39: Chapter 39 Looking for a House 39: Chapter 39 Looking for a House The Lin Aijia family was sitting by the kang table eating when they still had no idea about the incident at Lin Xia’s house the night before.
Hearing Lin Xia ntion taking leave again, Yu Hongi put down her chopsticks, her face turning sour, “Lin Xia!
How many tis have you had request leave for you this month?” She was almost driven insane by the irritation!
Lin Xia knew she was making things difficult for Yu Hongi, but there was no other choice at the mont.
“Sister Hongi!
I’m really sorry to trouble you!
This is the last ti!
Please help ask for a long leave!”
She needed to settle things for her younger brothers and sisters before imdiately heading to the provincial city to restock.
The round trips would take up ti, so she wanted to ask for extended leave.
The reason she was still holding onto this job was to prepare for a rainy day.
She didn’t know if she could turn anything into a selling point after winter ca; they needed so source of inco by then.
At least she had the salary from her job each month to keep them alive.
Lin Aijia couldn’t help but scold Lin Xia, “Lin Xia, this won’t do if you keep going like this!
That job needs to be taken seriously!
Besides, didn’t Lin Qiu just dislocate his arm, with nothing else seriously wrong?
You should go to work when it’s ti to work!
If your dad found out, he would beat you senseless!”
Lin Xia suppressed the sneer in her heart and looked at her aunt with an impassive expression, “Aunt, don’t worry!
I know what I’m doing!”
Lin Xia then turned to Yu Hongi, “Sister Hongi, let’s settle on this then!
I’ll properly thank you later on!”
Yu Hongi gave Lin Xia a dismissive glance, “Ha!
I’m not counting on your thanks!
If you could just stop making ask for leave in the future, that’d be great!”
In her eyes, how could Lin Xia possibly thank her?
The salary she earned wasn’t even in her own hands, so what could she give in gratitude?
“Still, thank you!
Sister Hongi!
Aunt!
I’ll be going now!”
After Lin Xia left Yu Hongi’s house, she stood at the doorway where Lin Chun and Lin Qiu anxiously asked, “How did it go?”
Lin Xia collected her emotions; she didn’t want to tell them about what had just happened, “Nothing much!
Sister Hongi agreed to help with the leave!
Big brother, let’s go!
Let’s check out near Paradise Street first!”
Lin Xia knew that place was going to beco a central area in the future, and even now, it was quite good, easy to get to and from.
“Alright!” Lin Chun, pushing the tricycle, arranged for his sisters, “Xiaoxia, you sit on the front beam; Xiaoqiu, with your arm, it’s safer for you to sit on the back rack to avoid any bumps!”
“Fine!” Xiaoxia obediently sidled up and sat on the beam, while Lin Chun mounted the tricycle and Xiaoqiu straddled the seat on the rear rack.
The three siblings headed straight for their intended destination.
anwhile, at the Lin Family ho, Lin Aiguo hadn’t moved from his spot since breakfast because he had taken leave from work.
He picked up his tobacco pipe and started puffing away.
As for Lin Yu and Lin Qiang, they left the house together right after finishing their al.
Qian Chunli seriously considered taking a day off work to keep Lin Aiguo company at ho, but noticed that ever since waking up that morning, Lin Aiguo had been in a bad mood.
Hearing that Lin Chun had left with only two buns in his pocket, Lin Aiguo cursed furiously several tis.
Although she was tempted to wait for Lin Xia and the others to co back to enjoy the drama,
who knew when they’d return?
If it ended up being just her and Lin Aiguo at ho, and they got into an altercation over sothing, how unjust would that be?
So, Qian Chunli too tidied up and went to work.
With Lin Aiguo left alone at ho, he took a trip to the Western House and saw that everything inside was in a state of disrepair, which only fueled his anger!
Each of them was growing more defiant, and he had thought that this morning they would co back and ekly apologize, but he had heard nothing from them so far!
However, considering Lin Dong had to go to school and Lin Xia might be at work, only Lin Qiu would have nowhere to go.
Lin Aiguo thought, if they still wanted to return to this ho, he definitely couldn’t let them off lightly this ti!
By the ti they all returned, he was determined to give each of them a severe lashing with the oversized belt, to flay their skins!
Let’s see if they dared defy him again!
Once out of the house, Lin Yu and Lin Qiang rode a bicycle together to a quiet spot not far from ho to talk things over.
Lin Qiang picked at his teeth, “Lin Yu!
Do you think that since Lin Xia and them left empty-handed yesterday, the scarves might be hidden in their room?”
He had thought about it half the night before; no one expected things to turn out the way they did during the fight.
Lin Xia certainly wouldn’t have anticipated her dad telling her to get lost, so her scarves and money—money could be hidden in the pockets of clothes, but those scarves couldn’t.
He had wanted to take the opportunity to search the Western House again after Lin Chun left in the morning, but since his mom was busy in the kitchen and his dad might co out of the Eastern House at any ti, he hadn’t made a move.
Lin Yu fiddled with her schoolbag strap, “Hard to say!
But it’s quite possible!
Everything happened so abruptly; if Lin Xia didn’t leave her stuff at work, she could only have left it at ho!
What, are you thinking of going in to search again?
Lin Qiang!
Let tell you, I have to attend school seriously today…”
She had no intention of keeping watch for Lin Qiang again; besides, if her dad Lin Aiguo was ho, what would happen if she got caught red-handed?
Lin Qiang looked at her with contempt, taking the opportunity to scoff at her, “You just go and be your good student!
I don’t need you!
I wouldn’t dare use you!
Look at what you did yesterday!
If it weren’t for your gluttony, would all that have happened afterward?” Just thinking about it made him furious!
Angered, Lin Yu’s face tightened, “Fine!
Lin Qiang, these are your words!
Don’t co to to talk over your business from now on!”
She understood that, no matter how much she insisted, if she didn’t join Lin Qiang in the search, she couldn’t expect to get a thing.
Although she felt resentful, she didn’t want to lower her head to Lin Qiang at that mont.
If she wanted to figure out Lin Qiang, there were other ways to handle him after he succeeded… so wait and see…
Lin Xia and her two siblings were searching for a house on Paradise Street; at this ti of the day, most people were at work, and many doors were securely locked.
Whenever they ca across an open door, they inquired within, but they hadn’t found anything suitable even after half a morning’s search.
Back then, each family had many children, and when the kids grew up and married, they still lived together, eating from the sa pot, sleeping on northern and southern kang bed-stoves, with a curtain for privacy while sleeping.
So, it was not easy for Lin Xia and her two siblings to rent a separate house for themselves.
They did co across families willing to rent out part of their house, but they only wanted to rent out the kang, which was not suitable for Lin Xia and her siblings—with both boys and girls, how could they live together?
If they were actual siblings, it would have been fine, but as strangers, who knew what inappropriate things could happen?
Lin Qiu was losing heart, “Sis, it’s so hard to find a house!”
Lin Chun was also scratching his head, “Xiaoxia!
Why don’t we try looking sowhere else?”
He didn’t understand why his older sister insisted on this place, but thinking about its proximity to Lin Xia’s workplace and Lin Dong’s school, he didn’t say much.
Lin Xia was anxious too, but seeing her brother and sister getting worked up, she couldn’t show it.
She reassured them with an easy smile, “Don’t worry!
We’ve only tried a few houses!
There are many more we haven’t asked yet!
Maybe we’ll find sothing soon!”
“Alright!
Then let’s keep looking!” Lin Chun followed behind the two sisters, pushing the bicycle.
They tried three or four more houses but still didn’t find anyone willing to rent out their place.
Lin Xia maintained a cheerful deanor, smiling before speaking, since they were intruding into people’s hos uninvited; not getting kicked out was already a plus.
Fortunately, people back then were simple, and nobody would refuse a stranger a drink of water.
That might not be the case in the future, though.
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