Chapter 97 I Want to See You
Before he could finish his words, the other party hung up the phone hastily.
Shi Qing put down her phone, her face completely gloomy.
Li Manqing saw that her daughter looked unhappy and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
"Mom, is my uncle back?" Shi Qing frowned and looked at her mother.
Li Manqing's eyes dodged for a moment, then nodded hesitantly: "A few days ago, I heard your Aunt Wang say that when she returned to the village, she seemed... seemed to have seen someone who looked like your uncle at the village entrance."
"He still has the nerve to come back?!" Shi Qing's heart suddenly burned with anger.
"Why, after hiding out there for so many years, are you ready to come back and pay back the money?"
At that time, Shi Qing's father's business was doing well, and the family was considered well-off.
It was this uncle who, in collusion with her grandmother, tricked her father into signing a guarantee agreement under the guise of family affection.
As a result, less than half a year later, my uncle absconded with the money and disappeared without a trace.
The debt collectors came to the house with a ferocious look and smashed the house into a mess.
Shi Qing's father was so angry about this unexpected misfortune that he fell ill on the spot. When he was sent to the hospital for a check-up, he was found to have advanced gastric cancer.
It took only a few months from the onset of the disease to death.
Those days were like hell for Shi Qing and Li Manqing.
They went to see their grandmother and the relatives who had been helped by their family, but all they got was closed doors and ruthless excuses.
Grandma even pretended to be ignorant even though she knew the truth, saying that she knew nothing.
In the end, the mountain of debt fell entirely on the mother and daughter.
Debt collectors came to the house every day, blocking my mother at Anluo High School and in Beijing.
If the school teacher had not later told them that an anonymous kind-hearted person had donated some money to solve their urgent problem, they would not know how many more years they would have to endure fear.
Even so, Shi Qing worked very hard in the entertainment industry, joining various crews seamlessly for four years and working like a top, and finally paid off all her debts.
"Mom, I'll get to the bottom of this." Shi Qing held her mother's slightly cold hand, her eyes determined. "No matter if he has money now or not, he must repay this debt!"
"Mom knows." Li Manqing patted the back of her daughter's hand, her eyes full of heartache and worry, "Mom just... doesn't want you to get involved with those people anymore."
"Okay, it's New Year's Day, let's not talk about these things that spoil the fun." Li Manqing forced herself to cheer up and pointed at the TV. "Look, this skit is quite interesting."
Shi Qing knew that her mother was trying to comfort her, so she followed her words and temporarily suppressed those bad things.
The mother and daughter snuggled together and watched the Spring Festival Gala for a while.
Li Manqing was old and couldn't stay up late, so she quickly went back to her room to rest.
Shi Qing was the only one left in the living room, and the singing and dancing on TV seemed a little lonely.
She leaned back on the sofa, boredly replying to the New Year greetings that flooded into her phone.
The warmth and coldness of human nature are vividly reflected at this moment.
In the past two years, there were only a handful of people who sent me blessings, but this year I seemed to remember that I had her WeChat.
Shi Qing opened the chat interface with Sheng Han, and the latest message was still at seven o'clock in the evening.
It was a transfer of 520,000 yuan from him, accompanied by a concise "Happy New Year".
After that, there was no news.
She originally wanted to wait until midnight to send him a formal blessing, but her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she finally couldn't resist the sleepiness.
She edited a message in advance saying "Happy New Year, have some rest early" and sent it over.
Then I changed into comfortable pajamas, went back to the room, and got into the warm bed.
Just as I was about to fall asleep, my cell phone suddenly vibrated.
It is very cold.
Shi Qing immediately pressed the answer button.
"Sheng Han?"
"Qingqing..." The man's voice on the other end of the phone was very low, with a hint of imperceptible fragility, "I want to see you."
That voice seemed to contain some suppressed emotions that were about to get out of control.
Shi Qing's heart suddenly tightened, and all sleepiness disappeared: "What's wrong with you? Where are you?"
Sheng Han was silent for a moment, then he said in a voice that was almost whispered, "I'm downstairs from your house."
Shi Qing sat up from the bed, her mind confused.
Without thinking too much, I threw back the quilt, grabbed my down jacket and wrapped it around myself, then rushed downstairs in my slippers.
Late at night in Anluo City, fine snowflakes were falling.
The street lights downstairs cast a circle of warm yellow light in the quiet snowy night.
A tall and straight figure stood under the street light.
It’s really Sheng Han.
It was so cold, and I don't know if he was trying to look cool, but he only wore a black woolen coat and didn't even wear a scarf.
Fine snowflakes fell on the ends of his thick black hair and straight shoulders, melting to leave a wet mark.
The warm yellow light outlined his stern profile, but could not dispel the deep loneliness surrounding him.
He just stood there quietly, as if he had been abandoned by the whole world.
Shi Qing's heart seemed to be tugged at by something.
She stepped on the snow and ran towards him quickly.
"Sheng Han! What's wrong with you?"
Before Shi Qing finished her words, the man strode forward and hugged her tightly in his arms.
The cold feeling of snow and the refreshing breath unique to the severe cold instantly enveloped Shi Qing.
"Qingqing, I miss you so much."
Sheng Han buried his face deeply in Shi Qing's neck, his voice muffled, like a wild beast that had lost its way in a snowstorm and finally found its way home, removing all the hardness of its disguise, leaving only fragility.
"I... I was kicked out of my home." He cleverly distorted the facts and portrayed himself as a homeless and pitiful man.
Shi Qing was stunned when she heard this, and then she felt pity in her heart.
She raised her hand and gently patted his broad back, asking softly, "Why were you kicked out of the house? Why?"
Sheng Han's brows relaxed slightly under her comfort.
But he didn't want to pollute her ears with the Sheng family's rotten and smelly affairs. He just rubbed her neck vaguely and said in a muffled voice, "Anyway...it's their fault."
"Yeah! They are wrong!" Shi Qing agreed without thinking.
She had long heard that the Sheng family had complicated relationships among relatives, and she thought that it was those greedy and weird relatives who were causing trouble again.
This is their first Spring Festival after marriage.
She once asked Sheng Han if she wanted to accompany him back to the Sheng family to celebrate the New Year.
Sheng Han refused almost immediately and just told her to stay with her mother.
Thinking about it now, his original excuse that he needed a marriage to consolidate his position and deal with the old stubborn people in the company seemed a little thin in the face of reality.
He didn't let her attend Shengxin Group's year-end summary meeting.
She had never met any of the Sheng family's elders except for her father...
Does he really need her help dealing with those complicated business engagements?
Although she felt relieved that she didn't have to get involved in the disputes among wealthy families, the inconsistency still caused some doubts in her mind.
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