“Ah! It hurts so much… Stop hitting me… Stop hitting me…”
Anya's cries and pleas for mercy finally attracted the prison guards. The moment the lights were turned on, all those who participated in the beating returned to their beds like lightning.
Only Anya was left lying on the ground covered in wounds.
"Why are you yelling for so long without sleeping?"
"...They...they beat me, I want to change dormitories..." Anya cried and crawled to the door.
"Do you think you're here for a trip? Can you change dorms if you want? Are you going to go to the death row inmates?"
Anya was scolded, and after the lights went out, the sound of fists and feet fighting could be heard again in the dimness.
She was like a rag doll, bearing the brunt of everyone's emotions, with a large amount of hair ripped out and her scalp covered in blood.
His eyes were bloodshot and he could hardly see.
"Don't kill him, keep him for fun..."
From that day on, Anya was forced to kneel down and lick the prison's feet every day by the big sister. If she didn't lick them clean, she would be slapped or even have her face pressed into the urine bucket.
The bed she slept on became a toilet for her roommates to urinate in. She reeked of urine every day and was isolated and ostracized by almost everyone.
She couldn't understand why she was the protagonist and had to go through all this.
In a few days, Huo Shizhou would be escorted to the north for forced labor.
When leaving, the Huo family felt embarrassed and no one showed up. Instead, Ge Yulan was standing alone on the side of the road, her lonely figure looking extremely frail.
When Huo Shizhou was escorted out, the summer wind swept in with heat waves, and the first thing he saw when he looked up was her.
The mother and son looked at each other across the street. Huo Shizhou's lips trembled slightly, and the dryness in his throat spread to his eye sockets, which were sore and swollen.
Ge Yulan's figure walked past him, blurring in his sight.
When Ge Yulan was ten meters away from Huo Shizhou, she was stopped by someone.
According to the rules, Huo Shizhou's current identity does not allow him to contact anyone from the outside world.
Fortunately, there were two people at the scene who were Huo Shizhou's former comrades-in-arms. They also knew Ge Yulan and knew that they were mother and son, so they made an exception and gave them five minutes to talk.
Ge Yulan hurried over and stuffed a cloth bag into his hand: "This is the preserved vegetable meat pie that you have loved since childhood. It's still hot! Take it with you on the road."
"...Mom~" Huo Shizhou choked up as soon as he opened his mouth: "I'm sorry, son, I'm sorry, you shouldn't have come."
Ge Yulan had a relieved smile on her face, but her eyes were filled with tears: "It's also my fault that I didn't teach you well and didn't find you a qualified father. I'm also wrong. You must reform yourself when you go there. As long as you can correct your mistakes, you will still be a good person."
Huo Shizhou looked at his mother's tears, and his heart seemed to be torn open again.
The most sincere emotion in this world is not the laughter and applause that accompany you when you are prosperous, but the warmth and waiting that never leaves you when you are down.
At this moment, Huo Shizhou deeply understood the meaning of these words. He looked at his mother's graying temples and her bitter eyes, and his heart was filled with unprecedented guilt and gratitude.
It was not until this moment that he suddenly realized what a jerk he had been.
He lowered his head, and his tears fell on the dusty ground, quickly evaporating, just like the time in his past that was swallowed up by indifference and selfishness.
His voice trembled: "Mom, thank you! I am an unfilial son, please take care of yourself!" If there is still a chance, he must be filial to his mother and be a good person again!
"Take the bread with you and eat it on the way..."
"No, that's against the rules."
"Then try one. It will take several years before you can eat it again..."
"By the way, Mom, Anya had a heart attack again. What's her current situation?" Huo Shizhou suddenly asked about Anya.
When Ge Yulan heard him mention Anya again, she was furious: "Don't mention that evil woman. She doesn't have a heart disease at all. She just pretended."
Huo Shizhou was tongue-tied: "She... is pretending?"
Ge Yulan almost gritted her teeth and said, "Yes! She is a liar. She can make up anything to avoid going to jail. She bribed the doctor to pretend to be sick but was exposed by Ningning. Now she is sent back to serve her sentence."
Huo Shizhou recalled how he had repeatedly sided with Anya because of her heart disease, while ignoring Jian Si Ning and even hurting Jian Si Ning. He suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard several times.
"I'm so stupid! Damn it!"
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