On the way back, Su Xinyi suddenly realized why her younger sister had come.
"Xinwan, what brings you here?"
If Su Xinwan hadn't appeared in time, Qiu Mingyue probably would have succeeded.
Ye Xiaoxin was also puzzled by this question.
Su Xinwan pouted, touched her bottom, and frowned, still feeling a bit sore, saying, "My parents are going to start arguing again, so I had no choice but to run away."
"I was just thinking of taking a walk, but I didn't expect to run into what just happened."
Su Xinyi and Ye Xiaoxin nodded and helped each other walk home.
Originally, they went to ask the people at the educated youth settlement about the situation, but they've only gotten a little bit of information and are still full of doubts. Meanwhile, their side was almost wiped out by Qiu Mingyue all by herself.
Thinking of this, Su Xinyi sighed.
When Ye Xiaoxin got home, Tao Qiuyan was still cooking. She glanced at Su Qingwen and Min Yuehua and went to the kitchen on her own.
"I'll go see if my mom has finished cooking."
"Um."
Su Xinyi could only nod.
As Ye Xiaoxin left, Min Yuehua and Su Qingwen glanced at Su Xinyi, their expressions slightly anxious.
"How about it?"
Did you ask them if their family knew any important people?
Su Xinyi looked at her parents, pursed her lips and shook her head helplessly.
"I asked, but there was no answer. Besides, I went to the educated youth settlement and ran into Qiu Mingyue..." Su Xinyi really didn't want to say the rest.
We were once best friends, classmates, and even went to the countryside together.
Now... mortal enemies.
Su Xinwan said with a wronged expression, "That Qiu Mingyue is too scary. I used to just think she didn't seem like a good person, but now I think she's like a murderer."
"A murderer?" Min Yuehua and Su Qingwen were both surprised.
It's really impossible to associate Qiu Mingyue, such a beautiful young girl, with the words "murderer".
But in Su Xinwan's eyes, Qiu Mingyue was a murderer.
But Min Yuehua was too preoccupied with her son to care about anything else; she just kept nagging, "What will happen to Xiaoze? What will happen to my son? We can't find him, how can we save him?"
After the family listened to Min Yuehua's rambling for more than ten minutes, Hou Yongping arrived with Hou Baolin.
"Sister-in-law?" Hou Baolin's eyes lit up when he saw Su Xinyi. He immediately put the things he brought on the table and asked, "Sister-in-law, why are you back? Where is Beiping? Is he back too? That kid didn't even tell me and Fatty when he came back. He went to Hangzhou and forgot all about his brothers."
As everyone listened to Hou Baolin's cheerful chatter, only Su Xinyi managed a weak smile and replied, "Beiping didn't come back. This time, it's my... my family wants to visit Beiping's family and get to know each other."
It was only then that Hou Yongping and Hou Baolin noticed the several strangers.
However, Hou Baolin recognized Min Yuehua; a few months ago, he, Wu Di, and Ye Beiping had taken this middle-aged woman to the hospital.
He and Wu Di could clearly see that the old lady treated Ye Beiping with utter contempt.
So when Hou Baolin saw Min Yuehua at this moment, he pursed his lips and didn't say anything.
Hou Yongping, being quite reasonable, immediately stepped forward to greet Su Qingwen: "You must be my father-in-law from Beiping?"
Upon hearing this, Su Qingwen was taken aback for a moment, but finally smiled and stood up to shake hands with Hou Yongping.
"Sigh, poor Beiping, his father died at such a young age..." Hou Yongping thought that he was Ye Beiping's elder, and now there was no man in the family. As the brigade secretary and the father of Ye Beiping's friend, and since they were all from the same village, someone had to come out and talk to Ye Beiping's father-in-law: "But Beiping did manage to do well, marrying such a good wife, and she even earns money for the family. Now she's even made it to the city, hahaha."
He looked at him with the same pride he would show for his own son.
This scene left Su Qingwen and Min Yuehua completely dumbfounded.
They weren't familiar with the person in front of them, but his overly familiar manner made them think he was Ye Beiping's stepfather.
The two sisters, Su Xinyi and Su Xinwan, stared at each other, not understanding why Hou Yongping was speaking well of Ye Beiping.
This situation is quite common in rural areas. After all, if there are no men in the family, they always need to find an elder, uncle, or other relative of the child to come and keep order.
Therefore, Hou Baolin admired his father's methods to the extreme. He felt that Ye Beiping was his brother, and it was only natural for his father to sit down and eat, drink and chat with him when his father-in-law came.
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