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By the time the mooncakes were done baking, Lin Yuan had already prepared and eaten dinner. Seeing that it was still early, she figured that people over there would not have gone to bed yet, so she decided to deliver the freshly baked mooncakes to each family.

Loudmouth’s house was located at the far western end of the village, and Lin Yuan had no intention of delivering so late.

She only brought the portion for the old village chief and the old house.

Before leaving, Lady Liu, feeling uneasy, insisted on going to the old house with her daughters, but she was eight months pregnant, and Lin Yuan couldn’t bear to let her mother walk the night road.

Lin Jiaxin felt some remorse, always feeling that he had let down his own daughters.

Lin Yuan, attentive as ever, comforted him with a smile, saying that as a granddaughter, it was her duty to see her grandparents.

On the way, they ran into Lin Ershuan, who had already received the wheelchair blueprint from Lin Yuan. He had been studying it all day and was just about to discuss the matter of the wheelchair wheels with Lin Jiaxin.

Recalling the worried look in her father’s eyes before leaving, Lin Yuan’s eyes darted, and she quietly said a few words to Lin Ershuan before continuing towards the old house.

Carrying the basket in hand, and looking at the towering gate in front of her, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered the last time she visited, when she came to demand silver.

In just over half a month, she was now here to deliver goods.

After knocking on the door for a long while without anyone coming to open it, just as she was about to leave, thinking everyone had gone to sleep, the door creaked open.

Unlike last time, this time it was not the submissive Aunt who opened the door, but the once arrogant and proud Lady Yang.

However, at this moment, she no longer possessed her former vivacity and looked as feeble as a woman in her sixties or seventies.

"Who is it?" Lady Yang’s voice was somewhat hoarse, low, and despite the moonlight, her old, blurry eyes only recognized the visitor as the person she detested most, Little Disaster Star, after getting a closer look.

"You?! What are you doing here?! Here to gawk at my misfortune!" Seeing that it was Lin Yuan, Lady Yang’s voice instantly rose by an octave, and her eyes rounded in fury, as if she was about to devour her.

Xiao Linshuang, who used to be terrified by Lady Yang’s demeanor as a child, now clutched her elder sister’s hand a little tighter. However, she clearly no longer held the fear she once did, standing tall and straight as ever.

Lin Yuan chuckled coldly, "Your misfortune? I’m not interested. Here, this is for you, my father asked me to deliver it."

She extended the basket in her hands, waiting for her to take it, yet Lady Yang recoiled as if it were poison, stepping back several paces and bellowing, "You little disaster star! Take your filthy things away! Last time it was in your yard that my old man was cursed to have a stroke, and now you have brought something dirty to curse me! You’re a harbinger of death! Little Disaster Star!"

Lin Yuan, not expecting Lady Yang to accept the mooncakes, shrugged, drew back the basket, and continued indifferently, "You really are amusing. It was clearly Lin Yongle who angered him into having a stroke. And now you’ve placed the blame squarely on my head again."

Of course, Lady Yang was unwilling to believe that her beloved grandson, whom she had cherished since childhood, would have angered his grandfather to illness.

Pointing at Lin Yuan, she shouted furiously, "Don’t talk nonsense!

I know my grandson! Get out of here, I don’t want your filthy things!

And when you go back, tell that good-for-nothing father of yours, I deeply regret having given birth to such an unfilial son!

If I had known he would grow up and bring a bunch of harbingers of death to my door, I should have strangled him or drowned him the moment he was born!

Even feeding him to stray dogs would have been better than raising him! "

Lin Yuan, both angry and resentful, bit her lip hard and was just about to speak, when she suddenly heard a heavy breathing behind her. Remembering what she had told Lin Ershuan earlier, she forcibly swallowed her words.

Having achieved her purpose and ready to leave with Xiao Linshuang, she suddenly heard a shrill voice from inside the courtyard: "You old wretch, who are you talking to at the gate?! Aren’t you going to hurry up and feed your grandson his meal!"