Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Liu Laosan? What's he doing here?

Yinyin thought for a moment: "Could it be that they've come to see you and your aunt?"

Liu Heping's expression was somewhat complicated: "But I don't want to see him."

Yinyin nodded: "That's true. Aunt and he have been divorced for so long, and he never said he would come to see you. Now he suddenly shows up..."

"Brother Heping, why don't you come with me to find my dad and the others?"

“Okay,” Liu Heping nodded and followed Yinyin.

Di Shengli had just caught a big fish and was very happy when Yinyin kept dodging backwards, so he stuffed it into Liu Heping's hand.

"Stand back a bit, or you'll fall into the river."

Yinyin peeked out from behind Liu Heping: "Dad, Brother Heping has something to tell you and Uncle."

Di Shengli didn't bother with them and called Di Shengmin over loudly.

Liu Heping looked a little nervous as he faced his two uncles: "Uncle, youngest uncle, I think I just saw my dad."

"What?" The Di brothers couldn't stay in the river any longer. They went ashore, packed their things, and were about to leave when they turned back to ask Liu Heping, "Heping, are you coming with us, or do you want to play a little longer?"

Liu Heping didn't even hesitate: "I'll stay here a little longer. I don't want to go back to see him."

Having learned of Liu Heping's intentions, Di Shengli entrusted the two children to the care of a cousin before storming off with his younger brother, carrying the fish.

“Don’t worry, Brother Heping,” Yinyin said. “My dad and the others are definitely reliable.”

Liu Heping forced a smile, his face looking rather grim: "I'm not worried about my uncle and the others, I'm just worried about..."

He paused for a moment, then said, "Yinyin, do you think he might come back again later?"

Liu Heping scratched his head in frustration: "He hasn't shown up for months, what's he doing here now?"

"I don't know," Yinyin said, pulling him along. "Shall we go back and ask later? If not, shall we go back early?"

Liu Heping said, "No, I don't want to see him."

Yinyin noticed the gloom in Liu Heping's eyes, and a thought struck her.

Liu Heping's attitude towards Liu Laosan is a bit strange.

Aside from his moments of blind filial piety, Liu Laosan was generally quite good to Liu Heping and Di Shulan; otherwise, Di Shulan wouldn't have tolerated him for so many years.

Could it be that something else happened in the original future?

Unfortunately, the book doesn't delve much into the female protagonist's past life with Liu Heping, otherwise Yinyin wouldn't have had to guess.

“Then let’s not see him,” Yin Yin said naturally. “We’ll wait until he leaves before we go back.”

Liu Heping nodded first, then looked at Yin Yin: "Yin Yin, don't you think I'm being very unfilial?"

“No way,” Yinyin said angrily, clenching her little fist and waving it in front of him. “I’ve been visiting your house since I was little, and I’ve seen you several times. The tuition fees that your aunt saved for you were always borrowed from him by his mother.”

“Your aunt bought you snacks and new clothes, but after passing through her hands, they became your Liu family cousins’ old clothes.”

Yinyin continued counting until she reached the incident where Liu Heping almost drowned.

“Brother Heping, although my mom says you shouldn’t talk about people behind their backs, I don’t think he’s a good father.”

“You’re right,” Liu Heping laughed, “He really wasn’t a good father.”

"He wasn't a good husband either."

In other words, others didn't hear the siblings talking, but if they did, they would definitely say a few words to them.

In these days, filial piety is still paramount in villages, and what they said was utterly heretical.

However, Liu Heping was reborn. Although he was oppressed by filial piety when he was young, he later experienced the era of information explosion.

Even if many of his ideas are already ingrained, he is willing to accept ideas that he genuinely agrees with.

"Heping, Yinyin, what are you doing sitting there?" a cousin of their generation called out. "If you're not busy, come and help me watch the fish."

An elder laughed and scolded, "Ignore him, how can you treat your younger siblings like that?"

“It’s nothing,” Yin Yin said, happy to have something to distract Liu Heping, and pulled him over.

Anyway, looking at the fish is just a change of scenery for talking.

The elders, seeing that they didn't appreciate it, weren't angry. They praised the couple for their good relationship and then went back to catching fish.

The cousin was quite smug: "I'll go catch two more big ones later, you can take them back to eat."

The cousin ran too fast, and before Yinyin and Liu Heping could refuse, they were back in the river.

Yinyin shrugged: "Looks like we'll have to make a lot of pickled fish this year."

Liu Heping nodded in deep agreement, looking at the scene before him with a hint of smile and nostalgia.

They stayed by the river for a long time, and only joined the others when everyone else was about to head back.

That cousin really did pick out two big fish for them, and even made ropes out of grass so they could carry them.

Liu Heping knew that Yinyin was clean and didn't like her hands to smell of fish, so he brought them all over himself.

With her hands empty, Yin Yin went to see how many fish everyone had caught.

The fish were caught by everyone together, so there was no way to hide it. Yinyin was young, lively, and cute, so everyone was happy to let her watch.

Yinyin didn't just look for nothing; after looking at the fish, she praised it, saying that this fish was big and that its tail was beautiful, which made everyone happy.

She glanced here and there, and before she knew it, she was at her doorstep.

Only when the two younger children returned did the adults in the family finally show a smile.

"Oh my, where did this big fat fish come from?" Old Mrs. Di called to Liu Heping, "Heping, put it in that basin over there, wash your hands and eat."

"Okay," Liu Heping went to put the things away, looked around, and asked, "Grandma, where's my mom?"

“Here it is,” Di Shulan replied from the kitchen.

Liu Heping went to take a look, said nothing, came out again, and turned to find Di Shengli.

Yinyin had only taken two steps when she was intercepted by Jiang Xianjun, who suddenly appeared.

Saying that she wanted Yinyin to help taste the saltiness was actually a way of saying she didn't want Yinyin to eavesdrop.

Yin Yin understood, so she simply squeezed next to Di Shulan to help with the fire.

Di Shulan patted her head and asked Yinyin how her game went.

Yinyin picked and chose, finding something interesting to say, which made her mother and aunt laugh.

That night, Yinyin pretended to be asleep while listening to her parents talk, and that's when she found out why Liu Laosan had come all of a sudden.

Ultimately, there wasn't any particular reason. It was just that Liu Laosan had lost his wife and children and suddenly realized that his life was a mess, so he wanted them to come back with him.

Di Shengli and the others returned early, and Liu Laosan didn't dare to pull them away, so he could only say some nice words.

Di Shulan realized that while he was sincere and did miss them, he had no idea where he had gone wrong.

She was furious. She pointed at Liu Laosan and cursed him, telling him to get lost. She even threatened to make Liu Heping change his surname.

Di Shengli and Jiang Xianjun were talking about this matter in the middle of the night.

"Let's think of a way. It's not that we can't do it, but we need to ask He Ping what he thinks carefully."

Jiang Xianjun said, "They are father and son after all. If we decide to change Heping's surname, and he gets along well with Liu Laosan in the future, what if he turns around and blames us?"

"Although Heping seems like a good child now, there are some things we can't help but think about in advance."

Di Shengli thought his wife was right: "Then let's not rush, let's wait for my eldest sister to tell Heping before we see?"

“How can we ask our eldest sister to talk to him?” Jiang Xianjun pinched him. “As long as you don’t mention this to Heping today, we’ll wait for Heping to bring it up himself.”

"Only when he's a little older and genuinely wants to change his surname can we do it."