Chapter 452: – No Problems!
After chatting for a bit downstairs with her cousin Wu Jia, Lin Jin saw her mom expressionlessly come out of the house. She glanced at Lin Jin and gave a helpless smile.
It looked like the talks broke down.
Lin Jin stood up and walked forward. Seeing her mom’s helpless expression, she suddenly felt a bit sad for some reason.
Sighing, Lin Jin gently hugged her mom. Then she lifted her head to look at her mom and didn’t really know what she should say.
"Where to now?" Lin Jin held her mom’s hand, feeling a bit sorry for her. "Maybe we should just forget about it?"
Her mother sighed softly, then shook her head and complained: "After all these years, dad still refuses to accept you. Seriously, too old fashioned."
No um, it's only been a few months...
Lin Jin felt that it was because the black cat had scammed her mom. Otherwise, her mom wouldn’t have come so early to confess and get scolded by grandpa.
Sigh, she suddenly felt so wronged.
Of course, Lin Jin knew that the one who should feel wronged was her mom and not herself, but she just felt her nose start to tingle and tears begin to well up in her eyes.
"Alright, let's go." Her mother sighed. She turned back to look at the second floor balcony and found that the skinny grandpa was standing there glaring at them.
Lin Jin also turned back to look and saw her grandpa, who used to be the best grandpa to her. But now, the grandpa who always worried she didn’t eat enough or her clothes weren’t warm enough when she was little was now looking at her with a murderous gaze.
It was almost as if her grandpa had a grudge against her.
"Let's go." Lin Jin was completely disheartened. She let out a deep sigh and her mom led her by the hand towards the end of the street.
"Don't come back! Quickly get lost!"
Grandpa's angry voice came from behind. Her mother's steps were unsteady, almost falling to the ground. She barely held herself up, forced a bitter smile, and gently patted Lin Jin's head while softly saying: "It's okay, grandpa is just a bit old fashioned. We'll come back after a while. Once he figures it out, he won't treat us so badly."
"What about grandma?" Lin Jin lowered her head, accepting her mother's patting.
"Grandma's still okay, she just didn't say anything and watched from the side..." Mom shook her head. "Probably feels the same as your grandpa."
Is that so?
Lin Jin's grandma used to be the best to her. Even though Lin Jin was just her daughter’s son while her older cousin was her son’s son, she was still more fond of Lin Jin. Since Lin Jin was young, her grandma had treated her especially well. Whenever she bought something good, she'd always call Lin Jin over first to give her the best things before giving the rest to the other grandchildren.
In the past, whenever Lin Jin visited her grandparent’s house, because she especially liked the knife cut noodles from a nearby shop, her grandma would always unhesitatingly go buy some for her, even at night. Lin Jin at that time had also accepted her grandma’s kindness, never thinking otherwise.
When those who used to be extremely good to her, like her grandma and grandpa who doted on her, suddenly wanted to drive her away and even looked at her with murderous eyes, Lin Jin felt as if half of her world had collapsed.
Sitting in a three wheeled rickshaw unique to the countryside, Lin Jin rested her head on her mom’s shoulder, closed her eyes, and thought of the past.
The old man driving the rickshaw slowly pedaled the two to the village where her uncles lived.
"Mom, what do you think uncle and them will be like..."
After experiencing the failure with her grandparents, Lin Jin didn't have much hope for her uncle’s side either.
After all, her dad was so old fashioned. As her dad’s brother in law, her uncle would probably be the same.
Of course, when Lin Jin met with her uncle’s side before, she had felt they were pretty good people. Even when her dad had gambled to the point of nearing bankruptcy, they still continued on supporting him while lecturing him and even got swindled out of some money by her dad for gambling.
If Lin Jin was asked whether her uncle was an idiot by always being tricked, then she couldn’t agree. Lin Jin believed her uncle definitely had their own thoughts and had never really given up on her dad.
Then what about her?
Her dad had gambled away everything, but her uncle would continue to help her dad and never gave up on him. So then what about her, the nephew who turned into a girl?
Her uncle’s home was in a small village. Of course, it wasn’t a poor village, there were many modern buildings around. They had also bought houses in the city, but it seemed those were for her cousins after their wedding and they themselves preferred living in the countryside.
From her grandparent’s house to her uncle’s village took half an hour by rickshaw.
After half an hour, the two of them arrived at the village’s road.
"Sister Wu Juan?"
Just as they got off and paid, a woman around the same age as her mom called out: "You finally came back!"
"Sister Chen?" Mom turned around in confusion, but when she saw her old friend, she hurriedly went up to greet her. The sadness on her face disappeared in an instant and she said with a smile, "We haven’t met in so long, you still look so young."
"Aiya, don’t you know your man even sold the house in the city?"
Before their family moved to the city and her dad made a lot of money, aunt Chen was the person who treated her mom the best. Back then, Lin Jin was still young, but she was still able to remember that aunt Chen often bought extra fish, meat, and eggs to bring over to their house.
"I know."
"And you can still laugh about it?"
"It's fine, I made money in Guangdong. Also, I divorced him long ago. How he squanders money has nothing to do with me." Her mom happily held that Aunt Chen's hand. The two were just like close sisters as they started chatting about the past few years.
Ever since her mom divorced her dad when Lin Jin was ten, she had basically never been back here. The changes in the village over these years were shocking. The once dirt roads turned into paved roads. The once stinky public washrooms were also demolished and turned into beautiful… public washrooms.
Previously, both sides of the road were just gravel and overgrown weeds everywhere. But now, it had already been built into rows of houses and a large wedding hall. By the side was even an underground and above ground parking lot with cars of unknown value parked one after another.
For someone who came back every year like Lin Jin, these were already familiar sights. But for her mom, it was all so new. When she left back then, there was still a stinky ditch by the road, but now it had become a big and beautiful pond, with many kids by the pond fishing for crayfish using homemade hooks.
After her mom chatted with aunt Chen for a long time, only then did aunt Chen pretended to just notice Lin Jin and asked mom: "This is?"
"Lin Jin." Mom's expression immediately calmed down.
"Lin Jin?" Aunt Chen widened her eyes. She came over to Lin Jin, curiously pinched her little face, and then finally asked her in confusion, "Weren't you a boy?"
Before Lin Jin could answer, she just said to herself: "Oh right, Lin Jin used to wear girls' clothes every day when she was little. So there’s also no problem wearing them now."
No problem my ass...