Chapter 1031 - Chapter 1031 Chapter 1031 Qiao Meipan Is at Her Wits End_1
Chapter 1031: Chapter 1031: Qiao Meipan Is at Her Wit’s End_1 Chapter 1031: Chapter 1031: Qiao Meipan Is at Her Wit’s End_1 But this pleasure was gone when she returned to the manor.
Qiao Meipan had come.
With Sun Junyan squatting in the Sky Prison of the Capital City, the Sun Family in the big prison of the County Town, and Qiao Qinghe lying unconscious in the manor, she had nowhere to go and had returned to the old Qiao Family courtyard in Anping Village.
The Qiao Family used to be numerous, and the place would always be buzzing with noise during the New Year, but now she was the only one left in the entire courtyard.
Fortunately, there were still some grains left at home, and she had some silver that Sun Junyan had given her before, so she wouldn’t starve.
However, even so, she had suffered a lot. She had never labored in the fields before; she only did light housework. Now that she was the only one left, whether it was carrying water or gathering firewood, milling flour or cleaning the courtyard, she had to do it all by herself.
She had spent the New Year alone, and now that spring was beginning and the weather was getting warmer, she had come to seek help from Qiao Changshun, hoping that he would hire people to do the farm work in the fields.
The lands of Qiao Qinghe and Sun Junyan combined amounted to sixty acres, which she couldn’t manage on her own.
Moreover, she had never done farming before. Faced with sixty acres of land, she was completely in the dark and knew nothing.
Qiao Changshun found it tough when he received Qiao Meipan’s plea for help, rubbing his rough hands together in difficulty.
If it hadn’t been for the incident of Qiao Xiaomai’s cold face over twenty taels silver, he would have agreed right away.
“This, this… I’ll have to ask Xiaomai when she gets back,” he could only respond like this.
“But I really can’t manage on my own. The wheat has already been planted; it can’t just go to waste, right?”
“Of course, it can’t go to waste. Wait for Xiaomai to get back, wait for her to discuss this matter,” Qiao Changshun could only give this answer.
Seeing this, Qiao Meipan couldn’t help but her eyes turned red, and her tears started dropping down profusely, “Second brother, I was ignorant before and followed mother in doing many wrong things, can you please not be mad at me?”
“Ah?” Qiao Changshun looked somewhat stunned at the crying Qiao Meipan, hesitating for a moment, “It’s all in the past.”
If it were before, he would have definitely said that he wasn’t angry.
With the Sun Family and Sun Junyan in prison, and Qiao Qing turned into a vegetative state, Qiao Meipan was left alone to live in the village.
Truth be told, he really wasn’t angry anymore.
But Qiao Xiaomai was angry.
Qiao Xiaomai was someone who held grudges, and if he said he wasn’t angry now, she would definitely be angry when she got back.
Compared to Qiao Meipan, Qiao Xiaomai was of course more important.
“Second brother, I truly realize my mistakes, could you please forgive me? With dad and mom in such conditions, and neither the eldest nor the fourth brother being reliable, I can only rely on you. Second brother, I was young and didn’t understand things, can you forgive me…”
Qiao Meipan sobbed louder and louder. Alone in the courtyard, she could only rely on herself for everything, and she was genuinely scared of this kind of life.
Besides, she was already seventeen this year.
Other girls in the village had children at the age of seventeen, yet she didn’t even have a husband’s family.
An unconscious father, a mother locked in prison, her increasing age–everything forced her to bow her head and ask for Qiao Changshun’s forgiveness.
She truly had run out of options.
As Qiao Meipan wept fiercely, Qiao Changshun sat on the side, his hands ceaselessly rubbing together, his head hanging low, not daring to join the conversation.
He had to follow Qiao Xiaomai’s decision on this matter.
Just as they were at a stalemate, Qiao Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang finally returned.
He felt as if he had seen a lifeline and quickly called Qiao Xiaomai over. Qiao Meipan was crying so hard she could barely catch her breath, looking like she might faint at any moment; he really couldn’t cope any longer.