Chapter 83: Zou Ning (Part 5)

The police said with a blank face: “You must give the money, and you must not let innocent businesses suffer. However, your behavior has constituted a crime, and we have to file a case for investigation.”

Old Lady Lin became a little flustered. She reached out and grabbed Lin Dong’s hand: “What is an investigation?”

Lin Dong had no thoughts at this time. He just wanted to clear his name on this matter. If he really goes in because of this, not only will he lose his face, but also lose his job. In the future, his son may be affected when he takes the civil service exam.

Lin Dong angrily threw off the old lady’s hand and threw himself on the police’s desk eagerly: “Comrade police, this has nothing to do with me. My mother did it all.”

Hearing this, the police’s face became ugly: “How many of those things can be eaten by an elderly? The most expensive ones are wines and chocolates. Aren’t you embarrassed to say that it has nothing to do with you?”

Lin Dong gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand, and grabbed the Old Lady Lin’s arm: “Hurry up and tell the police that this matter is your own idea. That it has nothing to do with me.”

The police couldn’t stand it any longer. He picked up his pen and tapped it on the table: “You don’t have to push your mother, you can’t run away with this. You can take a look at the law enforcement recorder. After putting the things in your car, you stop the supermarket’s staff to move back those things and lock the car doors. In this case, you are definitely the main culprit.”

Lin Dong fainted instantly.

*

Fatty Wang went out of the police station and drove straight to Lin Qingyin’s house. Then explained today’s events in detail. Fatty Wang was embarrassed to comment on Old Lady Lin. He simply focused on Lin Dong: “That Lin Dong, your brother, he is so shameless. He pushed all the charges on the old lady and said he is innocent.”

Lin Xu’s lips curved into a smile and said: “Lin Dong is my eldest brother. What my mother loves most is him. If we have something good in the family, my mother can’t wait to grab it and then give it to her eldest son and grandson.”

Fatty Wang took a sip of water and said, “I didn’t expect the old lady to be so ruthless. She took so many things, her punishment will be according to the amount she took. The police said that if she get the victim’s forgiveness, she will be given a lighter punishment. I think it’s your mother, after all, and she is old, so I wrote her a letter of understanding. But I didn’t pay attention to Lin Dong. I think he won’t be able to come out of the police station for a while, and maybe he may be sentenced. ”

Old Lady Lin and Lin Dong didn’t succeed in taking advantage of Lin Qingyin’s family, but instead, brought themselves to the detention center. Now, Lin Xu’s supermarket was brought to peace. However, Lin Xu’s second brother, Lin Sheng, and his sister Lin Lan came to the old house to look for Lin Xu several times. But the neighbors said that they had moved, and they didn’t know where they moved.

Lin Xu’s account paid the old lady alimony, as usual, every month, but the Lin family just couldn’t get in touch with him.

After the New Year, the Lin family seems to have had bad luck. Aside from the trouble with Lin Dong and Old Lady Lin, Lin Lan’s husband, Zhu Fuyong, had also been found to be embezzling the company’s property while he was a sales manager. The amount was not small. Chairman Chen Daheng chose to call the police in a pit of anger. Now Zhu Fuyong has been arrested for investigation.

Lin Lan’s intestines were now growling in regret. Zhu Qianqian also regretted every day that she shouldn’t have troubled Zheng Guangyan and Lin Qingyin that day. They couldn’t understand how Lin Qingyin had such great ability. It seemed that she had become someone amazing.

*

The short and happy winter vacation has passed, and it was time to start school again. The two pendants hadn’t seen Lin Qingyin for more than half a month, so they rushed to her in excitement after seeing her.

 


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10 thoughts on “Chapter 83: Zou Ning (Part 5)

  1. Even if they didn’t trouble Lin Qingyin, misfortunes will still knock on their door. After all they did so many bad things, it’s only a matter of time before karma hits them back.

    1. That two pendants refer to her two female friends. It’s a common slang term in Chinese novels. You’ll see that terms in novels from time to time.

      Example setting: “Are you missing a pendant? I can be your pendant.” This means, do you need a follower/friend, I can be that person.

    2. Additional fun trivia:
      1. In Chinese traditional clothes, especially hanfu, pendant is used to weight down the clothes/robe around the thighs area. Usually, the pendant will be hang from the sash/belt by (decorative) thread or may be chain. It keeps the robe to stay in place when they move around and not being overly blown by the wind/air. More than a simple decoration, it brings the shape and flow of the traditional clothes to a higher level of elegance.

      2. “Thigh-hugging” is a Chinese term which is similar to “riding (s/o ‘s) coat tail”. Tho, in my impression of the words, “thigh-hugging” sounds much safer than “coattail riding”. 😅 Joking aside, when s/o thigh-hug someone else in CNs, it means s/he’s befriended them and/or became their closest little follower. Sometimes, the person who does thigh-hugging is referred as (thigh-) pendant(trivia 1.). So, can you see the cultural reference in the usage of “pendant” term?

  2. What happened with the people in the maternal family’s town who paid for a session?? I mean, they didn’t get it, did they?

  3. Two pendants, xd. If I didn’t knkw any better I’d thought that was an extremely rude if jot derogatory term but knowing how it really is in the WN, it is far from that and simply a play of words. Though that’s from what I can tell and know.

    What the term actually portrays in the original text, who knows.

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