Lin Shuang discovered that her space had just upgraded.
As she mentioned Wen Xijun, a memory fragment suddenly surfaced in her mind.
Three years ago, Auntie Chen worked night shifts continuously, and her body could hardly take it.
One night, Uncle Yan was held back by the Yan family and failed to pick up Auntie Chen.
It was also that night, when passing by the supply and marketing cooperative, Auntie Chen suffered from low blood sugar and fainted by the roadside.
Heavy snow fell, and the temperature dropped rapidly at night.
Had it not been for Wen Xijun’s mother passing by, seeing her, rescuing her, and calling her daughter to send her to the hospital together, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Quite a few livestock froze to death in the night, let alone an unconscious human being.
Mother Wen was warm-hearted; not only did she help pay the medical expenses, but she also stayed with her daughter to watch over Auntie Chen for the whole night.
It was just that the next day, Wen Xijun was busy going to work and didn’t get to meet Auntie Chen.
As for Mother Wen, seeing that Auntie Chen was awake and fine, she also left in a hurry to go to work.
So much so that when the nurse mentioned it to Auntie Chen, Auntie Chen realized after the fact that that person was her savior.
However, no matter how she searched, she could never find the person.
Yet Mother Wen’s face remained etched in Auntie Chen’s memory until her death.
If Auntie Chen were willing to do as Lin Shuang suggested and go meet Mother Wen in person, she would definitely recognize her savior.
The reason Mother Wen became paralyzed was that a year ago, while salvaging the factory’s property, she accidentally fell from a high altitude.
Afterward, the factory promised to reimburse all of Mother Wen’s medical expenses and guarantee her future life.
However, after a change in leadership, the new factory director showed a different face.
Not to mention the living allowance, even the previously promised medical expenses were refused subsequently, and Mother Wen was driven out.
In her past life, Mother Wen underwent surgery two years later, stood up again, and returned to the factory.
Competent and single-mindedly devoted to the workers’ well-being, Mother Wen later worked her way up to the position of factory director.
Therefore, as long as they were helped through this difficult hurdle, Mother Wen would definitely not be a burden to Big Brother Yan.
In the end, Auntie Chen still accepted the two thousand yuan given by Lin Shuang and immediately wrote an IOU.
Lin Shuang was very satisfied with Auntie Chen’s way of handling things and decided to write to her once she arrived over there.
“Shuangshuang, tonight you and Auntie Chen come home to stay.”
With such an incident having just happened, without a doubt, the Lin family was in complete chaos.
Lin Shuang politely declined; she still had things to do tonight!
Although disturbing the elderly in the middle of the night was very impolite, Lin Shuang was leaving tomorrow, so there were things that had to be done tonight.
Just as Lin Shuang was thinking of avoiding the streetlights to find a deserted place to take out her bicycle, a Jeep drove over.
The alley was somewhat narrow, and Lin Shuang consciously leaned against the wall to make way.
Unexpectedly, the car stopped five meters away from her, and a head poked out from the car window.
“Sister Shuangshuang, get in the car; Grandpa sent me to pick you up and take you home.”
Lin Shuang was a bit dazed; if her mind hadn’t been clear, she would really have said she saw a ghost.
However, she was also decisive, pulling open the car door and getting in.
As the saying goes, someone offers a pillow just as you grow sleepy; after her rebirth, she seemed…… to have a bit of good fortune.
“Very puzzled? Simple! The old man knows everything about what happened at the train station, and naturally, he also knows about you buying the train ticket.”
“Grandpa asked you, have you really thought it through to go join the military? You haven’t even seen Lu Jun, right? Aren’t you worried he might be short, ugly, and stubby?”
Lin Shuang looked at him with a complicated expression.
Zhuang Zhiyuan felt he had misspoken, “Ahem, well, those selected into the military camp—which one isn’t a straight and upright young poplar?”
To make up for it, Zhuang Zhiyuan added: “Actually, I wanted to ask you, have you really made up your mind to get married just like this? Aren’t you afraid of regretting it? In fact, Sister Shuangshuang, you have other choices too.”
Zhuang Zhiyuan felt a bit uncomfortable under Lin Shuang’s stare, turning his head to pretend to look at the streetlights.
“For instance……”
“My male cousins on both sides, as well as several female-side cousins, none of them are married yet. If you need, just say the word, and Grandpa will have them line up for you to pick tomorrow morning.”
“It’s just getting married; who you marry makes no difference. In Shanghai, you wouldn’t need to run off to the Great Northwest to endure hardship.”
Lin Shuang felt warm in her heart.
To be able to contribute all his grandsons, Grandpa Zhuang was truly good to her.
When someone was sincere, she shouldn’t respond with pretense.
“No need, the son-in-law my mother favored should be very good.”
“Grandpa Zhuang is probably worried that I won’t adapt after going there. Actually, there’s no need to worry; you all forgot that for the past eight years I lived in the town, which wasn’t much different from a village.”
As soon as Zhuang Zhiyuan heard this, he knew Sister Shuangshuang had already made up her mind, and further words were useless.
“Alright then, if you need anything in the future, give me a call.” After speaking, resting one hand on the steering wheel, he pulled out a piece of paper prepared in advance with his other hand and handed it to Lin Shuang.
Lin Shuang accepted it generously; looking at it, there was a phone number, a mailing address, and an emergency contact—it could be said to be full of sincerity.
“Thank you!” These were all connections, and she would very likely need them, for instance, regarding those scumbags from the Lin and Shen families.
In the end, Zhuang Zhiyuan’s car didn’t manage to deliver Lin Shuang all the way to the compound.
The sirens of a fire, along with enthusiastic citizens suddenly pouring out onto the street, instantly blocked the road completely.
“Sister Shuangshuang, sit obediently in the car, and don’t open the door for anyone. I’ll go take a look down there.”
Fires were everywhere; although they seemed close, the distance separating them was actually not short.
Lin Shuang guessed he wouldn’t be able to return in a short time.
Just as Lin Shuang expected, after an hour passed, not a single person remained at the entrance of the alley, yet Zhuang Zhiyuan still hadn’t returned.
The road was passable now though.
Lin Shuang got out of the car, preparing to sit in the driver’s seat.
Suddenly, Lin Shuang’s sharp eyes caught sight of a glittering object right on the ground at the corner.
Lin Shuang stepped forward and picked it up; it was a pocket watch encrusted with diamonds.
Feeling it looked familiar, she flipped it over to look at the back, and sure enough, the character “Qing” was engraved on it.
Lin Shuang subconsciously gripped the pocket watch tightly; this was her maternal grandfather’s handwriting.
It was undeniably her maternal grandfather’s item, but why would an item so personal to him fall here?
Soon, Lin Shuang got her answer.
A group of youths came pouring out from the other side, spewing foul language and looking fierce and malicious.
The ones leading them were Lin Hao and Lin Chang.
“Lin Chang, could Lin Shuang have fled back to Hua Town overnight?”
“Even if she flees to the ends of the earth, I will still mess her up to death.”
Lin Hao chimed in, “Right, that bitch ruined my Sister Lanlan’s marriage; she deserves to die.”
Suddenly, an eerie voice echoed from the shadows.
“Are you looking for me?”
The group of youths paused; not seeing anyone, their bodies froze accordingly.
“You, are you human or a ghost after all?”
“Hehe…… so easily frightened?”
Lin Shuang stepped out from the shadows, holding the pocket watch in her hand.
Lin Hao instantly perked up, “Lin Shuang, you actually stole my pocket watch! Give it back to me quickly!”
“Slap!”
“You, how dare you hit me!”
“If you don’t speak properly, I’ll hit you again.” Lin Shuang raised her hand, and Lin Hao touched his burning left cheek, instantly not daring to utter a sound.
“You just said this pocket watch is yours? Are you sure?”
Lin Hao’s eyes flickered, but remembering Lin Shuang’s recent track record, he immediately dropped to his knees.
“No, the pocket watch was stolen by me from Father’s study.”
“N-No, not stolen, borrowed.”
Among the thugs, there were those who knew how to adapt to the situation; a yellow-haired guy at the very back immediately blurted out:
“Lin Hao and Lin Chang said everything in the Lin family belongs to them two brothers, and that you shouldn’t exist in this world.”
“I heard with my own ears the two brothers discussing that they were going to take advantage of the chaos tonight to kill you, Sister Lin Shuang, so that the Lin family would belong to them in the future.”
“They even have report letters on them……”