Chapter 3: The Partial Father

The most important thing right now was to go back and tell his mother about his marriage to Lin Xiangyi, and let her go to the Lin family to propose marriage!

He straddled his bicycle, a pair of long legs, and pedaled away with a kick: “I have something to do, I’ll be off!”

“Hey, Brother Xiao!” Zhang Pengfei chased after him for a few steps, looking at Xie Qingxiao’s receding figure, he was exasperated: “Lin Xiangyi is a real fox spirit, she has charmed our Brother Xiao completely, even willing to be a spare tire, such a cheap thing!”

Lin Xiangyi didn’t know what happened after she entered the house.

It was already evening, and most of the employees had already gone home for dinner.

The Lin family lived in a very old two-story building, located in an old-fashioned area of ​​small flat houses, every household was cooking, and smoke was rising from the chimneys.

As soon as Lin Xiangyi entered her own courtyard, she saw her stepmother, Chen Fengmei, standing by the well, picking vegetables. When she saw her come back, she was immediately displeased:

“Oh, our little missy is back from playing? You must be tired, right? Go into the room and rest, I’ll make dinner and bring it to your room to feed our little missy, okay?”

She was sarcastically implying that Lin Xiangyi didn’t have a job and was out playing so late before coming back, leaving her to do all the housework.

After marrying Lin Shan, Chen Fengmei had been a housewife at home. Lin Shan was the workshop director of the meat joint factory, with a good salary and benefits, enough to support a family.

As for Lin Xiangyi and Lin Huihui, they were about the same age, and they both graduated from high school a year ago but didn’t get into college.

At that time, a large number of educated youths returned to the city, and jobs were in short supply. There were no positions available, and if you wanted to find a job, you had to wait for the street office’s notice.

Lin Shan used his connections to find a job for Lin Huihui at the textile factory.

Lin Xiangyi, however, remained idle at home.

Over the years, influenced by the plot, Lin Xiangyi had been in a daze, and many unreasonable plots had been rationalized by her self-PUA.

For example, although she clearly didn’t get along with Chen Fengmei and her daughter, and constantly clashed with them, Lin Xiangyi even felt that it was not good for her to eat for free at home, so she took on all the housework.

After she woke up, Lin Xiangyi wished she could slap herself. It wasn’t just her who was idle at home, Chen Fengmei was also idle at home!

Moreover, her father was going to find her a job, it was Chen Fengmei who, without knowing what she had whispered to her father, gave the job opportunity to Lin Huihui, spending more than a thousand yuan.

Why should she still take on all the housework?

So for the past three days, she hadn’t done anything.

It made Chen Fengmei, who had been a hands-off manager for a year, furious, and she had to take over all the housework again.

Now, seeing Lin Xiangyi so leisurely, she couldn’t help but say a few harsh words.

Lin Xiangyi just smiled, following her words, and said rudely: “Then thank you, Aunt Chen, for bringing the food to my room. By the way, is there any meat? I want to eat meat, let’s make the bacon at home! And give me an extra egg!”

“What?” Chen Fengmei’s face turned ugly, had this dead girl gone crazy? She dared to order her around?

“Why? There’s so much bacon at home, can’t I eat it?” Lin Xiangyi’s face also turned ugly, she raised her voice and sarcastically said:

“Speaking of which, I remember my dad said that we had ten pounds of bacon at home, how come I don’t think I’ve eaten much, and there’s so much less bacon? Didn’t you secretly make it for Lin Huihui to eat?”

Chen Fengmei’s face changed, how did this dead girl know?

Lin Shan was the workshop director of the meat joint factory, with good benefits, their food was much better than many other families.

But it wasn’t every meal that they could eat meat, especially things like bacon, which Lin Huihui loved to eat.

She was Lin Huihui’s biological mother, naturally she favored Lin Huihui, and she had secretly given Lin Huihui a lot of supplements and money.

Of course, on the surface, she treated Lin Xiangyi and Lin Huihui equally.

She immediately said with disappointment and grievance: “When did I secretly make meat for Huihui? Xiangyi, are you misunderstanding something? Although you are not my biological daughter, I have always treated you as my own daughter, and I have been better to you than to Huihui, yet you still say this to me, I am so disappointed…”

Lin Xiangyi turned her head, and sure enough, she saw her father standing behind her with a dark face.

Only in front of her father would Chen Fengmei act like this.

“Lin Xiangyi, you’re making trouble again!” Lin Shan roared.

“You’re just idle all day, not helping with housework at home, making your Aunt Chen get up early and stay up late to serve you, and you’re still not satisfied, and you say your Aunt Chen favors Huihui? Do you have any conscience?” He scolded: “Don’t you apologize to your Aunt Chen?”

“Are you blind or something? She gets up early and stays up late to serve me? It’s clearly me who gets up early and stays up late to take care of you!” Lin Xiangyi retorted, “Old lady, I’m really not going to serve you anymore!”

Lin Shan didn’t expect Lin Xiangyi to dare to talk back, and she even dared to call herself old lady, he was stunned for a moment, then he became furious: “You’ve gone too far, Lin Xiangyi, are you getting bold, aren’t you? You dare to call me blind? You dare to call yourself old lady? If I don’t beat you to death today—”

“Hit me! I’ll let you hit me today,” Lin Xiangyi put her face forward, her eyes met her father’s without flinching, her gaze was unprecedentedly cold and ruthless: “If you dare to hit me, I’ll immediately cut off ties with you!”

Lin Shan was so angry that his chest was heaving, his right hand was already raised, about to fall, but when he met Lin Xiangyi’s resolute and fierce gaze, as if she were looking at an enemy, a wave of coldness suddenly swept through his back.

He had never seen her look like this.

It gave him a strong feeling that if he really hit her, he would really lose this daughter.

Chen Fengmei watched anxiously from the side, she had whispered countless sweet nothings to Lin Shan over the years, stirring up the relationship between Lin Shan and Lin Xiangyi.

As she wished, Lin Shan became more and more disappointed in Lin Xiangyi, and more and more fond of Lin Huihui.

What made her dissatisfied was that Lin Shan had scolded Lin Xiangyi and punished Lin Xiangyi, but he had never hit Lin Xiangyi.

Now, Lin Xiangyi said that if he dared to hit her, she would cut off ties with him, wasn’t it the same as her request?

She wrung her hands and waited for a long time, but she didn’t see Lin Shan move, and she was disappointed.

It seemed that Lin Shan still cared about Lin Xiangyi, his daughter.

“Old Lin, let’s talk it over, how can you hit someone? Put your hand down,” Chen Fengmei quickly stepped forward and stood in front of Lin Shan: “Xiangyi has been in a bad mood these days, and she has a bit of a temper, it’s normal, I don’t mind, Old Lin, you should also understand Xiangyi.”

“Humph, she needs me to understand her? I think she’s quite capable!” Lin Shan said so, but he still took Chen Fengmei’s cue and put his hand down.

Then, he was annoyed by Chen Fengmei’s words again.

Why was Lin Xiangyi in a bad mood? Wasn’t it because Lin Huihui’s wedding date with Lu Dingyuan was set, and Lin Xiangyi liked Lu Dingyuan?