Chapter 135: Pitying His Misfortune, Angry at His Lack of Resolve

"Lin Chong, what do you plan to do next?"

Zhang Jie came to Lin Chong and questioned him.

Seeing that Zhang Jie didn't even call him Lin Jiaotou, Lu Zhishen knew that he was already in a rage!

However, he did not dissuade him, because he himself was also full of anger at this time!

"I, I..."

Facing Zhang Jie's questioning, Lin Chong stammered his lips, but couldn't say a word.

Was he angry?

Of course he was angry; he was so angry that he almost wanted to kill Gao Yanei directly!

After all, the person who was almost raped by Gao Yanei was his wife, with whom he had shared joys and sorrows for more than a decade!

But did he dare to retaliate?

Although he really didn't want to admit it in his heart, Lin Chong knew he didn't dare.

Because behind Gao Yanei stood his immediate superior's immediate superior,

the man who controlled 800,000 imperial guards and was one of the Emperor's most favored people, Grand Marshal Gao, Gao Qiu!

Opposing Grand Marshal Gao was opposing the Emperor, and opposing the Song imperial court!

If he angered Grand Marshal Gao, his Lin family would have no place to live in the Song Dynasty.

Seeing Lin Chong so cowardly and incompetent, Zhang Jie pitied his misfortune,

and was angry at his lack of resolve; he couldn't help but step forward and question him sternly:

"Has your wife done anything to wrong you all these years?"

Suppressed by Zhang Jie's immense aura, Lin Chong subconsciously took a step back, lowered his head, and denied it:

"All these years I have been obsessed with practicing martial arts, and all the household matters have been managed by my wife.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner were all prepared with care, and she also handled the social interactions with other relatives.

After I was injured in martial arts practice or sparring, it was also my wife who decocted medicine, applied it, and stayed by my side all night without leaving.

If you say who among us two has wronged whom,

then it must be me who has wronged my wife, not my wife who has wronged me."

Zhang Jie stepped closer and continued to question:

"Then has there been any rift between you two as husband and wife recently?"

Lin Chong also took another step back, shook his head, and denied it:

"My wife and I have shared joys and sorrows for more than ten years, treating each other with respect, and there is no rift."

Zhang Jie stepped forward relentlessly, his tone becoming increasingly severe:

"Then has someone among your wife's family wronged you?!"

Pushed to the wall by Zhang Jie, Lin Chong still denied it:

"My father-in-law, the old gentleman, not only didn't despise me for my low position and meager salary, but married his daughter to me;

and after my father passed away, he treated me like a son and did his best to help me.

My father-in-law is my teacher and my father; how could he have wronged me?

It is I who have owed him much, and all these years I have never repaid him even a little."

"It's good that you know you've wronged Lin Jiaotou Zhang!"

Zhang Jie questioned sternly:

"Since your wife hasn't wronged you, and there is no rift between you, and Lin Jiaotou Zhang treats you like a father;

then why are you so timid and fearful when facing the villain who insulted your wedded wife?!"

"Allowing the villain who insulted your wedded wife to remain free and happy is unrighteous!

Failing the painstaking efforts of Old Lin Jiaotou Zhang in entrusting his daughter to you is unfilial!

Lin Chong, people call you Leopard Head; have you really turned into a beast?

Have you even lost the last bit of blood and the last bit of masculinity?"

"Well scolded!"

Lu Zhishen on the side shouted loudly; Zhang Jie's angry scolding had spoken right to his heart.

When this happened today, if it weren't for Lin Chong trying his best to stop him,

he would have made that arrogant and domineering Gao Yanei, who regarded the Song laws as nothing, pay!

Even if he didn't kill him directly, he would have cut off his root of trouble,

to see if he would still have the desire and ability to harm women in the future!

Thump!

"I have wronged my wife, I have wronged my father-in-law,

I am unfilial and unrighteous, I am not a man!"

Lin Chong knelt on the ground with a thump and confessed with a trembling voice.

"Are you still not awake even now?"

Seeing Lin Chong still wallowing in self-pity like a woman, Zhang Jie frowned tightly.

He knew that if he didn't use strong medicine now, he wouldn't be able to cure Lin Chong's mental illness.

He picked up a wooden stick from the corner, as thick as a child's arm,

which Lin Chong usually used to toughen his muscles and bones, and then asked:

"Are you awake?

If you are still like this, I will have to discipline you, this unfilial descendant,

on behalf of your wife, on behalf of Old Lin Jiaotou Zhang, and on behalf of your Lin family's ancestors!"

"I..."

Lin Chong's heart was in a mess at this time, and he couldn't make a decision.

Bang!

Zhang Jie sighed and hit Lin Chong heavily on the back with the stick.

"Hmph!"

Although Zhang Jie left quite a bit of strength, it was still extremely heavy,

and even the muscles and bones that Lin Chong had toughened through years of martial arts practice couldn't bear it,

and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

Lu Zhishen, who was watching from the side, saw clearly that a bloodstain as thick as the stick appeared on Lin Chong's back almost immediately.

"Are you awake?"

Every time Zhang Jie questioned him, he hit Lin Chong heavily on the back with the stick.

Lin Chong, feeling guilty in his heart, bore it silently, gritting his teeth and refusing to make a sound.

Crack!

Finally, after more than ten strikes, the stick couldn't bear Zhang Jie's great strength and finally snapped.

Seeing Lin Chong still so stubborn, Zhang Jie picked up another stick.

If Lin Chong didn't wake up at all, he would rather beat Lin Chong to death here today,

than see him turn into that wimp of the future!

"Uncle, don't hit him anymore, don't hit him anymore!"

Zhang Niangzi, who was hiding in the room and felt she had no face to see anyone, could no longer watch,

ran out of the room, hugged Lin Chong while crying, and begged Zhang Jie bitterly:

"Uncle, if you want to hit, hit me too!

Today's matter was ultimately caused by me; it was I who implicated my husband!"

"Wife, move aside. I have wronged you and my father-in-law; this is what I should bear!"

Lin Chong, who had just endured more than ten strikes from Zhang Jie without saying a word, looked at

his wife, who was still protecting him, her cowardly and

irresponsible husband, even after suffering the most unbearable insult in her life, and couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.

Zhang Jie, holding the new wooden stick, nodded secretly as he watched this scene.

However, his face remained extremely serious, and he asked with great pressure:

"Lin Chong, what do you think should be done next?"

Listening to Zhang Jie's severe but admonishing voice, feeling the encouraging gazes of his good brothers Lu Zhishen and Wu Song,

and the weak but hopeful eyes of Zhang Niangzi who was holding him, a surge of courage also welled up in Lin Chong's heart:

"Gao Yanei dared to bully my wife; I want him to pay the price!"

"Good! This is my good brother!

This is the style that an instructor of 800,000 imperial guards should have!"

Lu Zhishen shouted loudly.

"Husband!"

Seeing her husband willing to stand up against Grand Marshal Gao for her sake, Zhang Niangzi was full of emotion.

"Husband, I'll help you inside to rest."

Zhang Niangzi looked at the crisscrossing bloodstains on Lin Chong's back with heartache.

Lin Chong, however, ignored the heart-piercing pain coming from his back,

and struggled to perform a grand salute to Zhang Jie:

"Renjie, from now on, my life, Lin Chong's, is sold to you!"

Zhang Jie helped Lin Chong up and promised solemnly:

"If you do not betray me, I will never betray you!"

"Good, good!

Lin Jiaotou, from now on, you and I, brothers, can eat meat in big mouthfuls,

drink wine in big bowls, and practice martial arts together again."

Lu Zhishen laughed happily.

Wu Song, who was not very good with words, also unfolded a smile, very satisfied with this scene.

"Come, let's discuss how to give that Flower-Laden Tyrant a lesson he will never forget for the rest of his life."

Zhang Jie and his group entered the Lin family's living room and began to brainstorm how to deal with Gao Yanei.

Thinking that Zhang San and the others were the local snakes who grew up in Bianliang and hung around the whole city, Zhang Jie also called him over.

Early the next morning, Gao Yanei's figure appeared in front of a flower and bird shop in Bianliang City.

Behind him followed several followers of different heights, weights, and builds.

As for why he didn't hide at home to avoid the limelight after offending Lin Chong yesterday?

Gao Yanei didn't believe that Lin Chong, who was only worth mentioning for his martial arts,

and was otherwise a wimp, would dare to retaliate.

His father, Grand Marshal Gao, was his immediate superior's immediate superior.

If Lin Chong dared to have any unusual movements, his father Gao Qiu had ten or even nine ways to make Lin Chong's family ruined and dead!

"Shopkeeper, are there any new and interesting things these days?"

As soon as Gao Yanei entered the shop, he asked loudly,

not caring at all about the "Please do not speak loudly" sign on the side.

Chirp, chirp!

Chatter, chatter!

With his shout, the flowers and plants were one thing,

but the magpies, hawks, parrots, and other birds were startled,

flying and struggling in their respective cages, with feathers flying everywhere.

In an instant, the orderly flower and bird shop became chaotic.

A customer who was bowing his head to admire the flowers and birds was dissatisfied and was about to scold whoever was so ignorant of the rules.

But when he turned his head and saw Gao Yanei's standard fat figure and the several followers behind him with expressions of unruliness,

the greeting words that had already rushed to his throat were instantly swallowed back.

If "Please do not speak loudly" was the rule of this flower and bird shop,

then the people behind this fat playboy were the rules of Bianliang, and even the entire Song Dynasty.

Although that rule could not be considered the biggest rule of the Song Dynasty, for the common people,

no matter what Grand Marshal Gao's status in the court was, they were people they couldn't afford to offend.

Can't afford to offend, can't afford to offend, slip away, slip away!

In an instant, the flower and bird shop, which had many guests, became deserted.

"Oh my, isn't this the Yanei from Grand Marshal Gao's mansion?

Yanei, why do you have time to grace my small shop?"

The shopkeeper, hearing the commotion, rushed out; a flash of displeasure crossed his face,

but it was replaced by a fawning smile the moment he saw Gao Yanei.

"Why, I, Yanei, have come here; are you not welcoming me?"

Gao Yanei unfolded the folding fan he used to feign elegance and asked back.

"Where, where.

Yanei, you can grace my small shop; that makes my small shop shine!"

The shopkeeper was also a person who was slick and smooth, and he wouldn't blush at all even if he was telling a lie with his eyes open.

"Haha, that's good."

Gao Yanei smiled proudly.

He just liked the expressions of these people who didn't like him but had to flatter him.

If he wasn't reckless, and didn't do whatever he wanted, then wouldn't he have lowered his generation,

and worshiped Gao Qiu, who was originally his cousin of the same generation, as his father in vain?

"Shopkeeper, are there any new and interesting things sent here recently?"

After being proud for a while, Gao Yanei remembered the main thing today—finding fun.

Gao Yanei: I, the master of old Bianjing, am a master; all day long, besides eating and drinking, I find fun, nothing else!

That's what you call authentic! ===== CHAPTER 136 =====