“Bzzz…”
At one in the morning, the vibrating alarm clock that Lin Qiaoyun had set went off.
To pull off her little scheme, Lin Qiaoyun was really putting in the effort.
Instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, she got up to cause trouble.
She dressed herself in black from head to toe, put on a pair of night-vision goggles, quietly opened her door, and slipped outside. Before long, she arrived at the Lin family home.
The Lin family didn’t keep a dog, so Lin Qiaoyun got in easily.
After drugging everyone in every room so they would sleep soundly, she began her treasure hunt.
She wasn’t interested in searching the other rooms.
There probably wasn’t much worth taking there.
Her main target was Wang Chunhua’s room.
That old woman was probably rich. Just from the way she dressed every day, it was obvious she wasn’t short on money.
Lin Qiaoyun quickly found Wang Chunhua’s hiding places.
After all, there were only so many places people could hide money. The most sophisticated method was usually digging a hole somewhere in the room.
She searched here and there, checking every hiding spot in Wang Chunhua’s room.
She found over a thousand yuan in cash, two gold bars, a jade pendant stored in a box, more than thirty silver dollars, and all kinds of miscellaneous ration coupons and tickets.
“Holy crap. Wang Chunhua acts like she has a son serving in the army too. How does she have so many coupons? Could there be something fishy going on?”
Lin Qiaoyun silently complained in her heart.
The novel hadn’t mentioned anything about Wang Chunhua’s family.
Then again, Zhao Tiezhu was just cannon fodder in the story. His wife was cannon fodder among cannon fodder. Naturally, her maternal family wasn’t worth mentioning either.
Lin Qiaoyun continued searching.
Finally, at the very bottom of a pile of clothes, she found an envelope.
Inside the envelope was a letter and half of a copper coin strung on a red cord.
The letter was very old.
The handwriting had been done with a brush.
Lin Qiaoyun spent a long time deciphering it before she roughly understood the contents.
The letter said that this child belonged to an important person. Because of work-related transfers, the child’s parents had no choice but to entrust the child to a local family to raise. They hoped the foster family would take good care of the child. In the future, when the child’s parents came looking for him, they would definitely repay the people who had raised him.
The letter also listed the amount of money given as child support.
“Holy crap, isn’t this exactly the kind of plot you always see in old TV dramas? During the revolution, lots of people couldn’t take their children with them and had to leave them with villagers to raise.
So who in the Wang family is this poor child?”
Lin Qiaoyun thought about it.
Other than her father, there really wasn’t anyone else.
Her father had never been loved by his parents in this family. Even his wife had been someone he picked up. His life had been pitiful.
If he were truly Wang Chunhua’s biological son, there was no way she would treat him like this.
Just look at how she treated her other two sons.
“You old hag. How dare you abuse the descendant of a revolutionary soldier? I’ll make sure you suffer.”
Lin Qiaoyun flicked her hand.
A bit of powder drifted onto Wang Chunhua’s face and hands.
This was her specially-made itching powder.
Enjoy it.
After leaving Wang Chunhua’s room, Lin Qiaoyun even went to visit Lin Qiaofeng’s room.
Mm.
She was very satisfied with Lin Qiaofeng’s face.
Small bumps had already started appearing on it.
They wouldn’t emerge all at once. Instead, they would slowly grow, becoming larger and more numerous until her entire face was covered.
Haha…
Lin Qiaoyun stood by Lin Qiaofeng’s bedside and happily admired the sight for a while.
Only after she had enjoyed herself enough did she leave the Lin family home and return home to sleep.
She had already cleaned out most of the valuable things in the Lin household.
There wasn’t much left to do in the future.
Lin Qiaoyun slept soundly until broad daylight.
She had slept wonderfully.
But she had no idea that after she left, Wang Chunhua had suddenly felt her face and hands itching in her sleep.
Then she started scratching.
When people scratch while asleep, they have no sense of restraint.
So when Old Man Lin woke up the next morning, the first thing he saw was a bloody, horrifying face.
“Ah! A ghost!”
“Ah! Old man, what are you yelling about?”
Wang Chunhua reached out with her blood-covered hand to hit him.
When Old Man Lin saw that bloody hand coming toward him, his eyes rolled back and he fainted on the spot.
“What’s wrong? Old man, what’s wrong with you?
Ah! My hand! What’s happened to my hand? Help! Help!”
In the next room, Lin Youde and Lin Youfu and their wives heard Wang Chunhua shouting for help.
They didn’t even have time to put on proper pants. Wearing only shorts, they rushed into Wang Chunhua’s room.
“Mom, what’s wrong?”
“What happened, Mom?”
“My hand! My hand! Your father… your father fainted! Hurry and get a doctor!”
“Oh! Okay!”
Lin Youfu immediately ran off to fetch Guyun Village’s barefoot doctor.
Meanwhile, Lin Youde went over to check on his father.
“Mom, what happened to Dad? And your hand… and your face…”
Lin Youde noticed that not only were Wang Chunhua’s hands covered in blood, but there were also bloody scratch marks all over her face.
It was obvious she had done it to herself.
“Mom, did some kind of bug bite you?”
At that moment, Wang Chunhua was still scratching her face and hands.
The movements were completely instinctive.
Her face and hands were unbearably itchy and painful.
If she didn’t scratch, she couldn’t stand it.
But the more she scratched, the itchier it became, and the itchier it became, the more she wanted to scratch.
Her already bloody face looked even worse now.
“Mom, stop scratching! If you keep doing that, you’ll tear the flesh right off your face!”
“Waaah… I can’t control myself…”
With no other choice, Lin Youde had Liu Dani grab Wang Chunhua’s hands to stop her from moving.
“Mom, you have to endure it. Otherwise your face will be ruined.”
“You think I don’t know that? Do I need you to tell me?”
The rest of the Lin family had gotten up by then.
Everyone crowded into Wang Chunhua’s room to see what was happening.
The moment they saw her bloody face, they were all terrified.
Just as Wang Chunhua was about to completely lose her temper, Lin Youfu finally returned with the village doctor, Lin Cheng.
Lin Cheng was only a barefoot doctor who knew a little about herbal medicine.
He could handle common illnesses like headaches and fevers.
But when it came to something that looked like poisoning, he was completely helpless.
After examining her, he shook his head and said he couldn’t treat it and that she needed to be taken to a hospital.
Then he turned around and left with his hands behind his back.
He knew exactly how troublesome Wang Chunhua was.
If he prescribed medicine and failed to cure her, he’d be in big trouble.
It was better to leave as quickly as possible.
“Uncle Lin, don’t go! My father is still lying here!”
Lin Youfu chased after him and dragged Lin Cheng back.
Having no choice, Lin Cheng examined Old Man Lin instead.
After checking him over, he determined that the old man had simply fainted from fright.
He pinched the philtrum beneath his nose and pressed the web between his thumb and index finger.
Before long, Old Man Lin woke up.
“Alright. Since he’s awake, he’s fine.”
Seeing that Old Man Lin was conscious and unharmed, Lin Cheng immediately left again.
This time he didn’t even ask the Lin family for payment.
As he left, he thought to himself:
“This family is headed for disaster. I’d better get away quickly.”
“Uncle Lin! My mother—”
Lin Youde still wanted Lin Cheng to take another look at Wang Chunhua.
But when he turned around, the doctor had already disappeared.
“Dad… what do we do now?”