104: Chapter 103: I’m not attending anymore 104: Chapter 103: I’m not attending anymore “Look at you!
We are sisters, can’t I have one?”
Lin Fang was about to clip it onto her own head when Lin Xia snatched it away, “That won’t do!
I’m selling these for soone else, and I’ll have to pay for any that get lost or taken!
If you like it so much, you’ll have to buy it!”
She wasn’t about to let Lin Fang take any advantage of her.
“Why are you being so stingy?
It’s just a hairclip, how much could it possibly cost?” Lin Fang was not pleased, rembering that Lin Xia used to not be like this.
“It might not cost much, but I can’t afford to lose out!” Lin Xia hurried to pack up, wrapping her rchandise in a red cloth before stuffing it ssily into her cross-body bag.
Her abrupt actions left Lin Fang dumbstruck; she never expected Lin Xia to be so straightforward, “Lin Xia!
What are you doing?
I haven’t even had a good look yet!”
She had been standing nearby for quite so ti, hoping to cozy up to Lin Xia and perhaps get a hairclip to wear, but Lin Xia was now showing no courtesy at all.
“What’s there to look at?
They are all pretty much the sa!
What are you doing here?” Lin Xia rembered that Lin Fang worked in the valley, wondering how she could have co down to the foot of the mountain.
“I ca down for so errands!” Lin Fang was sowhat distracted as she pouted and asked, “Lin Xia!
You’re helping soone sell these, does that an you’re not working your shift anymore?”
She knew that Lin Xia and Hongi worked at the processing factory, questioning how Lin Xia could be selling things far from it.
“Not working it anymore!” Once Lin Xia heard her asking, she figured she must know about the dispute with Aiguo, although others might not yet be aware.
It looks like they aren’t very well-inford!
But probably Lin Fang would find out everything after visiting Hongi’s place!
Yet she couldn’t care less!
“Why aren’t you working anymore?” Lin Fang watched as Lin Xia mounted her bike, ready to leave, and hurriedly grabbed her arm, “Hey!
Lin Xia!
What’s the rush!
We haven’t seen each other for a long ti, let’s chat a bit!
The other day, grandma and my dad were saying that whenever they have ti, they’d visit your place and the aunt’s house as well…”
Rembering her grandmother Liu Shuqin and her uncle Lin Aiye filled Lin Xia with irritation, her tone naturally harsh, “I’m busy, okay?
I don’t have ti to chat with you!
If they want to visit, let them; what’s it got to do with !”
With that, she rode off on her bicycle imdiately, leaving Lin Fang stomping her foot in anger behind her, “Lin Xia!
Why are you being like this!” She was absolutely infuriated!
As for Lin Xia, she didn’t care about Lin Fang’s reaction behind her; while riding, her anger flared up as she thought about these people.
Her uncle and his wife were a perfect match, the kind of people who never had enough advantages.
At a rather young age, they had married and had Lin Gang, who was the first in the Lin Family to marry and have children.
When her mother was still alive, these two would often co down from the valley to freeload.
Back then, her grandmother was staying at their place, always siding with her uncle and his family, joining them in bullying her mother.
Later, when her mother fell seriously ill and needed care, her grandmother quickly took off, claiming she needed to help Lin Gang look after his newborn son, and moved up to the valley.
After her mother passed away, her grandmother initially thought about returning to live with them, but within a month Chunli had moved in with her two children;
Her grandmother tried to use the sa tactics she did on her mother to trouble Chunli, but ended up being outmaneuvered and thus returned to the valley again.
Her grandmother and her uncle’s family had not appeared in their lives once since she ca back.
From now on, these people better not expect any favors!
When Lin Xia got ho, Lin Qiu hadn’t gone to work yet, and both he and Lin Chun could tell sothing was off with their older sister’s mood.
“Big sis!
What happened?”
Lin Xia put down her bag and imitated them, “I ran into Lin Fang, she was so demanding, wanting a hair clip from , but I didn’t give it to her!”
Initially, Lin Qiu thought it was sothing serious.
When she heard it was about this, she said, “Big sis, don’t be angry anymore.
I’ll get you so food!” She stood up and went to the kitchen.
“You didn’t give it to her, so why are you so upset?” Lin Chun asked.
Lin Xia wiped the sweat from her forehead, “If I hadn’t seen her today, I would have forgotten all about the past, but seeing her today reminded of the drama they caused when our mom was alive!
Just thinking about it makes angry!”
She also resented herself for not being as ruthless and detached from family as she was now, back then.
If she had been that fierce and ruthless back then, and they dared to bully her mom like that, she would have taught them all a harsh lesson to let them know her mom had soone to support her!
“Xiaoxia!
All that is in the past.
We live on our own now, so in the future, we don’t need to talk to them.
You really shouldn’t be angry anymore!
Anger is bad for your health!”
Lin Chun advised gently.
He actually hated his grandmother and his uncle’s family intensely.
Not all five fingers are the sa, every household has its problems, there’s always so bias;
Besides, his mom had been gone for years, and he didn’t want his older sister to live in those shadows and anger anymore.
People need to look forward.
Lin Xia took a deep breath, “Right!
Big brother, you’re right!
I shouldn’t get upset over these irrelevant people!
But still, big brother, let’s find so ti the day after tomorrow to visit mom’s grave!
If you really leave, and it’s for several years, it might be difficult to visit her again…”
“Sure!
Let’s go after Dongzi gets back the day after tomorrow!”
“Great!
That gives us so ti to prepare, we’ll burn more paper money for mom!”
Thinking of Yu Wanhua, Lin Chun’s heart filled with sorrow as he rembered that dream again!
That ti when his big sister had a high fever that wouldn’t subside, he and his younger siblings took care of her, and he was so exhausted he dreamt.
Everything in the dream felt so real, he couldn’t calm down for a long ti after he woke up.
Afterwards, his big sister recovered and had changed as if she was a different person, speaking and acting crisply and decisively, with a brave and relentless streak, but he liked this change in her, much more than the sister in his dreams…
After Lin Xia had rebuffed Lin Fang, she pondered Lin Xia’s ntion of not working, which didn’t quite sit right with her.
Her uncle couldn’t have agreed to Lin Xia not working!
She knew that Lin Xia and Lin Chun were supposed to contribute their salaries to the family!
So, Lin Fang went to her aunt’s house, thinking about whether she could dig up so information, as she couldn’t just waste a rare trip down there!
Unfortunately, she arrived at an inopportune ti.
Lin Aijia’s family of four was all at work, and the house was locked up tight.
She thought about going to her uncle’s house two streets over, but ultimately didn’t dare.
Instead, she went to the plywood factory to look for her aunt.
When Lin Aijia ca out of work and saw her distant niece waiting, she asked in surprise, “Lin Fang!
What brought you here?”
Lin Fang flashed a smile, “Aunt!
I just happened to be in town for sothing and thought I’d drop by to see you!
But no one was ho, so I ca to your workplace instead!
Aunt!
It’s funny that I ran into Lin Xia at the factory gates selling things; she said she’s not working anymore!
Is it true she quit?”
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