The father and his two sons left Li Guifang's house. Li Mingyuan rode the 28-inch bicycle, with his daughter Shuduo sitting on the front seat and his son Shuhang sitting on the back seat.
Duoduo, who usually chatters all the way, was unusually silent, just holding tightly onto the corner of her father's clothes.
The wheels rolled over the road, making a monotonous sound. The three of them were all preoccupied with heavy thoughts, and no one wanted to speak.
Entering the slightly old tube-shaped building, the corridor was still filled with the smell of cooking fumes from other people's homes, but the aroma of food had lost its appeal at this moment.
Back home, the atmosphere was also depressed.
Li Mingyuan took off his coat and habitually wanted to pick up the newspaper, but he couldn't read a single word. In front of him was still Lin Yaqin's entangled shadow and her hysteria.
Li Shuhang silently took out his homework book, but stared at the questions in a daze, and the tip of his pen did not move for a long time.
Li Shuduo rubbed against the corner of the sofa, hugging the old doll, but her eyes were empty, and she was obviously still scared.
All three of them were distracted!
Before going to bed, Li Shuduo didn't dare to close her eyes while lying on the small bed.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the scene of being chased by Lin Yaqin during the day appeared clearly in front of him.
Li Shuhang couldn't sleep either. Seeing his sister still had her eyes open, he knew she was still scared. He patted her back awkwardly, "Duo'er, stop crying. Go to sleep. It's okay. Brother is here."
"Brother... why is she back... I'm so afraid that she will come to school to see me again tomorrow..." Li Shuduo's voice was filled with tears!
Li Shuhang was also afraid, but he was the older brother, so he tried to sound calm. "Don't be afraid. We ran away when we met her today, didn't we? If we can avoid her once, we can avoid her a second time. Besides, Dad will protect us."
Just then, the door was gently pushed open.
Li Mingyuan was feeling upset and couldn't sleep. The house was not very soundproof, and he heard intermittent voices coming from the next room. He was about to remind the children to go to bed early, but he happened to hear these words at the door!
His heart sank suddenly, and an ominous premonition gripped him!
He opened the door and looked at the two children on the bed who had become panicked in an instant.
"Shuhang, have you met her before? When? Where?"
His tone unconsciously became harsh because of his anxiety, and Shuduo was so scared that she burst into tears.
Shuhang knew he couldn't hide it anymore, so he lowered his head and told Lin Yaqin everything that happened in the alley today, about being chased by her.
After hearing this, Li Mingyuan took a breath of cold air, and fear and anger instantly overwhelmed him!
He should have thought of this when he was harassed by Lin Yaqin!
Since she could find him at his workplace, why wouldn't she go to the school to look for the child?
How could he be so careless! He didn't even notice the child's abnormal behavior today!
He looked at the two children's frightened, tear-stained faces under the light, and suppressed the overwhelming remorse. He squatted down, hugged the two children tightly in his arms, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's Daddy's fault. I didn't protect you well."
He looked into the children's eyes and said solemnly: "No matter where you see her in the future, you must run away immediately and tell Dad immediately.
You absolutely cannot keep it to yourself, understand? This is not your fault, you don’t need to be afraid to tell the adults! "
He emphasized this point repeatedly until the two children in his arms nodded vigorously.
That night, the lights in the Li family's compound were turned off very late.
Li Mingyuan lay in bed, completely unable to sleep.
In the next room, the two children couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Li Mingyuan's promise brought some sense of security, but the feeling of powerlessness caused by being entangled by their mother Lin Yaqin still lingered in their hearts and could not be shaken off.
At the same time, in the dirty and shabby little hotel, Lin Yaqin also couldn't sleep.
The two crushing defeats during the day were like two loud slaps in the face, leaving her face burning and her heart filled with anger.
Li Mingyuan's heart was as hard as a rock. The two children looked at her as if she had seen a ghost and had no time to hide. If that old hag Li Guifang got involved, she would have no chance of succeeding!
We can't drag this on any longer! We have to cut the Gordian knot quickly. We can't give them a chance to breathe or negotiate, and we can't give that old man a chance to interfere!
She suddenly sat up from the bed, her cloudy eyes flashing with paranoia and cruelty in the darkness.
Conventional crying and begging seemed to be completely useless, so she would give the next dose of "strong medicine" that would make the Li family tremble!
A vicious and crazy thought quickly grew and expanded wildly in her heart like poison ivy.
They don't want to meet secretly, and avoid us like the devil? Fine, then make a big fuss! Make it known to everyone! Make it a big fuss!
Drown them with the spit of the public, use the invisible pressure of public opinion to force them to submit, and see how they can hide!
She was the mother of those two little brats, and she still didn't believe that she couldn't control them. As for Li Mingyuan? The children were with her, so Li Mingyuan's money had to come here, right?
She would choose the time after school when there were the most people around, and in front of all the teachers, students and parents, she would rush over to hug them, crying and telling them how much she missed her children and asking them to recognize her as her mother!
The onlookers, parents, and ignorant children are the easiest to incite and are most likely to be emotionally moved by her "sad drama." By then, their saliva will be enough to drown the Li family!
They were even going to Li Mingyuan's workplace to cause trouble! Isn't he the one who values his reputation? Right at his workplace doorstep, in front of his superiors, colleagues, and subordinates, they were going to expose his hypocritical face!
I went straight to my boss and cried, saying that Li Mingyuan had changed his heart after getting promoted, that he had despised his wife and abandoned her and their children, and that he was morally corrupt! Let's see how he can still hold his head high in that unit where style is so important!
Seeing Li Mingyuan looking respectable and well-dressed today, those people in the unit who are jealous of him and want to bring him down will definitely be happy to watch this good show, and may even add fuel to the fire!
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this plan was brilliant, and there was even a twisted and excited look of pleasure on her face!
Li Mingyuan, if you don't let me live a good life, I will ruin your reputation and make you completely discredited!
The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. In the middle of the night, unable to sleep, she paced excitedly in the dirty room, thinking over and over the details in her mind.
Wear the most worn-out and washed-out clothes, make your hair messy, and look as haggard as possible!
When you cry, you have to cry with both tears and sound, not just thunder without rain. You have to really squeeze out the tears and portray yourself as a perfect victim who has come back after going through hardships, looking for his own flesh and blood, but was cruelly rejected!
You have to think over your words over and over again, try to gain sympathy and turn black into white!
She chewed over the "perfect" plan in her mind, which she thought was "foolproof", over and over again until she felt there were no more loopholes. Only then did she fall asleep with an almost morbid satisfaction and exhaustion.
This was her last gamble, a desperate gamble with no regard for the consequences.
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