Chapter 46 My Cousin's Family
Without the harsh scorching sun, the night was much cooler, and Lin Xi rode her electric scooter along the country lanes, enjoying the warm breeze.
It was nearly 8 o'clock when I got home. Yunxiang is a remote place, and the countryside was already pitch black. Only when I walked into the village could I see the warm yellow lights coming from the houses.
As Lin Xi passed by her uncle Lin Zhong's house, she saw several figures standing at the door looking out. They seemed to want to catch up with her as she passed by, but Lin Xi rode very fast and sped past in an instant.
Back home, Lin Xi locked the doors and windows, arranged the newly bought household items and food, turned on the air conditioner to boil water for a shower, and after cleaning herself up, she nestled in the cool room and turned on her computer.
The various links on the online store generated a total of 13 transactions today, with a profit of nearly 100 yuan. It's not much, but the number of page views for the images and text has increased significantly.
What she needs to do is continue to post on various platforms with trending topics to increase exposure and gradually build up volume.
In an hour, Lin Xi finished selecting and organizing the product images and listed two new products. Just as the links were up, Yu Shiyun sent over the preliminary design drawings.
Lin Xi couldn't help but admire Yu Shiyun's high work efficiency.
I don't know if it's because this is Yu Shiyun's studio's first big order, or because Yu Shiyun couldn't stand staying in this lousy place and wanted to finish as soon as possible and go home.
In short, it is very advantageous for Lin Xi.
The drawings show a three-story building with a basement.
Lin Xi's request was adopted: half of the main hall inside the front door would be used as a dining room, and the other half as a storage room.
To the left of the main hall is the master bedroom with a private bathroom. The rooms in the self-built house in the countryside are very large, and even with the bathroom, there is still a lot of space, which is all filled with storage cabinets.
To the right of the main hall is the kitchen, which, in addition to the refrigerator and storage cabinets, also includes a small cold storage unit.
The second floor consists of an activity room and two storage rooms filled with shelves and cabinets.
Any renovation studio can design and arrange these; the key is in the external markings:
The window uses bulletproof and privacy glass, and the price list for three different materials is displayed on the right, along with their attributes and effects.
The special reinforcement materials for the exterior and interior walls are marked separately, and the prices and performance of the three different materials are also provided.
Basement reinforcement, waterproofing and moisture-proofing.
Lin Xi added some details she hadn't thought of before to the notes section of the drawing and selected the material.
After sending a reply to Yu Shiyun, she yawned and couldn't help but fall asleep.
the next day.
Lin Xi was riding her electric scooter to go grocery shopping when she was ambushed by a group of people as soon as she left her house.
Leading the group was Zhang Xiulan, next to whom stood a lean middle-aged man with dark skin. His features resembled Lin Xi's father's, and he was Lin Xi's uncle, Lin Cheng.
Standing next to Lin Cheng was a young family: Lin Jie with his fair-skinned wife and a child who was barely taller than his leg.
When Lin Xi saw her uncle's family come to visit, she felt a tightness in her chest. Then, seeing this young family of three, Lin Xi inexplicably thought of Yang Xin's family.
The group of people had been expressionless, and when they saw Lin Xi, they seemed to want to greet her, but they were not so willing, so they just pursed their lips and didn't say anything.
Only the child, drooling, babbled twice.
Zhang Xiulan nudged Lin Cheng with her elbow, and Lin Cheng clicked his tongue and made a face.
Seeing that she couldn't move him, Zhang Xiulan had no choice but to scrunch her face into a stiff smile and speak in her rough voice: "Xiao Xi, you've been back for a few days but haven't come to see your uncle, so we had to come and find you. Come and sit at my house for a while?"
Who's the kind person who invited guests over? They've been blocking our doorstep so early in the morning, with the whole family, young and old, all coming out.
They either throw a tantrum or play the victim.
Lin Xi gripped the handlebars of the electric scooter tightly. Going there was out of the question, but rushing out directly wasn't a good idea either. They lived in the same village, and there would be trouble in the future.
To resolve the problem once and for all, a lot of talking was inevitable, so Lin Xi zipped up her sun-protective clothing to cover her entire face.
It's July now, and the ultraviolet radiation is incredibly strong as soon as it gets light. It's best to take precautions before having a conversation: "Just say what you need to say here, I'm very busy."
Although it was morning, the temperature had already reached 33 degrees Celsius. Lin Xi had experience with high temperatures in summer without air conditioning, so being in the sun for a while was nothing to her.
Having experienced several lifetimes of life and death, even the weakest and most powerless person would be forged into resilience through hardship.
But the people in front of them had all been living in Yunxiang since birth, and occasionally had to do farm work in the summer, so their heat tolerance was no less than Lin Xi's.
Zhang Xiulan raised her hand to wipe her forehead, then put on a serious face: "That house was given to us by your grandmother when she passed away."
Zhang Xiulan refers to the old self-built house where Lin Xi now lives.
So they really were here to ask for the house.
Lin Xi had long known that her uncle's family had their eyes on her father's inheritance. The house in Nanhua was not something she could be interested in so far ahead, but the old homestead in the local area was right in front of her.
Lin Xi retorted, "There are two plots of land, one for my uncle's family and one for mine. The house is registered in my father's name."
Lin Jie and his wife were getting impatient from the sun, and scratched their heads impatiently when they heard Lin Xi say that.
The eldest uncle, Lin Cheng, who had been silent, frowned, took a deep breath, and said, "The ancestral property belongs to the eldest son's family. Besides, you are a girl, so you have no share in this house."
Anyone with a basic understanding of the law knows that the ownership of property rights cannot be determined arbitrarily according to agreements such as "passing down to the eldest son" or "passing down to sons but not daughters".
Lin Cheng's wife crossed her arms and couldn't help but interject, "That's right, Grandma said before she died that we can't disobey her will."
Even if Grandma really said those words, her dying instructions are not valid without a written will.
Lin Xi raised his chin and replied, "Grandma once said that all the Lin family's properties would belong to me in the future."
When faced with a rogue, no amount of reasoning will help; the only way is to use magic to defeat magic—by using magic yourself.
Anyway, there's no evidence to prove it.
Upon hearing this, Lin Cheng raised his eyebrows and angrily said, "Nonsense! Why should all the Lin family's properties belong to you, a girl like you?"
If we try to approach this from the perspective of gender issues, it's pointless to waste words, because these people are old-fashioned and greedy, convinced that the property belongs to the male heir, and that the eldest son is using his status to bully others.
Therefore, Lin Xi could not answer her question. Instead, she seized on Lin Cheng's words and asked in return, "Why is it that when I say 'all the Lin family's properties belong to me,' it's 'nonsense'?"
Lin Cheng: "Because I didn't hear my grandmother say that."
Lin Xi: "I didn't hear Grandma say that the property would all belong to you. I thought you were talking nonsense."
Lin Cheng was caught off guard by this statement. Lin Xi couldn't produce any evidence that her grandmother said the property belonged to her, and he couldn't produce any evidence that the property belonged to the eldest son's family.
The debate on this matter is unclear.
He had spent most of his life farming and working in Yunxiang and had never been involved in verbal battles. The person in front of him was a seemingly quiet and slender girl, who was also his junior. He did not expect her to be so sharp in her retorts.
Speechless for a moment.
Zhang Xiulan, who had been listening for a while, couldn't hold back any longer. Seeing that Lin Cheng was at a disadvantage, she quickly stepped in: "Whether it was said or not, the house cannot be given to a girl."
Lin Xi sneered, seizing the loophole: "So you never said that?"
Zhang Xiulan waved her hand impatiently: "No matter what, the house is for the male members. This house belongs to the Lin family, and the one in Nanhua will also belong to the Lin family in the future. When you get married, all of these will have to stay with the Lin family!"
Lin Cheng snapped out of his daze, his eyes widening, and shouted in a broken voice, "That's right! The house in Nanhua belongs to us too!"
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