Chapter 49: Does your family have the habit of throwing money at people on New Year's Eve? ...
Not long after arriving home, Lin Lang discovered that no matter what Lin Zhuyue held, his posture was a little awkward, as if he was deliberately avoiding touching things with his palms.
Lin Zhuyue took out the foam box filled with green leafy vegetables:
"These are all southern vegetables. They are delicious when cooked with noodles or hot pot..."
Most of the contents were pea tips. Shi Can found out that she liked eating pea tips very much, so he bought a lot of them, packed them in a foam box, put in ice packs, and asked Lin Zhuyue to bring them back to Yuancheng from Linhai City. The box of green leafy vegetables accounted for a large proportion of the extra shipping fee.
Lin Lang grabbed Lin Zhuyue's hand.
The blisters on Lin Zhuyue's palms had been pricked and treated with medicine by the doctor a long time ago, and now a thin layer of scabs had formed.
Lin Lang asked, "Did you get injured while doing a mission?"
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and explained:
"No, I was pulling some weeds and didn't use the right amount of force, so I got blisters."
Lin Lang was a little worried: "Does it hurt?"
Lin Zhuyue pulled back his hand and said:
"It doesn't hurt much, just a little itchy. I'll apply medicine every day and it will be gone soon. Don't worry."
"Sister, if you're hurt, you should have told me earlier."
Bowie changed his shoes, but he didn't dare touch Lin Zhuyue's hand because he had just touched the shoes. He stood aside and sighed.
"I bought king crab and lobster, and even had someone pick out a Musang King. Now it seems you probably can't eat it."
Lin Lang couldn't help but say:
"It's better not to eat things like durian."
"Mom, please don't deny it so completely. How do you know durian is not delicious when you haven't even tried it?"
Bowie hugged Lin Lang's arm and shook it, acting like a puppy and acting like a spoiled child towards Lin Lang.
"Try it, you'll definitely like it."
Lin Lang pulled his arm away and walked quickly into the house.
Bowie was well aware of the principle of persistence, so he chased after Lin Lang happily, following him all the way to the elevator.
The two men quickly turned back and helped the injured Lin Zhuyue put his luggage back into the room. Lin Lang and Bowie quarreled over durian while carrying the luggage upstairs.
The house is equipped with central air conditioning. Bowie ate durian two years ago and the air conditioner left a lingering durian smell every time it blew air. After cleaning failed, he had to replace the entire air conditioning equipment.
Lin Zhuyue was caught between two people and was given a headache by the quarrel.
After sending the two people away, she lay on the bed and sent a message to Shican, telling him that she was home.
After a while, there was a knock on the door.
Bowie's voice rang out from outside:
"Sister, it's me."
Lin Zhuyue got up and opened the door.
Bowie, smiling mysteriously, entered the room holding two paper bags and walked towards the small table in Lin Zhuyue's room.
"Find a place to put it. I feel nervous holding this thing in my hand, afraid that I'll drop it."
Bowie was at the table, under the table, opening the paper package and saying:
"Ding ding ding ding~ Mom bought us both New Year's outfits."
Both paper packages contained pink spring-colored jade bracelets. Pink is a rare color in jade, and there are sayings that it will lose its color when exposed to light and that the color will suppress the quality of the jade. Bracelets like the pink and transparent ones in these two paper packages are hard to find even if you search the entire market, not to mention the price.
Lin Zhuyue had never worn a bracelet like this before. She once had a milky-colored bracelet with good quality, but its price couldn't compare to the two bracelets in front of her. Furthermore, that bracelet became a little small, so Lin Zhuyue put it away.
"Mom said that you are an adult now and she wants to buy you something nice. I am just taking advantage of my sister."
Bowie demurred.
"So you choose first, sister."
"Aren't these two exactly the same?"
Lin Zhuyue carefully picked up the bracelet and said,
"Let's just take this one. I always feel a little hesitant to wear it..."
Lin Zhuyue tried it on and found the ring opening was just right. It was not difficult to put it on her wrist, but it would not be easily pulled off her wrist when she took off her clothes.
After dinner, Lin Zhuyue and Bowie went for a walk with their Samoyed. True to its sled dog form, the Samoyed possessed remarkable strength despite its youthful age. It ran around the neighborhood with such gusto that it nearly rubbed the scabs off Lin Zhuyue's palms.
Shican posted a photo of a baguette in the class group.
The short-haired golden tabby cat is wearing a blue bib and has a big round face, looking particularly well-behaved and cute.
Huo Anan: [Cute, let me take a bite! ]
Luce: [If you post pictures of your cat again, I'll sneak into your house tonight with a sack. Smile.jpg]
Wen Miyan: [How can someone like you own such a cute cat? It's so unfair!]
Gong Yongyuan: [Unfairness +1.]
Ye Yangjia: [Unfairness +2.]
Lin Zhuyue looked at the group chat, thought for a while, took out his mobile phone to take a few photos of his Samoyed, and sent them to the group.
Wen Miyan: [Oh, that's cute.]
Shi Can: [@Gong Yongyuan, dogs have double eyelids, but you don’t.]
Gong Yongyuan: [Why are you still making personal attacks?]
Gong Yongyuan: [Also, I have one single eyelid and one double eyelid, not both single. I have double eyelids!]
Shi Can: [@Ye Yangjia, even dogs are whiter than you.]
Ye Yangjia: [Is it abnormal that a white dog is whiter than me? Did you eat firecrackers?]
Wen Miyan: [Ignore this psychopath.]
After the class group fell silent, Shi Can switched to private chat. He sent Lin Zhuyue several photos of baguettes and even photoshopped words on them.
Baguette hugged Shican's arm, his eyes were watery and his expression was pitiful, with the words "Don't you love me anymore?"
A baguette peeked out from behind the wall, with the caption "Woman, you have a dog outside."
The baguette is lying on the ground with its four legs up in the air, revealing its hairy belly, with the words "Come and touch me".
It feels like they are competing for the favor of baguette.
Lin Zhuyue stayed at home for a few days. The new chef they hired was very skilled and the meals were excellent. She felt like she had gained some weight. However, Shi Can said it was okay and that she should just spend more time at the gym after the New Year and not go on a diet just because of this little bit of weight.
Because of Lin Zhuyue, Bao Jiayou would follow Lin Lang back to the Lin family on New Year's Eve every year.
Bao Jiayou was away on a business trip this year, so Lin Lang sent some New Year's gifts to his parents-in-law and took Lin Zhuyue and Bao Yi back to his home.
Lin Zhuyue sat restlessly in the car, unconsciously twirling the round bracelet on her wrist. She had always found her grandparents difficult to get along with, so unlike Bowie, who longed for more New Year's money from her elders, Lin Zhuyue went home every year with a heavy heart.
Bowie sat next to Lin Zhuyue and asked:
"Speaking of which, is Auntie going to bring her boyfriend home?"
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Does she have a boyfriend?"
Lin Zhuyue's aunt, Lin Yuan, is a psychiatrist who works at one of the nation's best psychiatric hospitals. But her grandparents have always been dissatisfied with her. Early on, they were unhappy that Lin Yuan didn't study business as they had hoped, and later, they were unhappy that Lin Lang refused to fall in love or get married.
"I'm dating a 19-year-old male college student."
Bowie quietly gave a thumbs-up in the back seat.
"He's very handsome, but not as handsome as your yellow-haired classmate."
Shi Can's face perfectly inherited all the excellent genes from his parents. He doesn't even need to use beauty filters when taking photos. He looks like a male vixen who has practiced the art of charm for a thousand years.
It's quite difficult to be more handsome than him.
Lin Lang, who was driving, said:
"Your grandparents are going crazy."
My grandparents' house is a bit far from the house where Lin Zhuyue lives now, but it is also a detached villa. The occupancy rate of the community is relatively high, and the residents are either rich or noble.
Lin Zhuyue doesn't like this place very much. She lived with her grandparents for a while when she was a child. The two old people were always very strict. The formation of Lin Zhuyue's somewhat world-weary personality since childhood was not unrelated to them.
The heating in the room was on high.
After entering the room, Lin Zhuyue took off her down jacket and hat and hung them up in the cloakroom. She touched the hairpin on her head and looked in the mirror. She felt that it was a bit too conspicuous, so she took it off and put it in her bag.
"grandmother!"
Bowie rushed towards the old man wearing reading glasses and asked,
"Where did Grandpa go?"
"Ouch, don't throw yourself on me."
Luo Tong patted Bowie and said,
"Your grandpa is taking care of his two vegetables in the yard."
My grandfather has a hobby of growing vegetables.
The weather in Yuancheng is very cold in winter, and ornamental flowers and plants in the yard usually do not survive more than a year. They die after being planted. So Lin Ziqian simply pulled out the flowers and plants and transformed the courtyard into a vegetable garden.
However, Lin Ziqian seemed to have no talent for caring for plants. The vegetables in the vegetable garden only survived three times and died easily. They did not grow well, and the celery he grew was extremely bitter.
Luo Tong waited until Bao Yi let her go before looking at Lin Zhuyue and asking, "Are you back?"
Lin Zhuyue nodded: "Yes, I'm back."
Luo Tong asked, "How did you do on the final exam?"
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
Her grandparents still don't know that she has become a spiritualist.
Lin Zhuyue gritted his teeth and replied, "It's okay..."
"What do you mean by 'ok'? Is it ok or not?"
Luo Tong adjusted his reading glasses and asked,
"Are you confident you can get into T University?"
Lin Zhuyue was beginning to feel suffocated.
She looked away and asked, "Is Yuancheng University not okay?"
Luo Tong said, "T University is still better. Many people in our family have studied at T University. Your father, mother, and aunt all graduated from T University. Your grandfather and I hope that you will study at T University as well."
Luo Tong always refers to Bao Jiayou as "your dad" in front of Lin Zhuyue, and she always tries to correct Lin Zhuyue's habit of calling Bao Jiayou uncle. When Lin Zhuyue was little, Luo Tong would flip through a photo album in front of her, pointing at Bao Jiayou and teaching her to call him dad, saying that only if she was willing to call him dad would Bao Jiayou treat her well.
"Mom, Zhuyue can take the exam wherever she likes."
Lin Yuan came down from upstairs and said,
"Both Yuancheng University and T University are good. Wouldn't it make any difference if I went to either one?"
Luo Tong ignored Lin Yuan and continued to say to Lin Zhuyue:
"How about studying medicine? It'll give you a decent job and make it easier to find a partner."
Lin Yuan's medical studies were initially discouraged by her family, but now Luo Tong hopes that Lin Zhuyue will pursue it. This isn't because they're older and easier to get along with, but rather because her expectations are different. She believes Lin Yuan is qualified to take over the family business, but that Lin Zhuyue would be better off living a quiet life.
Lin Yuan sent Bowie and Lin Zhuyue upstairs and said:
"I've prepared New Year's gifts for you two. I've put them upstairs. Go up and take a look."
"Wow, what's the gift?"
Boyi took Lin Zhuyue's hand and ran upstairs.
"Come on, let's go up and take a look."
Lin Lang sat down across from Luo Tong and turned on her computer. She had just received a file from the company that she needed to process.
Luo Tong asked: "How much did the bracelet that child wears cost?"
Lin Lang paused his hand on the keyboard and looked up.
Luo Tong said lightly:
"She's an adult now. You have to be careful when you spend money on her. Don't let her develop a habit of spending lavishly."
Lin Lang patiently explained:
"I bought them for both children. The prices of the two bracelets are not much different. I can't just buy one for one and not the other. It's not appropriate to favor one over the other. I don't lack this little money for your daughter. I can still afford to raise a child in luxury."
Luo Tong said: "As an adult, you need to be more restrained..."
Lin Lang slammed the computer shut and asked:
"Are you done yet? You keep nagging me about this bracelet. The more you keep doing this, the more I'll buy her ten, a hundred!"
Lin Lang went upstairs angrily, carrying his bag in his left hand and holding his computer in his right hand.
"Look, you made my sister angry again, didn't you?"
Lin Yuan leaned back in his chair and said,
"I really don't understand what the difference is between you and my dad. Both of our children have half of our blood in their bodies. What is the difference in your eyes?"
"Other families should be thankful to have a well-behaved child like Zhuyue. What are you two so dissatisfied about?"
Luo Tong had a cold face and said nothing.
Lin Yuan instructed, "My boyfriend will be coming to visit us later. Be polite to him and don't scare him away. I chased him for a long time before I finally got him."
Lin Zhuyue and Bowie were opening presents in the living room on the second floor.
Lin Zhuyue's gift was clothes, and Bowie's gift was a signed CD of his favorite band. It wasn't very expensive, but Bowie hugged the gift and shouted three times, "Auntie is a god."
Lin Lang came up at this time. She sat down in the living room and opened the laptop screen to work. Unexpectedly, the screen was distorted as soon as it was opened. It seemed that she had used too much force when closing the screen downstairs.
Nanny Zhang made some longan tea and brought it over.
Aunt Zhang has worked at the Lin family for many years. She's a diligent worker, and her longan tea is a family favorite. The rich aroma of longan paired with the sweetness of yellow sugar and rock sugar is so delicious that even Lin Lang, a picky eater, can't fault it.
"Auntie Zhang, you don't look well."
Lin Lang raised his head and asked,
"What happened?"
Aunt Zhang shook her head: "No, no..."
After she denied it, she went to do housework.
Aunt Zhang is always very hardworking and always has a keen eye for work. She is often busy from morning till night at home.
Bowie went downstairs with the CD to find Lin Yuan to express his love for him. Soon, only Lin Zhuyue and Lin Lang were left on the second floor.
"Mother."
Lin Zhuyue sat next to Lin Lang and said,
"There's no need to fight about me."
Lin Lang asked, "Did you hear that?"
Lin Zhuyue took Lin Lang's hand, with a faint smile on her face, and said:
"The money you gave me is indeed a bit too much."
Because I was poor when I was young.
The way Lin's parents disciplined their daughter was to freeze her credit card.
Lin Lang wasn't always good at making money when she was young. A few months after she gave birth to Lin Zhuyue, her parents froze her credit card to force her to go on blind dates and prevent her from going abroad again. For a while, she had to take care of Lin Zhuyue herself, but her clumsy hands made her feel depressed all day long.
So, when Lin Zhuyue grew up, Lin Lang never hesitated to give her money. The longer Lin Zhuyue was away, the more Lin Lang worried she wouldn't have enough money, so he always kept her credit card balance at a high level.
Lin Lang asked, "You didn't spend any money either?"
“Because I’m financially independent.”
Lin Zhuyue stood up and said,
"I can make a lot of money myself."
Lin Lang praised sincerely, "That's pretty impressive."
“Is it not very happy to spend the New Year here?”
Lin Lang raised his hand and rubbed his daughter's hair, then asked,
"Shall I take you home? Xiao Yi should go home too. We can ask the restaurant to cook a few dishes, and we can spend the New Year's Eve at home as a family."
"Forget it, Xiao Yi likes grandpa and grandma very much."
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and said,
"Grandpa and grandma will be very sad if you and Xiaoyi leave without finishing the New Year's Eve dinner."
Before dinner started, Lin Yuan's boyfriend arrived.
Xue Nan is a very handsome boy who studies at T University. Although his family is not as wealthy as the Lin family, his parents are also small entrepreneurs. His grandparents were doctors who worked during the war years of the last century. His family background can be said to be spotless.
Luo Tong and Lin Ziqian did not like this boy who was much younger than Lin Yuan, but their attitude was still polite.
Lin Ziqian couldn't help but ask:
"There's such a big age gap between you two, doesn't your family have any objections?"
“It seemed hard to accept at first.”
Xue Nan held the longan tea, sat upright, and said,
"But I insisted, so my parents agreed. After all, this is my life, they can only express their opinions but cannot make decisions for me."
Xue Nan brought a lot of gifts.
He had to go home to spend the New Year with his family. After sitting at the Lin family for a while and fulfilling his etiquette, he stood up and said goodbye.
Lin Ziqian and Luo Tong gave him a red envelope.
Just as night fell, the New Year’s Eve dinner was ready at home.
Because Lin Lang was furious, Lin Ziqian and Luo Tong stopped provoking Lin Zhuyue. The old couple were indeed old; if something like this had happened years earlier, they would have kicked both Lin Lang and Lin Zhuyue out of the house. But now, even though they were unhappy, they chose to endure it because they wanted to spend the New Year with their daughter.
New Year greetings messages have been sent one after another.
Lin Zhuyue was also sending a message. She wished Cui Yi a happy new year, and the other party immediately transferred her 88888. Lin Zhuyue returned the money, but the next second her Alipay account rang with a sound of money arriving. Cui Yi had transferred the New Year's money to her Alipay account.
Lin Zhuyue transferred the money back.
But Cui Yi was stubborn and transferred the money back.
Lin Zhuyue sent a screenshot to Shican, hoping that Shican would persuade Ms. Cui.
Shi Chan: [Heh.]
Shi Chan turned his hand back and counted 99999.
Lin Zhuyue: "...?"
No. Does your family have the habit of throwing money at people?
Red envelopes were also distributed at home, and every elder gave one to Lin Zhuyue and Bowie.
Although Lin Ziqian and Luo Tong are usually a little partial to each other, the red envelopes they gave to the two children were of the same size. The money in the red envelopes was very thick and felt like a brick in their hands.
The two elderly people also gave red envelopes to those who were still working at home, and asked the finance department to transfer the money to those who took leave to go home.
When we were halfway through the meal, we heard someone crying in the cloakroom.
"It seems to be Aunt Zhang's voice."
Lin Lang put down his chopsticks, stood up and walked towards the cloakroom.
"I'll go see what's going on."
Zhang Ma had worked for the Lin family for many years and had a deep bond with them. When the family heard her crying, they stopped eating and went to the cloakroom to check on her.
Mother Zhang fell to the floor.
Lin Zhuyue's bag was lying on the ground, and it seemed to have been knocked over. Lin Zhuyue's diamond hairpin fell out of the bag and onto the carpet.
Lin Lang helped Zhang Ma up and said:
"Hurry up and tell your family if there's anything wrong. Why are you sitting on the ground?"
Lin Lang and Lin Yuan, one on each side, helped Zhang Ma out of the cloakroom and helped her sit down on the sofa in the living room.
Lin Zhuyue picked up the bag and hairpin. She looked at them carefully and made sure that the hairpin was not broken. Then she put it back into the bag, ran out of the cloakroom, and went to the living room to check the situation.
Aunt Zhang sobbed and told what had happened recently.
Aunt Zhang is hardworking and has raised a very obedient son.
Xiaokai had no talent for studying. He barely managed to get a high school diploma and then went to work. He was usually hardworking and earned more than 10,000 yuan a month.
But two months ago, Xiaokai fell in love, and he realized that a salary of just over 10,000 yuan in Yuancheng wasn't enough. So when his friend offered him a job with a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, he accepted without much thought and took the high-speed rail south. A few days after leaving, Xiaokai asked Zhang Ma for money, saying he needed it while he was out of town.
Mother Zhang didn't doubt it and transferred money to Xiaokai.
For a while, Xiao Kai kept asking her for money. He was also very strange when he called her, always talking about his father. You know, his father had passed away many years ago, and Zhang's mother had never remarried. Xiao Kai had almost no father in his life, and he never mentioned it.
Xiaokai not only asked Zhang Ma for money, but also asked his girlfriend for money. He often mentioned his father when talking to his girlfriend, which his girlfriend found strange and reminded Zhang Ma.
Zhang's mother thought Xiaokai had probably joined a pyramid scheme or been scammed. She wanted to contact the police, but Xiaokai's situation was exposed first. The person controlling Xiaokai threatened Zhang's mother, saying they would shoot him in the head if she dared to call the police. They also demanded that Zhang raise 600,000 yuan to redeem him.
Xiaokai's biological father owed many people debts because of gambling. Many years after he committed suicide by hanging, Zhang Ma has been paying off his debts. Although the Lin family gives Zhang Ma a not low monthly salary, plus bonuses and various overtime pay, Zhang Ma still has little money left.
Six hundred thousand is a huge sum of money for Zhang Ma.
Aunt Zhang was cleaning the cloakroom when she knocked over Lin Zhuyue's bag, and the diamond hairpin inside fell out. She looked at the exquisitely crafted hairpin and suddenly had the urge to take it for herself.
Anyway, this hairpin is nothing to Lin Zhuyue.
But she soon realized something was wrong. The Lin family had treated her so well, yet she had such a desire for Lin Zhuyue's jewelry. She felt guilty, and the pressure of the huge sum of 600,000 yuan she didn't know where to raise finally made her heart collapse.
"You should have said so earlier."
Luo Tong wanted to blame Zhang Ma, but seeing her sad look, she couldn't bear it and said,
"Call the police first and ask for their opinion. The money issue is easy to deal with. Banks are closed during the New Year, so it's difficult to withdraw money. But if we pool our pocket money cards together, it won't be difficult to come up with 600,000 yuan."
Lin Zhuyue sat on the sofa.
She looked up in a daze and saw that there was a line on Zhang Ma's body that was gradually dissipating.
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