In the past two days, Wen Yao found that Fang Zhi seemed a little unhappy.
Don't ask Wen Yao how she found out, because Fang Zhi didn't ask her any questions in the past two days.
At noon, Wen Yao and Fang Zhi went to the cafeteria to eat.
"Zhizhi, are you worried about something?" Wen Yao asked concernedly.
Fang Zhi drooped his head and sighed, "Hey, life at home has been tough lately!"
"What's wrong? Is your stepmother giving you trouble again?" Wen Yao asked nervously.
Fang Zhi's father, Fang Tang, was the workshop director of a printing factory. He had an affair when Fang Zhi's mother was pregnant, which made Fang Zhi's mother so angry that she had a miscarriage and died in childbirth with Fang Zhi.
Within a week, Fang Tang's lover Zhou Li entered the house and became Fang Zhi's stepmother.
At the beginning, Zhou Li was quite concerned about the young Fang Zhi.
With Zhou Li's pregnancy and the birth of her son Fang Xiangyu, Fang Zhi's situation became worse and worse.
Fang Xiangyu, relying on his parents' love, often bullies his sister who is two years older than him.
People often say that if there is a stepmother, there must be a stepfather.
This was absolutely true. Fang Tang was afraid that his naughty son would melt if he put him in his mouth, and would fall away if he kept him in his heart.
However, he ignored his clever and well-behaved daughter.
Every time Fang Xiangyu made a mistake, Fang Tang and Zhou Li would scold Fang Zhi without saying a word.
Later, Mr. and Mrs. Fang couldn't stand it anymore, so they took the young Fang Zhi to live alone in a narrow alley next to the military compound.
Fang knew that the brown sugar glutinous rice cake made by grandma was the original owner's favorite food when she was young, so the original owner often sneaked out of the compound and went to Grandma Fang's house to buy food.
After a few visits, Fang Zhi became one of Wen Yao's few partners.
When Fang Zhi was in college, her grandparents passed away one after another. Zhou Li pretended to be kind and persuaded Fang Tang to take Fang Zhi back home.
Although Fang Zhi was unwilling, she really had no other place to go.
After all, after grandpa and grandma passed away, the house they lived in was used to pay off debts because Fang Tang lost it in gambling.
Wen Yao often felt very surprised and surprised. She could not understand how a child who grew up in such an environment could live like a radiant and shining sun!
You know, what this family gives him is not all warmth and care, but may be full of challenges and difficulties.
However, even in this context, Fang Zhi lived like a sun, radiating light and heat.
Sometimes, Wen Yao thinks it's good for her to be heartless, because then she won't be troubled and distressed by the influence of her original family.
Wen Yao believes that a person's character does not depend entirely on his family, but on the person himself.
Fang Zhi buried her head in the bowl, and Wen Yao knew she was crying just by looking at her shaking shoulders.
Wen Yao patted Fang Zhi's back gently and consoled him, "Zhizhi, what happened? You must tell her. Two cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. Maybe she can help you find a solution."
Fang Zhi raised his head, his eyes red, and looked at Wen Yao, "Really?"
"Of course, talk to me soon and I'll find a solution for you," Wen Yao said comfortingly.
"My stepmother arranged a marriage for me, with her nephew from her mother's side. When I didn't agree, my father beat me." Fang Zhi cried even harder as he spoke.
Wen Yao was inevitably moved when she saw this. She pulled Fang Zhi's hand and said, "Zhizhi, don't cry first. Tell her about the situation of your stepmother's nephew."
Fang Zhi nodded and wiped away his tears. "He is just a second-rate guy who barely went to school. He spends all day smoking, drinking and playing cards with a bunch of bad friends. He is already in his twenties and still hasn't found a wife.
A few days ago, he got into a fight and was put in jail.
My stepmother's brother found her two days ago, and they thought it would be a good thing for her to keep the wealth within her family, so they decided to take advantage of her."
"What? How could they do this? Your father even beat you. He is such a bastard!" Wen Yao was furious when he heard this. He slapped the table and said angrily.
"Yaoyao, what should we do? Zhou Fuxiang was released from the police station these two days. We are afraid that he will do something wrong."
Fang Zhi said this with a look of horror on his face.
"Don't worry. If you don't want to, I don't believe that your father and stepmother can force you to agree." Wen Yao couldn't think of a good solution for a moment and could only comfort her with words.
"But my father listens to my stepmother very much. She will definitely try her best to make me marry Zhou Li." Fang Zhi said crying.
Wen Yao thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you find a place to hide first and wait for us to come up with a solution."
"Where can I hide? I don't have any other relatives to take me in." Fang Zhi looked helpless.
"Let's go home." Wen Yao held Fang Zhi's hand, "My parents love me very much. They will definitely not do anything wrong."
Fang Zhi looked at Wen Yao gratefully and nodded.
After get off work in the afternoon, Fang Zhi followed Wen Yao back to her home.
Wen Guoqiang and his wife were also very angry after learning about Fang Zhi's experience, but since this was someone else's family affair, they didn't interfere too much.
The only thing that can help now is to take Fang Zhi in for a while.
I then realized that I had been staying at Wen Yao's house for a whole week.
That day, Wen Yao and Fang Zhi got off work as usual.
The two men were riding their bicycles and were stopped by a group of unidentified thugs at an intersection about three or four hundred meters away from the military compound.
One of the hooligans with dyed yellow hair walked up to them in a dignified manner and looked Wen Yao up and down with a presumptuous look.
"Wow, this girl is pretty!"
Others followed suit.
Fang Zhi felt a little scared and held the handlebars tightly.
Wen Yao quickly stood in front of her, "What do you want to do?"
"What?"
The yellow-haired man sneered, "Do you think you can protect her? I'm going to teach you two a lesson today!"
"We don't even know you, why do you want to teach you two?" Wen Yao asked with some confusion.
"Why? Haha, why?" At this time, a man in a floral shirt and shorts, with a cigarette in his mouth, walked around the corner of the alley.
Fang Zhi recognized the man as her stepmother's nephew Zhou Fuxiang at first sight.
Fang Xiangyu was following behind him, and at this moment he was looking at Fang Zhi with a joking expression.
"Zhou Fuxiang, Fang Xiangyu? What do you want to do?" Fang Zhi asked, staring at the person opposite him with wide eyes.
"What are you doing? You little bitch, you're really good at hiding. You've finally been caught by me today."
Zhou Fuxiang dropped the cigarette butt in his mouth onto the ground and crushed it with his foot, looking at Fang Zhi and Wen Yao jokingly.
"Silly girl, your mother has already betrothed you to your cousin, you can't hide away," Fang Xiangyu said.
"You're talking nonsense. If Zhizhi doesn't want to do it, none of you can force her." Wen Yao held Fang Zhi tightly behind him and said with a stiff neck.
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