After the betrothal gift negotiation collapsed, I turned around and married a wealthy man.

It was an unfamiliar face, completely different from what she remembered.

When Wang Qin left, she was about the same age as Qiao Xing now. In the memory, she had fashionable curly hair, wore a fashionable windbreaker, lipstick, and sprayed low-quality but very fragrant perfume.

Even though she works in a factory, she still dresses up beautifully every day.

She quarreled with her father because she dressed too beautifully, and her father suspected that he was having an affair with other men in the factory.

Later, the quarrel became so fierce that his father even suspected that Qiao Xing was not his biological child. In addition, they already liked their son, so they left so simply when they divorced.

But now, the woman sitting there was wearing the cheapest street clothes, which had been washed and turned white, and there were still some stains that had not been washed away.

With her gray hair, wrinkled face, and cloudy eyes, her condition was even worse than that of her aunt.

The same is true for the little girl next to her. She is thinly dressed, has dark skin, and has a lot of freckles on her cheeks, as if she has been frozen all year round. They are black and red, her hair is dull and yellow, and her fingers have frostbite, with vague signs of suppuration. .

No matter how you look at her, she doesn't match the woman in Qiao Xing's memory.

There is a feeling of strangeness and familiarity. After looking at it for a long time, it only feels strange.

She doesn't know this woman.

The woman grabbed the little girl next to her and shouted awkwardly, "Stars."

Qiao Xing looked at her with no expression on her face because she didn't know what expression to use to face this woman.

It stands to reason that she should feel happy and relieved when she sees that the person who once abandoned her is now living in a miserable life.

But in fact, her heart was still, as if she were looking at a complete stranger.

Auntie started to get involved again, "Xingxing, come over here, you two haven't seen each other for so long, let's have a good chat."

Qiao Xing stood still and said, "I've seen it all before, so let's do it. I have to go to work tomorrow, so I'll leave first."

Her aunt grabbed her, looked back at Wang Qin, and whispered, "Follow me."

Auntie pulled Qiao Xing into the house. Qiao Xing frowned. Auntie really could change her face faster than turning the pages of a book.

I had such a quarrel with her over the house issue before, but now I treat her like nothing has happened, and I am extremely attentive.

Auntie called uncle in, and the three of them closed the door and prepared to talk quietly inside.

"Uncle and aunt, what do you want to say?"

Auntie pulled Qiao Xing's arm, "Xingxing, you have met your mother, don't you have any ideas?"

"No, I don't know her."

"You kid!" Auntie glared at her angrily, "Before, I originally wanted her to come and see how well you are doing now, so that you can vent your anger."

"But, your mother has been having a hard time these past few years."

Qiao Xing remained silent and didn't speak.

Whether she is doing well or not has nothing to do with her. Qiao Xing has not been doing so well in recent years.

As her aunt said, she even earned the money to go to college by herself. She worked five jobs a day during the winter and summer vacations and saved up little by little.

Because her grandparents were still in good health and they could earn their own money, and her grandmother paid for her to study, her aunt had nothing to say.

But later, when grandma got older and couldn't make any more money, she had to rely on her aunt and them to support her. If she gave Qiao Xing money to study, they would have objections.

So Qiao Xing had to rely on herself.

In addition, when I went to school later, I worked part-time and had a little more money. From time to time, I gave my grandma and the others some pocket money.

Only then did her aunt see hope, thinking that Qiao Xing would be successful in the future and be able to repay them, so she let Qiao Xing live here.

As a result, it ended up like this because of a house.

The aunt was still telling Wang Qin's pain, "Her current husband is a bad person and gambles! He gambles so well that a family becomes like this. That person sitting outside is your sister. She has been in the fourth grade of elementary school and has not studied yet. .”

"Aqin's husband spent all his daughter's tuition fees in gambling. He lost everything and even beat his wife and children when he came back."

"Your uncle and I paid for the travel expenses back this time!"

Qiao Xing twitched the corner of her mouth, raised her head and said, "She chose that herself, what does it have to do with me?"

"The same goes for Aqin. After so many years, she has never said anything or contacted her family. When your grandma and grandpa passed away, she didn't come back. She didn't come back even after calling her so many times."

"Your uncle and I were still scolding her at that time. We thought she was heartless. If she hadn't come back this time, we wouldn't have known she would have come back. She wouldn't even have paid for the trip."

Qiao Xing asked: "Then how did you convince her to come back this time?"

The aunt said: "Actually, we have contacted her a long time ago and asked her to come back to attend your cousin's wedding, but she refused to come back."

"Isn't this a few days ago? She suddenly called your uncle and said that she couldn't live anymore. Her husband was gambling with others and said that they were cheating, so he got into a fight with them."

"No, if you beat someone up and go in, you have to pay for their medical expenses. If your mother can't pay it, those people will go out every day to scare your mother and your sister."

"Aqin's husband wants to sell your sister to someone else for 5 yuan. The little girl is only 16 years old. This one will suffer a thousand knives."

In some remote mountainous areas, there are indeed people who get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. The man wants to send his daughter to such a remote area to be a wife, which is no different from selling his daughter.

"Your mother was taking your sister to jump into the river, but someone stopped her. She was desperate, so she called your uncle."

The uncle is a soft-hearted person, and Wang Qin is still his sister, so he cannot ignore her.

So my aunt called Qiao Xing here for another reason. She didn't want Wang Yue to interfere with this business and wanted to leave Wang Qin to Qiao Xing.

"That has nothing to do with me." Qiao Xing clenched her fists, her attitude firm.

She has already caused too much trouble to Qin Ce, and she doesn't want to cause any more trouble to Qin Ce because of her messy affairs.

"You girl, why are you so cold-blooded? Is she your biological mother after all? If you don't care about her, if word spreads, others will poke your spine!"

Qiao Xing said: "Whatever they think, since they chose to abandon me in the first place, they should bear the consequences of their choice."

“Why should I pay for their choice?”

Auntie was stunned. She didn't know how to persuade him for a moment. She gave Wang Yue a wink.

That was his sister and the trouble in their family. She was the one responsible for this every time. He hid behind and pretended to be a good person, and his aunt was not happy either.

Wang Yue hesitated and glanced at Qiao Xing with a complicated expression.

"Xingxing, there are actually some things I didn't tell you. I was afraid that you would think too much, so I didn't tell you..."

Qiao Xing's heart sank, and she turned to look at Wang Yue.