Chapter 50 Lin Dahai, Drunk
After Song Lubai announced her intention to go to the border region from the street office, Director Wang told her that afternoon that she didn't need to come the next day.
Song Lubai knew that she was eager to arrange for her daughter to join the company, lest things get complicated if things dragged on.
Since she was leaving soon anyway, there was no point in continuing, so he immediately agreed.
Song Lubai packed her things, said goodbye to everyone, and went home with her bag and belongings.
To be honest, she didn't want to go into that house, but she had no choice but to continue living there for the past two weeks.
Fortunately, Lin Dahai wasn't home when I got there. Lin Jianshe told me that Lin Dahai had ridden his bicycle to the county town after getting off work at noon.
"Mom is working the night shift today, sis. She said she hid the household registration certificate, so don't even think about sneaking away."
Song Lubai, who wanted to steal the household registration certificate: "..."
How come her mother is so shrewd?
However, she still refused to believe it and pushed open the door to her mother's room, searching everywhere. Apart from the locked cabinet that she couldn't open, she couldn't find the household registration certificate anywhere else.
After searching that room, she also searched her own room and the main room.
Finding nothing, she put her hands on her hips and asked her two brothers, "Didn't you two see where Mom hid the household registration certificate?"
Their eyes darted around, then they both shook their heads and said they hadn't seen anything.
After Song Lubai pressed them for answers, the two finally confessed.
The household registration certificate was kept in a locked cabinet.
The cabinet usually doesn't contain anything valuable, just some rare and expensive items like peach shortbread cookies, canned fruit, and malted milk powder.
If these things aren't locked up, the twins could eat them all without restraint.
She looked at the cabinet and hesitated, but finally decided to take it out with her.
"You two stay home and keep an eye on things. I'll come back and cook in a bit."
The twins tugged at her, "Sister, don't go! What will we do if you leave?"
The two men each held one of her arms, dragging her along as their bodies sank downwards.
Song Lubai: "I got paid yesterday. Do you two want to eat meat buns? If you do, go ahead and eat them. I'll take you to a restaurant to buy some tomorrow."
The twins were a little hungry. After exchanging a glance, they shook their heads in unison, "Then you can't leave. Mom said if you leave, I won't be able to see you again."
Song Lubai finally managed to coax and trick the two of them into leaving, and then successfully carried the cabinet away.
When she returned, the cabinet was still locked, but she had already obtained her household registration certificate.
After the three of them finished eating and went back to their rooms, Lin Dahai finally entered the house.
The door to the room was pushed open. Song Lubai didn't even look up, but the twins asked, "How's things at your older brother's house?"
Lin Dahai didn't say anything.
Seeing Song Lubai sitting at the table writing furiously, seemingly ignoring him, he also ignored his son, closed the door, and went back to the living room.
Lin Dahai opened the pot lid and saw that there were only two mixed flour steamed buns left on the steamer rack, nothing else. He didn't know if Song Lubai hadn't made any, or if she had only steamed buns today.
As Lin Dahai was eating steamed buns and drinking water, the twins came out.
"Dad, how's my older brother doing?"
Lin Dahai lowered his voice to match his mood, "This is none of your business, go back to sleep."
Lin Jianshe lowered his voice and complained, "My sister stole the household registration certificate, registered, and is leaving. Dad, aren't you going to do something about her? Mom said she can't leave."
Lin Dahai remained silent for a long time because he couldn't wait for Song Lubai to leave.
It's good that they're gone; the house will be quiet now.
From the moment she married Zhang Cui until now, that girl has never been easy to deal with.
He didn't care about his own daughter at all, but he thought he was the best stepfather in the world by raising Zhang Cui's daughter.
His own daughter didn't even finish junior high, while Song Lubai finished high school. How tall are other girls? Song Lubai is only a little shorter than him, and she's considered tall among girls. Who could honestly say that Lin Dahai mistreated her after seeing her height?
He's only been hit a few times. What child doesn't get hit? His own son and daughter have been hit plenty of times too.
Compared to his own daughter, this brat is living a pretty good life. What is she still dissatisfied with?
This brat never even looks at him properly, thinking he deserves everything. She's gone too far.
Thinking of Liu Mei's punishment and Lin Shuhong's decision to take the child with her, Lin Dahai felt a tightness in his chest.
He rummaged through drawers and cabinets until he found a bottle of wine, which he then drank slowly, sip by sip.
The three people in the room were talking on the bed. Song Lubai was mainly teasing the twins, telling them that the place she was going to was not far away. She didn't pay attention to what Lin Dahai was doing in the main room.
The twins still don't know what bad things their sister-in-law Liu Mei did, but they both know that Liu Mei almost killed someone.
"Sister, what exactly did your sister-in-law do?"
Song Lubai couldn't bring herself to talk about the filth Liu Mei had done; it would only offend the children's ears.
"Why bother asking about this? Just remember that she wasn't a good person before."
Lin Jianshe: "What about your older brother? Did he know what your sister-in-law was doing? Why didn't he stop her?"
After a moment of silence, Song Lubai said, "Because they are a couple, a family."
You can't have two kinds of people sleeping in the same bed.
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open forcefully, and Lin Dahai's strong smell of alcohol wafted out.
"You keep talking about it, making yourself look so capable. If you're so capable, why didn't you get into university? Don't you know what 'family scandals shouldn't be aired in public' means? You've wasted your education! You want everyone to know about this family affair, don't you? Have you no shame?"
A strong smell of alcohol wafted over.
Seeing that his face was dark from drinking, Song Lubai rationally told her not to provoke him or reply now, and that it would be over once he finished his rant.
But if she could hold back, she wouldn't be Song Lubai.
“I didn’t do anything shameful, so what’s shameful about me? You should be ashamed for giving birth to that kind of son. Don’t argue with me. My mother paid for my schooling, so you have no right to judge me.”
Song Lubai's attitude was infuriating. Lin Dahai had been feeling frustrated and upset lately, and with Zhang Cui not around, his anger reached a breaking point and finally exploded.
He kicked the edge of the bed with all his might.
The vibrations of the bed made Song Lubai's heart pound.
Lin Dahai approached with his fist raised. Luckily, he was drunk and couldn't maintain his balance, so Song Lubai was able to stand up and push him until he stumbled.
Even though the punch didn't land, Song Lubai was still terrified and jumped off the bed barefoot into the main room.
Upon seeing the broom by the wall, she instinctively picked it up to use for self-defense.
Just as I was about to open the door and run away, I heard the twins crying inside.
Peeking out, I saw Lin Dahai beating his two sons.
Song Lubai raised a broom and swung it at Lin Dahai's shoulder, cursing, "Only a coward beats his child at home, but outside you're so obedient you don't even dare to fart. What kind of person are you! I'll let you hit me!"
Song Lubai didn't hold back at all, finally managing to get Lin Dahai, who was hitting someone, to turn his attention to her.
Lin Dahai tried to kick her, but Song Lubai ran towards the door. After he left the inner room, Song Lubai shouted, "Lin Heping, close the door!"
Lin Heping, still wailing, closed the door. Song Lubai ran out of the house shouting, "Lin Dahai was drinking and beating the child! He hit me, fine, but I'm not his biological son, and he even hit his own son…"
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