Chapter 356 The Qian Family Returns to Their Hometown
During this nearly one year, Qian Longbin was busy looking for targets. His hard work paid off. He actually made money from several wealthy women with his young body, but they were all one-time transactions.
After all, people in this era are still relatively conservative. Even if they can't resist the temptation and have a one-night stand, they will basically regret it afterwards. They are afraid of being discovered by people they know, so they quickly break off their relationship with Qian Longbin.
It has to be said that rich women are quite generous, which made Qian Longbin taste the sweetness and think that this path is feasible.
When everyone in the family decided to return to their hometown, he said he didn't want to go back at all. In the end, his family only left him in the provincial capital, and the rest of them returned to Luojiagou in shame.
Now, it has been a long time since Qian Jindou was shot, and they guess that the villagers should not have such great resentment towards them anymore.
In addition, the Qian family was used to eating free meals, and the little money Qian Jinling gave them was not enough to spend. When they returned home, they still had a son, Qian Jingui.
Even if he had a falling out with Qian Jingui, he was still the son of the Qian family.
It is true that they are afraid of Shen Nan, but they are more afraid of having no money. Now, his parents are old, and as a son, money is precious, there is no reason for him to ignore their life or death.
If Qian Jingui doesn't want to give them pension money, then they might as well sue Qian Jingui for money just like they did to Qian Jinling.
Anyway, if they have no money, they will die, so why should they be afraid of Shen Nan, that crazy man who doesn't care about his life?
The Qian family members thought this in their hearts. When they really arrived at the village entrance, they were still nervous at the thought of passing through Shen Nan's gate. They were afraid that Shen Nan would see them and attack them with "weapons" again.
Fortunately, when the few people were riding on a tricycle and passing by Shen Nan's house, they found that his door was closed and they didn't know where the family members had gone.
After being away from home for a year, when I returned home again, the gate had rusted, the yard was a mess due to being smashed by the villagers, and was overgrown with half-human-high weeds.
This home is now as desolate as it can be, completely devoid of its former grandeur.
Exhausted from the long journey, Old Lady Qian instructed Qian Meijuan: "Hurry up and clean up the house so we can take a break!"
Qian Meijuan served a large family in the city, and one can imagine the resentment she had accumulated. But if she dared to express an opinion, she would be scolded or even beaten by her grandmother.
She could only lower her head and take the luggage in her hands into the house first, then start to fetch water, wash the rag, and wipe the old couple's room and Qian Jincai's room, and then spread out the slightly damp bedding for the adults to rest.
After she finished cleaning the room, before she had time to catch her breath, Old Lady Qian ordered her to weed the yard and clean up the dilapidated courtyard.
They, the adults, know how to get tired, so wouldn’t a child like her, who is only in her early teens, feel tired?
But Qian Meijuan was completely unable to fight against the adults in the family. Now, because there was no adult to take care of Qian Meijuan, she had to do all the dirty and tiring work. At such a young age, she had calluses on her hands.
Her hands became rough. In the winter, because there were no thick clothes, the sleeves of her cotton-padded jacket became a little short because she grew taller.
It was inevitable to come into contact with cold water while working. Qian Meijuan, who had never had frostbite before, got frostbite this winter. The wounds began to ooze pus and form scabs, which soon cracked again before they could heal.
It was not until the beginning of spring that the frostbite on her hands healed a little. However, the originally delicate hands were left with scars due to frostbite, becoming rough and ugly. When placed next to the pretty little face, it was hard to imagine that they were the same person.
Qian Meijuan dragged her tired body and held back her resentment as she began to clean up the yard. However, the weeds in the yard were so tall that they reached her chest.
She was very careful, fearing that there was something terrible hidden in the grass. Sure enough, when she was pulling the grass, a colorful snake slithered past Qian Meijuan. Qian Meijuan was so scared that she fell to the ground. After making sure that the snake had crawled far away, she ran back to the house like a lost soul and closed the door of the outer room to prevent the snake from following in.
When Mrs. Qian heard the noise outside, she started to scold again: "What are you doing? The outside is not cleaned up yet, and you want to be lazy again? What's the point of raising you? You might as well raise a dog. You work all day and then expect interest..."
Qian Meijuan cried and went into the old couple's room: "Grandma, I, I saw worms, I'm scared..."
Old Mrs. Qian was also afraid of snakes, but she didn't have to face that kind of danger, so she spoke with ease: "Why are you afraid of a long insect? Did you never see one when you were a child? After living in the city for a few days, you become so pretentious?
There are no poisonous snakes here. If you see one, just kill it with a shovel. Why are you making such a fuss? Who are you trying to scare to death?"
Qian Meijuan was so miserable that she felt like crying but had no tears. Even if she wanted to complain or argue, she didn't know what to say.
She has thoroughly experienced the saying "a child without a mother is like a weed". Ever since her mother left in anger, her good days are over.
Why was she so stupid as to go against her own mother? In this family, the only person who took her seriously was her mother, Yu Min.
When Yu Min was at home, although she was occasionally scolded, she had never done dirty or tiring work, nor had she suffered physical pain.
No matter how wronged Yu Min felt, no matter how much anger she suffered from her grandparents and father, they never vented their accumulated anger on herself.
But what did she do? She actually helped these bad guys and drove away her mother, the only one who was truly kind to her.
She secretly reported the case to the police without telling her family, hoping to find Yu Min's whereabouts, but she never got any news about Yu Min.
If Qian Meijuan still resented Yu Min for cruelly abandoning her at the beginning, now, after suffering so much, she has completely awakened.
She didn't want to stay in such a home any longer. But what about her mother? She had lived with this family for nearly twenty years and had always endured it in silence. I really didn't know how she had endured it for so long.
She no longer hated Yu Min at all, but instead began to understand her difficulties.
Even as for Min abandoning her, she has fully realized her mistake.
Now she only hopes that Yu Min can come back and rescue her from this wolf's den. In the future, she will be obedient, depend on her mother, and never return to this place again.