Just then, Qin Wenshu egged her on from the side.
"Auntie, I think they’re not opening the door because they have a guilty conscience. She must have deliberately gotten rid of the child to get revenge on our Qin family. Let me kick this door down for you!"
At Qin Wenshu’s words, the color drained from the faces of the mother and daughter in the courtyard.
"No, I’ll get the door." Mother Lan couldn’t let them keep spouting nonsense outside.
If this went on, the Lan family’s reputation would be utterly ruined—they would be branded as people who deliberately abandoned a child.
As reluctant as Lan Qingman was, she knew the door had to be opened.
The mother and daughter went and opened the main gate.
They came face-to-face with a furious Mrs. Qin.
"Mrs. Qin—"
"Mom—"
The mother and daughter cried out at the same time.
The sight of the two of them made Mrs. Qin’s anger flare up, and she could no longer hold it back.
She rushed forward, grabbed Lan Qingman by the collar, and then—SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!—landed several hard blows across her face.
"You damn bitch, did you get rid of our Qiaoqiao on purpose?"
Lan Qingman’s face instantly swelled from the slaps.
The pain made her want to fight back.
But she knew she couldn’t.
She immediately burst into aggrieved tears.
"—Mom, no! I’m Qiaoqiao’s mother, how could I do something so monstrous?"
"That’s right, Mrs. Qin! Qiaoqiao is Lan Qingman’s own flesh and blood; she would never do such a thing! Besides, she’s suffering enough as a mother already, how could you hit her?"
Mother Lan said reproachfully.
Mrs. Qin spat. "Worse than an animal? That’s what you are! The child is so young, but when she had a stomachache, you just sent her to the bathroom by herself while you were stuffing your face in the restaurant. What, have you never eaten a proper meal in your life or something?"


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