The Jeep drove slowly on the road, followed by a police car.
Sheng Ze Xi watched the child in the passenger seat silently crying, slightly frowning. This child cries too much, doesn't he? Are all children so prone to crying?
Would his and Ningning's future child also possibly be a crybaby?
No, definitely not.
This child is crying because he was bullied and deceived.
From now on, anyone(except Ningning) who makes his child cry, he will beat their brains out.
Glancing at the child's swollen red eyes, Sheng Ze Xi said, "Child, why are you crying?"
Qin Tian, who was silently crying, was startled and secretly looked at Sheng Ze Xi.
Why was he crying?
Naturally, he was crying because it turned out to be just as he had guessed when he arrived. Although his father and mother went to work for the nation, they had not forgotten them and Grandma. They had been sending money home every month for eight years.
Father and Mother still hoped they were doing well.
Qin Tian didn't answer. Sheng Ze Xi continued, "It's okay to cry for a while, but you can't be a crybaby."
"Your parents aren't home, you're the only man in the family, you have to support this family."
"Since you were deceived and bullied, you should fight back, crying is useless."
"If you're crying because of sincere misplaced trust, then it's even more unnecessary. Is it worth crying for bad people?"
"You should be grateful that Ningning helped you expose this today, and now the truth is out, and the police will deal with that person. If it weren't for Ningning, you might have been kept in the dark for much longer." He couldn't forget to praise his wife's contribution.
Although his wife might not care about these things, Sheng Ze Xi did.
Today's incident was all thanks to Ningning.
"Wipe your tears, no more crying." Perhaps because he had been training soldiers for a long time, Sheng Ze Xi's tone was slightly commanding, but seeing the child's pouting lips, he imitated Gu Jia Ning, softening his tone, and awkwardly comforted him, "Things will get better."
Sheng Ze Xi's words were like sunlight instantly dispelling the clouds and mist, dispelling Qin Tian's sadness and confusion.
After thinking for a while, he realized that Older Brother Sheng was right.
His parents were not home, he was the only man in the family, and he should indeed support this family.
Besides, Uncle De, no, Qin De was a bad person, so it wasn't worth crying for him.
They had met Sister Gu and Older Brother Sheng, and they had helped them again and again. He had to keep this in mind and tell his parents when they returned one day.
Without the bad guy, life at home shouldn't be so difficult anymore.
Qin Tian clenched his small fist and stopped crying.
Sheng Ze Xi saw the child stop crying, his eyes gradually showing determination, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned upward.
Qin Family, Kaoshan Village.
After Sheng Ze Xi left with Qin Tian, Grandma Qin drank her medicine and fell asleep again.
Qin Qing cooked some millet porridge and was drinking it. The money had all been spent on Grandma's treatment, and some of their savings had been exchanged for coarse grains. Now the Qin family ate millet porridge every meal. She invited Gu Jia Ning to have some.
But Gu Jia Ning refused.
Firstly, she wasn't hungry, and secondly, millet porridge irritates the throat, and Gu Jia Ning was delicate and couldn't drink it.
Whether at home or now following Sheng Ze Xi to the Northwest Military Region, she had never drunk it.
The two women chatted casually.
Until the sound of brakes came from outside, Qin Qing immediately reacted and stood up.
When Sheng Ze Xi's voice came from outside, Qin Qing hurried to open the door.
Gu Jia Ning watched Sheng Ze Xi walk over from afar, saw him nod, and then looked at Qin Tian, whose red eyes hadn't faded yet. She knew the result.
Sure enough, the future scenes in her vision weren't wrong.
Meanwhile, Qin De at home was still trying to coax Qin Tian to agree to go to Min City.
"Dad, hurry up and get Qin Tian and his family to move out, I want to live in a big house," Qin De's son said, eating braised pork.
Qin De's wife also said, "Dear, when can we spend money without being sneaky?"
Qin De's wife knew her husband had money. Their family was originally poor and had no jobs. Suddenly becoming rich, eating and drinking well would make people suspicious, so even eating meat had to be done secretly.
Qin De smoked a cigarette—a rare Dà Qián Mén—and replied, "Soon, soon."
As long as he dealt with the old and the young of the Qin family, the three of them, and then moved into the Qin family home, there would be no worries.
To say it, Qin De's family was poor.
But later, Qin De received the money sent by Qin Zhihong and his wife, and their family was no longer poor, or rather, they appeared poor on the surface, but in fact, they could occasionally wear new clothes and eat meat.
At the beginning, Grandma Qin asked him to go to the post office to ask if Qin Zhihong and his wife had sent any money back.
Qin De went, and the result was that they had, sending back 70 yuan a month.
70 yuan! Qin De's family couldn't save that much money now.
"This money, maybe they'll send it every month in the future," Lu Ping muttered at the time.
And Lu Ping was Qin De's elder brother-in-law.
It was because of Lu Ping's words that Qin De had the idea of embezzling the Qin family's money.
Qin De didn't know where Qin Zhihong and his wife had gone. He had asked Grandma Qin, but the old woman refused to say.
Qin De had gambled and owed a lot of money. The person he owed money to said that if he didn't repay it, they would chop off his limbs.
His wife also said that if he didn't have any money, she would run away with someone else.
So, Qin De gritted his teeth and discussed with Lu Ping, embezzling the money and splitting it between them.
They embezzled one month's money, then two months', three months'…
Until now, it had been eight years.
At the beginning, Qin De was a little worried, afraid that Qin Zhihong and his wife would return and the matter would be exposed.
But as the years passed, there was no news of Qin Zhihong and his wife.
Qin De thought, maybe the couple would never return, so could he receive a monthly "salary" indefinitely?
So Qin De, who had been holding onto the money and not daring to spend it, started to use it.
Until recently, Qin De suddenly had a nightmare.
In his dream, he dreamt that Qin Zhihong and his wife returned, learned of his actions, and severely punished him.
Qin De woke up in a cold sweat and started thinking about what to do.
"As long as there's no one left in the Qin family, even if Qin Zhihong and his wife return and suspect something, there will be no evidence."
"Yes, that's it."
So, Qin De, who had hardened his heart, began to plan the deaths of the three members of the Qin family.
Grandma Qin was old and not in good health, so it would be easy for her to die of illness.
But the two children…
Finally, Qin De contacted a human trafficker, fabricating a lie about going to Min City to work as an apprentice in a wood factory, intending to deceive Qin Tian and hand him over to the trafficker.
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