novelraw Chapter 600 - 595: Severing All Hope
Chapter 600 - 595: Severing All Hope
Qiu Xiu is sensitive and meticulous. She looked at Luo Dashan, thinking that his health hadn’t fully recovered and that he had just separated from Zhou Yunmei, which might make him feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Luo Dashan was soft-hearted and might be coaxed by others just a few days after the separation.
No matter how you put it, they had spent a lifetime together, and there was still some affection. It was hard to guarantee that Zhou Yunmei wouldn’t come up with some ideas when Luo Dashan was feeling unaccustomed. This might turn into another farce, achieving absolutely nothing.
She felt that it wasn’t good for Luo Dashan to be alone at home. To thoroughly rid him of his attachment, they must move Luo Dashan away. So, she deliberately spoke up to remind Luo Zhiyong and others, "Elder brother, what do you plan to do in the future? Will you go to the city to live with Zhiyong and them?"
Hearing this, Luo Zhiyong immediately said, "Dad, come to the city. I’m worried about you being alone at home."
Luo Dashan shook his head, still reluctant to move to the city, "Zhiyong, haven’t I made myself clear? I’m not accustomed to living in the city. I prefer to live here."
Luo Zhiyong frowned and decisively rejected, "What kind of life can you live alone at home? No, it won’t do."
"Yes, Uncle Dashan, go to the city," Fang Pingying, seeing that Luo Zhiyong was determined to take Luo Dashan to the city, also helped to persuade, "If you’re worried about being bored in the city, Zhiyong can rent an apartment near my parents’ place for you. You can live near them, casually visit their home, and during the weekends, Yaoyao and Ruirui often go there with my mom to play with Haohao."
Previously, Fang Pingying hadn’t heard Luo Zhiyong specifically talk about this matter. She thought it would be the same as before, messy and chaotic. After making a fuss, Luo Dashan and Zhou Yunmei would still end up together as usual, being many years married. If he didn’t want to separate, no one could really force him.
She didn’t expect that this time, Luo Dashan had actually decided to separate from Zhou Yunmei, which naturally was something Fang Pingying was happy to see.
Although it’s said that elderly people having companionship makes life more comfortable, a companion like Zhou Yunmei only added to the risk of being angered to death or harmed. It’s better not to have such a companion.
Thus, since they had separated this definitively, Fang Pingying also felt it was best for Luo Dashan to move to the city.
Firstly, Luo Dashan’s health wasn’t good, and they could take care of him in the city.
Secondly, once in the city, Luo Zhiyong and the others no longer needed to worry that Zhou Yunmei would coax Luo Dashan with sweet words, bringing them back together, or that Zhou Yunmei might plot something against Luo Dashan.
When Fang Pingying mentioned Haohao’s name, Luo Dashan thought for a moment and asked, "Is Haohao the child of Zhiming and Fang Xiu?"
Whether or not Haohao was Luo Zhiming’s child, Fang Pingying was not sure, she just nodded, "Yes, he’s Fang Xiu’s child, just one month younger than Yaoyao and Ruirui."
Luo Dashan anxiously asked, "How is the child’s hand now?"
Fang Pingying replied, "He has been to the hospital, it’s nothing serious."
Luo Dashan nodded and didn’t say much further. Luo Zhiming had always insisted that the child wasn’t his, and towards the end, Fang Xiu had also admitted as much. There was nothing he could do to insist that the child was his biological grandson.
In his heart, the child definitely couldn’t compare to Yaoyao and Ruirui, yet he too had some affection for him since Fang Xiu was carrying the child while living at the Luo Family’s residence.
Qiu Xiu and Luo Dahe didn’t know about this matter. When they talked about it, they immediately asked about it. Fang Pingying knew that Luo Dahe wasn’t someone who would speak without reason, so she briefly explained the situation about Zhou Yunmei hurting Haohao’s hand and staying in the police station for a few days.
After hearing this, Luo Dahe shook his head, not wanting to comment more on Zhou Yunmei.
However, Qiu Xiu sighed, "Oh, Yunmei really has brought trouble upon herself. That child is so small, it doesn’t matter whether he is her grandson or not, how could she bring herself to hurt him?"
When Luo Honglan heard this, she hurriedly said, "Second Aunt, you don’t know my mother is beyond help. Not to mention Haohao, that day in the hospital she even beat Yaoyao, hitting Yaoyao’s buttocks until they were bright red."
"Oh." Qiu Xiu shook her head and stopped talking.
Then, they discussed the matter of Dashan going to the city. Dashan insisted on not going, while Zhiyong insisted on going, and neither father nor son could persuade the other.
Finally, seeing that no persuasion from anyone was working on Dashan, Zhiyong became angry and shouted, "Dad, aren’t you worried that if you keep living here and the relationship with them keeps being unclear, when something happens, it will drag us into it again?"
After a pause, Zhiyong continued, "I might be sent on a mission as soon as I return to the city, and I won’t be back for a year and a half. By then I really won’t be able to manage these messy situations. If you get into another mess, I’ll see what you do."
Hearing Zhiyong lose his temper, both Luo Dahe and Qiu Xiu tried to mediate, and eventually, Dashan stopped insisting and agreed to go.
But before leaving, Dashan also prepared for the possibility that he might come back to live here at any time.
If he really returns in the future, leaving the house as it is won’t do; it’s impossible for everyone to live in the same courtyard.
So, following Fang Pingying’s suggestion, Zhiyong, with Luo Dahe and some villagers who knew how to build, erected a wall in the middle of the Luo Family’s courtyard, completely splitting it into two halves.
Dashan also built a new entrance on his side. From then on, the two sides would have nothing to do with each other, like water from separate wells.
During the construction, both Xu He and Luo Zhiming were not at home, as there was friction in the family, and they had gone back to stay with Duan Fenghua.
That same afternoon, Luo Zhiming took Xu He to the town hospital for a check-up. Since Duan Fenghua knew the doctors in the town hospital, she had already informed them, so the doctor confirmed that Xu He had been pregnant for over two months, the same duration given by the city hospital.
With this, Luo Zhiming had no doubts anymore. Regardless, at that time, Xu He and the loan sharks were complete strangers, so there could be no entanglement. The child was definitely his.
For Luo Zhiming, having a child meant more than it might to others; perhaps, for his whole life, he would only have this one child, and he could not afford not to care.
Thus, he completely let go of the matter of Xu He being with another man and wholeheartedly forgave her, devoting himself to Xu He with the sole wish that she would deliver the child safely.
So, while Fang Pingying and others were helping to build the wall on this side, only Zhou Yunmei was in the courtyard. Zhou Yunmei sarcastically criticized this side a few times, but since the words were not excessively offensive, they just let her be.
Building the wall was a quick process, completed on the second day, and on the third day, Luo Zhongyong and Fang Pingying and others returned to the city.
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