"What’s wrong, Auntie?" Granny Lu quickly stood up, pulled Aunt Hua over, and asked her to sit down first, "Come, take a seat and have some food, we can talk after eating."
Aunt Hua didn’t sit down; she rushed over all the way, and her clothes were almost soaked through.
"Auntie, what’s there to sit and eat for, when it’s a matter of fire reaching one’s eyebrows?"
"What exactly happened?" Granny Lu sensed something was amiss, and hastily pulled Aunt Hua to ask, "Did something happen?"
"Isn’t it just that something happened?" Aunt Hua slapped her thigh forcefully, "This is outright wickedness. Qin Guohua is really heartless. Not only has he never cared for Nuannuan, but now he’s gone and sold her to that Wang Dali in the village, that man who’s twenty-five or twenty-six and still can’t find a match. Never mind his unsightly looks, he’s lazy and gluttonous, always up to no good, stealing chickens and dogs. His family is poor and there’s not a single reasonable person among them. If any girl were to marry into their family, she wouldn’t be enjoying a good life, but would be suffering for a lifetime."
"Has Qin Guohua’s mind been fogged by lard? Isn’t this throwing Nuannuan into a pit of fire, wanting to ruin her life?"
"He himself has a daughter, doesn’t he? If he wants someone to marry, marry his own daughter off."
The more Aunt Hua talked, the angrier she became. She had watched Qin Xiangnuan grow up; how could she not know what kind of life she and her brother had gone through in their childhood, living meal to meal? Now, after much difficulty, the two children had finally made it - they were supporting themselves and both were in school, their lives improving day by day. Why couldn’t Qin Guohua just let his children be, instead of always causing trouble?
Granny Lu was so angry her hands turned ice cold.
"Qin Guohua, how dare he!" Granny Lu abruptly stood up, ready to confront Qin Guohua, "My granddaughter is still a student. If he dares to marry my Nuannuan off to that kind of person, this old woman will fight him tooth and nail."
Qin Xiangyang felt the same. Just the thought of the man who blocked them today made his whole body ache with anger.
"Don’t be hasty, Auntie," Aunt Hua quickly interjected to stop Granny Lu, "Our Nuannuan cannot possibly marry Wang Dali, but after all, she is Qin Guohua’s daughter. What if they forcefully insist? It won’t be easy to handle."
"Then just break off relations," that sudden cold voice made Aunt Hua’s heart feel as if it were blown by a cold wind,
What kind of emotions must one harbor to utter such words?
What kind of hatred would make one so heartless?
And what kind of heartlessness is needed to regard the bond between father and daughter so trivially?
If you are unkind to me, then I am indifferent to you.
You don’t treat me as your daughter, why should I consider you my father? Besides, whatever I owed you, I’ve already repaid in my past life. This life, I’ve been granted this extra life just for those I care about and cherish. As for those unrelated, what do they matter to me?
Yes, just with those light, drifting words, isn’t that the same as breaking off relations?
"Brother, what about you?" Qin Xiangnuan asked Qin Xiangyang, "This kind of father, do you still want him? He can sell me to a beast today, and later he can make you marry a beast of a woman too. He has never regarded us siblings as humans, but as dogs, as objects. When we were young, we slaved away for him, and now that we’ve grown, we still have to slave away for him. Brother, I don’t want this kind of father. Mom is already dead, and Hu Li isn’t my mom either."