Chapter 4 (1/2)

Rebirth: WLSB Chapter 4

TL: HermitEditor: HermitTLC: Hermit

School has started, and the amount of studying I’ll have to do is scaring me already. Thus, this chapter will most likely be the last chapter I’m translating. Don’t forget, this was a teaser project! I’m hoping for someone to please pick this project up full time, but if no one does, I may or may not translate another chapter here and there if I have free time. Hope you’ve all enjoyed these 4 chapters so far!

Chapter 4: Retaliation

There was a loud ruckus outside, second and eldest aunt came really quickly, such loud voices, as if wishing to let everyone know of their grievances.

As the fourth child, Qin Yu Fu was the youngest of the family, and the only male. Thus ever since they were young, the parents always wanted the three older sisters to yield to the younger brother, he was the pillar of the family! Once they grew up and married into another family, their maternal home’s brother was their iron spine!

The three sisters listened to their parents at first, treating their younger brother nicely, letting him have anything good, but afterwards, as they grew older, the sisters felt that something wasn’t right. Why did they have to give way to him?

They did all the household chores, they fed the chickens, ducks, geese and even the pigs, how could this Qin Yu Fu reap what he did not sow?

However, if they thought about it from another angle, Qin Yu Fu started helping out around the house as soon as he was sensible enough to do so. After his 3 sisters were married, he would have to do all the chores himself, there was no ‘who owed who’.

It got even noisier outside, as if there were many crying sounds mixing together outside. The foreman ran out immediately, while Shu Ning quietly and calmly tidied up the house, leaving the battlefield to Uncle. Hopefully, he would be enlightened to the true characters of his sisters.

There were a lot of neighbours standing in a circle to watch, their gazes lukewarm, pointing and gesticulating.

Eldest aunt sat on the floor crying and cursing. Since second aunt’s husband was a teacher, she at least had a little character. She asked questions loudly, kept saying that the younger brother was not filial, never coming home, now that their mother needed to undergo surgery, they could only sell the house. Qin Yu Fu didn’t say a word, his head hanging, as if really feeling that he had been wrong.

Some of the neighbours were also bewildered, was there actually such a thing? But that’s wrong, this family’s two eldest daughters were quite difficult to deal with, they weren’t good people. The youngest daughter had left for 10 years with no contact, in fact it was the youngest male who was obedient and thoughtful, very filial, how could it be that he would stay unconcerned even when he heard that his elderly mother was ill and bedridden?

Qin Yu Zhi wiped her tears, and couldn’t help but laugh secretly, Qin Yu Lan also raised the corners of her mouth in satisfaction. The pair of sisters thought to themselves that since Qin Yu Fu had been stupid and cowardly since young, it would be easy to send him away with just a few words, just nice, they could split the money half-half. And as for how to bury their elderly mother? They had really never thought about it.

It was at this moment, that the crowd parted, an old man slowly walked over with both hands behind his back, it was the village chief.

“What happened for it to be so noisy here?”

Both women didn’t speak, instead, Qin Yu Fu who had been silent all the while lifted his head: “Inviting the village chief to be the witness.”

The village chief raised his eyebrows: “Speak.”

Qin Yu Lan wanted to speak, but was stopped by Qin Yu Zhi, even if they couldn’t find the housing deed today, if the village chief stepped in and replaced the housing deed, then they could sell the house!

The foreman stood next to Qin Yu Fu, patting the honest man on the shoulder.

At this moment, Qin Yu Fu seemed as if he had been immersed in a jar of pickles, feeling incomparable pain: “Eldest sister and second sister, is mother waiting for money to undergo surgery?”

“Yes ah,” after Qin Yu Lan finished saying this, she eyed eldest sister, why wasn’t she saying anything? Suddenly, she felt some unease. Ever since they were young, eldest sister had been crafty, if anything went wrong eldest sister would use her as a scapegoat, could it be… …

The foreman fished out his phone, after pressing a series of numbers, he passed it to the village chief.

Anyone who could become the village chief was not simple. Even under the weight of the stares of the crowd, he remained unperturbed. After the call connected, the party stated that it was the Ou Hospital. The elderly village chief’s heart already had some suspicions, after asking a few questions, that old face underwent a great change in a split second, staring at the pair of sisters, shocked, they were truly too undisciplined and out of control, just where had they misplaced their humanity and morality?

With the village chief to bear witness, it would be easy to manage the situation. Once everyone knew that this elderly neighbour was dead, naturally they immediately hurled abuse and berated the pair of sisters for being scoundrels, causing them to be unable to lift their heads. The few elderly ladies who had been closer to maternal grandmother were especially harsh, cursing them repeatedly, hoping that they wouldn’t die a good death.

A dog could even jump a wall when it was cornered, Qin Yu Lan was so scared that she wept endlessly. Instead, it was Qin Yu Zhi who immediately had yet another plan: “Everyone, don’t be noisy, listen to me, my mother is dead, but it was true that she needed to undergo surgery before this, Qin Yu Fu not doing his filial duty before the sickbed is also the truth. Truly, us two sisters have taken care of our sickly mother till she left this world.”

Qin Yu Lan thought of the combat plan she had thought out with her sister beforehand, and her eyes lit up: “That’s right, that’s right, our elderly mother only had this one son, she didn’t even get to see him before she died, and so she was extremely grieved, saying that she would leave the house to us two sisters, and cannot let Qin Yu Fu this child that was picked up off lightly.”

Picked up!

Heavens!

For the sake of money, even throwing away their face, what relatives? They truly had no sense of shame!

The foreman snorted disdainfully: “Relatives or not has nothing to do with it, as long as he’s on the household register, he’s the elderly’s son in the eyes of the law.”

At this moment, Shu Ning came out, holding on to the household register, laughing in his heart, these two idiots, their ability to cut off their own path of retreat was the best. This was good, there was no need to take a lot of trouble to persuade Uncle to cut all ties with them.

The village chief flipped through the household register page by page, nodding his head: “The household register has Qin Yu Fu’s name.”

Since they’ve already come to this stage, how could Qin Yu Lan give up just like this, with her red face and thick neck, she argued noisily: “Could it be that the words elderly mother said just before she died are considered invalid?”

The foreman frowned, if this pair of sisters bribed a few of the nurses to act as their witness, then this case would not be resolved smoothly.

Qin Yu Fu was someone even more stupid, even after thinking so long, he couldn’t think of any ideas, his whole face going white. Especially that sentence about being picked up, nearly destroying him.