Shrewd wife of Lin brothers

Chapter 660 New beginning

” Don’t pick it up like that or you are going to drop it.” 

” Hey, Hey! That’s my treasure be gentle with it!” shouted Lin Chen as he rushed to stop the workers who were bringing his cabinet out without much care. ” It has something really important please be careful with it.” 

The workers nodded before they put it down and then picked the cabinet much more carefully as they walked out of the house, Lin Chen then turned to look at his family who was carrying out their bags and luggage one by one. After yesterday night, the family decided that staying in the village was no longer as safe as it once was…after all, it wasn’t like that they were going to stay where they are now, in the future they will develop more and more, and the more successful they become the more the villagers will be jealous of them. 

So, it was better to just leave before things gets even more serious than they did this time. 

” Have you all packed everything?” asked Lin Jing as he stepped out of his room and looked at his family members. ” Even if you have forgotten something it’s all right, Yan and Chen will be coming to the village because they need to take care of the development of the hot springs resort, you can ask them to bring it for you and,” he turned to Lin Chen who was asking to move his cabinet and chairs as well and sighed. ” Chen, I have purchased the house with all the furniture, you don’t need to bring your cabinet and bed with you, I assure you that you will get everything that you need without even the slightest discomfort.” 

Lin Chen sheepishly smiled. “It’s not that, Eldest brother… this is the first thing that I bought with my money that’s why I want to bring it to our new house.” 

” Fine but if it breaks then I am not responsible for it,” said Lin Jing as he rolled his eyes and turned to look at the rest of the family. ” The house is separated into several courtyards, I wanted to bring you all to check it out first but since that is no longer possible at the moment. The plan was that you all can take a look at the house and decide which courtyard will belong to whom but….” He breathed heavily before continuing. ” Anyway, now it’s back to the old drill..first comes, first served. I have already picked mine, Rui, grandma and Wan Wan’s  courtyard apart from us, everyone else best of luck!” 

Lin Yu who was carrying a big cloth bag that he won’t let anyone see snorted. ” That’s just unfair big brother, I do understand why Grandma and Wan Wan courtyards were already selected but isn’t it too much that we are being left alone when your and fourth brother’s courtyard has been already selected?” 

” Because Rui is not here and I was the one who looked for this house so it’s my reward,” said Lin Jing without feeling the slightest bit of shame. Then he turned to look at Su Wan and showed her a gentle smile as he said, ” I have chosen the prettiest courtyard for you, Wan Wan.” 

Su Wan smiled at Lin Jing. ” Thank you Jing Ge, you are really sweet.”

A proud smile etched on Lin Jing’s face before he turned to look at his old house and with the slightest bit of reminiscence stared at it before he turned his head away. “Let’s go.” 

” Make sure that none of you looks back,” said Madam Zhu as she carefully looked in front and made sure that her husband was doing the same. ” We don’t want the bad luck to follow us in the new house, so no one looks back, all right?” 

” Why did you have to say it sister-in-law?” whined Madam Huo as she looked at her eldest sister-in-law. ” It becomes twice as troublesome when someone tells you not to do anything.” 

Others silently agreed with Madam Huo, till now they didn’t have any urge to look back now that they were told that they cannot look behind, all of them felt a bit pressurised. 

” I just wanted to make sure that no one makes a mistake,” said Madam Zhu with a frown. ” This is the oldest tradition in the Shen family, we don’t look back when moving right?” 

” That’s true but you should have just let the matter as it is,” muttered Madam Huo as she tried to suppress her urge to look over her shoulder. 

” Don’t worry honey,” said Shen Zizhen as he held Madam Huo’s hand and said, ” You just take care of our little moon, I will take care of you. Just focus on me, and don’t think of anything.” 

Madam Huo and Shen Zizhen finally came up with a nickname for their son and started to call him little moon instead of calling him by his whole name. 

” That’s easy, I will just look at you honey,” said Madam Huo as she turned her head to look down at her husband who was very seriously walking in front of her. Though her husband was short in stature he was really reliable. 

” Wan Wan…” Lin Chen held his hand out and pouted at her. ” I too am scared that I will look behind.” 

Su Wan snorted, she was sure that Lin Chen was the one who was the most excited to move into the new house it was impossible for him to look behind but she still held his hand in an attempt to distract him. 

Once she held his hand of course the rest would follow suit. 

Lin Yu hurriedly snatched her other hand and held it in his hand when she looked at him, he coughed and said, ” I am afraid too that I will look back if no one is here to distract me.” 

And from the two big presence that she felt behind her, she was sure that Lin Jing and Lin Yan also seemed to be sticking to her. So with her four sticky rice cakes, she walked out of the house and into a new start.

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Somehow the family managed to walk out of the house without looking back and one by one they handed their luggage to the carriage drivers who securely put all the luggage away one by one. 

Though the Lin brothers were leaving the village no one came to see them off except the Village head and their neighbours the Feng brothers. It wasn’t that the villagers still thought of Su Wan as a witch but it was just that people found it really hard to apologise when they were in the wrong after Feng Zihang’s truth came out in the light, the villagers were all ashamed of their actions and no longer had any face to see the Lin brothers all, so no one came to wish them a happy journey instead the villagers stayed home playing ostrich. 

” I am really sorry about what happened to you all,” said Village head Luo as he handed the Lin brothers a basket of fruits and a pair of chickens. ” I don’t have much to give you all as an apology but I hope you wouldn’t refuse this small goodwill of mine, I just hope that your new life will be a good one than this one at least.” 

Lin Jing took the basket from Village head Luo’s hands since he has so genuinely wished them all the best for their new life and smiled, ” You have nothing to apologise for, Village head Luo … even if the villagers weren’t good to us, I know that you were treated us all really well, I have still not forgotten that you gave us me and my brothers a few pancakes when we were hungry.” 

” That was nothing,” moving his hand slightly Village head Luo waved Lin Jing’s apology and with a smile said, ” There wasn’t much that I did for you but even then you all brothers thought about the village so much for my sake, I can’t thank you enough for that. I thought that together with you all the villagers will be able to slowly walk out of their lives of poverty but…” he sighed heavily. ” Anyway, I won’t say anything unpleasant now, just look after yourself and your family.” 

”Sniff, I will come and see you soon,” Fang Xiaolin wiped her tears as she hugged Su Wan and cried her eyes out.  ” I am going to miss you, especially all the wonderful dishes that you used to make for me every afternoon but it’s just a small break, I will be looking for a new house in the town and then I will start troubling you again.” 

” Yes, Yes, I will wait for you to do so,” said Su Wan as she patted Fang Xiaolin on her back. ” Make sure to buy the house next to mine so that we are neighbours once again or else it won’t be the same.” 

” You got that,” sniffed Fang Xiaolin as she pulled away from Su Wan, not one second passed when another body hurled herself at Song Yan and ugly sobbed. ” You are leaving so soon, who is going to save me from my family now? They are trying to steal my hard-earned money, what am I going to do now?” 

” Tao Tao, you are really such a cry baby,” having worked with Fang Tao for a very long time Su Wan was very much used to the latter’s antics she smiled as she looked at the little girl who was crying so hard that she was hiccuping and then took out a pouch from her pockets before she handed it to Fang Tao. ” Here you go, I have saved an extra sum of money and..” she turned to Shen Junxi who handed her a document. ” This is a relationship severance document have your family sign it in exchange for money but make sure to play smartly and take your brothers-in-law with you when you go to severe ties with your family, all right?” 

She wiped the tears that were hanging on to Fang Tao’s lashes and smilingly coaxed her, ” I will be waiting for you, don’t worry you and your sisters will always have a room in my house, so once you are done severing ties with your family and have taken a little vacation, make sure to come back to me soon.” 

Fang Tao stared at the pouch of money in her hand and then her tears started to drip like a leaking tap before she hugged Su Wan again and cried even harder. ” I love you ….Marry me, Wan Wan!” 

” All right that’s enough,” Lin Yan who was prepared for this, peeled Fang Tao off Su Wan’s body and said, ” she is already married to me and my brothers so, no chance of you getting married to my wife.” Then he ushered Su Wan into the carriage and said, “It’s time for us to leave Wan Wan.” 

” Yeah,” Su Wan raised her hand as she looked at the small crowd that gathered to see her off and waved goodbye. ” I am going to miss you all.”