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

Chapter 2 Lin Qin Calls the Police
Ma Cuihua was about to say something.

Lin Qin spoke first, "Turn left when you go out, then turn right after you get on the street, and keep going until you reach the three-way intersection. It's around there."

The four members of the Liu family immediately turned serious.

It seems Lin Qin is serious!
Liu Yongguo was about to leave when Lin Qin blocked the doorway, saying, "No one is leaving this house until the police arrive!"

"You bitch! Don't think I won't teach you a lesson!" Liu Yongguo threatened, clenching his fist.

Lin Zhi was forced to step in and support Lin Qin. "Since my second niece has already called the police, let's wait for them to arrive. If you make a move now, you won't be able to explain yourself when the police come!"

"That bitch bit my mother's arm until it bled. I could beat her to death and the police couldn't do anything to me!" Liu Yongguo said stubbornly, not believing that there was anything wrong with what he did.

Looking at Lin Qin's swollen face, Lin Zhi spoke with full confidence, "My second niece was also beaten by you. It's a tit-for-tat situation, nothing to say. I won't talk about what happened before since I didn't see it, but I'm right here now. If you make a move, things won't be so simple! We people from Shanglin Village are not to be trifled with!"

The director of the subdistrict office had been hiding in the crowd watching the commotion, but when Lin Zhi mentioned Shanglin Village, he had no choice but to stand up and warn Liu Yongguo with a dark face, "Comrade Liu Yongguo, Lin Qin is your sister-in-law, how can you just hit her like that? When men get involved in women's affairs, things change."

There's not much to say about women fighting; they're a family, so nothing too serious is bound to happen.

Men getting involved only escalates minor conflicts, making them harder to resolve, especially since Liu Yongguo is Lin Qin's brother-in-law; they should avoid any appearance of impropriety.

Once the neighborhood director spoke up, the neighbors immediately echoed his sentiments.

Seeing that the situation was not going well for them, Xu Manzhi quickly stepped forward and pulled Liu Yongguo back, signaling him to step back. She then put her hands on her hips and pointed at Lin Qin, scolding, "You did such a disgraceful thing, so what if I hit you? You made the Liu family a laughing stock on the whole street. I'm already being lenient by not kicking you out of the house!"
"You're ungrateful enough, but you've hurt Mom and your sister-in-law like this! Lin Qin, are you even human?"

Lin Qin didn't even glance at Xu Manzhi. She caught a glimpse of the man on the bed move out of the corner of her eye, and her eyes darkened slightly.

Chen Wenjun!
The man who framed her in her past life and ruined half her life was also the only man who cared about her!
In this life, they will never cross paths again!
Lin Qin heard the sound and looked towards the gate.

"Officer, this is the place." Lin Yi led two police officers into the room.

Before Lin Qin could speak, Xu Manzhi began to turn the tables, "Officers, you've come at the perfect time! Please save my mother-in-law and sister-in-law! This slut Lin Qin is having an affair with another man and she's even trying to kill my mother-in-law and sister-in-law!"

Lin Qin cooperated by turning her body to the side to let the police officer in.

The police officer frowned when he saw her swollen face. "Who is Lin Qin?"

"Yes, that's me," Lin Qin replied calmly.

Seeing her upright demeanor, the police officer raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Your father, Lin Yi, said you wanted to call the police. Tell me, what's going on?"

Lin Qin pointed at the four members of the Liu family, "They conspired to frame me, locking me and that strange man in a room and falsely accusing me of having an affair."

“Officer, she’s talking nonsense! This is our home, why would we frame her? We’d be too ashamed to face anyone if this got out!” Xu Manzhi responded cleverly, and even gave Lin Qin a smug look.

The police officers didn't listen to just one side of the story and continued to ask Lin Qin, "What evidence do you have to prove that they framed you?"

"I have!"

Everyone stared at Lin Qin in astonishment. What was the evidence? There was evidence for something like this?

Not only were the onlookers puzzled, but even the four members of the Liu family found it all baffling.

Lin Qin reached up and touched her head, where a large bump had formed and some sticky liquid was present. She then spread her hand out to show everyone, "This is the evidence! Tonight, I was squatting in the kitchen washing dishes when someone hit me on the head with a stick, and I don't remember anything after that." She only discovered this injury when she was brought back to Shanglin Village in her previous life, and it was because of this injury that she learned that she had been harmed by the Liu family.

Upon seeing the blood, the police officer's expression instantly turned serious. "Comrade Lin Qin, you need to go to the hospital immediately. We have already opened a case and will definitely investigate the matter thoroughly."

The neighbors who were watching the commotion were surprised to find that Lin Qin had such a large wound on her head. Their eyes turned fearful and unfamiliar as they looked at the four members of the Liu family.

"If this isn't handled properly, it could be murder!" Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the street director dared not try to smooth things over any longer and immediately reprimanded Ma Cuihua's family sternly, "You've gone too far!"

"It wasn't us! She's lying! We didn't hit her!" Ma Cuihua stubbornly denied it, shouting, "She's clearly guilty and trying to divert everyone's attention. We caught her in bed with someone else today! The adulterer is still lying there! She can't deny it!"

"Are you talking about me?"

Everyone looked at Chen Wenjun, who had woken up in bed.

He was seen covering his head with one hand and groping his body with the other, looking pained.

The police officer immediately noticed something was wrong. He stepped forward, pulled Chen Wenjun's hand away, and carefully felt it. His face darkened. "Comrade, are you also injured in the head?"

"Yes! Yes, yes, yes!" Chen Wenjun looked at the policeman's attire, grabbed his hand excitedly, and cried out anxiously, "Officer, my money has been stolen! My money is gone! Fifty-three yuan and twenty-five cents! That's fifty-three yuan and twenty-five cents!"

Everyone: "????"

Wasn't he caught messing around with women? Didn't he get a head injury? How come he's lost money again? And over fifty yuan at that! That's no small amount.

The police officer patiently reassured him, "Don't panic, tell me the details of what happened."

Chen Wenjun sat cross-legged on the bed, wiping away tears and sobbing, "I am a Tanka person from Nanxi, my name is Chen Wenjun. I came to the street to sell fish this afternoon, but business was not very good. I didn't sell out until it was almost dark. I was carrying my load and preparing to go back when someone hit me on the back with a stick in the alley and I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was here!"

He had barely finished speaking when an old man who had been watching the commotion suddenly shouted, "I know, I know! Tonight, Li San's mother carried two baskets and a carrying pole back home. There seemed to be some things inside. I could smell the fishy smell from afar, and I even argued with her a couple of times. I bet it's yours."

Nobody fishes here, so the thing's appearance was quite abrupt. The key point is that he asked Li San's mother if she had made a fortune, and the old woman scolded him for it.

Hmph! He can't let that old woman get away with this!
Another policeman immediately told the old man to take him to find Li San's mother.

Lin Qin stared blankly at the scene, her mind completely blank.

Chen Wenjun's reaction in his past life was completely different!

And about the money that was lost, wasn't that discovered later? And it wasn't this amount!
Before she could figure it out...

Chen Wenjun then urgently begged the police to help him get his money back.

While reassuring Chen Wenjun, the police officer carefully examined the four members of the Liu family.

The four members of the Liu family were completely panicked.

Liu Yongguo retorted excitedly, "Officer, he's talking nonsense! It's clear that he and Lin Qin were having an affair and he framed us. We didn't take his money!"

(End of this chapter)