Chapter 423

What you are most afraid of would come first. As Ling Chenglong and his family were about to turn to leave, people under Ling Chengcai and his wife’s lead rushed out of the room. Without saying anything, they stuffed a ball of white cloth bundled with linen threads into their arms, so fast that they even didn’t have time to respond.

“Dad is gone, these are the mourning dresses, put them on and see him off for the last journey.”

One could not see any trace of sorrows in Ling Chengcai’s eyes, but only calculation. This was actually planned already. As long as they put on the mourning dresses, they were still members of the old Ling family, so they would have no choice but to support them in the future.

No one is stupid, it’s just that kind people wouldn’t crack their brains to calculate others. Let alone the two brothers, even Ling Chenglong and his wife instantly understood what they were up to, and instantly darkened their faces. So they had made up their mind to extort them?

Without thinking, Ling Chenglong already snatched those mourning dresses from his wife and sons, and threw them in their face angrily, “We have already had no any connections. In the ancestral hall and my hands, there is Old Lord Ling’s handwriting proof. According to the laws of the Qing Kingdom, as long as one divides up from the family and lives independently, it’s like being expelled out of the family, one has to go out neatly, and never be a member of the family. So we can’t wear those.”

He was really mad. Why? Yeah, they lived much better now. But they had earned it with their own hands. When racing against time to make jam, they had to stay in the mountain the whole day in hot June, even Ling Jingxuan himself had to bury himself beside the hearth making jam. Where were they at the time?

“Chenglong, how can you talk like that? Even if you moves out, so what? Isn’t your dad no longer your dad? Aren’t you dad’s son? However big animosity there is between us, our dad has passed away now, as his son, how could you not wear the mourning dresses for him and see him off for his last journey?”

Speaking of which, Lady Li tried to stuff the mourning dresses back into his arms again. Ling Chenglong felt both mad and embarrassed, but the other side was a woman, he couldn’t use force. Finally, Lady Wang couldn’t take it. She moved forward and pushed her away, “Lady Li, what are you doing? Body contact is not allowed between men and women unless they are a couple. Don’t you know that? You are already a grandma yourself. How could you touch my man in front of so many people? You don’t want your face, but my man does!”

How could they be so evil-minded? She had a clear consciousness that she had never done anything harmful to them. Even after they moved out, seeing that something happened to them, she still did anything she could for them secretly, and she would swallow it when being insulted. For this thing, she had been living in horror for a long time, only afraid that her son would complain. Fortunately Ling Jingxuan was wise enough and didn’t take it above the table, and turned a new page of that thing. But now, what were they doing? Even before the old man died, he still tried to calculate them and they could let it go. And when the younger generation tried to set them up, she could also let it go. But why even Lady Li tried to calculate them now?

Lady Wang’s sudden reprimand shocked Lady Li. Apparently under her eyes flashed embarrassment and disgust, but the next second, she instantly put on the appearance like Lady Wang was bullying her, she buried her head into her husband’s arms, eyes reddening, like she was the victim. Those who didn’t know what had happened would really be fooled by her and thought Lady Wang was a big bully.

“You shut up, she is your big sister-in-law, your big sister-in-law is like your mother-in-law. Dad has passed away, what’s wrong for her handing the mourning dresses to Chenglong? Lady Wang, you are just an ignorant village woman who knows few characters. Don’t take yourself as a scholar since you have a xiucai son! It’s never your turn to lesson my wife!”

Ling Chengcai held his wife in his arms and pointed at Lady Wang and started to yell at her. Instead of pressing his voice, he even raised it a lot. People say, domestic shame should not be made public. But apparently he was trying to attract all the villagers here. Maybe Ling Chenglong and his wife were too simple, but the two brothers were not. Seeing here, they had quite possibly guessed out their purpose–trying to use people’s gossip to force them to surrender. Once they put on those mourning dresses, it meant that they admitted they were still a family. By then, it would be difficult to shake them off. What a vicious setup! One after another, totally not giving them the time to change their breath!

“Dad, mom.”

At the same time, the two brothers moved forward holding back their parents who were going to argue back. Ling Jinghan threw his elder brother an eye and then stood aside holding their super angry parents. After flattening his sleeves, Ling Jingxuan went forward casually. Seeing that, Ling Qicai was like an ant on the hot pan. Before he had time to stop all this, Ling Jingxuan’s voice already was heard.

“It’s true that the big sister-in-law is like the mother-in-law. But as we all know, the old lady of your old Ling family hates my parents to the bones, and even indulged their daughter trip my mom to get her having a miscarriage. And today, your old man passed away, for the old time’s sake, we came to send him for his last journey. But what did you do? Forcing my parents to put on the mourning dresses for no reason! Who doesn’t know that our Jinghan has just gotten listed as a xiucai and this is a joyful event for us. As their big sister-in-law, are you trying to curse our whole family to die? They don’t have such a venomous big sister-in-law!”

Since they wanted to make this big, he’d like to play with them. Anyway, after Shengrui left, his life was boring. He only hoped that they could hang in there a little longer.

Hearing him, Ling Chengcai and others got stunned there, and the village head Ling Qicai also got so mad that he could barely breathe. They kept forcing Ling Jingxuan to stand out. Now what? This thing could never end well! Judging from Ling Jingxuan’s words, he knew people of the whole room were so dead. Ling Qicai suddenly felt like he had the heart but didn’t have the strength. It had taken him so much trying to fix their relationship, only wishing that Ling Jingxuan could at least care those villagers a little. Seeing that he tried to open a school, and paid the villagers to work for him, at least, he had found a balance point both sides could accept, but…his ‘good’ big brother and ‘good’ nephews…All the effort he had done would melt into thin air…

“You…you shameless monster! What qualifications do you have to talk to my mom like that? Ever since she married into the Ling family, she has been filial to her parents-in-law and nice to the juniors, and gotten along well with other sisters-in-law. Anyone in the village doesn’t think highly of him! What makes you say those bullsh*t?”