A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

"Confess?"

Hu Wangmei shuddered. She knew all too well what turning herself in meant.

That's like handing yourself over to the police station and letting them arrest you and put you in jail.

No! Going to jail is absolutely out of the question. She's so young, with so much of her youth ahead of her. Going to jail would be such a waste. No, she absolutely cannot turn herself in.

Hu Wangmei firmly told herself that she could not turn herself in.

But of the two paths Old Liu gave, there were only two paths in total. Surrendering himself was one of them, and the other was running away.

But where can they run to?

Hu Wangmei began to carefully consider her way out.

But after thinking it over and over, there was nowhere I could turn for help.

Old Liu was extremely patient, and just waited quietly for Hu Wangmei.

He could actually tell from Hu Wangmei's expression that she would not choose to turn herself in.

"Have you thought it through?" Old Liu asked patiently, looking at Hu Wangmei, whose brows were furrowed.

Hu Wangmei shook her head: "No, I don't know where I can escape to."

"Don't you have any family?" Old Liu asked, puzzled.

"Yes, I do, but I've cut ties with my family. I had a falling out with my dad, and he doesn't want me to go back. I don't want to go home either," Hu Wangmei said truthfully.

"Sigh." Old Liu sighed again, "You little brat, you really don't understand. What adult would actually hold a grudge against their own child? When you really encounter problems now, the only person you can rely on is your father."

"Everyone around you, including your siblings, will try to bully or take advantage of you. Only the adults who gave birth to you and raised you may not be able to help you, but they are the ones who will never harm you."

As he spoke, he seemed to have thought of something, and as he continued, his gaze became deep, staring straight ahead as if deep in thought, and he stopped speaking.

Hu Wangmei still refused to forgive Hu Dahai, and she stubbornly said, "Hmph, I don't think my father is as good to me as you, Lao Liu."

Old Liu turned his head and looked at Hu Wangmei: "Do you know why I'm helping you?"

"Hmm?" Hu Wangmei shook her head in confusion.

"That's because my daughter was once like you. Unfortunately, she trusted others and was tricked into going to a place she didn't know. She never came back. When I heard from her again, she was just ashes."

Old Liu spoke calmly, but Hu Wangmei, listening, instantly felt a chill run down her spine, as if she had heard something extremely terrifying.

That evening, after saying goodbye to Old Liu, Hu Wangmei lost her appetite and went to the state-run restaurant for dinner.

She didn't even finish the braised duck that Old Liu bought for her.

She didn't know where she could go, or where she should go.

But she knew she had to leave this place.

So after Hu Wangmei returned home, she started packing her luggage overnight.

Take the valuable items that you can carry with you, and leave the cheap items that you can't take with you either by throwing them away or leaving them in the house.

She sorted out two large boxes, but still felt it was too much, so she did another sorting and reduced the contents of the two large boxes to one small suitcase.

Although these items were very valuable, bought at great expense to reward herself, she preferred to escape lightly than be caught.

After tidying up, Hu Wangmei, dressed, lay down directly on the Simmons soft bed, her eyes wide open, showing no signs of sleepiness.

At this moment, loneliness, helplessness, and fear completely enveloped Hu Wangmei's entire being.

She was pondering her future: should she go south to Shenzhen to find work, or where else should she go?

But whenever she thought about a city to go to, Old Liu's words—that his daughter had been tricked into going to a place she didn't know and that all she would come back to be was ashes—would keep echoing in her mind.

She was very worried and filled with fear of the outside city. She worried that she would be scammed or murdered if she went out.

"Maybe we should go find Dad and hide for a few days?" Hu Wangmei murmured unconsciously.

"Hmm?" Hu Wangmei hummed softly after saying that. Why did she have such a thought?

However, upon further reflection, it seems that finding my father is indeed the only relatively safe option.

Although I might get scolded or ridiculed by my father if I go back, at least he won't harm me.

At this moment, many scenes from her childhood flashed through her mind, showing Hu Dahai and the other children enjoying each other's company. She also remembered how, when she wanted to eat mulberries, Hu Dahai climbed a mulberry tree to pick them for her, but a branch broke, and Hu Dahai fell down, still holding a handful of reddish-black mulberries intact in his hand...

Unbeknownst to her, Hu Wangmei found that her tears had soaked a large area of ​​the pillow beneath her.

The sky lights up slightly.

"Cluck cluck cluck!"

There's a hen downstairs that an auntie keeps; it's laid an egg and is clucking happily.

Sunlight streamed through the window into Hu Wangmei's room.

The scene reflected a mess on the floor and some wrinkled sheets.

There was no one inside.

On the road from Shaoxing to Hangzhou, large trucks drove by, kicking up thick dust. A girl's figure could be vaguely seen in the dust as she carried a suitcase and walked forward with determination.

Soon, at Hua Fuyou's brick factory, his colleagues, who had been waiting for Hu Wangmei to come to work for a long time, also began to get anxious.

Because Hu Wangmei was not present, many raw materials and finished products were not signed for upon arrival or departure, and no one dared to issue them.

This news naturally reached Hua Fuyou's ears as well.

Hua Fuyou sent someone to Hu Wangmei's residence to investigate. After learning that Hu Wangmei had fled overnight, he sneered, "This Hu Wangmei, she certainly made the right move."

"Find someone to accompany Qi Zhong to the brick factory so that he can stabilize the situation there first."

After the man left, Hua Fuyou picked up the phone and made a call: "Dr. Sun, it's me, Hua Fuyou."

"Yes, we want to find some time to have our son's eyes operated on."

"Yes, we have found someone willing to donate an organ. All we need to do is arrange the surgery."

"A week from now, right? Okay! We'll come find you with some people a week from now."

Hua Fuyou hung up the phone.

A sinister smile appeared on his face.

His wife, standing nearby, asked curiously, "Why are you in such a hurry to take action?"

Hua Fuyou said, "Hu Wangmei has already run away. When Hu Wangfu comes back from school, we need to confront him immediately. Otherwise, if he finds out something, he might run away faster than anyone else."

"We finally have a chance to make Hu Wangfu pay for his actions, so we can't let this Hu Wangfu slip away and wait for the next one."

“Even if we can wait, Qi Zhong can’t. His mental state has been getting worse and worse lately.”

“Okay.” Hua Fuyou’s wife thought of her child, and although she was initially hesitant, she suddenly became decisive.