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Lady Ma, who had been waiting on the side, charged into the room like a madwoman and grabbed the quilts and mattresses on the bed. Without even a glance, she wrapped them all up and clutched them tightly to her chest.

When she turned around, she saw that quite a crowd had gathered at the door, eager to see the commotion. Lady Ma forced a sheepish laugh and said, "Ahem, ahem, the rain was heavy last night, the sewage from the lavatory overflowed, this room is so close, of course, there’s a smell, hehe."

Lin Yuan had lived in the old house for seven or eight years, how could she not know that the lavatory was in the southeast corner, and that the rooms of the Lin brothers, Lin Yongle, and Lin Yongcheng, were in the most favorable location?

Forget the sewage, even if the entire old house were flooded, this room wouldn’t be affected.

Waving her hand in front of her nose, Lin Yuan mercilessly exposed Lady Ma’s lie, "Aunt, you really are quite the joker. The lavatory is on the opposite side, there’s no sewage in the courtyard, so how could there be any in this room?"

Lady Ma was just about to retort when Lin Yuan pointed to the bedding in her arms, exclaiming with surprise, "Oh, what are you doing with your son’s bedding? Could it be that there are bricks hidden inside?"

Lin Yuan turned to look at the bed, where Lin Yongle seemed to still be asleep, lying flat and undisturbed.

It appeared that Lin Yongle had been released from prison.

She wondered whether his leg had been completely broken.

As Lin Yuan harbored these sarcastic thoughts, she turned to look at Lin Yongcheng standing on the side.

He, on the other hand, was dressed neatly, without a single raindrop or speck of mud on his clothes, unnaturally clean.

Reasonably, with such dreadful weather, the villagers wouldn’t change into a clean set of clothes if the ones from the previous day hadn’t gotten wet.

It wasn’t for any other reason than that the villagers had few clothes to begin with and didn’t care for fastidiousness.

After all, everything outside was dirty; the previously dirty clothes would be worn for an extra day if possible.

Questioned by Lin Yuan, Lady Ma kept shaking her head, and she hugged the bedding in her arms even tighter, "No, no, how could there possibly be bricks in this bedding? Stop joking!"

But Lin Yuan was not about to let it go. Of course, she knew there couldn’t be any bricks, but she was truly curious about what could actually be inside. Coupled with the stench she noticed when entering the room, Lin Yuan had a bold suspicion.

The villagers didn’t believe her either and started clamoring for Lady Ma to open up the bedding to show everyone.

They had already looked around the room when they entered, and there really was nowhere inside that could hide bricks.

However, Lady Ma’s abnormal behavior had given everyone a good reason to be suspicious.

The bricks were hidden in the bedding!

Lady Ma was unwilling to unveil it for everyone to see. If they looked, it wouldn’t just be her youngest son’s face that was lost, but the face of the entire Lin family!

The couple from across the house also came to the window to watch the excitement, first looking at Lin Yongle on the bed. Although he was much cleaner than the night before, the sight of his face immediately brought back the disgusting image of him from the previous night.

Seeing Lady Ma’s actions, the couple exchanged a glance and instantly understood. They bent over and moved aside, retching in disgust.

Lady Ma still wouldn’t let go, and Lin Jiazhong and Lin Yongcheng vehemently denied the accusations while Xia Zheng’s patience wore thin. He casually picked a chunk of mud from the wall, flicked it with his finger, and hit Lady Ma’s hand.

"Ouch!"

A sharp pain surged through Lady Ma’s hand, causing the bedding to fall to the ground.

The villagers all had their eyes wide open, expecting to see red bricks drop out of the bedding. However, there were none. Instead, a bunch of disgusting, sticky, yellowish things fell out. And the stench of urine and feces that had just dissipated once again assaulted everyone’s nostrils!

There was no need for further inspection to know what was wrapped up in that bedding!

"It’s shit!" exclaimed a man as he retched and ran outside the house, gasping for fresh air. Once he caught his breath, he didn’t forget to turn back and curse at Lady Ma for being disgusting, stuffing her own arms with feces and urine!