"I'm a white-eyed wolf?" Lin Xing was furious. She rushed into Lin Yu's room and hit him. "If I'm a white-eyed wolf, I'd still care about you and Dad's lives! You sold me, and you won't even let me say a few words?"
"Mom! Control my little sister, she's acting crazy, she's gone mad!" Lin Yu cried out, dodging the blows.
"Enough, have you two finished fighting?" Mother Lin walked in with a stern face, looking at them. "Everything is your own doing, who can you blame?"
"How is it my fault?" Lin Xing screamed. "It's because they gambled and lost, racking up debts, why should I be sold to pay them off!"
Lin Xing was unconvinced.
"Just because they are your brother and father, are you satisfied?" Mother Lin said coldly. "Didn't you like them a lot before? Didn't you always listen to them? Now they are in trouble, and you're not helping them?"
"But that's my lifelong happiness! I'm only fourteen years old!" Lin Xing broke down, looking at Mother Lin. "You're my mother, why didn't you help me stop Dad?"
"How many times have I stopped you since I was little? Did you ever listen to me?" Mother Lin said expressionlessly. "You want me to manage it now, what were you doing before?"
"Then you shouldn't just watch me get sold by Dad!" Lin Xing questioned, pointing at Mother Lin.
"What do you want me to do then?" Mother Lin looked at her coldly, waiting for her solution.
Lin Xing choked, falling silent.
After a long pause... "...You go find Big Brother?"
"Only when you need something do you go find him? What is he to you? He has nothing to do with you now, why should he help you? Hasn't he been good enough to you since you were little? He would rather go hungry himself than not give you food, but what about you?" Mother Lin looked at Lin Xing, tears welling up in her eyes.
"I..." Lin Xing was taken aback.
"You only remember Lin Yu, who snatched his bowl, and that a mouthful of food from him was the best brother you had!" Mother Lin said with a laugh. "You've always targeted Lin Feng since you were little. Now you've successfully driven Lin Feng away, and he doesn't want us anymore! You got what you wanted, didn't you? Then stop complaining! Your dad has always been this kind of person, you're only seeing him clearly now!"
After Mother Lin finished speaking, she turned and left Lin Yu's room.
"It's all your fault, all your fault!" Lin Xing took her anger out on Lin Yu. Lin Yu dodged Lin Xing's attacks. His leg was injured and he couldn't run. In his anger, he directly pushed Lin Xing.
"You're crazy! He was adopted, what's wrong with driving him away!" Lin Yu yelled at Lin Xing, unhappy. "Grandma said he would take our things and eat our food!"
"Grandma favors you the most, she never liked me! She always called me a good-for-nothing!" Lin Xing gritted her teeth.
Since childhood, Old Mrs. Lin had favored Lin Yu, giving everything to Lin Yu. Even her own status wasn't much better than Lin Feng's; she could only wait for Lin Yu to finish eating and then pick at his leftovers.
"You are a good-for-nothing! Fine, fine, fine, you're not a good-for-nothing now, you're a money-maker, alright?" Lin Yu rolled his eyes at Lin Xing and waved his hand impatiently.
"Lin Yu!!" Lin Xing said angrily.
"What are you shouting about! What else do you want! I've already given you enough face, don't be ungrateful!" Lin Yu glared at Lin Xing impatiently. Seeing Lin Yu's attitude, he didn't take her seriously at all, nor did he care that she was about to marry a butcher.
"Get lost." Lin Yu said coldly.
Seeing Lin Yu's extreme impatience, Lin Xing couldn't take it anymore and ran out crying.
"Mom! I told you I was hungry! Give me food! I want to eat!" Lin Yu said dismissively, turning his anger towards Mother Lin, who was feeding chickens in the yard, and yelling.
"There's no grain at home, so you'll go hungry!" Mother Lin's cold voice reached Lin Yu's ears.
"Where's the money! A full four hundred yuan! Even after paying Dad's gambling debts, there's a hundred left! Where's the money!" Lin Yu shouted in anger.
"Your dad took it!" Mother Lin still spoke calmly and indifferently, continuing her work.
"...Couldn't you have stopped him from leaving?" Lin Yu understood everything when he heard that Lin Dawei had taken it. His dad must have gone gambling again.
"I don't have that ability, I've never been able to stop him!" Mother Lin said self-mockingly.
Lin Yu paused, then lay back down in defeat.
Lin Xing ran out of the Lin family crying and headed straight for Lin Feng's house. Lin Feng was packing up the cured meat with Fu Wenwen, preparing to mail it to Fu Wenwen's parents tomorrow.
Lin Xing rushed in directly. Fu Wenwen was startled by Lin Xing, thinking she was going to throw herself into Lin Feng's arms. Lin Feng merely glanced at Lin Xing indifferently. Lin Xing immediately stopped in front of Lin Feng, afraid to rush over.
"...Big...Big Brother!" Lin Xing looked at Lin Feng, her eyes full of tears.
If it were in the past, Lin Feng might have asked with concern what was wrong. Now that their relationship had been severed, Lin Feng simply gave her a calm glance and turned back to his work. "You've come to the wrong person, I'm not your Big Brother."
"Big Brother, Dad sold me to a butcher! Save me! Big Brother..." Lin Xing knelt directly before Lin Feng, crying and begging. "Big Brother, I'm your most beloved sister! Are you just going to watch me be sold to that butcher? He's over forty! Older than Dad..."
Fu Wenwen looked at the tense Lin Feng and sighed softly. She stepped forward, pulled Lin Xing up, and pushed her out the door. "How can there be people as disgusting as you? It was enough to leech off him before, and now you want him to pay for your life because of your own mistakes?"
"Sister-in-law! Please! Save me! I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong! Big Brother, please forgive me... I'll treat you as my Big Brother from now on!" Lin Xing shouted into the house.
Lin Feng appeared at the doorway. Lin Xing looked up at Lin Feng with hope. Lin Feng, however, took Fu Wenwen's hand. Fu Wenwen paused and looked at Lin Feng in confusion.
"What are you doing standing at the door? The packing isn't done yet! See if there's anything else you want to send to your parents?" Lin Feng pulled Fu Wenwen inside. Fu Wenwen cooperated and followed Lin Feng into the house. Lin Feng turned and slammed the door shut.
Lin Xing was directly locked out.
"Big Brother! Big Brother!!!" Lin Xing knocked frantically on the door outside, shouting miserably.
Fu Wenwen looked at Lin Feng, and Lin Feng shook his head at her.
Lin Xing's shouting attracted the attention of the surrounding neighbors. Seeing Lin Xing like this, many felt sympathy. However, they also knew that Lin Feng had finally escaped the Lin family. If he were to get entangled with Lin Xing again, it would be difficult to break free.
"Lin family girl, stop knocking! Lin Feng is no longer your Big Brother!" Aunt Tian advised Lin Xing. "Just let him go!"
"Exactly, he supported your Lin family for so many years, he's done more than enough!"