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Chapter 76 How Can a Loving Father Not Be a Hero? (Singles' Day Third Installment)
The two hadn't reacted to Fang Senyan's words when they were suddenly stunned. Fang Senyan's hands shot out like lightning, grabbing their hair and slamming their heads together! Fang Senyan didn't want to kill them, so he held back some strength. However, these two local thugs were clearly far less resistant to blows than Hua Shanfei's men. Their eyes rolled back, and they swayed a few times before collapsing to the ground like mud. It seemed impossible for them to stand up in the short term.
The pimp who specialized in luring people in almost popped his eyeballs out. He never expected that this "sucker" in front of him would transform and fight back in an instant! When Jiu-ge and Da Lei usually drank, they boasted about how they could charge in and out of a crowd of seven or eight hundred people with a watermelon knife, how they could punch Zhao Zilong of Changban and kick Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Chu. But now, they fell with a single touch!
At this moment, Fang Senyan's eyes turned to him with ill intentions. The slippery man was immediately frightened, waving his hands and backing away.
"Comrade… police comrade! Have mercy!"
Fang Senyan shrugged helplessly.
"Wallet, hand it over."
The slippery man was stunned and dazed. He then realized that he was being double-crossed! Seeing Fang Senyan raise his fist, he immediately took out his wallet and offered it with both hands in the quickest way possible. Fang Senyan pointed at the two unconscious guys on the ground.
"And theirs."
This guy was obviously very sensible and immediately went over to strip the two clean, then presented his loot with both hands. However, these three thugs were setting up a scam here, so they were penniless. It looked like a large handful of loose bills, but it added up to less than thirty yuan. However, Fang Senyan didn't come for the money. After walking out the door, he searched the two wallets and found what he needed most: an ID card! With this genuine item issued by the Public Security Bureau, Fang Senyan could finally soar like a bird in the sky and leap like a fish in the sea! As for checking if the photo on the ID card looked like him... except during crackdowns, who would bother with such trivial matters?
After walking out of the small courtyard, Fang Senyan's mind flickered, and he clenched the metal box-shaped flask in his hand. Perhaps because he had returned to the real world, the metal flask seemed to have gained some warmth, as warm and smooth as human body temperature. In addition, it was trembling slightly on its own, like a heartbeat. At the same time, Fang Senyan received a series of relevant information:
"You have brought the soul equipment: Endless Vodka into the real world."
"You have triggered related conditions."
"Soul Mission: Lotus Root Soup has been activated."
"The last wish of the Contractor's soul entrusted to Endless Vodka is to drink lotus root and pork rib soup cooked by his mother."
"Hint: After accepting this mission, you can obtain the Contractor's memory fragments."
After Fang Senyan chose to accept the mission, his mind suddenly "buzzed," and many images immediately appeared before his eyes...
His name was He Weiguo, a name with distinct characteristics of the era. At that time, when the Sino-Vietnamese War of Self-Defense broke out, many simple people regretted not being able to go to the battlefield, so they took all means to express their support for the motherland. Obviously, the child's name was also included in this category.
He Weiguo's hometown was on the Loess Plateau, where the land was barren and the conditions were backward. When he was twenty years old, he married a local woman. But his wife died of dystocia in the second year, leaving only a son to depend on him. But when his son was seven years old, he unfortunately suffered from severe lupus erythematosus. He was often bullied by his peers and called a mange dog, and could only secretly shed tears and swallow his anger, while He Weiguo worked in other places and could not take care of him.
Finally, one day, He Weiguo heard about his son's experience. He also had a fiery temper, so he directly found the home of the classmate who bullied his child the most. But the parent of this child was also a local contractor with money and power, who called a few people to beat He Weiguo and his son badly. He Weiguo's ferocity was aroused, and he pulled out the pig-slaughtering knife he carried with him and stabbed them one by one, killing three people, even the little classmate who had been bullying his son!
After killing people, He Weiguo fled with his son. When he was about to run out of options, he entered the Nightmare Space. Obtaining power from the space, he used some illegal means to become economically well-off. During this period, he also did a lot of bad things and committed many crimes. And his only belief in fighting in the Nightmare Space was to cure his son's illness so that he would no longer be called a "mange dog"!
However, He Weiguo's life trajectory came to an abrupt end in the Caribbean world. He was used as a pawn by the decision-makers in the team. Facing the tide of pirates, He Weiguo was hacked to pieces, but he had no resentment in his heart when he died, because he had left a fortune for his family in the real world.
And the only thing he couldn't forget before his death was the warmth of his mother waiting for him to return home when he was a child. His mother would first roll up her trouser legs and scoop out a few sections of autumn lotus root from the old fish pond in front of the door covered with frost, and then go to the butcher uncle next door to exchange ten *jin* of corn for one *jin* of corn-fed pork ribs, and then simmer the pork rib soup in a casserole for three hours. In this ordinary soup, probably because of the mother's strong and sincere love, this fierce man could not forget the steaming maternal love even until his death.
Fang Senyan stood there for a long time, and couldn't help but feel a complex and unspeakable feeling in his heart. Was He Weiguo a good person? There was no doubt that he wasn't. He had been involved in as many as eleven murders, ranging in age from eleven-year-old boys to seventy-year-old old men. He was irritable, prone to gambling and prostitution, and had done almost all the bad things. But on the other hand, he was willing to risk his life for his son, and he was free and clear in the face of death. In the end, what remained was his nostalgia for his mother. Such a contradictory and complex life experience shocked Fang Senyan's heart for a long time before slowly dissipating like cooking smoke.
Two days later, Fang Senyan arrived in Chongqing.
This was He Weiguo's temporary residence after fleeing from his hometown. He rented two seemingly dilapidated houses outside the Third Ring Road in a low-key manner. His mother and son lived here together. No one would have thought that they were people with assets of more than one million. Fang Senyan walked outside the house, and from a distance, he heard crying from inside the house. He couldn't help but be shocked in his heart: If He Weiguo's mother died unfortunately, how could he complete this task? He saw an elder sister next door coming out and hurriedly asked what happened.
As a result, the elder sister sighed and said:
"This family is really cursed. The man of the house had an accident first, slipped off the building and died. Then, a few days ago, the child was abducted by traffickers. The old lady cries at home every day. I don't know when she'll die."
Fang Senyan knew that anyone who died in the Nightmare Space would be arranged a reasonable way to die in the real world, so He Weiguo's death was within his expectations. But no matter what bad things he had done before, it was like a lamp going out when a person died! His son was completely innocent, why should he suffer such a tragic fate? Perhaps it was because of a feeling of empathy, Fang Senyan's anger suddenly rose, his face turned iron blue, and he took a deep breath and began to knock on the door of the He family.
Fang Senyan waited for five or six minutes before someone came to open the door. It was He Weiguo's mother. She was only in her fifties at this time, but her hair was all white, her eyes were red and swollen, and she was already hunched over. The complexion on her face was pale, and she said in an indifferent and desperate tone:
"Who are you looking for?"
Fang Senyan took a deep breath and said:
"Auntie, please sit down. I am a good friend of Weiguo for many years. I heard about his misfortune a few days ago, so I made a special trip from out of town to come over."
When He Weiguo's mother heard her son's name, tears could not stop flowing down again. She cried intermittently:
"I knew something would happen to Weiguo. Where is money so easy to earn? Our family was born poor, otherwise, we wouldn't have forced the child to a dead end. This old useless person of mine should also die. I didn't take good care of the only seedling left by Weiguo! He was abducted alive!"
Fang Senyan closed his eyes and said coldly:
"I heard about this as soon as I came. Auntie, tell me everything you know, and I will get justice for your family."
He Weiguo's mother sobbed and said the details of the matter. It was actually very simple. Five days ago, she took her grandson Xiaojun to the street to buy groceries. When she passed by the vegetable market, she was stopped by a Xinjiang young man pushing a cart selling *Sachima* (a type of pastry). This young man insisted that she try his new variety. Most elderly people like to get cheap things. When they heard it was free, they ate it directly. As a result, she was forced to buy it. Of course, she was unwilling to be taken advantage of, so the two had a dispute. By the time the old woman thought of her naughty grandson, at least twenty minutes had passed!
The next thing was naturally anxious searching, crying, and finally despair. After calling the police, the attitude of the police was also indifferent and chilling. Many murder cases have not been solved, so this kind of small missing case is naturally perfunctory, not to mention that the law stipulates that missing persons are not criminal cases, unless you can have evidence to prove that it is a case of abduction and kidnapping, it is not even enough to file a case!