"I think so too. You can't expect such good things to happen every day!" Lu Zhixia repacked the bowl and then said to her grandfather.
"Then we'll head back now."
"Be careful on the road!" Old Master Bai habitually reminded him.
Then I watched them leave, followed by the sound of the door opening, and soon everything returned to calm.
He drank the last sip of tea in his cup, then spread out the blanket, closed his eyes, and went to sleep.
He can go back to see his wife tomorrow. He's been incredibly busy these past few days, and he feels he's really getting old. Once he finishes these two things, he's going to go back to the countryside and stay there permanently.
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Lu Zhixia sat in the car, looking at the scenery outside, feeling the chill of the autumn wind. With the arrival of autumn, the cold winter wouldn't be too far away.
The car stopped at the tenement building. Lu Zhixia got out of the car and just turned on her flashlight to shine it into the distance when she saw a large and a small one.
"Xiaxia!" Song Weidong called out.
Lu Zhixia frowned as she looked at the father and son. How did these two find her?
Song Weidong, pulling his son along with him, limped over step by step, his heart filled with excitement. He had finally waited for the person he was waiting for.
The people in the tenement building were unwilling to tell him where Lu Zhixia had gone, so he took precautions and hid under the eaves with his son.
Whenever someone returned, he would take a look, and finally he saw the person he was waiting for.
Seeing Gu Lingxiao standing next to Lu Zhixia, he was filled with jealousy. After so many times, he understood that he definitely couldn't beat him in a fight.
So he knelt down with his son, pleading, "I know I was wrong, please forgive me! Come back with me and let's live a good life!"
"Mom, come back with Dad and me! I promise I'll listen to you from now on and never talk back. Whatever you say, I'll do!"
"Wife, Yaozu really is your child, I'm not lying to you!" Song Weidong lied through his teeth. "I don't know why you doubt the child's parentage, but I swear to God, if the child isn't yours, I'll die penniless and covered in sores!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a muffled clap of thunder sounded, seemingly echoing his vow.
Lu Zhixia said, word by word, "Song Weidong! I will no longer believe your lies. No one is arresting you now because I have no evidence, but I will soon have evidence! You just wait to face the punishment of the law!"
"Why can't you forgive me? We've been together for 10 years. I just made a mistake that all men make." He pointed at Gu Lingxiao. "He doesn't make mistakes either. Besides, the mistake has been corrected now. As long as you come back with me, we can be a happy family again!"
By the flashlight beam, one could see the bruises and swelling on his face, and even Song Yaozu's face was swollen in large patches, indicating that they had recently been taught a lesson.
Thinking that it was Brother Biao who did it, Lu Zhixia couldn't help but praise him in her heart for doing a good job. A cold smile crept across her lips.
"Looks like you didn't get a good beating today! Want to get beaten up again? I'll talk to Brother Biao tomorrow and have him teach you a few more lessons!"
Song Weidong panicked and stood up, supporting himself with his hands on the ground.
"How can you be so cruel, woman? Do you really want me dead?" He pointed at the main road. "Then I'll go and die right now!"
Gu Lingxiao quickly took a few steps, grabbed his wrist, and dragged him all the way to the main road, where he stood in the middle.
"That's enough, this is your spot. You can just wait to die!"
Song Weidong stood in the middle of the road, where the cold was biting. Fortunately, there were no cars around at that time, and he limped back.
Song Yaozu crawled to his mother's side and said, "Mom, you can't abandon me. You raised me!"
You suspect I'm not your biological child, but you raised me so much, holding me to sleep as a baby, telling me stories, and cooking different meals for me every day. Have you forgotten all of that? I'm your treasure!
Lu Zhixia sneered, "Song Yaozu! You're not regretting it now, you just know you're finished! You just don't want to live with a good-for-nothing who's also in debt."
Song Yaozu felt his true feelings had been touched upon; that was indeed what he thought. His father was now useless and burdened with a mountain of debt.
If they continue to live together, he will have to live a life worse than that of pigs and dogs, where he doesn't know where his next meal will come from.
He also risked being sold to a black coal mine to do hard labor, and he didn't want to live that kind of life.
He suddenly stood up. "Mom, I can live with you instead of Dad. I can change my surname to yours, and I will never have anything to do with him again!"
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