Starting with a cub, the superpower boss becomes the richest man by lying flat

Chapter 145 Is he your lover?
Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin exchanged a glance, got up and went into the courtyard. They opened the door and saw Gao Yong's face, which was filled with suppressed anger.

"What happened?" he asked in surprise.

"You'd better hurry over and see, Old Chu... he's been tricked." Gao Yong stamped his foot angrily, grabbed Mo Ziyuan and was about to leave, but when they reached the door, he turned back to Lin Xin, who was a step behind, "Miss Lin, do you know a girl named Lin Ju in your village?"

Lin Ju? Lin Xin racked her brains for a while before finally finding a silent figure in her mind.

She nodded. "I know this person. What did she do?"

"Her mother brought her to our house, saying that Old Chu had ruined her and was forcing him to marry her!" Gao Yong was furious, and he spoke through gritted teeth.

"Chu Yu... ruined her?" Lin Xin was speechless. Although Chu Yu's appearance was not as good as Mo Ziyuan and Meng Yichen, he was still a handsome guy. With Lin Ju's plain and unattractive appearance, he would definitely not have been interested in her if he wasn't blind.

"How is that possible?" Gao Yong immediately bristled.

“I also think it’s impossible. Let me go with you to take a look!” Lin Xin was also quite curious. In her understanding, Lin Ju was the kind of person who lived at the bottom of the family, enduring beatings, scoldings, hunger, cold, and swallowing her anger. Moreover, her usual behavior had nothing to do with Chu Yu. How did she end up in this mess?
“You should go and see for yourself. Lin Ju’s mother has a really sharp tongue. She can’t stop cursing without taking a breath. We can’t even get a word in edgewise, and we don’t dare to lay a hand on her. As soon as we take a step forward, she lies down on the ground and throws a tantrum.” Gao Yong held out the back of his hand to show Lin Xin two scratch marks. “See those? These are the scratches I got when I stopped her from making Old Chu take responsibility.”

Lin Xin thought about it again and remembered Lin Ju's mother's many "great achievements," and her eyes filled with sympathy when she looked at Gao Yong.

If you were to rank the most formidable middle-aged women in Liulin Village, Linju's mother would definitely be in the top three. She was a woman who combined tantrums, fighting, cursing, and underhanded trickery.

This time, Chu Yu has been targeted by her, and things might not end well.

Lin Xin narrowed her eyes. She and Cui Shi had been stopped at the village entrance before, and now Chu Yu had encountered this incident. She had a strange feeling, as if someone didn't want them to leave the village.

Her house wasn't far from Mo Ziyuan's house. As soon as she stepped out of her house, she heard a commotion coming from the other side: a woman's shrill shouts, a woman's mournful sobs, a man's angry growls, and the villagers' chatter.

Seeing Gao Yong leading Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin over, the villagers who were watching spontaneously made way for them.

In the courtyard, a short, plump woman was standing with her hands on her hips, yelling and cursing. Behind her, a slender woman was covering her face and crying. Chu Yu stood opposite her, his chest heaving with anger, but he couldn't get a word in edgewise. Zhou Qi and the others standing behind him looked furious but dared not speak out.

"You look respectable enough, yet you did such a thing, and then you deny it afterwards. Now my daughter is carrying your child, you have no choice but to marry him, or I'll fight to the death to get you." The short, plump woman's voice rose an octave upon seeing Lin Xin, her eyes gleaming with smugness. "I've already said the child in her belly has nothing to do with me. I haven't even seen her before today. Even if your daughter can't get married, you can't blame it on me!" Chu Yu, constantly being berated by Lin Ju's mother, lost her temper and blurted out her own words.

Lin Ju, who had been huddled behind the woman, burst into tears upon hearing his words. The villagers surrounding them began to berate Chu Yu, saying he was cowardly, that he was a womanizer, and that they would drag him to the pond. In short, they said all sorts of things.

Lin Xin had been observing the mother and daughter ever since she entered the room. She noticed that the way they looked at Chu Yu was not as if they were looking at someone who had ruined a girl's reputation and caused her to become pregnant, but rather as if they were looking at a tool that could benefit them. Their eyes were full of greed and the smugness of having succeeded in their schemes.

Another thing is that every time they make a fuss, they glance at the villagers. Lin Xin subtly followed their gaze out of the corner of her eye and sure enough, she saw the same person that Lin Zhi kept looking at when she stopped the carriage. He was standing behind the villagers watching, quietly observing the farce in the courtyard.

This intensified her earlier feeling; it seemed someone really didn't want them to leave!

She tugged at Mo Ziyuan's sleeve behind her and secretly pointed out the person to him, "Do you recognize that person?"

Mo Ziyuan pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "I can't quite put my finger on it, but the figure looks somewhat familiar."

"I've never seen this person in the village before. Did they come with you to pick up Tao Tao?"

"It should be. This time, I brought His Majesty's people, and I'm not very familiar with them."

“Last time, when my carriage and Old Cui’s carriage were stopped by Lin Zhi, this guy was watching from the crowd. Today, when Chu Yu was being harassed, he was there again. I suspect that he is involved in both of these incidents.”

"I'll check and see. If he came with me, it means the journey back to the capital with the Crown Prince won't be peaceful. We'll really have to rely on you to protect him then." Mo Ziyuan felt inexplicably irritated. If His Majesty's people had already been infiltrated, would the capital be safe?
"This person is just causing trouble for us, but nothing serious has happened. It doesn't seem like they want to do anything to us; rather, it seems like they're trying to delay our departure," Lin Xin said, expressing her feelings.

Mo Ziyuan suddenly realized, could it be that something has happened in the capital and His Majesty is deliberately making them return to the capital later?
As they were talking, Lin Ju's mother suddenly started to attack Chu Yu. She actually stepped forward and began to tear at his clothes, trying to hit him. Because she was a woman, Chu Yu only blocked her hands and did not fight back. In just a short while, his face and the back of his hands were scratched and bleeding.

Seeing this, Lin Xin took a few steps forward and stood behind her. She grabbed Lin Ju's collar with one hand and pulled her back forcefully, causing Lin Ju's mother to take a big step back.

“谁敢暗算老娘，活得不耐烦了，我看看······原来是你这个小蹄子，怎么着，他是你的情郎啊？你拦着老娘揍他！”林菊的娘一看是林馨，眼里的恶意就像火山一样毫无预兆地爆发了。

Lin Xin naturally wouldn't indulge her. After releasing her collar, she swung her hand in a wide arc, and with two crisp "slap" sounds, two perfectly symmetrical handprints immediately appeared on Lin Ju's mother's face.