Chapter XXV. Negotiations

Lin Hai and Zhou were frightened by this sudden voice. To be honest, they came to arrest the Zhao family and were a little weak-hearted. A few days ago, in front of everyone, he said that he wanted to drive the mother and daughter out, and it is said that the future life of Zhao and Lin Jiu has nothing to do with them.

However, how could Zhou, who was used to being powerful at home, swallow this breath. If it weren't for Old Man Lin's disgrace and suppressing her to prevent her from messing around, the Zhou family would have dragged Lin Hai over to find fault.

Yesterday, Huang Laosan heard about the Lin family and came to the door to ask for someone. The Zhou family has already accepted the dowry from others, and now that they can't hand it over, the other party naturally refuses to give up.

Huang Laosan is a well-known second-rate son in these ten miles and eight towns, and he is the most shameless, and now he sees that the boiled duck is about to fly, where can he stop, and he makes a big noise directly in the Lin family. Sprinkling and rolling, insulting and threatening, doing everything. attracted the villagers to Lin's house to see the excitement.

Although Old Man Lin is cold, he loves face the most. He lost face in Lin Jiu's matter two days ago, and now Huang Laosan is making trouble again, which makes him feel even more disgraced.

Zhou seized this opportunity and jumped out to be a demon again.

"Old man, look at what I'm saying, you can't let that dead girl go so easily. We don't care about her beating up the elders, but how can we not count the matter of agreeing to Huang Laosan. ”

"Not to mention anything else, I can accept a dowry of three taels of silver. If you refuse to let me catch that girl and send her to the Huang family, you will pay the money yourself, and I don't care about the old woman. ”

Listening to the voices of outsiders talking, Old Man Lin was angry and angry, and stomped his feet and promised to return the dowry to Huang Laosan, and the two families had nothing to do with each other from then on.

Unexpectedly, Huang Laosan did not accept this condition at all. He said it, or he would send Lin Jiu over as a daughter-in-law. Or double his dowry. If he doesn't agree, even if he goes to court, he won't give up.

This matter was originally unreasonable for the Lin family, and Huang Laosan's attitude was tough, and Old Man Lin had no choice.

After smoking sweat for a long time, listening to the noise outside, Old Man Lin couldn't stand it anymore. finally nodded in agreement and asked Zhou Shi and his son to arrest people.

However, thinking of Lin Jiu's fierce and vicious appearance that day, the mother and son did not dare to blatantly come to the door. It's rare to be smart, and after Lin Jiu left the village, he directly found the Zhao family.

Zhao is timid and weak, and is very gullible to trust others. No, I was frightened by Zhou's mother and son in two clicks. I really thought that they were going to send themselves to Huang Laosan as a daughter-in-law, and then sell their daughters.

I remembered that my daughter had said more than once that returning to the Lin family was a dead end. Zhao actually didn't want to believe it, she still had a glimmer of hope for Lin Hai. Even if you don't care about your wife, you can't poison your own daughter.

Now, she really regrets it and really understands it. The Lin family didn't plan to give their mother and daughter a way out, but she still wanted to take her daughter back to beg for mercy and find a good in-law for her daughter.

Who knows, people simply regard them as tools to make money, and there is no trace of emotion in their hearts.

Zhou stiffened his neck and looked back, and a figure flashed in from outside the woods, it was Chu Linghui.

"Lord Chu, why are you? The road on this mountain is not easy to walk, and there are many wild beasts, so you better go back quickly. "Don't dare to offend the official master casually, Zhou said with a smile.

While talking, he also used his body to block the Zhao family, for fear that the other party would be nosy.

"This official is here to find Miss Lin, what are you doing here to arrest her mother?"

Since Chu Linghui appeared, he naturally had the idea of meddling. Don't look at him who rejected Lin Jiu's forced marriage, but after all, he still owes someone else's love. If he watched the Zhao family being pulled away, his conscience would not be able to pass.

What's more, he didn't have a good impression of the Lin family at all, and he couldn't let them succeed casually.

Lin Hai rolled his eyes, straightened his waist, and said confidently: "My lord, this is our family matter, you don't have to worry about it." ”

The implication is that Chu Linghui is nosy. Zhou couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he heard his son's unkind words, reached out and dragged Lin Hai, signaling him not to talk nonsense.

Lin Hai shook his arm, and a trace of anger appeared on his face. He came to arrest his daughter-in-law, and no one could say anything wrong. Even if Chu Linghui is an official, he can't be unreasonable.

Chu Linghui didn't seem to see the eyebrow relationship between the mother and son, she just smiled slightly and asked, "Didn't you say last time that Lin Jiu and her mother had been kicked out of the Lin family, and it has nothing to do with you?" ”

"That's all angry talk, we are elders, where can we really care about juniors? Do you say yes, Lord Chu. Zhou said with a smile on his face.

Chu Linghui didn't eat him, his face sank, and he said unhappily: "What's the matter!" Last time, you said that you wanted to drive people out of the house, and they had nowhere to go, so they volunteered to be slaves and became the descendants of my Chu family. I saw that they were pitiful, so I agreed. Now they are slaves to my household, and you are saying that you will bring them back. Do you want to make fun of this official? ”

When Chu Linghui spoke with a calm face, the momentum of the superior was fully displayed, and Zhou only felt that his legs were weak, and he almost knelt down and begged for mercy.

However, Lin Hai was unwilling in his heart, and argued strongly: "My lord, even if their mother and daughter want to be the descendants of your family, but I, as the husband of the Zhao family and Lin Jiu's father, even if you want to buy them, you have to get my consent." ”

Zhou kept nodding his head on the side and said, "That's right, Lord Chu, even if that girl and my daughter-in-law are ignorant, you are a reasonable person who is an official, why don't you persuade them." ”

"You two mean to say that the official is wrong." Chu Linghui looked coldly at the two shameless people in front of him, his heart was full of contempt.

No wonder that girl desperately wants to leave the house, guarding such a family, there is really no way to live.

"My lord, the women don't dare." Chu Linghui's eyes seemed to be looking at two dead people, and Zhou was terrified in his heart, and he trembled and defended.

"Haha, don't dare, I think you're quite bold. One moment he said that he would drive people out of his house, and the next he would arrest people and sell them. Why, even the people of the official dare to move, how many heads do you have. ”

"We won't take that person away, we won't take him away." Zhou waved his hand in a panic, frightened and unpossessed.

"Your Excellency said that they volunteered to be slaves, do you have a certificate?" Lin Hai asked through gritted teeth, the resentment in his eyes was about to overflow. If you want to let go of Zhao and Lin Jiu today, you won't be able to handle them in the future. In the name of Chu Linghui, even the Lin family can't touch them casually.