031

Today is Lin Wei's day off. As usual, he threw himself on the sofa. Beer cans, cigarette butts, and instant noodles were scattered all over the table and the floor.

The living room was filled with an indescribable smell.

The apprentice in the game was acting coquettishly, saying that the new skin was so pretty and she wanted to own it. Lin Wei transferred some money to her without saying a word, and called it a small gift from the master to the apprentice.

The disciple on the opposite side immediately sent a few kisses.

Lin Wei smiled so hard that his teeth were visible.

Just as Lin Wei was killing everyone in the game, a violent knock on the door interrupted his happiness.

Humph, finally I know how to go home and die.

He glared at the door and turned over impatiently. He really thought that he had grown up after being away for a few days, but now he had come back obediently.

He decided not to open the door. He would just stand outside without the key and wait until he was in a better mood to open the door for her.

Perhaps because he thought there was no one at home, the knocking on the door gradually stopped.

Lin Wei started another game, and in order to annoy the people outside, he deliberately turned up the volume to the maximum.

Sure enough, the knocking on the door immediately became louder.

He picked up his slippers and smashed them against the door, "What are you knocking for? Stop knocking."

"Open the door, open the door..." The woman's voice gradually became sharp.

If she keeps knocking like this, everyone in the building will be knocked out in no time.

"Fuck," Lin Wei put on his slippers and turned over while cursing, "Fuck, are you a pig? You even forgot your keys when you went out, so why didn't you forget to eat?"

He opened the door with a raging rage, "Hurry, hurry, hurry, are you in a hurry to reincarnate..."

Looking at the energetic old lady in front of him, the word "ma" was stuck in his throat.

Mrs. Lin glared at him in dissatisfaction, "Xiaowei, you are home, why don't you open the door? I've been knocking for a long time."

Lin Wei took the sack from Mrs. Lin and asked, "Mom, why are you here?"

The old lady nimbly entered the house. "Why is it so dark in broad daylight? Why don't you turn on the lights?" She casually flicked a switch on the wall. The room lit up, and she was immediately stunned by the smoky scene before her. "Is this a pigsty? Is Jiang Yanyi dead? You don't even clean up this mess. What a sin! You must have married an ancestor to worship."

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Lin Wei's face, "Mom, no..."

"You're still protecting her. Even in this situation, you're still protecting her." Old Madam Lin hated her for not fighting back. "What's so good about her that you protect her like this every day?"

"Mom... no, listen to me, Jiang Yanyi hasn't been home these days. She went to the hospital. Mom, why did you come here suddenly? Is there something wrong at home?"

At this point, Mrs. Lin immediately opened her sack. "Oh, what do you mean? Can't I come and see him even if I have nothing to do? Why am I here? Of course I'm here to see my grandson. You're not the only one I'm here to see." She laid out the items one by one. "This is wild mushrooms for my grandson. Experts say they're very nutritious. This is a peace charm for him. I personally went to the temple to get it..." As she was rummaging through the sack, she paused, jumped up, turned around, and loudly questioned Lin Wei, "What? Not home? Going to the hospital? What was she doing there? What happened to my darling grandson?"

"Mom..." Lin Wei helplessly helped her sit on the sofa. "Don't make a fuss. The child is fine. Jiang Yanyi is just being squeamish and throwing a tantrum with me. She'll be back soon."

"Bah, she's really showing off. How much money do you make in a day? And yet she keeps asking to go to the hospital. Hospitals are free, and my sweet grandson is fine, so he shouldn't be in trouble for bringing bad luck to the hospital. If you ask me, Jiang Yanyi isn't wife material. If it weren't for her pregnancy, I would have let you kick her out long ago. With your qualifications, you can find anyone, but you're so stubborn that you insist on marrying her."

In the eyes of Old Lady Lin, her son is perfect in every way and is a unique good man in the world. Ordinary women are not even qualified to carry his shoes.

"Okay, okay, Mom, you always say this."

Old Mrs. Lin twisted her elbow in dissatisfaction. "What's the matter? I can't even tell the truth. Oh, your mother is old and can't even speak a word, right?"

"Mom, look at what you're talking about. You know clearly that's not what I meant. Okay, okay, Mom, you haven't eaten yet, I'll take you out to eat."

Old Mrs. Lin seemed to have heard something out of the Arabian Nights. "Going out to eat? Why go out to eat? We have rice and vegetables at home. We have hands. We can just cook something at home." She reached into her sack again. "Look, this is the cabbage I brought for you. It's so sweet."

Lin Wei felt overwhelmed, "Mom, you know I can't cook."

"Tsk, it's no big deal. If you can't do it, I can."

As Mrs. Lin spoke, she rolled up her sleeves, picked up the sack, and walked towards the kitchen on her bound feet.

Lin Wei felt a little reluctant to let an elderly woman who was almost 70 years old cook for him. He chased into the kitchen and said, "Mom, don't cook. Eating out won't cost much."

Mrs. Lin refused to agree: "How can the food outside be as clean and hygienic as the one made at home? They use gutter oil. Eating too much is not good for your health. Okay, okay, if you can't cook, don't stand here and go out and have fun."

Lin Wei couldn't persuade her and had to go back to the living room.

After a while, Old Mrs. Lin skillfully prepared two dishes and a soup.

At the dinner table, Lin Wei once again asked about Old Lady Lin's purpose in coming here. It was no wonder he was overthinking this; his mother was a firm believer in returning home in old age, like fallen leaves returning to their roots. He had considered bringing her to live in the city before, but she had always clung to her small plot of land in her hometown and refused to move, saying she was already half buried in the earth, and if something happened to her in the city, she wouldn't even have a place to live after she died.

Lin Wei couldn't persuade her and had to obey her.

This time she came over without saying a word, so there must be something wrong.

Speaking of this, Old Lady Lin slapped her thigh and smiled so hard that her dentures were exposed. "What else can I do in the future? Of course, I will come to take care of my darling grandson. Xiaowei, I won't go back this time. I will live here with you from now on."

Not going back?

Lin Wei became even more curious. No matter how much he tried to persuade him before, why did he suddenly decide to come here and not go back?

Before he could ask, Old Lady Lin shook herself dry, "Xiaowei, let me tell you, my good grandson is amazing."

"Mom, what are you talking about? What good grandson? It's only two months old, and the baby's facial features haven't fully grown yet. Who knows if it's a son or a daughter?"

"Pfft, pfft, pfft, nonsense." Old Lady Lin reached out and patted him. "If I say it's my grandson, then it's my grandson. Don't curse my grandson away with your nonsense."

The Lin family has been passed down from generation to generation. Lin Wei's father passed away early, and Grandma Lin had to play the role of both father and mother. She raised Lin Wei with great difficulty and waited for him to get married. Her desire to hold her grandson became stronger day by day.

When Jiang Yanyi heard that she was pregnant, she was so happy that she even thought of what to name the child.

"Mom, can you please stop being superstitious? It's the right time now, what's the point of saying curses? Stop talking about grandchildren all the time. If it turns out to be a girl, will you just give up?"

Old Lady Lin's face immediately turned long. "I told you not to say such unlucky things, but why didn't you listen? Let me tell you, the Bodhisattva told me that Jiang Yanyi is definitely pregnant with a son. And, my grandson will be of great ancestry."

What the hell is going on? Lin Wei felt that the more he listened, the more outrageous it became. If the old lady continued talking, the Jade Emperor would come out.

As if to confirm his thoughts, the next second, Mrs. Lin began to recount her fate with the Bodhisattva. "Let me tell you, the Bodhisattva said that my grandson is the reincarnation of Wenquxing, and he will definitely become a high-ranking official when he grows up. Not only that, he will have four sons and two daughters in the future, completely changing the fate of our old Lin family, which has been a single-line family for nine generations, digging for food on the land."

Lin Wei was at a loss for words when he heard this. How could such a liar specifically target old rural ladies?

"Mom, these are all scammers. They're making up nice things to trick you. Scammers love to find old people like you, tell you some nice things, and then tell you some secrets that everyone knows, whether true or false, and they'll take you in. Once you believe them, they'll slowly ask you for money. By the time you realize it, they've already made a fortune and run away."

"Hey, why don't you listen? I told you I'm not a liar. I'm a real living Bodhisattva. How could I cheat you out of your money? You didn't take a single cent from me."

"How is that possible?" Lin Wei didn't believe it at all. If that man wasn't a liar, he would chop off his head.

"How can it be impossible? I think you've read too many books and think you know everything, so you see this and that as a liar. You don't know the old saying, 'Chinese don't cheat Chinese.' The other day, the Bodhisattva passed by our house and asked for a bowl of water because it was hot. After drinking the water, she sat down to rest for a while. I was busy working in the fields, and she said she felt embarrassed to drink my water, so she calculated it for me as payment. I figured I had nothing to lose, so I asked her to calculate it. It didn't matter, she actually calculated it for me."

Lin Wei: "Oh? What did she figure out?"

Old Lady Lin gulped down a large bowl of soup and continued, "The Bodhisattva not only calculated the time of Jiang Yanyi's pregnancy, but also the day of your father's death. Although the time was off, the Bodhisattva is still very powerful. More importantly, the Bodhisattva calculated that you have two sisters."

Lin Wei's heart trembled. If the previous things could be heard from the villagers by the Bodhisattva mentioned by Old Lady Lin, then the fact that he had two sisters was definitely not heard from others.

Before he was born, Old Lady Lin had given birth to two daughters. In rural areas, baby girls were never welcomed, and the Lin family was no exception. When Old Lady Lin's mother-in-law saw that Old Lady Lin had given birth to a baby girl, her face immediately fell. She immediately stuffed the cooked brown sugar egg into her mouth, then turned and walked out of the delivery room, cursing her as a money-loser.

Old Mrs. Lin wiped her tears for a long time on the bed. The next day, under the persuasion of her mother-in-law and husband, she sold the child to a distant relative who had been unable to conceive for many years for 3,000 yuan.

The fate of the second child was exactly the same as the first. He was sold to someone else before he was even a month old.

Both children were sold secretly, and they were only announced to the outside world as two boys. However, Mrs. Lin was weak, and the children died at birth because they were not well cared for in the womb.

Although outsiders did not believe it, they did not investigate it further. In addition, when Old Mrs. Lin talked about her two children, she cried so sincerely that everyone gradually believed their story.

As time passed, this incident was gradually buried in time and completely forgotten.

When the third child, Lin Wei, was born, the mother-in-law and husband finally showed some goodwill to Old Lady Lin. From then on, Lin Wei became the life of Old Lady Lin.

No one knew that he had two sisters except his own family, not even Jiang Yanyi.

"Mom, have you had any beef with anyone in the village lately?" After all, having been raised studying Marxism, Lin Wei's first reaction to hearing such a bizarre story was that Old Lady Lin had a grudge, and someone had dug up these old stories to set her up. "Do you know the details of that Bodhisattva?"

"Oh my, you kid, why are you so suspicious every day? It's not the first day you've been my son. Who can I make an enemy of? I'm a very good person in the village. I'm telling you, if you don't believe it, then don't believe it. But don't doubt the Bodhisattva anymore, or he'll get angry."

Old Mrs. Lin scraped all the oil from the dish into their two bowls, stirred it with the rice, and ate the bowls clean and shiny in a few gulps.

Finally, Mrs. Lin concluded, "I tell you, nothing is more important than my grandson's affairs right now. From now on, I will stay here and take care of my precious grandson peacefully."

No matter what Mrs. Lin's purpose was, Lin Wei was more than happy for her to stay. Apart from anything else, at least he wouldn't have to eat instant noodles when he got home from get off work every day.

"Mom, just stay here and relax. When Jiang Yanyi comes back, I'll ask her to buy you new clothes and quilts."

"Oh, by the way, Xiaowei, call her and ask her when she's coming back. You can't let my grandson starve and freeze outside every day."

Lin Wei felt annoyed when Jiang Yan was mentioned. He nodded perfunctorily, "I know, I know. Don't worry. Is she going to grow wings and fly away? It's better to let her suffer a little outside, so that she won't get too ambitious."

"Yes," Old Lady Lin agreed, "Son, you are smart and have a good brain. You are right. Let her suffer a little. Only after suffering will she realize that home is the best. Then she will treat you and my precious grandson wholeheartedly in the future."

The mother and son talked about many intimate things. Finally, Mrs. Lin went to wash the dishes, and the two of them went to rest.

In the hotel, Jiang Yan swallowed the last bite of steak, put down his knife and fork gracefully, looked at the brightly lit city outside the window, and felt so good that he wanted to whistle.

"Hello, Mr. Jia? I have already done what you requested."

Jiang Yan curved his lips and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yanyi dipped his finger in red wine and wrote the two words "Lin Wei" on the table.

Lin Wei, ah, Lin Wei, please don't let me down.