Chapter 396 Good Night]
When the Huo family was taking a family photo in the photo studio, one person was quietly absent.
Huo Zhengguang put on a white shirt and black trousers and drove to a cemetery in the suburbs of Beijing.
Two days ago, the police station sent a message that Huo Ze's case had been investigated and the body that had been kept in the cold storage was taken away by the Huo family.
Because it was no longer in a good shape, it could only be cremated and buried.
Huo Zhengguang knew that the things Huo Ze had done had hurt too many family members, so he did not let others interfere with Huo Ze's burial. He handled it alone.
After buying paper money in a small shop outside the cemetery, Huo Zhengguang found Huo Ze's tombstone with the bag.
Huo Zhengguang has always had complicated feelings towards his son. On the one hand, he hates him because he was a child that Zeng Zilan had planned and should not have been born. But on the other hand, he feels that this is his own flesh and blood after
all. He has raised Huo Ze for twenty years. Not to mention that he is his own child, he should have deep feelings for him even if he is a dog.
But after hearing about the various things Huo Ze had done from the police station, Huo Zhengguang felt that the real Huo Ze seemed to be very different from the Huo Ze he thought he was.
Now standing in front of Huo Ze's tombstone, Huo Zhengguang felt as if he was visiting a stranger.
He sighed, opened the bag, took out paper money and prepared to light it.
"Pop!"
Suddenly, an egg passed by him and hit Huo Ze's tombstone, leaving a large dirty mark.
Huo Zhengguang was startled, turned his head and saw a strange middle-aged woman staring at Huo Ze's tombstone with hatred.
The woman quickly looked at Huo Zhengguang again, and seeing his face similar to Huo Ze's, she immediately guessed his identity and gritted her teeth and said, "It was your son who killed my daughter!"
She was Tang Wan's mother, Hu Hao.
After that, Hu Hao took out eggs one after another from the bag that had been prepared long ago, as well as rotten vegetable leaves picked up from nowhere, and smashed them hard on Huo Ze's tombstone.
The fishy smell of raw eggs and the stench of rotten vegetable leaves mixed together.
Soon, Huo Ze's tombstone became a mess, no longer as clean and tidy as before.
Huo Zhengguang seemed to be fixed there, and did not stop Hu Hao from venting, and remained silent.
After Hu Hao smashed the things in the bag, she rushed up and punched and kicked Huo Ze's tombstone, wishing she could dig up the cement grave and grind Huo Ze to dust!
She turned to Huo Zhengguang again, grabbed his collar and cried:
"How did you teach your son?!"
"It's all your fault for raising a good son!"
"My poor daughter!"
No matter what she did to Huo Ze's tombstone, it was a futile vent.
Hu Hao just wanted her daughter to survive, but that was no longer possible!
Looking at the hysterical Hu Hao, Huo Zhengguang remained silent.
It was not that he ignored Hu Hao on purpose, but he didn't know how to answer Hu Hao
's words. Hu Hao questioned him how he taught Huo Ze.
But in fact, he didn't teach Huo Ze anything. In
the first few years after Huo Ze was born, Huo Zhengguang hated Zeng Zilan and hated her too much to even look at Huo Ze, so he worked overtime at the company all day and only gave Zeng Zilan living expenses regularly.
Zeng Zilan asked him for money, and he gave it to her.
Other than that, he ignored Zeng Zilan or Huo Ze.
By the time he realized that "I have a son", Huo Ze was already a few years old and behaved very sensibly in front of adults.
Zeng Zilan seemed to have taught him very well, and Huo Zhengguang maintained the superficial harmony of the family as he had done in the past few years.
But he also knew in his heart that it would be easy for such a deformed family to collapse.
But Huo Zhengguang never expected that the collapse of his family would cause such a serious chain reaction, dragging so many innocent people into it and even killing people!
He was not the mastermind of this accident, but he seemed to be an unconscious accomplice, accelerating the tragedy.
"Pa!"
Hu Hao raised his hand and slapped Huo Zhengguang. Looking at his face which was as numb as it was at the beginning, he said hatefully: "You didn't teach the child well. If that's the case, why did you give birth to
him in the first place! You are harming others and yourself!" Huo Zhengguang's eyes moved when he heard this. He seemed to be poked in the painful spot. He finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "It's not me who wants to give birth to him! I was also plotted against!"
"You were plotted against, so you did nothing and let the child be born? You didn't care after the child was born, and you didn't care what he looked like?"
Hu Hao spat: "Stop making excuses! You have a good family and you're a man. As long as you make up your mind, how difficult can these things be? Don't say here that you can't do anything. You can't do anything because you haven't thought about doing something!"
Huo Zhengguang was struck by lightning and looked at Hu Hao speechless.
In a blink of an eye, Huo Zhengguang's eyes turned red. He said, "Yes, I did nothing."
When Zeng Zilan plotted against him, he only wanted to die. He was so stupid that he had to marry that woman and let her give birth to Huo Ze.
If he had done something when he was plotted against for the first time, perhaps things would not be as bad as they are today.
His beloved probably saw through his cowardice and went abroad in anger, right?
Zeng Zilan was wrong, so was he?
"I was wrong too... It's all my fault, it's all my fault..."
Huo Zhengguang, a man in his forties, choked and cried at this moment.
Perhaps it was the regret for his cowardly behavior in the past, or the repentance for his inaction over the years.
If Hu Hao hadn't said this, Huo Zhengguang would have followed the crowd and blamed Zeng Zilan and Huo Ze, ignoring his own actions, and continued to bury his head in the sand like an ostrich, not listening or seeing.
After escaping for more than 20 years, he finally faced his own problems.
Shock, pain...
all kinds of emotions surged.
He, who had never cried when Zeng Zilan and Huo Ze died, was crying non-stop at this moment.
Seeing him like this, Hu Hao didn't have the heart to say anything.
She had done and vented everything she could and should vent.
It seemed that there was no point in continuing to resent these living people, except that it would make her life more painful.
Hu Hao turned around and walked to another corner of the cemetery.
There was Tang Wan's tombstone.
"Xiao Wan, Mommy is here to see you."
Hu Hao placed the flowers and fruits she had bought in front of Tang Wan's tombstone, and changed her previous madness. Her tone was only gentle: "You always loved beauty when you were alive, so Mommy bought you the flowers you liked, and I will change the most beautiful ones for you every week, okay?"
"When you just left, mom was so sad that she wished she could go with you, but you are a filial child. If mom did that, you would definitely be very sad, right? So mom decided to live well, like this, to visit you from time to time, to bring you flowers, and to make delicious food for you."
Hu Hao whispered, "You don't have to worry too much about mom. Mom is living a good life now. The police have helped to deal with the family property issues. Mom is planning to go back to work, so you won't have to worry about your life in the future. When you get there, find a chance to be reborn into a good family. Even if you don't remember mom when you grow up..."
At the end, Hu Hao's voice was a little choked and his eyes were red.
She held back her tears, wiped the dust off Tang Wan's tombstone, and trembled, "But as long as I think that you are still alive in this world, we live in the same world..."
"Mom will be very happy."
My Xiaowan, my child.
Good night.