FSC [QT] Chapter 21.5

Even though that person didn’t say anything directly about the Lin family’s mother and son, all the scholars present could understand the real meaning of this passage.

Some of the key points in this passage were very interesting to study in detail. On the day he was admitted to the scholar’s examination, and about the daughter who suffered from brain disease.

Did this not mean that the Lin family is ungrateful? He forgot his former benefactor as soon as he succeeded.

Lin Pingchun’s widowed mother kept saying that he could not marry early, but she immediately chose the daughter-in-law of her choice after the daughter of a benefactor whom she despised and had helped them for so many years got married. This did not mean that he could not marry early. It was obvious that she didn’t want to marry the daughter.

Lin Pingchun had been staying at Yunshan Academy these days. In order to avoid embarrassment, he did not go home while the Jiang family and the Diao family were preparing for the wedding. He only asked his widowed mother to send a generous red envelope to Jiang Wu on the day of her wedding.

Who knew that his mother would do such a stupid thing again just to save face?

When Lin Pingchun heard these words from his jealous classmate, he wanted to refute them, but his intuition told him that this was in line with his mother’s style and was probably the truth.

In the past, everyone’s impression of Lin Pingchun was that he studied hard and was honest. However, the words of that person just now directly shattered this beautiful image, making people subconsciously associate Lin Pingchun with the white-eyed wolf.

As for those who looked down on Lin Pingchun and were jealous of Lin Pingchun, they seemed to have grasped some important clues and started making noise directly, thinking that such a person with a flawed character was not worthy of staying in Yunshan Academy and being a classmate with them.

More and more people were talking about this incident, and more and more people were questioning Lin Pingchun’s character. In the end, even the teacher’s master and the academy chief heard about it.

The Master took a fancy to Lin Pingchun’s talent and was reluctant to give up on this good student. He suppressed those who wanted to drive Lin Pingchun out of the academy and gave Lin Pingchun a few days of leave to go home and finish the matter.

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“Mom, what have you done?”

The experience these days was so bad that Lin Pingchun rushed home. After seeing his mother’s increasingly plump face, he finally couldn’t help but burst out.

“Why are you yelling at me? Hey, my dear Pingchun, why have you lost so much weight? Look at your pointed chin and your complexion. Is it because your academy doesn’t provide enough food?”

Widow Xu was shocked when she saw her son who was as thin as a bamboo pole and his face was black and blue. She immediately wanted to kill a chicken in the yard and make soup to nourish her son.

“Mom, have you arranged a marriage for me? Whose girl is it? Have you forgotten what you said to the Jiang family before? Have you ever thought about what others will think of me now that you have arranged a marriage for me, and what the masters in the academy will think of me?”

Lin Pingchun respected his widowed mother very much, but it was this mother who kept holding him back. If he had fulfilled his promise to marry Uncle Jiang’s daughter from the beginning, these things would never have happened. This made it difficult for Lin Pingchun to treat his mother with the same attitude as before.

“What? Did someone say something bad about you?”

Widow Xu became anxious when she heard this: “Pingchun, those people are jealous of you. They are jealous that you have passed the examination as a scholar at a young age. Don’t take what those people say to heart.”

“As for marriage, I do have my eye on a girl. You have also met that girl. It is your distant cousin, Xu Baozhu. Baozhu has a good appearance and a good temper. She is a thousand times better than that fool from the Jiang family. You are Mother’s precious son, so Mother will not harm you.”

Obviously, Widow Xu had not figured out the seriousness of the matter at this moment and was eager to describe Xu Baozhu’s goodness to Lin Pingchun.