TVCEO Chapter 36.1

The old year ended with the blast of firecrackers, and the last day of the old year was spent cleaning.

Early in the morning of New Year’s Eve, Zhuang Yun rushed to Lin Qiao’s room with a mop and picked her up from the bed like a chicken.

“Go and wake up your brother to have breakfast!”

Zhuang Yun assigned her tasks while mopping the floor.

Lin Qiao stayed up all night reading a novel until three in the morning. Now that she was being called up, she felt like her soul was leaving her body.

“Can I skip breakfast?”

Zhuang Yun’s hands continued to clean while speaking, “You’re not eating breakfast, can you be full of energy? Stop nagging me and get up!”

Lin Qiao had no choice but to resign herself to her fate and put on her clothes with dark circles under her eyes, taking out all her anger from waking up on Lin Ji.

“Why are you sleeping? Get up and have some fun!”

Lin Ji was still dreaming when someone suddenly shook him violently, nearly killing him instantly.

“Are you sick?” Lin Ji pulled back the covers, wanting to sleep again.

“Wake up or not! I’m the one calling you now, and later, it will be the mop stick that will call you!”

Not long after giving her this warning, Lin Ji was, as expected, driven to the dining table by Zhuang Yun’s mop for breakfast.

After mopping the floor, Zhuang Yun washed her hands and sat down at the table, where all four members of the Lin family gathered.

The Lin family’s characteristics are very obvious: tall and long legs, fair skin, red lips, and round eyes. You can tell at a glance that they are produced by the same factory.

Although his father smoked, drank, and had a beer belly over the years, and his figure had changed, it was gratifying that he was not bald, which provided a strong guarantee for Lin Ji’s hairline in the future.

“My brother said he and his wife will come to our house at noon.” Father Lin held his chopsticks, his expression a little off.

“Today at noon? What are they doing here?” Zhuang Yun was puzzled. Why did relatives come to visit on New Year’s Eve?

“Oh… I’m not sure. Let’s wait until they get here.” Father Lin hesitated.

Zhuang Yun knew what kind of people her eldest brother-in-law’s family was. Lin Qiao had quarreled with them before, but she didn’t think that it was all Lin Qiao’s fault. She was angry because Lin Qiao didn’t take her parents seriously at all and made such an ugly scene in front of the elders. If the news got out, they wouldn’t be able to hold their heads up in front of relatives and friends.

“Who would come to someone’s house before New Year’s Eve? I think they’re probably here to extort money!” Lin Qiao teased.

Lin Qiao had never liked her uncle’s family since she was little, and after their last big fight, she couldn’t even put on a friendly face for them. So, when they came to her house at noon, she simply stayed in her room so that she wouldn’t be annoyed by them.

She had never expected her words to come true; these two really came to extort money.

In the living room, her eldest aunt, tearfully holding onto Zhuang Yun, sobbed about her unfilial son’s absurd behavior. Not only had he stayed home and not worked after the divorce, but he’d even been tricked into gambling by his cronies, racking up a mountain of gambling debts!

Now the debt collectors had come to their door, threatening to ruin the family’s New Year if they didn’t pay. They simply didn’t know what to do!

After the aunt finished speaking, the uncle beat his chest and stamped his feet, as if he was hating himself for not raising his son well.

What bullshit! He didn’t know what to do? He just wanted to borrow money!

Lin Qiao and Lin Ji crouched against the crack in the door, eavesdropping on their clumsy performance outside.

There is a saying that you should help in emergencies, not in poverty, especially since this is a gambling debt.

Zhuang Yun knew that she couldn’t lend the money, but she still had to ask, “How much do you owe? If it’s not much, why don’t the relatives chip in? At least we can celebrate the New Year first, right?”

She deliberately dragged the other relatives into the situation, implying they shouldn’t single out her family for the trouble.

 

 

 

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