By the time she saw Wei Caixia clearly, she had already lost control. The dry broom twig struck Wei Caixia directly in the face.
"Grandma, it's me, Xia..." Wei Caixia covered her face, gasping in pain.
A strong smell of urine hit her head, almost making her vomit.
Qin Atai braced herself against the broom and cursed, "Why did this good-for-nothing suddenly come back?"
"Could he have been expelled from school?"
She squinted her cloudy eyes and grabbed Wei Caixia's hand.
After looking around the yard, Aunt Qin asked suspiciously, "Being so diligent, you must have done something bad."
Wei Caixia rolled her eyes. "Grandma, our school organized a practical learning trip to the village."
"Don't talk nonsense."
Qin Atai was half-believing and half-doubting. She let go of her hand, pointed to a spot, and said, "Clean up that place too."
"The clothes your father and brother brought back from working at the port have been sitting there for days and no one has washed them."
Wei Caixia's face burned with embarrassment, and she could only nod resignedly.
The musty smell was coming from those dirty clothes, which were covered with a bunch of big-headed mosquitoes.
That's why she doesn't want to go home; there's always work to be done.
It's as if she was born to help with household chores.
The house was always filthy, but her mother never seemed to care.
Wei Caixia once fantasized that she would have been adopted by someone else.
She desperately wanted to leave this home, which is why she studied hard and got into university.
"Hurry up and wash them, the sun will set soon and they won't dry properly," Aunt Qin urged, packing the dried peanuts into a cloth bag and heading out briskly.
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