Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 105 - 104: What is Lin Xia

Chapter 105: Chapter 104: What is Lin Xia

Lin Aijia shook her head with a strained expression, "I’m not doing it anymore!"

"Then why aren’t you working there anymore? Did you make some mistake and get fired by the company?" Lin Fang asked curiously.

The processing factory where Lin Xia used to work was actually doing quite well. Back then, when her family heard about the job opening, they also wanted to get her in, but her mother didn’t want to shell out the money, and her aunt didn’t want to front the cash either, so in the end, Lin Xia picked up the opportunity.

Because of this, she had always held a grudge against her aunt, so she rarely got close to her over the past years.

"No! She just didn’t want to do it anymore!" Lin Aijia sighed, feeling at a loss for words to describe her feelings about the child, Lin Xia.

That day, when her daughter came back with a pale face, she learned that Lin Xia had gotten into a huge fight with her older brother, and they almost came to blows with knives.

She never would have thought her niece could be so domineering and aggressive!

However, according to what Hongmei said, her older brother was tough enough to take it; it takes two to tango, and no one was in a position to blame the other!

Lin Fang pursed her lips and said, "Aunt! Look at this, if you had gotten this job for me, how great that would have been. Now she just quits like that, isn’t that a waste?"

Lin Aijia looked disdainfully at her niece, "Waste? She can go back anytime she wants if she later decides she wants to!"

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to help Lin Fang get the job, but it was her husband’s brother who had arranged the position for their daughter Hongmei.

Securing a job for someone always cost money, but why should her brother’s family expect them to foot the bill?

And then there was the talk of loaning the money and repaying it later; they’re family, who doesn’t know what they’re like? If loaned, it would never be paid back.

So, in the end, it was her older brother who ponied up a bit of cash to get Lin Xia the job!

Lin Fang noticed the contempt in her aunt’s eyes and bit her lip angrily, not speaking further.

Lin Aijia asked, "Your grandmother is doing well, right?"

"She’s fine! My grandma said she might come down to see you all in a while..." Lin Fang answered with a cold face.

After chatting with Lin Fang for a bit more, Lin Aijia sent her off and then went back to work in the workshop.

She didn’t mention to Lin Fang about Lin Xia moving out of their house or the knife fight with Lin Aiguo.

This sort of thing shouldn’t be spread around no matter what, especially with Lin Fang’s gossiping nature; who knows what she might turn it into after she went back!

She figured it was better to wait a while since her mother would be coming down from the countryside soon, so it might be better to tell her in person.

Hurrying back to the countryside, Lin Fang told her family and her grandmother all about how Lin Xia wasn’t working at the factory and was now selling hairpins.

Zhang Lanxiang slapped her thigh angrily, "What is this nonsense? Initially, I said we should get the job for our little Fang, but in the end, Lin Xia got it, and now she’s quit!"

She didn’t mention that she initially didn’t want to spend the money and had wanted Lin Aijia to contribute, which ended up complicating things.

Lin Aiye also lamented, "Exactly! How can you just quit like that! Did you ask what the deal was with her job?"

Going along with him, Zhang Lanxiang said, "Right! Little Fang! Did she quit on her own, or what? If she doesn’t want to do it anymore, see if you can take her place at work using her name."

The pay in the countryside wasn’t as good as in the factory, and besides, if you wanted to find a good match in the future, it was better to be closer to the city. There weren’t many decent guys in the countryside.

"I asked my aunt, but she didn’t say much, just that Lin Xia doesn’t want to do it anymore! I think there’s something going on!" Lin Fang felt something was off; she noticed that Lin Xia she saw today had changed drastically from before, almost like she was a different person.

And she wanted a hair clip. Before, even if Lin Xia didn’t feel like giving her one, she would say something instead of rejecting her so coldly.

Zhang Lanxiang curled her lips, "Of course! Think about it, what kind of person is Lin Xia? And now she has just stopped working without a second thought. Could my uncle possibly put up with that kind of attitude?"

These years, they all knew what kind of person Lin Aiguo was.

The children left behind by Yu Wanhua all had to obey him; if anything displeased him, he wouldn’t hesitate to threaten violence or hurl insults.

"Exactly! My big brother would never agree to her quitting, right? Wouldn’t that mean all the money spent before was wasted?" Lin Aiye felt puzzled by the whole situation.

Having overheard this, Liu Shuqin also felt that things were probably not that simple, so she decided on the spot to come down from the valley the next day to ask around and understand what was going on.

Before leaving, she accepted Lin Fang’s and Zhang Lanxiang’s requests; if Lin Xia truly didn’t want to work anymore, she agreed to help ask if Lin Fang could replace her and work using Lin Xia’s name at the processing factory.

When Lin Aijia got home at noon, she saw Liu Shuqin standing at her house’s entrance.

She quickly got off her bike, "Mom! Why have you come down so soon?"

Yesterday Lin Fang had just gone to her workplace to look for her, and today her mother had come down—there must be something going on.

Liu Shuqin waved her hand, "Let’s talk inside! I’ve been waiting for you for quite a long time!"

"Alright! Why didn’t you go and sit at the neighbor’s house?"

"No need! Why bother with such a fuss!"

Mother and daughter entered the courtyard, and once inside the house, Lin Aijia poured her mother a glass of water. Liu Shuqin guzzled it down before asking, "Why isn’t Lin Xia working at the processing factory anymore? Has something happened at your big brother’s house?"

Lin Aijia sat down on the edge of the Kang bed and sighed, "Mom! Lin Xia and the others had a fight with my big brother over something, and now they are not even staying at home..."

"What nonsense? They’ve gone too far, one by one! With the elders still around, how dare they move out and live on their own?" Liu Shuqin, angered, stood up and planted her hands on her hips, shouting.

"It’s a long story, and I can’t explain everything in just one or two sentences; in any case, they’ve created quite a rift. Now, Lin Xia is no longer working at her unit, and Lin Chun has also applied for a long leave of absence;

My big brother came to my house the other day to tell me that Lin Dong had also taken leave from school. Currently, nobody knows where the three of them are living... If Lin Fang hadn’t seen Lin Xia at the factory gate yesterday, I wouldn’t have been able to find even a trace of her..."

Liu Shuqin paced back and forth on the floor, agitated, "These brats, they’re getting too bold! Just wait! Now that I have come down here, there’s no reason for me to let them continue their arrogance. How dare they go against the elders—they were not taught right by their dead mother..."

Seeing her mother curse more and more vulgarly, Lin Aijia wasn’t sure if she should continue to say more.

"My girl, is there something else you haven’t told me? Why do I get the feeling that you want to say more but are afraid to?" Liu Shuqin tried to calm herself down and sat back on the Kang bed, turning to Lin Aijia with the question.

Lin Aijia licked her lips, thinking about whether she should speak up. Even if she didn’t reveal it now, her big brother would eventually have to learn about it from the old lady. Moreover, she really feared that the old lady would resort to her old ways to settle accounts with Lin Xia and the others.

Lin Xia and her siblings were completely different from before now!

Lin Xia was the one who didn’t hesitate to stab her own father with a knife. How could she indulge the old lady’s ways?

With old grudges and new hatred, things could get worse. Lin Aijia remembered all too well how the old lady had bullied and mistreated her deceased sister-in-law.

"I heard this from Hongmei when she came back. She told me my big brother went to Lin Xia’s workplace to settle accounts, and they got into a stubborn fight. My big brother tried to hit her, and Lin Xia almost stabbed him with a knife. If my big brother hadn’t run away fast, he would have been stabbed in the lower back..."