Chapter 8 Thrilling
Lin Yi was horrified when he heard this. "Girl, be careful! Don't fight with your mother-in-law again! Dad was really scared this time!"
Lin Qin lowered his head guiltily. Such situations would happen more often in the future. He hoped his father would have a stronger heart, otherwise he would be so angry that he would collapse.
Lin Yi knew she didn't listen when he saw her like that. He sighed helplessly and said, "This morning when I opened the door, I found another processed black fish in the kitchen, just like yesterday. I don't know which kind-hearted person gave it to me. I drank a bowl first. It's okay. You guys can eat it. Black fish is good for wound healing. You should eat more."
Yesterday morning when he woke up he found a cleaned black fish weighing about one pound on the stove. He thought someone nearby had given it to him, but after asking around, no one admitted it.
In this kind of weather, the fish would become stale if it wasn't cooked for a day, so he could only stew it in a muddle.
I didn't expect another one to pop up early this morning.
There is a fish pond in their village, but it is full of African crucian carp, which are wild and small. No one catches them, and no one can catch them.
Black fish like this can only be found in Nanxi River.
Thinking of Nanxi, the figure of Chen Wenjun flashed through Lin Yi's mind. He subconsciously glanced at Lin Qin, then shook his head. It couldn't be that man. He didn't know his daughter and had never been to their house. How could he know where his home was?
If it wasn’t Chen Wenjun, who else could it be?
Lin Yi was puzzled.
Lin Qin guessed who it was.
She first picked out the fish bones for Liu Yaya and then fed her a bowl of fish soup.
With a smile, he asked, "Yaya, is the fish soup delicious?"
Liu Yaya nodded obediently, "It tastes good! Grandpa's place is better, we have fish to eat every day. At grandma's place, Yaya can only eat sweet potato rice with pickles. If I eat one more, grandma will scold me for losing money."
Although a six-year-old child is young, she actually understands everything.
Lin Yi's face instantly turned half dark, and he was so angry that he almost threw his chopsticks. "Ma Cuihua is too much! Yaya is her granddaughter! How can she treat a child like this?"
Lin Qin sneered, "Dad, she treated us like that yesterday, do you still expect her to give Yaya meat?"
Lin Yi choked and sighed again.
Lin Qin calmly ate her fish soup and helped Lin Yi clear the table.
Over the next few days, Lin Yi would find a black fish on the stove every morning when he woke up. At first, he wanted to get to the bottom of it, but found nothing. Gradually, he got used to it and would cook the fish in different ways whenever he saw it.
Sometimes I cook tofu and fish soup, sometimes I make soy sauce water with sweet potato porridge, and if I’m more extravagant I’ll fry it with some lard.
Just to let my daughter and granddaughter have a few more bites of good food.
Under Lin Yi's care, Lin Qin's wounds healed very quickly. Scabs formed in three or four days, and the scabs began to fall off in seven or eight days.
She was just trying to find excuses to stay at her parents' home when the Liu family sent someone to tell her that Liu Yongming would be back soon and asked her to take Liu Yaya back.
When Lin Yi heard this, he was no longer willing to let Lin Qin stay, and asked her to pack up and go back without saying a word.
"Girl, listen to Dad. Yongming is a college student and a cultured person. He will definitely not side with his mother. Go back and talk to him clearly and let him make the decision for you. If possible, take the child and go with Yongming, so that you and the child won't continue to be bullied by that evil woman Ma Cuihua."
Lin Yi talked a lot.
The more Lin Qin listened, the more sad she felt. She tried hard not to let her tears fall, turned around and went back to the shed to pack her luggage, and handed the fifty yuan to Lin Yi, "Dad, it's not safe to keep this money with me. Please keep it for me first. If I need money, I can ask you for it."
Lin Yi understood Lin Qin's concerns and agreed without saying a word. He happily sent her and Liu Yaya out of the village.
It took the mother and daughter an hour to walk back to Liu's house.
As soon as I entered the house, I was met with Xu Manzhi's gloomy face.
Lin Qin didn't even give her a look and went straight back to the house with the child.
Before she even sat down, Ma Cuihua's voice of yelling and cursing was heard.
"We, the Liu family, really owe her a lot. It's fine that she can't give birth to a son, but she still wants people to support her like an ancestor, and she's not afraid of shortening her life!"
Lin Qin covered Liu Yaya's ears and smiled at her soothingly, "Don't listen to those messy things, dirty ears, are you tired? Do you want to sleep?"
Liu Yaya shook her head and held Lin Qin's clothes tightly.
Lin Qin smiled knowingly, then hugged her and lay down together.
Ma Cuihua had been yelling and cursing in the yard for most of the day until her mouth was dry and her tongue was parched, but there was no sound in Lin Qin's room at all, as if she was performing a one-man show. Ma Cuihua was so angry that she immediately asked Liu Li to take over.
Liu Li's face was scratched by Lin Qin, and she kept remembering it. She immediately rushed to Lin Qin's room and banged on the door desperately, "Second sister-in-law! Mom asked you to come out to work, did you hear me? Are you deaf? Open the door!"
Liu Li's rapid shouting was like calling for the soul, and her heart was about to jump out of her chest with such a loud noise.
Lin Qin stood up angrily, poured a cup of cold water that had been left for several days, quickly went over to open the door, and splashed it at Liu Li.
Liu Li was soaked to the bone. After being shocked, she jumped up in anger and pointed at Lin Qin and cursed, "You bitch! How dare you splash me! I'll fight you!"
As she spoke, she rushed towards Lin Qin, who turned sideways and stretched out his leg, tripping her instead.
Liu Li fell flat on her face, her chin hitting the floor tile, and she cried out in pain, "Mom! Sister-in-law! The bitch Lin Qin bullied me, ahhhh."
She shouted as she got up from the ground and ran out. Her body was wet and dirty, with saliva mixed with tears and snot flowing down her face.
Ma Cuihua was furious when she saw her little daughter's miserable state. "Lin Qin! I will beat you to death, you bitch!"
Xu Manzhi also came to help.
Seeing that someone was backing her up, Liu Li rolled her eyes with resentment, turned back to the kitchen, got a bucket of boiling water, and rushed towards Lin Qin, "I let you splash water on me, today I'm going to let you taste the feeling of being splashed with water too."
Ma Cuihua and Xu Manzhi stepped forward and pulled Lin Qin from the left and right to prevent her from moving.
Liu Li poured the hot water towards Lin Qin. At the critical moment, Liu Yaya rushed out and knocked Xu Manzhi down.
"Ah!" A heart-wrenching cry echoed throughout the alley, mixed with Liu Yaya's shrill cries and Ma Cuihua's fierce curses.
Lin Qin rushed out of the yard holding Liu Yaya, who was crying so hard that she was about to die, and knocked hard on the door of the neighbor next door.
"Lin Qin? What's wrong with Yaya?" Grandma Liu asked nervously.
Lin Qin knelt down in front of Granny Liu and said, "Grandma, that crazy woman Liu Li got a bucket of boiling water and tried to throw it at me. Yaya blocked it for me and got the hot water on my back. I want to take her to the hospital now, but I don't have any money. Can you lend me a few dollars? I'll pay you back later."
"Okay, okay! Don't be anxious, wait, I'll get it." Grandma Liu hurried back to the house.
Lin Qin went to borrow money from Granny Liu's next door again.
I borrowed from three or four houses before I could get together a dozen dollars.
(End of this chapter)
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