“From now on, you’ll be his elder. If he still acts like a jerk, then beat him up.”
Lin Shen leaned close to Xia Wenxi's ear and whispered, "It's only natural for an aunt to discipline her nephew."
Lin Junying, who was at home, sneezed three times for no apparent reason.
"Dad, should I go out and hide for a while? You can earn some money for me."
Lin Junying reached out his hand to Lin Zhan.
Lin Zhan slapped him. "Ask me for money? I don't even have enough for myself. I already told your uncle that you weren't going to attend when his girlfriend came. You should just stay home."
Lin Junying shook his hand, which was red from being hit, and said unhappily, "Wasn't I afraid that my uncle would beat me up first in order to please his girlfriend?"
"Tch~ You? Your uncle wouldn't even bother with you."
The father and son started hurting each other again. Lin Junying felt that he was being despised by his own father, so he retorted angrily.
"Dad, you and Uncle share the same parents, so how come there's such a big difference between you? You're even so much older than Uncle. If you had worked a little harder back then, what would Uncle be doing now?"
Lin Zhan sneered.
“If your father had worked hard back then, you would be carrying bricks on a construction site right now. No, that’s not right either. If the Lin family had gone bankrupt, you probably wouldn’t even have been born.”
Lin Zhan knew perfectly well that he was a lazy bum and had accepted his fate of lying flat. He would slap anyone who tried to turn things around.
Even one's own son is not acceptable.
"Let me tell you, you need to know your own limitations. Don't waste your time trying to do something you're not good at, understand?"
Lin Junying remained silent for a long time before lying down again.
How amazing! He couldn't refute it at all!
—Friday afternoon
Lin Shen went back to the company for a meeting in the afternoon and then left work early. He was going to the Xia family for dinner that evening, and since he was going to visit them, he naturally couldn't go empty-handed.
I was delayed for a while while shopping, and I happened to run into Xia Wensheng and Minghuan outside the door. Xia Wensheng picked up Minghuan after get off work because her parents were coming, and Minghuan had taken leave from Friday night and Saturday and Sunday performances.
"You're already here, why did you bring anything? You're being too polite."
"Of course..."
"Hey! Stop it." Xia Wensheng sensed danger when he saw Lin Shen's lip movements and quickly stopped him from saying anything more.
"Let's save that for later; I can't take the responsibility right now."
"Why don't you come in? You're still chatting outside, aren't you cold?"
Xia Wenxi poked her head out of the door. Lin Shen had told her on WeChat when he parked the car that he had arrived, but after waiting for a long time without seeing anyone come in, Xia Wenxi decided to come out and check herself.
Of course, the above sentence was said to Lin Shen and Xia Wensheng.
Xia Wenxi's attitude towards Minghuan was as warm and gentle as the spring sun.
"Minghuan, why did you bring so much stuff? Here, let me help you carry it."
"There's nothing much, just a few boxes of face masks that I used last time and thought were good, so I brought them for you and Auntie to try. And here are some canned food for Xiaoyuer. They were on sale during the New Year's shopping festival, and I stocked up on a lot for Dengdeng, so I brought some for Xiaoyuer to try."
"It's canned food, no wonder it's so heavy. Little Fish has probably gone off to sleep somewhere again. I'll open one for it to try later."
Now that Xiaoyuer is older, we don't keep him in the room anymore. Instead, we let him run all over the house. But there are so many rooms, it's really hard to find where he's hiding unless he comes out on his own.
Lin Shen glanced down at what he was holding. Actually, he had brought some too; it included not only canned food but also toys…
"I just ordered milk tea!"
Xia Wenxi handed Ming Huan a cup before finally remembering that there were two more people behind them.
"Would you two like a drink?"
"Thank you, Wenxi."
Lin Shen readily accepted the milk tea and put down what he was holding.
"I also bought egg tarts and mille-feuille cake, which are perfect to go with milk tea."
"Crepe cake! Yay! Minghuan, what flavor of cake do you like?"
"I'm fine, I usually eat mangoes the most."
"Perfect timing, we have mangoes here."
Xia Wensheng stood behind the three men with his hands on his hips, expressionless.
They say they can come and take charge, but who exactly is an outsider?
"Where did Mom and Dad go? Didn't they say they'd be home this afternoon?"
Xia Wensheng finally managed to make himself feel a little more important.
Xia Wenxi swallowed the mille-feuille cake in her mouth and replied, "Mom and Dad went next door to watch the fun."
"Watching the show?"
This answer made all three of them stop what they were doing.
"Yes, someone came looking for someone. At first, they went to the wrong house and came to ours. We found out they were looking for the house next door, and they even brought a child with them!"
Xia Wenxi shook her head. It seemed like another melodramatic story.
"I originally wanted to go with you, but since you're coming and it's too cold outside, I'll just stay home and wait for my parents to come back and tell you."
Not long ago, the security guards outside the Xia family reported that someone had come looking for someone—the child's father.
When Ke Shurong heard this, her hair almost stood on end. Fortunately, she quickly realized it was a misunderstanding; the person had taken the wrong route.
Ke Shurong and Xia Hengyuan, a very "enthusiastic" couple, offered to show her the way!
Xia Wensheng was a little puzzled. "That's not right, is it? Outsiders can't get in here, so how did that person get in?"
Although this place can be called a residential community, the houses are quite far apart. It's normal to take the wrong turn after coming in from the main road. But the problem is that you can't even get into the community gate without the owner's permission.
“She has a pass. Mom even checked it. The house number on the pass is the one next door.”
Although family members no longer need passes to enter and exit, and the security guards can recognize all of them, they certainly won't stop people with passes.
"Let's see what Mom and Dad say when they get back."
Xia Wenxi asked Minghuan about Su Yinyin again. She had heard that Yin Chengjing had gone to see her last time, and wondered how things were going now.
Speaking of this, Minghuan couldn't help but smile, "Yinyin has quite a few ideas."
"How so?"
“Because Yin Chengjing kept bothering her, she told me to just go somewhere he couldn’t bother her.”
Minghuan initially thought she was going abroad, but Su Yinyin said, "He came to bother me, so why should I leave my home and go abroad? I won't!"
Minghuan said, "She said she plans to apply to the military arts troupe so she won't have to leave her hometown and can continue her beloved music career. Plus, Yin Chengjing won't be able to bother her anymore."
Xia Wenxi was dumbfounded, and all her words could be summed up in two words.
"sharp!"
Minghuan nodded. Her junior sister was indeed a very decisive young woman, so there was really no need to worry about her.
Su Yinyin had even said before that she wanted to take the civil service exam or the disciplinary committee exam, to see if Yin Chengjing and his parents would still dare to mess around, but unfortunately her major wasn't suitable.
For music students like them, the employment options are indeed limited. They either join an orchestra or become music teachers. Su Yinyin's situation is not a bad career choice.
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