Chapter 68 - My daughter has become a worker
Chapter 68: 68 My daughter has become a worker
Chapter 68: 68 My daughter has become a worker
The Lin siblings hadn’t intended to cause trouble, yet they were unaware that some people just couldn’t stand being idle.
“Lin Tang? What are you doing here?” Liu Guohui, upon seeing them, frantically covered the bruise on his face and asked angrily.
Lin Qingmu sneered and taunted:
“Liu Guohui, I must say, you’re quite something!
Your Liu family really knows how to throw its weight around. Did you build this road, or is this place your family’s backyard?
Why can’t we pass through? Does your family sell pipes to monitor everything so broadly?”
His words were rude, aimed to provoke, spewing them without restraint.
Liu Guohui was left speechless, his face turning shades of green and white.
Fearing he might be poisoned to death by Lin Qingmu’s venomous tongue.
He simply ignored them and limped forward.
The anger he carried within was clearly visible even through his stubborn silhouette.
Lin Qingmu, seeing that Liu Guohui didn’t offer any rebuttal, felt something was off and quickly walked over to take a closer look at him.
“Hey, aren’t you a temporary worker at the steel plant? Isn’t it your working hours now?
Why do you look like this, have you been beaten up?” Lin Qingmu laughed with a hint of malice, asking as if he was asking for it.
Liu Guohui glared fiercely and said resentfully, “Lin Qingmu, don’t go too far!”
“is there a problem with me taking leave to come home?”
Why on earth did I have to run into the Lin siblings? Really TM’s bad luck.
Lin Tang couldn’t be bothered with Liu Guohui and pulled at her brother, who seemed about to say more.
“Third brother, let’s not waste time here. Let’s hurry back home.”
However, Liu Guohui’s bedraggled appearance did indeed seem a bit odd.
Ever since cases of girls being kidnapped in broad daylight had emerged in the county, the Police Station had set up patrol teams.
Whenever a problem arose, a shout was all it took for someone to come over.
Being beaten up for no reason wasn’t a possibility.
He must have done something despicable again!
But it was none of her business, Lin Tang didn’t have the curiosity to gossip, nor did she care.
Lin Qingmu, seeing that Liu Guohui had no effect on his sister Tangtang, felt an inexplicable sense of relief and carried on towards the village with their things.
As long as Tangtang didn’t care, that was enough.
Liu Guohui, staring at the Lin siblings’ ‘proud’ backs, kicked a tree by the roadside in frustration.
The result was that he aggravated his injury, causing him to squat down in pain and cry out.
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Shuangshan Brigade.
Everyone in the Lin Family was restless, as if they all had rabbits thumping in their chests.
The family glanced towards the entrance of the village from time to time, with a sense of longing anticipation.
“Xiuli, why do you keep looking at the entrance to the village? Still concerned about your daughter?” Village widow Wang Xuemei teased with a smile.
“Raising a child for a hundred years, worrying for ninety-nine, how can I be at ease!” Li Xiuli replied.
Her eyes kept darting toward the entrance, full of longing.
“Qingmu is with Tangtang, nothing will happen to them.”
“… You’re right,” Li Xiuli replied reluctantly.
Tangtang had said she would be back by noon.
It was already afternoon, and they still hadn’t returned, so of course, she was worried.
And besides, how did Tangtang do on her exam?
Thinking about this, Li Xiuli’s brows furrowed even tighter, her glances towards the road entrance becoming more frequent.
Fortunately, Lin Fu was mindful of the anxiety of his younger brother’s family.
During today’s task assignment, he had given them the plot of land near the village entrance.
Otherwise, she couldn’t have kept watch.
Seeing that Xiuli’s mind was elsewhere and that the other Lin family members were also cagily, Wang Xuemei felt something was amiss in her heart.
What’s with these people from the Lin family, all acting so strangely…
With a helpless shake of her head, she took up her hoe and continued to work the field.
“Tangtang…”
Li Xiuli spotted her children coming back, dropped her hoe, and ran towards Lin Tang.
She was lean and not tall.
Yet, she ran like the wind, reaching Lin Tang in just a few steps.
“…Tangtang, how did it go?” Li Xiuli watched Lin Tang with unwavering eyes, her heart pounding.
She even forgot to breathe.
Seeing the mud on her body and the weathered look on her face, Lin Tang felt a sourness in her heart.
She hugged her mother’s arm, her face all smiles.
“Mission accomplished!”
“Mom, I passed!”
“Look, this is my grain and oil ration card.
It’s written clearly here that I’ve become a worker at the city’s cotton textile factory—our Lin Family has a factory worker now.”
As she spoke, Lin Tang took out the grain and oil ration card from her pocket to show her mother.
Li Xiuli lifted her hand and saw it was covered in mud.
Fearing she might dirty her daughter’s ration card, she quickly withdrew her hand.
“Good, good, my daughter has become a worker, that’s great news, great news…”
While she spoke, her eyes couldn’t help but redden, yet a smile was on her face.
Lin Tang took out a handkerchief, wiped the mud from her mother’s hands, and placed the ration card in her hands.
“If you want to look, go ahead. It won’t be damaged.”
Li Xiuli’s rough fingers traced the ‘township’ characters on the red document, her mouth opened wide in a grin.
The smile in her eyes was more heartily delighted than ever before.
At this moment, it was as if the heavy burdens of life had been lifted from her shoulders, making her seem years younger.
Lin Qingmu became invisible on the sidelines.
Seeing his mother like this, he too felt a pang of discomfort in his heart.
Ah, it’s all because they, as sons, had not been outstanding enough!
Disliking the silence, Lin Qingmu said, “Mom, Tangtang bought buns for you, with meat in them too!”
His words were just in time to be overheard by Goudan and three others who had seen them return and came running over.
“Uncle, what kind of buns, do we have some too?” Goudan asked eagerly as he looked at Lin Qingmu.
As he asked, Choudan and the two others also looked on expectantly.
“I don’t know about that, you’ll have to ask your aunt,” Lin Qingmu said, his large hand patting his nephew’s head.
Goudan gave him a look, dismissively brushing away his uncle’s hand like tearing down a bridge after crossing a river.
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Leading his siblings, he sidled up to Lin Tang, looking at her expectantly.
“Auntie, do we have buns too?”
Lin Tang was feeling particularly generous, thinking about the twenty-odd dollars she had made today, feeling very confident.
“Of course, everyone has some.”
Goudan’s face lit up immediately.
His little eyes occasionally drifted towards the wooden box in his uncle’s hand, full of longing.
“Hungry?” Lin Tang asked with a smile.
Goudan nodded repeatedly, pulling on his younger brother and sister.
“Mmm, we’re hungry. Choudan, Hutou, and Niuniu are hungry too.”
The little ones also nodded, looking at Lin Tang with big, watery, adorable, and endearing eyes.
“You’ll eat when you get home, look how dirty your hands are,” Lin Tang said.
As soon as she finished speaking, Goudan’s eyes brightened.
He took his siblings to the nearby pond to wash their hands.
Then they scampered back.
“Auntie, our hands are clean now…”
“All clean…” Niuniu also stretched out her hands in front of Lin Tang for inspection.
Lin Tang was amused by the several clever little buns.
To get something to eat, they really would go to any lengths!
Helplessly, she walked over to her older brother, lifted the lid off the wooden lunchbox, and took out a bun for Goudan.
“Here’s one for you, share it with your brother and sister, and remember to save room in your stomach because there’s meat waiting for you at home.”
Goudan took it, seeing that it was a white flour bun, his mouth watering.
“Thank you, Auntie!”
The other kids also said softly, “Thank you, Auntie!”
“Auntie is the best!!”