Zhang Xiaofen watched Shengxia rummaging through the drawers to find her money. She held the money in her hand, speechless for a moment, and could only turn her head away.

"What are you standing there for? Is that enough?"

Zhang Xiaofen exhaled a breath of moist air, puffing out white mist in the room. She said to Shengxia, "That's enough! I've got enough money for the train tickets. I can't wait any longer. The ticket I asked someone to buy is for the early morning. I'm leaving soon. Shengxia...I!"

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything else."

Shengxia had begged others for help in her previous life, so she knew it was not easy to ask for help. She and Zhang Xiaofen were good friends, at least in this life.

She had few true friends in her previous life. After she became rich, she no longer cared about her friends in Qingshui and distanced herself from them all. Later, those so-called friends only came to curry favor with her for Qin Ge's sake. Once she left, they all laughed at her.

Thinking about it now, it's really sad. Shengxia glanced at her watch and said, "I won't say anything else. Just stay out there and don't let anyone fool you again. If you can't make it, remember to come back and protect yourself. Leave quickly. When the firecrackers stop outside, there will be no one to cover you! It will be terrible if they catch you!"

Zhang Xiaofen nodded, wiped her eyes, climbed out the window, turned to Shengxia and said, "Shengxia! I remember, believe me, I, Zhang Xiaofen, will pay you back tenfold, a hundredfold, no, a thousandfold, ten thousandfold!"

Shengxia waved her hand and kept watch for Zhang Xiaofen. Zhang Xiaofen left in the cover of night and her figure disappeared in the clear water. Knowing that the wind had made Shengxia a little cold, she was awakened by the sound of firecrackers and closed the window.

After Zhang Xiaofen's incident, Shengxia and Song Wenjing were no longer in the mood to play. Shengxia and her grandmother were the only two of them, and they didn't have many relatives to visit during the Chinese New Year.

Not to mention the beasts in the Sheng family, they don't even want their own daughter. It's already very good that they don't visit his grave during the New Year after he got married.

Fortunately, my grandmother has several sisters, and they all returned to her hometown on the second day of the Chinese New Year to reunite with her old sisters.

I just didn’t expect that this year, grandma’s yard would be so lively starting from the afternoon of the first day of the new year!

Last year, everyone in Qingshui knew that Shengxia had made a name for herself. Not only did she get first place in the county, she also got accepted into a prestigious university in Hai City. She'd be a city dweller from now on! Just getting a city hukou costs tens of thousands these days, and Shengxia had already saved her family tens of thousands before she even graduated!

Because of this event that brought honor to the family, all the neighbors and some distant relatives came during the New Year, wanting their children to share in the good fortune, and they forced them to stay until the fourth day of the New Year.

They were shown around Shengxia's house. Zhang San's son wanted her study notes, Li Si's granddaughter wanted her textbooks. Shengxia had a room full of books. If she hadn't stopped them, I'm afraid that all the diaries she wrote in elementary school would have been swept away.

After Shengxia finished her work, sweating profusely, her grandmother called her from downstairs: "Xia Xia! Keep some of your notebooks, don't give them all away. Your grandmothers and aunt will need them when you go home tomorrow!"

There were only a few books in Shengxia's room, and there were more novels than textbooks. She gasped, "Grandma! Please don't let them come over here. I don't have any notes anymore. They might as well buy a new one instead of mine!"

Grandma went upstairs and didn't care about all these things. She just asked her to pack up quickly and take some more papers and books. She would go to the market to see if there was anything else she wanted to buy.

Shengxia sighed and scratched her hair. She didn't want to take more with her. The problem was that the group of women just now were too strong. Shengxia was too lazy to clean up. She slipped on her slippers and saw her grandmother leave. Then she sneaked downstairs to call Qin Ge.

Qin Ge was driving and answered the call when he saw it was Shengxia.

"What's wrong, sweetheart?"

Shengxia wondered how long it would take for her grandma to come back and make lunch. She grabbed a handful of melon seeds and said, "Checking in! What are you doing? Have you eaten yet?"

Qin Ge laughed and said, "I'm driving. I'm going to pick up some leaders to have dinner together."

"Then you have to drink less." Shengxia nodded and spit out a few melon seed shells.

Shengxia hasn't told Qin Ge about Zhang Xiaofen yet. She gave all her money to Zhang Xiaofen and now she has no money left. But since she didn't tell him, and Qin Ge is busy now, she doesn't want to distract him.

These days she ran to Zhang Xiaofen's house every morning to see that the debt collectors were still guarding the door and had not left. She didn't know how long they would stay.

Early in the morning of the fourth day of the New Year, Shengxia followed her grandmother home.

Shengxia rode a tricycle with grandma. In the tricycle was a box of New Year's goods that Qin Ge brought back, some beef, and a large bag of fresh vegetables and fruits that grandma had picked out at the market in the morning. Grandma's face was flushed, and she had started preparing last night.

Shengxia could see that her grandmother was happier this year than in any previous year because she had been admitted to university.

Shengxia was holding a pile of books. "Grandma, this is all I have left from the past few days. These are the papers I have left. I really don't have any more. But grandma, do you think it's okay for me to make a photo frame with the admission letter from Jinghai University and hang it around my neck?"

"You are such a naughty kid..."

Shengxia laughed out loud and dodged grandma's slap. Grandma smiled and continued to put her things away.

She used some of the 500 yuan that Shengxia gave her to make a thick coat for Shengxia, and at Shengxia's strong request, she also made one for herself.

Shengxia pedaled a tricycle carrying her grandmother and New Year's goods for a whole morning before finally arriving. She parked the tricycle at the gate of the yard.

In the middle of winter, she took off her gloves, panting with exhaustion. Among all the canaries in history, she was probably the most tired.

In the yard, Duoduo, who was playing, shouted towards the house: "Grandma! Grandma! My little cousin is here!"

Grandma also came down from behind. Shengxia walked into the yard and picked up Duoduo: "What little cousin! I am your aunt, call me aunt!"

Duoduo is the granddaughter of Third Grandma Zhang Yuqiao. She pinched her face with a smile and didn't say anything.

Shengxia looked happy, so she took out a piece of candy from her pocket and gave it to her. After riding the tricycle all the way, she didn't have the strength to hold her, so her grandmother asked the young man to carry the things into the house. As soon as they entered the house, they saw the third grandmother and several other grandmothers sitting around a young woman. The woman's hair was messy and there was a large purple spot on her eye.

Shengxia pulled Duoduo to follow behind, and grandma put down her things: "Sister, what's going on?"

Seeing that no one was talking, Second Wife Zhang Yufen couldn't sit still any longer and spoke first: "He got beaten by Wang Feng! He was really good at hiding it. He even had a concubine outside and even had a bastard! Qiaoqiao caught him red-handed outside, and he just acted like a mad dog, grabbing Qiaoqiao and beating her to death!"