Chapter 90#

The Disabled Big Shot’s Stepson#

Regarding the news of Lin Xiaodong’s return home, his uncle and aunt naturally knew long ago.

Looking at their son lying on the bed almost no different from a vegetable, and then looking at Lin Xiaodong who walked in from outside carrying luggage, with a ruddy complexion and healthy body, even a passerby would inevitably sigh, not to mention the uncle and aunt who originally extremely disliked him.

“How do you still have the face to come back?” The aunt stood in the yard with her hands on her hips, pointing at Lin Xiaodong and cursing, “I told you to take care of your brother back then, is this how you took care of him? Look at Qiqi’s current appearance! Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?!”

Lin Xiaodong treated her words as a breeze passing by his ears, and directly walked into the house carrying his luggage.

But when he came to his own room, he found that the originally narrow bedroom had actually been transformed into a storage room. Waste cardboard boxes were stacked from his bed all the way to the ceiling. The table and floor were full of dust, and cobwebs had even formed in the corners—clearly, shortly after he left, his uncle and aunt had been impatient to clear his traces from this home.

Lin Xiaodong stood at the door for a few seconds and decisively decided to carry his luggage out to find a place to stay.

“Stop right there!”

His uncle’s angry shout came from the living room: “Where do you want to go?”

“Find a hotel, or make do for a night at a kind person’s house.” Lin Xiaodong stopped his steps and looked back at him, “What, I spend my own money, you guys want to control this too?”

“You’re just a kid, what money of your own do you have? Isn’t it all from the living expenses we usually give you!” The aunt’s shrill voice sounded at the door. Lin Xiaodong thought to himself, good heavens, this is a pincer attack from both sides, it seems they were prepared long ago.

He pointed to the mess inside the door, and looked at the middle-aged man’s somber eyes, saying calmly: “Since you won’t let me go and have made the house look like this, do you want me to sleep on the floor?”

“Sleep on the floor?” The man let out a cold laugh, looked at him with a face full of disappointment, and shook his head, “Lin Xiaodong, you really let us down too much. I know, after all we are not your biological parents, so you have always had grievances against us, but you can’t harm your brother!”

Lin Xiaodong smiled: “How did I harm him? Did you hear Lin Qi speak with your own ears?”

“Still quibbling!” The uncle strode over, grabbed his arm fiercely and dragged him into Lin Qi’s room, pointing at the son with dull eyes lying on the bed, and said heart-wrenchingly, “Come here, look at your brother!”

Hearing the movement, Lin Qi’s turbid eyes, which were like a pool of stagnant water, flickered slightly.

He couldn’t turn his head, and could only roll his eyeballs desperately. At the moment he saw Lin Xiaodong, his eyes widened instantly, and a burst of hatred like burning fire suddenly erupted, staring at them without blinking.

“I see it.” Lin Xiaodong frowned and dusted off his arm, “So? Do I need to cry a few times to express sympathy?”

“Ungrateful white-eyed wolf!” The aunt glared at him with red eyes, knelt down by Lin Qi’s bed, and held his hand with a face full of grief and indignation, asking, “Son, tell me, wasn’t it this white-eyed wolf who harmed you? If so, you blink your eyes twice!”

Lin Qi used all his strength and blinked his eyes twice desperately.

“It really was you, you little brat!” The uncle nearby trembled all over, pointing at Lin Xiaodong’s nose, with a murderous look in his eyes, “Good, our Lin family actually produced a murderer! Our family raised you with great effort, seeing you lost your parents since childhood and gave you a mouthful of food out of pity, and supported you to go to school, but instead raised a devil! You… you could actually deal such a lethal blow to your own cousin!”

“The police there have already investigated very clearly. All the children present can prove that Lin Qi slipped out himself because of a guilty conscience, and the handprints on his neck were from a grown man, which doesn’t match me at all.” Lin Xiaodong curled his lips with a fake smile, “What, with conclusive evidence, you guys can still forcibly blame it on my head?”

“Still making excuses!” The uncle shouted violently, “How old is Qiqi? He is only fourteen! We all heard, you were the captain of that camping trip. Tell me, if you hadn’t targeted him, why did Qiqi leave the camp alone? Why didn’t you go find him at the first time after finding someone missing!”

Hearing these words, Lin Xiaodong indeed shut his mouth.

Sure enough, it’s impossible to talk sense with this kind of person.

For things they’ve already decided, even if you put evidence under their noses and use both emotion and reason, it’s all like playing a lute to a cow, in vain. Or rather, it’s not that they don’t understand the reasoning, they just don’t want to reason with you at all.

Watching his father curse Lin Xiaodong, Lin Qi lying on the bed was so excited that he kept making “heh-heh” sounds from his throat, and his chest heaved violently, looking as if he wanted to get up and stab Lin Xiaodong again. Seeing this, the aunt hurriedly soothed him: “Qiqi don’t be anxious, Mom will definitely avenge you and will never let you suffer any more grievances, rest assured.”

She stood up, held down her excited husband, and gave him a look. Suddenly, she said to Lin Xiaodong with a cold face, but a hundred times better than her hysterical appearance just now: “At your parents’ funeral back then, we couple told the relatives that we would only raise you until eighteen. There’s still half a month before your eighteenth birthday. If you move out to live, how will those people look at our family? Clean up the storage room yourself, we won’t charge you rent for these few days. When school starts, take your luggage and go back to live at school.”

Lin Xiaodong raised an eyebrow and looked at her with a playful gaze, as if seeing through the little schemes in her heart.

The aunt uncomfortably raised her eyebrows and questioned with an appearance of being fierce but weak inside: “Did you hear that?”

“Understood,” Lin Xiaodong said, “Rest assured, I will definitely not go out unless necessary. You can just pretend I’m not in this house.”

If it weren’t for this place being too remote and even the cheapest guesthouse required walking several kilometers, Lin Xiaodong wouldn’t bother with this family at all.

He actually quite admired this family’s self-righteous and shameless attitude. Clearly they snatched this house, but now they put on an attitude of giving alms, making it seem like they suffered a lot of grievances.

“Why do you still keep him at home?”

When he left the room, the man’s annoyed voice still came from behind. And his aunt’s low-voiced murmuring, the sound like the buzzing of a fly, mixed together and couldn’t be heard clearly…

In the evening, Lin Xiaodong lay exhausted on the bed he had finally managed to tidy up, staring at the ceiling with open eyes. Scenes of life in the castle couldn’t help but emerge in his mind again.

“Suddenly changing beds all of a sudden, really not used to it.” He sighed, turned over to face the wall, “I never noticed before that I actually have trouble sleeping in a strange bed.”

System: “This is not having trouble sleeping in a strange bed.”

“…Hmm?”

“Generally speaking,” the system said slowly, “we call this behavior of yours ‘homesick’.”

“Hahaha funny, how could I be homesick? Just lived there for a few months,” Lin Xiaodong laughed a few times, but his expression gradually became melancholy, “Speaking of which, doing missions for so long, I’ve almost forgotten what my former home looked like.”

“…………”

“Hey,” he leaned his head on his arm and asked softly, “System, we’re in this kind of relationship already, just tell me. What heavenly rule did I break before?”

The system coughed: “Please don’t casually try to get close to the system. I am a very serious system, and what relationship do we have?”

“Oh, it’s no big deal to tell me.”

“Actually with my authority I can only find the crime name, I don’t know the specific content.” The system was helpless and had to answer reluctantly, “Your crime name is privately leaking heavenly secrets to mortals. This crime name in the headquarters’ title is ‘Leaking Confidential Information Crime’, there’s still a difference between the two.”

Lin Xiaodong said very excitedly: “Oh? So to say, I should have been an immortal in my previous life?”

“There’s a difference between immortals too,” the system said tactfully, “those who guard the South Heaven Gate are also called immortals, and the Heavenly Emperor and Empress are also called immortals, but… this immortal is not that immortal, you understand.”

“Then are immortals allowed to fall in love with mortals?” Lin Xiaodong remembered those TV series he watched in childhood, like “Seven Fairies,” “Lotus Lantern,” etc. Although the plots were mostly forgotten, the styles were indeed deeply rooted in the heart, and haven’t been forgotten even after decades.

“Yes, but they can’t reveal their origins, because immortals and mortals have different lifespans.” The system thought for a while and suddenly had a guess, “Looking at it this way, maybe you were even a love-brain in your previous life.”

“…………” Lin Xiaodong said firmly: “Absolutely impossible.”

Is he a fool?

Immortals can live for hundreds or thousands of years. Why give up the prime of life and insist on hanging himself from one tree?

System: As if you’re not the same now.

However, this life is indeed wretched to death. Even the system couldn’t help thinking when Lin Pei would finally fulfill his promise and take Lin Xiaodong away.

Just looking at the aunt’s expression today, it’s known that she must be harboring bad intentions in her heart.

A week passed just like this. Lin Xiaodong did as he said, and absolutely didn’t leave the room unless necessary. His uncle and aunt were also too lazy to care about how he ate. Anyway, he wouldn’t starve to death, and it would be better if he did.

“Damn it, in such cold weather, how come the air conditioner broke?”

Early in the morning, the aunt’s cursing resounded through the entire small building.

“Who told us to have a jinx living at home,” the uncle passed by Lin Xiaodong’s closed door and intentionally let out a “ptui,” “really bad luck to the extreme!”

Lin Xiaodong lay lazily in the blankets, with an electric hand warmer in his arms and earplugs in his ears. Everything outside the door had nothing to do with him. The reason he brought back so much luggage that day was because he knew his uncle and aunt wouldn’t give him any good fruit to eat after he came back, and now it really came in handy.

Seeing no movement inside the door, the uncle, with nowhere to vent his anger, walked to the second floor and asked his wife in a low voice: “No, it’s been a week already, when exactly are you going to implement the plan you mentioned?”

“Don’t worry, it’s very soon.” The aunt stopped her movements and turned back with a cold smile, “Isn’t he about to be 18 soon? By then he’ll be an adult, and he will definitely be severely sentenced if he breaks the law. At that time, we’ll use the excuse of treating Qiqi to invite relatives and that famous doctor of the family over, and send that white-eyed wolf away, letting them stay at home for a night. The next day we’ll say the money is gone, report to the police directly, and send him to the station to squat for a few years first!”

“This method is good!” The man was overjoyed, “Just right, that brat is in the second year of high school this year and will soon have the college entrance examination. When he comes out, let’s see which school dares to take one with a criminal record!”

“That’s exactly the reason.” The aunt was clearly very proud that she could come up with this idea, but soon a burst of cold wind blowing from outside the house made her shiver all over, “Don’t talk about these first, hurry up and call someone to fix the air conditioner!”

“Oh, okay, okay…”

Just as the man was hurriedly pulling out his phone to check what the repair number for the air conditioner was, a call from an unfamiliar number suddenly called his phone.

“Hello?” he asked in confusion as he pressed the answer button.

“Hello, may I ask if this is Mr. Lin? We are the after-sales service personnel from Undies Brothers. We would like to take a bit of your time to do a small survey. How is the usage of the air conditioner you bought from us?”

Truly a pillow delivered when one was sleepy!

The man said immediately: “You guys hurry up and send a master over. The air conditioner broke in such cold weather, do you want to freeze us to death? We want to complain about you!”

After he finished, he suddenly heard a burst of sound like a plane taking off from the phone, and couldn’t help frowning: “Why is it so noisy there?”

And this voice, how come it sounds a bit familiar?

“Extremely sorry, we will handle it immediately.” Ye Shiyuan strode in the airport carrying a suitcase, and hurriedly covered the phone to filter out other noise, “Please provide the warranty slip and address, we will have the master come over this afternoon!”

Thanks to Lin Xiaodong, the man thought with tears in his eyes, he was finally rescued from the endless potato fields!!!