Qian only saw the young man who looked particularly like her daughter run back, and she was stunned again.
Yu Minglang pulled something out of his pocket and directly stuffed it into her hand. Not waiting for Qian to react, he quickly ran away.
Once Qian came to her senses and looked down, she discovered she was holding a muscle and joint injury patch.
This was... Did he see her get her foot hit?
Qian's heart warmed, and the urge to wash her hands faded instantly. She felt a little bubble of warmth she shouldn't have, and her face grew even hotter.
"This young man is nice, with a sense of righteousness, looks good, and is tall. He seems to be the kind who spoils his wife, much better than that Ni Jianren. What a jerk, he actually ran away!"
Jia Xiufang's voice burst Qian's bubble, and her slightly warmed face instantly cooled down again.
Damn! Casually cozying up to a girl, can't see Yu Minglang is such a flirt, without scruples, without principles. Damn, damn, damn!
Yu Minglang had already run far away, turning on the radio hanging from his ear, getting scolded by the old man, he didn't bother to explain.
Qiao Zhen took a telescope, sneakily watching Qian and her mom enter the dry cleaning shop.
"Boss, the target entered the two-story building, first floor is a shop, second floor residence, shop name is White Tower Ridge Dry Cleaning Shop!"
"What are you randomly looking at?" Yu Minglang glared at Qiao Zhen.
Qiao Zhen chuckled, "Boss, did you fancy that girl?"
"Do you want me to send you to the Arctic Branch and let the polar bears beat you up?" Yu Minglang coldly glared at him.
Qiao Zhen dared not joke anymore, picked up the telescope to continue observing, but still muttered.
"You just took a likening to her, don't think I didn't notice. The patch you gave her is homemade, usually when I ask you for it so much, you don't give it."
His mother's a renowned orthopedics authority at the hospital, and these injury patches work like a charm, but the boss never gave them out.
"With your rough body, you don't need it to get better, it's as life-resilient as a cockroach, squashing couldn't kill you. That's for the masses, what are you thinking?"
"I'm also one of the masses, why don't you give it to me?"
Never saw the cold-faced devil be so kind before? He clearly ran back deliberately to stuff it into her hand!
"You'll take on the overseas investigation task."
"No, boss, I was wrong!" Qiao Zhen thought to himself, could this be the legendary wrathful public revenge of the cold-faced captain?
Hmm, not far from the truth.
Returned home, Jia Xiufang cursed and swore.
"That Ni Jianren, what a bastard!"
Qian carried the fruits Ni Jianren left behind, following Jia Xiufang, still holding the patch Yu stuffed in her arms.
"Oh, sis, you're back! Why did you buy so much fruit?"
The shopkeeper is a woman around thirty, her clothes seem a size smaller, tightly hugging her, not very pretty but with a good figure.
Seeing Qian and Jia Xiufang return, she put down the iron, greeted warmly, and tried to help carry the fruit. Qian saw her, and her face turned cold.
"The fruit was bought by that jerk."
Avoiding Qu Xue's hand, carrying the fruit, she walked straight upstairs.
"Sis, what's wrong with this child?" Qu Xue's hand awkwardly stopped in mid-air. She didn't understand how Qian, who had always been on good terms with her, became so cold.
"Don't bring it up. On our way back, the madman from Seventh Auntie's house came out chasing us, then..." Jia Xiufang's chatterbox opened and couldn't stop.
Qian had already climbed the stairs, watching her mother, with a brash exterior yet only knowing how to gossip, chat so lively with Qu Xue, the future third woman who would steal her father, paused and called to Jia Xiufang angrily.
"Mom, come to my room! Don't delay Qu Xue's work!"
The child, usually calling me Aunt Xue, why did she use her name today? Qu Xue realized Qian's attitude towards her was off, hurried to put on a pleasing face, striving to flatter Qian.
"Qian'er, Jianren treats you really well! Look, hasn't even passed the threshold but knows to buy you fruit, clearly spoils his wife."
Usually, if Ni Jianren was praised, Jia Xiufang and Chen Lin would be particularly happy. Their future son-in-law worked in a legitimate work unit, bringing face to the family. But today, Qu Xue's butt-kissing, which never failed, hit the horse's leg.
"Quit chatting and get busy!" Jia Xiufang took out her anger over her runaway jerk son-in-law on Qu Xue.
Entering the room, Jia Xiufang sat on Qian's bed, which was in the attic.
The first floor was for business; the second floor was the residence. Two bedrooms, the sunny one was given to her brother, the small one to the parents, Qian could only live in the attic, tall enough to bend, or she'd hit her head.
She suspected her height was only 160 related to living long in a cramped environment. Her parents were too biased, good things were given to the brother, she had to make do with everything.
"Why are you so angry with Aunt Xue today? She's direct in speech, but not malicious, and usually treats you well. I've told you many times, although she works for us, she's still a distant relative. You can't act like a spoiled princess towards her..."
Balabala, started gossiping again.
Qian coldly watched her mother, a brash woman who could endure hardship, yet ruined by her chatty mouth.
Her mother worked diligently, following her father, but was too chatty, irking her father Chen Lin, who early had an affair with distant relative Qu Xue living in the house.
Calculating time, her father had already been with the downstairs gentle-acting woman for a year. Her mother, seemingly smart and brash, was a fool kept in the dark.
In half a year, her mother caught them in bed, crying and causing a scene, embodying menopausal woman's spirit of crying and causing commotion, leading aunts with weapons to grandma's house, demanding justice from grandma.
This act of blaming the in-laws for marriage mistakes was clearly foolish, not only failing to win her father's heart but angering grandma to death. Her father, originally not planning to divorce, decisively decided to divorce Jia Xiufang, and soon married Qu Xue.
On TV, such disruptive women have bad endings, but in reality, after her father's remarriage, the area was finally demolished, and he used the demolition funds to start a business, increasingly successful.
Qian could never forget, when the mistress Qu Xue became the lawful wife, driving a million-dollar Range Rover, stirring up trouble at Jia Xiufang's now-downfallen home, the face of good people living peacefully was just used to deceive people, numb their nerves.
Brainless good people are often unrewarded, while most venomous women who are smart succeed, Qu Xue is just a live example, isn't she?
Luckily, in this life, Qian, a woman even more ruthless than Qu Xue, has been reborn.