Chapter 6.1 - Abusing Scum (1/2)

“The Wang Clan,” Wei Liang repeated. He tilted his head and looked at Lin Jiu. His cool and frosty expression loosened slightly, but his gaze still seemed as deep as a pool. Strange emotions seem to float up in Lin Jiu’s heart, like an unspoken craftiness one would feel as children when you did something wrong with your friends.

She winked at him and smiled. “You should go deal with your work, and I’ll deal with things here.”

Wei Liang was slightly hesitant.

Lin Jiu urged him. “Go on then.”

Liu Qing Yin bit her cherry lips and looked in disbelief at the two of them. Could it be that she was overthinking this? How was this possible? She had clearly seen the pain hidden in Wei Liang’s when Lin Jiu had confessed to him…so how did that change so quickly?

Wei Liang nodded lightly and headed for the mountain gates. Meanwhile, Liu Qing Yin and second Big Brother Gu Fei glanced at each other and quickly followed him.

After watching the group leave, Zheng Zi Yu moved over to the ebony chair with her hand on her hip and sat down, exhausted. “Those Wangs, just they wait! See if I won’t be able to wring them dead with my son-in-law backing me up!” she cursed.

She looked over imperiously at Lin Jiu. “You useless girl, come over here quickly and rub my shoulders! Let me tell you, I was the one who gave you a way out when I saw how reluctant Wei Liang looked that day. That child, Wang Bi Tan, was still thinking about you, so I gave him two pieces of your undergarments. Now that Wei Liang is treating you so well, you can’t admit it even if they beat you to death.” Zheng Zi Yu paused to take a sigh. “Do you know how much I’ve done for you as your mother!”

Lin Jiu raised an eyebrow at her. “It’s not just my undergarments is it?” she asked. “If my guess is not wrong, you must have promised to help him do some matchmaking so he can sleep with Wei Liang’s wife.”

Wang Bi Tan was the first grandson of Dong Ting’s Wang Clan, as well as the Golden Core cultivator who was supposed to take Lin Jiu in as his concubine. After Lin Jiu was sent back home by Wei Liang in the book, she quickly got mixed up with Wang Bi Tan. Looking back, it seemed like almost all of this was Zheng Zi Yu’s doing.

Zheng Zi Yu raised her brow. “And isn’t that all for your own good! Who knew that a useless girl like you would actually have the ability to take Wei Liang’s heart. It’s all thanks to me for birthing you with such a beautiful face… Come over here, and think up a good plan for that little brother of yours. This Thousand Divine Swords Sect is a mountain of gold! You’ll have to bring back a golden horn for your little brother, no matter what!” she crowed, her face all smiles.

Lin Jiu returned a bland smile before looking over to her brother Lin Dong, who was picking his nails while sitting cross-legged.

“Say something then!” Zheng Zi Yu urged.

The smile remained stretched on Lin Jiu’s lips. “I’m afraid you’d go crazy if I spoke.”

“What are you saying, you useless girl!” Zheng Zi Yu cried, and that greedy smile had yet to fade from her face. “Hurry up, but don’t talk nonsense.”