Li Qingman, who was standing in front of him at this moment, no longer had the gentle and beautiful look she had when they first met. Instead, her face was filled with gloom and her eyes were so sinister that it made people feel uncomfortable.

Qin An Ning's gaze swept from top to bottom, finally landing on the crutch she was holding tightly in her right hand.

Is it true that her legs are disabled?

Wei Anan looked at Qin An Ning for a long time without saying anything, then followed her gaze and saw Li Qingman.

Wei Anan immediately put away the smile on her face, snorted, held Qin An Ning's hand tightly, quickened her pace, walked around Li Qingman and hurried away.

It was not until the two of them got into the car that Wei Anan breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Anning was very surprised when she saw this. "What's wrong? Are you afraid of her?"

Wei Anan shook her head and explained, "It's not that I'm afraid, you don't know, ever since Li Qingman's leg problem, her personality has changed drastically.

No matter who she looks at, she always has a gloomy look on her face, as if the whole world owes her something.

Even when the people in the compound were chatting, she felt like they were talking behind her back, picking fights with them. Now everyone in the compound is avoiding her."

Isn't this nonsense? Is there something wrong with your mind?

Qin Anning steered the car, and as it turned a corner, she continued, "Is it certain that Li Qingman's leg will never heal?"

"I don't know." Wei Anan shook her head, "Ever since the last incident, my family and the Zheng family haven't been in touch.

But I heard from people in the compound that this is a sequelae, and it seems she will need a cane to walk in the future."

Qin An Ning thought that it was all her own fault and she couldn't blame anyone else.

"Okay, let's not talk about her anymore. It's really a killjoy." Qin An Ning lightly stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away towards the department store like an arrow.

Wei Anan also nodded and agreed, "Yes, let's go buy clothes."

Both of them had relatively good living conditions, and it happened to be the change of seasons, so they bought a lot of underwear and outerwear.

Qin Anning suddenly saw a gray and black plaid cashmere scarf, which was very suitable for boys.

Thinking that the weather was getting colder and Lu Cheng had to ride a bicycle for an hour every day to go to school, I bought it for him.

Wei Anan also liked it after seeing it. She touched the scarf and said, "This should be very warm to wear."

"Well, it just so happens that my eldest brother also needs a scarf like this."

Wei Anan glared at Qin An Ning, ignored her teasing, and bought one with a blushing face.

She also wanted to give Qin An Ning something, but was stopped by Qin An Ning.

Wei Anan thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll treat you to some tea soup. I know a place that's really delicious."

Tea soup is a traditional snack in Beijing. It is said that tea soup originated in the Ming Dynasty. Because it is consumed with hot water, just like brewing tea, it is named tea soup.

The main ingredients are sorghum flour and millet flour, and the seasonings include brown sugar, white sugar, green silk, red silk, sesame seeds, walnut kernels, assorted preserved fruits, raisins, Beijing cake strips, etc.

Use boiling water to make sorghum flour into a thin paste, add various seasonings, and it is ready to eat.

It tastes fragrant, sweet, smooth and extremely delicious.

In modern terms, it is a kind of afternoon tea.

There were not many tea shops at that time, and no one knew how Wei Anan knew this place. He led her around and around in a back street until he found an inconspicuous shop.

The two sat by the window, drinking tea and chatting.

Qin An Ning glanced outside inadvertently and saw a familiar figure following a man, saying something anxiously.

This time she saw clearly that the person was Qin Ruyue.

"An An, wait for me here for a while."

Qin An Ning left a word and hurriedly chased after him.

"Huang Tao, even if you don't think about me, you have to think about our son.

If I don't have a job and can't transfer my household registration back, then our son will become an illegal resident. Do you have the heart to let him stay in the countryside forever?"

Qin Ruyue's voice choked with sobs. She gently pulled Huang Tao's sleeve and continued to coax him in a soft voice.

"Asking Mom to transfer the job to me is just a temporary solution. Once I get my household registration back, I can return the job to Mom.

A Tao, it’s not that I’m worried about mom’s job, you should also think about our small family.

We haven't divided the family yet, and my sister-in-law has transferred her job to her younger brother. What if we don't take my mother's job first and my sister-in-law takes it away?

When the family is divided, my eldest brother and his wife both have jobs, so how will we survive?

Look at your sister-in-law. The family hasn’t split up yet. If you spend some money on medical treatment, she will be angry. What will happen if the family splits up?

If I don't have a job, you won't have money for medical treatment or medicine. Are you just going to have to endure this? It makes me sad just thinking about it."

She wiped her eyes and continued applying eye drops. "We are all the same sons. Why should you be inferior to your elder brother after suffering hardships in the countryside for three years and only being able to come back because you were sick?"

If Huang Tao was still a little hesitant after hearing the previous words, the last sentence was the straw that broke the camel's back.

At the beginning, he and his elder brother were both unemployed. The family finally found a job, but it was given to his elder brother, so he had to go to the countryside.

The Northwest is not a place for people to stay. The place where he went to the countryside was dry nine out of ten years, with extreme water shortage and poor land. As far as the eye can see, there is a desolate yellow land.

Crops are difficult to grow and often fail to produce any harvest. Since potatoes are relatively drought-resistant, they have become the "life-saving egg" for the locals.

He now feels physically nauseous when he sees potatoes.

Over the past three years, he has written countless letters asking his family to find a way to get him back, but his family has been dragging their feet, saying there is nothing they can do.

Until he became too sick to work and had to return to the city.

Qin Ruyue was right about one thing: if they didn't keep their jobs in hand, their future lives would be insecure.

Let's take his mother's job first, so that at least he won't have to worry about other people's feelings when seeing a doctor or taking medicine in the future.

When he recovers from his illness, he will take over his father's job. Then his family will have two working people, and their lives will definitely be better than that of his eldest brother's family.

They owed him that.

"Ruyue, you're right. Let's go home and tell our parents now."

Qin Ruyue burst into laughter, holding her slightly bulging belly with one hand, and said in a sweet voice, "A Tao, you are so kind!"

Qin Anning almost vomited the tea he had just drunk...

I quietly followed the two of them to the gate of a large courtyard and saw them greet the old lady sitting at the gate before going in.

Qin An Ning wrote down the address before returning to the tea shop.

"Where have you been? You suddenly ran away. I don't know what happened. I've been worried about you." Wei Anan complained with a pout.

"I saw an acquaintance and went over to talk to him."

Qin An Ning also knew that it was wrong for her to run away suddenly, but she just wanted to know why Qin Ruyue came back and where she was staying.

Beijing is so big, it’s not easy to find someone, and I don’t want to miss her if I meet her.

"Don't be angry, how about I treat you to a bowl?"