Born in the 1980s, she was remarried and became a stepmother; a cold, rough man doted on her, pinchi

Chapter 3 Bullied Right After Getting Married

Upon hearing this, Jiang He felt that these were still insufficient compared to Qin Yishen's stack of money and grain coupons, not to mention that the textile factory was about to go bankrupt.

But when she thought about becoming the wife of the richest man in the future, she reluctantly agreed.

The next day, Qin Yishen took Jiang Man to the city to get a new outfit made and bought her a bicycle. He didn't take Jiang Man home until evening.

"Qin Yishen, although we don't have any feelings for each other, as long as you treat me well, I will definitely treat you and the children well in return. Feelings can be cultivated slowly, and of course, if you meet someone you like in the future, I won't stop you."

Qin Yishen looked at Jiang Man. Her slender eyes were slightly upturned. Everything she said before was something he liked to hear, but he didn't like the last sentence at all.

“I went back yesterday and resubmitted the relationship report. It should be approved in about a month. Once it’s approved, I’ll submit the marriage report, and once that’s approved, we’ll register our marriage.”

Looking into Qin Yishen's earnest eyes, Jiang Man felt her cheeks burning. She nodded in agreement and turned to go back to her room.

The next morning, a bright red "double happiness" character was pasted on the mottled wall, standing out prominently.

Firecrackers had been set off in front of the Qin family's house for a full half hour.

The wedding procession consisted of bicycles with bright red ribbons tied to the handlebars, fluttering in the breeze.

Qin Yishen was dressed in a brand-new Zhongshan suit, his hair neatly combed. He was riding a brand-new 28-inch bicycle, with Jiang Man, dressed in a red wedding dress, sitting on the back seat.

Jiang He watched with jealousy as Jiang Man was taken away by Qin Yishen. She was originally supposed to get married on the same day as Jiang Man, but Lin Yanqing's parents disagreed and insisted on waiting a few days until an auspicious day for the wedding.

The Qin family had few relatives, and Qin Yishen's parents had both passed away. After Qin Yishen joined the army, his two children were taken care of by his elder brother and sister-in-law.

However, she had never inquired about the Qin family in her previous life, nor did she know whether her elder brother and sister-in-law were easy to get along with.

Jiang Man sat in the house, feeling somewhat bored listening to the sounds of the banquet outside.

Suddenly, she heard a crying sound.

At first I thought I had misheard, but I heard it again not long after.

Jiang Man stood up instantly. The crying sounded like a child's. Could something have happened to Qin Yishen's two children?
Because it is the main house, there are two rooms inside.

Jiang Man pushed open the door to another room and saw a chubby little boy eating a big chicken leg. He glared at her fiercely when he saw her.

Jiang Man: ? ? ?
"who are you?"

"My name is Qin Hua, and my father is Qin Yishen's older brother."

It turns out they are the children of Qin Yishen's elder brother and sister-in-law.

Jiang Man frowned, and then she heard another cry.

But the crying sounded muffled, like someone was...locked up!
Jiang Man immediately scanned the entire house and found that the only place where the child could be hidden was the large wooden trunk by the wall.

Jiang Man immediately walked over, opened the box, and gasped in shock at the scene inside.

Inside, a boy and a girl, their hands tied and mouths gagged, sat curled up, their eyes red and swollen from crying.

"You bad woman, you bad woman! Get out of my way!"

Seeing that Jiang Man had discovered what he had done, Qin Hua immediately attacked him, biting him. Jiang Man, in pain, pushed him away and sat on the ground, wailing loudly. "Help! The bride hit me! It hurts so much—"

Jiang Man didn't have time to pay attention to him. She hurriedly tore off the tape from the children's mouths and untied the cloth strips binding their hands, then took them out one by one.

"Tell Auntie, are you alright? Does anything hurt?"

Both children shook their heads in fear, and at that moment, Qin Hua's parents, hearing the crying, rushed over.

Upon seeing her son sitting on the ground, Sun Meifen immediately rushed forward and picked him up.

"What's wrong, son? Who bullied you? Did your aunt hit you?"

Jiang Mandu laughed in anger. Hearing Sun Meifen's words, he understood why Qin Hua was so vicious at such a young age.

"Who bullied your son! Can't you be reasonable? Can't you see that both of Yi Shen's children are acting like this!"

Jiang Man shifted her body slightly, revealing the two children hidden behind her.

The two children still had traces of tape on their mouths, and their wrists still bore the marks of being bound with strips of cloth.

Sun Meifen and the other woman felt a little guilty. They usually tolerated Qin Hua bullying these two children, since they weren't Qin Yishen's biological children, as long as Qin Yishen didn't find out.

But who knew that this woman would stumble upon it today!
Qin Yishen and the others who arrived later also saw this scene. Qin Yishen immediately felt a chill and strode forward, squatting down in front of the two children to carefully examine them.

"You think you can just bully someone like that? This is clearly just kids playing around without knowing their own strength. You can't hit a child so hard!"

Sun Meifen complained to everyone, "Come on, everyone, please be the judge! What kind of child doesn't play around? Wouldn't a few words of discipline be enough? But this new auntie who just moved in is so vicious and cruel. Look at what she did to my Xiaohua! When has my Xiaohua ever cried like this before!"

"Shut your mouth, it stinks like a latrine!" Jiang Man wasn't going to let her get away with it. "I bullied your son? Which eye of yours saw that! You're still joking around? Your son is seven years old but looks like a ten-year-old, tall and fat! On the other hand, look at our two children, they're seven years old but look like five-year-olds!"

"Yi Shen is usually in the army, and his monthly salary is sent directly to you. Is this how you support his children? You don't even dare to talk about supporting these two kids, you don't dare to look people in the eye, and they're all pale and thin?!"

"Those who know them are their uncles and aunts, but those who don't might think they're some mean-spirited, poor relatives who are using the guise of helping to take care of the children to make money off others!"

Upon being told what had happened, Sun Meifen and her husband immediately became anxious. Sun Meifen, in particular, was as flustered as a mouse whose tail had been stepped on, shouting, "What nonsense are you talking about! What do you know, you're just a newlywed bride!"

"Whether I understand or not is not important. What matters is whether you did it or not. If you didn't do it, why are you in such a hurry and why are you shouting!"

Jiang Man remained calm and unhurried, extending her hand and rolling up her sleeve, revealing a section of her fair forearm with a bloody tooth mark clearly imprinted on it!

“This is where your son bit me. He saw that I had caught him doing something wrong, so he rushed up and bit me. I just shook him off because of the pain. Was I wrong?”

"Besides, your son is so chubby, how much pain could he possibly feel from a fall! It's our child who's so thin and small who's been locked in that box for who knows how long, we don't even know if he's hurt. Shouldn't you take him to the hospital for a checkup?"

Upon hearing that he would have to pay money, Qin Yishen's elder brother, Qin Ziqiang, immediately objected.

"Qin Yishen, can you even control your new wife? She's already turned the world upside down since she married into the family, even slandering your own brother and sister-in-law! We've worked so hard to take care of your children for so many years, it's heartbreaking!"

"If you don't teach her a lesson today, you'll make her parents in heaven restless!"

(End of this chapter)