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The incompatibility of his parents made Liu Mingda very reluctant to return to the rental house. After work, he couldn’t help but want to run to Wang Peining. If he didn’t go back, he was worried that his parents would have a fierce conflict and fight. Once they had any problems, as a son, he would still suffer. He had no choice but to return to the rental house.
When he got home, he thought he could have a hot meal, but he was extremely annoyed by the cold stove. His father had been a shabby worker before, and now even his mother had given up. Looking at the closed bedroom door, he stood in front of Hu Xialan’s door and knocked.
After a few minutes, Hu Xialan’s eyes were dull, and she opened the door quietly. Looking at Liu Mingda outside the door, she smiled and asked, “Mingda is off work, what do you like to eat? I’ll make it for you. Is your dad playing chess again? Go call him and ask him to come back to help me cook.”
Liu Mingda frowned, thinking that his mother’s expression seemed a little strange at this time, so he asked, “Isn’t my dad in the next room?”
Hu Xialan blinked and laughed at herself. It turned out that it was a dream. She thought she and Han Ze had not divorced. She looked at Liu Mingda calmly: “Mingda, your father wants to remarry me, what do you think?”
Liu Mingda was stunned. His mother asked this question so suddenly that he didn’t know how to answer at all.
Hu Xialan sneered, “What? Is it difficult to answer?”
Liu Mingda found that his parents often made him feel powerless. He said, “Mom, just do whatever you think in your heart. There is no need to ask for my opinion. No matter what, I support you.”
Hu Xialan suddenly burst into tears. Her eyes were red and she shouted hysterically, “I will never remarry your dad.”
Liu Mingda said in a deep voice, “No one asked you to remarry him. He was released from prison and has nowhere to go. He just lives here temporarily.”
Hu Xialan sniffed and she grabbed Liu Mingda’s arm, “Mingda, I want to move out. Go, you have to rent another house for me, I don’t want to live with Liu Bingshen.”
Liu Mingda was very impatient, he said with a stern face: “Mom, the rent of this house is more than 1,000 yuan, and if I rent another house, it will be more than 1,000 yuan. The rent is more than 3,000 yuan, plus living expenses. I have to save money to buy a house. Mingkai is working now, you can ask him to send you some money, you can’t ask me to pay for everything.”
Speaking of Liu Mingkai, Hu Xialan seemed to have found the dawn, her eyes lit up, she wanted to get rid of Liu Bingshen, it would be better to leave this city and find Mingkai, no matter whether he was filial or not, she was his mother, he had to take care of him.
Hu Xialan looked at Liu Mingda and said: “I’m going to Xia City to find Mingkai, you take me there tomorrow.”
Liu Mingda wanted to say that he had to go to work tomorrow, but then he thought about it and said: “Okay, it’s the weekend the day after tomorrow, I’ll take a day off tomorrow and take you there.” After saying that, he looked around and then remembered Liu Bingshen and asked, “Where’s my dad?”
Hu Xialan shook her head and said unhappily, “How would I know? Maybe he’s gone somewhere to fool around again.”
Liu Mingda pursed his lips and said, “It’s late. Let’s cook some noodles and eat something.”
Thinking that she would be able to get rid of Liu Bingshen by going to her youngest son’s place, Hu Xialan saw that Liu Mingda was in a good mood and said, “Okay, wait, it will be ready soon.”
After dinner, Hu Xialan began to pack her luggage. Liu Mingda called Liu Mingkai. Although Liu Mingkai didn’t want his mother to disturb him, she was his biological mother after all. He couldn’t just leave her alone, so he had to agree reluctantly.
In the morning, Hu Xialan went out to buy breakfast. The mother and son had their meal, called a truck, and went to Xia City. Liu Bingshen didn’t come back for two days and had spent all his money. He finally returned to the rented house, but found it empty and all Hu Xialan’s things had been moved away.
He was furious. He picked up the new phone Liu Mingda had bought for him, called Liu Mingda, and asked, “Do you know that your mother ran away?”
Liu Mingda was on his way back from Xia City when he received a call from Liu Bingshen. His face was dark: “Dad, you and Mom are divorced. She doesn’t want to be entangled with you, so she moved to Mingkai’s place. As for you, just live in the rental house.”
Liu Bingshen asked gloomily, “What about you?”
Liu Mingda said without thinking, “I live with Peining.”
Liu Bingshen said angrily, “Are you trying to get rid of me?”
Liu Mingda pursed his lips and said, “Dad, I will give you living expenses.”
Liu Bingshen crossed his legs, picked his teeth with a toothpick, and said with a smile, “Okay, I’ve run out of money, give me another two thousand yuan.”
Liu Mingda was shocked and angry, “It’s only been a few days, and the two thousand yuan is gone?”
Liu Bingshen leaned on the sofa and said very shamelessly, “I don’t care, give me the money immediately, otherwise I will do something, you should know.”
Liu Mingda clenched his fists in hatred, but he endured it. He said, “I’ll give it to you right after I get back.”
Liu Bingshen smiled triumphantly. After getting the money, he disappeared for a few days again. In just two months, he asked Liu Mingda for nearly 20,000 yuan. However, Liu Mingda was threatened by him and was his biological father, so he could do nothing but give him the money.
As the position of manager was about to be implemented, he suddenly received a call from the police station. His father Liu Bingshen was arrested for hiding drugs.
Liu Mingda felt a buzzing in his head and his eyes went dark.
In a blink of an eye, a few years passed. During this period, many things happened. Han Feiyu got married and had children, but Han Shutao still had no intention of dating. Han Ze was unwilling to control her in this regard. After all, he didn’t know if she would be happy after getting married.
That day, Han Ze took his grandson to play in the park. While playing ball with his grandson, a hesitant voice came from the side.
“Uncle Han?”
Han Ze turned his head, he was slightly surprised: “Wang Peining?”
He glimpsed a little girl standing next to her who was over one year old, obviously Wang Peining’s daughter.
Wang Peining noticed his eyes, smiled and picked up the girl, and said: “Uncle Han, this is my daughter.”
Han Ze smiled and nodded. Wang Peining wanted to say something, a man came over, he glanced at Han Ze, and said gently: “Give me the girl, you take a rest.”
The little girl called daddy and lay on the man obediently.
Han Ze raised his eyebrows, it seems that Wang Peining did not marry Liu Mingda. This couple who had been in love for more than ten years finally parted ways under the cruel blow of reality.
“Grandpa.”
Han Ze turned around and saw his grandson calling him. He smiled and said, “I’ll go first.”
Wang Peining smiled and said, “Okay. Goodbye, Uncle Han.”
Han Ze led his grandson out of the park. Wang Peining looked at his back and shook her head. She didn’t expect to see Uncle Han here. She felt like it was all in her previous life. After all, she hadn’t seen Liu Mingda for many years, and she didn’t know where he went. His former assistant said that he went to teach in the mountain village.
However, no matter where he went, she was married and had children now, and had nothing to do with him.
One day, Han Ze was helping his grandson with his homework. The grandson’s mother was sitting next to them watching the news on a tablet. Suddenly, she said indignantly, “What kind of things can happen? The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took their grandson to the supermarket, and the grandson was hit by a durian. The daughter-in-law felt sorry for the child and took it out on the mother-in-law, resenting her for not taking good care of the child. The two quarreled and fought in the supermarket, overturned the shelves, and all the goods fell on the mother-in-law. The mother-in-law’s brain was hit, and she was paralyzed.”
Han Ze smiled and said nothing. Han Shutao came out of the room yawning. Hearing her words, he said curiously, “Let me see, let me see.”
Han Feiyu’s wife handed the tablet to Han Shutao. Han Shutao took it and looked at it. She frowned, “Hey, why does this mother-in-law look so familiar?”
Han Ze glanced at her, and Han Shutao suddenly said loudly, “Why does this woman look so much like Hu Xialan? Dad, look…”
Han Ze leaned over to take a look, and it was indeed Hu Xialan. His expression was a bit complicated. In his previous life, Liu Bingshen pushed him downstairs and paralyzed him. In this life, Hu Xialan had a fight with her daughter-in-law and she became paralyzed, is it a tit-for-tat?
A few years later, Han Shutao suddenly announced that she was going to get married. At this time, she was almost 40 years old. Han Ze met the man, who was an honest and simple high school teacher. The man didn’t talk much and had never been married. His parents were gone. He had a house but no car. Although he didn’t make as much money as Shutao, he was very considerate to Shutao and thoughtful in every way.
Han Ze, as a father, was surprised when he saw it, and finally put his mind at ease.
In the previous life, the two children heard that the original body had died, and they suspected that their father’s death was strange. They sued the Liu family. Although Liu Bingshen was sent to prison again in the end, Hu Xialan and her son were also punished, but they also exhausted their energy. The two children rejected marriage from the bottom of their hearts and remained single for their whole lives.
When Han Shutao’s child was more than two years old, Han Ze closed his eyes.
Although Han Feiyu and Han Shutao were sad, they were not very sad. Their father had done something wrong before. Although he changed his ways later and gave them the family property, he didn’t seem to want to please them, let alone get their forgiveness. He just lived with them and treated them calmly.
[Congratulations to the tasker for completing the first task: leave the property and the house to Han Feiyu and Han Shutao, reward, 200 points.
Congratulations to the tasker for completing the second task: divorce Hu Xialan, reward, 200 points.
Congratulations to the tasker for completing the third task: changing the fate of Han Feiyu, Han Shutao and the original body, reward 600 points.]
Han Ze returned to the strange room again.
[System: Task taker, do you want to arrange the next task?]
Han Ze nodded, “Arrange it.”
[System: OK.]
The picture flashed, and Han Ze was already in another world. He was lying on the bed sleeping. He opened his eyes and looked around. It should be morning. The decoration in the room was modern. He contacted the system in his mind: “Send me the original body’s memory first.”
[System: OK, tasker.]
A large number of memories flooded into his mind. Han Ze felt a little uncomfortable. He lay flat for a while and sorted out those messy memories. The original body of this world was a retired soldier and a taxi driver. After graduating from college, his only daughter Han Doudou traveled abroad and visited her good friend Xu Yining who was studying abroad.
When returning to China, Xu Yining asked her to bring gifts to her friends in China. The two were high school classmates and had a close relationship. With Han Doudou’s trust in Xu Yining, she put the things Xu Yining asked her to bring directly into the suitcase without even looking at them. However, when checking at the airport, drugs were found in her suitcase. The evidence was conclusive. Even if Han Doudou argued that it was not hers, it was useless. She still went to jail for many years, and all her good years was wasted in prison.
The original body found out a lot of things during the years when Han Doudou was in prison. The reason why Xu Yining harmed Han Doudou was because the boy she liked did not like her, but liked Han Doudou instead. Xu Yining hated Han Doudou and tried to destroy her.
The original body had several wishes, the most important of which was that Han Doudou could see the true colors of Xu Yining and her gang, draw a clear line between them, be vigilant against them, and not be harmed by them without knowing the reason.
After knowing the general situation, Han Ze sat up, opened the bedroom door, and walked out.
Today is the weekend. In the living room, Han Doudou is sitting on the sofa waiting for Han Ze to get up. When she sees Han Ze coming out, she breathes a sigh of relief and says, “Dad, you finally get up. Give me one thousand yuan. My sneakers are broken. I’ll go buy shoes later.”
“One thousand yuan?”
Han Ze’s face darkens and he shouts, “You’re a student. Why do you need to buy such expensive sneakers?”
Han Doudou pouts, “Each pair of Xu Yining’s sneakers costs more than one thousand yuan. I’ve never bought any.”
Han Ze sits on the sofa and says righteously, “You are a student. Your main purpose is to study. If you want to compete, you should compete with your classmates in academic performance, not in who wears more expensive clothes or shoes. That’s useless for you.”
Han Doudou’s face is full of stubbornness. She says with red eyes, “Study, study. All i do is study all day long. Can’t you say something else? When Xu Yining asked her mother for money to buy shoes, her mother gave it to her without saying a word. You’re stingy with a lot of excuses.”
Han Ze frowns and asks her in a deep voice, “I remember Xu Yining is better at studying than you, right?”
Han Doudou turns her face away and said nothing.
Han Ze looked at her and said, “You compare me with Xu Yining’s mother, why don’t you compare your academic performance with Xu Yining? Don’t you often tell me that we are equal and should respect each other? Even if you are my daughter, I can’t ignore your wishes and control you in everything. Since we are all equal, you should also make your academic performance equal to others.”
Han Doudou turned around abruptly and accused him angrily, “You are making specious arguments.”
Han Ze’s face was serious and he said seriously, “I didn’t make specious arguments. Rights and obligations are mutual. You have the right to make demands on me, but as my daughter, you also have the obligation to fulfill my requirements. Equality and mutual respect are what you said. If you can’t fulfill your obligations, then I can take back your rights at any time, otherwise it will undermine the principles of equality and mutual respect.”
Han Doudou wrinkled her nose, turned her eyes slightly, looked at Han Ze, and asked, “What do you mean by talking so much?”
Han Ze said calmly: “It’s just a pair of shoes that cost one thousand yuan. Although it’s expensive, I can afford it. I can just save some money this month. As long as you can meet my requirements, I can buy it for you.”
Han Doudou said reluctantly: “I knew you were not that easy to talk to. Xu Yining is one of the best students in our school. How can I be equal to her with my grades? Even if I work hard right away, I can’t catch up with her.”
Han Ze raised his eyebrows and said: “I know that with your current grades, it’s impossible for you to catch up with Xu Yining. I didn’t ask you to meet this requirement immediately.”
Han Doudou said: “Dad, I don’t think I can catch up with Xu Yining no matter how long it takes.”
Han Ze sighed and looked at her: “Doudou, since you can say that, why can’t you understand why dad doesn’t buy you such expensive sneakers?”
Han Doudou pouted: “What does this have to do with buying shoes?”
Han Ze said: “It is very difficult for you to improve your academic performance, but for me, I will be reluctant to spend a thousand yuan to buy a pair of sneakers no matter what time it is. I only have a few thousand yuan a month. In addition to your tuition and miscellaneous fees and our living expenses, how much money can I have left? You have your difficulties, and dad has his difficulties. If you can’t understand me, how can you expect me to understand you? After all, respect is mutual, and understanding is mutual.”
Han Doudou hung her head and said nothing. She knew that it was difficult for her father to make money, but for so many years she just wanted to buy a pair of better sneakers.
Han Ze looked at her and slowed down his tone: “You are my daughter. I will try my best to help you achieve your request, even if I cannot meet it. It’s just a pair of sneakers. But what about you? Can you meet my requirements?”
Han Doudou’s eyes were red: “But it’s okay if my grades improved by a few places. It’s really difficult to catch up with Xu Yining. Your requirements are too high.”
Han Ze looked at him sternly: “It’s not that you have to catch up with Xu Yining. Your teacher told me that you often go out to play games with Xu Yining’s friends, right?”
Han Doudou pursed her lips tightly. She didn’t expect the teacher to tell her father about this.
Han Ze said in a deep voice: “Xu Yining has such good grades, but she didn’t go out to play games. You have average grades, but you still play games with her friends. Aren’t you friends? Why can’t you learn from her? You compete with her when buying things.”
Han Doudou was a little ashamed, she lowered her head and said nothing.
Han Ze looked at her and said seriously, “As long as you promise me that you will not go out to play games with them anymore and go out to play with them less in the future, I can buy you shoes.”
Han Doudou said immediately, “Dad, they are my friends, how can I not go out to play with them? Don’t you think this request is too unreasonable?”
Han Ze said expressionlessly, “I don’t think this request is unreasonable. If they are your friends, they will not urge you to play games with them and affect your studies. Besides, they are children from rich families and spend money like water. Some activities are not suitable for you. You should avoid them if you can, so as not to develop vanity under the influence of what you hear and see.”
Han Doudou argued, “When did I develop vanity?”
Han Ze glanced at her and said, “In my opinion, comparing the cost of clothes and shoes with others is vanity.”
Han Doudou stopped talking again.
Han Ze asked again, “Can you agree to this request?”
Han Doudou pouted and said, “It’s only a thousand yuan, and you actually made so many requests to me.”
Han Ze smiled and said, “You can also make demands on me. We can restrain each other. Don’t you dislike my drinking? I can quit drinking.”
Han Doudou was stunned. No one knew better than her how much her father loved drinking. But her father was a driver and could only drink when he was off duty. On that day, he would drink as much as he wanted. She was worried about his health and advised him not to drink. When he was addicted to alcohol, he didn’t listen at all and even scolded her. She had no way to deal with it.
She asked in disbelief, “Are you really willing to quit drinking?”
Han Ze nodded, his tone serious and firm, “You know best how addicted Dad is to alcohol. But in order for you to stop playing games and affecting your studies, Dad is willing to quit drinking. We supervise each other. Do you think this request is difficult?”
Han Doudou still didn’t believe it and asked again, “Are you really willing to quit drinking?”
Han Ze promised, “I will quit drinking if I say so.” After a pause, he said, “Today is the weekend. You don’t go to school and I don’t go to work. Let’s start from today. How about it?”
Han Doudou frowned. She had made an appointment with someone to play games for two hours last night. How could she break the appointment?
Han Ze spread his hands: “It seems that my daughter doesn’t care about my health that much. In her heart, my health is not as important as her games.”
Han Doudou immediately said: “How is it possible? I care about your health very much. It’s just a game. If you don’t want to play, then don’t play. If you can quit drinking, I can quit playing games. We can supervise each other.”
Han Ze smiled, and he patted his daughter’s head: “I know my daughter is filial and can’t bear to see her father drink and ruin his health.”
Han Doudou snorted: “I know my father is cunning and actually threatened me with his own health to stop playing games. I am just a caring little cotton-padded jacket. If I were a little rebellious and had the same temper as Tongtong from my eldest aunt’s family, your trick would definitely not work.”
Han Ze said with relief: “Doudou, Dad knows that you are a good child, so he asks you to do this while also asking himself. We father and daughter advance and retreat together.”
He thought to himself, if you really have the same temper as Yang Tongtong, I will change my method. Children with different personalities must have different educational methods.
As the father and daughter were talking, Han Doudou’s phone rang. She glanced at Han Ze.
Han Ze said, “Answer it.”
Han Doudou opened her phone and saw that it was Xu Yining calling. She smiled and said hello.
Xu Yining on the other end of the phone said with a smile: “Doudou, what are you doing at home? Come out and play.”
Han Doudou glanced at Han Ze and said apologetically: “Yining, I have to supervise my dad at home today. You know he likes to drink. I’m afraid he will get drunk when I’m not at home.”
Xu Yining paused, the smile on her face faded slightly, she continued: “It’s your birthday soon, I want to pick a birthday present for you, aren’t you coming?”
Han Doudou felt that for the sake of her father’s health, a birthday present was a trivial matter. She smiled and said: “You can pick whatever you want. We are good friends. It’s just a birthday present. I don’t mind.”
Xu Yining said regretfully: “I wanted to buy you the dress you have liked for a long time, but I didn’t expect you to be unwilling to try it on…”
Han Doudou was not shaken when she heard her words. Although her father’s words were unpleasant to hear, they were very true. Her family was not well off, and she could not develop the habit of comparing with others, let alone take advantage of others. The dress cost more than one thousand yuan. If she really accepted Xu Yining’s gift, what would she give her back on Xu Yining’s birthday?
She said jokingly, “Just buy me a gift worth a few dozen dollars. Don’t buy it too expensive. I won’t accept it if it’s too expensive.”
Xu Yining held the phone tightly. When she made the call, they asked her to press the speakerphone button, so they heard everything Han Doudou said. She said unnaturally: “Okay, then will you come out in the afternoon? Pan Hao and the others are waiting to play games with you.”
Han Doudou said embarrassedly: “Yining, please tell Pan Hao and the others for me that I can’t play games with them today. My father is not going to work today, I have to supervise him and not let him drink.”
Xu Yining hung up the phone, his eyes fell on the tall and handsome boy in front of him, and said with a smile: “You are right, Doudou is really not a vain girl. You can see that she is unwilling to accept my expensive gifts, so stop talking nonsense.”
The other people looked at each other. Xu Yining said early in the morning that she would buy a gift for Han Doudou. As they talked, Pan Hao inadvertently mentioned Han Doudou, and said in a very disdainful tone that she was vain and played with them just because they were rich, and asked Xu Yining to be careful.
He Xinglan said in a calm voice: Han Doudou is not that kind of girl, and asked them not to make up stories behind people.
Several people started arguing, and finally Pan Hao asked Xu Yining to call Han Doudou to see what she would say. They would know if she really saw them as rich.
Xu Yining made the call, and Pan Hao and the others were slapped in the face. Han Doudou did like expensive things, but she liked them, and she didn’t like to take advantage of others. She didn’t want expensive birthday gifts.
Pan Hao said awkwardly: “I was a chatterbox, I apologize.”
He Xinglan glanced at him: “You should apologize to Han Doudou, not me.”
Xu Yining’s face sank slightly, she glanced at Pan Hao: “Tomorrow at school, you will personally apologize to Han Doudou.”
Even though Pan Hao was unwilling, Xu Yining had spoken, so he could only agree, because he liked Xu Yining.
He Xinglan glanced at him and said: “If there is nothing, I’ll go back.”
After that, without waiting for the response of several people, he strode away.
Xu Yining looked at his back and clenched her fists.
Here, Han Doudou hung up the phone, looked at Han Ze and said, “Dad, you see I rejected them and won’t go out to play games with them. So, you can’t drink.”
“I definitely won’t drink. I mean what I say.”
Han Ze smiled and stood up: “I’ll go wash my face and brush my teeth, we’ll go out for breakfast, and then I’ll take you to buy shoes.”
Han Doudou was happy: “Really?”
She didn’t expect Dad to keep his word. He is indeed a veteran, and what he says is what he means.
Han Ze’s words came from the bathroom: “Really, it’s your birthday gift. When your birthday comes, there will be no gifts.”
Han Doudou: “…”
She takes back that sentence.
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