"My older sister said you're brainless, and you really are at your age and still not very bright. I'm warning you, don't try anything funny again," Ning Zhuliu said with a gloomy face.
"My sister is different now; I have other plans!"
Ning Jinyun looked at Ning Zhuliu's expression and tried to hold back, but she couldn't hold back any longer, especially when the other party mentioned Bai Jin!
She suppressed her anger: "My little sister only slept with someone to get a university spot, what's the difference? You and my older sister have been protecting that little bitch all this time!"
Back then, in order to get the Ning family's money that the old woman had hidden, she took her younger sister from her own mother and raised her before Bai Jin could.
After Bai Jin returned from the Great Northern Wilderness, he threw a huge tantrum.
Ning Zhuliu always spoke up for her older sister, trying to persuade her to send Ning Yuan back to Bai Jin, which made her very uncomfortable.
Her family was so poor, she asked herself if she had done more than enough to feed and educate a child with whom she had no blood relation, even if it meant giving him food and helping him finish primary school.
Unlike her adopted eldest son, Ning Weihuan, who carries the title of martyr's orphan and receives a monthly allowance to support the family, Ning Yuan is not like him.
That girl is a money-loser!
Bai Jin put on a noble act and insisted on giving money to send Ning Yuan to junior high and high school, and even said he would support Ning Yuan's college entrance examination.
Ning Zhuliu would secretly give Ning Yuan candy behind her back, and he would comfort her when she was occasionally scolded or hit by Ning Yuan.
The two of them are doing good deeds in different ways, which makes her adoptive mother seem like a bad person. How can she find Ning Yuan pleasing to the eye?
Besides, she's already supporting Ning Yuan, so shouldn't she have gotten her hands on the Ning family's money that her mother had hidden?
And what was the result?
My mother suddenly died, leaving no trace of her money or even a last word!
Ning Jinyun cursed, "I raised my little sister all these years, and she hasn't contributed anything to the family. She even took our jade chili pepper and ran off with a man like a slut. You want me to go and bow down and apologize to her?"
Ning Jinyun noticed that Ning Zhuliu was sullen and silent, drinking and ignoring her.
She grew increasingly agitated and started speaking recklessly: "...Anyone who didn't know better would think that my younger sister was your and my older sister's illegitimate daughter, raised under my mother's name!"
"Don't think I don't know. Back then, you had your eye on my eldest sister, but she had her eye on the second young master of the Ning family. She wouldn't even look at a servant like you who serves tea and water!"
"Smack!" Suddenly, a bottle was smashed hard across Ning Jinyun's face.
Ning Zhuliu was extremely violent and showed no mercy when hitting people with the wine bottle in her hand.
"Ah!" Ning Jinyun screamed, her vision blurred from the blow of the bottle, she staggered a few steps and fell onto the stool.
She was in so much pain that half of her face was swollen, and there was blood at the corner of her lips.
It took Ning Jinyun a while to barely stand up, glaring at Ning Zhuliu: "You...you..."
Ning Zhuliu held the wine bottle and looked at her darkly: "What I am, you know yourself. It's normal for men to drink and beat women."
He paused for a moment: "This is my last warning to you, watch your mouth. If you cause me any more trouble, don't blame me for not considering our years of marriage."
After saying that, Ning Zhuliu slammed the door and left.
Ning Jinyun stroked her swollen cheek, and when she touched her missing back teeth, she trembled and tears streamed down her face.
She quickly got up, went to the window, watched Ning Zhuliu throw the wine bottle, tidied her hair in front of the glass door of the security room, and went out.
He went in the direction where his eldest sister, Bai Jin, lived.
Ning Jinyun gritted her teeth, grabbed a mask at random, put it on, then put on a hat and hurriedly went downstairs to follow them out.
Sure enough, she watched as Ning Zhuliu slipped into an old building on a street—
That was the house left behind after her biological mother passed away. Her eldest sister, Bai Jin, would stay there when she returned from the countryside.
This time is no exception. After Bai Jin was injured, he did not return to his hometown. He stayed here after leaving the hospital.
Ning Jinyun couldn't get in, nor did she dare to, so she hid behind the bicycle parking area in the building.
She waited from dusk until almost 10 p.m. before she saw Bai Jinsong leave Ning Zhu behind.
Ning Zhuliu and Bai Jin were talking at the entrance of the building.
Ning Jinyun's legs were numb from standing, and her stomach was growling with hunger.
But this didn't stop her from clearly seeing that when Ning Zhu left, he was talking to Bai Jin under the streetlights, and his expression was relaxed, with even a hint of a smile in his eyes and brows.
Bai Jin seemed uneasy and whispered repeatedly, "...This time, go to Shanghai and keep a close eye on Jin Yun. She's brainless and doesn't treat Xiao Mei like a daughter, but you and I both know Xiao Mei's true identity."
Ning Zhuliu nodded: "I understand. This time, we won't let that stupid woman ruin things. We've waited all these years, we can't let it all go to waste."
Ning Jinyun didn't want to listen anymore and walked away blankly through another exit at the back of the corridor.
She knew that her suspicions over the years were correct; that little bitch Ning Yuan was indeed Ning Zhuliu and Bai Jinsheng's illegitimate daughter!
The reason why Bai Jin and Ning Zhuliu treated Ning Yuan "specially" now seems to have been explained.
The answer is—
Even her own mother was helping her older sister deceive her, making her fight over raising the little bastard child born from her husband's affair with her older sister!
When Ning Zhu returned home that evening, she found that Ning Jinyun had gone to bed early and that her son, Ning Weibing, had gone out drinking again.
He frowned, relieved that he had eaten at Bai Jin's place.
Ning Zhu didn't plan to call Ning Jinyun again. After washing up, she went to bed.
Ning Jinyun heard the snoring behind her and slowly turned around, then stared at Ning Zhuliu.
It was still hot in October, and Ning Zhuliu was only wearing a tank top and fast asleep.
By the light of the moon and the reflection of the streetlights outside, Ning Jinyun saw several red marks on Ning Zhuliu's neck and shoulders... hickeys.
Ning Jinyun hasn't had marital relations with Ning Zhu for a long time, so who left these marks?
She covered her swollen and painful face, her eyes filled with growing hatred and anger.
Bai Jin and Ning Zhuliu want their "illegitimate child" to get into a good university and outshine their own child? Don't even think about it!
...
The night passed, and the next day, Ning Jinyun, who hadn't slept all night, got up exceptionally early.
She didn't even make breakfast before rushing off to work.
Ning Zhuliu got up and saw that there was no breakfast. She was annoyed and planned to give Ning Jinyun a good beating when she got back, but she could only swallow her anger and go to work.
Only Ning Weibing continued to snore.
When Ning Jinyun arrived at the health center, she counted down the time until it was time to start her shift, then took a phone and called Director Ge of the Education Department.
When Director Ge received the call, he didn't immediately recognize Ning Jinyun.
After all, that's her job, and there are too many people asking her for favors all day long.
Just as she was about to hang up impatiently, Ning Jinyun mentioned Qin Hongxing's name.
Director Ge immediately remembered that this was originally a marriage proposal that Miss Qin from Beijing had introduced to her, but unfortunately, the girl ran away in the end, and it didn't work out.
Director Ge patiently listened to Ning Jinyun rattle off a long string of words, the main point of which was to teach Ning Yuan a lesson!
Half an hour later, Director Ge hung up Ning Jinyun's call. After a moment's thought, he immediately dialed a number in Beijing.
...
Five or six days later, Qin Hongxing took a car to find He Su on an autumn afternoon.
"The Red Star has arrived!"
By the floor-to-ceiling window on the second floor, a woman wearing a well-fitting white top and a long blue pleated skirt had short hair that reached her ears and was wearing a simple blue acrylic hair clip.
She was charming, gentle, and pure, like a lily, and you couldn't tell that she was already thirty-nine years old.
Qin Hongxing remembered that He Su had followed Rong Wenwu when she was in the cultural troupe, and gave birth to Rong Xiangdong, the second son of the Rong family, when she was eighteen. Over the years, she had experienced a lot of ups and downs.
But He Su still looked as charming and gentle as an older sister, so everyone in the compound called her Sister He Su.
Don't call her aunt.
“Sister He Su,” Qin Hongxing said.
Even though she was engaged to Rong Zhaonan back then, she wasn't used to changing how she addressed him.
"Sit down. What brings you here today? Would you like some cookies? They're American cookies." He Su sat down with a smile.
After the reform and opening up, foreign goods from countries other than the Soviet Union gradually began to enter the country.
Qin Hongxing pursed her lips, not in the mood for eating cookies, but her eyes held a hint of excitement: "Uncle Rong couldn't find Brother Zhaonan, could he?"
He Su raised an eyebrow: "What, you have news?"
This idiot has actually become smarter today; even the old man can't find his son. How could this idiot do that?
Qin Hongxing snorted and threw a file folder on the table: "I can't find Brother Zhaonan, but I found the country woman he married. She's in Shanghai!"
He Su was taken aback. How did a country woman end up in Shanghai?
She asked with a smile, "What, you want to use that woman to force Zhao Nan out?"
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