Old Mrs. Qian has had a special liking for Old Man Qian since she was young. Although she is a bit hot-tempered, she is very kind to Old Man Qian.
When she got angry, she would scold Old Man Qian, but she couldn't bear to let him go hungry or tired. As for Qian Jincai and Qian Longbin, she loved them so much that she couldn't even bear to scold them.
This also led to the father and son being almost spoiled by Old Lady Qian into useless people. Even though Qian Jincai is now in his forties and approaching fifty, he is still like a giant baby who has not been weaned, relying on his mother for everything.
Old Mrs. Qian was reluctant to hit or scold the three men in the family, so in the end, only Qian Meijuan became the old lady's punching bag.
When Qian Meijuan came home from school in the afternoon, she was greeted by Old Lady Qian, who scolded her: "You silly girl, why don't you hurry home after school? Where have you been?"
Qian Meijuan could no longer hold her head up at school because of her second uncle's affairs. Now when she returned home, she was inexplicably scolded by her grandmother and cried in grievance.
When she was going home from school in the evening, she was blocked by several classmates and wouldn't be allowed to leave. After scolding her enough, those classmates threw her schoolbag for fun. After they had done enough, they all dispersed. She was afraid that the students in front of her would come back and bully her, so she moved slowly and didn't dare to follow those people.
She didn't expect her grandma to scold her without asking any questions. She felt so aggrieved.
Seeing Qian Meijuan being scolded in a nonsensical way and then burst into tears, Old Lady Qian was furious: "Cry, cry, cry, all you know is to cry. Are you crying for a funeral? Your second uncle isn't dead yet! Hold back your tears! What bad luck!"
In the past, when Qian Xiaoshu was at home, Qian Meijuan's life was easier. But since Qian Xiaoshu disappeared, she became Old Lady Qian's punching bag.
Originally, when Yu Min was at home, she could distract Mrs. Qian from her work, and her daily life was well arranged by her mother Yu Min. But since Yu Min left, Qian Meijuan has been in a real hard time.
She regretted it now, regretting how she had hurt Yu Min's heart and made her run away from home. But no one at home wanted to go out and find Yu Min. She didn't know where to go to find her mother, and she didn't dare to tell her family about her worries.
Now, her feelings towards Yu Min were very complicated. She missed the time when she was taken care of by Yu Min, but she also hated her cruelty and heartlessness. Now thinking of her mother, she felt even more wronged, but because of the tyranny of Mrs. Qian, she tried hard to hold back her tears, which was very difficult.
Seeing Qian Meijuan standing there with a look of grievance on her face, Old Lady Qian started to scold her, "What are you doing standing there like an idiot? Are you waiting for me to invite you to the table for dinner? Come over and light the fire. You two are so troublesome..."
Qian Meijuan didn't dare to talk back to her grandmother, so she could only run back to the house to put down her schoolbag, and then quickly returned to the outer room to help Grandma Qian light a fire and cook. The three grown men in the family, as it was winter and the weather was cold, rarely stayed at home, and they all lay on the kang waiting for ready-made food.
Qian Meijuan was very dissatisfied with the completely different treatment she received from her brother, but she was a girl, a "money-losing commodity" in the eyes of her grandmother. If she wanted to survive in this family, she had to be obedient.
Thinking about facing discrimination and bullying from classmates at school the next day, she felt depressed and uneasy, but she didn't know who to turn to for help.
After dinner was ready and served, the three "big masters" of the family got up from the kang and sat at the dining table.
Mr. Qian said, "The third son's wife has been going crazy again these past few days, saying that we hid her son and is asking us for him. Oh, I don't know when this hurdle will be over. We used to think about making trouble for the second son, but the second son is about to pass away, and now it's our turn to suffer..."
Qian Jincai asked, "Dad, Mom, what do you think? Did the second son and his wife take the third son away? If they really did it, then this is a very immoral thing."
Old Lady Qian interrupted, "What nonsense are you talking about? You can't say this anymore. The Second Brother's case is already a done deal, and we can't accuse him of anything else. If word gets out, it might become true. Then, if that crazy woman can't catch the Second Brother and his wife, she'll have our whole family hacked to pieces!"
When these words were spoken, several people in the Qian family shuddered unconsciously. According to Shen Nan's previous style, this thing might really be done.
Qian Jincai added, "I always feel that the third daughter-in-law's madness is fake. Think about it, why does she only bother us and not others?"
Old Lady Qian replied, "Don't worry if she's pretending to be crazy or she really is, we have to stay away from her. She has proof of her madness. If she kills someone, no one will arrest her. If she gets angry, how can our family survive?"
Old Mrs. Qian's analysis was very logical and the whole family agreed with it.
Qian Meijuan thought about the bullying she had endured at school and mustered up the courage to speak out. However, not only did no one in her family offer to stand up for her, but they instead advised her to keep a low profile, endure any problems, avoid giving others a reason to criticize her, and try to minimize the negative impact of the Qian Jindou incident on the family.
Finally, Qian Jincai symbolically comforted her: "Juan'er, listen to Dad and don't cause trouble. Who hasn't been bullied when they were in school? Just bear with it and it will pass. In two years, you will go to junior high school, change new classmates and new teachers, and everyone will forget about this..."
What else could Qian Meijuan say? She was born into such a family and faced such a situation. Even her family didn't care about her. How could she expect her teachers and classmates to treat her well?
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