The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead
Chapter 227 - 219: Won’t Wait Past the Expiry Date

Chapter 227: Chapter 219: Won’t Wait Past the Expiry Date

"Fellow neighbors, it’s this woman who incited my daughter to harm others, and after the incident happened, she hid herself away. It was our family that had to pay in money and effort. You neighbors need to be careful, her intentions are malicious. Xia Lin, come out here! You don’t cough up five hundred yuan today, we’ll just keep waiting like this. Whenever you come out, that’s when we’ll leave."

Mother Yang said this, and even sat down directly at Xia Lin’s doorstep with a folded stool.

Yang Linghua kept banging on the front door nonstop.

This time of day was the peak of dinner time, so many people were standing at the doorway with their bowls, looking over here.

There were also those who didn’t mind making the situation bigger, outright standing in front of Xia Lin’s house and fanning the flames, "It’s this late and you’re making a commotion like this, do you know it’s affecting our rest? Can’t you just sit down like two families and solve whatever the issue is?

Causing such a ruckus outside, aren’t you ashamed?"

Mother Yang was just wishing for someone to talk to her. She immediately stood up from the stool and said, "Comrade, you’re right. Why couldn’t we sit down and discuss things? I don’t want to disturb everyone’s rest either, but this person is in the wrong and just refuses to show up, leaving us no options."

"Aren’t all the people in that family college graduates? They seem like pretty decent people to me."

Mother Yang said, "Appearances can be deceiving; the woman of this house has a black heart."

Before Mother Yang’s words had settled, Xia Lin suddenly yanked the front door open and said coldly to the pair, "Who are you calling black-hearted? Yang Linghua, I’m telling you, leave my house right now or else don’t blame me for being inhospitable."

Seeing Xia Lin’s haughty demeanor and recalling her own recent ordeal, Yang Linghua felt the stark contrast and got infuriated. She said, "And how exactly will you be inhospitable? I really want to see that."

Xia Lin narrowed her eyes and snorted lightly, "The police are on duty now, I don’t mind making another trip to the station."

The mention of the police station made Yang Linghua feel uneasy. They had come with the intention to make a scene and bleed Xia Lin dry, not to actually involve the police station.

If it went that far, they would surely be the ones without a leg to stand on, and besides, with school tomorrow, she definitely didn’t want to miss it and let her schoolmates find out about this mess.

Mother Yang, seeing her daughter cowed so easily, thought disdainfully that she lacked backbone, and went straight to pointing at Xia Lin and said, "Fine, to the police station it is. It’s just the place to talk some sense into all this. We’re not going to compromise this time unless you hand over five hundred yuan."

"Why don’t you just go rob someone instead?"

"Robbery? I only know that we should share the consequences. We’ve paid compensation, and we have the receipts. Can’t just be us bearing the cost, right?"

"I’ve already lost quite a bit of money thanks to you. The police told you to compensate, and if you’re not satisfied, go talk to them."

"Talking about being dragged down, haha, who has dragged down whom? Don’t you know it in your heart? I’m going to see the police, but you must come along too. Linghua, let’s go, grab her, we’ll see the police together."

"What are you doing, I’m not going!"

It had to be said that Mother Yang understood Xia Lin’s mindset very well. They didn’t want to go to the police station, and Xia Lin wanted it even less, as she knew they didn’t have the right. Moreover, Xia Lin didn’t want the matter to escalate, feeling quite confident about her position.

Indeed, she had a close relationship with the military district’s leadership, but she was only a niece by marriage. It had become apparent the day before that Leader Gao didn’t think much of this nephew’s wife from the countryside.

So what was there to fear? The mother and daughter began dragging Xia Lin outside.

It was then that Gao Shu finally came out and interjected, "If you keep causing problems without reason, I’ll make a trip to the department store tomorrow and explain to the manager what kind of ruffian behavior this is."

"Oh, a manager from the department store, no wonder you’re so bold."

"If you ask me, Xia Lin should’ve just gone with them to the police station. If she didn’t do anything wrong, what’s she scared of?"

A few neighbors held their bowls and shared their opinions, and one of them rolled her eyes helplessly after hearing this: "Haven’t you thought that Xia Lin must have been involved, which is why she didn’t want to go to the police station?"

"...It’s really possible."

"Exactly, she must have been involved. Otherwise, why would people come to her door to make trouble out of the blue?"

"Did anyone see the fight in front of our alley yesterday?"

"I glanced over a few times, it looked like Xia Lin and this girl got beaten up by a woman comrade."

"Beaten up and they even went to apologize; they definitely weren’t in the right."

"Tsk, tsk, she seemed like a nice person on regular days, always greets people, and she never owed me for making her clothes before New Year."

"How long have you been in touch with her? I think we better keep our distance from her in the future."

"She’s paid, she’s paid."

While some were chatting eagerly, they saw Xia Lin take out a stack of money from her pocket and fling it at Yang Linghua’s face, saying, "Take your extorted money and enjoy it, just be careful you have the money but no life to spend it."

After Xia Lin finished speaking, she pulled Gao Shu into the yard, and the gate slammed shut behind them.

Yang Linghua was somewhat dazed from the impact, but Mrs. Yang didn’t care about losing face and hurriedly bent down to joyfully pick up the money.

The three people in the yard were left speechless by this scene.

Luo Xinyue was still peeking through the crack of the door and commented, "By the looks of it, that wasn’t a small amount of money she just threw."

At that moment, Xue Jianian had climbed on something to peer over the wall into Xia Lin’s yard.

Lu Jingqiu also heard the argument between the two people in the yard.

She heard Gao Shu ask coldly, "You knew they did it on purpose, so why did you still give them money? By giving them money, aren’t you admitting to what they’re saying?"

Xia Lin said, "I’m not admitting anything. Haven’t you already admitted on my behalf? They just bullied me because I have no backing, and no one to support me. They wanted to extort money. Just five hundred yuan, right? I gave it to them, as long as they’re not afraid of choking on it."

"So domineering, huh? To throw out five hundred yuan just like that, you’re not short of cash. Then why do you act like a scared turtle in front of me?"

Just as Xia Lin and Gao Shu were fuming, they suddenly heard the mocking voice from above the wall and both turned to look over.

Xue Jianian didn’t give them a chance to speak and continued with Lu Jingqiu’s point: "Jingqiu, it’s just that she bullies the weak and fears the strong. You’re polite and she takes you for granted. Those who are unreasonable with her, she’s actually scared of, giving money to calm the matter."

Lu Jingqiu feigned raising an eyebrow: "So it turns out I’ve been too kind, huh, heh. But I can’t do those shrewish acts; I am a law-abiding good citizen after all, not like some people who ignore the police’s words. Xia Lin, the police said you need to personally come over and apologize to me—personally, do you understand? It seems you have a problem understanding. I don’t mind the trouble, I’ll graciously explain it to you again: don’t forget, the apology should be sincere.

Oh, and I don’t think the police station specified a time for the apology, tsk tsk, looks like I’ll have to make time to visit the police station tomorrow, have a word with Uncle Liang and set a deadline.

Let’s make it three days. I’ll be at school for the next three days. If you want to apologize, come to my school, I’ll be waiting."