The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1078: Threatened?

Chapter 1078: Chapter 1078: Threatened?

"You... you..." Elder Mr. Zhou’s lips quivered as he looked at his grandson.

His fine grandson, who had smoothly progressed from primary scholar to advanced scholar, had always been so good, but how had he ended up like this? From what point did he start to change?

He took a deep breath and then he remembered.

It started after he went to the Lin family to call off the marriage engagement. Since then, his grandson had become a completely different person, failing at whatever he tried.

He made up his mind that he would, after calling off the engagement with the Prefect’s family, find a way to make Lin Laogeng marry Lin Caisang off to their Zhou family, to become a Zhou daughter-in-law!

Even if it meant using force or theft, he was prepared to go to any lengths.

The key was that as long as it benefitted the future of the Zhou family, he was willing to pay any price.

...

Two days later, at the Lin family.

Lin Caisang was idly sitting in the courtyard when her elder brother Lin Changhong walked in with light steps, almost hopping with excitement.

"Big brother, did you hear any news?" she asked.

"Yes."

Lin Changhong immediately nodded.

"The Zhou family has spread that shabby affair of the Prefect’s family all over Yejun. Now, on the streets of Yejun, everyone is talking about the Prefect’s family’s joke. I bet our dear Prefect is fuming right now."

Hearing this, Lin Caisang’s lips curled slightly upward.

"And then?" she asked.

"I was waiting outside the Prefect’s residence and saw Elder Mr. Zhou and a few others get kicked out by the steward of the Prefect’s family. They seemed to have been threatened too," Lin Changhong continued.

"Threatened?" Lin Caisang raised an eyebrow.

"Mmm."

Lin Changhong nodded.

However, he was also puzzled and looked at his sister, asking, "Sangsang, with the Zhou family causing such a disturbance in the Prefect’s household, do you think this marriage engagement will be called off directly?"

It was a real possibility. Both families had already fallen out. Would the Prefect still want to marry his daughter off to the Zhou family? Probably not.

And wasn’t it the Zhou family’s intention to leak that incident and break off the engagement?

At this, Lin Caisang let out a light laugh.

"Of course not. The more the Zhou family tries to distance themselves from the Prefect’s Ninth Miss, the more they won’t be able to!"

"Why?"

Lin Changhong didn’t understand, and neither did Lin Chushui, who was also in the courtyard.

"Sister Sangsang, with the situation turned into such a mess, if that Ninth Miss still marries into the same family, wouldn’t she be walking into suffering? Even if the Prefect dislikes the Ninth Miss, she’s still his daughter, after all.

He can’t just marry off his daughter and watch her suffer, can he? No matter what, it’s a matter of the Prefect’s own face."

"The incident was spread by the Zhou family, and the Prefect, who governs all of Yejun, couldn’t possibly fail to find this out. No matter what, the Zhou family won’t be able to escape from this."

Lin Changfeng, holding a book, stepped out of his room and said to them.

"That’s also true." Lin Changhong looked sideways at him.

The Zhou family thought they had a good plan, believing that by exposing the Ninth Miss’s affair, they could extricate themselves.

Little did they know, the Prefect wasn’t someone to be trifled with. The more they did this, the more likely it was that the Prefect would cling to them even more stubbornly. Elder Mr. Zhou’s wishful thinking had completely failed.