"Look at you, so pathetic! Bring me a bowl! Eat as much as you want today!"

Guan Hongying looked at the girls with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, then waved her hand to prepare to serve the children meat.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Just then, the heavy wooden door of the Guan family compound was suddenly smashed from the outside with a deafening roar.

Immediately afterwards, a dry howl like a pig being slaughtered came from outside the door.

"Hongying, my dear sister! Open the door! Help! My whole family is starving!!!! Daya and Siya are our own flesh and blood!"

The sudden wail startled Guan Siya so much that she almost dropped the bowl in her hand.

Guan Hongying's hand holding the soup spoon suddenly stopped, and her usually forthright face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Damn it, it's that bastard from Hujia Gou next door, Hu Dezhu, the younger brother of your dead father!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow.

"Is that the same awful second uncle who tried to sell off his older sisters back then?"

Lin Chuan had already figured out the family's situation during his time at the Guan family's home.

Guan Hongying is an extraordinary woman who has never been in a relationship; she has never married or dated anyone in her life.

The children were all taken in, and the people outside were indeed, strictly speaking, relatives of Daya and Siya.

The children she took in, including Daya and Siya, were actually unfortunate children left behind by Guan Hongying's deceased older sister.

Back then, Guan Hongying's older sister and brother-in-law died in an accident, and her brother-in-law's younger brother, Hu Dezhu, not only wanted to seize the family property.

They even considered selling Daya and Siya to human traffickers in exchange for food!

If Guan Hongying hadn't single-handedly stormed the Hu family's house with two bloodstained butcher knives, forcibly rescuing her two nieces and making them all take her surname, Guan, those two girls would probably be dead long ago.

"It's him!" Guan Liuya said with a disdainful pout.

"Back then, his mother chased him away with a pig-slaughtering knife, and he was so scared that he didn't dare to come near her for years. Today, he must have smelled the wild boar king's meat and thrown all shame into it!"

Lin Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked towards the gate of the Guan family.

"They arrived so quickly, which means they must have heard about us bringing back wild boars very soon. The people who just delivered the pork to us were also from Hujiagou... What a coincidence."

When no one opened the door, the person outside started shouting at the top of their lungs again.

"Hongying! Daya! Siya! I saw smoke coming from the chimney! I know your family is stewing meat! Even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected! We're blood relatives! You can't just stand by and watch your own uncle die!"

The knocking on the door grew louder and louder, and was even mixed with the cries of Hu Dezhu's children, who were clearly trying to morally blackmail him.

"I'll go cut his tongue out!"

At this moment, even the usually gentle Guan Daya's eyes suddenly turned cold. As she spoke, she reached out and touched the pig-slaughtering knife on the chopping board.

She never felt any affection for this so-called uncle; she only harbored deep-seated hatred for him.

When her biological parents suddenly passed away, she was left alone with Guan Siya, only to be relentlessly pressured by these so-called relatives. If it weren't for Guan Hongying's appearance, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

"Hey, lady, don't be rough! Don't get your hands dirty first!"

Hearing this, Guan Siya lost her composure. "If I don't use force?! I'll kill these shameless bastards!"

As soon as she said that, Guan Siya, that little firecracker, exploded and jumped up to grab a knife.

Lin Chuan grabbed Guan Daya's hand and then quickly pulled Guan Siya back.

A wicked smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"To deal with these kinds of relatives who want to get something for nothing, it's too easy to just kick them out with a knife. Today, your younger brother will teach you a trick: how to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Upon hearing this, a look of confusion flashed in the eyes of both Guan Daya and Guan Siya.

The two of them only know a few characters and have just learned to recognize and write the names of their family members. How could they possibly understand Lin Chuan's words?

Lin Chuan turned around, picked up a large, chipped bowl from the table, walked to the pot, ladled out a full bowl of oily wild boar soup, and then winked at Guan Hongying.

"Mother, put away the knife, let's open the door and welcome our guests!"

Although Guan Hongying didn't know what Lin Chuan was going to do, her experience over this period of time told her that trusting Lin Chuan was the right thing to do.

The group arrived at the gate of the Guan family compound, and just as they opened the door...

"Oh, Hongying, you've finally arrived..."

Hu Dezhu and his wife, who were outside the door, were about to squeeze into the yard when they spotted Lin Chuan with a big smile on his face, holding a large bowl of meat soup and looking at them with a 'kind' expression.

Seeing this scene, the two of them were stunned for a moment.

what does this mean?

However, the aroma of the meat soup wafted into her nose, instantly making Hu Dezhu's wife's eyes turn green with envy.

She smacked her lips instinctively and reached out to grab the bowl.

"Oh my goodness! Look at this huge piece of fat meat! Was this prepared for us? At least you two brats still have some conscience!"

"Wait!"

Lin Chuan dodged the pair of dark claws with remarkable agility.

Instead of being angry, he sighed and showed a deeply moved expression, even with tears welling up in his eyes.

"Second Uncle! Second Aunt! You came just in time! It's like sending charcoal in snowy weather!"

Hu Dezhu was a little stunned by Lin Chuan's shout.

"Huh? What...what do you mean? Who do you think you are?"

"I'm the Guan family's son-in-law who married into the family!"

Without blinking, Lin Chuan fabricated an identity, then pointed to the wild boar skeleton in the yard, which resembled a small mountain, and spoke with great sorrow.

"Second Uncle, you don't know this! This wild boar is collective property of the brigade! My third sister and I killed it in self-defense, and we were worried about it! Just now, the village secretary sent someone to say that this wild boar is considered to have damaged collective property, and our Guan family has to pay thirty yuan in compensation for the forest, plus fifty jin of fine grain as tax!"

"What?!" Hu Dezhu and his wife gasped in shock upon hearing this!

Thirty yuan plus fifty jin of refined grains?!

Even if they sold their entire family, they still couldn't raise that much money!

Lin Chuan didn't care about any of that. He grabbed Hu Dezhu's dirty sleeve without any disgust, his eyes full of sincerity.

"Second Uncle and Second Aunt, our family is dirt poor, and we're worried we won't be able to pay this fine and will be paraded through the streets and criticized! Mother was just saying that only blood relatives can take the blame for this, and look, you've delivered yourself right to our doorstep!"

"No wonder we're family! This is what they mean by being on the same wavelength!"

As he spoke, Lin Chuan enthusiastically handed the bowl of meat soup to Liu Shuanzhu.

"Second Uncle! You just said it outside the door, that we're family, even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected. I was really touched to hear that! As long as you help us pay this thirty yuan fine and fifty catties of grain, you can take half of these four hundred catties of wild boar meat! Here, have a sip of the broth to soothe your throat."

As he spoke, Lin Chuan waved behind him, "Siya, get me some paper and a pen. Let your second uncle put his fingerprint on this, and the fine IOU will be transferred to his name!"

Taking the blame! Thirty yuan! Fifty jin of refined grain! And you still want me to put my fingerprint on it?!

Looking at the fragrant meat soup in front of him, Hu Dezhu now felt that it was nothing short of a deadly poison!

"Gurgle..."

Hu Dezhu swallowed subconsciously, his face, which had been full of greed just moments before, turning deathly pale. He waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, no! I won't drink anymore!"

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