What his daughter said really dealt him a heavy blow. It was indeed wrong for him to come to Xiaowa Village this time. He could not escape here because of trivial matters at home. Instead, he came to find Shen Hongmei. After all, he was the one who gave up on her in the first place, but now he was going to pursue her again.

Outsiders didn't notice it, but Yan Shuhua had already seen all of these things clearly.

Yan Zhenhua sometimes wondered what he would do if he really succeeded in pursuing Shen Hongmei. Would he really have to divorce Liu Cuiman and be with her? This was also unlikely.

After all, he is still a leader. How could he be willing to give up his leadership status and divorce her? If they divorce, not only will his leadership status be lost, but he may also lose everything.

He came to see Shen Hongmei today just to satisfy his own little selfish desires. Today he slowly realized how absurd and childish his actions were, so he gradually came to his senses.

No wonder... No wonder Yan Shuhua was so pessimistic about him as a father. More than 20 years of disappointment had taken root in his heart. It was not an easy task to pull out that thorn now.

In her heart, this biological father is no better than a stranger who kills pigs.

Everyone was admiring him as a leader, but what about Yan Shuhua? No, she didn't. From the first moment she saw him, she didn't have any expectations or admiration for him, but rather a kind of resentment.

How could he not feel resentment? Yan Zhenhua himself also realized that all this was his own fault.

Yan Zhenhua no longer had the courage to listen to a single word the mother and daughter said, so he could only quickly and quietly leave the house. However, those words kept echoing in his ears like an old radio, like a whip lashing his heart again and again.

Yan Zhenhua walked around the village and looked at the streets covered with words like "Long Live" and slogans like "College Entrance Examination" and slowly recalled the past.

Before...the days he and Shen Hongmei spent together were really different.

Those hard days in the past were something I didn't want to go through at all, but now they have turned into a kind of nostalgia. I miss every road I walked with her, every day I spent with her, and even more... every moment I held her hand.

Yan Zhenhua finally understood one thing: once you lose something, you will feel nostalgic.

Yan Zhenhua walked around and came back. Shen Hongmei had already prepared lunch and asked him to eat. Seeing Yan Shuhua's unfriendly attitude towards him, Yan Zhenhua did not say anything, but finished his meal in silence. Then he put his chopsticks on the table, lowered his head, and said after a long time: "Hongmei, I'm going back to the capital."

The meal wasn't even finished yet, but he told her that he was going back to the capital. Shen Hongmei was a little shocked for a moment, but she couldn't even ask why he was going back to the capital. She just stared at the food in front of her in a daze.

Yan Shuhua didn't say anything either. Even when she was sitting here, she had already made it very clear that she didn't like her biological father.

Yan Zhenhua raised his head and looked at the mother and daughter whom he owed for several years, then suddenly lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.

"I am really happy to spend the New Year with you and Shuhua this year." Yan Zhenhua sighed with emotion, "You know, we have never spent the New Year together."

"I know, really, it's good." Shen Hongmei felt very disappointed by what Yan Zhenhua said.

"Hongmei, since I bought a house with you and Shuhua, you shouldn't be reluctant to part with it. Just live there. If you really don't want to do it, just keep it." Yan Zhenhua gave her the key and a property certificate, "No matter what, this is what I give you, mother and daughter, to rely on."

Shen Hongmei was about to accept it, but Yan Shuhua suddenly stuffed the property certificate back to her without any hesitation: "If we want a house, we will earn money to buy one ourselves. As for the house you want to give me, I don't want it."

"Shuhua, why are you like this? I know I did something wrong, so I feel guilty all these years and miss you. This house is not expensive, but at least you and your daughter will have a place to live in the future."

When Yan Zhenhua saw that she always kept him at a distance, he felt as if a thorn had grown in his heart.

Although Shen Hongmei didn't want this house, she thought that if Yan Shuhua got married in the future, he would definitely need a house of his own. Although she believed that Yan Shuhua would definitely find a way to buy his own house, at least for now he couldn't succeed, so she took the house.

"Shuhua, don't miss it." Shen Hongmei said, "He is right, right? It's good to have a house."

"Mom." Yan Shuhua was unhappy. Shen Hongmei did not get Yan Shuhua's consent for this matter, but made the decision on her own. "Keep it, keep it."

No matter what happens in the future, at least you can have a house to call home, and you can sell it if you don't live in it. Why not do it?

Yan Zhenhua thought that he had finally given away the house he bought. No matter what, as long as the mother and daughter took over the house, the guilt in his heart would indeed be much less.

Yan Zhenhua was leaving. Shen Hongmei thought that there was nothing for him to take back home, so she didn't pack anything for him to take back. However, Yan Zhenhua made a small request: "Can you make some more dumplings for me to take back?"

"If you go to the capital, are you still worried that you won't have dumplings to eat?"

"But now I want to eat it really badly. You know, the dumplings in Beijing taste different." How could the taste be the same? The taste made by Shen Hongmei is what Yan Zhenhua has been thinking about for many years.

"But we have already eaten all the dumplings from yesterday. If we want to make more, we have to make them again." Shen Hongmei thought, since this was his request, she should satisfy him to some extent, so she agreed to help him make dumplings.

The couple were making dumplings together in the kitchen, as if they had gone back to twenty years ago when they were living together.

The economic conditions at that time were even worse than they are now. It was impossible to even have a full meal, let alone dumplings. They could only eat a few bites of dumplings during the Chinese New Year. However, because he could get a little salary, the situation at home would be better.