After the old lady finished her bath, Yu Min helped her mother-in-law back to the house. The old woman was too fat, and almost all her weight was on her daughter-in-law. Fortunately, Yu Min had done farm work all year round and had a lot of strength, otherwise she would have been crushed by the old woman.

After returning to the house, he turned on the light and carefully examined the old lady's body. The bruises that were spread one after another were really horrible to look at, but the more Yu Min looked at it, the more relieved he felt. He thought: Which living Bodhisattva has come to eliminate the harm to the people?

After Yu Min finished examining the old lady, Qian Jincai came in and asked him to check on his mother's foot to see if it was really broken so that he could quickly call the village doctor.

After the old lady was beaten, she came out of the sack and tried to stand up. At that time, her right ankle felt a throbbing pain, but now the pain has mostly disappeared. It seems that it is not a fracture. Maybe the little bastard kicked her hard and kicked her ankle.

She moved her foot around and found it was fine, so she didn't ask for the village doctor. As for the bruises on her body, she asked Yu Min to get two bags of shaved ice from the refrigerator and apply them to her body, which not only reduced the swelling but also helped to cool her down.

Speaking of refrigerators, few families in Luojiagou can afford them these days. Even those who can afford them are reluctant to buy them. Qian Jinling paid for the Qian family's refrigerator last year. So, everyone in the village says, "Look at that Qian family's daughter. Just because she's beautiful, she's suddenly become a phoenix!"

But the villagers only knew that Qian Jinling married a prominent figure, but they didn't know that she was a mistress. She relied on her beauty to bewitch men so much that they were willing to abandon their wives and children to marry her.

Honestly, the Qian family's daughters and sons were all pretty good-looking. For example, Qian Jindou was once a well-known handsome young man in the surrounding area. As for why he was attracted to the rather petite Zhan Jinhua, it was probably because of her family's influence.

Zhan Jinhua's father was the village brigade secretary, and before that, the production team leader. He was a master of bribery, extortion, and abuse of power for personal gain, and his children all inherited his legacy.

At that time, the Qian family was relatively poor. By chance, Qian Jindou met Zhan Jinhua from the neighboring city. The sight of Qian Jindou made Zhan Jinhua so dizzy she couldn't walk, staring intently at him. Once Qian Jindou's family conditions were revealed, Qian Jindou agreed without much hesitation.

After all, although Zhan Jinhua was short and had plain features when she was young, she knew how to dress herself up. She had her hair permed into big curls, which was the favorite among city women, and she also drew her eyebrows and sideburns. She looked quite attractive after putting on makeup.

Seeing his younger siblings living a good life thanks to their beauty, the eldest brother Qian Jincai felt very upset. The more he looked at the old woman at home, the more he disliked her. He always felt that he had lost out by marrying her. So since his son Qian Longbin was still young, he went out to hook up with young widows and young wives.

It’s true that that handsome face with clear edges and corners is quite effective. Within a ten-mile radius, there are at least eight women who have been slept with by him for free.

Of course, along with these "glorious" histories, there are also some dark histories. For example, one time he was fooling around with a young woman from the neighboring village, and was caught in bed by her husband. He ran out naked and hid in a villager's straw stack to avoid a beating.

That time, he waited until late at night when everyone had turned off the lights and gone to bed before he dared to go out. He stole two bundles of straw to cover his buttocks and stumbled back home in the dark.

The degree of embarrassment that time was comparable to what his mother experienced today.

If we were to ask which of the Qian family's children is the most normal, it would be the third son, Qian Jingui. He didn't live off his wife or have an affair, and he started a family with his childhood sweetheart, Shen Nan.

However, Shen Nan later became insane and tried to chop people with a knife, which scared the Qian family so much that they let the third family separate and live on their own.

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After the brigade movie ended, the two boys, grinning from ear to ear, also carried their stools and followed the others home. However, they stayed away from the others and whispered to each other.

The tall boy is called Luo Dajiang. He is now in the fifth grade of primary school. He is the youngest son of Luo Changyou from Luojiagou. He has four older sisters.

The short boy was called Qian Xiaoshu, now six years old and not yet in school. He was another child that Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou had fostered in their hometown. This was the biological son of Sun Aimin and Yuan Jie, who had been replaced with Sun Xiaohao.

Before he was born, Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin had already chosen a name for him. If it was a boy, he would be named Sun Mian. However, they brought home another child who was sickly and frail, so the name didn't fit. So they had to change it to Sun Xiaohao, hoping that he would grow up healthy and safe.

Not long after Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou brought Qian Xiaoshu home, they abandoned him in Luojiagou, leaving him in the care of the Qian family's elderly couple. However, they were secretive about the child's origins and never mentioned them. All we knew was that Zhan Jinhua had given birth to a child in the hospital, and this was the one they brought home.

For the first two years, the Qian family thought he was their grandson and treated him well. But as the child grew older, he looked less and less like a member of the Qian family, and had nothing to do with Zhan Jinhua. The couple became suspicious, believing their son was being cuckolded. Their attitude towards the child took a complete turn, and they began to beat and scold him daily.

A three-year-old child, needless to say, could dress himself, eat, and fold his own quilt. He had to wash his own dirty clothes, and when the adults went to work in the fields, he had to take him with him, foraging for wild vegetables. If he didn't find the vegetables the old couple wanted, he would be beaten when he got home. Qian Xiaoshu couldn't sit at the table at every meal; he had to wait until everyone else had finished eating before he could get his turn at the leftover rice or vegetable soup.

How could a child grow up well if raised like this? A three-year-old child is no bigger than a two-year-old, often stumbling when walking, yet he has to take care of himself and help with housework. Everyone in the village feels pity for the child.

Some people couldn't stand it and secretly gave the children some steamed buns and pancakes as food, but when they were seen by the old lady of the Qian family, she would go to the door of the family's house and curse at them, saying that the family was meddling in other people's business.

Is that all? That would be an underestimation of Old Lady Qian's viciousness. Besides scolding those who treated Qian Xiaoshu well, she also dragged him over and gave him a good beating in front of their door, letting them know that the better they treated Qian Xiaoshu, the worse off he would be.

Growing up in such a family, it is a miracle that Qian Xiaoshu did not die young.

In fact, just a few months ago, when Yuan Jie dreamed of a child crying "Mom, save me," Qian Xiaoshu almost died. Old Madam Qian had been arguing with someone outside that day, and when she got home, she took it out on Qian Xiaoshu, beating and kicking him until he fainted. That night, Qian Xiaoshu also developed a high fever.

Yu Min couldn't stand it any longer and wanted to go find a doctor, but Old Lady Qian stopped her because she felt Qian Xiaoshu might not survive. If the doctor saw Qian Xiaoshu covered in bruises, with barely a single spot on his body, and if he was truly dead, wouldn't that confirm her guilt as a murderer? If she didn't go find a doctor, she could just secretly bury the child and get away with it.