However, she didn't relax for a moment. Her nose suddenly caught a faint scent of blood, which made her tense up again.
"Liunian, are you hurt? Why do I smell blood on you?"
Jiang Qingqing pulled away from her husband's embrace, her large eyes scanning Zhang Liunian's entire body uneasily. When she discovered a barely noticeable bloodstain on his shoulder, she immediately panicked. She reached out to touch it, but hesitated, afraid of hurting his wound. She could only hover her hand anxiously and ask, "Did you get hurt here? Let me see?"
Zhang Liunian froze. He had almost forgotten he was injured, though the wound wasn't severe.
It hadn't hit any vital parts, just a bloody hole that would heal in a few days.
Seeing his wife's worry, he had no choice but to loosen his collar and show her the bandaged injury.
"Was this from when I went to find you yesterday? Didn't I tell you to bring more bodyguards?" Jiang Qingqing's eyes immediately welled up with tears upon seeing her husband injured.
Zhang Liunian's heart ached. He clasped her waist with his large hand and rubbed it. "I did. Uncle Yi even found me a group of people to protect me. Now, I travel with a hundred-person escort. You don't know how intimidating it looks when we go out."
Speaking of the number of bodyguards, Zhang Liunian felt like burying his face in his hands. So many people accompanying him everywhere was too attention-grabbing.
When they returned, he would have them stay home and only take ten people with him when he went out.
With Gu Lou gone and the Chen family scattered, his enemies were effectively gone. In terms of personal safety, there were no major issues, and he could stay in Pengcheng with peace of mind.
"I don't care if it's intimidating. I just want you to be safe. As long as they can protect you, we can hire as many bodyguards as needed."
Jiang Qingqing lightly punched Zhang Liunian's chest, not caring about spending a lot of money on bodyguards. As long as they could protect her husband, it was all worth it.
Besides, their family was very wealthy now, with tens of millions in savings. It wasn't an issue to hire a few bodyguards, or even tens of thousands.
Therefore, to her, her husband's safety was the most important thing.
Zhang Liunian understood his wife's concern. He clasped her small hand and smiled. "Don't worry, our enemies are all gone now. You don't have to worry about my safety anymore."
"Really?" Jiang Qingqing's face lit up with surprise. Did this mean they could live together with her husband again, and never have to fear them capturing and threatening her husband?
If that were the case, it would be wonderful.
"If I hadn't dealt with them, I wouldn't be here," Zhang Liunian affirmed.
"Then can we go home with you? I'll go call Huabao right away." Jiang Qingqing said excitedly, about to go to the next room to get her daughter.
This was the Pengcheng Hotel. The night before yesterday, she had booked two rooms. One was for her and her son, and the other was for Yi Wang Hua and their daughter, Huabao.
But before she could take a step, Zhang Liunian stopped her. "The house is ruined because of that incident. It needs to be renovated before we can move back in."
"Yesterday, I bought a large courtyard. We'll go to the new residence later."
Jiang Qingqing felt a pang of sadness when she heard the house was uninhabitable. She and her husband had bought that house together, and she had picked it out. She hadn't expected it to be ruined in that chaotic battle. "What a shame, but since you've bought a new home, we'll go there. Staying in a hotel isn't a long-term solution."
This cost ten yuan a day, and she was a bit reluctant.
Thinking this, Jiang Qingqing wanted to call her daughter over, but Zhang Liunian stopped her again. "Qingqing, I haven't asked yet, why did you suddenly come to Pengcheng?"
They came without telling him.
If he hadn't happened to see them, he didn't know what the consequences would have been.
Fortunately, nothing of the sort had happened.
But Zhang Liunian still wanted to know why they had suddenly come to Pengcheng. Had Tang Shitong done something to them?
Jiang Qingqing's expression turned somber when he asked about it. Afterward, she gave a wry smile. "It's because of my parents. They found our home, saying that something had happened at home, and they had lost their jobs and income. They wanted me to help them find jobs and take care of their living expenses. I couldn't stand them, so I secretly ran away here."
Speaking of her shameless parents, Jiang Qingqing had a lot to say.
She had thought they had made things clear last time, but who would have thought they would show up again, demanding that she take care of her siblings, provide them with jobs, and support her parents?
She understood the part about supporting her parents. As a daughter, even with a strained relationship, she couldn't escape it.
But she couldn't possibly support the entire family.
Not to mention that her husband's contributions were the reason their family was in its current state, but also because of how her parents had treated her, she couldn't extend a helping hand.
Moreover, she knew that there weren't many good people in her family. If she truly helped them, they would never be shaken off and would drag her down for life.
When Zhang Liunian heard this, he was surprised it was because of this. But he remembered they had made things clear last time and wouldn't associate with them. How did they show up again?
"Didn't they all work at the textile factory? Why would they say they have no jobs?" Zhang Liunian recalled that his father-in-law had even tried to introduce his wife to Hong Baobao back then. Could it be because of that, causing a chain reaction?
Zhang Liunian's thoughts were not wrong. After he had stormed into the Jiang family and snatched Jiang Qingqing away, Hong Baobao harbored a grudge. He went back and told his uncle, the factory director, about it.
When the factory director heard that his nephew had suffered such injustice, he naturally wouldn't give the Jiang family an easy time. He first made the Jiang family suffer at the factory, then made them make mistakes, and finally fired them all.
This led to the Jiang family, having no other options, turning to Jiang Qingqing for help again.
However, Jiang Qingqing, already unwilling to go out due to Tang Shitong, now discovered that her maternal family was waiting for her outside, wanting her financial and labor support.
She was extremely upset. Without a second word, she took her children to Pengcheng.
"It was that Hong family's doing. They might resent me for not marrying Hong Baobao," Jiang Qingqing felt disgusted at the thought of Hong Baobao. Her parents actually wanted to marry her off to such a person. They were truly her parents.
They say parents are the ones who love their children the most in the world, but she couldn't feel their love at all.
Sometimes she doubted if she was their biological daughter. However, she heard she resembled her maternal grandmother, so the possibility of not being related wasn't high.
"Qingqing, what are you thinking? If you want to help them, I can also..." Before Zhang Liunian could finish speaking, Jiang Qingqing interrupted him.