Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 336 - 335: Not Going with Her

Chapter 336: Chapter 335: Not Going with Her

"Sis, I just don’t think they look like good people!" Lin Qiu had once considered moving to a new place to live and had harbored some positive fantasies about her mom’s side of the family.

Now, seeing them, she was glad she hadn’t gone there.

Just the few of them going there, wouldn’t they be devoured to the point that not even bones and scraps remained?

At least here at home, there were acquaintances, and if anything happened, there was someone to help out.

Lin Dong strongly agreed with what Lin Qiu had said, "Big sister! I feel the same way! Especially that uncle with the shifty eyes, thank goodness we didn’t bring him to our house!"

He wasn’t home usually, and with both sisters being women, he was truly worried.

Even with the security bars installed, the Wu family lived just next door, so he always had a nagging concern in his heart.

"In any case, we won’t be dealing with them much in the future, so there’s no need to keep them on our minds!" Lin Xia was thinking at the time that although the other party was a relative from her mom’s side and there was a blood relationship, after all these years there had been no contact.

They were also both men, so it wasn’t appropriate to bring them home, which is why she and Lin Aiguo had agreed to meet at a restaurant.

She even chose a small shop with reasonable prices and decent food, instead of bringing them to Jiang Mingyuan’s store, all to keep things low-key.

Now, Lin Xia felt her decision was absolutely the right one.

From the moment they met, she could tell that Yu Qiushui was a particularly cunning and slick person, while Yu Ruiming was sullen and silent, but the occasional glance he gave was dark and brooding.

She thought more about it, wondering if these two leading the way meant that relatives from her mom’s side would start coming over one after another?

Lin Dong’s face took on a nostalgic look, and after a while, he said with a slight frown, "My memory of our mom is very faint, but I couldn’t see any resemblance to her in either of their faces."

Lin Xia replied indifferently, "After all, they’re just uncles, so it doesn’t matter if they don’t look alike!"

"That’s true!"

A few days later, Lin Aiguo came over again, saying he had just seen Yu Qiushui off on the train.

Lin Aiguo saw that his son Yu Ruiming was strong, so he helped him find a job at a nearby floor-tile factory to work temporarily.

Lin Xia and the others didn’t take this matter to heart since his food and lodging were at Lin Aiguo’s home.

Yu Qiushui, after much hassle, finally returned to his southern hometown, a place called Gaobei Slope.

Following the path to a run-down farmhouse, he found himself at a gate hanging ajar.

The gate was open, and his mother, Chen Zhaodi, was hobbling around the courtyard, busy with chores.

"Gousheng is back!"

"Yeah!" Yu Qiushui looked around cautiously, "Mom, let’s go inside and talk!"

"Alright!" Chen Zhaodi followed behind Yu Qiushui and entered the house.

"The old Lin family hasn’t moved, right? And Daming, he’s settled in over there?" Chen Zhaodi asked eagerly.

Ever since her son and grandson had left, she had been so worried that she lost her appetite and couldn’t sleep at night.

She was afraid something would go wrong on the road, or they wouldn’t be able to find the Lin family.

The room was dimly lit, and Yu Qiushui sat in a bamboo chair in the main room, drinking most of a cup of water. He took a breather before starting to tell her about his trip to Spring City.

"He’s settled in! Lin Aiguo got him a job at a factory, earning about eighty yuan a month! Daming secretly told me, once he saves up some money, he’ll send it back under someone else’s name!"

Chen Zhaodi wiped tears from her eyes in distress, "The child, sending money... as long as he is all right, that’s enough! How is the Lin family doing now? Those kids must be quite grown up, right?"

If it weren’t truly a last resort, she wouldn’t have been willing to let her grandson run so far to hide.

The north isn’t as warm as here, and just the thought of winter temperatures dropping to minus thirty or forty degrees makes her heart uncomfortably heavy.

If her grandson hadn’t done something wrong, why would he have gone to suffer like that?

Yu Qiushui lit up a cigarette, took a deep drag, scratched his eyebrows, and laughed at himself, "Not bad at all! They’re doing better than us!

Lin Aiguo remarried, but now his health isn’t very good!

The children Yu Wanhua left behind, the eldest works out of town, the two daughters are in business, and the youngest is in high school, and I heard he’s doing exceptionally well..."

Chen Zhaodi could hardly believe it, "Her children are so successful? That’s really different from her! I still remember the year she came back in such a sorry state... crying and whining, totally useless..."

She still recalls the year when Yu Wanhua returned with injuries all over, her frame nothing but skin and bones.

She said she wouldn’t stay with them anymore, and didn’t want the children either.

If it were her own daughter, she wouldn’t have allowed it, let alone a niece.

So, she hadn’t spared any effort in indirectly telling her to roll back where she came from; a divorcée couldn’t laze about eating free meals in her home.

Later, nobody knew whether Yu Wanhua came to her senses on her own or simply couldn’t bear to leave her children, but in the end, she went back.

Years later, they received a telegram stating that she had died of illness.

But their home was too poor to afford a train ticket to go there. And besides, what’s the point in seeing the dead?

Yu Qiushui took several harsh puffs and stubbed out his cigarette, "Exactly! I was also very surprised when I went there! None of the children resembled her, especially that eldest girl, who seemed very formidable!"

He was puzzled as to how Yu Wanhua’s children ended up doing so well.

Chen Zhaodi felt unsettled, "Maybe they take after the Lin family!" She asked worriedly, "Our Daming isn’t being bullied there, is he?"

"No! They’re not in the same place!"

"That’s a relief!"

"Mother! Don’t mention this to Qiutao either. Otherwise, if that family hears wind of it, our Daming really might not be safe!"

He knew what his sister was like, and if she knew that Yu Wanhua’s children were doing well, she might do something unexpected.

For the sake of his son, he had to keep this a secret for now; otherwise, he really didn’t want to come back at all.

Chen Zhaodi assured him fervently, "Don’t worry! I won’t tell her!"

But there is no wall in this world that doesn’t let some wind through.

Yu Qiushui thought that by reminding the old lady to keep her mouth tight, Yu Qiutao wouldn’t find out.

The very next day, after returning to her parents’ home, Yu Qiutao still learned about her brother’s trip to Spring City.

"Mother! Look at this, there’s no point in hiding it from me! What difference does it make if I know? Can I even go there?"

Chen Zhaodi patted her arm, "You know Daming left to avoid trouble, so don’t run your mouth and let someone with ill-intentions hear."

"Don’t worry! It won’t go any further than me!" Qiutao said as she probed, "Mother! Yu Wanhua’s children must be in their twenties by now, right? Are they married? Do they have jobs?"

Chen Zhaodi mumbled, "According to your brother, they aren’t married yet..." She didn’t mention how well they were doing.

Yu Qiutao never thought that Yu Wanhua’s children would amount to anything, so she didn’t press the matter further.

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