The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man-Chapter 239 - 238: Kicked into the Wall

"I don’t think there’s anything more to say about this. Let’s just report it to the authorities."

"Once they get here, you’ll see whether I’m bluffing or not."

Gu Jiaojiao said this while glancing at the brigade leader, her eyes flickering meaningfully.

The brigade leader froze for a moment before snapping back to his senses. He cleared his throat and addressed Lin Jiandong in an exceptionally grave tone.

"Lin Jiandong, for the sake of us all being from the same village, I’ll give you one more chance. Do you want to settle this privately, or should we report it?"

"Gu Jiaojiao wasn’t lying to you just now. As long as there’s evidence that you illegally occupied the property of Sweet Girl’s parents, tried to sell Xiao Yang, and abused Sweet Girl... any one of those is enough to land you in prison. And you’ve done all three."

"The choice is yours."

Hearing even the brigade leader say this, Lin Jiandong started to feel afraid.

But people are often like that.

The greater the crisis, the faster their minds work.

"Wait."

’It feels like I just caught onto something.’

"Brigade Leader, you just said there needs to be evidence. Gu Jiaojiao, what evidence do you have?"

’I was so meticulous. What evidence could Gu Jiaojiao possibly have?’

Lin Jiandong didn’t believe it.

Gu Jiaojiao knew his type. She immediately pointed toward the villagers.

"You made Sweet Girl and Xiao Yang sleep in the woodshed while your own children slept in the house that belonged to Sweet Girl’s parents. That’s evidence."

"These two human traffickers are also evidence."

Hearing Gu Jiaojiao slander them like this, the still-gagged couple couldn’t help but let out a few muffled sobs.

’We’re not human traffickers.’

’We’re respectable, honorable workers.’

Gu Jiaojiao ignored them.

She continued, pointing at Sweet Girl. "And the injuries on Sweet Girl’s body—isn’t that proof you abused a child?"

"With so much evidence, do you really think you’ll ever get out of prison in this lifetime?"

"You might even get executed."

Those final words made Lin Jiandong’s body tremble.

In the past, the masses could beat someone half to death for the slightest infraction. Now that life was better and times had improved, things weren’t as extreme as they used to be.

But that didn’t mean things couldn’t go back to how they were. A sense of panic washed over Lin Jiandong.

He was afraid of being publicly denounced, but his plan had been perfect. It was all Gu Jiaojiao’s fault for meddling.

In that instant, he completely forgot about Leng Yuan. His gaze, vicious as a viper’s, locked onto Gu Jiaojiao.

"Gu Jiaojiao, why did you have to stick your nose in other people’s business—"

He had barely started, the curses yet to leave his mouth, when Leng Yuan strode forward and kicked him into the wall.

The impact of flesh and bone against the wall sent several chunks of plaster falling to the ground.

Chen Beiguo’s eyes twitched a few times.

’Leng Yuan’s being a bit too rough,’ he thought.

Leng Yuan’s voice was ice-cold. "Watch where you’re looking."

After that one kick, Lin Jiandong reverted to his cowardly self.

But no one saw him as an honest man anymore.

That glare just now had frightened several children into tears.

Chen Beiguo was just about to make a show of scolding Leng Yuan for a few moments when a villager in the crowd shouted.

"Good kick! That animal! How dare he treat Sweet Girl and Xiao Yang like that!"

Not everyone was as heartless as Lin Jiandong. When Sweet Girl’s parents were alive, they were on good terms with everyone in the village. The couple had never even had a serious argument with anyone.

Their own lives were hard, so they hadn’t helped Sweet Girl, but that didn’t mean they could tolerate someone else bullying her.

Several people even tried to rush in and beat up Lin Jiandong.

"Treating two kids like that, he’s nothing but a damn animal!"

Just then, an older woman picked up a rock and threw it at Chen Shulan a few times.

"What kind of monster are you?! To think we all thought you were so good to Sweet Girl, praising you every day for your kindness! Turns out you have the heart of a viper to treat those two children like that."

"You heartless beast!"

Chen JianShe’s eyes darted around, and he shouted.

"Someone so vicious would never adopt Sweet Girl and Xiao Yang out of kindness! They must have been after the house Sweet Girl’s parents left behind!"