Qin Shu listened to her mother-in-law's serious tone and asked calmly, "Do you mean that you want me to persuade Brother Lan?"

She was confused, as Xie Lanzhi had no grudges against the Ito family.

It shouldn't be like this, taking drastic measures to confront the Japanese chaebols.

Mrs. Xie nodded: "It's hard to change what this child has decided. Maybe he will listen to you."

Qin Shu shook her head helplessly: "How can I be so capable?"

Mrs. Xie held her hand and said softly, "I'm not asking you to persuade him to stop, but the current situation is unstable. Let him take it slow and don't attract too much attention."

Qin Shu was silent for two seconds, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell him when he comes back—"

That night, Xie Lanzhi did not go home.

Not only that, he didn't go home for the next half month.

There is too much backlog of official business in the district party committee compound, including the construction of a commercial city, the Beijing-Shenzhen Expressway project, the demolition compensation for the Yunzhen South District, the company owed money by teachers, and a half-completed project to support villages and towns.

As the second-in-command of Yunzhen, Xie Lanzhi first went to the countryside to secretly investigate the people's sentiments, and then went to Beijing overnight to communicate about the design drawings of the Beijing-Shenzhen Expressway that was about to be opened.

After returning early in the morning, he immediately worked with Tian Liwei to allocate funds and build the largest commercial city in the country...

When Qin Shu woke up the next day, she found out that Xie Lan had not returned home the night before.

She was wearing a loose nightgown, with her long hair casually tied up, and she walked towards the stairs yawning.

Mrs. Xie, who was wearing a rich floral cheongsam, couldn't help but smile when she saw Qin Shu's lazy and casual posture.

She stopped Qin Shu and said with a smile, "Ah Shu is awake. Your uncle Qi's family is here to visit you, and the eldest son of the Jiang family in Beijing has also come with gifts."

"..." Qin Shu blinked lightly with her eyes full of water.

She tilted her head to look at the clock on the wall. It was only eight o'clock in the morning.

Qin Shu asked in a lazy tone: "What are they doing here, to eat for free?"

Mrs. Xie was amused. "Both families came to apologize. One is because Qi Mingwei's recklessness caused you to have a miscarriage, and the other is to apologize to you on behalf of Tian Liwei and Tian Kai."

Qin Shu then recalled Qi Mingwei and Tian Kai, the two big enemies.

She raised her hand to support her forehead and smiled, "It's been a long time. I'm fine now, and there were other reasons for the miscarriage. It has nothing to do with Master Qi and Master Tian."

Mrs. Xie took Qin Shu back to her room to change clothes, and snorted proudly: "Ah Hua told me that it was because they were too noisy that distracted you. Even if the fault is not entirely theirs, they have to take half the responsibility!"

Mrs. Xie, who is so arrogant and a little unreasonable, looks quite cute.

Qin Shu pursed her lips and chuckled, then obediently followed him to change clothes.

*

It was more than ten minutes later when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came downstairs.

Several well-dressed, well-mannered, dignified and cultured men sitting on the sofa stood up one after another.

"sister in law--"

"aunt--"

"Aunt——"

The men who looked the same age as Mrs. Xie, as well as the young men, called out different titles.

Madam Xie raised her hand and pressed down: "Why are you standing up? Sit down, sit down——"

She helped Qin Shu walk to the main seat, helped her sit firmly, and then sat down slowly and gracefully.

Madam Xie glanced at everyone and said with a smile, "Let me introduce you to my beloved daughter-in-law, Qin Shu."

A middle-aged man looked at Qin Shu kindly: "My niece's belly looks quite big, is she about to give birth?"

Mrs. Xie smiled happily: "It's almost time. The baby will be born in another month."

The middle-aged man praised: "I heard it's twins, brother Xie and sister-in-law are so lucky."

Mrs. Xie said sincerely: "What's the point of being blessed or not? I just hope that the three of them will be safe and sound."

The middle-aged man's eyes flickered slightly and he kicked Qi Mingwei who was sitting next to him.

"You are acting more and more out of line. You scared the precious child of the Xie family. Why don't you apologize immediately!"

Qi Mingwei's face was pale, as if he had kidney deficiency. He stood up holding the gift box in his hand and bowed respectfully to Qin Shu.

"Sister-in-law, it was my negligence that almost caused you to get into trouble. Please forgive me if I have offended you."

He placed the heavy gift box in front of Qin Shu. Just as he was about to stand up, he was held down by a slender and beautiful hand.

Qi Mingwei seemed frightened and wanted to shake off Qin Shu's hand.

Qin Shu shouted: "Don't move!"

Qi Mingwei glanced at the hand on his wrist, then drooped his eyelids and remained motionless.

Qin Shu felt his pulse and started to complain, "How many days have you not slept? Are you still taking the previous prescription? You look like you've been sucked dry by a goblin. If you don't know, you'd think you were hanging out with people every day."

Qi Mingwei was anxious: "Sister-in-law! Don't say such nonsense! I don't have time to hang out. I am forced to kneel at home by my uncle every day."

“Ahem—”

The middle-aged man, the eldest son of the Qi family, coughed a few times.

Qi Mingwei glanced at the other person and slowly closed his mouth.

Qin Shu looked at the two of them and said calmly, "I had a miscarriage before, it wasn't all Master Qi's fault, it was also because of my own lack of concentration. It's all over now, so don't take it too seriously."

The eldest son of the Qi family looked at Qin Shu deeply, and said calmly: "After all, it was Mingwei who did something wrong. Our old man said that he would make him kowtow to you and apologize..."

Qin Shu's lips twitched, and she quickly interrupted, "Don't! I can't accept such a big gift!"

The eldest son of the Qi family couldn't help but smile when he saw Qin Shu's genuine, natural, simple and naive demeanor.

He pointed at the gift box on the table and said, "My niece-in-law must accept this apology gift, otherwise Mingwei will have to kneel down."

Qin Shu lowered her eyes and looked at the high-end camphor wood gift box. This material is very suitable for preserving medicinal materials.

She thought it was a common medicinal herb and nodded casually: "I'll take it."

The eldest son of the Qi family stood up and nodded to Madam Xie and Qin Shu, saying, "Then we won't bother my niece-in-law. Sister-in-law, I have something else to do in Beijing. I'll take Mingwei back first."

Mrs. Xie stood up and asked, "Leaving so soon?"

Qi's eldest son: "It's almost the end of the year, and I have a lot of things to do."

Mrs. Xie knew that the cabinet was the busiest at this time, so she personally sent the person out.

Before Qi Mingwei left, Qin Shu told him to take his medicine on time, as giving up halfway would cause his drug addiction to return.

Qi Mingwei left with tears of gratitude - he finally didn't have to suffer family punishment anymore!

After seeing the guests off, Mrs. Xie returned to the living room and saw Tian Kai, who was almost skin and bones and had a sallow face, kneeling at Qin Shu's feet.

"Sister-in-law, you must save me. I'm about to die! I've been in so much pain recently, and I've been given so many medicines but they don't work!"

"Every day I feel like there are bugs crawling on my body. They bite my flesh and burrow into my heart to tear it apart. It's so uncomfortable that I wish I could just hit my head against a wall and die!"

Tian Kai grabbed Qin Shu's skirt and cried with snot and tears all over his face, not looking like the son of a high-ranking official at all.