Qin Guan immediately complained: "Dad, Lin Jiaqiao bullied me!"
Lin Dapeng didn't sympathize with him: "What did I tell you at the beginning? You insisted on abandoning our father-son relationship and dating Lin Jiaqiao. You regret it now, don't you?"
"I've made it clear to you. You'll regret it later."
"I don't regret it." Qin Guan got off the car and took the green onion from his hand. "Why is this happening? When we were little, you loved me so much and helped me scold Zhizhi. I can't bear to scold him anymore."
It is said that some people are particularly annoying when they are in love. Lin Dapeng was so upset that his teeth ached and he said unhappily:
"Can a son be the same as a son-in-law? Also, godfather is godfather. Since you've given up our family relationship, you can just call me uncle. Don't call me 'dad' all the time. You and Lin Zhizhi haven't gotten married yet, so stop trying to get close to me."
As they were talking, the three of them had already entered the house.
The Lin family lives in a welfare house provided by Lin Dapeng’s unit. It is about 90 square meters, and it is neither spacious nor crowded for a family of three.
Lin Jiaqiao grew up here, as did Qin Guan.
The furniture in the house had never been moved, but after Lin Dapeng passed away, the house was always covered with an inexplicable layer of dust that Ms. Qiao could never clean no matter how hard she tried, as if the house was mourning the departure of its male owner.
Fortunately, nothing bad has happened yet, and the house is still clean and bright.
Lin Jiaqiao's nose was sore, and he said loudly to Ms. Qiao: "Mom, Lao Lin is instigating Guan Guanzi to break up with me again."
Lin Dapeng went to the kitchen to help Ms. Qiao and asked, "How many green onions do you want to peel?"
"Go watch TV and don't disturb me." Ms. Qiao shouted at Lin Jiaqiao while cutting vegetables, "Don't listen to your father. He is an old man and doesn't know anything about the two of you living together."
Lin Dapeng was dissatisfied: "Why don't I understand?"
"The Qin family is a wealthy family. Look at the TV and see what the daughters-in-law of wealthy families are like. Look at Li Jiaxin and Guo Jingjing. Then look at your daughter. She is a woman. Let's just treat her as a woman. Why did Qin Guan marry her? Is the family in need of a second uncle?"
Qin Guan was raised as the youngest son of the Lin family. Coming to the Lin family was like going back to his own home. He sat on the sofa as soon as he entered the door and had no consciousness of being a son-in-law at all.
After hearing what his father-in-law said, he asked in confusion: "Dad, Lin Zhizhi has married me, what else does she need to do? She can do whatever she wants."
"What about Li Jiaxin and Guo Jingjing? Our family is not that rich. Didn't you drink with Lao Qin the day before yesterday? What? He is bragging to you again."
Lin Jiaqiao was bored, so he took out a bar of chocolate from the coffee table, then tore open the wrapping paper and let Lin Dapeng see it.
"You're eating snacks while we're eating right now."
As soon as he finished speaking, he broke off a piece for himself: "Eat it quickly, or your mother will see it. Her nose is sharper than that of a police dog—"
There was a glass door separating the kitchen and the living room. Ms. Qiao stood at the kitchen door, looking at them with a smile.
At this time, the doorbell rang, and Lin Jiaqiao immediately jumped out and fled the battlefield.
The person who came was Gu Yiming.
He smiled and showed Lin Jiaqiao the bag in his hand: "Swimming crabs, they said they were newly caught today."
Seeing him coming, Ms. Qiao temporarily let Lin Dapeng go and greeted him with a smile: "Mingming is back."
When he was in college, Gu Yiming was nicknamed "Fairy Gu" by his classmates. He had a gentle appearance, always smiling, and seemed to have no worries and was not worldly. He was also very thin, the kind of thin that made people feel sorry for him.
Like all parents, although Lin Dapeng and Ms. Qiao felt bad for their children spending money indiscriminately, they were very happy with the gifts in their hearts.
Gu Yiming just smiled shyly, took off his coat, and went into the kitchen to help.
Qin Guan always liked to compete with him. When he saw him go in, he wanted to go in too, but was driven out by Ms. Qiao.
Ms. Qiao was curious: "It's not a festival, why did you two come back? Did you three talk to each other? Did you know that you bought crabs today?"
Haicheng is not a very big city, but Lin Jiaqiao is always busy with work and doesn't have time to go home often.
Now, she wants to make amends.
She acted coquettishly towards Ms. Qiao: "Mom, what are we having for dinner tonight? I'm hungry."
Qin Guan raised his hand: "I'm hungry too."
Gu Yiming was puzzled: "Aren't you two going to a banquet today?"
Lin Dapeng also asked: "Aren't the Liu family rich? Why don't they let the guests eat enough?"
There was nothing to hide about what happened at the wedding, so Lin Jiaqiao and Gu Yiming told them what happened.
Lin Jiaqiao asked: "Dad, this is school bullying, can you arrest them?"
At this time, Lin Dapeng didn't know that these people were related to him, and he just treated this matter as gossip.
He replied: "It's difficult. School bullying is hard to define, and it's been so many years, how much evidence can be left?"
"Isn't your friend living a good life now? If she wanted to take revenge, these bullies should have been punished long ago. Look at them living a good life now, which means your friend has moved on."
He advised Lin Jiaqiao, "Even if you were there at the time, you could help her once, but could you help her a hundred times?"
"This group of people want to cause trouble. Unless the person involved resists, no one can do anything about it."
"Don't be sad."
Lin Jiaqiao didn't reveal her sadness, but Lin Dapeng saw it. Seeing his daughter's surprised face, he was very proud, "Little guy, I don't know you."
"Your grandma's house has a pigsty." Ms. Qiao suddenly said, "It's a good place to destroy the body."
Qin Guan whispered to Gu Yiming: "I told you a long time ago that Ms. Qiao was a gangster before she got married."
After dinner, the three people who didn't cook went into the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Lin Jiaqiao told Qin Guan hesitantly: "I'm not going back tonight."
Qin Guan took the bowl from her hand and put it in the sink to wash: "We have to get up early tomorrow, otherwise we will encounter the morning rush hour."
Lin Jiaqiao didn't expect to get such an answer and looked at him in surprise.
Qin Guan was dissatisfied: "Why? You don't think I won't let you go home, do you? Who do you think I am?"
He put down the bowl and said seriously: "I told you, you can do whatever you want with me."
"I bought that house just to let you know that no matter what time it is, you have a place to go."
Lin Jiaqiao looked at Qin Guan with emotion, while Lin Dapeng grumbled in disdain, "… My teeth are sore."
Gu Yiming, who came in to wash the fruit, said, "Hey, that sounds so familiar."
In the living room, a TV series is playing.
The heroine said affectionately: "… It doesn't matter, I don't care how many women you have out there, as long as you remember to come home!"
Lin Dapeng looked at the two of them meaningfully: "I've seen the ending. The woman was pretending. In the end, she killed the man."
Qin Guan became angry and chased the light bulbs out of the kitchen.
Gu Yiming winked at Lin Dapeng and said, "You are very satisfied with Guan Guanzi as your son-in-law."
Lin Dapeng frowned, "Nonsense, they are only a few years old, why would they be together?"
Gu Yiming was a little proud: "I am a psychologist—"
Lin Dapeng said: "I am the captain of the criminal investigation team."
He snatched the fruit plate from Gu Yiming's hand and changed the subject by making an excuse to wash the fruit: "You've been busy all day, take a break, I'll go wash it."
By the time the two people in the kitchen finished washing the dishes, Ms. Qiao and her two other friends were already curled up on the sofa watching TV.
The two exchanged glances and squeezed in between Ms. Qiao and Lin Dapeng.
Lin Dapeng was so annoyed that he moved to the love sofa next to him and hit them both with a pillow.
Gu Yiming also moved over.
Just like every other ordinary night before.
Lin Jiaqiao wanted to cry again.
Now that she has the chance to start over, she must prevent Lin Dapeng from getting into a car accident.
She said, "Dad, let me buy you a new car."
Lin Dapeng was not grateful. He complained to Ms. Qiao: "What bad things did your daughter do today? She was so attentive to me. Please investigate carefully."
Qin Guan was dissatisfied: "We are just being filial, why do you say that to her?"
Lin Dapeng snorted coldly: "We criminal investigators only care about evidence. Ask your children why they do such evil things to scare people."
Lin Jiaqiao was also annoyed: "Dad, what are you talking about? I am a well-known filial child in our community."
She tried to scare her father with reality: "I had a dream last night that you had a car accident—"
As soon as she uttered the word "disaster", the whole family booed her.
Ms. Qiao said: "Spit quickly, don't say such things casually."
Gu Yiming was relatively calm and asked: "Dreams are a projection of reality. Let me help you analyze it."
Lin Jiaqiao was just about to make up an excuse to get everyone to pay more attention to the matter when he heard Gu Yiming ask, "Was your dream in the first half of the night or the second half of the night?"
Comparing the time of the accident, Lin Jiaqiao said, "In the second half of the night."
Gu Yiming breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay then. The dreams in the second half of the night are all the opposite."
Lin Jiaqiao: …
Just wait, Floyd will come to you tonight.
With the conclusion of the expert Gu Yiming, everyone else felt relieved. Some watched TV, some licked grapes, and no one took Lin Jiaqiao's warning seriously.
Lin Jiaqiao was furious and shouted: "I came back from 2021, I tell you-"
Lin Dapeng laughed at her, "You're starting to write a time-travel novel for yourself. All right, Comrade Lin Jiaqiao, who is coming back in 2021, tell me what the winning numbers for next month's lottery will be."
Lin Jiaqiao was so busy that she didn't even have time to sleep. She had long since given up on such pie-in-the-sky dreams. She said seriously, "Now is not the time to talk about this!"
Ms. Qiao calculated the time and looked forward to it: "In 2021, your father will be able to apply for early retirement."
She always felt that the profession of criminal police was too dangerous, and she was counting the days to when Lin Dapeng could apply for retirement.
But Lin Dapeng did not retire. He died because of his work.
Seeing Lin Jiaqiao's silence, everyone thought she was joking and went about their own business.
Qin Guan looked at Lin Jiaqiao thoughtfully for a while, and said to Lin Dapeng: "Dad, why don't you pay attention to it."
Lin Dapeng was speechless, "There should be a limit to how much you can coax a little girl."
Qin Guan said: "Even for Lin Zhizhi, it's a bit outrageous to say such things."
He asked Lin Jiaqiao: "So, what do you want to do?"
Telling the truth is not going to work. Lin Jiaqiao could only say: "I just want to buy you a new car. I have saved some money recently, let's buy a Mercedes-Benz, which is safe and luxurious."
Lin Dapeng refused: "It takes less than ten minutes from our house to the Municipal Bureau, and we drive in a Mercedes. I drove it."