Chapter 105: Revisiting the Past
"Didn't you have lunch at Zhao Huizhou's place before coming here?" Lin Qing asked.
Lin Ergu and Cui Cuihua ate the rolled pancakes with great relish. God knows how long it had been since they had touched chili peppers.
For those who cannot live without spicy food, missing a meal feels like a long absence.
"I don't think Zhao Huizhou and that Zhang Hong will last long." Aunt Lin said as she chewed.
Lin Qing: "What's going on?"
Aunt Lin was particularly disgusted. "The food she cooked tasted like pig food. She acted like a young lady and let others worship her. It's ok for one or two days, but after a long time, who would still treat her like a bodhisattva every day?"
Lin Qing sighed. Isn't this what Zhang Hong said about Zhao Huiyan in the book?
"Second aunt, is it possible that I didn't cook properly because you two were here?"
In the article, Zhang Hong’s cooking skills are pretty good.
Huh?
If Second Aunt hadn't told her, she wouldn't have noticed that the last time they had a banquet, all the food on the table was prepared by Sister Shi and the others.
Okay, six six six.
Aunt Lin was choked by Lin Qing, "Anyway, I don't think it will last long."
Whether it would last long or not, that was a matter for the future. Lin Qing looked at the mother and daughter with a half-smile.
"Second Aunt, you didn't come here just to tell us this, right?"
Aunt Lin doesn’t eat cakes very often. She’s old now, and who doesn’t want to save some face?
But the reality is that she has no way of saving face.
After a moment of silence, he said, "Cuihua's work has been arranged. She is a young lady and cannot live with Zhao Huizhou forever. I have to go back soon. What do you think we should do with Cuihua's place?"
"Cold."
Lin Qing answered so readily that Aunt Lin wanted to glare at her.
In her mind, she is still the domineering elder of the Lin family.
However, when he met Lin Qing's cold gaze, he came to his senses.
Lin Qing sneered: "Second Aunt, do you really think it's a good thing to let Cuihua live under my nose?"
Lin Ergu's eyelids twitched.
Lin Qing continued, "I have a grudge against Zhao Huizhou for canceling the engagement, and I also have a grudge against you and your mother. It's already good enough that I don't take revenge on Cuihua now, but you keep trying to get close to me."
"Are you afraid that I won't take action?"
After hearing this, Lin Ergu was in no mood to eat anymore. Cui Cuihua chewed the roll numbly, as if it didn't matter anymore.
It seems like there is a kind of attitude of "love whoever you want, do whatever you want, and live one day at a time."
The eldest sister and her husband were busy chewing biscuits, feeling that Lin Qing could scare away Second Aunt Lin by herself.
Lin Ergu's heart was in turmoil. If Lin Qing had said this before, she would have laughed, but now when she heard this, she was really scared.
After all, my daughter is a piece of my flesh and blood. If she is ruined by Lin Qing again, my life will be over.
Aunt Lin put down the cake in her hand, too worried to eat.
"Who else can we mother and daughter rely on except you?"
At this moment, Aunt Lin was really a little submissive.
Lin Qing rolled a pancake and chewed it slowly, bite by bite, without saying a word.
The room was very quiet after that.
Lin Qing didn't say a word until the meal was over.
My eldest sister and brother-in-law didn't say a word.
Lin Qing is here to block people for them, so how could they possibly fall behind?
Seeing the pitiful look of the second aunt, the eldest sister kept repeating to herself that there must be something hateful about a pitiful person. She kept repeating this in a loop until her heart became completely hardened.
In the afternoon, the yard was warmed by the sun, but the house was chilly.
Lin Qing moved a stool and sat in the yard to bask in the sun. Second Aunt Lin also reluctantly moved a stool and sat over. She also realized that San Ya was the one in charge of the Lin family now.
"Cuihua is your sister after all."
A friendship that grows from childhood.
"Did she express this favor to me back then?" Lin Qing brought up the past without any hesitation.
Cui Cuihua sat there with her head down and kept silent. She was too embarrassed to recall the past.
But Lin Qing was embarrassed. "My sister and I went to your house for a meal, and she chased us and scolded us all the way. She also blocked me behind the grave in the middle of the night. I was almost scared to death. This was all her fault."
Aunt Lin felt so ashamed after hearing this that she was choked and speechless.
Cui Cuihua wished she could bury her head in the ground.
The eldest sister and brother-in-law had to go to work in the afternoon. After eating and taking a rest, they were about to leave. The eldest sister gave Lin Qing a look.
Lin Qing nodded at her and went to work. Everything was under control.
Aunt Lin saw that playing the emotional card was useless and was completely at her wit's end. She sat there with a bitter face and didn't say anything.
At this time, my eldest sister and brother-in-law had packed up and went out together.
I didn't dare say hello here.
As soon as they left, the two fat boys from the Xu family finished their meal and ran out to play.
Mrs. Xu was cursing at the back, "You little bastards, I told you to take a nap but you didn't listen. You just played around all day."
Lin Qing chimed in, "If you don't play now, you won't be able to play when you grow up."
Mrs. Xu glared at Lin Qing from a distance, then shifted her gaze to the mother and daughter of the Cui family, and walked over while lowering her rolled-up sleeves.
She first looked at Lin Qing: Is this the mother and daughter you mentioned before?
Lin Qing nodded implicitly.
Mrs. Xu perked up and moved a stool over to sit down. "Auntie, judging from your expression, you must have encountered some trouble."
Aunt Lin didn't want to talk to Xu Saozi at first. She was so annoyed that she didn't have the energy to chat. But she changed her mind and tried to pity Xu Saozi.
"My daughter, I'm in trouble. My daughter got a job here with the help of a relative, but she can't live in someone else's house forever. So, she wanted to come here..."
Mrs. Xu looked puzzled. "Auntie, you are not being clear. Do you mean that your daughter can't live with your relative and can live with Lin Yu?"
Lin Ergu: That’s what I mean.
Mrs. Xu: "It's not okay for a grown-up girl to live in her cousin's house. After all, her cousin is married and has a family. She's not her biological brother-in-law. If a cousin like you lives here, it will easily attract gossip."
Mrs. Xu knew this very well. In the past, even cousins could elope, let alone cousins and their husbands.
This must be avoided.
Lin Qing secretly gave Sister Xu a thumbs up, it has to be you, sister-in-law.
Mrs. Xu looked very proud, that's it.
Aunt Lin was choked again. She completely disliked Mrs. Xu and kept a sullen face without saying a word.
Mrs. Xu seemed to suddenly think of something and slapped Aunt Lin's thigh.
The little old lady was almost slapped under the stool.
Aunt Lin was shocked and wanted to get angry, but then she heard Aunt Xu say, "There is actually an empty room in our backyard."
"Girl, tell me in detail."
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