Qian Jinling said through the receiver, "Aunt Zhan? You suddenly remembered to contact me. Is there something wrong?"
Mrs. Zhan didn't beat around the bush with Qian Jinling and said directly, "I know you are a very busy person. If it weren't for something extremely important, I wouldn't want to bother you.
Here's what happened: Your mother, your brother, and your nephew came over and immediately asked us for money. You should know our situation now, right? We don't have anything of value left, and our pockets are dirtier than our faces.
We just went back to our hometown a few days ago, and the only house left was the one in the village. As a result, the villagers smashed, looted and robbed it, and we were about to die. So we went to stay at my daughter's house, but my son-in-law kicked us out and divorced my daughter.
You said we don’t have money, now the aunt is not talking nonsense at all, we are almost going out to beg for food...”
As Qian Jinling listened to what Old Lady Zhan had to say, her brows furrowed more and more, and she thought to herself, my mother is really causing trouble.
I've already told her the ins and outs of this matter. Don't even think about rescuing your second brother, and try to stay away from the Zhan family and not have any contact with them. So why is she asking them for money now?
The five thousand yuan I just gave her is one or two years' salary for a worker. It's only been a few days. Is she going crazy because of poverty?
And his eldest brother and nephew are also too much of a worry. If they could do something useful and go out to earn some money, his mother wouldn't be so old and still want to take more money back to them.
She suppressed the anger in her heart and said to Mrs. Zhan: "Where are my mother and the others now? I'll tell them to go home immediately..."
Mrs. Zhan answered truthfully, “They are staying in a hotel in Jiangyuan City now, and we don’t know which one they are.
They said they would come to our house tomorrow and ask for 200,000 yuan. If we don’t give it to them, they will ruin my daughter’s job.
Tell me, our whole family is now relying on my third daughter's salary to survive. Isn't this pushing us to death?"
"How much? Two hundred thousand? That's what my mother said herself?" Qian Jinling asked in surprise.
She usually sent money to her parents, usually a few thousand at a time, and rarely more than ten thousand. She never expected the old lady to be so bold as to ask for two hundred thousand yuan.
Old Lady Zhan immediately responded with a crying poor tone: "That's right, tell me about our two families. If you want to talk about misery, our family can be said to be broken up. Even if your mother and your brother sold our entire family, it wouldn't be worth 200,000..."
Qian Jinling now gets a headache whenever she hears about selling people. Although she has not been involved in it, she is afraid that Qian Jindou's affairs will implicate herself. After all, she is Qian Jindou's biological sister.
What if it were to be discovered that she was related to a death row inmate who had committed heinous crimes? Would she still be able to stay in the circle?
After thinking for a moment, she responded, "Well, tomorrow, when my family comes to see you, call me immediately and I'll tell you about this."
Old Mrs. Zhan didn't know what Qian Jinling was going to say to her family, but it was still necessary to warn her so that she could think it over.
"Jinling, although we mother and daughter have never met, we can talk to each other now. This is also fate. Are you satisfied with the girl I found for you last time? How is the situation now?" Old Mrs. Zhan turned the topic to surrogacy.
This made Qian Jinling feel a little embarrassed for a moment. She actually didn't want anyone to mention this matter again. She planned to let the two girls give birth to the children quietly and then send them away. In the future, she would let everyone who knew about this matter keep it a secret and treat the two children as her own.
Unexpectedly, the deal with the Zhan family had already ended, and the old lady brought up the matter again. How could Qian Jinling not guess what the old lady was up to?
She replied in a deep voice, "Auntie, please don't ask about this matter. I hope you can help us keep this secret in the future."
Mrs. Zhan agreed readily, "Of course. I've seen a lot of things in the world, so I understand this. But, you don't plan to let your parents know about this, do you?"
She spoke in a normal tone, but there was actually a hint of threat in it.
Qian Jinling was also feeling a bit irritated at this point, and replied, "Just don't say anything about this. I'll find a way to sort things out between my mom and my brother. Now that we've lost my second brother, it's best if we sever our relationship..."
Although Qian Jinling didn't know much about the Zhan family, she could guess a thing or two from the news. Although not all of the family members were imprisoned, Qian Jinling believed that none of them were very clean.
In the past, they were involved in illegal and criminal activities and were used to making quick money without any investment. It is basically impossible for them to earn money to support their families in a down-to-earth way.
I just heard what old lady Zhan said. The whole family depends on Zhan Tiehua who works to support them. How long can this kind of life last?
It won't be long before they return to their old ways or find other ways to make quick money.
If his family gets involved with the Zhan family again, not to mention that asking for money now is extortion, if he makes the other party angry, they might directly send several people from the Qian family to jail.
Even if this had not happened, if the matter of asking for money became public, and it was said that she was asking for money to buy her second brother's life, her family members might be accused of being accomplices, and she would not be able to explain herself at that time.
So no matter what, Qian Jinling must try her best to cut off all ties between the Qian family and the Zhan family from now on. It would be best if they forget each other and pretend they never knew each other.
Now Mrs. Zhan mentioned that she had found a surrogate mother, and it seemed that she wanted to use this as a handle to control me.
She had to warn those two girls not to have any inappropriate thoughts.
Since both girls were confirmed to be pregnant, Qian Jinling has moved them to another house with a nanny to take care of them, but she no longer allows Xu Jinfeng to meet them.
After all, she had been there too, and Xu Jinfeng had abandoned his wife and daughter for her younger self. Although she was certain that Xu Jinfeng's feelings for her were deep, she had to be on guard against any future trouble and not give other women the opportunity to take advantage of him.
Qian Jinling had gone out of her way to find out about the two girls' family situations, so she had some leverage over them. If they wanted to hold their heads high in the future, they'd better behave themselves.
At the moment, it seems that the two girls are respectful to her and don’t seem to have any ambitions. Who knows if they will want more as time goes by!
In a month, they would be able to determine the sex of the fetus. Hopefully, everything would go smoothly and it would be a boy. That way, she could put an end to Xu Jinfeng's parents' desire to seize their property for their grandson.
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