"Hey, you little brat, what nonsense are you spouting!" Qi Ran strode over to Lu Pandi and grabbed her ear. "Has she ever given you a bite to eat? Has she ever taken care of you for even a quarter of an hour? She only said one word for you, and you've already sided with her! If you keep spouting this nonsense, you can wait for me to throw you into the mountains to feed the wild animals!"
As Lu Pandi listened to these words, tears welled up in her eyes. She wanted to tell her mother that she hadn't been taken care of much since she could remember, and had grown up on her own. If it weren't for her grandmother and the other kind aunts in the Lu family helping her from time to time, she probably would have died long ago without anyone finding out.
Lu Pandi vowed to escape this suffocating home!
The best chance for them to escape home right now is to seek help from Aunt Wu's family!
Thinking of this, a glimmer of hope finally flashed in Lu Pandi's dim eyes. At this moment, Qi Ran was completely unaware of Lu Pandi's change, and was still twisting her ear hard and scolding her loudly.
Qi Ran scolded Lu Pan for almost an hour before finally calming down. She left with the words, "Take good care of your sisters. Don't let them cry and wake me up, or you'll be in big trouble," and went to bed.
Lu Pandi silently wiped away her tears. After Qi Ran fell asleep, her gaze fell on a bottle of sleeping pills on the bedside table near the bed. These were the sleeping pills that Qi Ran and Lu Yuncheng used when they occasionally suffered from insomnia.
She remembered very clearly that her father and mother could fall asleep after eating just one pill, and if she could give one of these to her younger sisters, she would be free.
Thinking this, Lu Pandi took out a pill, broke it in half, dissolved it in water, and fed it directly to her two younger sisters.
Just a quarter of an hour later, Lu Yuanfu and Lu Yuanbao fell into a deep sleep.
At this moment, Lu Pandi had no idea how harmful the sleeping pills would be to Lu Yuanfu and Lu Yuanbao, who were still babies. She only knew that she was finally freed when her younger sisters fell asleep.
Without thinking twice, Lu Pan went straight out the door to find Qi Qi.
Home.
Meanwhile, unaware that Lu Pan was searching for her in the fourth place, Shen Qianqian arrived at a small path in the village that Qi Ran had had repaired. The path was paved with cement, and upon closer inspection, it seemed to be without any problems.
"Sister Qian, do you remember when Qi Ran repaired this road?" Shen Qianqian asked.
“It seems like it was a year ago,” Shen Qian answered truthfully, adding a few more words: “It’s strange. When you went to the south, Qi Ran’s family was so poor that they could barely afford to eat. One day, I heard them discussing giving Lu Pandi away to someone else in exchange for some food. Then, I don’t know what happened, but almost overnight, Qi Ran transformed into some kind of snack distributor.”
"From then on, she had money. She not only hired people to repair the roads in the village, but also hired some poor and struggling families in the village to work in the shops she managed. Qi Ran paid wages to those who worked for her and also hired people to repair their houses."
"A year ago?" Shen Qianqian frowned slightly, wanting to understand Qi Ran.
What happened a year ago is still a story, but it's best to deal with the present situation first.
Her fingertips lightly brushed the ground. "The cement used to repair these floors was all substandard cement."
"How did you figure that out?" Shen Qian asked curiously.
Lu Yunzhi pointed to a cement floor exposed to the sun, "Cement floors are durable and load-bearing. Generally speaking, they won't have too many problems in the first few years after construction. But inferior cement is different; it's easy to crack."
Shen Qian and Lu Yunchuan looked in the direction Lu Yunzhi pointed out, and sure enough, the cement ground there had cracked, and even showed signs of extending outwards.
“Not bad.” Shen Qianqian stood up, gently wiped her fingers, and a string of powder rose with the wind. “Inferior cement is also prone to crumbling.”
Shen Qian was surprised by Shen Qianqian and Lu Yunzhi's keen observation skills, and asked them again, "So you're planning to use this to threaten Qi Qi?"
“Of course not.” Shen Qianqian turned her gaze to the houses not far away. “Given Qi Ran’s reputation in the village, if we try to bring her down with just this one road, we’ll probably be drowned in the villagers’ spittle before we even get to her.”
"Only by getting the villagers to spontaneously stand on our side can we gather everyone's strength to bring her down."
Of course, the most important point is that only when Qi Ran is isolated and helpless, she or
Xu Cai had to ask the people behind her for help so that they could figure out the power behind Qi Ran.
After Shen Qianqian finished explaining to them, the group set off for the home of a family surnamed Ma.
The Ma family works at Qi Ran's shop and is well-liked in the village. If we can win them over, winning over the others won't be a problem.
Just as the group arrived at the door of the Ma family's house, Lu Pandi finally found Shen
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"Fifth Aunt..." Lu Pandi said breathlessly, taking a few steps forward and sliding to her knees in front of Shen Qianqian. "Fifth Aunt, please, please save me!"
"Take a break first." Shen Qianqian looked at Lu Pan, who was panting heavily from running.
First, he calmed Lu Pandi down, then asked her gently, "What's wrong?"
Lu Pandi finally calmed down, but tears streamed down her face. As she wiped away her tears, she said in a trembling voice, "Fifth Aunt, you don't know, Dad and Mom never gave me anything to eat. I always ate their leftovers that had already gone bad."
Immediately afterwards, Lu Pandi slowly pulled up her sleeve, revealing a series of shocking wounds to everyone.
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