Even if the events of her previous life had caused Qiao Jiuru unbearable pain, a heart torn asunder, and an inability to control herself, now that she had been reborn, she could not sit idly by.
She had to prevent the family’s tragedy from happening again; she absolutely had to save her children, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren.
It was only several years after the rehabilitation that Qiao Jiuru learned that, in her previous life, their family had actually been targeted long ago.
It was just that those people, out of deference to the connections left behind by the Su and Qiao families, had been secretly looking for an opportunity to strike.
Not to mention the Qiao family's background and wealth, just Su Huaiyuan's Su Family alone was enough to drive those people to madness and unscrupulous means.
The Su Family was not only a scholarly family, but the Su Family's business acumen was also very impressive; they were the kind of family that could both study well and earn a lot of money.
Before the liberation, the Su family had already expanded their business overseas, especially Su Huaiyuan's eldest brother, who had studied economics in America and later took charge of the Su Family.
However, a few years after the liberation, all the Su Family members, except for Su Huaiyuan who insisted on staying, went abroad.
Although all the Su family members immigrated and took away most of their assets, they secretly left a considerable amount of money for Su Huaiyuan and Qiao Jiuru, the couple.
Unlike the Su family, the Qiao family was a renowned family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, with generations of doctors who had treated emperors and ministers.
However, by Qiao Jiuru's generation, the only successor was her biological brother.
Qiao Jiuru did not like to study medicine but loved history, and it was at university that she met, fell in love with, and married Su Huaiyuan.
On the surface, the Qiao family was not as wealthy as the Su family, but secretly, they were not much worse than the Su family; over so many generations, they had accumulated many good things from treating imperial relatives and wealthy individuals.
This generation of the Qiao family originally only had Qiao Jiuru and her biological brother, Qiao Yin.
Qiao Yin inherited the mantle of the Qiao family, and his talent and comprehension were exceptionally high.
Later, during the Anti-Japanese War, he resolutely joined, and then participated in the final Korean War, but unfortunately, he was injured and passed away.
Finally, only Qiao family grandparents, Qiao family parents, and Qiao Jiuru remained of the Qiao family.
A few years after Qiao Yin passed away, the Qiao family grandparents successively died.
A few more years later, Qiao father and Qiao mother also passed away successively, leaving Qiao Jiuru as the last remaining member of the Qiao family.
“The ones who reported us were your colleague Liu Mingliang and your former classmate Fang Jia Hai.
One was jealous of your position, and the other coveted the Su family’s wealth.
However, because of Zhang Hong and Lu Baoguo’s constant care for our relationship, those two had always been afraid to act rashly.”
“I know Liu Mingliang.
He couldn’t compare to me in anything, and I was always worried he’d trip me up, so I was always careful not to offend him.
I never thought jealousy could distort a person so much.”
“Isn’t that true?
Liu Mingliang is a petty person.
On the surface, he acts like a good-natured old man to everyone, making people think he’s honest, but in reality, his heart is very dark.”
“As for Fang Jia Hai, he knows my family’s situation very well.
In the past, I often helped him out, so it’s highly possible he coveted my family’s wealth.”
“That’s right, Huaiyuan, you probably don’t know, but he joined the Revolutionary Committee not long ago.
I think he mostly joined the Revolutionary Committee because of us.
Our being reported and sent down was mainly their doing.”
“Aru, where were we sent down to later?!”
“Northwest Farm.”
It was cold and remote there, lacking in clothing and food, with poor housing, backward medical care, and extremely harsh conditions.
Qiao Jiuru recalled with a heart full of bitterness and pain; adults could grit their teeth and persevere, but the two children…
Therefore, now that she had returned in this life, she absolutely could not let these things happen again.
Although Su Huaiyuan was wholeheartedly devoted to his work, he was not ignorant of external affairs, nor were there no people around him who had been sent down, and he had secretly helped some people.
Therefore, he was not at all unfamiliar with the farm.
“What about Xiao Feng and Xiao Zhu?!”
Taking a deep breath, Su Huaiyuan calmed himself down before continuing to ask, “Besides them, there’s also our youngest son and youngest daughter.”
“After we were reported, we quickly severed ties with them.
But even so, Xiao Feng and Xiao Zhu were forced to go to the countryside and became Educated Youth, one went to the Northwest and the other to Inner Mongolia.
Xiao Feng was bitten to death by a wolf in Inner Mongolia, and Xiao Zhu, exhausted and hungry in the Northwest, eventually got sick and didn't make it through.
They passed away around the same time as Xiao Ze.”
The accurate news about their youngest son and youngest daughter was only received after they had returned to Beijing for more than half a year; this was the final blow to her and her husband.
Su Huaiyuan, who had always been strong and resilient, suddenly collapsed; for his wife, he later held on for more than two years before passing away.
Su Huaiyuan’s expression finally changed drastically, and he gripped his wife’s arm tightly with both hands, then released them suddenly.
Their entire family had not met a good end.
