The Transmigrated Farm Girl Has a Cheat Code

Chapter 12 12

The Lin family saw a young man emerge from the group of menacing men, speaking in a sleazy tone: "This family is surnamed Lin, right?! Is that girl Lin Yan from your family?"

Lin's father looked at them warily: "What do you want?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Bo shook his head and snorted coldly, "What?! Grandpa's here to collect a debt!"

"Debt collection? What debt?" The Lin family was very puzzled, as they did not recognize this person.

“Your Lin family owes me one hundred taels of silver!” Fu Bo said viciously.

"What?!" The Lin family was stunned. One hundred taels of silver? They had never seen such a thing before. They had no idea how much it was. Old Mrs. Lin jumped up from the kang (a heated brick bed) and pointed at Fu Bo: "What nonsense are you talking about?! What one hundred taels of silver? When did we owe you one hundred taels of silver?"

"That girl Lin Yan lost my jade pendant, she has to pay me a hundred taels!" Fu Bo said righteously, and his henchmen chimed in with equal arrogance, "That's right, pay up!"

"Otherwise, I'll show you!"

"Yan'er!" Lin's parents were startled and remained silent. Lin's mother looked at Lin's father with concern, and Lin's father patted her arm to comfort her, though he was also extremely worried.

Lin Herui grabbed Lin Yan's hand again: "Lin Yan, what mischief has that girl gotten herself into this time! How come people have come to our house!"

Li Shi chimed in, "That's right, that girl caused trouble again. Brother, how dare you say she was wronged!" Li Shi had no intention of paying compensation for Lin Yan!

When Grandma Lin heard that it was about Lin Yan, she felt relieved. "That girl, let her deal with others on her own. Don't drag us down with her!"

Seeing that the commotion inside had subsided, Lin Yan joined in. As soon as she entered, she ran to her parents, calling out, "Dad! Mom!"

Upon seeing Lin Yan enter, Madam Li quickly pointed at her and said, "Lin Yan is here! Go find her!"

Lin's parents hurriedly asked, "Yan'er, are you alright? Do you know them?"

Lin Yan looked at her parents with a wronged expression: "I'm fine! Dad, Mom, I found a purse yesterday with silver in it. I was waiting for the owner on the road when this person came and said it was his purse. But there was a jade pendant inside, which I clearly didn't find!"

Fu Bo: "I said I have it, so I have it. Don't I know what's mine? Your Lin family, either find my jade pendant or compensate me with one hundred taels of silver."

"What compensation? Don't even think about robbing us! Help! Help! Someone's trying to kill us!!" Old Mrs. Lin resorted to her usual tantrum.

The villagers outside had been watching for a while, and when they heard Old Lady Lin shouting, they rushed over and surrounded the door of the main room.

"Has the Lin family offended someone?"

"Didn't they say Lin Yan stole his jade pendant?!"

"If the jade pendant was lost, why would they wait for the owner in the same spot? It definitely wasn't Lin Yan who stole it. I think those scoundrels are definitely trying to extort money from the Lin family."

"What can we do? We can't afford to pay a hundred taels!"

"Of course I can't accompany you!"

The villagers were making a racket, but none of them dared to come forward and speak.

"Not going to pay?! Get him!" Seeing that the time was right, Fu Bo ordered his men to start smashing things in the main room. A group of burly men overturned all the tables in the room and threw things all over the floor.

Old Mrs. Lin screamed and rushed forward to stop them, but she couldn't stop a group of strong men.

"If you won't pay compensation, then take all the women in this house and sell them to brothels." Fu Bo pointed at Lin He Rui, "Her!"

Lin He Rui screamed and ran outside, yelling, "Ah, help!"

When Old Mrs. Lin saw that they were really going to grab Lin He Rui, she roared, "No! You're not allowed to touch my daughter! Go grab Lin Yan, she's the one who lost her, you make them pay for it, go find her!"

Li was also afraid that they would come after her, so she quickly chimed in, "Yes, go arrest Lin Yan and make her pay compensation, sell her! Don't arrest me!"

Fu Bo glanced at her and rolled his eyes. "Who wants to arrest you? You're so ugly! You wouldn't sell yourself!"

Then he glanced at Lin Yan, who was hiding behind her parents, feigning distress. He thought to himself, 'You don't even know this was her idea! Arresting her? I wouldn't dare!'

Seeing Fu Bo looking at her, Lin Yan winked at him, which startled Fu Bo, who quickly pushed through the process, "Hurry up and decide, either pay me compensation, or I'll take this woman away and sell her!"

"No, no, you can't take my daughter! Go and arrest Lin Yan! She has nothing to do with us!"

"It's alright, aren't you members of the Lin family?"

"Grandpa, Grandma, you can't abandon me! I can't afford to make up for it." Lin Yan said pitifully, tears welling up in her eyes.

Lin Sibo, supported by Lin Chao, said, "You can't cause trouble here. Aren't you afraid we'll report you to the authorities?"

“Official? Go ahead and go, the county magistrate is my relative! Go report to the authorities and see if they arrest you or me.”

"What?!" Everyone was shocked!

Uncle Lin sighed deeply, "The world is so unfair!"

Even Lin Yan wondered, "Is this guy acting or is he really serious? He's quite the liar! It seems to work."

Seeing that Uncle Lin was silent and no one in the village dared to interfere, Old Mrs. Lin quickly said, "We've separated from the eldest son's family, their affairs have nothing to do with us! If Lin Yan is missing, go find them, and let my daughter go!"

“Yes, yes, yes, the family has separated, the family has separated, we will not pay compensation for the eldest son’s family!” Madam Li quickly added.

"They've split up, huh?!" Fu Bo drawled as he looked at Lin Yan.

Lin Yan looked at Old Master Lin: "Grandpa, we haven't separated the family yet, you can't just abandon us because of this incident."

Old Master Lin remained silent, looked up at Fu Bo, then at Fourth Uncle Lin. Seeing that he also didn't want to get involved, he looked somewhat ashamed. "We've already separated. Today we're discussing the division of the family property."

"Sigh~" Uncle Lin sighed deeply upon hearing this.

Upon hearing his parents' words, Lin's father gave a mocking smile and said, "Let's split up! Our affairs won't involve you!"

Then he turned to Fu Bo and said, "You know the truth of the matter. We definitely can't afford to pay this money right now. Let me think of a way. Give us some time."

Fu Bo watched as Lin Yan nodded slightly to him, then said, "Hmph, I'll give you another month. If you can't afford to pay, then take Lin Yan away!" With that, he led the crowd away imposingly.

Lin's father lowered his head and remained silent. The Lin family's behavior just now dealt him another heavy blow. He should never have had any expectations of them.

After Fu Bo and the others left, Old Mrs. Lin turned to the old man and said, "This is your business. It's all that trouble caused by that girl Lin Yan. Don't come looking for us!"

Uncle Lin sighed, "Hai-ge'er, I shouldn't have come to mediate! Alas!" He had come to persuade the eldest son not to divide the family property, but this whole mess had happened, and now those who didn't want to divide the property were the ones scrambling to do so. He couldn't help but feel a little guilty towards Lin's father.

"It's alright, Fourth Uncle, let them divide it. It should have been done long ago!" Lin's father had also come to terms with it.

When the villagers saw how things had escalated, they couldn't help but mock the Lin family.

"They immediately separated people after an incident?! That's going too far!"

"There's nothing we can do about it, otherwise who's going to compensate them?"

"That's true, but what Old Mrs. Lin said was really hurtful."

"That's right, Old Master Lin's family is really unlucky!"