After the villain was reborn, he found out that he had a childhood sweetheart.

Lin Xiangling is good at hiding her emotions. She smiles and plays the role of a good kid. She listens to the conversations of people around her with her ears perked up, writes down information that might be useful, and completes the tasks assigned by Lin Yun.

On the other hand, the chaebol family is also a novelty to her. The little pig has a strong desire for knowledge and hopes to understand everything she encounters.

Huaizhi went specifically to talk to the old man's cousin named Lu and his family.

This cousin usually lives in another province and doesn't interact with the family very often, but he gets a lot of benefits from the Lin family... The Lin family invested a lot of money in the restaurants, KTVs and trading companies that Uncle Lu opened in other places, but they almost didn't take any shares.

The root cause of the problem was that there was an accident that year, which was quite serious, and Uncle Lu went to jail for the old man.

People generally describe the old man as a "hero", and as we all know, there is a difference between a hero and a bad guy.

Although Mr. Lin is ruthless in doing things, he is never vague when treating his benefactors. The good life of Uncle Lu's family over the years was all due to the blood transfusion of the Lin family.

However, the situation changed after the old man passed away. Uncle Lu and others seemed to think that Mrs. Lin was too stingy, but after all, she was grateful for what she received. The conflict was buried under the appearance of family happiness and was not yet resolved.

Today, Uncle Lu and several relatives all looked embarrassed.

When Huaizhi went to find them, Uncle Lu's little daughter was crying with her face covered.

"Sorry for making you laugh."

"What's going on?" Huaizhi asked with concern, "Have you been wronged?"

"It's not that I feel wronged... I'm not talented, but I was admitted to Beicang University last year. I was hoping to get a scholarship from the foundation... But now I wasn't selected, so I'm mad at myself..."

At this moment, the crying girl suddenly let go of her hands and glared, "I don't accept it! Why can Lin Xiangling get the highest prize? Why did my grandmother personally summon her during the New Year? She's just a little better in her studies, and she's not that great in other aspects..."

"Shut up! Are you qualified to say that?" Uncle Lu also glared, then gave Huaizhi a fake smile, "Miss Huaizhi, I'm sorry, I'm just a kid and don't know what's going on. Since he is the young talent chosen by the old lady, there must be a reason for it. I shouldn't make irresponsible comments."

"Uncle Lu is absolutely right."

Huaizhi agreed, thinking that Uncle Lu was quite interesting, playing double-act and being sarcastic in front of her. Did he think that after hearing these words, Old Lady Lin would be very happy and give him benefits?

From Old Lady Lin's perspective, the Lin family has already given Uncle Lu too much and doesn't owe him anything anymore.

But Huaizhi felt that they still had value.

In fact, before Lin Xiangling came out of nowhere, the one who most wanted to replicate Huaizhi's trajectory was Uncle Lu's youngest daughter, Lu...what was her name?

Not important anymore.

Huaizhi was very uncomfortable with Mrs. Lin's preference for Xiangling, but she was not stupid enough to take the initiative to deal with Lin Xiangling.

"However, what your daughter said is not wrong. Lin Xiangling is a child who lacks experience in other aspects except for her academic performance. If you don't mind, Uncle Lu can help her create some difficulties. As for your request, I don't mind saying a few good words for your daughter in front of the old lady."

After conveying his meaning, Huaizhi immediately went to find the next person he needed to greet, leaving Uncle Lu no chance to bargain.

Uncle Lu was also a shrewd man. After realizing what was going on, he immediately instigated his daughter to cause trouble.

In this girl's opinion, it was Lin Xiangling who stole her scholarship... Even though the Lin family gave them a lot of financial support, Uncle Lu himself didn't have much business ideas. He had a large business and suffered a lot of losses, which resulted in the family's cash flow being quite tight.

Add to that the fact that the family loves to show off and do nothing, and you can imagine what the actual living experience is like.

For Uncle Lu's daughter, this money can improve her life. It is also a very important qualification that will help her future development in the Lin Group.

Who knew that this poor little guy from the countryside would get there first.

I have disliked her for a long time. Now that my elders have given their approval, I will definitely make her fall hard!

Of course, we cannot use excessive means to deal with Lin Xiangling. The methods used by these little brats who are distant relatives of the Lin family are almost the same as the bullying methods used in aristocratic middle schools.

It's very childish, but it's disgusting enough.

This lunch is definitely the largest gathering of the Lin family in a year. Almost everyone is busy preparing for it. Of course, most of them are just there to make it look good and create an atmosphere.

Uncle Lu's daughter and two other younger generations who were on good terms with him went to the cellar to move things and called Lin Xiangling to go with them.

Lin Xiangling didn't think too much about it. She searched according to the items on the list. She was admiring the rich man's hidden treasures when she found to her sorrow that the other three were nowhere to be found and she herself was locked in the cellar.

...I can only say it's a classic.

In the movie shown in English class last semester, maids in the homes of European noble ladies hundreds of years ago used similar methods to bully people.

The little pig couldn't help but complain.

It was a cold winter day and the cellar was extremely cold. Lin Xiangling stayed there for a few minutes and her hands and feet became numb from the cold.

If the goal is to make her suffer, congratulations, goal achieved!

She recalled the faces of the three girls who brought her in, and she didn't know how she had offended them... But this was the Lin family, so it was normal to offend people for no reason, or they simply disliked her.

Little Xiangzhu is not the kind of naive idol drama heroine who makes a fuss out of nothing!

Instead of finding a place to curl up and cry, she actively looked for ways to break the predicament.

After walking around, she found the back door to the cellar.

I leaned close to the crack in the door and heard a slight sound of wind, which seemed to lead to the outside.

This door was also locked, but the lock was rather fragile. After feeling around for a while, Lin Xiangling had a rough idea of ​​what it was.

She was confident that she could kick the door open.

The so-called little pig with natural super strength is not an exaggeration.

The consequence of doing so would be the destruction of the property of the Yangxin Pavilion, and perhaps, getting scolded.

Better than freezing here.

Just go out and find Old Lady Lin to explain the situation. After all, Lin Xiangling is not afraid of offending people. She has a strong personality, and she is right in this matter.

After planning the follow-up actions, Lin Xiangling kicked without hesitation.

Far from exerting his full strength, he kicked the door open with ease, breaking the lock.

"That's it?" Lin Xiangling snorted disdainfully, stuck out her tongue, and walked out.

After walking through a corridor for about two minutes, we turned a few corners.

Lin Xiangling saw a ladder leading to the sky above. After climbing out, she realized that it was an abandoned well.

Looking back, I was shocked to find that there was an abandoned iron box at the edge of the well I had just passed.

So Lin Xiangling went back and fished out the iron box.

The box was empty except for a yellowed piece of paper. The content drawn on it instantly aroused Lin Xiangling's interest.

The shape of the crooked hourglass almost completely matches the birthmark on Lin Yun's waist.

On the back of the painting, there is a sentence:

"This is the flag seal of samsara. Anyone who sees this seal must treat it with caution!"

136. Lin Yun successfully made a nest (4000)

The paper looked quite old, and the handwriting had an ancient charm, as if it was written by someone with great cultural accomplishment... However, the content of the sentence had nothing to do with cultural accomplishment at all, it was pure feudal superstition.

If we understand it literally, it means that people with this pattern on their body are special, and you should be careful when facing them!

Lin Xiangling couldn't help but think of her childhood when her father asked a deity to come to their house to tell fortunes. The deity told her father that his daughter had a tough life and it was best not to get too close to her, and that if conditions allowed, he should have another son!

Before she secretly saw her mother's notes, Lin Xiangling thought that her father's bad attitude towards her might have something to do with this. Later she realized that after all, she was not her father's biological child. Even if the fortune teller said that she was her father's lucky star, her father probably would not treat her well.

Lin Xiangling has become indifferent to these things and no longer cares about them. What she really cares about is why the pattern that appeared in her mother's diary appeared on Lin Yun's body, and the abandoned well bottom that leads to the outside world through the secret passage in the Lin family's cellar.

You can think it is a coincidence once, but you can’t think so if it happens twice.

Besides, the hourglass pattern in my mother's diary was carried by something similar to a talisman, and now this piece of paper says it is a flag seal, so it makes sense.

Without having to think too long, a wonderful idea emerged in Lin Xiangling's mind:

Could it be... that her life experience is related to the Lin family?

Or like in countless vulgar Mary Sue stories, she is actually a flesh and blood of the Lin family, a young lady who has been living outside... When this thought arose in Lin Xiangling's eyes, the emotion she felt was not joy or sigh, but subconscious resistance.

If she is really a child of the Lin family, doesn't it mean that she will really be Lin Yun's sister?

That kind of thing...

Lin Xiangling shook her head and forced herself to calm down. Don't panic. This iron box only proved that her life experience was closely related to the Lin family. It didn't necessarily prove that she was Lin Yun's sister.

Even if it is, she can pretend not to know. Anyway, as long as her background is not revealed, there is still a possibility for her and Lin Yun.

"Eh? Xiang Ling, why are you here?"

A guest's voice interrupted her thoughts, and Lin Xiangling suddenly realized that she had walked out of the woods where the abandoned well was and returned to the greenhouse garden of Yangxin Pavilion.

It was such a long journey, and I was completely immersed in the struggle over my life experience.

The worst thing is that what she is struggling with is not the incident itself, but her identity and whether she can continue to pursue Lin Yun.

I don’t know when it started, but my life, which was originally confused and only hoped to have a good job, be well fed and clothed, and live a peaceful life, now has a clear and distant goal.

Lin Yun became the direction of her struggle and the fulcrum of her life, so much so that when this fulcrum was in danger of collapsing, Lin Xiangling felt a little shaky.

"I'm fine... Has the party started yet?"

"It's almost done. Are you really okay? Do you want to see a doctor? There are doctors in Yangxin Pavilion. They are very skilled..."

"No, thank you."

Lin Xiangling smiled, quickly calmed down, and headed towards the lunch venue.

She stuffed the note into the inner pocket of her plaid skirt and put aside any further thoughts for the moment. What she should do now was to appear in front of the girls who had locked her in the cellar and explain the facts to Old Lady Lin.

As expected, her appearance made several girls' faces change color immediately.

Didn't lock her up?

And she came back so quickly that Lin Xiangling came back not long after they did.

The original idea was that when the banquet started, Old Lady Lin would notice that Lin Xiangling was not there. When asked, the girls said they didn't know.

At this time, another friend of theirs received the message and opened the door...that friend was just an unimportant guest and would not attract any attention at all.

Being just a short delay and being locked in the cellar and freezing for a while would not cause any substantial loss to Lin Xiangling, but would only make her more embarrassed or serve as a warning.

Seeing Lin Xiangling walking quickly towards Old Lady Lin, leaning down and whispering something, several girls looked at each other.

"She doesn't want to make a big deal out of it, does she?"

"Hard to say."

"There is no evidence, just empty words. We just have to deny it."

"So how did she get out?"

The girls were chattering and a little panicked, but overall they were confident about what was going on.

It was just a prank by the younger generation, a common occurrence among the Lin family's children, and the old lady never cared much about it.

They are already proficient in similar operations and have no shame at all.

On the other hand, if Lin Xiangling insisted on making a big fuss, she would be at a disadvantage, and everyone present would only think that she was narrow-minded.

However, unlike what they imagined, Lin Xiangling's attitude was very calm, and she didn't even seem angry at all.

When Old Lady Lin listened to her story and asked her how she wanted to deal with the matter, Lin Xiangling just said calmly: "This is bullying, but the degree is not serious, and there is no evidence left... Just pretend it never happened. I just hope that the old lady will not hold me accountable for kicking the back door."

"Of course I won't pursue it." Old Mrs. Lin subconsciously glanced at Xiang Ling's legs.

"Also, could you give me that broken door lock?"

"...It doesn't matter."

This request is indeed confusing, but it is also an easy thing to do. Since she wants it, just give it to her.

What really surprised Old Lady Lin was Lin Xiangling's calm mentality... Generally speaking, outstanding students from lower-class backgrounds have an average mentality. At least before they enter the society to gain experience, they do not have such excellent emotional control ability, and usually cannot tolerate grievances.

But Lin Xiangling did not endure it. She just realized that her appreciation from Old Lady Lin seemed to have blocked the way for some people. In short, they were very dissatisfied with her.

Of course, this kind of problem cannot be solved by complaining to Old Mrs. Lin. Lin Xiangling has her own way of solving it, but she needs Lin Yun's help.

It's ok.

Brother Lin Yun will definitely help her.

While the little pig was muttering about Brother Lin Yun, Old Mrs. Lin looked at the time and was sure that Lin Yun would be absent.

It is common for Lin Yun to be late for various family occasions, but Grandma Lin never takes it seriously. After all, it is a bit ridiculous to ask a pet cat to develop the concept of punctuality.

But this is the first time that he didn't come during the Chinese New Year. Moreover, this time, Old Lady Lin asked Lin Yun to bring Jiang Qianxi along as it was of great significance.

"Haipeng, go ask your son if he's on the way."

At this moment, Lin Yun's stepfather was anxiously discussing cooperation with a guest when he was suddenly summoned by his old mother. Only then did he realize that Xiao Yun had not arrived until the banquet started.

Suddenly he was furious.