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

Chapter 44 Liu Yongming Goes Mad

With things getting out of hand, the police station was right next door, and the officers arrived quickly.

Upon questioning, it turned out that Liu Li had provoked them first. Looking at Liu Li's wretched face, the police officers couldn't help but facepalm. "Pay up! There's nothing more to say!"

Ma Cuihua slammed her fist on the table in a rage, “What compensation! Those fish didn’t die, why should we pay for them? My daughter’s face is disfigured, why shouldn’t they pay for that? I think you’re all in cahoots.”

"Just because they say the fish can't be sold! Who told Liu Li to cause trouble? Either pay compensation or detain her! Even if you detain her, she'll still cause trouble for you!" The police officer was so angry that he lost his temper.

Some people wanted to speak up for Liu Li because of her young age, but when they looked back at Lin Qin's two bleeding arms, they swallowed their words.

Xu Manzhi rushed to the police station after receiving the news. She wiped away her tears in front of the police officers and said that Chen Wenjun had beaten her husband.

The police officer, enraged, yelled, "Stop with the nonsense, pay up right now!"

Xu Manzhi was so frightened that her heart trembled, and she forced back her tears, silently taking out money from her pocket.

Lin Qin carefully counted the money, handed it to Chen Wenjun, rolled her eyes at Ma Cuihua and the others, and walked away arrogantly.

Ma Cuihua couldn't catch her breath and looked like she was about to collapse.

Seeing that things were going badly, Lin Qin quickly grabbed Chen Wenjun and ran away.

The two had only run a dozen meters when they heard shouts coming from the police station, "Take them to the hospital! Take them to the hospital right away!"

Chen Wenjun dared not linger and hurriedly took Lin Qin towards the Guoxing Hotel.

They only stopped and gasped for breath after they had walked quite a distance.

"Oh my god! I almost got scammed!" Lin Qin clutched her chest, still shaken.

Chen Wenjun looked at her hand with concern, "We need to take her to the health center to get it treated."

Lin Qin shook her head vigorously, "No, just apply some hemostatic herbs, why bother with all that?"

"It doesn't hurt! It's like injuring the enemy a thousand, but also losing eight hundred of your own." Chen Wenjun felt pain just looking at it.

Lin Qin laughed like a child, "It's alright! I really went all out. Liu Li's condition is several times more serious than mine, and she'll definitely have a scar. My injury will be fine in a couple of days."

Chen Wenjun shook his head.

It rained all night, and there were puddles everywhere on the road. When the two of them arrived at Zheng Guoxing's place, their shoes were covered in mud, and they looked quite disheveled. They didn't even plan to go in.

When Zheng Guoxing saw the blood on Lin Qin's arm, he was immediately alarmed and quickly sent his mother in to get some mercurochrome.

What's wrong with you guys?

Lin Qin grinned, her smile radiant. "It's nothing! I had a fight with a woman, that felt great!"

Since it was a fight between women, Zheng Guoxing didn't want to ask too many questions. His gaze fell on the bucket, and he immediately laughed, "Hey! Why are there so many big blackfish today? Did you stir up a blackfish nest?"

A pound of black carp costs 2.2 yuan, which is more valuable than crucian carp and common carp.

Chen Wenjun joked, "I've been saving this up for several days, so I'm just bringing it all out to sell now."

Zheng Guoxing believed him and paid eighty-five yuan.

Chen Wenjun inquired about the prices of cement, sand, gravel, and red bricks.

Zheng Guoxing raised an eyebrow and asked with great interest, "Are you preparing to start building the house?"

Chen Wenjun nodded with a simple smile, "We do have that plan. After all, it's a deserted island. We want to raise the foundation, and there are ready-made stones on the mountain, but we need a lot of cement and gravel."

“That’s true! I have a brother who does road construction projects. I can introduce you to him. If you buy together with him, you can get a significant discount.” Zheng Guoxing glanced at his time as he spoke. “I have to get busy later. I’ll let him know if he comes over in the next couple of days. You two can talk to each other!”

Thank you very much.

Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin returned to the fishing boat in high spirits.

When Lin Yi saw Lin Qin's hands, his expression changed instantly. "Did those people from the Liu family do this?"

Seeing Lin Yi's agitated state, Lin Qin quickly explained, "Dad! It's not what you think. This time, I beat up Liu Li. I don't know if Ma Cuihua is still angry. I don't dare to go there for a while."

"What's going on?" Lin Yi asked, completely bewildered.

Chen Wenjun reluctantly recounted what had happened.

Lin Yi sat back down with a sigh of relief, muttering, "As long as we weren't bullied, whether Ma Cuihua lives or dies is none of our business."

After thinking about it, he felt it was not safe, so he said, "I think you should stay on the island and clear the land for the next few days, and don't go anywhere else, so as not to be extorted by the Liu family again."

Lin Qin nodded obediently. Her hands were too conspicuous now, so she could stay at home and do chores.

After discussing it as a family, they immediately put the Liu family's affairs out of their minds.

Liu Yongming was released from the police station after spending most of the day there. When he got home, he found no one there. He asked his neighbor and learned that Ma Cuihua was hospitalized, so he rushed to the hospital immediately.

When he finally reached the ward, the first person he saw was Liu Li, who was "disfigured".

"Little sister! Your face!"

Upon hearing the sound, Liu Li looked over and immediately burst into tears, crying pitifully, "Second brother, that bitch Lin Qin messed up my face like this and even made Mom go to the hospital! You have to help us get revenge!"

"Second brother, your eldest brother was also beaten by Lin Qin's man, and his back still hurts!" Xu Manzhi accused angrily.

Ma Cuihua lay on the bed wiping away tears, "Second brother, Lin Qin is really going to drive me crazy, she really doesn't want me to live!"

"That bitch! I'm going to kill her! Ah!" Liu Yongming kicked the door angrily, his face contorted with rage.

Xu Manzhi shuddered and tentatively asked, "Fang Ying... no, Fang Meixiang, how is she?"

Ma Cuihua, lying on the bed, snapped out of her daze, immediately wiped away her tears, and anxiously asked, "Where's my grandson? Is my grandson alright?"

Liu Yongming's face grew increasingly grim, and he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, "That bitch wasn't carrying a son at all, she gave birth to a daughter!"

"What?! My grandson is gone?" Ma Cuihua's eyes went blank, and she fainted again before she could catch her breath.

The ward was in complete chaos.

Not wanting to be blamed by everyone, Liu Yongming angrily left and went to Shanglin Village to settle accounts with Lin Qin.

He sped along the muddy road on his bicycle. When he was almost at Shanglin Village, he picked up a thick stick by the roadside, hid the bicycle in the bushes outside the village, and swung the stick at Lin Yi's house.

Seeing that Lin Yi's house was locked, he didn't care and smashed the lock in a fit of rage. The earthenware pots and bricks in the kitchen were all damaged, and the firewood by the courtyard wall was also messed up.

Even after doing all that, he was still not satisfied. Remembering the plot of land where he had put sacks on Lin Yi, he rushed over and smashed the vegetables in the field.

Upon receiving the news, Lin Qingxiang rushed over with his son Lin Jun, roaring, "Stop! You son of a bitch, how dare you destroy my vegetable garden! I'll beat you to death!"

Liu Yongming wasn't afraid at all. He waved his stick and shouted, "What's it to you! Tell that bitch Lin Qin to get out here! She dared to hit my sister and my mother, so if she has the guts, she should come out and deal with me!"

When the brigade leader arrived, he saw that Liu Yongming had almost destroyed everything in the vegetable garden. He sighed and said seriously, "I don't care which village or community you're from. If you destroy someone else's property, you have to compensate them. Otherwise, we'll call the police."

(End of this chapter)