"The Du Yun family..."
"You went out to work, and left your wife and children at home. Your mother forced them to jump into the well, and I jumped in to pull them back. What did I say?"
"Director Zhou, there were no neighborhood committees back then, but production brigades. Your uncle was the team leader. He would come to Jiang Ke for advice on all matters, big or small. He rose through the ranks thanks to Jiang Ke and retired with honor! Now they all have city hukou."
"And there's the Xiao family. They're so poor that their home is ringing with dirt, and they don't even have anything to eat. We help them a little bit from time to time. When Jiang Ke has work, he'll introduce your man to someone..." Xia Lu said, emphasizing each word, her eyes scanning most of the people in the crowd.
"I won't exaggerate, but eight out of ten people living in Qinhuai Street have received favors from my husband."
"I never asked you to repay me, just remember it, it's a pity..."
The crowd was a little quiet.
Jiang Ke's favors were all small favors, but for these people at that time, they were all great favors that allowed them to survive.
Xia Shangxu was a little surprised. What happened to his cousin? Did she explode after being silent for so many years? With a little doubt, he suddenly saw Hong Fei standing there quietly. Indistinctly, she seemed to understand something and sneered: "Sister, why are you talking so much? They are just a group of ungrateful villains." At
this moment, many people were on pins and needles.
Qin Fei's eyes slowly turned red.
Qin Hongfei also looked at Ms. Xia Lu in surprise. She had no memory of these things, but thinking about it, it was normal. When Qin Jiangke died, she was only six or seven years old. In addition, she had traveled through time, so she had long forgotten many things. In her memory, it was after her father left. At first, it was okay, but slowly, when the conflict between Xia Lu and the fifth room became more and more serious, and when she was taken to the street by Concubine Qin, every time she met a neighbor, she would be advised to persuade Xia Lu not to cause trouble with the fifth room anymore, and that peace brings wealth.
Later, this kind of advice gradually changed its meaning.
It was a rebuke.
I don't know when, the eyes on the street turned into pointing and gossiping. I heard people talking about my mother behind her back several times, saying that Xia Lu was not a good person, that she didn't raise her children well, and that she raised two children like this...
In her previous life, she didn't even know that she had a brother, and she didn't know how to raise a person.
Some things, after talking for a long time, go from false to true.
When Xia Lu and the fifth room quarreled, everyone stood on the side of Auntie Qin. First, it was because Xia Lu never bothered to explain, and second, Auntie Qin was a teacher. Many people's children were taught by her. They had to rely on her connections. If she got benefits, she would help Auntie Qin to persuade or even criticize.
The two elders of the Qin family would also say a few words from time to time. Concubine Qin's grades were not good, she was getting quieter and quieter, she was not sweet-mouthed, not likable, and slowly became a background board until she traveled through time. Children who are introverted and not sweet-mouthed are not liked, but being unlikable does not mean they are wrong!
But in the eyes of many adults in Qinhuai Street, introversion and unlikability, plus the comparison of likable and profitable children, then she and Concubine Qin are wrong, especially because she didn't know that so many people had received the favor of her father.
Qin Hongfei's eyes flashed with sarcasm. She turned her head to look at Qin Fei and reached out to wipe her tears. "Why are you crying? Don't cry. We are right. There is nothing to cry about..."
Qin Fei looked at her sister's calm expression. She was older than Qin Hongfei and remembered the things from her childhood. But it was because she remembered that she felt more aggrieved and wronged. She wiped her tears silently. "We are really not wrong, right?"
Qin Hongfei said with certainty, "Yes."
What was wrong was prejudice, and what was wrong was those adults who changed their attitudes according to the situation.
Qin Fei had lived in such an environment for too long, and she would have a kind of confusion about right and wrong. Otherwise, she would not be so inferior.
Qin Hongfei held her hand tightly, and then looked at Xia Lu. Today's Xia Lu was a little different, not quite the same as she remembered. Or rather, this was the real Xia Lu, which gave her an illusion.
Behind him, Tang Jinnan suddenly said, "Auntie, why do you look like you are saying goodbye?"