Back to 1984: Earning Money, Raising Kids, and Keeping the Household Busy

Chapter 19 The Threat from Lin Qin

Lin Qin paused for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Your expression reminds me! Divorce! We must get a divorce! Let's get a divorce today! If you can't come up with five hundred yuan today, I'll take a long-distance bus to your school first thing tomorrow morning to have tea with your school leaders."

"If I can cause trouble at Liu Li's school, I can cause trouble at yours. Want to take a gamble?"

"Lin Qin! I'll kill you!" Liu Yongming viciously grabbed Lin Qin's neck.

Lin Qin decisively took out her small pencil and knife and slashed his hand hard.

Liu Yongming cried out in pain and immediately let go of his hand to cover his wound.

Bright red blood kept seeping out from between his fingers.

Lin Ying and Lin Yi were both dumbfounded.

Lin Qin, like a madwoman, brandished a small knife and approached step by step. "Liu Yongming, sometimes I really feel like I'm not mentally stable. You just choked me, what would happen if I stabbed you now? It's fine if you don't give me money, I'll stab you a few times as a way of making you owe me!"
Then I'll go to your school and your workplace and cause trouble, what do you say? Hahahaha.”

Liu Yongming was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly and ran out of the ward in a disheveled state.

Lin Qin strode to the ward entrance and shouted, "If I don't see five hundred yuan today, I will definitely take a bus to the provincial capital tomorrow to find your school leaders. I mean what I say!"

Lin Ying rushed out and snatched the knife from Lin Qin's hand, crying and cursing, "Are you crazy? Why did you use a knife? What if you hurt yourself? Is it worth ruining your life for that kind of scum? What will happen to Ya Ya if something really happens to you? What will happen to Dad and me?"

Lin Qin silently shed tears, first went to the bathroom to wash the blood off her hands and body, and then washed her face.

By the time they returned to the ward, there was no sign of anything unusual.

Lin Yi kept sighing, "Five hundred yuan is no small amount. I'm afraid the Liu family can't even scrape together that much. If you really want a divorce, just talk to him properly. Why make things difficult for him? What if you push him too far and he does something drastic?"

“Dad! When I married into the Liu family, my dowry included money and gifts totaling about 150 yuan. Over the years, I’ve worked like a slave in the Liu family, but I haven’t received a single penny. And what about Ya Ya? Ya Ya is his daughter. Hasn’t he mistreated Ya Ya enough over the years? I only want 500 yuan. Compared to his future prospects, what is that?”

After Lin Qin made this calculation, Lin Yi and Lin Ying immediately fell silent.

Anyway, Lin Qin has already stated her conditions. If Liu Yongming can't meet them, then that's Liu Yongming's problem.

To prevent Liu Yongming from resorting to desperate measures, Lin Yi specifically asked Lin Ying to borrow the phone at the nurses' station to call Lin Qingxiang for help.

After learning about the situation, Lin Qingxiang immediately brought his son, Lin Shaojun, to support Lin Qin.

When the father and son arrived at the hospital, they learned that Lin Yi had not called Lin Zhi and his two nephews at all.

Lin Qingxiang casually asked, "That bastard Lin Zhi hasn't come by at all these past few days while you've been hospitalized?"

News of Lin Yi being beaten and hospitalized has spread, causing quite a stir in their area. The police are still investigating, and village chiefs and brigade leaders in various villages have increased patrols, fearing that such an incident might happen again.

Under these circumstances, it was impossible for Lin Zhi's family not to know.

Lin Yi shook his head and said with a wry smile, "I saw through it long ago. It's better to rely on you than on them."

Lin Qingxiang was furious, then looked at Lin Qin and said, "Good job, girl! You have to stand on your own two feet. If you don't, no one will know how to help you."

Go ahead and do whatever you want, your uncle and your brother Shaojun will back you up!

"Thank you, Uncle Qingxiang and Brother Shaojun." Lin Qin thanked the two of them solemnly.

With them around, she wasn't afraid of the Liu family causing trouble. Meanwhile, on Liu Yongming's side...

The slash Lin Qin made almost damaged his blood vessels. After his wound was treated at the hospital, he rushed back to the Liu family home to ask Ma Cuihua for money.

"Mom, how much money do you have? Lend me some. That crazy woman Lin Qin is asking for an exorbitant amount. She wants five hundred, or she'll take a bus to my school first thing tomorrow morning and cause a scene. If this gets out, my future will be ruined!"

Ma Cuihua was filled with shock and rage. Her shrill screams could pierce eardrums, "What? Five hundred! Why doesn't she just rob me! She has no money! I'd rather die with her!"

Ma Cuihua angrily tried to rush out.

Liu Yongming quickly hugged her, "Mom, please stop making a scene! Look at my hands."

Liu Yongming stretched out his arm, which was wrapped in a ball. Blood seeped through the gauze from the exertion, a shocking sight.

Ma Cuihua's eyes widened immediately. "What happened? How did this happen?"

"That crazy woman Lin Qin tried to cut me with a knife. If I hadn't run away quickly, she really would have killed me!" Liu Yongming's face darkened as he thought of Lin Qin's crazy appearance, and his tone became more urgent. "Mom! No matter what, I can't gamble. If she can cause trouble at my younger sister's school, she can cause trouble at my school too. Aren't you still counting on me to bring honor to the family?"

I'm graduating soon! With Fang Ying's dad pulling strings for me, I'm sure I'll get a good job. If something goes wrong at this crucial moment, all our hard work over the years will be for nothing!

Ma Cuihua's expression kept changing.

She understood the principles Liu Yongming was talking about, but she really couldn't bring herself to take out five hundred yuan!

“Son, we really don’t have five hundred yuan! Over the years, you’ve been studying, and we’ve also had to take care of your sister-in-law. There are so many people in the family, and we have to spend money on food, drink, and everything else. We also lost more than a hundred yuan recently, so now I only have a little over three hundred yuan left.”

Ma Cuihua said with a worried expression.

Liu Yongming's face stiffened for a moment, then he said, "Give it to me first, and I'll ask 'Fang Ying' to figure out a way to scrape together five hundred. I'll definitely get this money back after the divorce, you can trust me!"

Ma Cuihua finally burst into tears, "Son, if we give all this money to your mother, we'll starve!"

"Mom! I just borrowed it, I'll pay you back in a while!"

After Liu Yongming repeatedly assured her, Ma Cuihua reluctantly took out all her savings.

After receiving the money, Liu Yongming immediately returned to his rented room to borrow money from "Fang Ying".

When Fang Ying heard that Lin Qin wanted 500 yuan to get a divorce, she was so angry that her face twisted in anger. "Are you brainless? You actually agreed to such a condition!"

Liu Yongming also panicked, "What else can I do? She even dared to use a knife, she obviously doesn't want to live anymore. Am I supposed to fight her to the death? Aren't you in a hurry to get a marriage certificate with me?"

Also, did you hire human traffickers to kidnap Yaya?

Fang Ying immediately turned her head away guiltily.

Liu Yongming sneered, "You've done a good job! Lin Qin now knows we're the ones who made the move, and she's emboldened. She even asked me to go to the police station to cooperate with the investigation! Do you dare? Right now, the only thing to do is appease her, go along with her wishes and get a divorce. Afterwards, I'll steal that five hundred yuan back even if I have to!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Ying's attitude finally softened, and she began to whine pitifully, "I was just worried that you would suffer a loss! Since you have a way to get the money back, I'll listen to you. It's only a little over a hundred yuan. I'll ask a relative, and he will definitely lend it to you."

(End of this chapter)