At that time, they were surveying the terrain in the area when a sudden heavy rain caused a landslide.
Their team was fine, but the road was blocked.
Seeing several locals trapped by the landslide while passing through, they immediately launched a rescue operation.
Qin Yang rescued a family of three at that time, and Li Wei’s team also saved two people.
Seeing that several people remembered, Bai Xiaoming continued, “The man was seriously injured and despite several months of care at home, he didn’t recover and passed away before the Spring Festival. The mother and child are his wife and son.”
Li Wei was confused, “Everyone knows Mr. Qin saved them, what are they doing looking for Mr. Qin, surely they aren’t here to show gratitude?”
If it was to show gratitude, they should have done it long ago, it’s been more than half a year.
Bai Xiaoming snorted coldly, “If it were gratitude it would be good, I heard that after the man died, the woman and the child were driven out of their in-law’s home, left with nowhere to go, so they turned to Mr. Qin. They had come over once in the first month of the lunar year, but Mr. Qin wasn’t back from his hometown then, so I handed them off to the union to deal with.”
He thought this matter was settled after handing it to the union and didn’t even mention it to Qin Yang.
Little did he know that so much time had passed and the issue had still not been resolved.
While they were talking, the office phone rang.
Bai Xiaoming answered the call, his face darkened further, and his tone was questioning, “Is our union just for show? A single case taking this long to handle and still unresolved, needing Mr. Qin to personally intervene?”
Not knowing what was said on the other end, Bai Xiaoming hung up the phone still with a scowl.
“Mr. Qin, I’m afraid you’ll need to take a look in person.”
Qin Yang turned to Zhang Dawei, “What’s the situation at the gate?”
Zhang Dawei moved his lips, looking towards Bai Xiaoming.
Bai Xiaoming frowned, “What are you looking at me for? Mr. Qin asked you, just tell him.”
Zhang Dawei immediately stood up straight, “When I passed by the gate just now, quite a crowd had gathered. Some people were saying the child belongs to Mr. Qin, and the mother and child came to hold Mr. Qin accountable. Others seemed to know Mr. Qin was their savior. I’m not sure what the woman has been saying, but most people seem to pity them, with even some saying, since Mr. Qin saved them, he should take responsibility to the end…”
“Bullshit,” Li Wei cursed directly, “Now saving people is wrong? If that’s the case, no one should bother being a good Samaritan anymore. What kind of people are these?”
“Let’s go and take a look.”
Avoiding is not a solution to the problem, yet Qin Yang’s expression was particularly icy.
At the company’s main gate, there was already quite a crowd, and even two union workers were visible.
Someone shouted, “Mr. Qin is here.”
The crowd opened up a path, and Qin Yang also saw the two people surrounded in the middle.
The child looked about four or five years old, frail and skinny, wearing clothes that were too large for him, making his pale, malnourished appearance even more pronounced.
The woman beside him didn’t look much better. Clothes patched upon patches, very thin, with dry, tangled hair that looked even worse than a beggar on the street.
Both were kneeling on the ground, tears on the woman’s face.
At the sight of Qin Yang, she moved a few steps on her knees towards him, tears streaming down, her expression utterly distressed.
Without saying a word, just her appearance alone aroused much sympathy from the onlookers.
Especially the busybody aunties and sisters-in-law, who whispered among themselves.
“Didn’t they say Mr. Qin got married? I remember his wife came over before the new year, she was a pretty woman, how come she looks like this woman…”
“Shh, keep your voice down, who knows for sure, men, how many of them don’t cheat, even if his wife is pretty, what can it do? Home flowers are no match for wild ones. Besides, they live separately, inevitably there are lonely times.”
“I don’t think so, the child is so big already. I heard Mr. Qin got married just last year, maybe she really came to repay a favor?”
“Repay a favor? Have you ever seen someone bring such a big kid to repay a favor? If anything, Mr. Qin should repay her for the favor of bearing his child, having given birth to such a big son for him.”
Sister-in-law Feng and Feng Jingjing were hiding in the crowd, although not joining in their conversation, their eyes grew brighter.
Watching Qin Yang approaching from a distance, gleaming with excitement.
Feng Jingjing tugged at her mother’s hand, “Mom, let’s go back, if dad knows we’re here watching the excitement, he will be angry.”
Sister-in-law Feng glared at her, “What’s there to be angry about? We just passed by on our way home from outside, who said we were spectating? Keep your mouth in check, if you say something you shouldn’t, watch out, I’ll tear your mouth apart.”
Feng Jingjing bit her lip and lowered her head, sneaking peeks at the little boy.
It was a boy.
Neither the woman nor Qin Yang spoke, eventually a junior union official spoke up first.
“Mr. Qin, please look into this. Originally, the union intended to handle this, but this woman insisted on seeing you, we really had no other choice…”
His face was full of hardship.
Then, the woman bowed deeply to Qin Yang, her forehead heavily hitting the sandy ground.
Qin Yang frowned slightly and shifted his position slightly.
The woman raised her head, her forehead smeared with grit and covered with tears, indescribably miserable.
“Benefactor, I know I shouldn’t have come to you, but I have no other choice. My husband has died, my in-laws claim that it was my bad luck that killed my husband, and drove me out, even refusing to keep our child. My own family died in that landslide, I have no relatives left now. I don’t mind dying, but Genbao is only 5 years old, I beg you, benefactor, to give my child a chance to live.”
She bowed deeply again, resting her forehead on the ground, crying uncontrollably.
The little boy also started crying, pulling on the woman’s clothes, “Mom, I don’t want to leave you, I want to stay with you.”
“Good Genbao, mom can’t support you anymore, only if you are with the benefactor then you have a chance to live.”
Regardless of what the woman said, it cleared up the relationship between her and Qin Yang, yet the sight of the mother and son crying together elicited more pity from the onlookers.
“How pitiful, that in-law family is too unscrupulous, they don’t even want their own grandson after their son died?”
“What era is it now, still practicing this feudal superstition? They should be reported to the police, let the officers educate them properly.”
“What’s the use of education? I heard that the man had two brothers, it’s not the in-laws rejecting them, it’s the two uncles who kicked them out to get a bigger share of the property.”
The union official also looked sympathetically at Qin Yang, “Mr. Qin, what do you think…”
Qin Yang’s face was expressionless, looking indifferently at the union official, “So what’s the union’s solution?”
The union official was taken aback, he thought the situation was obvious enough, yet Mr. Qin still feigned ignorance?