Chapter 3 Give me the jade pendant
When the stepmother saw her husband coming out, she became even louder and pointed at Lin Qingshu's nose to add insult to injury.
"Her father, look at this child. He has only been away for a few days and he has brought back a shady and wild man. He has completely disgraced our old Lin family!"
"You think I'm embarrassed? Give me the jade pendant and I'll leave immediately!"
Lin Qingshu glared at his stepmother, refusing to give in at all.
"Shut up, everyone!"
Lin Wan glanced at her stepmother angrily and scolded: "What a wild man, you are not afraid of making others laugh when you quarrel in front of Lu Tang!"
After saying that, Lin Yuan walked up to Lu Tang and looked him up and down.
"How come it's like this? Let's boil some hot water for Xiao Lu and wipe it clean. Then find some clean clothes! Prepare some good food!"
"Don't stand outside, sit inside."
Lin Yuan pulled Lu Tang in and looked at Chenglong Kuaishu's eyes turned into slits with laughter.
The stepmother's eyes widened in shock. She never expected that the man in front of her with shabby clothes and a limp leg would be the eldest son of the Lu family in the provincial capital.
"Look at my mouth, Xiao Lu, don't take what I just said to heart."
The stepmother hurriedly chased after her, but Lin Qingshu reached out to stop her.
"Give me the jade pendant!"
The stepmother refused, so she hid the jade pendant behind her back and tried to use it to pinch her.
"It's not unlucky for you to hold something belonging to a dead person! Give it to her!"
Lin Yuan's voice was majestic, with a faint hint of dissatisfaction.
The stepmother did not dare to push the blame any further and reluctantly threw the jade pendant into Lin Qingshu's hands.
Lin Qingshu took the jade pendant, carefully put it on his neck, and then returned to his room, not catching up to join in the fun.
She has no interest in the young master of the Lu family or the young master of the Tang family. She just wants to go to college and major in archeology to return to the peak of her previous life.
Near noon, Lin Wan came home from school. The food had been set, and she saw a strange man sitting at the table. Before she could react, she was pulled over by her mother.
Li Shujuan dragged Lin Wan to Lu Tang and showed off by pointing at the certificates posted on the wall.
"This is our second daughter. She is in her third year of high school. Her teachers all praised her and said she would definitely be able to get into college."
Li Shujuan looked at her daughter, and the more she looked at her, the more excited she became. Everyone knew that her daughter was better than that damn fat man.
As long as Lu Tang is captured, her daughter will become the young mistress of a wealthy family, and the Lu family's vast wealth will be available to them at will.
Thinking of this, she pushed her daughter: "Calling someone, where is the usual cleverness?"
Lin Wan looked at Lu Tang's large cotton-padded jacket with suspicion.
Li Shujuan quickly explained: "Xiao Lu just came back from abroad. He was robbed on the dock and came to our family specifically."
Lin Wan then smiled shyly and called out: "Brother Lu Tang."
Lu Tang nodded slightly without saying much.
Lin Qingshu looked on in admiration and started eating while watching the performance of mother and daughter.
There is nothing delicious these days, and the bacon on the plate is reserved for men. Lin Wan is preparing for the college entrance examination and can eat some every now and then. Li Shujuan has already satisfied her craving while cooking.
Only the original body, unable to eat anything and gained weight all over.
Lin Qingshu didn't care about that. He stretched out his chopsticks to pick them up. Lin Yuan glared several times, but she ignored them.
Lu Tang looked at her remnant and was secretly amused. This girl was really unruly. Her situation in the Lin family was just like that of him in the Lu family, and she was no less generous.
Thinking of the group of people who wanted him to be unable to return to his old home and wanted his life, Lu Tang's eyes showed a faint anger.
After three rounds of drinking, Li Shujuan kept diligently serving food to Lu Tang and asked Lin Wan to pour wine.
"Xiao Lu, you have been drinking foreign ink. When you have time, you can teach Wan'er English. This child always ranks first in the class, but his English is not good."
Speaking of his daughter's grades, Lin Yuan became proud. There had never been a college student in the village. If Lin Wan passed the exam, it would be a great joy for the ancestors!
He turned his eyes to his eldest daughter and couldn't help but frown. He looked at her with such a ghostly look that he felt sick to his stomach, let alone the eldest young master who had studied abroad.
It doesn't matter which daughter Lu Tang marries, what matters is that he marries his daughter.
He knew his wife's little thoughts and acquiesced.
"Look at your sister, look at you, you can't read a word, you're fat and stupid!"
Li Shujuan praised her daughter but also criticized Lin Qingshu.
Lin Qingshu was not the original person, he would only listen silently, and then hide in the house alone and cry and be sad.
She opened her mouth and said: "If you don't let me go to school, how can I read? If I go to school, I will definitely do better than her!"
After she finished speaking, Li Shujuan seemed to have heard some terrible joke, and Lin Wan also looked at her with contempt.
Lin Qingshu ignored him and turned to Lin Yuan.
"Dad, my family didn't have enough money before, so you told me to let my sister study first. Now that my family's conditions are better, I want to study too."
Before Lin Yuan could say anything, Li Shujuan exploded first.
"That's not okay!"
All the money in the family belongs to her daughter and cannot be spent on unrelated people.
"Why not? We are also my father's daughter. Lin Wan'er can go to school but I can't? Aren't you afraid that others will say you are vicious and abuse your stepdaughter?"
Lin Qingshu kept his mouth shut and refused to give in at all.
"You, don't talk nonsense! How old are you? Are you studying? Are you with a baby?"
Li Shujuan's face turned red and white at times, and she hesitated to speak a complete sentence.
Lin Yuan glanced sideways and frowned. His daughter had always been dull. How could she be so talkative?
"If you want to go to school, go and don't mess around at home!"
This was what Lin Qingshu was waiting for, and he took the household registration book to his room in front of them.
"I'll go to high school to register in two days."
Lin Shujuan glared angrily at Lin Qingshu's door, but because Lu Tang was there, she couldn't get angry, so she could only apologize and let Lu Tang not take offense.
Lu Tang looked thoughtfully at the direction Lin Qingshu was leaving, with a faint curiosity in his heart. Seeing that she didn't sound like she was bragging when she spoke just now, this girl was really interesting.
In the room, Lin Qingshu opened his household registration book and snorted coldly. His original father was really a scumbag. He thought his first wife was dead and his possessions were unlucky. He was blatantly biased. If you want to go to school, go to school. Don't expect him to contribute a cent.
Lin Qingshu put his household registration book into his bag, quietly slipped out of the back door, and took the clay pot hidden in the abandoned granary to try his luck on the black market.
From the chat with Lin's father, she learned that there was a black market in the neighboring village that specialized in collecting antiques. She sold the clay pots and went to the school to go through the enrollment procedures, so that she could go to school the next Monday.
Having made up his mind, Lin Qingshu strode towards the black market.
"We are doing big business here, why are you, a woman, making trouble here?"
Lin Qingshu was kicked out as soon as she entered the door, causing all the young and old men in the room to look at her sideways.
She was not timid either, pointing to the things in their hands and telling them their origins one by one.
"jdzTeabowl from the Qianlong period, snuff bottle from the Republic of China, the most valuable one is the one inside, a brush washer from the Tang Dynasty."
After she finished speaking, the steward came out and personally welcomed her in.
"The little girl is not very young, but she has a vicious eye."
Chapter completed!