One day about ten years ago, Lu Dashan, who was about to go to work, also casually reached into his work clothes pocket.

That time, he pulled out a small, crumpled piece of paper.

The paper was torn from the corner of a notebook and was covered with words.

There were many traces of writing, erasing, rewriting, and erasing on the note.

But ten years ago, Lu Dashan could not read or write, and could only write his own name. He was an ordinary worker at Hongxing Steel Plant.

He casually handed the note to Li Fen, and asked her to read it to him with a smile, wondering if his daughter had something she was embarrassed to say out loud so she wrote it down and secretly handed it to him.

Li Fen took the note impatiently, and the smile on her face froze in an instant. Lu Dashan remembered very clearly that Li Fen was holding an egg in her hand at that time. Her hand shook, and the egg fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

The sticky egg yolk spilled out and she took a long time to clean it up.

After cleaning up, Li Fen told him that Lu Manyue wrote the note in order to ask Lu Dashan for pocket money behind her back.

At that time, Lu Dashan smiled and said to this little greedy cat, asking Li Fen to give her some pocket money.

Li Fen gritted her teeth and said okay.

At that time, he just thought that Li Fen was gritting her teeth because she felt sorry for the money and the egg.

Now that I think about it carefully, I'm afraid that what was written on the note was Lu Manyue's message for help.

He found similar notes several times in the next two or three years.

Every time... he gave the note to Li Fen...

When he thought of this, Lu Dashan's eyes were filled with so much anger and grief that they almost spit fire, and his heart was filled with regret and guilt.

From the age of eight to ten, Lu Manyue sent him distress signals.

He ignored it and showed her distress signal to her persecutors.

Given Li Fen's personality, she would only treat Lu Manyue even more harshly afterwards.

Because no one responded to her calls for help and she was isolated and helpless, Lu Manyue was frightened and her nature was worn away. She became a poor person who could only survive by being obedient and submissive.

At an age when other children were rolling around in their parents' arms, she was living in purgatory.

Later, in addition to Li Fen beating her, Li Ruliang also beat her...

When he was fifteen, he was frightened again and became aphasic for a period.

The past is still vivid in my mind, and the more I think about it, the more embarrassing it becomes.

It was also the year when Lu Manyue had the accident that the workshop director found him and offered him the position of team leader. He was ecstatic, thinking that his hard work over the years had been recognized and appreciated by his superiors and that he had the opportunity to be promoted.

Li Fen said that being a team leader requires writing reports, and being illiterate is not an option. Eighteen years after marriage, when her daughter was fifteen years old, Li Fen for the first time stayed at home and watched her son learn to read and count.

Later, he was able to read some basic words and calculate some simple production capacity numbers.

However, at that time, Lu Manyue had long stopped writing him notes.

He couldn't remember what the words on the notes looked like.

Thinking about it now, it really breaks my heart.

Lu Dashan covered his chest, opened his mouth and gasped for breath.

But the pain in my heart did not ease at all. On the contrary, breathing became more and more difficult, and my vision gradually became darker.

Zhu Yan had just grabbed the hammer when she noticed that Lu Dashan looked unhappy. She quickly threw the hammer away and called out to him, "Uncle Lu, Uncle Lu, what's wrong with you? You look so ugly, purple and blue."

Lu Dashan forced himself to remain calm and kept breathing in and out, and his breathing finally stabilized bit by bit.

"It's okay. I was just mad at Li Fen. I was just upset for a while." Lu Dashan glanced at the direction of the next door. "Speak softly, be careful not to wake Man Yue up."

The swelling on Li Fen's forehead grew bigger and bigger, sticking up high like a swollen steamed bun.

"Lu Dashan, you are so cruel that you actually hit my head with a hammer. We have been married for more than 20 years, and you don't even care about the love between husband and wife at all." Li Fen grimaced in pain.

Lu Dashan looked straight at Li Fen, and suddenly moved his legs to crawl to the end of the bed. As soon as he got there, he grabbed the hammer. When he turned around, his eyes changed.

Li Fen looked at Lu Dashan as if he wanted to tear her apart alive, and she couldn't help but shudder.

"You, what are you doing with the hammer?"

Lu Dashan said nothing and slowly twisted the hammer in his hand.

Seeing this, Zhu Yan cried out, then came over with a bitter face to grab the hammer.

This time, the iron hammer is not as easy to grab as the sledgehammer.

Lu Dashan held the handle of the hammer tightly. Zhu Yan used all her strength but failed to take the hammer away.

Seeing that Lu Dashan was really going to hit Li Fen with a hammer, Zhu Yan could only shout loudly for Lu Manyue to come to the rescue.

"Lu Manyue! Come quickly! Your dad is going to smash your mom to death!" Zhu Yan shouted until her voice broke.

Lu Manyue was awakened. She didn't even have time to put on her shoes. She walked over barefoot, holding her waist, and took two steps at a time.

Seeing that the situation was really critical, she ignored everything and went straight to help Zhu Yan grab the hammer.

"Dad, Dad, don't do anything stupid, let go." Lu Manyue tried to grab the hammer while persuading Lu Dashan.

Lu Dashan didn't let go.

He is a man, only 45 years old, in the prime of his life, and has been doing physical labor for a long time. If two delicate little girls want to wrestle with him, they really have no chance of winning.

Seeing that Lu Dashan was going to get serious, Li Fen was so scared that she didn't dare to make any noise and just looked at Lu Manyue with eager eyes.

For the first time, the look in her eyes when she looked at Lu Manyue was not filled with malice, but encouragement and expectations.

Lu Manyue knew that this was not a solution. Her watery eyes turned around and she suddenly frowned and cried out, then she threw herself forward and fell right on Li Fen's legs, lying in front of Lu Dashan.

"My waist... hurts so much..." Lu Manyue took a breath, her pretty eyebrows twisted into a ball, her eyes were full of pain, and her body was twitching.

It felt like a cramp in pain.

Lu Dashan panicked and quickly withdrew his strength.

Zhu Yan took the opportunity to pull and successfully took the hammer away.

Lu Manyue cried out in pain and gently shook her hands behind her back, signaling Zhu Yan to run quickly with the hammer.

Zhu Yan didn't understand at first, until Lu Manyue bent her palm downwards and alternating two fingers to make a walking posture, then she suddenly realized, picked up the hammer, picked up the hammer on the ground and ran away.

Lu Manyue took the opportunity to hug Lu Dashan's waist with both hands, whimpering and calling for her father, "Dad, my waist must have been twisted again. Wei Dingbang will be angry and scold me again when he comes back."

Lu Dashan stretched out his hand, and when it was about to touch Lu Man's waist, he stopped, hanging in the air, and said with a little embarrassment: "Well, you are so old now, you are a grown-up girl, and daddy can't rub your waist with his hands anymore.

Hurry up and call Zhu Yan back to help you massage it. If it doesn’t work, go to the medical station to see a doctor.”

"Dad, are you trying to get me out of here?" Lu Manyue touched her waist, looking scared. "I'd rather die than go to the medical station. What if Zhu Yan and I leave and come back, my house will be a murder scene."

Lu Dashan's face froze.