Chapter 572: – Xia Tian’s temporary leave
After New Year’s Eve, the festive atmosphere at Lin Jin’s place suddenly disappeared.
On the second day of the new year, her mom took Lin Chen back to their hometown to visit their maternal grandparents for Chinese New Year’s greetings. Apparently she planned to go back on the fourth, while Lin Chen would stay at their grandparents’ place until school started.
Originally, her mom wanted to take Lin Jin along too, but suddenly remembering how their grandfather rejected Lin Jin, as well as those relatives of theirs, her mom decided to leave Lin Jin in Xiamen so that she wouldn’t be hurt.
“Don’t go back for these three years. I’ll talk to those relatives these years, they should be able to accept you after three years.”
That was her last sentence before leaving.
Lin Jin actually had a lot of fondness for her maternal grandfather. Her paternal grandparents had died when she was still little and her dad used to be away from home for a long time running a business. So she and Lin Chen used to frequently go to their grandparents’ house on the weekends.
At that time, as a grandson, she had never received any unfair treatment. Even when she and her cousin, the son of her grandfather’s son, would get in trouble, it was always her cousin who got scolded instead of her.
Although Lin Jin did get beat by her grandfather for causing trouble when she was little, he would always buy her the best food whenever she visited.
But now that was gone.
After her mom and Lin Chen left, what was her mom’s room was completely turned into a live streaming room. Even though there was still a bed, no one used it anymore.
After the Chinese New Year, Xia Tian’s restaurant slowly started to get popular. At meal times, there would be about seven or eight tables of customers. It wasn’t many, but if those tables ordered a lot, then the restaurant could still make a net income of several thousand a day.
Things were good at the restaurant again and the manager was able to handle the daily tasks. The restaurant started hiring again, dishwashers, kitchen assistants, servers, and so on. Basically every position needed three or four people.
Wages in Xiamen were still quite expensive. Even servers earned around four thousand yuan, plus a three hundred yuan attendance bonus put by Xia Tian.
For now, Xia Tian didn’t need to be at the restaurant every day and Lin Jin also had no classes. Even though they still needed to stream, two people doing it together was much more comfortable than one person streaming alone.
They would get up at eight in the morning and then live stream until twelve every day. After lunch, the two would go out in the afternoon, whether it was Gulangyu Island, Zhongshan Road, or other spots in Xiamen, Xia Tian rented a car and took Lin Jin around every day.
Sometimes, when Lin Jin didn’t want to go too far, they would just go to the theaters and watch the holiday releases.
She had to admit that the standards for this year’s releases were quite high. Detective Chinatown 2 had Lin Jin laughing so hard that she nearly fell out of her seat, especially that scene where the bearded uncle was dancing with Wang Baoqiang. As for Operation Red Sea, it was similarly great, probably the best war movie of the season.
Even though the ratings weren’t that high, Wanda had very few showings for that movie over the New Year’s. It was also a bit too bloody, somewhat too much for Lin Jin.
After playing and messing around a few days, Xia Tian needed to go home.
Even though he didn’t return the couple of days before Chinese New Year’s Eve, he still needed to go back for New Year’s greetings. In other words, for these five days, Xia Tian would be gone.
Although Lin Jin also wanted to go, the live streaming would be interrupted if she went as well.
Somewhat reluctantly watching Xia Tian leave with a big backpack, Lin Jin curled up on the sofa and let out a sigh.
Even though Xia Tian was also normally out doing stuff, but this was the longest period of time that Xia Tian would be gone for.
Ever since they confirmed their relationship, it really would be the longest period where she wouldn’t see Xia Tian.
Lin Jin pouted unhappily, then hurried to the window to look down at Xia Tian that was already in the community courtyard. Xia Tian also seemed to have sensed her gaze. Turning around, he spotted Lin Jin standing by the window and waved at her, he then continued walking out.
Five days.
Originally, Xia Tian had planned to go for ten days.
But Lin Jin very firmly disagreed. In the end, it was changed to five days.
Lin Jin was somewhat exhausted as she walked into the bedroom. She blankly sat on the bed and zoned out.
She wasn’t dazed for long before there was a knock at the door. She rushed to open it, only to see Teacher Lin standing there with a box of yogurt in her hand.
“I’m here to wish you a happy Chinese New Year.” Teacher Lin walked in with a giggle.
Teacher Lin had visited once before when Lin Jin got engaged, so she was already familiar with the place. She directly placed the yogurt in the dining room cabinet and then turned to look at Lin Jin, who was still standing at the main door.
“What? I’m not welcome?”
“How’s that possible.” Lin Jin closed the door and looked at Teacher Lin somewhat strangely “How come you’re here as soon as Xia Tian leaves?”
“Isn’t this for New Year’s greetings? Xia Tian left? To where?”
“He went back to his hometown for New Year’s greetings.” Lin Jin shrugged “He said that since we were engaged, he needed to go back and tell his relatives, that way they wouldn’t keep dragging him on blind dates in the future.”
“You believe that crap? Maybe he has a beautiful childhood friend in his hometown.” Teacher Lin smiled so wide her eyes were squinted. She wasn’t like a guest at all, directly sitting down on the sofa, took out Xia Tian’s tea leaves, and started making herself some tea.
“So why exactly are you here?” Lin Jin wasn’t dumb. Xia Tian just left and Teacher Lin showed up. If it wasn’t a coincidence, then could it be that Teacher Lin was monitoring her?
“Your husband called me over, okay. He said he’s worried you’d be bored.”
Teacher Lin spilled the truth without any hesitation: “So that’s to say! I will be living here for five days! Until Xia Tian comes back!”
The f*ck? Xia Tian, you’re sending me to the wolves!
Lin Jin stared at her in confusion.
“I’m tired of staying at home. My mom keeps dragging me to go on blind dates every day, we’ve only been on break for a few days! I’ve already been on eight blind dates! It’s insane.” Teacher Lin raised her head and complained to Lin Jin standing beside her “I’m so beautiful, why’s she in such a hurry to marry me out! This year after the New Years, I’m still not even thirty yet, okay!”
Lin Jin sat down next to her, tilting her head and joked: “But you’ll be soon, right? When you’re thirty, you’ll be an old leftover woman, and your attractiveness will immediately drop a lot.”
“That’s other people. I’m so pretty, even at forty I’ll have a bunch of guys chasing me!”
“That’s maybe in your dreams?”
Lin Jin huddled half her body on the sofa and yawned. Her gloomy mood just had lightened a lot thanks to Teacher Lin.
People like Teacher Lin seemed to be born to make others happy. As long as she was around, no matter how much Lin Jin was annoyed at her, Lin Jin would still be in a good mood.
Watching Teacher Lin skillfully brew the tea and then take a sip, Lin Jin suddenly stood up and asked “Have you had lunch yet?”
“Not yet!”
“Perfect. My mom made a bunch of dishes on New Year’s Eve, even now we haven’t finished. Help finish them with me.”
“I’m a guest! Yet you’re actually making me eat leftovers.”
“Aren’t I as the host also eating it? Besides, it tastes quite good once you heat them up, stop complaining.”