Chapter 301: The Reason Behind It
At this point, he forcefully wiped his face, "I was young then, too, always thinking if I worked harder, would they treat my sister a little better? But no, even if I were to work to death in the fields. By the time I got back, Nuannuan was crawling on the ground by herself, even picking up and eating small stones from hunger, while that woman was holding a child dressed like a princess and sneering coldly."
"Nuannuan has always been sensible. She started doing the laundry early on, even when she was not bigger than a washbasin, often falling into it, almost drowning. Can you imagine? A laundry basin, almost capable of drowning someone," Qin Xiangyang sneered again, but this sneer was mixed with too many painful and resentful memories.
"The children brought by my stepmother could go to school, but I couldn’t. My stepmother’s daughter could wear nice clothes and eat well, but not my sister. She had to cut pigweed, wash clothes, wash dishes, and by the time she was five or six years old, she could cook and feed the whole family."
"Later, my sister got sick, and they didn’t want to pay for her medical care, so they threw her in the woods behind the hill, saying she was just a money loser anyway. It was I who brought her back, otherwise she would have died. Later when I fell ill, they wanted to throw me out too, but it was my sister who saved me."
"Without my sister, I probably wouldn’t be here."
"So, Brother Jian," Qin Xiangyang actually wanted to cry, but for many years he could only hold it in, not allowing a single tear to drop.
"If one day, my parents come looking for us, don’t blame Nuannuan for seeming to lack humanity."
"It’s not that we lack humanity, but our emotional capacity was deeply wounded by the selfishness and cruelty of that couple. Nuannuan is right; we don’t have parents, we only have a grandma."
Jian Zhiqing had been listening quietly, feeling all this time that Qin Xiangnuan had been hiding something. She was never too close to people, and now he understood why. Such a tiny child had to endure those days, such merciless parents.