Chapter 24 The Pei family has no reason to let hatred linger overnight.
Downstairs, Liu Qianyun stood at the guest room door and saw Pei Jiuyan come downstairs, not finding it strange at all. In their Pei family, there was no reason to let hatred linger overnight.
When she first married Pei Huoshan, they were still fighting the Japanese, so they got married in the countryside. The first time she appeared in public, the old lady next door secretly mocked her, saying, "Looking at her, she doesn't look like she'll settle down!"
As a result, Pei Huoshan climbed to the next door house at night, dragged the old man who was having an affair with the village widow behind the house in front of the old lady, and made the old lady so angry that she fell backwards.
Later, her job was taken away by someone else, and Pei Huoshan wrote a letter of complaint overnight, reporting the girl in their group who had "used backdoors."
Even if she tripped over the threshold at home, Pei Huoshan would have to saw it off overnight.
And what about Pei Jiuyan? Compared to his father, Pei Jiuyan is simply far superior. Don't think she doesn't know; he's been getting countless good things for Sui Sui since she was little. Almost anything Sui Sui specifically asks for, that brat somehow manages to get it for her!
Back then, when the little girl was bullied in Jiangcheng, this brat was willing to take a train overnight and travel thousands of miles to stand up for her. Now that the girl has been schemed against like this for no reason, it's no wonder Pei Jiuyan can't sleep peacefully!
She lowered her voice and gestured upstairs, "Is Sui Sui asleep?"
Pei Jiuyan nodded.
Liu Qianyun hummed in agreement: "Go ahead, come back early tomorrow. Don't let Sui Sui worry. That child has suffered a lot these past few days."
Pei Jiuyan said nothing, put on his shoes and went out the door, his figure quickly blending into the night.
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Qin Suisui was sleeping soundly, but the Yang family, far away in the wild jungle, was in dire straits.
The Manghuang Jungle is so called because its name suggests it is not only desolate and remote, but also primitive and wild, an undeveloped natural wilderness. Because it is so desolate and dangerous, no one has ever set foot in it, so it has no name and is collectively referred to by locals as "Manghuang."
This place is not only rife with miasma and swarms of mosquitoes, but also sees leeches leaping from the leaves onto people to suck their blood. However, precisely because no one has set foot here and it has not been excessively damaged, it is rich in natural resources.
Therefore, those who have made serious mistakes will be sent here for labor reform.
At this moment, the Yang family was huddled in a thatched hut on a farm a few kilometers away from the wild forest, swatting at the mosquitoes that kept biting them, and were somewhat relieved: "It's a good thing we weren't assigned to the wild forest. Just looking at it is terrifying. I heard that the leeches there can suck a person's blood dry!" Seeing that everyone's expressions were not good, their daughter-in-law Shen Shulan could only try to ease the atmosphere.
Sun Yun's face was not good. Overnight, her family went from being a privileged family to being prisoners. She had only suffered for a while because Yang Jiankang had gambled away all her family's wealth when she was young. Later, the Qin couple stepped in and not only helped pay off the gambling debts, but also used their connections to introduce Yang Jiankang to work in the state-run canteen.
Yang Jiankang lived up to expectations, using his silver tongue to rise from a junior clerk to a junior manager. With the occasional help from the Qin family and his sister, their family's standard of living also improved significantly. For so many years, Sun Yun had never experienced hardship. Now, her husband had died, her whole family had been sent to the countryside, and all their property had been stolen. The feeling of falling from heaven to earth was unbearable for Sun Yun.
So on her first day here, she asked someone to pass on a message to her nephew who was working in the Hongqiding Brigade, asking him to go to the military compound to find Qin Suisui.
That night, they didn't go to pick up Qin Suisui. They only planned to bring her over the next day to comfort her before handing her over to Yang Jiankang's boss. However, when they woke up the next day and saw their empty house, they were devastated and momentarily forgot about the matter in their panic.
It was not until Yang Jiankang's leader came to the door that they remembered Qin Suisui. When they went to Qin's cellar to look for her, they found that she had disappeared and the Qin family's house had been emptied.
The Qin family's eviction wasn't surprising, but theirs was liquidated, and many people took advantage of the situation to rob. Those people must have known about their family's friendship with the Qin family, so they took the opportunity to rob their house as well! It was the Qin family that implicated them! This account should be held accountable to Qin Suisui!
If she wasn't mistaken, Qin Suisui must have come to Qiongtan Island on her own. Their previous schemes hadn't happened, so Qin Suisui definitely didn't know about them and didn't harbor any hatred towards them.
Then he blamed their family for the house being robbed. In addition, Sun Yun knew Qin Suisui's temper very well. She looked willful, but in fact she was raised to be very simple and kind by the Qin couple. The relationship between their two families was so good. With so many factors, Qin Suisui would definitely ask her fiancé to help them!
Sun Yun had heard Qin's mother, Hua Qing, mention her fiancé before; he was a naval officer on Qiongtan Island and held a leadership position... Thinking about this, hope gradually reappeared on Sun Yun's ashen face.
Yang Zhaoxing was being bitten to death by mosquitoes. He slapped his face, killing the mosquito that was sucking his blood, and looked at his mother impatiently: "Mom, when is Qin Suisui coming to save us?"
Sun Yun had a confident smile on his face: "Don't worry, if Ruwen can deliver the message today, maybe there will be good news tomorrow."
The family went to sleep with hope.
Unexpectedly, the next day, instead of Qin Suisui, they were greeted by Sun Ruwen.
Looking at Sun Ruwen's somewhat gloomy face, Sun Yun was unaware of it and kept looking behind him: "Ruwen, isn't Suisui here? And where's her fiancé?"
Sun Ruwen didn't answer, and Sun Yun continued to talk to himself: "Did they go to see the leader?" That must be the case. Qin Suisui, that idiot, is the softest-hearted one. He absolutely can't bear to see them suffer for another day!
Sun Ruwen couldn't help but sneer as she looked at her aunt's self-deceiving behavior.
Sun Yun then noticed that her nephew's face was not right, but she didn't think that Qin Suisui was rejecting her. Instead, she frowned and lectured Sun Ruwen: "Ruwen, is it that you didn't go? Do you also think that your aunt is in trouble now? You are not willing to help with something as trivial as delivering a message?"
Sun Ruwen, who had been holding back her anger all night, finally exploded: "Auntie! Why don't you reflect on what you've done to Sui Sui? Are you still deceiving yourselves, hoping she'll come to your rescue? When your whole family was scheming against her, did you ever think that one day you'd need her to save you?!"
Sun Ruwen was a scholar whose greatest hobby was reading. He couldn't bring himself to say anything malicious, let alone in front of his own aunt.
He just hated being deceived and made a fool of by his aunt, otherwise he wouldn't have ridden his bicycle all morning to come here to confront her.
Upon hearing his words, Sun Yun's face paled: "What...what do you mean?" Did that stupid girl already know?
Sun Ruwen snorted coldly, "Sister Suisui knows everything about your plot against her! If she hadn't cleverly escaped, she'd have fallen into your trap. Who knows what would have happened to her? Now that you're in trouble, do you know to ask her for help?"
Sun Yun froze, her heart sinking to the bottom. She wasn't afraid of Qin Suisui finding out about this; what she feared was that her only hope was gone.
“You should know better than I how Uncle Qin and Aunt Hua treated your family before, but after they fell on hard times, you plotted to frame their only child. Aunt, you should stay here and reform yourselves! The leader is right! Only labor can clear your minds and cleanse your souls!”
After saying this, Sun Ruwen turned to leave.
Seeing him leave, Sun Yun came to her senses and quickly grabbed Sun Ruwen's sleeve: "Ruwen, Ruwen, don't be angry. It was your aunt's fault. This was your uncle's idea. He wanted a promotion, so he came up with this idea to curry favor with his boss. I had no choice. You know, your uncle is the one who makes the decisions in our family. Now that your uncle is dead, and Sui Sui is doing well, could you try to put in a good word for her? If that doesn't work, you can ask your mother to talk to your stepfather. He should have connections..."
Sun Ruwen's mother, Sun Bing, remarried a man who ran a black market business in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is far from the north and has relatively lax regulations. In addition, it has a port and is close to Hong Kong and Macau, so the black market business is more "prosperous" than elsewhere. Sun Ruwen's stepfather has also accumulated a lot of wealth and connections over the years.
"Aunt! Shut up!" Sun Ruwen became even more furious when he heard his aunt mention his stepfather.
Doesn't his aunt know what his stepfather does? At this critical juncture, asking his stepfather to help these ex-convicts find connections is just walking into a trap.
Only then did Sun Ruwen truly realize how ungrateful and selfish his aunt was. Not just the Qin family, but even their own family. After his mother remarried his stepfather, because Yang was his wife's only sister, his stepfather had secretly helped the Yang family countless times. Not to mention the gifts during festivals, just the cash and silver sent annually probably totaled thousands of yuan over the years.
Now, his aunt is sending his stepfather and his entire family to their deaths!
Sun Ruwen turned around angrily, her eyes filled with determination: "Auntie! No! Ms. Sun Yun! Today, on behalf of my mother and our whole family, I sever all ties with you! People like you, with your low moral character, who do wrong things but don't try to change, and instead try to avoid hardship and fatigue by using improper means to escape labor, are parasites on society! I will publish the notice of severing ties in the newspaper later. You'd better watch yourselves! Don't come looking for me again!"
Sun Yun's face turned ashen, as if struck by lightning. She never expected that her nephew, who had always been so respectful to her, would say such things and even publish a notice in the newspaper severing ties with her! Had he forgotten that when his mother had nowhere to go after her divorce, it was she, and their whole family, who took them in!
Now that you've climbed the social ladder, you want to kick them all aside? Don't even think about it!
Sun Yun's anger reached its breaking point. She lost her temper and shouted at Sun Ruwen, who had already walked away, "You and your mother are the ungrateful ones! You think you can get rid of us now? Don't even think about it! If you don't help us, don't blame me for reporting you..."
"What are you reporting?" The administrator walked over from elsewhere, looking at Sun Yun's crooked nose with some confusion.
When Sun Yun saw the administrator arrive, he thought Qin Suisui had sent someone to rescue them, so he quickly smiled and said, "It's nothing, I was just joking. It's not time to start work yet. Why did you come? Is there some good news?"
The administrator nodded: "There's good news, hurry up and pack your things!"
Sun Yun's face lit up with joy. Qin Suisui had indeed come in handy. She hurriedly woke up her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson, and while tidying up, she asked the administrator, "Where are we being transferred to?"
The administrator, recalling the icy face of the man from last night, sneered, "Go see Marx!"
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