Rebirth Era: After the Beautiful Sister-in-law Refuses to Open Business

"Xiaowu, would you like some water?"

Li Jumei kept moving her hands. She glanced at the cute child Xiaowu and asked with a smile.

"Auntie, I'm not thirsty."

The cute kid Xiaowu shook his head and then asked Li Jumei: "Aunt, when will my eldest sister-in-law and second brother come back?"

"Miss your elder sister-in-law and second brother?"

Li Jumei's eyes were full of smiles. Seeing the cute little kid Xiaowu nod, she said, "Soon."

"When is it going to be soon?"

The cute kid Xiaowu is still confused.

"We should be home tomorrow afternoon."

Li Jumei responded with a smile.

"My eldest sister is already an adult, doesn't she know how to go home by herself? Why does she need my eldest sister-in-law and second brother to pick her up?"

The cute kid Xiaowu frowned. He didn't even play with the tin frog. He sat on a small stool against the wall, holding his chin with both hands, and didn't look very happy.

"There must be some reason."

Song Lan did not mention much about Qin Yaqing in front of Li Jumei and Song Sanhe. He only said that Qin Yaqing went to the countryside in Heilongjiang Province several years ago.

As for what happened between her and Wen Qiming, Song Lan didn't mention a word.

It's not that she was worried about anything, but Song Lan felt that it was a personal privacy. If she said it out loud, even if the people who heard it were her parents or other relatives,

For Qin Yaqing, this is a form of disrespect.

"What could be the reason?"

The cute kid Xiaowu snorted softly and said, "Although I have never seen my eldest sister, I have heard my second brother and second sister mention her a lot at home. Auntie, I don't like my eldest sister, not at all!"

Hearing this, Li Jumei paused, looking puzzled: "Why? You are just a kid, and you have never met your elder sister, why don't you like her?"

"She's bad!"

The cute kid Xiaowu's eyes were red, and he was about to cry when he said, "My mother was sick and in the hospital. At that time, my second brother wrote a letter to my eldest sister, but she didn't come back to visit my mother, nor did she write a letter or send a telegram home..."

Sniffing, the cute kid Xiaowu tried to hold back the tears in his eyes and continued, "Dad and big brother are not here. Xiaoliu, my second brother, second sister, and eldest sister-in-law are waiting for big sister by mom's bedside.

But...but until mom left us, my eldest sister didn't show up...

I was so sad, so sad! ”

The tears finally fell, and the cute kid Xiaowu noticed it and wiped them away with his little hands, saying, "Auntie, I didn't mean to cry, I really didn't mean to, but the tears just kept falling, wuwu..."

Li Jumei could no longer sit still. She put down the sweater she was knitting, stood up, walked to the child, bent down and picked him up.

"Auntie knows, Auntie knows, Xiaowu is the best behaved one, it's your Jindoudou who is disobedient and wants to run away."

Li Jumei patted the child's back as she spoke.

The cute kid Xiaowu lay on her shoulder and cried louder and louder:

"I hate my eldest sister! She's bad. She doesn't go home to see mom. I hate her!"

Hearing the crying sound coming from the living room, Qin Yaxin appeared with her sister Qin Yaxuan.

Qin Yaxin opened her mouth and wanted to comfort her brother, but she didn't know what to say.

Just because she also hates her elder sister Qin Yaqing.

The little girl Qin Yaxuan stood beside her, listening to her little brother's crying. As if she was infected, soon, big golden beans fell from her eyes.

"I think your elder sister is probably stuck with something, so she hasn't returned home yet. Why don't you wait for her to come back and ask her yourself?"

The cute baby Xiaowu was crying and hiccuping, which made Li Jumei feel distressed. She couldn't help but give the little guy a suggestion.

"...Hmm...hiccup..."

The child nodded his head.

Li Jumei was in a complicated mood at the moment. She couldn't figure out how big the matter could be that could be more serious than her own mother being critically ill and unable to make it back.

Even if it's far, can't we take the train?

To take a step back, if something really happened and he couldn't come back, he would always have time to write a letter or send a telegram, right?

As a result, the sister-in-law failed to do the same. No wonder the little one in her arms was so repulsive to her.

-

When the train arrived at the station, Song Lan and the other two took a bus all the way to the town, then drove back from the town and got off at the Red Star Machinery Factory stop.

“Is this the machinery factory?”

Looking at the tall doorheads and iron gates on the roadside, Qin Yaqing asked Song Lan.

"Can't you see those big words on the door?"

Before Song Lan could say anything, Qin Boyan said something, and his tone didn't sound very good.

Speaking of which, all the way back from Qiaoxingtun to the machinery factory, this guy's attitude towards Qin Yaqing has never been good, even though he apologized on the train for Song Lan's sake.

But in his heart, he still disliked Qin Yaqing, his elder sister.

"I was careless and didn't see it."

Is Qin Yaqing feeling uncomfortable?

Of course she felt uncomfortable, but she knew why Qin Boyan was like that, so how could she bear any resentment towards him?

She...she had no right, no right to blame Qin Boyan.

After all, she was the one who made the mistake first. Now, she was disliked by her family. She deserved it!

"Brother, if you continue to treat your elder sister like this, don't blame me for punishing you when I get home!"

Song Lan glanced at Qin Boyan and said, "Do you know what our family rules are?"

Qin Boyan shook his head blankly.

"I made a whip myself. If you guys are not united and only know how to bully others, and if your elder brother and I try to persuade you and you don't listen, you will be whipped."

Song Lan raised the corner of her mouth: "You can also call it education of love!"

"..."

Qin Boyan's face was filled with shock. He opened his mouth but didn't utter a single syllable for a long time.

"Scared?"

Song Lan asked.

Qin Boyan nodded repeatedly.

Can you not be afraid?

Whip hello!

Sister-in-law, you are so weak that the whip in your hands will not make the person's skin and flesh torn, right?

Thinking of this, Qin Boyan shook his head repeatedly in his heart. He didn't want to be tortured at all!

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have spoken to you like that."

He took the initiative to apologize to Qin Yaqing, then Qin Boyan looked at Song Lan and said, "Sister-in-law, let's go quickly. Xiaowu and Xiaoliu must be missing their second brother so much!"

"Are you sure they miss you more than me?"

Song Lan looked at him teasingly and said meaningfully, "Why don't you ask him when you get home?"

"No, no, no, no need!"

Qin Boyan waved his hands hurriedly and said with a wry smile: "Sister-in-law is more attractive than me. Those two little guys probably don't care about me at all, they only care about you, sister-in-law!"

"There's no need to exaggerate."

Song Lan smiled and asked Qin Yaqing to follow, and then said to Qin Boyan: "I have been away from home for several days. I don't know if they are well behaved at home."

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. Xiaowu and Xiaoliu are very sensible and will definitely not make trouble for aunt."

Xiaowu is a little naughty, but he is not a naughty kid.

Xiaoliu has always been well-behaved and sensible, and will definitely not do anything that would annoy adults.

"I hope nothing happened between them and my second sister."

Song Lan quickened his pace slightly and introduced the relevant information about the new and old staff quarters of the machinery factory to Qin Yaqing from time to time.

-

"Mom! We're back!"

As they reached the gate of the courtyard, Song Lan's voice rose, and in the blink of an eye, Li Jumei hurried out of the living room.

As soon as she saw Song Lan, she asked, "Is everything okay on the way?"

"Nothing happened."

Song Lan responded with a smile.

Unexpectedly, Qin Boyan suddenly said, "Aunt, the trip there was smooth, but on the way back, my sister-in-law met human traffickers on the train.

Fortunately, my sister-in-law is very skilled, otherwise she would have been taken off the train by human traffickers as my daughter-in-law."

"Second brother!"

Song Lan called Qin Boyan, her tone was obviously a bit harsh.

"I'm not making this up, and you, sister-in-law, weren't really taken advantage of by human traffickers."

Qin Boyan muttered softly.

"Human trafficker?"

Li Jumei came back to her senses from the shock. She had clearly seen her daughter standing in front of her, but she was still afraid. She asked, "Lanlan, did you really meet a human trafficker?"

"Ah."

Song Lan nodded, walked into the living room, put down her bag, and explained what Qin Boyan said in a little more detail. At the end, she smiled and comforted Li Jumei:

"Mom, please don't be nervous. Not to mention that I'm standing right in front of you right now, when I met the human traffickers on the train, you should be able to rest assured that nothing will happen to me given my skills."

"Why are you so careless, kid?!"

Patting Song Lan on the back, Li Jumei said, "Everything can happen, and there's an old saying: Those who drown are those who can swim. Don't think you're good at swimming and that you're not afraid of anything!"

"Got it. I'll listen to you and be more careful next time."

Song Lan didn't want to go against her mother. She knew that she was doing this for her own good and was concerned about her, so she warned her not to be too carefree.

Qin Yaxin and the two kids were taking a nap when they vaguely heard noises coming from the living room. The three of them almost left the room together.

When they saw Song Lan in the living room, they all called her "Sister-in-law" at the same time.

Then he called Qin Boyan "Second Brother" and when it came to Qin Yaqing, the mouths of the two children, one big and one small, seemed to be covered with glue and no one opened their mouths for a long time.

"Don't you recognize your elder sister?"

Song Lan said this to Qin Yaxin. However, Qin Yaxin looked innocent: "Sister-in-law, what did you say? Sister? Did I have it? Why can't I remember?! Where is she? Why can't I see her?!"

"Second sister!"

Song Lan's eyes were filled with helplessness. She said, "What did I teach you on a daily basis? Don't tell me that you just let it go in one ear and out the other and have forgotten it all."

"I didn't forget, but I didn't see any elder sister."

Qin Yaxin was just air in her eyes.

She wants to ignore the other person!

Song Lan was almost laughing out of anger, but she finally managed to control her anger.

She turned her gaze towards the two younger ones and said, "Little Five and Little Six, this is your eldest sister, hurry up and say hello!"

"..."

The little girl Qin Yaxuan pursed her lips and said nothing.

At this time, the cute kid Xiaowu took two steps towards Qin Yaqing with his short legs, looked up at Qin Yaqing, and said in a childish voice:

"Are you my eldest sister? The one who went to the countryside?"

Qin Yaqing nodded.

"Then can you tell me why you didn't go home when your mother was seriously ill?"

The cute kid Xiaowu said with a stern face: "My second brother wrote you a letter saying that mom was seriously ill. You didn't go home. Didn't you receive the letter?"

Qin Yaqing's eyes were filled with guilt and self-blame. She shook her head and said, "I...I received the letter."

"Now that you've got the letter, why don't you go home!"

The cute kid Xiaowu stared at Qin Yaqing without blinking.

"I……"

Qin Yaqing didn't know what to say.

"If you can't get back what you want, why don't you reply by letter or telegram?"

The cute kid Xiaowu's expression turned angry: "Is mommy not important to you?"

Qin Yaqing shook her head, her eyes filled with tears of guilt and self-blame. She said, "I don't have any money to buy a train ticket."

Cute kid Xiaowu: "Don't you have any money to send a letter or a telegram?"

"No, I don't have a penny."

Qin Yaqing burst into tears.

"When you left, not counting the pocket money you had with you, you also took several hundred dollars from the drawer in your parents' room. How did you spend so much money?"

Qin Yaxin looked angry: "Did you give it all to that man?"

Qin Boyan: "You don't have any money on you, so why don't you borrow some from other educated youth?"

"I, I haven't paid back what I borrowed before, I'm embarrassed to ask again... You are angry with me, annoyed with me, even hate me, it's all right,

It was me who failed to see my mother off to her final journey. It was me who did not listen to my parents’ advice and insisted on going to the countryside. I am not worthy of being your daughter, nor your eldest sister.

You can scold me however you want... just go ahead and scold me!"

She refused to listen to advice, insisted on having her own way, and didn't use her brain. She is a big fool and deserves to be scolded by her brothers and sisters.

"I am very disappointed in you as my elder sister, but you are my elder sister and that is a fact that cannot be changed. I don't want my parents to be sad.

Today when you come home, I will recognize you and call you Big Sister, but if you do something wrong again in the future, I will end our friendship forever, and then you will regret it!"

The cute kid Xiaowu said this seriously, and then he straightened his clothes like a little adult and said to Qin Yaqing: "Sister, my name is Xiaowu, welcome home!"

"My name is Xiaoliu, and my brother and I are twins. Hello, big sister, welcome home!"

After a pause, the little girl Qin Yaxuan continued, "In our family, the eldest sister-in-law is the head of the family. This is what the eldest brother said, and we all have to listen to the eldest sister-in-law!"

"Hello, Xiaoliu, Hello, Xiaowu."

Qin Yaqing wiped away her tears, pulled the corners of her mouth, and forced a smile towards the two little ones.

Qin Boyan and Qin Yaqing said nothing.

Li Jumei tried to smooth things over: "You two are much older than Xiaowu and Xiaoliu, so you can't be less sensible than them. Now that your eldest sister has returned home,

Auntie thinks this is something worth being happy about. Let’s put the unpleasant things in the past behind us. As a family, don’t always think about settling old scores. This will hurt the harmony!”

"Big sister, let's go, your room is over here."

Song Lan didn't say anything to Qin Yaxin and Qin Boyan. She asked Qin Yaqing to follow her. After the two left the living room, Qin Yaxin poked the two little ones on the forehead and said disdainfully:

"Look at how useless you two are. You forgave that guy so easily. You are simply little traitors!"

"Xiao Liu is not a traitor, Xiao Liu just doesn't want to worry my sister-in-law!"

The little girl Qin Yaxuan explained for herself.

"What about you? What do you think?"

Qin Yaxin turned her gaze to the cute child Xiaowu.

"I'll ask what I want to know. Since my elder sister has given me the answer, if I continue to hold on to it, I would be unworthy of my manhood."

That's what he thought.

After knowing the reason why his eldest sister was unable to go home to visit his mother and did not write letters or send telegrams to home, even though he was still a little unhappy, he could not help but be tolerant.

Lest my sister-in-law be unhappy!