The Farm Girl and the Executioner (Rebirth) 112

Chapter 112: True Intentions

Lin Shuang knew that for the matter of the Everlasting Peace Hall, Qin Chong would definitely come to ask for a return.

Sure enough, two days later, the other’s message came to her door, asking Lin Shuang to meet at the Lanyue Teahouse in the East Market at the Hour of the Sheep(1:00 PM to 3:00 PM) the next day.

Lin Shuang and Jiang Huaizhen had always been inseparable. When the message was delivered, it was impossible for Lin Shuang to avoid her.

Other than the matter of her rebirth, she had not hidden anything from the other.

Sometimes she also wanted to tell Jiang Huaizhen about her past life, but the her of her past life was so stupid, so ugly, so indecisive, and had lived in the most failed way. Most importantly, in her past life, she had abandoned Jiang Huaizhen and had gone to her own death. She didn’t want Jiang Huaizhen to know about this.

Then how was she to explain the matter of Qin Chong to the other now?

She carefully lifted her eyes to look at the person before her and asked, “Are you… going with me tomorrow?”

When she had asked this question, she had realized that the question itself had shown that she did not want Jiang Huaizhen to go with her, and her heart had jumped.

But she couldn’t see if Jiang Huaizhen had realized this. She only heard the other say faintly, “I won’t go. The house is about to be finished. I have to stay with them and take care of the rest of these things.”

Lin Shuang couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief, but she soon felt guilty again. She gritted her teeth, wanting to explain something, but she couldn’t, so she had to give up for now.

But she didn’t expect that Qin Chong would also bring his son and daughter.

His body still looked very weak, and his skin had a sickly white color, but he was handsome. Other than his sickly appearance, he was also a man of talent.

With Wang Chun’er standing with them, they looked like a family of four.

Although they had already determined that they were both from their past lives, Lin Shuang had not admitted it to Qin Chong, so after she entered the door, she did not say anything.

But Wang Chun’er came up to her and greeted her warmly.

Lin Shuang just smiled at her.

Qin Chong came over, his face gentle. “I’ve invited you several times, but it has never worked out. I’ve finally met you this time. You’ve changed a lot.”

In his past life, although he was already dying, he could still open his eyes, so he also recognized Lin Shuang.

And what he meant by “changed a lot” was naturally comparing the Lin Shuang who had just entered the Qin family in her past life with the current Lin Shuang. At that time, she had just left the Lin family. Although she had not yet been tormented, she was also sallow and emaciated. On top of that, her personality was restrained and shy, and she had a timid appearance.

Unlike now, she had grown taller, and her body had also filled out. Her face was rosy, and she looked very healthy. She was poised and graceful.

At this time, she exuded a kind of beauty from the inside out, and the resilience in her eyes added an indescribable charm to her.

Qin Chong’s eyes, when he looked at her, had a hint of imperceptible astonishment.

But Lin Shuang did not care about the other’s opinion. On the contrary, she was very impatient, annoyed that he had come to disturb her peaceful life now.

So her tone was very bad.

“Young Master Qin has invited me several times. I wonder what important matter you have?”

Qin Chong just smiled and greeted his son and daughter to come and meet her.

“You’ve met them.”

“Qingsheng, Wan’er, and… say hello to Aunt Shuang.”

Qin Qingsheng looked up at the woman before him, his eyes flashed, and he lowered his head to bow. “Sheng’er greets Aunt Shuang.”

Compared to when she had seen him on the official road last autumn, he had grown much taller. But at such a young age, he had a pair of deep eyes, and his gaze was bottomless.

Qin Wan’er, who was next to him, was still the same as in her past life, her lips pursed, with a hint of coquettishness.

But Lin Shuang turned her back, her voice cold. “We are not related. I dare not accept your great courtesy.”

In her past life, she had given her heart and soul to these two and had treated them as her own, but in return, she had gotten one heavy blow after another on her knees, and the end of being sent to be buried with a dead person in a ghost marriage.

She felt that it was not worth it for herself.

Seeing Lin Shuang’s dislike for the two of them, Qin Chong just smiled and had Wang Chun’er take them out to wait.

The two of them sat down and got to the point.

“You must be very curious why I’m so sure of your identity. After all, logically, I should have died before you and would not have known about the future,” Qin Chong said first.

Lin Shuang didn’t say anything.

Qin Chong explained to himself, “Because according to the trajectory of our past lives, you would have married into the Qin family and become my wife, but you didn’t. That’s the first thing.”

Hearing the word “wife,” Lin Shuang’s face darkened.

In her past life, it was because she had no other choice that she had been sent to the Qin family for a chongxi marriage, and had had that nominal status.

But now she had Jiang Huaizhen. She was now Jiang Huaizhen’s wife. They were in love with each other. For this word to be applied to anyone else made her very uncomfortable, and even nauseous.

“Secondly, you predicted the storm and the flood and reminded the common people to prevent the flood and harvest the rice. This is not an ordinary act. Although I don’t know if there was that flood in the future, and I don’t know how many people died, as an ordinary person, for you to go to such lengths to spread the word, it’s impossible not to be suspicious.”

“Don’t talk about some traveling old Daoist. You and I both know that this is just an excuse to deceive others.”

“Thirdly, the old hag had her good nephew send people to deal with the Everlasting Peace Hall, and you just happened to catch them when they were poisoning.”

“One thing might be a coincidence, but if it’s you for all three things, then it’s not a coincidence,” Qin Chong’s eyes had a hint of deep meaning.

Hearing him use the words “old hag,” Lin Shuang was a little puzzled, but it had nothing to do with her. She snorted coldly. “Good reasoning. But I came today for the matter of the Qin family dealing with the Everlasting Peace Hall with underhanded methods, not to listen to your reasoning.”

Qin Chong shook his head. “The Qin family is not under my control, as you know. I was not involved in the matter of the Everlasting Peace Hall. Even the news I sent you, I had to go to great lengths to get it, just to show you my sincerity.”

“Sincerity?”

“Yes, sincerity. The sincerity to cooperate with you,” Qin Chong said. “You can’t stand the Qin family’s methods, and neither can I, because I’ve been a victim. In my past life, I was poisoned by the old hag and lost my life in vain. The reason I didn’t die in this life is because I came back early and dealt with Doctor Yao. Otherwise, who knows where my soul would have gone.”

Hearing his explanation, Lin Shuang finally understood the whole story.

It turned out that Old Madam Qin could not have children. Qin Chong was Old Master Qin’s illegitimate son from outside. He had been brought back to the Qin family at the age of three and was said to have been a foundling and was adopted as a son. But as he grew up, he looked more and more like Old Master Qin. Old Madam Qin became suspicious, and after a few tests, she found out the truth.

Old Master Qin had died early, and Old Madam Qin hated him to the bone. She was unwilling to pass on the Qin family’s property to the son of a woman from outside and was instead biased toward her own nephew.

“I must take down the Qin family. The matter of the Everlasting Peace Hall is my sincerity. I need your help.”

Lin Shuang shook her head. “That’s your family’s business. It has nothing to do with me.”

She was now eager to draw a clear line with Qin Chong. How could she get involved in their muddy water?

Qin Chong shook his head. “This is not just my family’s business. Don’t you want to take revenge?”

Seeing that Lin Shuang was not speaking, he said to himself, “Don’t tell me that after you entered the Qin family in your past life, you could live a peaceful life. The Qin family has been cultivating medicine slaves to test medicine since my grandfather’s time. If I had died, and you had no one to protect you, to that old hag, a useless person would just be sent to the medicine garden to be a medicine slave.”

Seeing Lin Shuang’s pale face, he deliberately paused. “I suppose you also became a medicine slave later.”

Of course, he knew what would become of a medicine slave. He had seen what kind of life those medicine slaves lived when he was little. Once Lin Shuang became one of them, then her past life would have been ruined.

She must have had hatred in her heart. She must have hated that old hag to death.

“Since you hate her, and since we have the same goal, why don’t we cooperate?” Qin Chong said.

Lin Shuang admitted that at this moment, she was moved.

So she asked, “How do you want to cooperate?”

A hint of triumph flashed in Qin Chong’s eyes. He leaned forward with a hint of imperceptible intimacy. “Just like in our past lives, you marry into the Qin family. With you and Chun’er, that old venomous woman will have a hard time putting anyone by my side. This way, her people will also have no chance to continue to poison me.”

“Once my body is better, she will have no reason to continue to let her nephew from her parents’ family manage the Qin family’s affairs. This way, we can remove this nail, Pan Min, and replace him with our own people. After that, we will join forces and intervene in all aspects of the Benevolence Hall, and make her a figurehead!”

“Smack!” The teacup was slammed on the tray by Lin Shuang, and the hot tea seeped out from between her fingers. She slowly looked up, and the coldness in her eyes made Qin Chong abruptly lean back.

“You…” Qin Chong’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he forced a smile. “What’s wrong with this?”

“Qin Chong, do you know what I want to do the most right now?” she slowly opened her red and swollen palm. “I want to dig out your eyeballs and stuff them into your stinky mouth.”

Qin Chong’s face changed drastically, but he heard Lin Shuang say word by word, “I am already married to someone else. Please have some self-respect, Young Master Qin.”

He was instantly struck as if by lightning and was stunned. “I… I haven’t heard that you’re betrothed to someone?”

“Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. Even if it hasn’t, what makes you think I will definitely agree to you? Does every woman have to wait for you and beg you to marry her?”

Qin Chong seemed to have never thought that Lin Shuang would actually talk back to him. He gritted his teeth and stared at her. “We are a match made in heaven, aren’t we? We are both from another world, and we have both been persecuted. I lost my life, and you probably didn’t have it much better. And we had a marriage contract in our past lives. In that case, you have always been my wife!”

“The position of the legitimate wife of the Qin family’s eldest son, isn’t it better than you continuing to be a country girl?”

At this, the fists in his sleeves were tightly clenched, and his chest couldn’t help but heave.

Lin Shuang really couldn’t stand it and stood up. “This is the end of this matter. Please don’t come and find me again in the future. Otherwise, don’t blame me for a fight to the death.”

Seeing that she was about to go out, Qin Chong said sternly, “Lin Shuang, aren’t you afraid that I will expose your identity to the world, and then you will be arrested as a demon, and you won’t be afraid?”

“Go on and say it,” Lin Shuang turned her head and sneered. “Isn’t my identity also your identity? If Old Madam Qin and Pan Min know your identity, I’m afraid you’ll die faster than me! You’ve worked so hard to get back a life. You probably don’t want to just throw it away like in your past life, right?”

Qin Chong gritted his teeth and couldn’t refute at all.

“Don’t bother me again in the future!”

With that, Lin Shuang opened the door and was about to go out.

Qin Chong’s voice came from behind again. “Even if it’s not for me, for Sheng’er and Wan’er, they called you Auntie in their past lives and respected you as their mother. As a mother, are you not willing to find a way out for them?”

Hearing him mention that Qin Qingsheng and Qin Wan’er had respected her as their mother, Lin Shuang’s back suddenly stiffened, as if countless poisonous snakes were crawling down the back of her neck, and their cold tongues were licking her skin, making her whole body cold.

She slammed the door she had just opened shut, turned her head, and stared at the man before her, her eyes filled with a bone-deep hatred, but her voice was as cold as ice. “Do you want to know how I died in my past life?”

“I was hit on the leg by your good son with a hammer, and he smashed my knees, one blow after another. And your good daughter, afraid that I would cry out, covered my mouth. The two of them personally put me in a coffin and buried me with a rotting corpse.”

If it weren’t for these two animals, her legs might not have been broken, and maybe after she was saved by Huaizhen, she wouldn’t have sought death so quickly.

“Qin Chong, in my past life, I was not just related to you. That dead ghost I was buried with was also related to me. What makes you say that you and I are a match made in heaven?”

“You’re too arrogant!”

After Lin Shuang finished speaking, she pulled open the door, went downstairs without looking back, and left the teahouse.

She got on her horse and rushed home.

She had to go back to Huaizhen.