Chapter 274 Lin's Mother Hesitant to Speak
When people get old, they live on memories.
Lin Xia felt sad to see Grandma Lu repeatedly confirming. Since no one else wanted to go, she decided to stay at home with her children and accompany Grandma Lu.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, every household starts preparing New Year's goods, and the yard is often filled with fragrance. If there is one good thing about Beijing, it is that you don't have to worry about not being able to buy meat during the Chinese New Year, because the supply here is more than on the island.
Lin Xia showed off her cooking skills at home and made a bunch of fried meatballs, fried crispy pork, lotus root and eggplant boxes and the like. The three little ones ate with their mouths drooling. They took some out and gave some to their neighbors on both sides, thus getting a lot of different kinds of New Year's goods.
On New Year's Eve, Lin Xia got up early in the morning and assigned tasks to everyone. She and Wang Ma were responsible for the New Year's Eve dinner, Lu Yuxiu was responsible for decorating the house and various mobile logistics, and Grandma Lu was responsible for taking care of the three children.
The whole family was full of energy and vigor. Lin Xia also put red covers on the cotton-padded jackets of the three little ones. They looked like new clothes, and Grandma Lu was so happy to see them.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, apart from the neighbors and friends in the yard who came to visit, there were also people like Fang Jianyi who were relatively close to him who came to pay New Year's greetings, as well as some of Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu's former friends and acquaintances who came to visit. Lin Xia was only responsible for serving tea and water and smiling.
As for those polite compliments to her or the children, she always responded with a smile, and her face became a little stiff after a day of smiling.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Lin Xia and Lu Yuxiu took their child to the Lin family again. As soon as they got off the car, they saw a woman holding a child walking in front of them. Lin Xia didn't think much about it and just thought it was someone else.
It was not until she saw the woman knocking on the Lin family's door that Lin Xia realized that she might be Lin Xue. She could not recognize her at all just by looking at her back.
Lin's mother had been waiting for Lin Xia to come early. When she heard the knock on the door, she came to open the door with a smile on her face. When she opened the door and saw that it was Lin Xue, she was surprised for a moment, then happy.
When there was the second knock on the door, Lin's mother happily went to open it. The expressions of the other people in the house varied. Lin Xue noticed that her sister-in-law had a strange expression. She was not as happy as the others, and she wondered who was coming.
When Lin Xue saw Lin Xia coming in, her eyes suddenly widened, as if she didn't expect that she had returned to Beijing.
After being surprised, she felt a little happy and sad. Thinking back to when her sister had angrily run to the Zhao family to defend her, and thinking of her current messy life, she couldn't help but feel warm in her eyes.
The three little ones still remembered the Lin family. Lin Xia taught the children to call Lin Xue auntie. Looking at the cute children in front of her, Lin Xue's face suddenly turned red. She quickly pulled a thin little girl over and asked her to call for help.
"Aunt~" The thin little girl, with her big black and white eyes looking timid, called out and then looked at Lin Xue.
Lin Xue looked at the man next to her sister and taught the child to call him uncle.
Lin Xia took out the gift she had prepared and handed it to the little girl. Seeing her hiding behind Lin Xue, she smiled softly and said, "This is a gift from your aunt. Please accept it."
"Doudou, thank you, aunt." Lin Xue said to her daughter, holding back her emotions.
Seeing her daughter's smile after receiving it, Lin Xue couldn't help but turn her head away.
Lin Xia didn't miss her expression. She turned to look at the children playing in the snow in the yard and said, "An An, come and play with your sister."
An An looked up and saw that there was a little girl in the room. She came in obediently, took Dou Dou's hand, and took her out to play.
"Sister, where is Zhao Xiangdong?" Lin Xia remembered that she was the only one with the child just now, and there was no sign of Zhao Xiangdong at all. She felt strange.
Lin Xue was stunned, her expression a little embarrassed and she didn't know what to say.
Lin Xia looked at Lin's mother standing aside, not knowing what was going on.
Lin's mother's expression was also a little embarrassed. Just then, some relatives came to visit, so she went on with her work.
"There are firecrackers outside. Let's go into the room and chat." Lin Xia took Lin Xue's arm and were about to go to their room the way they remembered. But when they reached the door, they realized something was wrong.
It turned out that the sisters' room no longer belonged to them. There were signs of someone living in it, and there were a lot of toys and miscellaneous things. If Lin Xia guessed correctly, it should be occupied by a child.
The only one in the family who can live alone is Hu Zi.
Lin Xia had an indescribable feeling in her heart, and she didn't know whether it was hers or the original owner's. She secretly told herself that she had her own home, and the Lin family was never her home, so there was nothing to be sad about.
She just wanted to find a room to talk and chat. When she was about to take Lin Xue in, she noticed that her expression was not right. There seemed to be nostalgia and sadness in her expression.
"Let's go in here and talk. It looks like Hu Zi lives here." Lin Xia walked in first and looked around.
Lin Xue looked at Lin Xia, who didn't look sad at all, and felt a little confused. Thinking that there was no place for her in the Lin family anymore and that the Zhao family didn't look like a home, she suddenly felt suffocated and a little breathless.
Seeing that her expression was not right, Lin Xia pulled her into the house and closed the door, "How are you doing?"
When Lin Xue heard this question, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Lin Xia immediately searched for a handkerchief in the bag she was carrying. It was prepared for the children, but now she had to use it as a tissue.
Lin Xia asked Lin Xue only after she had cried enough.
Lin Xue choked up as she told the story, pausing several times when she could no longer control her emotions.
Lin Xia looked at her with a complicated expression. She didn't expect that Zhao Xiangdong was such a bad guy.
Zhao Xiangdong works as a projectionist, and it is common for him to not go home often. Even though his salary is high and his benefits are good, it is inevitable that something bad will happen over time.
In the past, Lin Xue only worried about his safety. She didn’t know when she started to worry that he had someone else outside. It might be since she gave birth to her daughter, and she went home less often than before.
"Do you have any evidence?" Lin Xia asked directly.
"Evidence?" Lin Xue was a little confused. Her husband's attitude and abnormal changes were too obvious.
"Yes, evidence. Has anyone seen him with anyone else, or did you discover something on your own?"
Lin Xue remembered that Zhao Xiangdong once complained about why he didn't have a son. In addition, she hadn't been pregnant again in the past two years. She went to the hospital for a check-up. The doctor said that the last pregnancy had injured her body, so it would be best not to rush to have another one, and to get her body back in shape first.
"My mother-in-law came to our house before and said something." Lin Xue raised her head and looked at Lin Xia, repeating what Mrs. Zhao had said.
It has been a long time, and Lin Xue only vaguely remembers those one or two unpleasant and painful sentences.
Lin Xia heard about what happened to Mrs. Zhao, but she didn't expect that the old woman didn't learn her lesson at all.
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