LOT – Chapter 77 We’re All Frontline Gossippers!

In the end, the dog was still taken away by Qin Zheng.

Wei Zheng’an simply couldn’t accept this dog. He was willing to pay for it but absolutely did not want to see it.

Lin Qi just stood off to the side, watching these two push the dog back and forth like a hot potato. Watching this scene, he finally understood why his little sister could get along so well with these two.

Early the next morning, when Lin Mo brought the system to court, she noticed everyone was looking at her.

She touched her face and quietly asked the system,【Why is everyone staring at me? Is there something on my face?】

The system whispered back,【I forgot to tell you—what happened yesterday has already spread throughout the entire capital.】

Upon hearing that, Lin Mo turned to stone.

No way. She just wanted to enjoy someone else’s drama—how did she become the drama everyone else was enjoying?! How did it come to this?!

The entire morning, Lin Mo was submerged in a cloud of grief, unable to recover.

Even Emperor Xuande, sitting up top, found it hard to watch. He was just about to come up with a good excuse after court to console Lin Mo when—next second—he completely retracted the thought.

Lin Mo, aggrieved, muttered to the system:【I can’t believe I’ve become someone else’s gossip fodder… Sigh, it’s too heartbreaking. System, hurry up and give me some fresh gossip to lift my spirits.】

Everyone: …

As expected of you! We shouldn’t have wasted any sympathy!

The system had already prepared a fresh batch of gossip:【Don’t be sad, I’ve already found a big scoop. Today’s hot gossip is about the Grand Commandant!】

The Grand Commandant looked up in alarm: !!!

Again?! Is your system targeting just the few of us or what?!

The others let out a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn’t about them, they were more than happy to watch the show.

Last time, the whole fiasco about the Grand Commandant’s rear end had already given them a hearty laugh. Who knew what earth-shattering news would drop about him this time?

Tsk. Why were they actually getting excited?

Lin Mo asked the system,【Did someone fall for the Grand Commandant again? Is he that popular?】

Everyone subtly glanced at the Grand Commandant. Tsk tsk tsk. Deep waters indeed—someone’s fallen for him again.

The Grand Commandant’s face flushed red with anger. When did someone fall for me again?! I even lock all the doors and windows when I bathe now! Who could possibly fancy me!

Just as wild guesses started to fly, the system came to his rescue.

【No, no, no. It’s not that someone fell for him. It’s that someone’s after his influence. A few newly appointed scholars are planning to court his daughter!】

【One of them, named Xu Luobin, has already arranged a lakeside outing with his second daughter. And that man plans to make his move during the outing. The plan is that the lady “falls into the lake” and he dives in to save her. That way he can play the hero and win her heart.】

Lin Mo frowned so hard her eyebrows twisted together. How could a man be so disgusting?

The Grand Commandant clutched his chest and struggled to breathe. Scoundrel! How dare he set his sights on my daughter!

All the officials with daughters suddenly tensed up. No, this wouldn’t do. After court, they had to go home and have a serious talk with their daughters. They must never fall for a man’s tricks!

Minister Lin and Lin Qi glanced at the others’ expressions and suddenly felt very reassured.

Thankfully, their little troublemaker would never go on some lakeside date with a man. And no one else would dare approach her anyway.

And if anyone did have a death wish and tried, well… they’d basically be delivering their gossip to her door.

The system looked down on Xu Luobin just as much as Lin Mo did. It had already started listing out all his flaws.

【This man may not have committed any major crimes, but his character is really poor. Loves taking advantage of others, always preaching morality—but that morality’s only meant for others, not himself.】

【He also thinks too highly of himself. Believes he’s incredibly talented but just born into the wrong family. He thinks if he were born into a noble house, his career would be smooth sailing. Oh, and the person Xu Luobin envies the most is your older brother. His original target wasn’t even the Grand Commandant’s daughter—it was your older sister. But she gave him a resounding slap that sent him packing.】

Lin Mo:【My sister is so badass!】

The others had mixed feelings. Their impression of Lin Ran had always been positive—she was a famous beauty and scholar in the capital, the textbook example of “talent and looks.”

But who would’ve thought this refined beauty was also great with her fists? Truly worthy of being from the Lin family!

When Minister Lin and Lin Qi heard that Xu Luobin’s initial target was Lin Ran, their faces dropped. But when they heard she slapped him away, both their lips curled into satisfied smirks.

Lin Mo absolutely despised men like Xu Luobin. She decided right then and there to take care of this herself. And since the man had once targeted her sister, there was no way she’d let him off easy!

【System, when exactly is Xu Luobin going to the lake with that second young lady? I’m going to meet him in person! How dare he set his sights on my sister! That slap was way too light!】

System:【This afternoon. A lot of young ladies and gentlemen will be there—it’s basically a big dating event. That place will be brimming with gossip!】

Upon hearing that, everyone’s breathing grew a little quicker.

So much gossip?! They wanted to go watch too!

When court was dismissed, many officials comforted the Grand Commandant, “Don’t worry, sir. Lord Lin’s daughter is already planning to step in. That Xu fellow definitely won’t get away with anything.”

The Grand Commandant paused for two seconds, then said very seriously, “But Lord Lin’s attacks are indiscriminate!”

At those words, everyone’s expressions became a little complicated—because it was true.

Everything Lord Lin did was on a monumental scale, the kind that shocked the heavens and made ghosts weep. She didn’t care about her own safety in the slightest—after all, she had the system’s protection mechanism.

After court, Lin Mo went home, had lunch, and then set out with two pigs.

By the time they arrived at the lakeside, many people were already disguised and in position.

“How do I look today? I bought a bunch of coarse linen clothes just to get the front-row seat to the gossip,” an official disguised as a small-time merchant asked the official next to him, who was selling candied hawthorn skewers.

The candied hawthorn seller replied, “Not bad, not bad—just fix your fake beard, it’s coming loose.”

Yes, all the suddenly-appeared peddlers nearby were actually officials in disguise.

When it came to chasing gossip, they were serious! They were frontline melon-eating badgers!

As a young lady passed by, she suddenly felt one of the vendors looked oddly familiar from the back. Why did this vendor look so much like her father? But wasn’t her father supposed to be home handling government affairs at this hour?

Seeing his daughter approaching, the official quickly turned his back to her: Go away, go away! Don’t delay my melon-eating!