Chapter 365 Old Lady Qian surrenders
Yuan Jie always feels guilty when facing her family members who were implicated because of her own affairs.
She will do her best to eliminate the villains lurking around them and make their path smoother.
Time passed quickly, and it was already the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. The old couple of the Sun family got on the car with their children, and their son-in-law Yu Qingxiang was waiting for them at the agreed place.
They couldn't bear to leave their daughter who was about to give birth, and since they had a car, they went to the city and took with them local eggs for their daughter, a few free-range chickens that had been plucked and frozen solid, and fried bean curd skin bought from a tofu shop in the village.
In a few days, the Sun family's school-age children will also go back to school, and the entire Sun family's house in the village will be vacant again.
This time when he returns, Sun Aimin will start preparing to open a new store.
The current housing prices are still low, and Sun Aimin has more than one million yuan in funds, including the compensation he received.
He discussed it with Yuan Jie and decided to go back and look for any stores that were for sale. If the price was right, he would buy it.
If they wanted to buy a bigger shop and renovate it, this amount of money was still too little. They planned to borrow more money depending on the situation.
Now that I have a goal in life, it is worth it no matter how hard or tiring it is.
In sharp contrast to the lively and peaceful New Year of the Sun family is the Qian family.
After returning to the village, the family still had some dignity and stayed at home for the first few days, not daring to go out.
Old Man Qian and Qian Jincai, who used to love wandering the streets, also stayed there obediently for a few days.
But this situation did not last long. The Chinese New Year was coming and they needed to prepare for the New Year. Mrs. Qian only had 30,000 yuan left in her savings. The two "promising" children were no longer available, so they could only continue to live off their savings.
Old Mrs. Qian now feels bad for spending even a penny more, as no one in the family can contribute any income to the household.
They left in a hurry, and the few acres of land in their home were left idle and unrented. Some people saw that the family did not even come back for the Chinese New Year in the first year of their departure, so they expected that they would not come back easily.
So they decided to cultivate the land and planted grains and vegetables on the Qian family's farmland. In the fall, they had already harvested peanuts, corn and rice.
After the autumn harvest, people did not leave the land idle. They sowed seeds and planted winter vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, radishes, coriander, etc.
In the corn planting field, the corn stubble has not been dug up yet. We plan to wait until the spring thaws before digging up the stubble and then continuing with planting.
Who would have thought that the family would return without a word? Old Mrs. Qian was bored at home, so she thought about going out for a walk, and she saw corn stubble growing on her two mu of land.
At this point, Old Lady Qian could no longer sit still, and immediately went to find the village chief, Luo Changzheng, and demanded that the people who had secretly cultivated her land pay compensation in terms of grain and money.
In this kind of situation, even if everyone in the village knew who planted it, it would be impossible for them to inform the Qian family.
The family that took advantage of the situation naturally would not admit it voluntarily. At worst, they could just throw away all the corn stubble in the field. Anyway, they would just take them home and use them as firewood. It would be very tiring to dig out those stubbles.
The more Mrs. Qian thought about it, the more aggrieved she became. She cursed at the gate for several days. In the end, she couldn't find the person responsible, so the matter was left unresolved.
But Mrs. Qian soon found a new way to make money because she found that her third son Qian Jingui had returned.
In the past, she couldn't find Qian Jingui even if she wanted to, because Qian Jingui worked outside all year round to look after his son, and he rarely came home.
They had no shortage of money at the time, and they didn't care about the little money their third son had. In addition, they didn't have any contact information with Qian Jingui, so they simply stopped associating with the third son's family.
But things are different now. The Qian family has fallen on hard times and has become a poor family. When they went to the market at the end of the year, they found Qian Jingui and his wife and their daughter setting up a stall at the entrance of the market to sell snacks, and their business was booming.
Seeing that Shen Nan was there, the Qian family members didn't dare to move forward, but they hid in the crowd and watched for a long time.
Such a small amount of pancakes were sold for one dollar and fifty cents or two dollars each. For such a long time, the couple was busy making and selling pancakes, and the money in the cash box kept increasing.
In just half a day of the fair, the couple could earn a hundred or eighty yuan. If they did this all day, they would earn more than the workers in Kobe City in a month.
The old couple of the Qian family originally thought that they were doomed and would live in poverty forever. But who would have thought that the poorest third brother is now becoming rich again?
Although the elderly couple had forced Qian Jingui to sever ties with them earlier, from a legal perspective, as long as Qian Jingui is their child, they have the obligation to provide for them in their old age.
Of course, the old couple didn't care about anything legal or not, they just knew it was natural for their son to support them in their old age.
Based on their understanding of Qian Jingui, he is honest, dull and lacks his own opinions. He used to obey his parents' words.
Even though there had been embarrassing moments in the past and both sides had said harsh words, so many years had passed and they were old now. As long as they humbled themselves and cried in front of Qian Jingui, wouldn't Qian Jingui obediently pay the money to the family?
Thinking of this, the Qian family began to look for opportunities to contact Qian Jingui alone. If Shen Nan, that crazy woman, found out, there would be trouble.
Hard work pays off, and finally Mrs. Qian found her opportunity.
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, Qian Jingui and his family of three went to the market. In their village, markets are held on the third, sixth, and ninth days of the lunar calendar.
The Qian family also went to the market that day. Shen Nan took Qian Baoge to buy new clothes and shoes. When they stayed in the clothing area, Qian Baoge jumped excitedly and liked the beautiful clothes.
Shen Nan made a lot of money this year, and became more generous with his spending on Qian Baoge. He bought the child three new sets of clothes and two pairs of small leather boots. He also bought a new piece of clothing for himself and Qian Jingui.
According to Shen Nan's instructions, Qian Jingui bought some fresh vegetables, fried food, etc. that the family had not yet prepared.
Old Lady Qian took advantage of the time when Qian Jingui went out to buy something and blocked him.
Qian Jingui hadn't seen his parents for several years. When he suddenly met them, he almost didn't recognize them.
The old lady used to eat well and work little, so she became obese.
After spending this year outside, I didn't eat well or sleep well. I was also worried and had a lawsuit with Qian Jinling. I lost some weight without realizing it, and looked obviously older.
Mrs. Qian saw that her third son didn't talk about family matters, so she went straight to the point: "Jin Gui, you're back. Have you heard about what's going on at home? Mom can't make ends meet now..."
When Qian Jingui just had a falling out with his parents, he was so angry that he swore that he would never care about them again.
After thinking about it, he felt that there was still time to slow down the matter. If Mrs. Qian had taken the initiative to come to Qian Jingui to admit her fault two or three years after the two families broke up, Qian Jingui might have softened his heart and agreed.
But now ten years have passed, and Qian Jingui has been doing odd jobs all over the country to look for his child. The old couple of the Qian family, as the grandparents, have never asked about their family affairs, let alone contributed money or effort.
Qian Jingui's expectations of his parents were decreasing little by little. He had been working hard outside for so many years that those expectations had long been worn away.
Now when he sees his biological mother who had taken advantage of him when he was in the most difficult time, Qian Jingui feels no emotion at all, as if he had met a stranger.
He just sighed in his heart that after so many years, everyone has grown old. If his son was still alive, he would have grown into a big boy. But where is he now?