huang Hongmei's mother immediately slapped Lin Jingyao across the face, yelling, "Are you dead?"

"Your wife got beaten up by your brother, and you didn't say a word? Are you a coward? What a spineless person you are!"

Lin Jingyao couldn't help but shove his mother-in-law, saying, "It was Jinghui who hit her, not me."

His eldest daughter wanted to say that he had also hit someone, but she pursed her lips and didn't say anything, only tears falling down her face.

Huang Hongmei's mother stopped hitting him and instead asked, "Where is that old hag?"

She knew that Lin Jinghui was wrong, but Qiu Yuefang, that old woman, was definitely not going to get away with it, so she had to drag that old woman out.

She had just discovered that Qiu Yuefang, that old woman, had disappeared somewhere.

Her daughter is dead, and this old woman doesn't even show her face. What a cruel heart she has!

The man in charge of the Huang family spoke up at this moment, saying, "We must get an explanation for this. It's unreasonable that a fine and beautiful girl would come to your family and die in just over ten years."

"You won't find anything like this anywhere else!"

"That's right, we need an explanation today!" the man from the Huang family shouted.

Instead of leaving, they spontaneously went to the Lin family's kitchen and started cooking right there, adding lots of rice, flour, and oil.

However, most of the food was kept in Qiu Yuefang's room, and the little food in the kitchen was only enough for this one meal.

Lin Guangqian went to find Qiu Yuefang and said, "Now you know to hide in the house. Look at the mess you've made. Now the house is ruined."

Qiu Yuefang kept her head down and didn't say anything.

"Now you're the one who's turned into a turtle."

The Huang family didn't care about them and it seemed like they wouldn't agree to anything. They ate lunch at the Lin family's house and dinner there as well.

Someone even went to the Lin family's backyard to catch chickens.

Lin Guangqian saw it as soon as he came out after scolding Qiu Yuefang. He hurriedly went to stop her, pleading, "You can't catch her, you can't catch her, she's a hen that lays eggs."

The man who caught the chicken said, "Go, go to the main room and bring that person lying on the ground back to life. Don't just give me this one chicken, I'll bring you three more."

Lin Guangqian then fell silent.

The chicken was taken away and killed.

Lin Guangqian went to the main room and kicked Lin Jingyao, who was kneeling there, yelling, "Get up! Look what you've done to this house!"

Hearing this, the person in charge of the Huang family said, "As long as you give us an answer, we will leave without saying a word and will not cause any damage."

"If you can't give me an explanation, humph, he-tui!"

Lin Guangqian said helplessly, "We didn't want this to happen either!"

Huang Hongmei's mother immediately cried out, "You don't want to, you don't want your whole family to drive my daughter to her death?"

"If you didn't want it, why wasn't it your son or your old woman who died?"

"You do not want?"

"So you can make these witty remarks now that someone's dead, huh?"

"I'm telling you, you have to explain this matter clearly, or I will never let your family off the hook."

"Waaah, my daughter whom I raised with such care, the child I carried for ten months!"

"So what do you want to say?" Lin Guangqian could only ask.

"What do you mean?" The person in charge pointed at Huang Hongmei's mother, who was crying and shouting. "Look at you, it wasn't easy for the old couple to raise a daughter. People say that raising a daughter means you'll have food to eat, but what happened? Your daughter was only with your family for ten years before she passed away."

"How are you going to make a living like this, old couple?"

"Your family must pay for someone's retirement."

Lin Guangqian's cheek muscles twitched. "Then...how much?"

"Give me fifty!"

Before Lin Guangqian could speak, the man said, "Think about it, if Hongmei hadn't been forced to drown herself by you, she could have lived for at least another thirty years."

"If she buys her parents something for two yuan a year for thirty years, that's sixty yuan in thirty years!"

"I don't need much of yours."

Lin Guangqian was so angry that his chest heaved violently, causing his black cotton-padded coat to tremble.

Lin Jingyao stopped pretending at this point, "Where would I get so much money?"

The men of the Huang family immediately glared at him, while Lin Jingyao lowered his head again.

The person in charge then said, "Take your time to think it over. Anyway, we're definitely not leaving for lunch. If you can't reach an agreement, we'll just stay here for the night."

At noon, Lin Liansheng went back and went over the matter again. Gu Jinfeng immediately said, "You are not allowed to go this afternoon. Don't get involved in their messy affairs."