Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties-Chapter 69 - 68 Change (Fifth Update)

69: Chapter 68: Change (Fifth Update)

69: Chapter 68: Change (Fifth Update)

Lin Xia briskly responded, “Alright!

Sister Liu!

I definitely won’t be a stranger!

After work tonight, I’ll come over to see your mother-in-law and your kids!

These past few days have been hectic with my family’s issues; I couldn’t manage anything else!”

“Ah!

Xiaolin!

It really has been tough on you!

Dealing with such a family, what can one do!

You can come over to sit, but don’t buy anything…”

Liu Lanying and Lin Xia, arm in arm, chattered and laughed their way back to the workshop.

This scene naturally caught the eyes of others, but since Liu Lanying was popular and her family was well-off, more curious glances were directed toward Lin Xia.

It just so happened that Lin Xia’s unit was paying salaries today, and she pressed her handprint to receive her wages.

Since it was the end of the month and salaries were distributed on the tenth or thereabouts, Lin Xia had only taken two days off last month, with the long leave taken this month.

Lin Xia received a little over forty yuan as her salary; because of her leave, she didn’t earn that day’s wage, and also missed the attendance bonus.

But, Lin Xia didn’t care about those things anymore.

After work that evening, Lin Xia really did buy something and went to visit Liu Lanying’s mother-in-law.

Liu Lanying’s mother-in-law, Madam Zhao, after hearing about Lin Xia’s troubles, felt quite sympathetic.

How could a parent act like this?

Like having a stepmother also means having a stepfather, so she also offered some comforting words;

Madam Zhao also said she knew about Xu Haihua’s home that they had moved away from after Lin Xia explained the whole story and the reasons.

She even promised to let Lin Qiu rest well at home and only return to work when she recovered, and to see if it was possible to swap her into a better job…

Lin Xia left Liu Lanying’s house overjoyed, realizing that once you overcome that first hurdle, the path ahead becomes easier and easier.

She still remembered the first time she had come to Liu Lanying’s house bearing gifts, how bashful she was back then, hesitating outside the large gate for a long time, unable to face people or to speak up.

But now, she could sense her own transformation.

Speaking confidently with everyone, the timidity was gone.

Lin Xia grinned, thinking to herself, with more practice like this, maybe she too could become eloquent.

Lin Xia got on her bicycle, then furrowed her brow—was Lin Aiguo about to return?

And her elder brother…

she estimated the time; his workplace would have closed by now.

Maybe she would convince him tomorrow.

Ah…

just thinking about her elder brother gave her a headache.

What could she do to make him move out and live with them?

Meanwhile, at the Lin Family’s home, Lin Aiguo came back from the mountain and upon entering, saw Chunli cooking.

He questioned with a stern face, “Why are you cooking?

Where’s Lin Qiu?”

He had never imagined that Lin Xia and the others might still not have come back.

Chunli wiped the corner of her eye, “Aiguo, they haven’t come back to stay since they left that day!

One day though, when I came back from work, more plants from the backyard were missing, and Lin Qiu’s bicycle was gone too; probably they came back secretly to take some stuff!”

Lin Aiguo glared, “What?

They haven’t come back these days!

They’ve really grown wings, each one of them!

And Lin Chun?”

“Lin Chun has been living at home!

He hasn’t come back from work yet,” Chunli said truthfully.

Lin Aiguo paced back and forth angrily, “Lin Chun must know where they are!

I’ll wait for him to come back!

These damned kids, utterly lawless!”

He directly went into the Eastern House, sat by the Kang edge, and angrily knocked on his tobacco pipe.

Earlier in the mountain, he thought, after so many days, those kids must have certainly crept back.

This time, in addition to taking away the difference between Lin Chun’s and Lin Xia’s salaries, he had to properly discipline them to make them respect their father’s authority.

However, coming back home to this situation was completely unexpected!

Soon after, Lin Yu came back from school.

She saw her father Lin Aiguo’s bicycle in the yard and knew that he had come back.

Last time when Lin Qiang visited the Western House, Lin Aiguo caught him red-handed.

Even though Lin Qiang said nothing, Lin Aiguo interrogated her, which made Lin Yu feel conflicted in her heart.

Her father had died early, and since her mother remarried Lin Aiguo, he had treated them even better than his own children, Lin Xia’s siblings.

So she truly regarded Lin Aiguo as her real father.

But who could expect such a day to come?

When Qian Chunli saw Lin Yu’s return, she said, “Xiaoyu, you’re back.

Your dad has come back!

He’s inside the house!” Qian Chunli touched her clothes and gave Lin Yu a meaningful look.

“Ah!

My dad has come back!”

Lin Yu understood her mother’s gesture; she meant for her to take the opportunity to complain about the damaged clothes.

Lin Yu entered the house and called out, “Dad.”

Lin Aiguo was puffing on his large smoking pipe, lifting his eyelids and grunting in acknowledgment.

Lin Yu put down her schoolbag and went to the closet to find the clothes.

She did not only take out her own three pieces but also retrieved Lin Qiang’s pants and clothes.

Lin Aiguo squinted his eyes while smoking, not understanding what Lin Yu was up to.

Tears came quickly to Lin Yu’s eyes; she truly felt heartbroken seeing the condition of the clothes.

Since she wanted to keep them as evidence, she had not mended any of the clothes.

“Dad!

Look at Qiangzi’s and my clothes.

Lin Xia and the others have cut them up!

Our good clothes are ruined…”

Lin Yu held them up right in front of Lin Aiguo.

Lin Aiguo put down his smoking pipe, looking at the cuts on the clothes, the sight of which shockingly made him furious.

“Who did this?”

Lin Yu sobbed, “Dad!

We don’t know!

It probably was Lin Xia!

None of them has the guts but her!

Look, these were the clothes that you bought for us and now they’re ruined…”

Lin Aiguo stood up in rage, his eyes flashing with urgency; making a piece of clothing these days was not easy at all, who would squander them!

“Was it really them?”

Lin Yu nodded through her blurry tears, “Other than them, there’s no one else!”

Lin Aiguo felt as if his lungs would burst with anger!

That little rascal Lin Xia, such malice in his heart, even if there were conflicts, it shouldn’t have come to ruining clothes…

Lin Chun arrived home and saw Lin Aiguo’s bicycle in the yard.

The moment he entered the kitchen, he saw Lin Aiguo coming back from the mountains with a gloomy face, stretching his hand toward Lin Chun and asking coldly, “Where’s the salary?”

Lin Chun hurriedly explained, “The accountant said it will be dispatched tomorrow!”

Lin Aiguo did not doubt Lin Chun’s words as he knew Lin Chun wouldn’t dare lie about such a matter.

“Lin Chun!

Where have those rascals Lin Xia and the others been lately?

These days, each of them has been living freely outside and not even coming home.

What is it they’re thinking?”

Lin Chun had anticipated this; he knew when their salary was about to be disbursed, his dad would come back.

He had thought that when his dad returned and found out Lin Xia and the others hadn’t come back, he would be furious and explode in rage.

But he hadn’t expected his dad would change his usual narrative, making it seem like it was his big sister and others who had a home yet chose not to return!

But how was he to respond to that?