Father 011

"When you drove me out, we had already split the family. Have you forgotten?" Fang Zhiyi tilted his head.

The villagers standing by also recalled this incident and chimed in, "Exactly!"

"I remember it was a huge scene back then."

"Fang Zhiyi and his wife were really miserable at that time..."

Thinking back to that time, Fang Zhiyi's current attitude towards these people was absolutely justified!

It was unclear who started it: "Get lost! Fang Mingshan, hurry up and go home! Making a scene here in the middle of the night, aren't you ashamed?"

The crowd joined in the jeering, carrying a hint of wanting to curry favor.

"You, you bunch of wretches!" Liu Wenxia was anxious. She could tell that Fang Zhiyi had somehow stumbled into dumb luck and really made it big. This made her even more uncomfortable. Not to mention Fang Zhiyi tricking that dead old woman into stating the wrong amount of money, if she had known earlier, she would have asked him for another hundred thousand!

She also saw that wretched girl wearing new clothes, her eyes full of resentment. "Fang Zhaodi! Are you just going to watch your parents get bullied? He's not your biological father! Come back! Go home with me!"

Xiao Wu, tilting his neck with a punchable look on his face, wanted to step forward but was stopped by Fang Zhiyi's outstretched hand.

Fang Qingci somewhat regretted her curiosity, or rather, her worry. Seeing so many people looking at her, she felt incredibly nervous.

"Hurry up! Are you disowning your parents? I think you're itching for a beating again, aren't you?" Liu Wenxia habitually began to threaten her.

Fang Qingci started to tremble. She suddenly remembered the times she was beaten in that house: her grandmother's curses, her grandfather's cold stares, her younger brother's gloating, and her father adding fuel to the fire...

"No! I won't go back with you! This is my home!" Fang Qingci almost cried out these words, then turned around and rushed into the courtyard.

"Hey! You money-losing wretch, have you eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's gall?" Stunned for a moment, Liu Wenxia immediately tried to follow her. Before Xiao Wu could block her, Boss Wu stepped in front of her first. "Liu Wenxia! Aren't you going too far? You were the ones who didn't want Fang... Fang Qingci, and even adopted her out to Fang Zhiyi. Everyone here knows this. What? Are you going back on your word now?"

"What does it have to do with you? Get lost!" Fang Mingshan, who had taken two kicks today, was exceptionally furious. He was always the one beating Fang Zhiyi; he never expected to be beaten by Fang Zhiyi today.

Boss Wu rolled up his sleeves. "Fang Mingshan, are you fucking itching for a beating?"

Facing Fang Mingshan, his originally ferocious appearance was revealed. It was also this sentence that reminded Fang Mingshan of this neighbor's ferocity. He swallowed hard, pulled his wife, and said, "Fang Zhiyi! Just you wait! This isn't over!"

Seeing her son run away, Old Mrs. Fang stopped making a scene, merely cursed a few times, and hurriedly left.

The villagers dispersed one after another, and quite a few people sought out Xiao Wu, asking questions all at once.

Boss Wu rubbed his hands together and walked up to Fang Zhiyi. "Boss Fang, I know where I went wrong. Please be the bigger person and forgive my mistakes. Let me off this time..."

Fang Zhiyi glanced at him. He had to admit, this guy named Wu had some brains. In the original plot, he eventually made it very big. "Boss Wu, I don't have the final say in this matter."

Boss Wu craned his neck to look at the gate behind Fang Zhiyi and nodded repeatedly. "I understand! I understand! I'll go take care of it right away!"

Fang Zhiyi returned home, looked at Fang Qingci wiping her tears, tore off two pieces of tissue paper, and handed them to her.

"Weren't you afraid she would go back with her mother just now?" Little Hei asked.

"If she was still so confused and wanted to go back just now, then that would be her fate..." Fang Zhiyi said very easily. "A Heavenly Dao once told me that everyone's life is destined. Even if I forcibly altered her life, she would ultimately end up with the same tragic conclusion. I can easily imagine leaving a company to her, only for her to be harassed by these bloodsuckers, the company seized, the money stripped away, and they would even force her to marry someone..."

Little Hei felt a wave of lingering fear listening to this. "It's not impossible."

"But after meeting Sun Wukong, I suddenly realized that in some worlds, it's not like that at all. Didn't that Black Bear Demon's senior brother say something?"

"Huh?" Little Hei hadn't paid attention. It really disliked listening to those Daoist priests discussing the Dao; it was very boring.

"The Black Bear Demon said it wanted to calculate its future. Its senior brother told it... whether human or demon, or even all things in the world, there are actually millions of trajectories. But once the thought of observing them arises, the other trajectories will come crashing down, and ultimately only the one it focused on will remain."

"I don't understand." Little Hei shook its head.

Fang Zhiyi rolled his eyes. "The original words were even more obscure than this. I broke it down because I was afraid you wouldn't understand. I didn't expect your brain... is it completely filled with melodramatic plots?"

Just as they were talking, Fang Qingci suddenly spoke up, "Uncle... why are you so amazing?"

Fang Zhiyi looked at her. "Am I?"

Fang Qingci nodded. She had seen with her own eyes how Fang Zhiyi had someone make a few phone calls to shut up those villagers who liked to join in the fun, and even got Boss Wu to speak up for him.

Fang Zhiyi tore off two more pieces of tissue for her. "Some things aren't because I'm amazing, but because I was prepared in advance." Saying this, he took out a notebook from his pocket. Fang Qingci took it and flipped through it. Her uncle's handwriting was beautiful, and every page of the notebook contained information about each villager's family relationships, occupations, and so on.

"Uncle, you didn't..."

"From the day they adopted you out to me, I knew this would happen. After all, I know exactly what kind of people they are... If you want to succeed, you can't wait for things to happen before figuring out a solution. You have to anticipate what might happen... and then prescribe the right medicine for the problem."

Fang Qingci nodded.

"By the way, there's one more thing... you need to decide for yourself."

The next day, Fang Qingci still went to school, but this time Xiao Wu escorted her to the school gate.

When Fang Qingci walked into the classroom, a person suddenly springing out in front of her almost made her scream. When she looked closely, she almost didn't recognize him. Although Wu Xiaohu had been beaten quite miserably by those people a few days ago, today was much more exaggerated. Both sides of his face were swollen high, and he even limped a little when he walked.

Did those thugs strike too heavily yesterday?

Wu Xiaohu looked at Fang Qingci, then directly opened his mouth and shouted, "Fang Zhaodi, bah, Fang Qingci! I'm not spitting at you, I, I'm sorry! I was wrong! Please forgive me!"

His eyes were full of pleading, ignoring the strange looks from his classmates.

"Please tell your uncle that you forgive me, okay? Otherwise, I'll be beaten to death by my dad!"

Fang Qingci looked at Wu Xiaohu in front of her, the arrogance he displayed when bullying her flashing through her mind. After a moment, she shook her head. "You don't know you were wrong; you're just scared."