“That’s right. ” Lin Shiheng ‘s voice softened down and was so gentle.
“There is another gift that I am preparing. ”
“This is the last gift. If you get through it, I won’t do it again.”
“You devised this, Lin Shiheng. You devised all of this!”
Father Yun reacted quickly, clenching his teeth and pressing the recording button.
The other side responded happily.
Hanging up the phone.
Father Yun unbelievably picked up the phone and looked at it. He really hung up?!
It’s impossible! He can’t even record Lin Shiheng!
Unwillingly, he called again, but there was no answer.
The last chance to turn around, was gone.
He suddenly sat under the lamp, as if he saw his own future.
There was still a chance of survival when he was scolded by the whole world, after he tells the whole world that his father is a gentleman; But now the whole world knows that his father had attempted r*pe, he can no longer stay safe.
The negative impact is so great that his work place would no longer retain him.
And without a job, what’s the difference between him and a loser?
All this is because of Lin Shiheng.
Whether it was the destruction of his carefully set up image, or that his father is accused of r*pe, it is all planned by that person.
In addition to hatred, Father Yun began to fear.
Putting aside those comforting words, he knew exactly what he had done.
Lin Shiheng must have known these things since he was able to deal with him so painstakingly.
He likes Yun Xiangyi, so he wants to avenge her.
If he had done nothing, or had a clear conscience, he might not have been so afraid, but he was well aware of the harm that what he had done to his adopted daughter.
Lin Shiheng would never let him go.
The last gift.
The first two things have already ruined his reputation and made his father’s elderly standing.
The last one would only be scarier than the first two.
The more Father Yun thought about it, the deeper his fear grew.
He kept Yun Xiangyi in a mental hospital for ten years, and Lin Shiheng would certainly retaliate in the same way.
He can play people in the palm of his hand, he can easily defeat him. Such a fierce opponent that he can’t avoid.
What to do?!
Where would Lin Shiheng attack from?
What would he do?
Father Yun walked around the room anxiously, thinking about the bad things he had done.
In the past, he felt that people didn’t know those things, and he never showed any flaws. But now, after everything that happened ten years ago were dug out, Father Yun was on the verge of collapse.
Is it possible that Lin Shiheng found out the things he did at work?
If these things were exposed, he would be sentenced or fined.
There must be a lot of fines, although the sentence wouldn’t be much, but if he went to prison; even if he is only in prison for a month, his whole life would be ruined for this job.
No, his whole life is already ruined.
What to do? What should he do?
No one outside will believe him now, and they won’t believe his father either.
His wife can support him!
Yes!
If the wife gets a salary, she can support him.
As long as he stays at home and never goes out for the rest of his life, what else can Lin Shiheng, a guy who only plays with public opinion, do?
As long as they don’t contact the Internet, keep hiding at home, netizens would forget about it quickly, and then after a period of time, won’t they completely forget about this matter?
At that time, he can have plastic surgery. Change his looks with plastic surgery, move to another place, then he can still start a new life.
Father Yun’s flustered heart gradually calmed down and looked slightly relaxed.
***
He was soothing his nerves when suddenly, there was a violent knock on the door.
“Open the door!”
“Unlock and open the door!”
Father Yun was startled by the loud noise, this was completely different from the reporter knocking on the door. It was simply and bluntly expressing that they were looking for trouble.
Clutching his heart pounding with fright, he walked quietly to the door and looked out through the peephole as quietly as possible.
At first glance, his blood seemed to freeze in his body.
It’s the debt collectors!
Father Yun finally thought of the one thing he had forgotten during this period of time.
He still owes money!
He has been hiding at home all this time, and he forgot about it.
Then the question arises.
Now that the payment has been delayed for such a long time, how much did he owe now?
Father Yun’s face suddenly turned white. He huddled behind the door, listening to the clanging knock on the door for over 20 minutes. In the end, he didn’t know what they were doing outside. He didn’t even have the courage to take a look through the peephole. He could only lean against the wall like a zombie and listen to the movements outside.
It was not until it was quiet outside for over an hour that he dared to look through the peephole, but he couldn’t see anything clearly.
After waiting for another half an hour, Father Yun carefully opened the door. There was no one outside, but the floor was covered with red paint.
When he went out the door, he found the words ‘repay the debt, if you don’t pay the money, we will kill your family’, written on the door with red paint.
Father Yun’s legs suddenly turned to jelly.
His mind was blank and he couldn’t think of anything. He turned and went back into the house with shaking legs. He put his documents and all the cash in the family into his bag, quickly found a cap and put it on his head, then hurriedly left the only home known to his debtor with a bag on his back.
The money went through so many days of interest, he doesn’t have to think about it to know that even if he sold the house and car, he still couldn’t afford to pay them back.
Father Yun has seen the methods of these debt collectors, and these people have all seen blood. If he is really stabbed now, there will be nothing left when he dies.
He escaped so fast that he didn’t even think about how a wife and a daughter, of someone who owed a huge amount of debt, would face the debt collectors. He also didn’t think about his father, who was still in the public security station.
Indeed, as Lin Shiheng expected, when it came to the critical moment, no matter how decent he usually pretends to be, he would still only take care of himself.
Father Yun ‘s flight plans did not go well.
At first, he quickly left the city and chose another big city.
It’s just that this is a society with a developed network, and even if Father Yun tried to disguise himself, some people would still recognize him as the bastard-adoptive-father on Weibo.
Of course, the person who recognized him wouldn’t do anything to him, at most, he would look at him with curious eyes, so no one would come forward to talk to him. After all, he is not a positive person, and it would be embarrassing if they recognized the wrong person.
But Father Yun doesn’t feel lucky at all. As long as he was looked at, he would get goose bumps all over and subconsciously want to run away.
On the tenth day of his escape, the beard that had been trimmed every day had grown shallowly. The man who always paid attention to his image in the past, wore gray clothes, a mask and cap every day, and didn’t even dare to eat outside. Every time, he could only take food back to the place where he lived, after buying it at a small stall.
His cash will soon be used up. His family gathered all the money in the bank on one account for his daughter’s move abroad, and the card had been with Mother Yun all this time.
Father Yun knew that if he is called back now, Mother Yun wouldn’t give him any money. He could only blame that he was frightened by the debt collectors at that time, and actually didn’t want to leave.
For Mother Yun, it means that her husband left a pile of debt and ran away on his own. How could she be willing to give the family’s money to him?
While Father Yun regretted it, he should have coaxed his family’s money into his hands before running away. So, he had to gnash his teeth and think about how to live.
These days even if you go to a hotel to apply for a waiter position, you have to show your ID card. Once his ID card leaks out, not to mention the whole network that knew Yun Xiangyi’s adoptive father’s name, just the fact that it was likely to alert the debt collectors about where he is, was enough to stop Father Yun from moving.
If he doesn’t move, he wouldn’t have any money. If he has no money, where would he live, and what would he eat?
***
Father Yun was walking down the street, thinking about the problem, and then for a moment, he saw a wallet in a man’s pocket in front of him.
He went up and naturally slipped the wallet into his hand without arousing any reaction from the man.
Father Yun was so excited that he took the wallet to a remote alley. He opened it and found that there were nearly a thousand yuan in it.
The money was enough for him to live for a while.
For a while, not forever…
The money ran out quickly, and this time Father Yun took to the streets again with a purpose, searching for a target in the crowd. This time, when he stole a wallet, it felt very smooth.
“Hey, thief!”
“The man in the gray hat is a thief. Come on, catch him!”
This time Father Yun lost his luck for the first time. The owner felt his wallet leaving his pocket and immediately shouted at the top of his lungs.
Father Yun felt what it was like to be a rat crossing the street for the first time. He had to run for his life before he could escape the man chasing him.
(TNote: a rat crossing the street/ [过街老鼠] ɡuòjiē-lǎoshǔ = rat passing along a street—person hated by everyone.)
Finally, he hid in an alley, just wheezing for a while. A man suddenly came in at the entrance of the alley, “Hey!”
Father Yun was so startled that he almost thought he was coming to catch him, and hurriedly stepped back.
“Don’t worry, I’m on the streets, too.”
The man was tall and strong, wearing a mask like Father Yun. He approached and looked at Father Yun, warily and asked, “you don’t look like a professional pick-pocket at all. Is there a problem with your identity?”
“Do you want to buy an ID? I have everything here, and it’s cheap, and you can return it if you can’t use it.”
Father Yun hesitantly took another step back.
When the man saw that he didn’t believe it, he shrugged. “Seriously, I won’t lie to you. If you have hands and feet, you shouldn’t be a thief. You might as well buy an ID from me and find a job. Don’t worry, as long as you don’t go to a state job, no one would find out it’s a fake.”
Father Yun was moved.
If it had been a few days ago, he might have refused, but after feeling the joy of getting something for nothing, he no longer wanted to go to work.
But now, after tasting the taste of being hated by everyone, he doesn’t want to be a thief.