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

Chapter 45 Stealing a Car
Liu Yongming burst into laughter, "Don't try to scare me by calling the police! That bitch Lin Qin provoked me first! She deserves to die!"

The team leader frowned, looking puzzled. "No... what does Lin Qin's harassment have to do with Lin Qingxiang? You destroyed his vegetable garden and you still think you're right?"

Liu Yongming glared at the people in front of him with a sinister look. "Don't try to fool me! This vegetable garden belongs to Lin Qin!"

The captain nodded repeatedly, "You're right, this land does belong to Lin Yi, but he can't farm it anymore after his injury. This land was given to Lin Qingxiang to farm a long time ago, and they even have a written agreement. What you're doing now is destroying the vegetables Lin Qingxiang was growing, so you have to compensate him!"

The surrounding villagers nodded in agreement and pointed at Liu Yongming.

Liu Yongming shook his head angrily, "No! I don't believe it! You've all conspired to deceive me! You're all in cahoots! You'll all die a horrible death!"

The villagers couldn't understand what "birds of a feather" meant, but they clearly heard Liu Yongming cursing them to "die a horrible death."

Several young men couldn't stand it any longer and rushed over to give Liu Yongming a good beating.

The captain was angry, but he didn't try to persuade him. He just stood by and watched, waiting for the police to arrive.

The local police officers were shocked when they entered the village and saw the completely destroyed vegetable fields. "Who did this?! Who ruined the crops like this?"

Life was so hard back then! Everyone had suffered, and no matter how much trouble we caused, we couldn't joke about the prospects of the land; that was an unspoken rule.

I can't believe someone destroyed an entire vegetable garden today! This is unforgivable!
As soon as the police officer shouted, the villagers all pointed at Liu Yongming, who was lying on the ground groaning.

Two police officers stepped forward, grabbed Liu Yongming, and spat on the ground. "You bastard! You won't behave even if we lock you up for a few days! Take you away!"

Liu Yongming struggled frantically, shouting, "You can't arrest me! They beat me like this! I'm going to sue them!"

"I'll sue you for the like...!" The police officer unleashed a torrent of abuse, leaving Liu Yongming no chance to utter a word.

Lin Qingxiang hurriedly chased after him, sobbing and crying, "Officer, this vegetable garden is all my hard work! I didn't offend him, but he's acting like a madman, taking his anger out on my vegetable garden. I can't just let my losses go like this!"

The police officer took a deep breath and nodded. "Don't worry, we will recover your losses."

After Liu Yongming was taken away, the villagers stood at the village entrance discussing it for half an hour before going back.

Lin Qingxiang looked at the completely destroyed vegetable garden, his face long and about to start cursing, when Lin Shaojun winked at him and frowned, "What's wrong? Are you having an eyelid twitch?"

Lin Shaojun quickly lowered his voice and said, "No! Dad! I just found a bicycle lying in the bushes, it's most likely Liu Yongming's."

Lin Qingxiang's eyes widened instantly, and he subconsciously looked around. "Really? Did anyone else see it?"

Lin Shaojun shook his head, "No! Just now, when that bastard smashed our vegetable garden, I was thinking of going out to find a stick to fight him, but I couldn't find a stick, and I found his bicycle first."

I towed the car to the ditch behind the bushes; I'm sure no one will find it. What should I do?

Lin Qingxiang looked around, clutching his wildly beating heart, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Liu Yongming ruined our vegetables, so he'll have to pay for it with his bicycle! You break the lock, ride it to Nanxi to find your Uncle Yi, and ask them to help you get the bicycle to the county town across from Nanxi to sell. Let's see how Liu Yongming finds out then!"

Lin Shaojun's eyes lit up, and he nodded hurriedly. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, he quickly picked the lock, then carried the bicycle and took a shortcut out of the Shangcun woodland. After that, he rode the bicycle and sped towards Nanxi.

He arrived at his destination in half an hour. He hid his bicycle first, then stood on the shore and shouted, "Uncle Yi, Sister Aqin!"

Lin Yi, who was fishing on the deck, vaguely heard shouts and hurriedly shouted to Chen Wenjun, who was working on the deserted island: "Wenjun, I heard someone calling me and Aqin!"

Chen Wenjun immediately dropped what he was doing and rushed over. After he rowed the boat out, he indeed found Lin Shaojun standing on the shore and immediately went to meet him.

With Chen Wenjun's help, Lin Shaojun and his bicycle got on the boat.

This was Lin Shaojun's first time on a five-awning boat, and everything was new and exciting.

Lin Yi took out some snacks that Lin Qin had bought to treat him and asked, "Why did you suddenly decide to go to the other side of Nanxi?"

Lin Shaojun didn't hide anything and told him how Liu Yongming destroyed the vegetable garden and how he found Liu Yongming's bicycle.

Lin Yi turned pale with fright and quickly put the bicycle back into the cabin, saying nervously, "Did no one see you doing this bicycle?"

Lin Shaojun shook his head, "Don't worry, Uncle Yi, my dad and my uncle have already talked to each other. If anyone suspects anything, my uncle will just say that I borrowed his bicycle and came over. No one will suspect anything."

Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief, but then said worriedly, "That Liu Yongming is a lunatic. Luckily we're not in the village, or we'd be done for today!"

Lin Shaojun thought so too. "Uncle, I see you've been taking good care of yourself lately and have gained a lot of weight. If you ask me, you shouldn't go back to the village anytime soon. You should stay here. Liu Yongming is a ticking time bomb; he's too dangerous."

Chen Wenjun put down the bamboo pole and walked over. "Dad, listen to Shaojun. I'll teach you how to pole the boat in a bit. Starting tomorrow, when I go to sell fish, you can take the boat away and wait for me to come back to pick it up. It's not safe to leave it moored on the shore."

He had a premonition that Liu Yongming had given up all hope. If the Liu family couldn't control him, that madman would definitely take revenge on Lin Qin. He couldn't let that madman have a chance.

Lin Yi looked back at the bicycle in the cabin, still extremely worried. "Shaojun, what do you plan to do with this bicycle?"

Lin Shaojun grinned and said, "I plan to sell it in the county town across the Nanxi River."

"Do you know which car buyback company is reliable?" Chen Wenjun asked.

Lin Shaojun's expression froze; he really didn't know!

Chen Wenjun pondered for a moment and said, "How about this, let's get the bicycle to Nanyu and hide it first. Once things have calmed down, I'll help you sell it. That way, everything will be foolproof."

"Nanyu? What place is that?" Lin Shaojun was completely confused. Did they have such a place name in their area?
Lin Yi's brows relaxed, and he smiled smugly: "Nanyu is a deserted island that Wenjun and Aqin bought. They are going to build a house on it and they are already laying the foundation."

Lin Shaojun's pupils dilated in shock as he stared at Chen Wenjun in disbelief. "You bought an island? My God! Is it really true?"

He felt like he was hallucinating.

Chen Wenjun laughed, "You'll see when I take you there!"

The group arrived on the deserted island.

Lin Shaojun was stunned. The wasteland being cleared in front of him was real, not fake. Chen Wenjun had really bought a deserted island!
"My goodness! This whole area belongs to you?"

Chen Wenjun nodded. "To be precise, all these wastelands and slopes belong to us. We didn't buy the mountains because they have no development value and too many holes on them, making them unsafe. But here, no one is competing with us for them."

The power company came and laid the electricity lines a while ago, and now the island has electricity; all that's missing are the houses.

(End of this chapter)