"It’s actually straw. How did she have the nerve to say the clothes were stuffed with cotton?"
The villagers were stunned.
That Chen Shulan was a compulsive liar, spouting falsehoods without a second thought.
Was this really the honest woman they all knew from the village?
And then there was Lin Jiandong.
It was impossible for him not to know about these things, which ant he had condoned it.
With their actions exposed by Gu Jiaojiao in front of everyone, Lin Jiandong and Chen Shulan were overco with sha. They bowed their heads, wishing they could shrink into their collars.
For the first ti, Chen Beiguo felt the urge to hit soone.
The village head beside him grabbed his arm.
"Don’t be rash. You’re the team leader."
Chen Beiguo had children of his own. Even though Sweet Girl wasn’t his, seeing such a small child tornted like this by Chen Shulan and Lin Jiandong, he nearly lost control.
Those two were monsters.
It wasn’t just the team leader and the village cadres; the gazes of the other villagers, when they fell upon Lin Jiandong and his wife, were also filled with fury.
For so many years, they had all been so wrong about them.
"Lin Jiandong, you’re not even human!"
"You’re worse than an animal! Get out of our Qingshan Team!"
Lin Jiandong flinched.
He was clearly a tall, sturdy man, yet he stood with his head bowed, leaning against the wall, wishing he could curl into a ball.
In the past, seeing him like this would have only made them think he was an honest man.
Looking at him today, they realized he was nothing but a spineless coward.
A spineless coward who was rotten to the core.
"Team Leader, you have to annul Sweet Girl’s adoption with Lin Jiandong! Otherwise, he’s going to tornt those two children to death!"
"That’s right, annul it!"
The team leader was deeply shaken. Hearing everyone say this, he began to consider the idea himself.
Lin Jiandong had remained silent, but when he heard the crowd shouting for the annulnt of Sweet Girl’s adoption, he refused.
"No, I don’t agree."
Not only had his family gotten a free laborer in Sweet Girl, but there was also the house her parents had left behind.
That was a real asset.
He was even planning to use it to get his son a wife.
In his eyes, that house had long since belonged to the Lin Family. He would rather die than let them take it back from him now.
Lin Jiandong craned his neck and resorted to playing the scoundrel.
’The household registration is already settled, anyway,’ he thought. ’So what if I don’t agree? What can the team leader do to ?’
The crowd was infuriated by Lin Jiandong’s shaless display.
They pointed at him, about to start cursing.
But Gu Jiaojiao suddenly spoke up.
"That’s right, we can’t annul the adoption!"
’What the hell? We can’t annul the adoption?’
The villagers were completely bewildered.
Gu Jiaojiao looked at Lin Jiandong, her gaze icy.
"Why would we annul it? I want to send him to prison."
"Exploiting the adoption to seize the property Sweet Girl’s parents left behind, attempting to sell Xiao Yang—that’s human trafficking, which is illegal—and abusing Sweet Girl. Every single one of these cris is enough to have him eating prison food."
"We won’t annul the adoption. I want him to go in there and gnaw on stale buns."
Gu Jiaojiao’s words were powerful and her speech was clear. Everyone heard her perfectly, and the crowd fell silent.
They had to admit, when it ca to being ruthless, Gu Jiaojiao was on another level.
But Lin Jiandong completely deserved it.
He should have thought about this when he was abusing soone else’s children.
No one spoke up for him.
Lin Jiandong, ignorant of the law, started shouting.
"Don’t you spout nonsense! When did I ever seize the property of Sweet Girl’s parents? Sweet Girl is my child now, so what if I hit or scold her a few tis?"
"Stop trying to scare !"
Gu Jiaojiao laughed in anger. "Scare you? You’re ugly, and your family is so dirt-poor that a mouse visiting your house would leave in tears. Why would I bother scaring you?"
"Go on, tell . What benefit would I get from scaring you?"
Lin Jiandong’s mind raced, trying to think of a benefit.
After wracking his brain for a long ti, he realized there was no benefit at all.
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