Chapter 5 Future Mother-in-law

Liu Qiuping had a good relationship with the original mother, so naturally she talked about the past with Lin Xiang: "Your grandfather was a soldier for a few years. Later, your mother and I both worked in the factory. We were about the same age at that time and had just joined the factory. We had a lot to talk about. When you were just born, she mentioned this matter, saying that you were born a daughter, and it just happened to be the same as the child marriage that your grandfather had arranged with his old comrade-in-arms, and his old comrade-in-arms had a grandson."

"Who is the other person?" Lin Xiang's blind date was not very smooth. None of the gay men she met met quite met her requirements, which was really uncomfortable. She had a vague memory of child marriage. She probably heard about it when she was very young. No one talked about it after her mother passed away. Now that someone who knew the truth had come out, Lin Xiang naturally had to ask clearly.

"I don't know about this either, I just heard your mother mention it that year." Liu Qiuping remembered that Qiu Aiying came into the family about a year after Lin Xiang's mother passed away, and her relationship with the Lin family naturally faded. Not to mention that Lin Xiang's mother's parents also seemed to have died during the famine.

"Okay, I'll go home and ask." Lin Xiang said goodbye to Liu Qiuping, hurried home, and searched for her original body's things in the small room.

When she first traveled through time, she simply scanned the original body's belongings. The original body was in a difficult situation in the Lin family. Not to mention that she was not as good as Lin Jianxin, she was not even as good as Lin Chuchu.

All her belongings consisted of a few worn-out clothes and trousers, all patched up, not a single piece new, the fabrics were rough and almost bleached by washing, a few black hairbands, and two dollars and thirty-five cents in savings.

Lin Xiang held the two yuan that was hard-earned and somewhat sad. She could guess that her original salary should have been handed over in full after work, and she only had this little money left after so many days. Her life was really hard.

In addition, Lin Xiang searched carefully this time and found several original high school textbooks in an old wooden box. She flipped through them hastily and found only a few pages with notes in them, and nothing else.

Aunt Liu said that her original grandfather had arranged a marriage for her when she was a child. This should be true, but after all, many years had passed and her original mother and parents had long since passed away. There was no trace of such a childhood marriage and perhaps no one had even remembered it.

Lin Xiang sat on the narrow wooden bed with her textbooks spread out, and couldn't help laughing at herself. She was really at her wit's end and still started counting on the missing child marriage.

Child marriage? That is a feudal arranged marriage, a blind marriage, even more terrible than a blind date.

She was really out of her mind!

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Lin Xiang worked at the steel rolling mill for a week, and in the blink of an eye it was early August. In just over a week, the street office would finalize the list of urban youths who would go to the countryside. Except for those who voluntarily signed up, the rest had to meet the requirements and must go to the countryside.

Because of this, Lin Guangming and Qiu Aiying urged again: "Xiangxiang, you should hurry up and give up your job, and spend more time with Comrade Sun Yaozu. Once you marry him, you don't have to go to the countryside anymore."

Lin Xiang knew that Lin Guangming was feudal and autocratic, with a bad temper, and would not allow anyone to disobey him. Lin Xiang's beautiful almond-shaped eyes rolled around and she smiled, "Xiao Liu from the Administration Department has asked for leave these days, saying that her father is sick and in the hospital. We'll handle it when she comes back. Let Jianxin and I go to handle the formalities then."

As for the second half of the sentence, she didn't respond. Who would want to marry a lustful and domestic violence man?

Thinking of lust, she suddenly recalled a small detail.

The book mentioned that Sun Yaozu was extremely lustful and even loved to climb over the wall to peek at the female factory workers taking a bath.

The next afternoon, when Lin Xiang and her colleagues went to the bathhouse to take a bath, she suggested taking a small path.

"It's almost time for everyone to go to the bathhouse. Let's take a shortcut."

Lin Xiang suggested it, and several female comrades agreed. They set out a little late, and instead chose a smaller path, trying to get to the bathhouse quickly and grab a spot.

Lin Xiang and Sister Li were walking side by side in front, and took this opportunity to ask about selling jobs: "Sister Li, you mentioned selling jobs last time. Is this job easy to sell?"

"Of course it's easy to sell! Families with savings want to buy a job to avoid going to the countryside, but there are too few people willing to sell their jobs." Sister Li was not a fool. After hearing Lin Xiang's question, she looked at her and asked, "You want to sell your job?"

"Oh, no." Lin Xiang naturally didn't dare to say it clearly. If the news got to Lin Guangming or Qiu Aiying's ears, it would be bad. "I have a friend who wants to sell his job."

"Oh, that's great! My relative wants to buy it, so your friend doesn't need to bother looking for someone else..."

"Okay, I'll contact you later." Lin Xiang said as she saw the place. She looked up at the wall not far away and whispered, "Why is there a person on the wall? Is he peeking into the women's bathhouse?"

Sister Li followed Lin Xiang's line of sight and looked over. Wow, there really was a fat pig lying on the wall!

Sister Li was furious and called out to her colleagues behind her: "Who are you, the pervert who dares to peek into the women's bathhouse? You don't want to live anymore, do you?"

Naturally, the female employees condemned such behavior and rushed over immediately.

The women in their thirties were no less physically fit than men and were used to doing heavy work. They simply smashed the pervert on the wall with an enamel basin. Four or five of them rushed over and punched and kicked him, shouting, "Come and catch the pervert! Someone is peeping into the women's bathhouse! Go and notify the security department!"

Lin Xiang's heart was itching with hatred, and she also wanted to squeeze in and kick a few times, but who would have thought that the older sisters were too fierce, using both their hands and feet, and she couldn't squeeze in at all!

Finally, someone from the security department came and "rescued" Sun Yaozu, who was screaming in pain from being beaten. But when they turned over and revealed his face, everyone was stunned.

The pervert who was peeping into the women's bathhouse turned out to be the factory manager's youngest son!

If this happened to someone else who was only interested in climbing the social ladder, maybe it would have been fine. However, a group of female employees didn't care whose son you were and simply didn't buy it. They escorted Sun Yaozu to the security department in a high-spirited manner. The factory must deal with this and give an explanation!

Just when everyone was in chaos and preparing to leave to seek justice, Lin Xiang finally found an opportunity, half of her body squeezed into the crowd, and quickly kicked Sun Yaozu's feet while he was still lying on the ground.

After hearing Sun Yaozu groan twice in confusion, he couldn't help but kicked him hard again.

You deserve it!

Sun Yaozu was escorted to the factory security department by the female employees. None of them were afraid of trouble, and there was a large group of them, so even if the factory director came, it would be useless.

Sister Li has worked in the factory for more than 20 years, not to mention Aunt Wu who has been there for more than 30 years. The group of people are in a hurry and insist that the factory director give an explanation.

The head of the security department originally wanted to use backdoors to help the factory director's son and release him quietly, but he couldn't do that. After all, these female employees were very powerful and he couldn't afford to offend them. He was afraid that if he tried to persuade them again, he would be beaten.

Lin Xiang, a rookie born in the 1970s, was waiting in the security department with his colleagues. Not long after, he saw Director Sun rushing over.

Frankly speaking, Director Sun looks quite decent, but his youngest son is fat and big-eared. I don't know if it's because his living conditions are too good and he's too wealthy.

After listening to the workers talking about what happened, Director Sun cast a cold glance at his son who was still sitting paralyzed on the ground and said angrily, "Sun Yaozu, you did such a bad thing!"

Sun Yaozu was beaten up by a group of people. Seeing his backer coming, he just wanted to seek protection: "Dad, they are a bunch of women beating me up, I... Ouch!"

Before Sun Yaozu could finish his words, he was kicked again. This time, the person who kicked him was his own father!

Director Sun kicked his youngest son in the heart, looked around at the people present, and said solemnly: "Comrades, rest assured, if the investigation is true, the factory will give you an explanation."

The factory director seemed not to be partial, so everyone was temporarily satisfied. They listed Sun Yaozu's evil deeds one after another and demanded that this hooliganism be resolutely cracked down on. Lin Xiang listened to them and left in a good mood.

Sun Yaozu was a pervert, and all he did was obscene. He was beaten black and blue this time, which was a great relief to everyone. Lin Xiang traveled back to the 1970s, and this was the most satisfying thing for her. She walked slowly to the back door of the steel mill, bought a red bean popsicle, and put it in her mouth to cool it down.

In the midsummer, popsicle factories would arrange employees to push wooden box carts to the gates of major state-owned factories to sell popsicles. The wooden boxes were padded with a thick layer of old quilts, which were filled with various popsicles to slow down the thawing of the popsicles.

At this moment, the sun was not so hot and there was a breeze. Lin Xiang sucked on the sweet popsicle and finally let out a breath of anger.

But when he turned around, he found someone staring at him.

This person was none other than her original step-sister Lin Chuchu.

When Lin Chuchu saw Lin Xiang eating a popsicle comfortably, a look of displeasure gathered in her eyes, which made Lin Xiang feel confused for a moment.

"Hey, buy me a popsicle too." Lin Chuchu had just come back from outside and was sweating all over her forehead.

Lin Xiang listened to her self-righteous and oppressive orders, frowned slightly, and without even a glance at Lin Chuchu, turned around and went back to the factory.

"Lin Xiang, you..." Lin Chuchu didn't expect that this step-sister would ignore her like this. You know, she could order Lin Xiang around before, what happened to her now? She even got so stubborn.

Lin Chuchu, who was furious, touched her pocket. She didn't bring any money today and couldn't even have a popsicle. She was so angry.

"Little girl, is this a steel rolling mill?"

Just when Lin Chuchu was feeling annoyed, she suddenly heard an annoying voice beside her ear. She looked up and saw an old lady in black clothes and black pants. The fabric of her clothes was not very good, and the cuffs were washed so white. Her hands were rough and wrinkled, and she looked like a country girl.

She frowned unhappily: "Can't you read it yourself? Isn't it written there?"

There are words clearly written on the door.

"I can't read. I want to ask you something. Is there anyone named Lin Guangming and Feng Huiling in this steel rolling factory?" the old lady continued to ask.

Lin Guangming? Lin Chuchu looked at this person in surprise. Is she going to have sex with her stepfather? Besides, Feng Huiling is still her stepfather's previous daughter-in-law.

"Who are you?" Lin Chuchu asked in a bad tone, a little impatiently, "What do you want to do with them?"

"I'm their relative-in-law. My son has been engaged to their daughter since he was young. I came here to ask if this engagement is still valid." The old lady said in a kind tone with a bundle on her shoulder.