"Qiaoqiao?"
Lin Xiaohui opened the door and saw Jiang Qiaoqiao standing at the gate of the courtyard, her face filled with astonishment.
Jiang Qiaoqiao saw that her eyes quickly reddened, and she looked so excited that she was at a loss for what to do.
But soon, Lin Xiaohui's excitement disappeared. She put on a stern face and pushed Jiang Qiaoqiao outside.
"Get out! Get out of here right now! You're a daughter of the Jiang family now, you have nothing to do with the Yang family. Get out of here and don't ever come back to our house!"
Looking at Lin Xiaohui's weathered face, which was full of feigned anger, Jiang Qiaoqiao felt a pang of sadness in her heart, as if something was blocking her throat.
Ignoring Lin Xiaohui's attempts to push her away, she couldn't help but rush forward and hug Lin Xiaohui's slender body tightly, crying out, "Mom—"
Upon hearing Jiang Qiaoqiao call her "Mom," Lin Xiaohui froze instantly, tears welling up in her eyes.
Jiang Qiaoqiao felt a lot of emotions stuck in her chest. Even though she had a thousand words to say, she didn't know where to begin.
After being taken away by the Jiang family in her previous life, she didn't have much contact with the Yang family.
Later, after the Qin family prospered, she also considered helping the Yang family.
However, the Yang family refused her help with harsh words.
She was no longer willing to try to win someone's favor.
But to her utter surprise, Qin Haiyang invited the Yang family to her fortieth birthday banquet.
Even more unexpectedly, after she was murdered by Jiang Yiran and dismembered by Jiang Yong'an, Qin Haiyang, in order to prevent the police from investigating his sordid affairs, actually wanted to conceal the real cause of her death, only claiming to the outside world that she died suddenly from a relapse of an old illness.
Finally, her adoptive father Yang Minghui, adoptive mother Lin Xiaohui, and brother Yang Jianguo felt that her death was not so simple. After reporting it to the police, they insisted on giving her justice.
Only then can the murderer Jiang Yiran and her accomplices Peng Cuiying and Yang Yong'an be brought to justice.
At that time, the Yang family's opponent was not the Jiang family, but Qin Haiyang, who had become the richest man in the country.
As the investigation into her death progressed, many of Qin Haiyang's shady dealings were exposed, leading to the collapse of his public image. Consequently, the Qin Group's reputation suffered a severe blow, and the group's stock price plummeted for several consecutive days.
After she died in her previous life, from the time the police intervened until Jiang Yiran and the others were brought to justice, the Qin Group had not only fallen from its position as the richest family, but was also struggling on the verge of bankruptcy.
It was then that she learned that her parents and older brother did not dislike or hate her because she had returned to the Jiang family.
They were just trying to force her to accept a better life in their own way.
Lin Xiaohui froze, unable to bring herself to push Jiang Qiaoqiao away.
After a while, she gently patted Jiang Qiaoqiao, "Qiaoqiao, did you suffer any grievances when you went back to the Jiang family? Did they bully you?"
Jiang Qiaoqiao suppressed her overwhelming emotions and shook her head, choking back tears. "No, I just miss Dad, Mom, and my older brother."
Lin Xiaohui's expression changed, and she wanted to send her away again.
Jiang Qiaoqiao quickly said, "Mom, I'm already married. This is my husband."
Lin Xiaohui looked at the tall Huo Beixiao, her eyes filled with tears, "Our Qiaoqiao is married now, that's wonderful, so wonderful..."
"Mom," Huo Beixiao called out respectfully, following Jiang Qiaoqiao.
He could tell that Jiang Qiaoqiao's feelings for Lin Xiaohui were completely different from her feelings for Peng Cuiying.
Yang Minghui told Huo Beixiao and Jiang Qiaoqiao to go inside and sit down.
"Mom, why did you try to drive me away the moment you saw me? Does taking the Jiang family back mean all the years you've raised me don't count? Isn't this my home now?"
After sitting down, Jiang Qiaoqiao thought about everything in her past life and couldn't help but ask with some grievance.
Lin Xiaohui and Yang Minghui both looked embarrassed.
Even Yang Jianguo seemed ashamed to face Jiang Qiaoqiao, awkwardly turning his face away.
After a long silence, Yang Minghui sighed heavily and said, "Qiaoqiao, we are sorry for what we did to you."
As soon as he said that, Lin Xiaohui covered her mouth and started crying.
"Qiaoqiao, it's not that we don't want you to come back or don't want you. It's just that when we agreed to let the Jiang family take you away, they gave us two hundred yuan and asked that we never see you again."
"We sold you out, how can we face you again, to be your parents, your family!"
Lin Xiaohui finished speaking with a sob in her voice, wiping away tears as she sobbed uncontrollably.
Jiang Qiaoqiao understood everything instantly.
No wonder the Yang family wouldn't let her come back in her past life, wouldn't acknowledge her, and wouldn't accept her help.
It turns out that because they received the two hundred yuan, they felt they had sold her, so they had no right to do so.
She knew about the two hundred yuan that the Jiang family gave to the Yang family.
However, the Jiang family said that because the Yang family raised her, they were grateful to the Yang family, so the two hundred yuan was to make up for some of the expenses incurred by the Yang family in raising her over the years.
Moreover, the Yang family really needed those two hundred yuan during that period.
Yang Minghui and his son Yang Jianguo encountered a wild boar while gathering firewood on the mountain.
One of the father and son was chased down a hillside by a wild boar and broke his leg, while the other was gored by the boar and crashed into a tree trunk, breaking two ribs.
They're all in the hospital, waiting for money to treat their injuries.
So when Jiang Qiaoqiao heard that the Jiang family would give the Yang family a sum of money as compensation, she agreed to return to the Jiang family without hesitation.
It was because of that two hundred yuan that she felt much more grateful to the Jiang family.
Unexpectedly, for just two hundred yuan, the Jiang family gave her two different accounts and the Yang family gave her two different accounts.
Jiang Qiaoqiao knew that the Yang family valued their promises. If she didn't explain things clearly to the Yang family, they would abide by their agreement with the Jiang family, cut off all contact with her, and disrupt her and the Jiang family's lives.
After Jiang Qiaoqiao recounted the two-faced nature and actions of the Jiang family, Yang Jianguo was the first to clench his fists and stand up in anger, shouting, "Outrageous! Qiaoqiao, you are their biological daughter! The Jiang family has gone too far!"
The Yang family naturally side with Jiang Qiaoqiao.
Because Jiang Yiran is not their daughter.
It wasn't just that two families switched daughters; after the switch, she was abandoned by the family that had the baby. Lin Xiaohui saw her crying so hard on the roadside that she couldn't bear it anymore, so she took her home and raised her.
As for who Jiang Yiran's biological parents are, it is still unknown.
Today was the first time Huo Beixiao had learned that Jiang Qiaoqiao had such a difficult time in the Jiang family. He had only known before that Jiang Qiaoqiao was not close to the Jiang family.
Jiang Qiaoqiao's expression softened, and she said with a smile, "Big brother, don't be angry. It's okay, it's all in the past now. I came back today because I have some good news to discuss with you."
Jiang Qiaoqiao told the Yang family about what she had discussed with Xia Yuntao, and the Yang family members looked at each other in disbelief.
"Qiaoqiao, do you mean I should go to the city with my parents to do business?" Yang Jianguo asked first, realizing what was going on.
Yang Minghui was the first to wave his hand in disagreement, "Qiaoqiao, that won't do. Our family has been farmers for generations. Now the country's policies are good, and they've given us land again. If we go to the city to do business, won't our land be left to lie fallow? No, no, the land is the root of us farmers!"
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