Chapter 1078 - 1050: Everything Is Interconnected
Facing Feng Manman’s accusations, Qian disdained.
"Work isn’t equivalent to money. Housewives don’t receive a salary, but they still work hard every day for their families. No matter what job you do or how much you earn, even the aunt cleaning the streets deserves respect as long as she’s willing to work for a living. But you, a woman who uses her body as a tool, is clearly not worthy of respect. Are you blaming others for cleaning up your own mess?"
Qian’s words were not just empty rhetoric. She stood as a high-paid elite, but she never looked down on any working-class people. Even restaurant waiters and street sweepers were treated equally by Qian; professions have no social hierarchy.
The only hierarchy is among people, like Feng Manman, who always want to gain without effort, and they are directly classified by Qian as despicable.
"I’m not convinced! Aren’t you just luckier than me, married to someone with power? I almost ended up like you!" Feng Manman still couldn’t accept why she had failed.
"You’ll never be like me. If that old man had money, would you still find him disgusting?"
Feng Manman followed Qian’s hand gaze to the old man who had slept with her when she was drunk. His greasy hair reflected an oily sheen in the sun, and his big yellow teeth were glaringly eye-catching.
Feng Manman wanted to refute Qian’s words. She wanted to say Qian was wrong, but she was powerless to argue back.
The farce came to an end, and Qian’s eyes scanned the room several times, failing to find any trace of Wang Xiaohong. She gave her elder brother a look, and he waved his hand to give the order.
"Do it! Except for the pregnant woman, smash everything else."
Daring to stir trouble under Qian’s very nose, they had to bear the consequences! People who bring trouble upon themselves are never worthy of sympathy!
The room was in chaos, and those who waited to plot against her elder brother were completely busted, as arrogant as they were when plotting, as wretched they were now.
"Report to the CEO, Wang Xiaohong was not found."
Someone came back to report, and her elder brother frowned slightly.
Some family secrets had definitely been leaked by Wang Xiaohong. For example, the phone numbers of his parents. At this crucial time, Wang Xiaohong was nowhere to be seen, indicating a fish that slipped through the net, leaving a trace of regret for this operation.
"Call second brother. I’ll go find big sister."
Qian didn’t know if the foolish Wang Xiaohong had made any progress after all these years, but no matter how small an opponent, she would deal with it cautiously, allowing no room for error.
Her elder brother nodded, and the two of them split up to take action.
Qian left and headed straight for the big sister’s house, calling her on the way.
The phone connected quickly.
"Big sister, where are you?"
"I’m getting ready to pick up Panpan. The teacher just called and said Panpan is having a fever at school."
"Are you going alone?"
"Yes, second brother went back to work today, so I came to pick up the kid."
"Okay, let’s meet at the school gate. I’ll be there soon."
Qian hung up and called her elder brother again, who said everything was normal on second brother’s side; Wang Xiaohong didn’t go looking for him.
Qian checked the time, realizing it was only a 10-minute drive to Panpan’s school. She should be able to get there soon.
She shouldn’t think too pessimistically about the situation.
This operation was a sudden attack; neither the Feng Family nor the Wang Family was prepared for it. Naturally, Wang Xiaohong wouldn’t know either. Perhaps she wasn’t with those people because she was handling her own affairs.
Her elder brother just mentioned on the phone that Feng Manman’s drug was accidentally administered.
The drug was bought by Feng Manman’s brother, Feng Feng, who wasn’t a good person. He often visited nightclubs to find young girls, always keeping water bottles with drugs in his car, ready to attract girls. Unexpectedly, that day, it was Wang’s mother’s brother who drove Feng Manman and Yu Mingli, and Feng Manman, feeling thirsty, drank the water and the drug took effect at her elder brother’s house.
As a result, she was groaning, attracting the sleazy man known as "next-door Old Wang" who stayed over to drink.
During the development of the whole affair, the company with which her elder brother was dealing that night was innocent, different from Qian’s initial suspicion that they were colluding.
Her elder brother had also brought Feng Manman to a few business events at his wife’s request. His wife couldn’t resist Feng Manman’s persistent request to experience what a cocktail party was like and to meet a few friends, so she had her elder brother take her without much thought.
The entrepreneur dealing with her elder brother happened to have seen Feng Manman before, thinking she was her elder brother’s woman kept outside, and didn’t pay much attention, leading to the subsequent series of chaotic incidents. This affair served as a wake-up call for Qian.
The thousand-mile dike is destroyed by an anthill. No small matters should be taken lightly. Her sister-in-law initially had no guard against Feng Manman, which gave her and Wang Xiaohong the chance to scheme behind their backs. Qian and her elder brother overanalyzed simple issues, considering Wang Xiaohong was previously a daughter-in-law of the Yu family, having the phone numbers of Yu’s elders wasn’t that strange.
Qian’s current task was to prevent Wang Xiaohong from provoking her sister-in-law.
The sister-in-law was pregnant, and her emotions were unlike normal people; a slight agitation could be harmful. Qian wouldn’t leave any opportunity for her opponents.
Thinking of this, Qian couldn’t help but speed up.
She just needed to prevent Wang Xiaohong from arriving, tightly guarding Panpan and her sister-in-law, and later have her elder brother track down and deal with Wang Xiaohong by sending her family away, ensuring no more troubles in the future.
A few minutes later, Qian arrived at the school gate, where her sister-in-law was standing with a listless Panpan, talking to the teacher.
"Thank you, Mr. Li, for taking care of the child. I’ll take him home now."
"Alright, Yu Yibai’s mom, please take him to see a doctor immediately. He is usually an excellent student at our class, but recently, he has been in low spirits. Today he even vomited in the classroom. We took him to the infirmary and measured his temperature, it’s over 39 degrees."
"Okay, I’ll take him to the doctor right away." Her sister-in-law looked anxious.
Seeing Qian arriving, her sister-in-law quickly cradled Panpan and hurriedly headed to the hospital.
On the way, Panpan lay pitifully against his mom, absorbing the warmth and scent that belonged to her.
"Mom, I’m cold..."
Her sister-in-law quickly wrapped him in a small car blanket, feeling extremely distressed.
"How did you suddenly get sick? It’s all my fault for not paying enough attention to you. I’ll take you to the doctor right away, be a good boy."
She had experienced some pregnancy symptoms over the past few days, feeling unwell, and paid less attention to the child than before.
Seeing him this sick, she felt very guilty.
"Mom, hold me tight. Don’t leave me; I’m your son..." Panpan was burning with fever, mumbling deliriously.
"Qian, drive faster!" Her sister-in-law held her son, urgently pleading.
"Mom, I’m nauseous, I want to vomit..."
Qian stopped the car, and her sister-in-law carried him out. Panpan leaned over the trash bin and vomited.
Just as Panpan finished throwing up and before his mom could get him back in the car, they heard a surprised female voice behind them.
"Panpan?!"
Hearing the voice, Panpan was so frightened that he clung tightly to his mom, not daring to turn his head, with his small body gently trembling.