The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 302 Get Away

Chapter 302: Chapter 302 Get Away

"Brother Yongfu, I know I’ve wronged you, but, but I’m still innocent! I haven’t been with another man! Really, Brother Yongfu, you must believe me! Look at me, look at what I’ve become now, all because of the abuse from the Lin Family. My mother, my elder brother and sister-in-law, they don’t treat me like a human being, they treat me like an animal! At that time, I already regretted it! This is all my retribution, the retribution for divorcing you, for abandoning our children without care!"

"But now, Brother Yongfu, I’ve returned! I admit my mistakes! I swear, I will never leave you again! From now on, I will take good care of you and serve you! Whatever you say, I’ll do! I won’t go back to the Lin Family ever again, all right? Brother Yongfu, please save my life. I can’t go back there, I won’t survive if I do! You wouldn’t stand by and watch me die, would you?"

Lady Lin knelt on the threshold, crying and begging with snot and tears.

For a long while, no one spoke. Wang Yongfu’s face had softened at the sight of her pitiful state, but after her pleading, he calmed down.

"You should go! Do you remember what I said before? The marital bond between us has been irrevocably broken, with no further connection! If you’re doing well, Jinpan and the others won’t come to beg you, and if you’re not, don’t come back! If you have a shred of conscience and a mother’s love, you would rather die than return!"

Wang Yongfu sneered, "You said that even if you had to beg for food, you wouldn’t come back. Now, if you really had any shame, if you really remembered your children, you should be begging far away from here, not returning! Do you think I’d forgive you just because you cry and beg? Lin Xinghua, don’t dream! I still remember clearly how you treated me back then. Years of marriage, and I, Wang Yongfu, have never wronged you, but when things were toughest for me, you stabbed me in the back. Now that you can’t endure your own brother and sister-in-law’s torment, you think of me? I am not a wooden figure that doesn’t feel pain, that doesn’t remember? Even if you kneel to death in front of me today, it’s no use!"

Having said that, Wang Yongfu turned and entered the house, not wanting to look at Lady Lin any longer.

Lady Lin tried to rush in to stop Wang Yongfu, but Wang Yongping and Old Granny Zhang stood at the door like two mountains, blocking her way.

Having no alternative, Lady Lin turned to Jinpan, knowing that her eldest son was always honest and kind-hearted, and as the eldest son and grandson, if he softened, she might have a glimmer of hope.

"Jinpan, Jinpan, Mother knows she’s wrong! Really! Mother regrets it and will change! I will never leave again. Can’t you spare a thought for how pitiful your mother is and give me a chance to live? I really can’t go back to the Lin Family, I will die if I return there! The Lin Family are all heartless bastards. They deceived me and tore our family apart! Jinpan, can you really bear to send your mother back to her death?"

The disappointment on Jinpan’s face was hard to hide, "Mother, I may be slow, but I am not stupid! When I went to pick up Jinguan, what was your attitude? Have you forgotten? If you hadn’t had that intention, would you have been eyeing other men even before you divorced Father? Would you have rushed to our place and forced Father into a divorce after learning that the Wang Family land was sold? I haven’t forgotten a single word of what you said to get a divorce from Father!"

"If you say you are now mistreated by the Lin Family and can’t go on living, if you come to our Wang Family to beg for food or borrow some money to make a living elsewhere, considering that you gave birth to and raised us, I would beg my aunt to lend you the silver, to feed you! But you are still blaming others! Mother, you haven’t regretted a thing at your core! You regret not catching up with the good days of the Wang Family, you regret that if you had known the Wang Family would have today, you wouldn’t have divorced Father!"

Wang Yongzhu raised an eyebrow, not realizing that Jinpan actually understood everything so clearly.

Lady Lin’s intentions were laid bare by Jinpan, her old face flushing red, but she quickly cast aside this brief discomfort.

Since persuasion was futile with the eldest son, what about the second one, and Jinguan?

Lady Lin cast a pleading look at Jinhoo and Jinguan.

Jinhoo turned his face away, refusing even to glance at Lady Lin.

Only Jinguan still remembered Lady Lin. Seeing her in such a state, he was fearful yet somewhat hopeful. After all, Lady Lin was his birth mother, who had been good to him for so many years. When she spoke of Divorse, she even wanted to take him with her.

It hadn’t been long since he had last seen her, yet his mother had become terrifyingly thin. However, upon hearing that Lady Lin wished to return, Jinguan still felt a glimmer of hope.

These days, he watched with envy as Lady Jiang treated Jinhua, Jinpan, and Jinshao from the third branch of the family.

But he also knew that his mother had committed a grave mistake, one that could not be forgiven. So, feeling torn, he glanced at Lady Jiang and then at the expressions of his two older brothers before hiding behind Jindou, too scared to come out.

Lady Lin’s heart sank. Not one of her three sons would forgive her. What was she to do now?

Upon raising her head, she saw undisguised mockery and ridicule on Old Granny Zhang’s face. Hardening her heart, Lady Lin kowtowed to Old Granny Zhang, "Mother, I was wrong! I was vile back then, using my aunt’s influence to trip you up and poison your mind, speaking ill of you to Brother Yongfu, and sowing discord between you and your son. It was all my fault! I apologize to you! I bow to you, and I swear, I will no longer stir up trouble! From now on, I will listen to everything you say! I will take care of you in your old age along with Brother Yongfu. Just let me enter the house, and from now on, I’ll take care of all the household chores. Mother, please forgive me just this once!"

Old Granny Zhang sneered, rolling her eyes, "Don’t call me ’mother’. I don’t have a daughter like you, one who’s flirtatious, heartless, and shameless! Lin Xinghua, when you left, weren’t you arrogant and boastful, even threatening to sue us if we didn’t agree? And now you’re kneeling down to beg me? Does this old woman need you to take care of her when she has sons and daughters? Did you think about today when you were causing trouble and setting traps? Forgive you? Let you in the house? Pah—"

"Stop dreaming your lofty dreams! What do you think you are now, daring to cling to our Wang Family? A brainless lowlife, a filthy creature, couldn’t stand the grinding from your brother and sister-in-law and now you remember the goodness of our Wang Family? Now you want to come back? Do you think the Old Wang Family’s house is like a vegetable garden, open for you to come and go as you please?"

"Let me tell you, Lin Xinghua, scram as quickly as you can! Get as far away as you can. The sight of you disgusts me, you know? Move far away quickly, and don’t dirty the land of our Wang Family!"

Lady Lin knew Old Granny Zhang would not forgive her, but she had no way out. She saw Wang Yongzhu standing in the middle of the courtyard, looking coldly at her.

Remembering the rumors outside, her eyes lit up, and she suddenly kowtowed a few more times toward Wang Yongzhu.