Qin Hanshu took Zhou Chi to school and took the opportunity to handle the property ownership of the house in the capital.
The house had been rented out by Qin Feiyang for many years, and Qin Hanshu took the opportunity to meet the tenant.
She remembered that this area was going to be demolished in a few years, and it was best not to have any tenants in the houses when the demolition happened, especially tenants who had lived there for more than ten years. They might have started to treat the place as their own home, which could cause some trouble during the demolition.
Qin Hanshu took back the house, citing that her son was studying in the capital and needed to come home to live.
Although the tenants were very reluctant and unwilling, there was nothing they could do; they couldn't just occupy the space and refuse to leave once the tenants decided not to rent.
However, Qin Hanshu gave them six months to move out, and the tenants began to feel grateful to Qin Hanshu again.
The female tenant, a woman in her forties, said to Qin Hanshu, "A few years ago, a crazy woman came by and said this was her home, and told us to move out, but I kicked her out."
The woman spoke with some hesitation.
Although the woman was a bit mentally unstable, some neighbors recognized her and said she was the Qin family's landlord's biological mother, who had remarried and seemed to be having a hard time and wanted to come back.
At the time, she was afraid that if the woman's biological mother came back to stay, she would stop renting the house to her, so she pretended not to know and kicked the woman out, thinking she was a crazy vagrant.
After a period of anxiety, I gradually felt relieved when I realized that the woman hadn't come looking for me again.
Upon seeing Qin Hanshu, he felt he should still bring up the matter, since she could simply insist she didn't know that woman.
After listening, Qin Hanshu asked for more details and guessed that it was Yang Aizhen.
She felt nothing at all.
Knowing that Yang Aizhen had a miserable life, she felt no pleasure in revenge, unlike her feelings for the Hu family.
Yang Aizhen is now like a stranger to her; she feels no hatred, but also no pity.
She used to fantasize that perhaps she wasn't Yang Aizhen's biological daughter; otherwise, how could a mother have no love for her child at all? But later, she reconciled with reality.
Everything in this world is largely determined by fate.
Qin Hanshu sensed the tenant's guilty conscience but didn't expose her.
"It's okay, they're probably just homeless drifters."
The tenants were relieved to see that Qin Hanshu didn't pursue the matter.
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In recent years, Yang Aizhen has been thinking about Qin Hanshu more and more.
Qin Hanshu, her only biological daughter, why did she seem to have disappeared from the world, and why can't she be contacted at all?
Yang Aizhen couldn't understand it, and in the end, she could only attribute the reason to Qin Hanshu being an ungrateful wretch who didn't want to acknowledge her as his mother.
As for why she didn't want to acknowledge it, she subconsciously didn't want to think about it too much... In short, Qin Hanshu was heartless! He didn't even care whether his own mother lived or died!
"Yang Aizhen!" Old Mrs. Hu rushed in from outside like a whirlwind, grabbed Yang Aizhen's ear and scolded, "The paper mill said you haven't been to work for three days, so what have you been doing these past few days, leaving early and coming home late? Are you thinking of running away again?! You slut! Have I been holding back your temper for too long and you're itching for a beating again?!"
As she spoke, Old Mrs. Hu picked up a broom from the side and started hitting Yang Aizhen with it.
Yang Aizhen shrank back and silently endured it.
If she doesn't resist, Old Lady Hu will stop hitting her after a while.
Sure enough, when Grandma Hu got tired of broomping, she threw it down and told her to go cook.
Old Mrs. Hu was also old and no longer had the strength to lay a hand on Yang Aizhen, nor did she have the energy to keep an eye on her.
Three years ago, Yang Aizhen ran back to the city and returned to her former home.
However, our house has been occupied.
Yang Aizhen felt panicked and shouted to drive the people away, but the other party had more people and more power, and the neighbors just watched the show without helping her. In the end, she was the one who was driven away.
I heard that the house was rented out.
However, Yang Aizhen couldn't find Qin Hanshu or Qin Feiyang, and on her own, she had no power to compete with others for the house.
With no other option, Yang Aizhen had to return to the Hu family.
When Old Mrs. Hu saw that she had returned, she made some sarcastic remarks. After that, she stopped caring about where Yang Aizhen went. Anyway, she could tell that Yang Aizhen was a useless person who couldn't survive on her own and that her only daughter wouldn't care about her.
Moreover, Yang Aizhen is getting old now and can't remarry, so she can only stay obediently in the Hu family. At least she has a roof over her head and Hu Bingbing, a strong laborer, to keep her safe from being bullied.
Grandma Hu saw through Yang Aizhen very well; that was indeed what she thought.
Even though Old Lady Hu beat and scolded her constantly, and made her work at a privately owned paper mill in the village to earn money, she never thought of going out to survive independently.
Yang Aizhen was cooking when a commotion came from outside.
After a while, Old Mrs. Hu began to wail and cry.
"Good heavens! Which damned bastard beat my grandson?!"
"Bingbing, Bingbing, open your eyes and look at Grandma."
"My dear grandson, are you still alive??"
Upon hearing that Hu Bingbing had an accident, Yang Aizhen rushed out to check on the situation.
......
Hu Bingbing was carried back; he looked like he was on the verge of death, but he wasn't dead, although both his legs were broken.
The person who hit him was the son of the paper mill owner, a notorious nouveau riche.
Hu Bingbing has a bad temper, so offending people is perfectly normal for him. However, he has mental issues, and most people in the village would rather avoid him than provoke him.
It's already lucky that it took so many years for someone to break his leg.
Grandma Hu cried and shouted to get justice for Hu Bingbing, but in the end she only received 1,000 yuan in compensation.
A thousand yuan is not much to buy Hu Bingbing's two legs, but Old Lady Hu is pragmatic and afraid that if she makes a fuss, she won't even get a thousand yuan.
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