Chapter 58
Wearing a red armband, I was beaten up on the first day. The Han brothers gathered in the Han family's side room at night to discuss countermeasures. I had just agreed to something from my boss, and I thought it was a sure thing. As a result, the other party was fine, but they were beaten black and blue.
"We have to think of a way, otherwise the mission assigned by the superiors will be ruined and they will not need us anymore."
"What can you do? Han Lao Er, your wife is really powerful. She hits me when she wants to hit me, and she pushes me into the ditch when she wants to scold me."
"Don't talk about a wife. I'm a bachelor now. If I'm well fed, the whole family won't be hungry."
"She abandoned you with her child, and later sent your wife to the police station. Second brother, you are not so scared that you dare not offend her, are you?"
"That's right, Han Lao Er, you are a six-foot-tall man, how can you let a woman bully you like this? You are really ungrateful for the two taels of meat God gave you."
"Bah. You're just talking about me. When that woman rushed over with a sickle, you guys ran faster than rabbits."
"Think of something. Stop complaining. If you keep complaining, you won't even get a sip of the soup, not to mention the meat."
A few lazy guys were talking to each other, and after they had finished the sweet potato wine they had pooled their money to buy, they started smoking dry tobacco, filling the whole room with pungent smoke. By eleven o'clock, no effective solution had been reached. After being scolded by the eldest and third brothers in the south room, they got up and went home cursing.
"There's a fire..."
When people were awakened by the noise in the middle of the night, the house was already engulfed in flames. The stepdaughter who was kicked out of the house by Han Laoer and had to sleep in a shed was looking at the raging fire with fear. If she had not been kicked out, would she have been burned to death at this moment?
The Han family members shouted Han Laoer's name heartbreakingly, but unfortunately there was no sound in the house. By the time everyone helped to fetch water to put out the fire, the person on the kang had almost been burned to charcoal.
Old Mrs. Han knelt on the ground, not daring to reach out to touch the corpse whose face was no longer recognizable. Her cries were so sad, an old person sending off a young person. Her sadness and heartache at the moment were absolutely not fake.
"Son! How could you leave me alone..."
Han Xiaomei is already married and is not present at the moment. Although the eldest and the third brother are brothers, they have actually long been very dissatisfied with their incompetent and trouble-making younger brother. Seeing him die tragically at this moment, although I feel sad, I also have a feeling of finally being relieved.
My eldest sister-in-law and younger sister-in-law hated him to death. When he died, they wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate, but they would not shed a single tear. Therefore, although Han Laoer died miserably, only his old mother knelt on the ground in pain and sent him off.
As the village director, Gu Yan must be present at this time. After the fire was put out, she called the eldest and third sons and their couples over to ask about the situation.
"Who was here last night? When was the fire discovered? Did anyone hear any noise inside?"
Questions were thrown one after another, and the Han brothers were still awkward. The eldest brother's wife, who knew the current situation, rushed forward to answer their questions.
"It was those scoundrels who were drinking and smoking in the house today. They made a lot of noise until the middle of the night and only left after we scolded them."
Then he pulled the little girl hiding in the corner over and said, "Look, they kicked her out and made her hide in the shed. I don't know what these bastards are discussing in there."
"Call over those who were here last night." Gu Yan gave the order, and a large team of errand boys rushed to convey the message. She turned around and continued to ask the Han family.
"Who discovered the fire? How big was the fire? Why didn't anyone go in to save people? Did Han Lao Er try to ask for help or struggle?"
Seeing the other party's official attitude, Boss Han no longer felt awkward. He sighed and explained the whole story.
"I discovered it. I woke up at night and saw the bright red light on the window. I thought it was not good, so I opened the door and went out without even bothering to put on my clothes or shoes. At that time, the side room where the second son lived was already ablaze. The door curtain was burned to the ground, the door panel was burning fiercely, and the window frame was also burning. There was no way to get in.
I called Lao Er from outside, but there was no response from inside. I didn't hear him respond from beginning to end. Later, everyone in the family was awakened and the neighbors also came over. Later... later you knew everything. Everyone poured water to prevent the fire from spreading further, but... the second brother is..."
After asking about the Han family's situation, Gu Yan took clear notes and asked them to sign and put their fingerprints on it. Then he asked the thugs again, and these guys suddenly whispered after being confused.
"We smoked dry tobacco, but the sparks from the cigarettes were all extinguished. How could they catch fire?"
As soon as the frightened scoundrels who were shrinking their necks like quails said this, the crying old lady Han suddenly jumped up and attacked.
"It's all your fault, it's all your fault. I told you not to smoke like that on the kang. You bastards, you killed my son..."
I don’t know where the old lady got so much strength from, she tore the men apart and made them shake all over the place. They knew they were in the wrong and dared not fight back, but silently endured the old man's pushing and shoving.
I worked until half the night, and by the time I finished taking the statements, it was already dawn. Gu Yan asked the branch secretary to watch the harvest while she drove to the commune to report the emergency.
"I'd better go to the commune. After all, you and the Han family...you should avoid suspicion."
Gu Yan nodded and handed him the completed transcript. She just wanted to avoid suspicion. When she heard that a working group had come to the commune, she was not willing to deal with those people.
Turning around and taking a look at the miserable and chaotic state of the Han family, she walked away. It's over. With Han Hongtu's death, there is no connection between them at all.
Entering a dead end, thinking about turning around and getting entangled, it is difficult to cut the blood, fighting back, and finally breaking the relationship. After that, she and her child had no connection with the Han family anymore, and the struggle against the failed second reincarnation was finally successful.
She had a good idea and felt that once Han Hongtu died, she would have nothing to do with him anymore. Unexpectedly, after getting off work at noon that day and returning home, the twins cried louder than the other. Seeing her come back, the two of them rushed over and cried even louder.
"What's wrong? Don't cry, baby. Did you suffer some injustice or did you have a fight with someone? Tell your mother and don't cry anymore."
Li Zhongxia took her sickle from behind and put it away. She came back and half-knelt to pat the child on the back, then turned around and asked Xiaohua, who was leading Niuniu, what was going on.
Xiaohua also looked like she was about to cry, with her lips pursed and looking aggrieved. "My grandma... that old lady Han, she said that we are... his children, and we have to wear mourning clothes for him. Especially Lei Lei, he is her son, and we have to see him to the end of his life."
Gu Yan looked up with his eyes wide open, gritting his teeth and looking ready to fight. The two little ones cried and shouted, "He is not our father. We have a father and we don't want him."
"Everyone says he is a second-rate person, but he is our father." Xiao Ya let go of Gu Yan and looked at her with big eyes. "Mom, is he really our father? Why do people say we are his children?"
"I'm not." Lei Lei stomped his feet in anger. "I don't want him. He never paid any attention to me when he met me before. I'm not his son."
Xiaohua has no feelings for her biological father. All she has in her childhood memories are endless beatings and scoldings. After she left with her mother, he became a stranger. She never expected his love, nor did she grieve over his death. What made her sad was that she seemed to be forever inseparable from this person. Whenever something happens, everyone will link them together. They say blood is thicker than water.
Bullshit, what's so thick about it? If it weren't for their mother, they would definitely be as miserable as his stepdaughter now. You can't go to school in your whole life and can only work endlessly. When she grew up, he sold her for money. If it weren’t for her mother, Xiaoya would have disappeared long ago. If it weren't for their mother, how could they be together as a harmonious family with everything full of hope.
When they were told this before, they just pretended not to hear it. Anyway, those people only talked behind his back, but now that the man is dead, these things have come out again. They were also asked to wear mourning clothes for him, which was unacceptable.
Gu Yan was originally very angry, but he felt helpless facing the children's constant questions. For the last time, for the last time. There will be no such person anymore and no one will mention these things anymore.
"Baby, if you think he's not your father, then just deny it." She sighed slightly, "Blood relationship really doesn't mean anything, and fatherhood isn't determined by that. He didn't do anything for you from the time you were born to the time you grew up. So he's not your father, you can just treat him as a stranger."
After their mother said this, the two children gradually stopped crying. The little girl pulled Li Zhongxia's pants, and the man squatted down and hugged the two children in his arms.
"Next time someone says that, you don't have to accept it. You can tell him that you have a father named Li Zhongxia."
"Yeah. My father's name is Li Zhongxia, not that."
"I have a father." The brother and sister hugged the man's neck, their tears and snot covering his body. Li Zhongxia took out a handkerchief, wiped her tears first, then carried her to the ear room. It looks like these two were washed away.
Gu Yan stood up and held Xiaohua's hand. The look he gave the child was full of questions. Those two kids didn’t remember anything, and Han Laoer never dared to harass them in the past few years. So even though the children heard the gossip and went home to ask about it, they would not worry about it after being fooled. But you should remember, what do you think of your biological father?
I held back again and again because I was concerned about you. I’m afraid that one day you’ll have to bear the burden of knowing that your mother killed your father. But this guy doesn't know what restraint is. Once driven by interests, he will rush forward immediately. I can no longer allow him to disrupt my life and shatter this peace and tranquility. After ten years of chaos, keeping him around would only cause endless trouble.
"I won't pay any attention to him. Whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with me." Xiaohua couldn't help but shed tears. "Mom, we have nothing to do with him anymore, right?"
"Yes, you have nothing to do with him anymore."
After comforting the children, Gu Yan was just looking forward to Han Laoer being buried as soon as possible. Out of sight, out of mind. Without him, everyone's gossip would naturally die down. From then on, they were separated by the Yin and Yang, and had no connection with each other anymore.
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