Wang Chunhua was so angry at Lin Youshui that she wanted to hit someone again.
“I don’t care. You have to give me ten jin of rice and ten yuan every month.”
“Hmph. Village Chief, Secretary, listen to that. Is that something a person would say?
“Ten jin of rice? Even if I searched the heavens, I couldn’t find that much. And ten yuan every month? I don’t even have one yuan a month.”
Lin Youshui rushed into the house, grabbed his bundle, and took his daughter and wife’s hands.
Then he started walking away.
“No grain. As for money, ten yuan a year. Take it or leave it. If you don’t want it, then you won’t even get ten yuan.
“I refuse to believe someone can force a cow to drink water if it doesn’t want to.”
Old Master Lin said,
“Second Son, are you really leaving?”
“My dear father, why won’t you let me go live with my daughter? It’s not like I’m becoming someone’s live-in son-in-law.”
“Fine. Go then. But if you’re bullied in the future, don’t come looking for us.”
“Don’t worry. Even if I die outside, I won’t come back looking for you.”
Zhou Qiming said,
“Enough. Let’s leave it at that.
“You all live in the same village. Don’t act like this is a life-and-death farewell.
“Alright, everyone go get some rest. Work starts tomorrow. Once work begins, you won’t have time to make trouble anymore.
“I think you’re all just too idle.”
Lin Qiaoyun was about to leave with her parents.
“Wait!”
Lin Qiaofeng suddenly shouted.
“Lin Qiaoyun, you can leave, but hand over the admission notice first!
“Grandma! You can’t let her go! My admission notice is still with her!”
When she saw Lin Qiaoyun about to leave, and her admission notice still hadn’t been returned, she panicked.
She stamped her feet anxiously.
“You little bitch! Hand over Qiaofeng’s admission notice, or you’ll regret it!”
Lin Qiaoyun completely ignored the two of them.
She reached into her pocket—actually taking it from her space—and handed her own high school admission notice to the village chief and secretary.
“Village Chief Uncle, Secretary Uncle, please take a look.
“It says ‘Lin Qiaoyun High School Admission Notice,’ doesn’t it?”
The two men looked at it.
“Yes. That’s right. It says Lin Qiaoyun.”
“Then we can leave now, right?”
“You can.”
Seeing that neither the village chief nor the secretary paid any attention to her, Lin Qiaofeng became frantic.
“That’s mine! That’s my admission notice!”
Unfortunately, Lin Qiaoyun had already left with her parents.
“Lin Qiaofeng, stop shouting nonsense. We all saw it. It clearly has Lin Qiaoyun’s name on it.
“Even if Lin Qiaoyun chooses not to attend, you still won’t be able to go.
“The secretary and I won’t issue any documents for you.”
Village Chief Lin immediately understood what was going on.
This was clearly an attempt to steal someone else’s identity.
Otherwise, such a huge scene wouldn’t have happened.
“If anyone dares to impersonate someone else, I’ll personally send them to prison.
“Do you really think the secretary and I are fools?
“This is simply lawless.”
After throwing down those words, the village chief and secretary left.
Only then did Lin Youfu realize what his elder brother’s family had been trying to do.
They wanted Lin Qiaofeng to take Lin Qiaoyun’s place and attend high school under her name.
“Come on. Let’s go back inside.”
Lin Youfu took his wife and children back to their room.
They even ate dinner in their own room that night.
His wife, Wang Yuhong, asked nervously,
“Husband, now that Second Brother’s family has moved out…
“Won’t Eldest Brother’s family start targeting us next?”
Today’s events had genuinely frightened her.
If something like this happened in another family, they’d be celebrating.
Yet the Lin family had reacted like this.
“Husband, what should we do? Can we run away too?”
“What nonsense are you talking about?
“No, they won’t.
“I’ll protect all of you.”
After bringing her parents back to the Zhao family home, Lin Qiaoyun stopped caring about the affairs of the Lin family.
The arrival of Lin Youshui and Xu Nian’en was warmly welcomed.
Grandpa Zhao, Grandma Zhao, Zhao’s father, and Zhao’s mother all came out to greet them.
It was the first time the adults of the two families had officially met.
Lin Youshui, who normally wasn’t very reliable, actually managed to say a few respectable and appropriate words today.
He wasn’t embarrassed at all.
He only had one daughter.
If he didn’t rely on his daughter, who else could he rely on?
Most importantly, Lin Qiaoyun had done an excellent job of persuading him beforehand.
To help her parents feel at ease living here, she had put in a tremendous amount of effort talking them into it.
Although Lin Youshui wasn’t particularly dependable, his love for his daughter was genuine.
Ever since the original owner’s earliest memories, her father had always loved her.
If he had been home that day, she would never have suffered so many grievances that ultimately cost her life.
Now that Lin Qiaoyun had taken over this body, she naturally wanted her parents to live a good life.
That evening, Lin Qiaoyun personally cooked several delicious dishes.
When Lin Youshui saw the table filled with fish and meat, he felt once again that moving from the Lin family to the Zhao family had been the right decision.
In all his years of life, he had never eaten such a good meal.
At the dinner table, Lin Youshui exchanged polite words with Zhao Jianfeng for a while.
Then the two fathers-in-law began drinking together cup after cup.
The atmosphere here was lively and cheerful.
What they didn’t know was that the Lin family was still discussing the matter.
Wang Chunhua said,
“Old man, are we really just going to let that bastard leave like this?”
“What else can we do?
“Do you have a better way to make him come back?
“Like he said, you can’t force a cow to drink water.
“He doesn’t care about the house, he doesn’t care about money, and he certainly doesn’t care about saving face.
“Enough. Calm down.
“We can’t stop living our lives because of him alone.
“Besides, he’s lived like this his whole life. He’ll never leave this little backwater place anyway.
“Just let it be.”
After saying that, Old Master Lin fell silent.
Whenever he thought about what they had done back then, unease filled his heart.
He was always afraid that one day the truth would come out and bring disaster upon the entire family.
His wife had been blinded by money and insisted on doing it.
Since they had already done it, they should have at least treated the child well after bringing him home.
Instead, that old woman had constantly made life difficult for him.
If his real parents ever found out in the future…
Just imagining that possibility made Old Master Lin afraid.
He and his wife were already old.
But they still had sons and grandsons.
No.
I need to treat Second Son better from now on.
However, Wang Chunhua thought very differently.
She had taken money from that woman.
Her job was to make sure that bastard suffered for his entire life.
She needed to come up with a way to deal with that bastard’s family properly.
Meanwhile, Lin Youshui had no idea that his so-called mother was still plotting against him.
At that moment, he and his wife were trapped in the toilet.
“Sigh. Poor people really are destined to be poor.
“I finally got to eat some meat, but I don’t have the luck to enjoy it.”
His wife asked,
“Husband, are we really going to live with the Zhao family from now on?”
“For now, yes.”
“And in a couple of years?”
“In a couple of years…”
“What about a couple of years?”
“If, in a couple of years, you manage to get pregnant, we’ll build our own house and move out.”
“What?
“I haven’t gotten pregnant in so many years. Just moving to the Zhao family home will make me pregnant?”
“Hehe… well… maybe.”
The old couple remained squatting in the toilet for half an hour before finally coming out.
“That’s strange.
“We’ve been at it for so long, but instead of feeling uncomfortable, I actually feel refreshed.”
Lin Youshui casually made that remark as he walked out of the bathroom.
Hearing it made Lin Qiaoyun, who was already feeling guilty, feel even more guilty.
“Dad, Mom, your room has already been prepared.
“From now on, just stay here peacefully.
“Your daughter will definitely take good care of you and be filial.”
“My daughter, your father will be relying on you from now on.”
“Don’t worry, Dad.
“Your daughter will make sure you eat well and live well in the future.
“I’ll make all the men, women, and children in Guyun Village envy you.
“Oh right, Dad. Here’s a gift for you.
“But don’t shout about it.”
Lin Qiaoyun took out a watch she had deliberately saved for him.
She had kept one watch for every member of the family and sold the rest.
She still had electronic watches in her space, but there was no way she could openly sell those in this era.
Lin Youshui never expected his daughter to be so generous.
The moment she made a move, she handed him a watch.
Earlier, when she said that she was now the head of the Zhao household, he hadn’t really believed her.
Now he completely believed it.
“Yun’er, if you’re doing this, won’t your son-in-law say something?
“Will your father-in-law and mother-in-law agree?”
“They have watches too.
“Don’t worry.
“I handle things fairly.”