Chapter 613 - 643: Just Give Me 3,000 to 5,000
Chapter 613: Chapter 643: Just Give Me 3,000 to 5,000
Old Mrs. Qin’s heart ached for him. She ran over, and when she saw her son’s miserable state, she immediately started wiping away tears.
Qin Jiqun glanced around and then whispered, "Mom, are you home alone? Let’s get inside first. Can you make me something to eat? I’m starving."
Hearing her son say he was hungry, Old Mrs. Qin forgot everything else and immediately turned to pull him toward the house.
Meanwhile, Qin Na had finished dealing with Xiao Yu’s matter and was heading back with her son. As soon as she entered the residential complex, she heard a neighbor say, "Hey, did something happen at your place? I just saw your mom holding some man’s hand and crying over there."
Qin Na froze for a few seconds, then immediately realized what was happening. ’It must be my third brother! He’s here!’
Qin Na could only force a smile and offer a few vague words to the neighbor. Not daring to take her child home, she turned and went to her second brother’s apartment in the adjacent complex.
As it happened, Qin Jiao was there too. Qin Na quickly explained the situation. "I don’t know for sure if it’s Third Brother, but I have a strong feeling it is!"
Qin Jiao said, "Shen Yi is home, which is perfect. We’ll get him to come with us. Aunt, you should leave Xiao Yu here with my mom. If there’s some kind of conflict later, it’s not a good place for a child."
At the same time, Qin Jiao also called the police officer who had given her his number last time.
Then she got Shen Yi, and together, they accompanied her aunt, Qin Na, back to the house.
When they walked in, Old Mrs. Qin was reheating some braised pork belly from before. She had also cooked her son a bowl of noodles with greens and egg, topping it with the braised pork.
Qin Jiqun had lost a significant amount of weight; his cheeks were sunken, his hair was a mess, and his face was covered in stubble. His clothes looked like they hadn’t been changed in days, their original color barely discernible.
He heard the door and instantly grew alert, but when he saw it was his sister and his niece, he let out a sigh of relief.
When Old Mrs. Qin saw them, however, she froze. Her expression changed, and just as she was about to speak, Qin Jiao cut in, "Grandma, I’m hungry too. That braised pork smells amazing. Is there any left?"
"Yes, yes, there is. I’ll go make a bowl for you too."
"Okay."
Qin Jiao then had her aunt, Qin Na, go into the kitchen to keep an eye on their grandmother and make sure she didn’t let anything slip. Meanwhile, she and Shen Yi walked into the living room and sat down not far from Qin Jiqun.
Shen Yi turned on the television.
In truth, Qin Jiqun hadn’t fully relaxed. After so much time spent hiding and running, he was ready to jump at shadows.
So, when he suddenly heard Qin Jiao call out, "Uncle," he immediately clutched his bowl and looked at her warily.
"What is it?"
"Uncle, it’s been a while. You’ve... changed a lot."
Looking at Qin Jiao’s smiling face, Qin Jiqun actually felt a little intimidated by his niece.
When she was still a student, he hadn’t paid her any mind—she was just a girl, after all. But over time, she had done a few things that had left him completely speechless.
’Heard she’s a big boss now... Wait, big bosses have a lot of money, right?’
Terrified by the memory of poverty, Qin Jiqun immediately put down his bowl. "Xiao Jiao," he said, "your uncle knows he hasn’t treated you or your family well. But we’re all family, so can’t you just find it in your heart to forgive me?"
Qin Jiao replied, "We stopped blaming you a long time ago, Uncle. After all, blaming you is pointless."
Qin Jiqun breathed a sigh of relief at the first half of her sentence, but the second half made him feel like something wasn’t quite right.
’Oh well, whatever.’
He immediately said in a nervous rush, "In that case, Xiao Jiao, can you help your uncle out a bit? I’m out of money. You could just... give me three or five thousand, that’d be enough!"