Married as a Substitute to the Male Lead Who Was Rejected

Chapter 22: XXII

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He collected all the round wheat he needed and counted the days. It was only seven days, and it would take another ten days to make the table.

Not knowing what the next task would be, Lin Qinghen couldn't stay here for long, and it wasn't appropriate to start researching other things now. He had a rare moment of free time, so he sat on the edge of the field for a while, feeling a little uncomfortable.

He thought that after he was done with his work he would have to go back to change into clean clothes and pack up the few things he had. Unexpectedly, not long after he walked out of the tree hole, he saw a group of people walking towards him in a hurry from afar.

Lin Qinghen was still wearing the clothes of a farmer. He turned around and walked into the field next to him. No one paid attention to him. Then he saw the group of people heading towards the round wheat field in the garden.

When he got closer, he saw that although most of those people were strangers to him, the one leading them was his adoptive father, Lin Zhongtian, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

He didn't look at her any more and turned around and walked towards his own courtyard. Coincidentally, he met Seventeen before he even entered the door.

Seventeen was lively by nature. He knew a lot of people and knew a lot of news. When he saw Lin Qinghen, his eyes lit up. He waved at him, pulled him to a secluded corner, and said to him mysteriously: "Master Qinghen, I have good news for you!"

"What?"

"I heard that Master Lin Fei, who always makes trouble for you and bullies us farmers, had an accident at today's alchemy meeting. The head of the family was very angry and punished him to go to the Discipline Hall!" Seventeen's tone sounded very happy. "He has been whipped thirty times and is half dead. Now he is in solitary confinement. The Ninth Elder said that after the confinement is over, he will be sent outside for training. He may not be able to return to the Lin family in the future!"

It’s just that servants like Seventeen couldn’t hear more accurate news, but when Lin Qinghen heard it, he had a guess in his mind.

That's really cheating.

Lin Fei brought this upon himself. He must be punished for embarrassing himself in such an occasion.

Lin Qinghen didn't know that this had a great connection with himself. He lowered his eyes, thinking about what he had just seen.

Why would those people go to the round wheat field

So strange.

Seventeen, who was talking to him, originally thought that Lin Qinghen would be happy to hear the news. Although he couldn't see Lin Qinghen's expression because he was wearing a mask, judging from his overall reaction, he didn't seem happy.

"Master Qinghen, Lin Fei won't bully you anymore. Isn't that a good thing?" At this point, Seventeen seemed to realize something. He was simple-minded and said whatever he thought of. "Ah, that's right. To Master Qinghen, Master Lin Fei wasn't the most annoying person. It was Miss Qingshuang who..."

Having said this, he finally knew to shut up.

Lin Qinghen glanced at him, patted Shiqi's shoulder, and signaled him not to be nervous.

I was just telling the truth. Even Seventeen knew that his current difficult situation in the Lin family was not because of Lin Fei, who often bullied others when he had nothing to do, but because of Lin Qingshuang.

To put it bluntly, Lin Fei did most of those things just to please Lin Qingshuang.

The conflict between him and his sister, including Lin Zhongtian's dislike for this son since childhood, should have been caused by his parents' generation, as far as Lin Qinghen could remember.

Lin Qingshuang's mother was from the Shen family, a seven-generation alchemist family. Grandpa Lin, who was the head of the Lin family at the time, loved to arrange marriages for the younger generations in the family. At that time, he forced Lin Chongtian to marry Miss Shen Luoying, who came from an alchemist family and was very talented.

But Lin Zhongtian had someone in his heart at that time, a woman he met by chance while traveling, named Fu Yi. After he married Shen Luoying, he still refused to give up this beauty and kept her secretly outside. After he became the head of the family, he welcomed her directly into the house and gave her an equal status to his wife.

The ridiculous thing about this matter is that Shen Luoying was originally a famous beauty in the mainland. During the process of playing and fighting with his legal wife, Lin Zhongtian had already fallen in love with her unconsciously, and his feelings for Fu Yi gradually faded.

Fu Yi entered the house, but felt that the man's heart was no longer with her. The contrast was even more obvious after they both became pregnant. She was full of resentment and desperate to the point of thinking that Lin Zhongtian's heart would return after his wife died. She secretly poisoned the pregnant Shen Luoying slowly.

It was somewhat difficult to do it without anyone noticing. Fu Yi was also pregnant at that time. She was often weak at that time. She would hurt herself eight hundred times while hurting the enemy a thousand times. Perhaps this was also the reason for Lin Qinghen's congenital deficiency.

As an alchemist, Shen Luoying had a relatively weak physique. She had a strong reaction during pregnancy and for unknown reasons, she suddenly gave birth prematurely, which resulted in Lin Zhongtian, who was away, not being able to return in time. She ended up giving birth on the same day as Fu Yi, but she did not make it after giving birth to Lin Qingshuang and fell into a coma after the poison took effect.

Lin Qinghen is the son of Mrs. Fu Yi who is gradually falling into madness.

In fact, her action had not been discovered at that time, but after Shen Luoying fell into a coma, Lin Zhongtian finally realized his feelings. Shen Luoying was the only one in his heart. At that time, he was almost crazy and wanted to rescue his unconscious wife. He even planned to send Fu Yi, who had just given birth, away.

Lin Zhongtian spent some time and finally found a way to save his wife. Fu Yi went crazy at this time. She rushed in at the most critical moment when Shen Luoying was about to wake up, and used self-detonation to trigger all the toxins she had previously buried in Shen Luoying's body.

Lin Zhongtian's previous efforts were wasted, and Shen Luoying fell into a deeper coma at that time. She is still a living dead until now. After Fu Yi's death, all the bad things she had done were exposed. Lin Zhongtian hated his old love to the core.

So he has reason to dote on Lin Qingshuang and hate Lin Qinghen now.

Even if the younger son had done nothing, he would just pretend that he didn't exist and think that this was the greatest kindness.

As for Lin Qinghen himself, he was not very clear about this memory. Many things were told to him by the elder in his family who changed his name with malicious intent.

He had a very shallow impression of Fu Yi. What could he remember from her infancy? He only vaguely remembered that this somewhat crazy mother didn't even like her own son. She barely held him a few times, always throwing him to the servants.

In comparison, Shen Luoying is a very good person. Many people in the Lin family like and respect her, so they hate Lin Qinghen as well.

To be honest, Lin Qinghen also felt that she was the most innocent one. The engagement was arranged by her family, and it was Lin Zhongtian's own choice to fall in love with someone else. Shen Luoying had done nothing wrong, but she suffered the most.

Lin Qingshuang's biological mother suffered at the hands of Fu Yi, and it turned out that she was also pitiful. Although Lin Qinghen was innocent, he was able to let it go.

This makes sense. He is Fu Yi's child. In some ways, it makes sense that the son should pay for the mother's debts. To a certain extent, he has no right to blame Lin Qingshuang for hating him.

The gap in talent between him and Lin Qingshuang might be a kind of compensation, but Lin Qingshuang sometimes really went too far.

Honestly speaking, the worst thing was done by Lin Zhongtian, a man who was fickle and could not protect his lover. Even if he took on the responsibility of paying for his mother's debt, there should be a limit.

The original owner even lost his life, that was not all. When Lin Qinghen first came here, he found that he had a good memory, and thought that maybe he could use this to gain a foothold in the family.

At that time, he was still attending the Lin family's private school. He could not compete with Lin Qingshuang in practical classes, but his scores in theoretical exams were much better than Lin Qingshuang's. Mei Sixue, who was in charge of teaching at the time, praised him on the spot.

Then, Lin Qingshuang's revenge came.

Lin Qinghen's yard was burned down that night. All his notes, clothes and belongings were burned to ashes. He almost died again. Then he was expelled from the college for unfounded reasons and could not even attend private school.

With no new clothes to wear, he changed into servant's clothes, which he never took off again.

She is much more cruel than Lin Fei.

There are so many things like this. Before traveling through time, Lin Qinghen, who was an elite in the industry and a favored child, gradually learned to hide all his edges and corners. He could not show off his talents or seek the limelight. He became much more low-key and cautious. As Lin Qingshuang hoped, at least on the surface, he wanted to be a waste who would always be stepped on by her.

But this life always comes to an end.

When Yu Yinyin comes back, no matter it is Fu Yi’s fault or anything else, it should have nothing to do with him.

But Lin Qinghen recalled the past and was still thinking about the group of people walking into the round wheat field, so it would be better to be cautious.

He had a vague feeling that something was going to happen, so he left the yard before curfew, ran back to the tree hole, called the bees and butterflies to hide in his clothes, and cleaned up all the round wheat in the two acres of field.

Lin Qinghen has backups of all the seeds he has researched. There is a dark box he made himself under the stone slabs in his dilapidated little courtyard, which contains his research notes.

When he left, he would take all of these away without leaving any trace.

He always felt that something was not right with the Lin family recently, as if a storm was about to come.