CHAPTER 52: CHAPTER 52: SHAMELESS

When Lin Qin was mentioned, Li Lian was furious, getting more and more worked up as she spoke.

The old lady’s face turned dark, and her voice raised considerably, "What does your family’s business have to do with me! Huh? Am I supposed to eavesdrop on others talking? What kind of people are you! Go, go, if you want to know, ask yourself, don’t get in my way, I’m busy!"

Li Lian pouted in dissatisfaction, glaring hatefully at the old lady’s back as she walked away, yelling, "Fine, don’t say it! Anyway, the land in our village won’t be cheap for outsiders! Lin Yi’s fields are sooner or later going to be ours!"

The old lady coldly watched Li Lian leave and threw the tablecloth in her hand forcefully onto the stove, "What a thing! Filthy eyes!"

Li Lian, unable to get any news from the old lady, turned her attention to Lin Qingxiang’s family.

Two days later, when she went to work in the fields, she discovered Lin Qingxiang and his son weren’t there; instead, it was Huang Yuzhen carrying a hoe. She immediately sensed something was off.

She was unabashed and bluntly asked, "Where are your husband and son? Why aren’t they working in the fields?"

A few people, including Huang Guihua, listened to Li Lian’s loud voice and all looked towards Huang Yuzhen.

Huang Yuzhen snickered and, pretending to be surprised, put down her hoe, "Oh! You don’t know? I thought for such a big matter, you’d know better than us!"

"What big matter?" Huang Guihua asked eagerly.

Her maternal family was from the same village as Huang Yuzhen’s, and the two were childhood playmates growing up together, closer than the average village woman, speaking without reservations.

Seeing everyone was curious, Huang Yuzhen didn’t hold back and cheerfully said, "Oh, nothing much, just that Lin Qin’s husband bought a piece of land to build a house. My husband and son were invited to help move all the stuff there."

"Hiss!" A crowd of villagers working in the fields dropped what they were doing, running over to gather more news.

Huang Guihua was shocked, "Wasn’t it said that Lin Qin’s remarried husband is one of the Dang people? Dang people can afford to buy land too?"

Huang Yuzhen raised her chin, glanced disdainfully at Lin Zhi and his wife, and loudly said, "What do you know! The Dang people may not have had money before, but now with the reform and opening up, people are running boats and fishing, living no worse than us! It’s just they usually live on the water, hard to buy land, but Lin Qin’s husband opened up that route, I heard it was done through the leaders of the land bureau!

If it were you, could you manage that?"

Everyone looked at each other, nodding incessantly; let alone finding leaders of the land bureau to buy land, it was difficult for them to even get a plot approved in the village to build a house.

Huang Guihua looked envious, "Are Dang people really that rich?"

Huang Yuzhen shrugged, "I wouldn’t know! But I heard from the children’s father that Lin Qin’s husband is particularly capable! Lin Yi is recovering at his son-in-law’s place, eating well, not having to work, and he’s gained quite a bit of weight!

Tsk tsk tsk..... you wonder how the difference between the two sons-in-law can be so great! I say, people with good fortune don’t enter ill-luck doors, Lin Qin has endured hardship and found a nest of blessings!"

"No way! How could a poor Dang man afford to buy land and build a house? You’re just bragging!" Li Lian reacted very agitatedly, as if she was about to fight Huang Yuzhen.

Huang Yuzhen disdainfully shook her head, "Whether it’s possible or not isn’t up to you to say! People are working hard, while you always stare at someone else’s few acres, isn’t it disgusting!"

"Huang Yuzhen! Don’t slander me! This land originally belonged to my family!" Li Lian stood on Huang Yuzhen’s piece of land.

Huang Yuzhen didn’t argue with her, instead turned her head to look for the team leader’s figure, "If you ruin my crops, I’ll make you pay tenfold!"

Li Lian immediately looked down at her feet, and calmly stood there, just refusing to move.

Huang Yuzhen ignored her and continued with her work.

Huang Guihua curiously inquired, "How much are they paying your husband and son per day?"

"One yuan and twenty cents per person, with meals included!"

Huang Guihua even more enviously asked, "Is Lin Qin still hiring people? My husband can also do odd jobs?"

Huang Yuzhen looked up, pondered, and said, "They probably don’t need anyone now, since my Qingxiang and Shaoyun are there, Lin Yi is recovering well enough to lend a hand, plus Lin Qin and her husband! Oh, and the two kids can help a little, it’s enough!"

Huang Guihua couldn’t help but be disappointed, continuing to ask, "How big are they building?"

"Over two hundred square meters! They even have to raise the foundation; anyway, from what my husband says, they’re not planning to cut corners!"

"Oh my! Over two hundred square meters, the land must be more than three hundred square! Tsk tsk tsk....."

Li Lian listened with pricked ears and ridiculed Huang Guihua, "You believe such nonsense too! If Chen Wenjun could afford to build a house, he wouldn’t have wanted someone like Lin Qin! Don’t be fooled! I say Lin Qin doesn’t know what’s good for her! She rejected a perfectly good college graduate husband and got involved with someone else.

The Liu family won’t let her off the hook for sure! Just wait and see! Once Liu Yongming graduates and is assigned a job, he’ll definitely settle accounts with her!"

Huang Guihua looked at Li Lian with a strange gaze, "Are you sick or something! Why do I feel like you’re hoping for Lin Qin’s misfortune? No wonder Lin Qin doesn’t acknowledge your family!"

Li Lian was choked up, stubbornly saying, "I didn’t say anything wrong! She gets divorced, remarries and she’s respectable? It’s shameful behavior! Rejecting a college graduate husband to marry a Dang man, if that’s not brain damage, what is!"

Huang Yuzhen tugged at Huang Guihua’s clothes, "Why are you arguing with her? I heard Liu Yongming’s second wife is a fraud, posing as someone else to enter college, and was caught by the police. Liu Yongming used to intern at the land bureau, but reportedly resigned to return to school. That family has a lot of bad luck, let alone graduating with work allocation! To graduate properly, they’d need ancestral blessings!"

"What? What’s this? Why have I never heard of it! Pretending to be someone else for college? That’s a huge deal!" Huang Guihua and the others once again crowded over, eagerly waiting for Huang Yuzhen to explain.

But Huang Yuzhen began joking, "Actually, I’m not sure about the specifics either, just know that Liu Yongming hadn’t divorced yet when he got involved with that woman, got her pregnant, and the Liu family always believed she was carrying a son, being a college student, naturally looked down upon Lin Qin and her daughter.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have schemed to have Lin Qin forced into divorce. They did get divorced as desired, but that woman wasn’t carrying a son, it was a daughter, and when she was giving birth, the police showed up and arrested her. Now, on their street, everyone knows about the Liu family’s troubles.

Oh, and I’ve heard that the woman is the daughter of Fangshan Village’s chief, this fake identity for university involves many people, the village chief of Fangshan, the school’s leader, the headteacher, and even leaders from the city’s education bureau, lots and lots!

If you want to know more, go find out for yourselves, I’m just telling you what I’ve heard from my husband, after all, he has a good relationship with Lin Yi, and knows more news than others."

The others listened, dumbfounded, subconsciously glancing at Li Lian and Lin Zhi, only to find them looking equally bewildered, clearly also not in the know.

Because Huang Yuzhen spoke so convincingly, Li Lian’s confidence wavered, and she didn’t continue to refute, but sullenly returned to her field, resentfully muttering in Lin Zhi’s ear, "Your dear niece is something! Keeping everything from us! Clearly not regarding us as family!"