"This is truly wicked!" Zhang Cuihua slapped her thigh in anger, "Lin Xing is really someone you can't even pity if you wanted to!"
"Sister, don't be angry. I have good news for you. Some people have already gone to tell the butcher, and that butcher will definitely deal with Lin Dawei! You just wait and see the show!" Zhang Cuihua remembered something and quickly said to Fu Wenwen.
As soon as she finished speaking, her eyes lit up. She patted Fu Wenwen and pointed towards the village entrance. "Look, speaking of who, here they come!"
Fu Wenwen looked towards the village entrance and saw a man with his chest bare, carrying a cleaver, rushing into the village. Fu Wenwen watched as he ignored the villagers and walked directly towards the Lin family's house at a brisk pace.
With the cleaver in his hand, his posture made it seem as if he was going to chop Lin Dawei to pieces!
Upon reaching the Lin family's house, the butcher directly kicked open the door. "Lin Dawei, get out here!"
"Oh! Son-in-law, why are you here?" Lin Dawei was lying in bed, resting comfortably. The violent kicking of the door startled him, almost making him fall off the bed. He thought it was people from the gambling house again.
But then he remembered that he had already paid off his gambling debts, and Lin Dawei puffed up his chest. Seeing the furious butcher, he still had the mood to greet him. "What, who made you so angry? My brother will deal with him for you!"
"Don't try to get chummy with me, just return my money! I don't want your daughter anymore!" the butcher roared. He had only agreed to be the sucker because she was young and delicate, but he hadn't expected this woman to be so restless, openly seducing another man in broad daylight?
How could he accept that! He wanted a woman who stayed at home and obediently bore him sons. With her kind of behavior, even if her belly was big, he'd doubt if the child was his!
Who knew whose child it was!
"Good son-in-law, how can you say that? My youngest daughter is definitely a virgin, how could that be false!" Lin Dawei dragged Lin Xing out without a second word and pushed her in front of the butcher.
Facing Lin Xing, who had tears in her eyes and looked pitiful, the butcher's aggressive stance softened. "You tell him yourself, don't you want to marry me? If you don't want to marry me, then let your father return the money to me!"
Lin Xing stiffened upon hearing the butcher's words. She looked at Lin Dawei. Lin Dawei glared at her, signaling her to speak properly, while Lin's mother watched her coldly.
Lin Xing looked around. She no longer wanted to stay in this house.
"...I am willing to marry you." Lin Xing looked at the butcher. She knew he was rich and could help her escape this life. He had told her before that as long as she followed him willingly, he would treat her well. "Do you still stand by your promise to me?"
"Yes." The butcher looked at Lin Xing seriously and raised an eyebrow. Although surprised, Lin Xing's willingness was a good thing for the butcher.
"Then take me away! I don't want to stay here for another moment!" Lin Xing said to the butcher. "Anyway, my father has already promised me to you."
"Are you telling the truth? Don't try to trick me. If I find out you're fooling around with other men after you follow me, don't blame me for being ruthless!" The butcher looked at Lin Xing, considering the credibility of her words.
"It's true. I'll go pack my clothes now." Lin Xing nodded and then turned to go back to her room to pack.
"Okay, I'll wait for you here!" The butcher looked at Lin Xing with satisfaction.
"Son-in-law, it wouldn't be good if you lived with Lin Xing, would it? Of course, I am a very understanding parent. How about this, give me a hundred yuan, consider it as a banquet fee! From now on, I'll consider my daughter already married to you!" Lin Dawei approached with a warm smile and said to the butcher.
The butcher was not stupid. He sneered at Lin Dawei. "I said it clearly before, this four hundred yuan includes the banquet fee! You agreed! Now you're asking me for money again, do you think I'm easy to bully?"
"No, no, it wasn't urgent then! How can you not even hold a banquet when my pure and innocent daughter is marrying you?" Lin Dawei panicked. He hadn't listened to the butcher at all back then, thinking it was the betrothal gift and he could ask for it again during the wedding.
"I will naturally hold a banquet, but that's your family's business. As for my side, I will naturally host one!" The butcher sneered. "Since your daughter wants to leave with me, it's not what I said, she said it herself! Anyway, once she enters my house, she's my person. It doesn't matter if you host a banquet here or not."
"Hey, hey! That's not how it works!" Lin Dawei was baffled. This butcher was so shrewd.
"That's how it works for me! Don't think I'm begging you! At my standard, four hundred yuan is already a lot to marry your daughter. If you keep making trouble, then return the four hundred yuan to me! With this four hundred yuan, what kind of woman can't I marry? Why would I specifically want yours?" The butcher glanced disdainfully at Lin Dawei. "Back then, I was willing because you said your daughter was educated and unmarried!"
Being young was important, and being educated was also a factor. The butcher knew that educated people were in demand, so he was willing to be the sucker.
After carefully calculating at home, he had actually regretted it a little, but it was settled. Thinking of a delicate and beautiful wife, he felt it was acceptable.
However, upon hearing that she had gone to seduce other men before even marrying him, the butcher immediately grabbed his cleaver and came to return her. Who would have thought that the little girl would actually be willing to marry him and even propose to move in with him?
This was acceptable.
"Besides, you said it yourself before, once you marry off your daughter, don't think about asking for things in her name again. We are severed from now on! I'm not prepared to recognize you as a father-in-law!" The butcher said disdainfully. He had learned from people at the gambling house that Lin Dawei was selling his daughter.
With someone like him, anyone who got involved with him would be unlucky.
"Then give me another hundred! We'll act like we never had this daughter!" Lin Dawei immediately said, chasing after the butcher to ask for more money.
"I'll give you twenty, do you want it?" The butcher sneered.
"...Twenty is too little, at least fifty!" Lin Dawei thought about it and still felt it was too little, a loss.
The butcher gave Lin Dawei a cold look. Just then, Lin Xing came out with her luggage. The butcher directly threatened Lin Dawei, "If you don't agree, then fine. Anyway, don't think about trying to get close to us in the future. If you dare to play any tricks, I'll have Old Li and the others deal with you!"
"Yes, yes, yes..." Lin Dawei shivered at the mention of the gambling house people and meekly agreed.
The butcher threw twenty yuan at Lin Dawei's feet, walked over to Lin Xing, picked up her luggage, and gave Lin Dawei a cold smile. "Let's go, we need to get a certificate from the village chief!"
"Mom, I'm leaving. You... take care." Lin Xing walked to Lin's mother and choked up.
"Hurry up and go! Since you've made up your mind, live well with him, and don't come back." Lin's mother looked at Lin Xing and instructed.