Zhou Yuni’s voice was perated with a touch of sorrow and also with a tinge of incomprehension as she retorted to Luo Honglan, "Hong Lan, I never mistreated you, why are you treating this way?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Honglan let out a cold laugh and roared back over the phone, "You haven’t mistreated ? If it weren’t for my sister-in-law coming to my rescue with others on that day, you would have already sold off. How much worse does it need to get for you to consider it mistreatnt? Are you trying to kill or what?"
After Luo Honglan finished speaking, she was so angry that she almost hung up the phone but was stopped by Li Yuchun and Li Aihua, two nosy people.
Li Yuchun whispered in Luo Honglan’s ear, "Don’t hang up. Let’s see what she wants to say. She definitely called with a purpose."
Only then did Luo Honglan rember that after all their conversation, she still didn’t know the real reason behind Zhou Yuni’s call. She sighed, suppressing the anger in her heart, and voiced out, "Stop beating around the bush, just tell what do you want with this call?"
There was a silence on the other end of the phone from Zhou Yuni, who finally tentatively said after a while, "I called just to ask how your dad’s health is. Where is he?"
Luo Honglan naturally knew she wasn’t that well-intentioned and had no intention of entertaining her, so she replied directly, "My dad..."
Originally, Luo Honglan planned to hang up imdiately after saying this, no matter what Zhou Yuni on the other end would say. But just at that mont, Luo Dashan and several children ca back. As soon as Luo Dashan saw Luo Honglan on the phone, he assud it must be a call from Luo Zhiyong, because if it were a call from Fang Pingying’s family, Fang Pingying would be at ho now and would not let Luo Honglan answer the phone.
He excitedly walked over quickly, while snatching the phone from Luo Honglan’s hand, he said, "Is it your older brother calling? Let talk to him, I haven’t spoken to him for a long ti; I want to ask about how his troops are spending the New Year."
However, as soon as Luo Dashan put the phone to his ear, Zhou Yuni on the other end, recognizing Luo Dashan’s voice, excitedly shouted, "Dashan, is that you?"
"..." Luo Dashan was stunned for a mont, and upon recognizing Zhou Yuni’s voice on the phone, he paused.
Thinking Luo Dashan hadn’t realized it was her, Zhou Yuni imdiately yelled, "Dashan, it’s , your wife Yuni. Do you recognize my voice?"
The smile on Luo Dashan’s face disappeared, and after being silent for a while, he responded with a cool tone, "What do you want calling here?"
Zhou Yuni could sense the coldness in Luo Dashan’s voice over the phone, and she felt rather uncomfortable, but for the sake of the purpose of her call, she couldn’t just hang up.
So, pretending not to notice Luo Dashan’s reaction, she asked with a bit of a pleasing tone, "Dashan, when are you coming back?"
"I won’t be coming back."
Upon hearing that, Zhou Yuni quickly said, "Why won’t you co back? This is your ho after all."
Luo Dashan also understood that Zhou Yuni’s call would surely not bring anything good; the family was probably struggling to get by.
He sighed and gently admonished Zhou Yuni with a few words, "Yuni, we’ve already separated, you should stop ntioning our past. Just take good care of Zhiming and the others; Zhiming has children now, don’t let him idle around at ho. Have him go out and work, don’t let the ho turn into a ss."
As Luo Dashan got to this point, Zhou Yuni suddenly broke down, and she started to cry over the phone, "The ho is already a ss, you left, and what resembles a ho anymore? Old man, do you know how I spent the New Year today?"
Luo Dashan remained silent, and Zhou Yuni, while still crying, started to tell her story, "Xu He, seeing that I had 100 dollars last ti we divided the family assets, has been coveting to take that 100 dollars from to save up. I planned to keep the money in case I fell ill and needed it for dical expenses. Seeing that I refused to give it to her, on this New Year’s festival, she deliberately took Zhiming to her mother’s house to celebrate, leaving only all alone at ho on New Year’s Eve, without even getting to eat dumplings, I just ate a few stead buns."
"This..." Luo Dashan, after hearing Zhou Yuni finish talking and her wailing sobs, felt extrely pained and sowhat softened, but what could he do? Just as Luo Honglan said, he was now being supported by Luo Zhiyong and his siblings, what could he do?
After "This" for quite a while, Luo Dashan didn’t know what else to say and ended up just sighing deeply without uttering another word.
After a long silence over the phone, and Zhou Yuni not hearing Luo Dashan speak, she cautiously asked, "Old man, are you still there?"
"I am."
Zhou Yuni, realizing that continuing this way was futile, directly stated the purpose of her call, "Dashan, if you really aren’t coming back, can you send so money back? It’s not for , it’s for Zhiming’s child. In a few more months, the baby will be born, and we have nothing left at ho. When the ti cos..."
Zhou Yuni stopped mid-sentence, hesitated for a mont, then clenched her teeth and suddenly said, "No matter what, Zhiming is your biological son, and the child he’s about to have is your biological grandchild. No matter what, in your heart, his child can’t be less than Zhiyong’s, right?"
That remark made Luo Dashan’s heart skip a beat. He hadn’t expected Zhou Yuni to bring up that matter suddenly and he sought to stop her, "You..."
But before he could finish, Zhou Yuni continued on, "Old man, regarding the past, I had promised you before that I would never bring it up, and I haven’t for all these years. But you need to be fair, how have I treated Zhiyong over the years? Even if I haven’t doted on him like Zhiming, I’ve never treated him unfairly, I’ve always considered him like..."
At this point, Luo Dashan’s forehead veins throbbed, unable to listen any longer, and he interrupted her abruptly, "Enough, if you’ve finished what you have to say, I’m going to hang up."
After a brief pause, Luo Dashan quickly added, "I’ve heard what you’ve said."
After saying that, Luo Dashan didn’t wait for Zhou Yuni to speak again and hung up the phone directly.
After hanging up, Luo Dashan stood there, dazed next to the phone for a good while, his mind in turmoil from the words Zhou Yuni had just said, completely unsure of what to think.
Fang Pingying and the others, who were wrapping dumplings on the side, although they were chatting, were also all ears to Luo Dashan and Zhou Yuni’s conversation, curious about what kind of trouble Zhou Yuni was in now. But they couldn’t make anything out from Luo Dashan’s responses and were sowhat disappointed.
Seeing Luo Dashan’s deanor change for the worse after finishing the call, Fang Pingying pushed Luo Honglan a bit and pointed in Luo Dashan’s direction, signaling her to go ask.
Luo Honglan saw this and imdiately ran over to Luo Dashan’s side, asking, "Dad, what did mom say to you?"
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