She had always neglected Qi Si, never helping him with his worries, and had devoted herself entirely to her own career. This younger sister had failed in her duty.
Qi Si's ability to arrange his affairs after his death shows that he had been on guard for a long time, having spent countless sleepless nights. Yet he never whispered anything to her, afraid that she would worry as well.
“Your brother said that with Xiaoyu around, I’m not worried about you three. He’s already made arrangements; many of his businesses have been transferred to my name. Besides, we’ve already gotten a divorce,” Xiao Si’s wife said with difficulty.
Qin Xiaoyu understood; Qi Si had thought it through perfectly.
"Don't be so pessimistic. Maybe it's just a passing fad. My brother's business dealings are always clean and honest. It's been too long, and there might not be any evidence left. There are no witnesses, so he'll be fine." Qin Xiaoyu was comforting her sister-in-law, and also comforting herself.
"I thought I could do it, but now that it's happening, I'm panicking. Let me teach you, I really don't know what to do." Sister-in-law Xiao Si wiped away her tears again.
"Whose name is the hotel under now?" Qin Xiaoyu could only sort things out little by little.
"It's under his name, and there hasn't been a chance to transfer it yet."
"Okay, I understand. Let's go outside and discuss it."
When Qin Xiaoyu and her sister-in-law came out, the room immediately fell silent as everyone watched them.
"This matter needs careful consideration. Let's stabilize the situation first." Qin Xiaoyu glanced at Wang Lei and said with difficulty, "Your advertising studio is going to be implicated."
When Wang Lei was building his advertising company, he originally planned to rent a place outside, but Qi Si cleared out the south side of the first floor of the hotel. Since it's family, it's easy to talk to them.
Now that hotels are closed, rental properties are not immune either.
"What's this about being family? Why didn't you say anything when you were letting us take advantage? Xiaoyu, you don't need to worry about us, we'll handle it ourselves. You should quickly find a way to help arrange things back home." Commander Wang interrupted Qin Xiaoyu.
Qin Xiaoyu felt a warmth in her heart; this was family. After several years of getting to know each other, these people had become more united than ever before.
"Most of the properties in our hometown are under my mother's and my names," Xiao Si's wife reminded her.
"I'm afraid you'll have to fly back and sort this out. For now, let your cousin-in-law step in and help your mother out; the old lady is too fragile."
Qin Xiaoyu was still worried. She was afraid that her sister-in-law, Xiao Si, wouldn't be able to get anything done since she had no experience. She might be easily tricked into revealing everything.
“I’ll go back with Fourth Sister-in-law. Having a lawyer around will make things easier.” A Lei stood up.
"Then I'm relieved." Qin Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief. With A Lei involved, the matter back home could basically be resolved.
"I'll go with you tomorrow to find out what happened and see how this disaster struck." Wang Lei wasn't in a hurry to deal with his own family matters; he was thinking about Qi Si first.
"Leave the kids behind. Your uncle, Hanhan's grandfather, and I are enough for the three of us," Zhou Xing's mother said to her fourth sister-in-law.
“I’ll close my clinic for two days and gather all the children together so we can take care of them together,” Deng Jianyan said.
“And then there’s my mom and me. Let my dad go out and meet the clients,” Tang Fengqin interjected.
With logistics in order, Qin Xiaoyu had no problem, so only Qi Si's case remained. Nobody knew why he had been arrested.
She went back upstairs and called Ye Qiu's home again, but no one answered.
A Lei brought Xiao Jiajia back so that Zhou Xing's mother could get a good night's sleep tonight, as she would soon be very tired.
"Will my brother be alright?" Qin Xiaoyu asked worriedly, rubbing the corner of her pajamas.
“I remember you said that before you were reborn, you read a report about Qi Si, saying that he…” A Lei stopped mid-sentence.
In her previous life, Qin Xiaoyu saw a post online that mentioned Qi Si, who was eventually executed.
Qin Xiaoyu told A Lei about that incident as a joke. Judging from their life together recently, it really did seem like a joke.
Qi Si had long since shed his criminal past and reformed, and his business was now legitimate, unlike K Ye who was just about to transition to a new career and still had a lot of unresolved issues to deal with.
How could Qi Si have been sentenced to death and executed?
But now disaster has struck out of nowhere, sounding the alarm, and they have no choice but to be afraid.
Qin Xiaoyu glanced at her watch; it was already 10 p.m. She didn't care how late it was and dialed her hometown number.
Her cousin-in-law was also eager to report to her, with a lot to say.
"Sister-in-law, we'll talk in a bit. Could you ask my godmother to come over? I have some questions for her," Qin Xiaoyu interrupted her sister-in-law.
My cousin-in-law paused for a moment, then put down the phone and ran out. There was no phone in Aunt Wang's room; she didn't want the noise.
After a long while, I finally heard Aunt Wang's cold, dry voice on the phone.
"Godmother, something happened to my brother." As Qin Xiaoyu called out "godmother," tears streamed down her face.
"I understand," said Aunt Wang, her voice weak and feeble.
"My brother will be alright, right?" Qin Xiaoyu asked anxiously.
"Good people are always blessed, just you wait and see." Aunt Wang's words were ambiguous. Qin Xiaoyu immediately became anxious upon hearing this.
"Godmother, tell me the truth, is everything alright?"
"To tell you the truth, before I met you, he had a calamity in his life, a violent death. But after I met you, that calamity disappeared. I thought everything was fine. A few days ago, I was bored and did a fortune telling on Xiao Zhengxin's birth chart, and he said..."
What did you say about him?
"It is said that he lost his father at a young age..."
With a thud, the microphone fell from Qin Xiaoyu's hand, startling A Lei, who quickly put the child down and came over to help her.
"Don't worry, fortune telling is not to be trusted, don't cry..." A Lei was busy comforting Qin Xiaoyu and didn't realize that he hadn't put down the phone yet.
Aunt Wang was angry and hung up the phone immediately.
"This is terrible, what should we do?" Qin Xiaoyu cried her heart out. Thinking about how long she had known Qi Si, he had always been by her side, silently taking care of her and showing concern for her, never asking for anything in return.
She really couldn't bear it if God took away someone like that too.
"Take a deep breath, I want to say a few words to you." Seeing that she couldn't control her emotions and was already suffering from oxygen deprivation, A Lei had no choice but to resort to this tactic. He squatted down in front of her, put on a stern face, and said seriously, "You're really useless. Will crying now save Qi Si? If not, wipe away your tears and try everything you can. It's true that we should leave it to fate, but we still have to do our best!"
Qin Xiaoyu was jolted awake and immediately sobered up.
"You're right, I need to calm down." Qin Xiaoyu went to the bathroom to wash her face and came downstairs.
She needs to drink a glass of milk to calm herself down and keep her mind clear.
Whether Qi Si can be saved depends entirely on her; she cannot afford to fall.
She pushed open the kitchen door and saw Zhou Xing's mother covering her face and sobbing. She was startled when she saw her come in and quickly wiped away her tears with both hands.
Zhou Xing's mother has always been strong, but this incident was a devastating blow.
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