Chapter 1042: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1042: Daddy, Won't You Please Not Abandon Me

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Past ten o'clock this night, Liang Xinghua got off work and went alone to the da paidang outside for a late-night snack.

He ordered some barbecue, a plate of fried rice noodles, and several bottles of beer all by himself.

Drinking the wine in a stifled mood.

If they hadn't let him be the head of the Li Guoshan Human Resources Subsidiary, he would have stayed a foreman and surely been quite happy; but now, after having been a company general manager, coming back to do this petty foreman work made him feel it lacked a bit of meaning.

So his heart was very stifled.

A sense of frustration lingered in his mind.

Even making him feel that perhaps this was his fate.

He just didn't have the fate to be a general manager!

So even if others gave him an opportunity, he couldn't seize it.

If you say it's fate, it indeed is fate.

If you say it's not fate, there indeed are other reasons.

Bottom line, he still suffered from having no culture.

If Liang Xinghua had a bit more culture, a bit more far-sighted vision, and when his career just showed a hint of promise he had buried himself in work, not thinking about emotional matters, and even more not actively shown favor to Zhong Liying, then there fundamentally wouldn't have been the subsequent series of heart-troubling matters.

Sometimes so-called fate is merely a choice at a critical crossroads of life.

And the important factor supporting this choice is culture and horizon.

An ordinary person in this lifetime may only have one or two opportunities to change fate; seize it, and life can leap to another level; fail to seize it, and one can only spin in the original stratum.

And whether one can seize the opportunity is not by guessing with intuition, but by deep accumulation and thin release, by vision and by nose.

Very obviously Liang Xinghua missed this opportunity to change fate; to want a next opportunity to change fate, it's estimated to be very difficult.

After all he's already 37 years old.

And also has no culture, no remarkable ability to show.

Also divorced, and of rural background, both parents deceased!

All kinds of buffs stacked full!

One opportunity not seized, then there really is no opportunity!

Liang Xinghua was drinking stifled wine, at this time a waiter carried barbecue up.

"Hello, your lamb skewers are grilled."

Liang Xinghua looked up and immediately froze.

Because this waiter bringing the dishes was none other than his ex-wife Lan Menglian.

Lan Menglian seeing Liang Xinghua was also stunned.

The two gazed at each other for a full ten seconds before each came back to their senses.

"So late and you still come out to work, where's the daughter?"

Liang Xinghua spoke first.

Lan Menglian smiled bitterly:

"If I don't come out to work, where would the money come from? The daughter I put in the rental house; she should be asleep by now, right?"

Liang Xinghua was originally stifled beyond measure; hearing these words, he flared up at once:

"Do you treat her like a little cat or dog, locking her alone in a rental house — how lonely and helpless she must be!"

Lan Menglian hearing Liang Xinghu accuse her like this, she also got angry:

"What method can there be! If you're capable, you take her and raise her well!"

This period she was alone, both had to bring the daughter and come out to work, long since near collapse.

Liang Xinghua did not answer her question, but coldly asked:

"Didn't I give you twenty thousand yuan child support before? You better not tell me it's all spent!"

Lan Menglian for a moment didn't know how to answer.

That money indeed was all spent.

Precisely speaking, it was all cheated away.

Her online dating partner not only cheated her person, but also in the name of investment cheated her money; later discovering no more money could be squeezed from her, he directly disappeared.

She cried to heaven, heaven didn't answer; cried to earth, earth didn't respond; only then did she suddenly awaken, realizing she had encountered a swindler.

But she was too embarrassed to report to police, because such a thing happening, letting others know, she would feel very shameful.

So in the end, to pay rent, to scrape a meal, Lan Menglian could only come out to be a waiter.

She accompanied the daughter by day, and at night came to this barbecue shop to be a waiter.

By day she had to bring the daughter, many shops wouldn't take her, afraid she'd bring the child over and affect business.

So by day she could only bring the daughter to pick up trash and scrap paper, earning a bit of money this way to supplement living expenses.

Then at night she locked the daughter in the rental house, and herself came out to be the barbecue shop's waiter.

Having come out to earn money herself, Lan Menglian only then realized, so money is this hard to earn.

In her heart she also began to reflect on herself: back then toward Liang Xinghua, was she overly harsh?

The main thing is, she too needed a man to support her.

Whoever this man was didn't matter; even if it was Liang Xinghua, this ex-husband she utterly despised, it would do.

Otherwise she really might not be able to hold on.

"The money was all cheated away."

Lan Menglian ultimately chose to come clean.

That was a show of weakness toward Liang Xinghua.

Showing weakness hinted that their conflict could be eased.

"What?!"

Liang Xinghua was shocked out of his wits.

Although he had long suspected that Lan Menglian's so-called investment was probably a scam.

Now hearing Lan Menglian say it herself, it was still hard to accept.

After all, twenty thousand yuan was no small sum.

"I warned you long ago, but you wouldn't listen—the child support paid in advance, you got cheated out of it all, so what about your daughter's support from now on!"

Liang Xinghua was huffing and puffing with anger.

He had taken a blow in his career, and now his ex-wife was giving him more trouble.

He even felt that Lan Menglian was a complete idiot!

Too stupid to live!

How had he ever fallen for such a stupid woman before?

Not only stupid, but self-righteous too!

"Now that things are like this, what do you want me to do? I've already come out to work!"

Making Lan Menglian admit her mistake was impossible.

The biggest trait of a stupid woman is never admitting she's wrong.

Liang Xinghua was furious to death.

But he still held back.

He said nothing more to her.

He only said coldly:

"Give me the rental house key, I'm going to see my daughter!"

Lan Menglian didn't insist or act stubborn this time, not refusing Liang Xinghua to see his daughter, but silently handed the key to Liang Xinghua.

Because her daughter was alone locked inside the rental house, she was actually worried too.

Liang Xinghua took the key, then told Lan Menglian to get a takeout box and pack up all the uneaten barbecue to take away.

Then he drove to Lan Menglian's rental house.

Lan Menglian saw that he actually drove, and couldn't help but be surprised.

She really wanted to ask, how did Liang Xinghua get to drive?

Liang Xinghua came to the rental house and opened the door with the key.

The house was pitch black inside.

Feeling along the wall, he turned on the light.

Only to see the room was a complete mess.

Filthy beyond filthy.

His daughter Liang Ailan was asleep on a bed full of garbage.

The sudden light stung her eyes, waking her from her hazy sleep.

"Daddy, Daddy, is it you? Am I dreaming..."

Liang Ailan rubbed her eyes, speaking softly and pitifully.

She still thought she was dreaming.

Because she hadn't seen her father for a long time, not even during the Spring Festival.

Seeing his daughter like this, Liang Xinghua's eyes welled up at once.

He hurried over and picked up his daughter:

"Daughter, you're not dreaming, Daddy has come to see you!"

Liang Ailan wailed "wa" and burst into tears:

"Daddy, Daddy, I miss you so much, won't you abandon me, okay?"