Don't think of rebirth.

Lian Fenghe squatted on the ground and continued to pick up the damaged green plants.

The Jacaranda is the most regrettable, but the root system is not damaged. Lian Fenghe plans to prune it and grow it bigger before selling it.

This is not an ornamental plant on the balcony, but is planted in the courtyard.

He was busy cleaning up when he heard a thin female voice beside him: "Brother Xiao He, I'm done eating. Let me help you."

Lian Fenghe looked up and saw Zhang Lanlan in front of her.

He wanted to say, "Go and have a rest," but after noticing her twisted fingers, he thought for a moment and said, "Then go get a broom and a bucket and collect the dirt."

Zhang Lanlan responded immediately and ran to find tools.

Lian Fenghe has now found new flowerpots and put the green plants in them first, and will replant them later.

The two of them cleaned up together and they were quite quick. By the time other workers finished their lunch break and came over, Lian Fenghe and Zhang Lanlan had already finished cleaning up.

Lian Fenghe raised her arm, wiped her forehead with her forearm, then took off her straw hat and fanned herself.

Seeing that Zhang Lanlan was also sweating profusely, he handed her the straw hat and said, "Fan yourself."

Zhang Lanlan wanted to refuse, but seeing that Lian Fenghe stretched out his hand and would not take it back, she had no choice but to take the straw hat and fan herself with it.

The replanted flowerpots were temporarily placed in a cool place and watered to help the roots take hold. The two people stood by, speechless for a moment.

Lian Fenghe was not good at dealing with others. It was only after she entered high school and was influenced by the harmonious atmosphere of Class 3 that she became more proactive.

Usually he prefers to squat in a corner and plant his favorite flowers. Instead of hiring workers, he would rather do it himself.

So even in his own nursery, he rarely interacts with others.

Even though the scale is now large and there are too many flowers to take care of, he still explains the precautions of cultivation and maintenance through his father Lian Qiumang.

The workers in the base also knew Lian Fenghe's character, so when they met him, they would at most nod to him and would not greet him specifically.

Lian Fenghe knew Zhang Lanlan. He would see her from time to time when he came to the base on weekends.

My impression is that she always works slowly, but it's not that she is clumsy, but that she really doesn't have enough strength.

Her thinness has been going on for a long time. Her father Zhang Yong would occasionally call her over to do work for him.

If she didn't come one day, then the next time Zhang Lanlan came, she would definitely be injured.

Although Lian Fenghe had seen it several times, he didn't dare to face Zhang Yong, so he would not confront Zhang Yong for Zhang Lanlan.

But he would silently hand something to Zhang Lanlan, sometimes biscuits or bread, sometimes band-aids or iodine cotton swabs.

Zhang Lanlan didn't say anything either, but just nodded silently to thank him. She was afraid that if she got too close to Lian Fenghe, Zhang Yong would find out and cause trouble for Lian Fenghe.

Today, seeing that Gu Qinghuan was planning to intervene, Lian Fenghe had a little more courage because he had the support of his own squad leader.

While they were standing together, he bravely asked, "What kind of person is your father?"

Although collecting intelligence is usually the job of Bao Qingsong and others, Lian Fenghe also remembers the process.

In any case, to deal with Zhang Yong, you have to know him better.

Zhang Lanlan also knew that these people wanted to help her. After hesitating for a few seconds, she still answered Lian Fenghe's question.

Zhang Yong is not a good person. He is an alcoholic and a domestic violence abuser. He has no ability to make money, but he relies on his strength to bully the weak.

His ex-wife, Zhang Lanlan and the biological mother of his two younger sisters, was forced to give birth to a boy and was often subjected to domestic violence. She was tortured to the point that she did not want to live anymore and jumped into the river in the middle of the night.

His ex-wife's family wanted to beat him up, but he saw that the situation was not good, so he abandoned his three sisters and ran away.

However, that period was a rare good time for Zhang Lanlan.

During the compulsory education stage, the village gave her money so that she could go to school, and the school provided her with loving lunches to fill her stomach.

She would pick up discarded waste paper and beverage bottles and sell them for money, and help the villagers with work to earn food for herself and her sisters.

Her grades are considered good in the village primary school, mainly because there are scholarships set up by caring people in the school, and she has to work hard for the money.

However, by the time she reached middle school, she could no longer keep up, and her daily chores affected her studies.

More importantly, Zhang Yong is back.

During the years he was away, he started driving a black car and made some money. He also swindled a woman and had a son with her.

However, after giving birth to his son, he thought he had completed the mission of "continuing the family line" and began to do nothing every day.

The second wife endured it for a few years, but when she saw that her son had grown up and considered his future study and education, she couldn't help but say a few words to Zhang Yong.

As a result, Zhang Yong returned to his old ways and beat his second wife as well.

Fortunately, the second wife was more clear-headed. Since they did not get a marriage certificate, she simply took Zhang Yong's money and ran away, and also left her son to Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong doesn't know how to take care of children, nor does he want to spend time learning, but he remembers that he has three daughters.

He took his son back to the village and left him to Zhang Lanlan.

I took advantage of the fact that a few years had passed and people around me didn't know what happened in the past, so I started to live a slacker life again.

Zhang Lanlan has to take care of her younger brother, and after finishing junior high school, high school is no longer compulsory education.

She didn't have money to go to high school, so she dropped out of school and tried every possible way to find odd jobs to save money to send her second and third sisters away.

The second sister's grades are better than hers, so she must be sent to high school.

Although the third sister's academic performance was not good, she was dexterous. Zhang Lanlan wanted to send her to learn a skill so that she could at least support herself in the future.

The youngest brother, although he does not have the same mother, has been raised by Zhang Lanlan for two years and he is very obedient.

The main reason was that he was abandoned by his biological mother, and his biological father was a scumbag who would come home after drinking and beat up anyone he found. His younger brother was beaten so many times that he became terrified of his father.

People like Zhang Yong don't actually care whether the child is a girl or a boy. He wants a son just to show off in front of others.

If others have it, he must have it too. After all, he is not the one who suffers from giving birth to a child.

He doesn't care what his child looks like, he just wants to live a happy life.

Occasionally, when he won money playing cards, he would act generous and pretend to be a good father by giving money to his children.

However, if the child behaves badly when collecting the money, or if he is unhappy with the child one day, he will immediately change his face and hit the child.

In fact, the younger brother was beaten more often than the second and third sisters. After all, the second and third sisters were older and could read people’s faces and disguise their emotions.

The younger brother couldn't handle it, his emotion was written all over his face, which made Zhang Yong unhappy: I am your father, and this is how you treat your father?

The slap followed, and Zhang Yong scolded him, saying that as a man, how could he be so cowardly.

Although this is the actual situation, Gu Qinghuan's idea of ​​hostages is not useless.

Although Zhang Yong beat him, he still attached great importance to his "son" as a reason for his pride.

In other words, if everyone else values ​​their son, how could he not?

What if others looked down on me for this and said, "He's your only son, and you treat him like this?"

That would be more painful than cutting his flesh, and Zhang Yong absolutely could not tolerate it.

So in front of outsiders, Zhang Yong showed great love for his son - purely to save face for himself.

Lian Fenghe was shocked when she heard this. How could there be such a person?

He thought about it and couldn't help shaking his head: "No, if this happens, even if your father can pay you back, your brother will be severely beaten when he returns."

He had to tell Gu Qinghuan quickly and ask her to think of a new idea.

Lian Fenghe sent a message to Gu Qinghuan while asking, "Why didn't you say anything just now?"

Zhang Lanlan was silent for a while, then whispered, "After all, I did cause you losses, so I have to pay you."

"If my dad wants to beat my brother, I can stop him. I was the one who broke the things in the first place, so I deserve to be beaten."

Lian Fenghe shook her head: "No, this is not right. Violence is wrong!"

Zhang Lanlan didn't say anything. When she was in school, her teacher also told her that violence was not acceptable.

But what can she do when there is inescapable violence in her life?

She had no power to resist, so she could only endure it.