Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 98 - 97: Fight Fire with Fire

Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Fight Fire with Fire

The next day, Lin Xia and the others started pickling cabbage and preparing cabbages, potatoes, and radishes for the winter.

They didn’t skimp on the pickled vegetables; Lin Xia estimated that they would surely have leftovers well into the following spring.

After busying themselves all day, they ate meat dumplings for dinner, satiated and quenched, everyone retired to their rooms to sleep.

The following morning, Lin Qiu, just like Lin Xia, got ready and went to work at the garment factory.

Lin Xia told her to ride the ladies’ bicycle, while she rode Lin Chun’s large-frame bicycle.

Lin Chun had to go register for something not too far away, so she could just walk there.

Lin Dong also went to school, so all four of them left the house.

While Lin Xia was working, around nine o’clock when the saw stopped, someone told her there was a person looking for her outside.

Lin Xia guessed who it might be looking for her and suspected it might be Lin Aiguo!

Since Lin Aiguo had hit Lin Chun and returned to the mountains, he hadn’t come down until now.

He had come down for the National Day celebrations and surely hadn’t returned yet.

When Lin Xia saw Lin Aiguo standing at the entrance of her workplace, she thought to herself that this was their first encounter since the fight they had when she left home.

Lin Aiguo stood with a dark expression, hands behind his back, staring at Lin Xia as she walked out.

In just a short amount of time, his daughter had changed so much, it was as if she had become a completely different person.

That morning, he had set out from home and first went to Lin Chun’s workplace to settle accounts. He didn’t quite believe what Lin Qiang had told him, but it turned out they really said Lin Chun had taken extended leave.

He was infuriated, thinking about how many days of work had been wasted and how much money that would cost.

Not only was he missing today’s wages, but bonuses and attendance awards were also gone.

It was just a beating with a belt that Lin Chun took from him, she wasn’t crippled, no arms or legs missing, why on earth couldn’t she go to work?

Anger consumed him, and he immediately came to Lin Xia’s workplace, and this time she was actually there working.

And as soon as he inquired for her, Lin Xia came out from the workplace...

Lin Aiguo, holding back his anger, asked Lin Xia, "Where’s your salary?" He planned to collect her salary and then harshly discipline this unruly child, who had now become utterly lawless.

Lin Xia looked at him fearlessly and coldly replied, "I spent it all!" Even if she had given the salary to Lin Aiguo, he’d surely berate her, so why squander the money for nothing.

"You’ve really grown bold! Still, dare to talk to me with that attitude! I’m going to teach you a lesson! A few days without a beating and you’re tearing off the roof tiles!" Lin Aiguo was completely enraged by Lin Xia’s attitude; no one had dared to sass him like this for so many years, and he swung his arm, about to hit her!

Lin Xia nimbly dodged and quickly pulled out a knife, staring coldly at him, "If you dare hit me, don’t blame me for not being polite!"

She was always prepared, just in case Lin Aiguo came looking for trouble.

She was willing to endure any name-calling, but only if she didn’t suffer any losses.

Being beaten was out of the question; if someone hit her once, she had to hit back twice! Three times!

Lin Aiguo was almost driven mad by rage, looking at what he’d raised: some ungrateful beast daring to threaten him with a knife?

"Let’s see how you’re going to be impolite!"

He didn’t believe this would stop him, and he swung a massive slap toward Lin Xia.

Lin Xia calmly watched Lin Aiguo as he approached; she raised the knife and fiercely stabbed it towards his arm.

Lin Aiguo saw the fierce light in her eyes wasn’t just for show, and he quickly stepped back, withdrawing his arm, his face red with anger as he stared at Lin Xia and cursed, "I am your father! You ungrateful beast, you actually dare to strike!"

Is this still his daughter? How come she looks like a complete stranger to him!

Lin Xia looked at him nonchalantly, "What’s there not to dare! I am just this ungrateful!"

She had nothing sensible to talk about with Lin Aiguo; in his eyes, they deserved to be hit, deserved to be cut down—they were indebted to him!

So, she decided to fight violence with violence!

Lin Aiguo was so angry he didn’t even know what words to use to curse her!

"How did I raise such a bitch! When you were born I should’ve just strangled you right then and there, saving me from you waving knives around now!"

He had lived for so many years, not without hearing about unfilial children who beat and cursed their parents, but he never imagined that one day it would happen to him.

Lin Xia sneered, "All that talk is useless! You’re here to find me, you won’t get money, only a life! If you’ve got the guts, kill me right now!" She was absolutely ready to see it through, but she doubted Lin Aiguo had the nerve!

Lin Aiguo took a deep breath, hands on his hips, and pointed at Lin Xia while cursing loudly, "Lin Xia! I’m telling you, don’t think that just because you wave that damn knife around, I won’t dare to kill you!

I’m giving you face because we’re in front of your workplace. Don’t push your luck! Where’s Lin Chun? Where the hell has he gone! Why isn’t he at work?"

Truth be told, Lin Aiguo inwardly felt both anger and fear, but as a father, he couldn’t be intimidated by her, or it would be the end of him.

Could Lin Xia not see through Lin Aiguo’s attempt to appear strong despite his weakness?

It seems that’s how people are; the fierce fear the ruthless, and the ruthless fear those who are desperate. Normally, he was just like a Chapter and verse for his wife and kids to use when they felt like it.

"How could he work after you beat him like that? What work?"

Lin Aiguo, neck stiff with anger, shouted furiously, "It was just a whipping with a belt, how bad could it be? Is he missing an arm or a leg? I am your father, I could beat you to death! What would you do then?"

In his view, his wife and children were clay in his hands, to mould however he liked; he thought of himself as the absolute authority, with all the right in the world!

Besides, when he whipped Lin Chun, he made sure not to hit the head, thinking the boy was already not clever; there was no need to beat him senseless.

Lin Xia said coolly, "Can’t do much! If you kill us, just wait for the firing squad!"

Lin Aiguo laughed with rage, "Come on! Stab me! Stab me to death and see what good it does you!"

Lin Xia swallowed her saliva. As Lin Aiguo kept closing in on her, with disdain and ferocity in his eyes, it was as if she were witnessing the scenes of the past all over again.

Lin Aiguo noticed her nervousness. He lifted his foot, trying to trip Lin Xia and knock her down. A grown man like him couldn’t lose to a little girl; that would be the end of him!

But in a split second, Lin Xia’s knife stabbed swiftly towards Lin Aiguo’s shoulder.

Lin Aiguo dodged in a panic, not expecting her to actually go through with it!

At that moment, Yu Hongmei ran out of the workplace too, just in time to witness this scene, and let out a piercing scream!

She had heard someone was looking for Lin Xia and felt a knot in her stomach, suspecting it might be her uncle.

She knew all too well her uncle’s temper—this could easily end with Lin Xia getting a severe beating!

However, as she rushed out, what she saw was Lin Xia holding a sharp knife, stabbing at her uncle; her uncle, in retreat, had a face filled with shock and anger, his forehead veins about to burst.

She was inwardly shocked to death—when had Lin Xia become so cruel and heartless? And to use a knife against her own father!

Yu Hongmei rushed forward, desperately trying to calm the situation, "Lin Xia! Put the knife down first! What will people think if they see this? Do you even care about your reputation anymore?"

She felt that one should help according to justice, not relationship, and indeed she was empathizing from Lin Xia’s standpoint; what child would play with knives against their father? If word of this got out, the spittle alone would drown her!

But Lin Xia didn’t let go, still in a posture ready to stab at any moment, "Sister Hongmei! Stay out of this!"

She knew Yu Hongmei meant well, but she and Lin Aiguo had to settle things once and for all today.