The Blessed

After sending Zhao&Han couple away, Ling Jingxuan arranged Song Gengniu and his family to make a bed on the floor in the central room temporarily. The two little buns had already went away with Zhao&Han couple, and Ling Jinghan and Ling Jinghan stayed, because recently they clearly noticed Ling Chenglong’s silence. They were not fools, they could guess what he was thinking, but no one asked it out. They were waiting, waiting for him to say it himself.

“Jing…Jingxuan, I got something to ask for your opinion.”

Just as Jinghan and Jinghan were about to leave and Ling Jingxuan used the excuse of taking a walk with Yan Shengrui to help digestion after dinner to see them off, Ling Chenglong finally couldn’t hold it and stopped them. The three brothers exchanged an eye contact, then sat back, “Dad, what is it? Just say it.”

Under the dim lights, Ling Chenglong obviously did not notice the coldness in his eyes. After looking around them timidly, he stammered, “Here is the thing, Jingxuan. You also heard about your aunt and Jingwei’s thing. So I am thinking your grandpa is still ill, and after this, I’m afraid he can’t take it. So, I want to go check on him. What do you say?”

After all having been a filial son for his whole life, however he was disappointed of that family, he still cared about the old man deep in his heart. But the three brother instantly darkened their face. Yan Shengrui directly wore a sarcastic smile. Jingxuan said right. The reason they always got bullied was not only because that those people were bad, but also because they gave those people the chance.

“Dad, do you know what it means if you go back now?”

After a while, Ling Jingxuan picked up a faint smile and said so, slender fingers playing with the empty cup in front of him. No one knew what he was thinking. It seemed that Ling Chenglong did not notice that his voice became a little colder than before. He raised his head reflectively, “What does it mean? I just want to go back to check on your grandpa. No other thoughts.”

“Daddy, why haven’t you still changed? Heavenly knows how mad they are now. Aren’t you offering yourself to them if you go now? And about grandpa, he has already known my second elder brother has recovered, plus my big brother’s series of doings today. Even the old chief starts to set his eyes on my big brother. Don’t you understand? If you go home now, they’ll try every mean to let you move back!”

Ling Jingpeng was the first who couldn’t take it and opposed. Then Ling Jinghan who was sitting next to him said deeply, “Dad, I have no objection that you care about grandpa, after all you are his son. But we just divided up the family and moved out, and they thought this is the best timing to persuade you to move back. If you go back now, I’m afraid we’ll go back to the old days again.”

With his dad’s honest and foolishly filial temperament, this may one hundred percent thing.

“How is that impossible? Finally we moved out. How would I be that stupid to move back?”

Dissatisfied with his son's accusation, Ling Chenglong retorted, but…

“What if grandpa and grandma threat you with their lives?”

Ling Jinghan’s eyes suddenly became stern. Ling Chenglong instantly got stoned there, apparently stuck by his question, but also indirectly gave them the answer.

“Dad, if you insist going back, I won't stop you. But before you go, please write down the divorce paper and a statement renouncing us as father and sons.”

Ignoring his father’s stunness, Ling Jingxuan stood up and said so coldly. That side face under the candle light was infected with undisguised seriousness. He could understand his doing, but did not approve of it. He could never let his mother and two younger brothers go back to that wolf den again. Actually Ling Chenglong was not a bad person, or you could say he was a good father, but just too stupid and silly. If you didn’t use some tough means on him, only heaven knows when they’d get set up again without themselves knowing.

“Jingxuan…”

Ling Chenglong had a cold shiver, eyes wide open staring at him with huge pains. This was the first time his big son was so rude to him.

“Dad, I’m on big brother’s side this time. If you still care about them, you can go back yourself.”

“Me too, dad, I will never want to see those people again.”

Like having sensed Ling Jingxuan’s intention, Ling Jinghan and Ling Jingpeng stood up and walked to their side, deliberately not looking at their sad dad. If he kept on being like this, they also couldn’t help him. Being filial to parents is a must thing. If some day the old Ling family divided up, and the two old couple had some changes, they had no objections if their dad means to send them something or what, but definitely not now. They would never go back to that family again.

After all, the honest man chose his sons and wife. They said right. If his parents really threatened him with their lives, maybe he’d really agree to move back. So, he’d better not seek trouble for himself.  Actually he still remembered the scene his wife lay in a pool of blood, and how they treated them before.

“That's it, dad. After we move out, it means we cut off any relations from them. Even if the old man dies some day, you don’t need to wear mourning dress for him. Dad, it’s not that I don’t want to fulfill your filial duty. If the old man is good, I have no objections however good you are to him. But what they did really make us disappointed. And now Ling Chenghua and Ling Jingwei did that kind of thing. I guess they are like rats crossing the street everyone hates now. If you go now, isn’t like drawing fire against ourselves? And, this winter, Jinghan will join the examination. If they know we have connections with that kind of family, what would people thinking o Jinghan?”

Seeing this, Ling Jingxuan helplessly made a sigh, trying to persuade him while holding his hands. It’s true he is a good dad who really cares about them, but just a little too stupidly filial.

“Ay, I thought it too simply. I promise I will never think of that again.”

Hearing that it might do harm to his sons, Ling Chenglong became more determined. Three brother took a look at each other, feeling relieved in the heart. They feared of nothing but their dad being soft-hearted.

“Dad, sleep early. I’m gonna see them out.”

“Hmm, you guys also sleep early. You still need to take the kids to town. Don’t be late.”

Speaking of which, Ling Chenglong walked out. Ling Jingxuan shook his head helplessly, then sent Jinghan and Jingpeng out together with Yan Shengrui.” Now there were not enough room. They and the little buns needed to live at Zhao&Han couple’s place before the new big house was built.

“Ge, was it you about the thing between Ling Chenghua and Ling Chenglong?”

Under the dim moonlight, Ling Jinghan who was walking behind with Jingpeng suddenly stopped to ask. When he heard about them talking about it, his intuition told him it was his big brother. How could it be so coincidental? In the morning people from old Ling family just came to make a scene, at dusk, Ling Chenghua and Ling Jingwei did that thing—incest! Now the old Ling family should be in chaos now.

“Hehe…Who knows? Maybe one is too lone having stayed single for so long, while the other just got a peaceful divorce. So they hooked up.”

Stopped his steps, Ling Jingxuan turned to look at them with a smile. Even if it was him, so what? Doesn’t the old Ling family think the family morality is the most important? Then he’d destroy the thing they cared about most. He’d like to see the old man and that unreasonable old woman would put on that drama five years again and throw out their most spoiled little daughter. And Ling Jingwei! Didn’t Ling Chengcai just pay to exempt his military service? How could he stay in the village after his reputation got totally ruined? This was only the beginning. They’d better not provoke him ever again if they were wise enough, otherwise, he couldn’t guarantee whether Ling Chenghua would crawl onto her own dad’s bed.

Ling Jinghan did not speak, but only looking at his big brother with that pair of deep eyes. After quite a while, he stepped forward again.

“Whether it was you or not, I only want to say, good job!”

His deliberately lowered voice was mixed with schadenfreude. Ling Jingxuan grinned. He knew his second younger brother was not that easy to fool.

“Ge, I think you did a perfect job!”

Ling Jingpeng was even unabashedly happier, the brothers are just the same. The three brother were all not pushovers. Ling Jingxuan turned to look at Yan Shengrui, shrugged his shoulders while twitching the mouth. Compared with his honest and wooden dad, his two little brothers are so cute, right?”

“So we're family, isn't there an old saying that Birds of the same kind live together?”

Smiling, Yan Shengrui lowered his head to talk in whispers by his ear while holding his shoulder. Maybe that was not bad. At least his Jingxuan doesn’t need to worry about them so much, right?

“Hehe...”

Ling Jingxuan smiled without saying anything, reached out his hand to hold his. The two of them walked behind his two younger brothers. Not until they sent them to Zhao&Han couple’s place did they go back.

On the side, the whole house of the old Ling family got upside down. Ling Jingwei and Ling Chenghua who got knocked out woke up successfully. They still had no idea what had happened. Not until the old woman’s cursing words and Lady Li’s complaining tearfully came into their ears did they realize what they had done. Both were stoned there. No matter what the old woman or other said or did, they totally had no response.

“Ahem... You two shameless things! Jinghong, go get the village head and the old chief here. I will open the ancestral hall and punish them.”

The old man lying in bed came out under Ling Jinghong’s support. And his dull eyes suddenly became fierce. They were a scholar’s family! How would they tolerate any offspring that brought shame to the family? Even not his most loved daughter. Especially that they had intercourse in the wilderness, and it was incest!

“No, my lord, how can you be so hard-hearted? Chenghua is our only daughter. It must be that Jingwei the bastard forced her. Chenghua is a weak girl. How could she fight a big man? My lord, Chenghua is also the sufferer. You can’t throw her out.”

Hearing that, the old lady held Ling Chenghua and started to cry, with that pair of eyes like stained with poison staring at Ling Jingwei who was sitting there dully. She had never thought he would be so heartless that he even raped his own aunt! How would her daughter go out in the future?

Ling Jingxuan has a sentence really said right, his own children only hurt, when the accident, the old lady jumped up and down, to pull him to sink the pond, now turn to his daughter, treatment decisive is not the same.

“Mom, how can you say that? No one knows what has happened between them. How can you already jump to the conclusion? Maybe Chenghua seduced Jingwei first! Already twenty years old, she still hasn’t been married. Maybe she feels too lonely. Not long ago, she still tried to seduce Ling Jingxuan’s woman under so many pairs of eyes.”

For his son, Ling Chengcai immediately jumped out and retorted. He was not so weak and useless like Ling Chenglong. He would never see his mom splash dirty water onto his son and let them throw his son out without doing anything. At The most scenario was he divided up the family like Chenglong and they lived alone, and no one should disturb each other.

“Oh, big brother, look what you are saying. Chenghua is still a virgin anyhow. How could she ever seduce her own nephew? I think, it might be like what mom just said. Jingwei forced Chenghua. He has ever done such things before. Otherwise how would my second brother and his wife would ask to divide up the family ignoring our parents’ objection?”

When the first son’s family got into trouble, the third son and his wife should be the happiest. Lady Jiang who had been suppressed all those years couldn’t help saying so with sarcasm. While sucking up to the old lady, she also reminded of everyone what Ling Jingwei had ever done.

Sure enough, the next second, the look of the old lady undoubtedly became colder. The way she looked at Ling Jingwei was like she’d skin him. If it hadn’t been him, how would her second son move out? If they didn’t move out, how would the old lord get so badly ill? And now, she would never believe it if someone told him it was not him who led the incest!

“Shut up, Lady Jiang! We all don't know what has happened, but now the whole village already heart of this, and we are still having an internal fight here. Don’t forget. The ruined reputation will directly you first. You should know Jingren and Xiaoying both haven’t gotten married!”

Kneeling on the ground, Lady Li suddenly stood up and pointed at Ling Jiang's nose, shouting back. One had to admit that among the three daughters-in-law of the old xiucai, Lady Li should be the fiercest one. You would understand judging from Lady Jiang’s instantly shut mouth.

“Dad, mom, things have happened. We’d better listen to what Jingwei and Chenghua say. Even if they deserve the family punishment, we should make clear of the whole story.”

After solving Lady Jiang, Lady Li knelt down again, trying to persuade the old couple. She thought this thing wouldn’t be so simple, but she also couldn’t figure out what was wrong, or maybe after the two of them told them what had happened, there’d be a clue?

“Grandpa, my mom said right. At least we should give them a chance to explain, right? You also don’t want to let the thing that has ever happened to my second uncle happen on them again, right?”

Silently standing behind the old man, Ling Jinghong helplessly looked at his younger brother and parents, and finally made his voice. If possible, he wouldn’t step in. He was brought up by his grandparents. When Jingwei was not born, Lady Li still often played with him. Since Jingwei was born, she put all her thoughts on him, only said some caring words in a few days, so did his father. As a result, his younger sister-in-law also was not familiar with him. People only knew he was the biggest grandson of the biggest son in the family. But no one knew he was like transparent in that family. He had no bonds with them at all. In his eyes, they were even no better that his second uncle and his wife who often stuffed food in his hands, and Jingxuan and Jinghan who often took him to the river to play water with them.

What he said undoubtedly touched the old man, Ling Qiyun’s eyes moved, and he did not refute, signaling that he approved of it. Seeing this, the old lady who was holding her little daughter pinched her in the wrist, trying to tip her daughter to get the drop on, but…

“It was him! He dragged me into the haystacks! Mom, he is a monster…”

Ling Chenghua suddenly screamed while pointing at Ling Jingwei who was still sitting there like a stone. The whole family was surprised, only Ling Jingwei didn’t say a word to defend himself. Nearly everyone believed what Ling Chenghua said. The old lady now got angrier and tried to beat Ling Jingwei. Lady Jing, of course, tried her best to protect her son. In an instant, the whole family got into a mess. No one had expected that Ling Chenghua’s doing the old lady reminded her of had already let them miss the only chance to know about the truth.