Chapter 101: Don’t Hold Me Back, I’ll Beat Her to Death

No one knew she had medical skills, and she did not want to stand out. It would only cause trouble.

So she just kept on shoveling snow with all her might.

Her earnestness won approving nods from the older women.

That was what Lin Jingyue was thinking when reality slapped her in the face the very next moment.

“Father, shoveling snow is too slow. If we drag this out, who knows what might happen. Lin the educated youth knows medicine, so let her go take a look,” Li Cuihua suddenly called out loudly.

Before Lin Jingyue could even react, Jiang Xun had already turned sharply to stare at Li Cuihua. “What are you saying?”

The danger in his eyes was unmistakable.

It made Li Cuihua shrink inwardly, a chill running down her spine.

But then she remembered this was Green Mountain Brigade, and she straightened her chest again. “I said Lin the educated youth knows medicine. Why can’t she go take a look? Didn’t she say she was just a brick, to be moved wherever needed? What, does she not want to go?”

“Could it be that Lin the educated youth is trying to say she doesn’t know medicine at all? I saw you collecting herbs with my own eyes. Or maybe you just don’t want to treat us dirt-road peasants?”

That was a serious accusation.

Li Cuihua had clearly gone all in. She could not swallow this grievance halfway.

Jiang Xun was already beyond hope for her, but she still did not want to let Lin Jingyue have it easy.

Lin Jingyue grabbed Jiang Xun, who was about to fly over there, and signaled that she would handle it herself.

“Hey, my temper is really getting the best of me…”

As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves.

By then the brigade captain had finally come to his senses. Panic flashed across his face as he hurriedly said, “Lin the educated youth—”

But it was already too late. Lin Jingyue was as fast as lightning.

In the stunned silence of the crowd, she had already slapped Li Cuihua sprawling into the snow.

Then she straddled her and started laying into her from both sides. “Damn you, I already warned you. You think I wouldn’t dare hit you just because you’re the brigade captain’s daughter? You’re the only one with a mouth? Chattering all day long. So what if you like Jiang Xun? Jealousy makes you ugly. With a face like yours, forget Jiang Xun, even the young men in the brigade wouldn’t look twice at you, you idiot!”

The young men nearby—

Ahem. They would indeed look twice.

“Stop! Stop right now! Can’t someone pull them apart?” The brigade captain sucked in a sharp breath.

His foolish daughter must not be beaten crippled!

The dazed older women rushed over to pull them apart, but they forgot about Jiang Xun.

Jiang Xun and Zhou Yan stayed right beside Lin Jingyue, not helping, just hindering, tugging and tangling everything up.

By the time Lin Jingyue and Li Cuihua were finally separated, Li Cuihua’s face was a complete wreck.

Her nose bruised, her eyes swollen, her face so battered that everyone watching drew a sharp breath.

This educated youth really had a vicious hand. She had actually dared to beat the brigade captain’s daughter like that!

No matter who it was, everyone was now truly convinced of Lin Jingyue.

She was a firecracker, the sort that never suffered a loss. Absolutely untouchable!

“Lin Jing—yue!” Li Cuihua hissed through the pain, her face darker than ever before.

Lin Jingyue was still being held back by Jiang Xun, flailing all the while. “Don’t stop me! I’ll beat her to death. She slandered me for looking down on dirt-road peasants. I can’t stand this kind of slander. I’m going to beat her to death, then kill myself. I can’t live like this anymore…”

“I came all this way, minding my own business, and she picked on me just because she has her eyes on my man. Does she think I’ll hand my man over to her before she stops? Dream on!”

“She can keep dreaming—”

Jiang Xun could barely hold back his laughter. “All right, all right, let’s not stoop to her level. I don’t care for her, and she’ll never have a chance.”

Lin Jingyue…

Zhou Yan…

The others…

These two were truly something else. No wonder they were family.

The brigade captain’s face had gone absolutely awful. This mess had ruined his daughter’s reputation beyond repair.

“Lin Jingyue, you, you’re talking nonsense…” Li Cuihua’s face went deathly pale. Only now did she realize how serious this was.

Lin Jingyue was ruthless. She meant to destroy her reputation.

“Wah, Jiang Xun, I never looked down on dirt-road peasants. My whole family, if you count back far enough, were dirt-road peasants too. I’m not stupid, waah…” Lin Jingyue covered her face and sobbed.

“All right, all right, don’t cry. We know you didn’t.” Jiang Xun saw the sly light in her eyes through her fingers and almost broke character.

“All right!” the brigade captain said, drawing a deep breath. “Take her back. What a disgrace!”

He turned a dark look on Aunt Chun, who had come rushing over after hearing the commotion.

Aunt Chun still did not know exactly what had happened. She only saw the injuries on her daughter’s face, and she nearly exploded on the spot.

Now that the brigade captain had shouted at her, the breath caught in her chest, but she did not dare argue back.

She dragged away Li Cuihua, whose face had gone deathly pale with anger.

The scene fell silent.

The brigade captain took several deep breaths before forcing down the fury in his chest.

Reason told him that today’s matter could not be blamed on Lin Jingyue.

But!

This girl had such a poisonous hand, and no, her mouth was poisonous too!

Jiang Xun glanced at the brigade captain, whose expression kept changing, and his fingers moved slightly.

Seeing that motion, the captain could not hold it in any longer and his face twitched hard.

This brat was reminding him that he had not yet made his move.

Suddenly the brigade captain’s chest hurt as he thought of the wall at his house.

“Educated Youth Lin, you really know medicine?” The party secretary was sympathetic after seeing how furious the brigade captain was that he could not speak.

This educated youth was trouble the moment anyone got involved with her.

“Um, just a tiny bit.” Lin Jingyue rubbed her eyes and held out a space as small as a fingernail.

“…”

So did she know it or not?

“Then could you go take a look at them for us?” The accountant grit his teeth. At this point, they had no other choice.

No one knew when the path would be cleared.

Most importantly, Zhao Laoda’s wife had a broken hand and had inexplicably fainted. That was troublesome.

“I can, but if I accidentally treat someone into more trouble…” Lin Jingyue hesitated.

The people from the brigade office twitched at the corners of their mouths and forced out a few words through clenched teeth. “It won’t be your fault.”

As if.

Lin Jingyue curled her lip inwardly. “You’re the ones asking me to treat her. It has nothing to do with me. And also, my treatment conditions…”

“The brigade won’t shortchange you,” said the people from the brigade office, their faces black as the bottom of a pot.

Who was the one speaking so righteously just now?

And now they wanted to talk conditions? Talk nonsense!

“All right then, I’ll reluctantly go take a look.” Lin Jingyue brushed the nonexistent snow from her hands. “Lead the way.”

“I’ll go with you,” Jiang Xun said.

“Mm.”

As they watched the brigade captain and the party secretary take the person away, everyone at the scene exchanged looks, each with their own thoughts.

But all of them were shocked that Lin Jingyue knew medicine.

Especially Lin Xinjian. Since when did she know medicine?

On the other side, Lin Jingyue arrived at the place where the injured people were being kept. It was an empty house left behind by a lonely old man who had passed away.

He had died last year. The kang stove was still in good condition, and once lit, the room quickly warmed up.

“Captain! Secretary! My wife…” Zhao Laoda cried out the moment he saw them, as if he had seen a lifeline.

Old Zhao’s wife was also terribly anxious. She had paid quite a price to marry this daughter-in-law.

Naturally, she did not want anything to happen to her.

“How is she?”

“She fainted, and still hasn’t woken up.”

Zhao Laoda, a big, burly man, kept rubbing his hands together anxiously.

“Let Educated Youth Lin take a look.”

“Educated Youth Lin…”