TFWYH – Chapter 326 The Taste of Home

“Ah?” Doctor Li snapped back to his senses and nodded hard. “Don’t worry, I’ll charge him. Not a single coin less.”

Someone this vile doesn’t deserve any convenience.

Tang Wan shot Brother Shen a vicious glare, waved her fist at him, then took Ling Yu’s hand and left.

Brother Shen stretched out an Erkang hand.

“No, listen to me explain— I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me, I’m really wronged!”

At this moment, Doctor Li had already picked up his abacus and was clattering away at the side. As he calculated, he shot Brother Shen a sideways glance. “Consultation fee: one tael. Add the medicine, I’ll count it as six taels. That’s seven taels of silver in total. No money? No problem. The constables are right outside—let’s go ask them to judge this for us!”

Brother Shen almost cried himself unconscious in the latrine. In the end, he could only pay out of his own pocket, while the little man in his heart cursed Ling Yu countless times.

Damn black-hearted bastard! Are you trying to逼 me to death?!

Good thing he had gotten ten taels refunded earlier—otherwise, Brother Shen probably wouldn’t even have been able to walk out of the medical hall!

Wait, no—wasn’t there still other money?

The clinic refunded the consultation fee, but they never said they refunded the medicine cost. What about all those external injury medicines that dead fatso had prescribed for him before? They’d even caused his wife to suffer so miserably!

Compensation!

He had to be compensated!

So Brother Shen immediately ran to the magistrate’s office and accused Tu Qiang of callously taking human lives.

But who would’ve thought that the one handling the case… was that dog bastard Ling Yu again.

Brother Shen was scared to death. He kept his head down the entire time, like a quail.

Fortunately, this time Ling Yu didn’t make things difficult for him and simply sent people to arrest Tu Qiang.

Poor Tu Qiang—he didn’t even know who was messing with him. He’d just woken up, had the sack pulled off his head, when he was surrounded by yamen runners and sent straight to the prison.

Ling Chen, who had witnessed the whole thing: …

Silently, he pasted a mental label on his big brother—

Absolutely cannot be provoked!

Then he looked at his own silly eldest sister-in-law. After learning about Big Brother’s “tragic” childhood, she treated him even better than before—agreeing to anything he asked for. When they walked down the street, as long as Big Brother so much as glanced at something, Sister-in-law would trot off eagerly to buy it for him!

Ling Chen sighed.

Big Brother really had her wrapped around his little finger—

By the time the three of them returned home, it was already afternoon. Madam Jiang, Ling Yue, and Madam Qian had all come back and were cheerfully preparing the New Year’s meal.

Seeing them return, Madam Jiang asked where they had gone.

Little Ling Chen ran over and told Madam Jiang all about where they’d been and what they’d done today, even proudly announcing that he’d knocked out the bad guy and bought the constables some precious time.

Madam Jiang smiled and praised him for being so capable, then called for Tang Wan and Ling Yu to wash their hands—dinner would be ready soon.

Looking at the lively, bustling home, Tang Wan tilted her head and asked the Ling beauty, “There’s a smell!”

Ling Yu: ?

Tang Wan: “The smell of home!”

“You silly thing,” Ling Yu said with a laugh, shaking his head as he took her hand and led her to wash up.

Before long, Ling Canghe and Ling Sheng arrived too, having bought two brand-new bright red lanterns to replace the old ones.

Ling Yu also wrote fu characters and couplets and pasted them on the front gate.

A big round table was set up in the courtyard, and plate after plate of fragrant dishes was brought out.

Ling Yue not only stir-fried the dishes but even made milk tea.

Just as the family was about to sit down, Tang Hongba and his son arrived as well, carrying two red lanterns. As soon as they entered, Tang Hongba said, “In-law, I’ve come to pay New Year’s greetings—thought I’d also mooch a meal. I even planned to replace your lanterns, but looks like you already did.”

Tang Tianyang and Qin Suyun were also carrying lots of fruit and pastries. “Aunt Jiang, we opened a new shop and got swamped, so we closed late. You don’t mind us mooching a meal too, do you?”