Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 38 - 37 The Young are Playing Mind Games
38: Chapter 37 The Young are Playing Mind Games
38 -37 The Young are Playing Mind Games
Lin Nianhe eyed the small old man before her, and four words slowly surfaced in her mind—
Either a crook or a thief.
Putting everything else aside, who comes to visit a sick person with both hands empty?
She glanced at the captain of the Nine-miles Team and silently took a step back.
“Uncle, I’m still a young girl, and it’s not appropriate for me to walk with a man.” After saying that, she waved her hand, “Second Uncle Li, I’m leaving first, please take care of things.”
Then she dashed away swiftly.
“Hey?
What’s this girl up to?” Wang Wei was bewildered.
He was nearly fifty, what could he possibly do to her?
Second Uncle Li, with his hands clasped behind his back, shot a glance at Wang Wei: “Educated Youth Lin isn’t wrong, it doesn’t look right for a young girl to walk with an old man like you.”
Wang Wei rolled his eyes at him and stopped talking.
Second Uncle Li continued to amble towards Wang Hong’s house, leading the way for Wang Wei.
Lin Nianhe trotted to Wang Hong’s house, and as soon as she pushed the door open, she was greeted by Wang Lele’s smiling face: “Sister Lin.”
“Good girl.” Lin Nianhe rubbed her head, “Where’s your mother?”
“Mom went to find some wood ear mushrooms for big sister.” Wang Lele looked up at Lin Nianhe and said in a babyish voice.
Lin Nianhe slightly furrowed her brows and asked again: “What about your second sister?”
“Second sister went with mom.” Wang Lele patted her chest, “I take care of big sister!”
“Lele is such a good girl.” Lin Nianhe took her hand, “Come on, let’s go inside.”
Wang Lele really liked Lin Nianhe, not just because Sister Lin had given her eggs to eat, but also because she had saved her older sister.
The little girl obediently followed Lin Nianhe into the house, and Wang Xixi, who was still propped up, smiled upon seeing Lin Nianhe: “Educated Youth Lin, you’ve come…”
“Do you have a third uncle?” Lin Nianhe interrupted her, “He’s coming this way, said he was coming to see you.”
Wang Xixi was taken aback, annoyance flashing across her face: “My mother doesn’t have any brothers, that’s my paternal uncle.”
“Bad relationship?” Lin Nianhe casually lifted Wang Lele onto the kang bed and stuffed a candy into her mouth.
Wang Xixi pursed her lips, her brows filled with resentment: “It was his mother who matched my mom back then, praising the other family to the skies and coaxing my mom to get married to them.”
Lin Nianhe instantly understood the grievances between the two families.
She nodded, stood up, and closed Wang Xixi’s room door.
The door did not have a latch, so she used the broom by the door to wedge it shut.
“Alright, don’t be angry, let’s wait for them to come.”
As she spoke, Lin Nianhe took out some items to change Wang Xixi’s dressing.
She had just removed the gauze from Wang Xixi’s head when Wang Wei’s voice came from outside the door: “Daxi!
Your third uncle is here to see you!”
Wang Xixi wanted to respond, but Lin Nianhe shook her head at her.
She called out loud: “Uncle, please wait a moment, Daxi is changing her dressing, it’s not convenient for you to come in.”
“There’s nothing inconvenient about it, I’m her blood-related third uncle!” Wang Wei followed the voice and tried to pull the door open, only to find that it was secured.
He was somewhat displeased and started knocking on the door loudly: “Daxi, open the door.”
Lin Nianhe went to the door, hugging her arms and said with a low chuckle: “Uncle, it’s really not convenient, Daxi has injuries all over her body, she’s a grown girl, it doesn’t look right, and not even her biological father should see.”
Wang Wei’s breath hitched.
He knew it—none of these educated youths were any good!
Useless at work, but champions in assigning labels!
“Uncle, please wait in the courtyard for a while, once Daxi is done with her dressing and has her clothes on, we’ll invite you in.”
Wang Wei clenched his teeth but could only suppress his anger and nod: “Alright, thank you for your efforts.”
What else could he say?
If he forced his way in, wouldn’t that make him a hoodlum?
Nianhe Lin’s voice came through the crack in the door: “You’re welcome.”
Wang Wei was so annoyed by the unhurried tone that his eyes rolled.
Nianhe Lin returned to Wang Xixi’s side, glanced at her wound, and whispered, “Daxi, you and Lele stay inside the house, try to keep quiet, and don’t open the door no matter what he says.
Second Uncle Li probably hasn’t left, so don’t be afraid.”
Wang Xixi looked at her in astonishment and instinctively reached out to grab her hand: “What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to call for help.” Nianhe Lin said as she climbed onto the kang (a traditional Chinese bed), “Don’t wrap the gauze, understand?”
Wang Xixi nodded immediately: “Got it.”
Nianhe Lin smiled with satisfaction, pushed open the window, and climbed out.
Wang Lele was startled but, recalling Nianhe Lin’s words, immediately covered her mouth with her little hands.
Nianhe Lin hopped out of the window, tiptoed across the backyard vegetable garden, and smoothly vaulted over the not-so-high wall.
Her destination was clear—the cornfield.
At times like this, she had to seek the help of the aunties.
She ran all the way to the cornfield and, as luck would have it, Aunt Li was helping out in the fifth group today.
“Aunt Li!”
Nianhe Lin stood at the edge of the field, waving to Aunt Li.
Aunt Li straightened up and looked surprised: “Educated Youth Lin?
What brings you here?”
Nianhe Lin said: “Daxi’s third uncle on her father’s side has come to see her, Aunt Wang has gone up the mountain, and, you see…”
Aunt Li frowned and immediately called out to her own son in the field: “Li Xiaoshan!
Go fetch your father!”
Li Xiaoshan stood up and asked, “What do you need my father for?”
“Tell him to go to Aunt Wang’s house.
That good-for-nothing Wang Wei is spouting nonsense again!” Aunt Li hastily climbed onto the ridge and turned to Second Aunt Li, “Laoer’s wife, come on, let’s have a look.”
“Okay!”
Second Aunt Li quickly put aside her work.
However, Li Xiaoshan didn’t obediently go to look for Li Dahe but told his elder brother, “Big brother, you find Dad.
I’ll go along with Mom to see.”
Li Xiaohai looked puzzled: “What are you going for?”
“I’m afraid Mom will start a fight.”
Leaving behind this comment, Li Xiaoshan hurriedly followed.
Li Xiaohai wiped his sweat and muttered, “What, afraid we’ll lose?”
Aunt Li didn’t react to her youngest son’s insistence on coming along.
She was more curious about something else: “Educated Youth Lin, you said Wang Wei is blocking the door, so how did you get out?”
Nianhe Lin: “I climbed over the wall.”
Aunt Li paused in her step, nearly stumbling.
Facing Aunt Li’s complex gaze, Nianhe Lin gave an innocent smile: “Aunt Li, you should go through the front door.
It’s better for me to climb back in.
Please don’t say it was me who went to call you, okay?”
Aunt Li: “…”
These young kids today, all so cunning.
But when they reach my age, they will understand.
None of those tricks work better than a few good slaps!
When Nianhe Lin skillfully climbed back into Wang Xixi’s room, Wang Xixi was cradling Wang Lele and patting her back, while her eyes were firmly fixed on the door as if expecting someone to kick it open at any second.
“Don’t be scared, Aunt Li has arrived,” Nianhe Lin said as she closed the window and spoke softly to her.
Wang Xixi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes reddened.
Nianhe Lin poked her face and asked, “Can you walk now?”
“I can,” Wang Xixi nodded, “It’s just a bit slow.”
Nianhe Lin shook her head: “No, you can’t, absolutely can’t walk at all.
Even eating and drinking have to be done on the bed.”
Wang Xixi: “…?”
