Chapter 475
Liang's father was so angry that his face turned black when he was accused by Liang Nan.
"I didn't teach him well? Tianxiong was like this before you went to prison. Otherwise, would you want to take Laibao back home to raise him? You didn't teach Tianxiong well, and now you blame me."
Liang Nan felt a little guilty about what his father said, but he still tried his best to speak with confidence: "Yes, Tianxiong was not good enough before, but if you teach him well during the time I am in prison, will he become worse than before?"
Liang's father sneered: "His own father is in prison. He has set a bad example for him. How can he become a better person?"
Liang Nan was speechless and couldn't say anything.
After Liang Nan came back from prison, he went to look for a job without even a single day of rest at home.
After five years of being isolated from society, there are now self-employed individuals everywhere. The big factories that people used to think of as iron rice bowls are now becoming less and less efficient. Wage cuts and layoffs are everywhere. They are no longer the most glamorous jobs in people's eyes.
Liang Nan can no longer work in any factory and can only find some hard labor jobs.
At first, he couldn't accept such a job, after all, he used to be a factory worker. However, due to his lack of money, he couldn't get any decent jobs. In the end, he could only work as a porter in a grain store.
Liang's father used to go out and find work, but now that Liang Nan was back, he stopped working and stayed home. Liang Tianxiong was a troublemaker, often staying out all night. Whenever Liang Nan scolded him, he would yell at Liang Nan, sometimes even getting physical. After so many such experiences, Liang Nan had completely given up hope on Liang Tianxiong.
A year passed in a flash like this.
Liang Nan's wages as a porter were only enough for basic living expenses, and it was difficult for him to save money. His original wish to move to another house and rent a house had never been realized, so he only made some minor repairs to the thatched hut.
After graduating from junior high school, Liang Tianxiong failed to get into high school. Liang Nan and his father originally wanted him to study in the third year of junior high school for another year before taking the high school entrance exam. However, Liang Tianxiong left only a note and went to the south with his friends. He stayed there for six years.
When Liang Tianxiong returned to Hsinchu City, he looked like a gangster with many tattoos on his arms. At first glance, he looked like a gangster who was fighting and causing trouble all day long.
In these six years, Liang Tianxiong never wrote a letter to his family, and Liang Nan suspected several times that he had died outside.
During these six years, without the trouble-making Liang Tianxiong around, Liang Nan and his father finally moved out of the thatched hut and rented two small rooms.
However, because of the miserable life, Liang's father was worried about Liang Tianxiong who went to the south, and was depressed all day long. In the fourth year after Liang Tianxiong went to the south, Liang's father passed away.
After Liang Nan became a single person, he wanted to find another wife, but he could never find a satisfactory one. Living alone, his energy and spirit also declined a lot.
Now, seeing Liang Tianxiong come back and become like this, Liang Nan really hoped that he would die outside. However, he changed his mind and thought, if Liang Tianxiong really died outside, who would take care of him in his old age and see him to the end?
Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied Liang Nan was with Liang Tianxiong, he just said: "It's good that you're back. Don't go out when you're back. Just stay at home."
Liang Tianxiong nodded nonchalantly: "Well, I don't plan to go out for the time being."
"What have you been doing outside all these years? You don't even write a letter home." Liang Nan said.
"I didn't do anything. I just went out and saw some things. There's nothing much to write in the letter." Liang Tianxiong said.
Liang Nan guessed that Liang Tianxiong must not have done anything serious outside, so he didn't ask.
Although Liang Tianxiong came back, he was still the same as before. He didn't look for work and hung out outside all day. Sometimes he wouldn't come back for several days.
Liang Nan didn't dare to scold Liang Tianxiong like he did before. He now relied on Liang Tianxiong to take care of him in his old age. If Liang Tianxiong was angered by him again and ran away, who would he turn to for support?
But less than a month after Liang Tianxiong returned, something happened again, and this time it was a big deal.
When Liang Tianxiong was fighting with a group of people, he accidentally stabbed the other person to death with a knife and was taken to the police station.
In the police station, Liang Tianxiong met the police who came to interrogate him.
The policeman was about the same age as him and was very upright.
When the police saw Liang Tianxiong, they were stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you Liang Tianxiong?"
Liang Tianxiong lowered his eyes and said "hmm".
"Did you live in the staff quarters of a factory before?" the police officer asked again.
Liang Tianxiong glanced at the police officer in confusion, thinking they had thoroughly investigated his situation in just a few minutes. He hummed again.
"You really are that Liang Tianxiong." The police officer pointed at himself and said, "Don't you recognize me?"
Liang Tianxiong then stared at the police officer's face and looked at him carefully for a long time, but he had no recollection of there being a police officer among the people he knew.
He shook his head: "I don't know him."
The police officer laughed, his smile tinged with sarcasm. "We used to go to the same elementary school, and you bullied me. My dad took me to the staff quarters at the First Factory to look for you. Your dad and grandfather didn't think it was a big deal that you bullied me, so my dad grabbed you and told me to fight back. I could beat you back the same way you beat me."
Liang Tianxiong looked stunned.
Although he had completely forgotten what the boy looked like, he remembered the incident vividly because it was the first time he was beaten back by someone he bullied. After that, whenever he saw the boy again, he would pretend not to see him and never bullied him again.
Liang Tianxiong never imagined that more than a decade later, he and that boy would meet again, and that they would meet again in the Public Security Bureau. The boy he had bullied so many times had now become a righteous police officer, while Liang Tianxiong was arrested for manslaughter.
When Liang Nan rushed to the Public Security Bureau after hearing the news, he was still received by the same police officer.
When the police saw that Liang Nan, who used to have a fierce face and a strong body, had become depressed and skinny now, they felt that it was all retribution.
Liang Nan obviously didn't recognize that the police officer in front of him was the little boy from before. He pleaded bitterly, "Comrade Public Security, Tianxiong would not kill anyone. It was all an accident. Don't arrest him!"
The police officer said in a businesslike tone, "We will investigate the truth of the matter thoroughly. Just go back and wait for news."
Liang Nan wanted to continue begging, but the police had already sent him away.
Liang Nan stayed at home anxiously for a few days, and the news he received was that Liang Tianxiong had indeed committed murder. Whether it was intentional or accidental, he had indeed killed someone and had to go to jail.
When Liang Nan heard the news, he almost fainted.
If Leung Tin-hung goes to jail, who will take care of him in his old age?
He could not accept the verdict and spent the whole day squatting at the door of the Public Security Bureau, saying that Leung Tin-hung was innocent and asking the police to release him.
Naturally, no one paid any attention to him and even drove him away, but Liang Nan stayed at the door of the Public Security Bureau and refused to leave until the police told him that if he didn't leave, they would take him to the Public Security Bureau. Only then did Liang Nan leave.
However, Liang Nan did not give up lobbying for Leung Tin-hung until he heard that the police officer named Liu who handled Leung Tin-hung's case knew Leung Tin-hung and had been bullied by him when they were in primary school.
Liang Nan asked around and found out that the policeman named Liu was the little boy who had gone to the staff quarters of a factory and, with the help of his father, beat Liang Tianxiong.
Liang Nan was now convinced that the reason Liang Tianxiong was imprisoned was because of the police officer named Liu. He seized this opportunity and went to the police station to demand justice, but was verbally scolded by other police officers and kicked out.
Liang Nan was unwilling to give up and started to think of other ways. He planned to follow the police officer surnamed Liu and threaten him to release Liang Tianxiong. Otherwise, he would go to the Public Security Bureau and complain to the leaders, saying that the police officer surnamed Liu was seeking revenge for personal gain.
One night, when a police officer surnamed Liu was returning home from his night shift, Liang Nan followed him, knife in hand.
When the police officer surnamed Liu noticed something, Liang Nan suddenly rushed over with a knife. He originally just wanted to threaten the police officer surnamed Liu, but the police officer surnamed Liu mistook him for a gangster. During the fight between the two, the police officer surnamed Liu was accidentally stabbed by Liang Nan.
When Liang Nan saw the blood flowing from the chest of the police officer named Liu, staining his clothes red, he panicked, dropped the knife and ran away.
Fortunately, the police officer surnamed Liu's injuries were not serious, just minor skin injuries, but Liang Nan was arrested and sentenced for stabbing a public servant.
In the end, both father and son were put in prison, and Liang Nan no longer had to worry about Liang Tianxiong providing for him in his old age.
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