For nearly a year, Qian Longbin was busy looking for targets. His efforts paid off. He actually made money from several rich 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.

Furthermore, 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's true that they are afraid of Shen Nan, but they are more afraid of having no money. Now that his parents are old, as a son, money is precious, there is no reason 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 not be able to survive, so why should they be afraid of Shen Nan, the crazy man who doesn't care about his life?

The Qian family members thought so in their hearts. When they really arrived at the village entrance, they were still nervous when they thought about passing by Shen Nan's gate. They were afraid that Shen Nan would see them and attack them with "weapons" again.

Fortunately, when a few people passed by Shen Nan's house in a tricycle, they found that his door was closed and they didn't know where his family members had gone.

After being away from home for a year, when I returned home, the gate was rusty, the yard was a mess caused by the villagers' smashing, and it was overgrown with half-human-high weeds.

This house is now as desolate as it can be, completely devoid of its former grandeur.

Tired from the long journey, Old Lady Qian instructed Qian Meijuan: "Quickly clean up the house so we can take a break!"

Qian Meijuan, who worked in the city to take care of the family's food and drink, was clearly filled with resentment. However, if she dared to express any 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 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 go to the yard to pull weeds and clean up the dilapidated courtyard.

They, the adults, know how to get tired, so wouldn’t a child like her, who is just over ten years old, get tired?

But Qian Meijuan was completely unable to fight against the adults in the family. Now, because she had no adults to take care of her, Qian Meijuan 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 winter, because she didn't have thick clothes, the sleeves of her cotton coat became a little short because she grew taller.

When working, they inevitably had to touch cold water. Qian Meijuan, who had never had frostbite before, got frostbite this winter. Pus and scabs formed on the wound, and the wound soon cracked again before it could heal.

It wasn't until spring that the frostbite on her hands healed somewhat. However, the originally delicate hands were now scarred by frostbite, becoming rough and ugly. When placed next to her pretty little face, it was impossible to imagine they were the same person.

Qian Meijuan dragged her tired body and suppressed 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 cautious, fearing that there was something terrible hidden in the grass. Sure enough, when she was pulling out 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 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 cursing again: "What are you doing so clumsily? We haven't even cleaned up the place yet, and you want to slack off 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 as she entered the old couple's room: "Grandma, I, I saw worms, I'm scared..."

Old Mrs. Qian was also afraid of snakes, but since she didn't have to face that kind of danger, she spoke naturally and easily: "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 upset that she had no tears to cry. Even if she wanted to complain or argue, she didn't know what to say.

She had thoroughly experienced the saying, "A child without a mother is like a weed." Ever since her mother left in anger, her good days were over.

How could she be 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 never had to do dirty or tiring work, nor did she suffer 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 her.

But what had she done? She had actually helped these bad guys and driven away her mother, the only person who had truly treated her well.

She secretly reported the case 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 a home like this any longer. But what about her mother? She had lived with this family for nearly twenty years, always enduring this in silence. I wondered how she had managed to endure it for so long.

She no longer hated Yu Min at all, but instead began to understand her difficulties.

She even fully realized her mistake in abandoning Min.

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.