Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband-Chapter 601 - 582: Du Guangjun’s Helplessness

The son is distant, the husband is like that, the daughter is good to her, but she’s not on the right path, a bittersweet fate.

Qiu Hualan didn’t even know how she got out of Liang Hongmei’s store, faced with everyone’s reproach, she had no strength to talk back.

Her daughter made mistakes, yet here she is with a thick skin, coming to look for scolding.

As she was leaving, Qiu Hualan bumped into a man coming her way, initially dazed, the collision directly knocked her and the child onto the ground.

"Sorry, sorry, are you okay?" Du Guangjun, having just heard about the situation with Liang Hongmei, hastily came over and unexpectedly bumped into someone.

Qiu Hualan was already worried about her daughter’s matter, and after what Liang Hongmei said, felt aggrieved; now, being bumped into, she almost cried. Seeing the child was fine, she finally sighed in relief.

Du Guangjun quickly helped her up, "Sis, are you okay? Anywhere uncomfortable? I’ll accompany you to the hospital for a check-up. Is the child alright?"

"I’m fine, just couldn’t keep my balance," Qiu Hualan, supported by Du Guangjun, staggered unsteadily.

Seeing the situation wasn’t good and watching her carrying a child, Du Guangjun didn’t dare leave, already at Liang Hongmei’s store door, felt unwilling to go now.

After weighing his thoughts repeatedly, he still gave in, "Sis, where do you live? I’ll take you home. Seeing you like this, your condition doesn’t seem well."

Qiu Hualan, seeing he had a bicycle, and herself needing to walk a while carrying the child to catch a ride, just nodded. Anyway, she had no mood now, so she decided to bother him for the day.

"Thank you, comrade."

Du Guangjun rode his bike to take Qiu Hualan home. On the way, it wasn’t easy biking; by the time they reached her place, he was sweating profusely.

Feeling guilty, Qiu Hualan quickly invited him inside for water before he left, "Comrade, sorry for the trouble today, it’s my fault for not watching the road, come have a drink, don’t catch heatstroke."

Qiu Hualan said, and hastily turned on the electric fan for him to cool off.

"It’s my fault, rushing too much," Du Guangjun felt uneasy at her home, seeing seemingly only she was there, he drank some water but hesitated to sit to avoid suspicion.

"I saw Bro going into the hot pot store, do you know Hongmei?" Qiu Hualan asked.

"Oh, Sis knows Hongmei?"

"Yeah, we’re from the same hometown."

Qiu Hualan’s words eased Du Guangjun a lot, he laughed, "What a coincidence, this must be fate. Sis, what’s your surname?"

"My surname is Qiu, Qiu Hualan. This child is my grandson."

"I’m Du, Du Guangjun, you look younger than Hongmei, I’ll call you Sister Qiu then."

"Brother Du is polite."

They exchanged a few words in the room, then Du Guangjun rode to the hot pot store, leaving Qiu Hualan watching his departing figure with doubt.

Back home, hearing from Liang Weixiang and her daughter, Liang Hongmei seems to have a suitor here. Seeing this man’s anxiousness just now, probably it’s him.

Liang Hongmei sure has luck in love, meeting such excellent men.

Failing to reach Liang Hongmei, Qiu Hualan could only keep calling. Fortunately, the last call reached the army district...

....

Li Liang was pressed by Wei Xue early in the morning to turn himself in. According to Wei Xue, pushing all this matter onto Ye Qing.

"Sir, I truly had no idea about this. We had once back in school, but I realized my mistake, stopped contacting her, and gave her all the compensation. She agreed too. We owe each other nothing, no idea why she would harm my family like this. Please clear us, Sir."

"Are you saying you have no connection to this, any evidence?"

"Yes, yes, yes," Li Liang said, taking out a note from his pocket, handing it to the staff, it contained words of Ye Qing threatening him to divorce Wei Xue, otherwise... she’d trouble Wei Xue’s family.

Li Liang, adept in drawing, mimicking handwriting comes easy for him, the report letter he submitted wasn’t even in his usual handwriting style.

Therefore, he wasn’t worried about being exposed by the staff.

Seeing the note, the staff took it to find the leaders.

Li Liang felt reassured seeing everything was working out, secretly muttered: Ye Qing, don’t blame me for being ruthless, one must protect oneself above all.

....

Rushing to the hotpot place, Du Guangjun found a man dressed in a military outfit standing next to Liang Hongmei, laughing and chatting. This infuriated Du Guangjun, thinking Liang Hongmei rejected his advances because she found someone better.

For a moment, he snorted, impulsively wanting to ask directly, but then noticed Liang Hongmei’s son and son-in-law were present.

They affectionately addressed the military-dressed man as Dad.

This made Du Guangjun pause, quickly retreating, puzzlingly pedaled away, heading to Sister-in-law Tang’s home. Away for days, he wanted to ask her what happened, who the man beside Liang Hongmei was.

Lin Wan made calls at home to relatives and friends who’d helped in recent days. Not knowing Second Uncle’s whereabouts. She got through to Wei Jian Country and Zheng Youmin.

In the midday, Mom and others didn’t return; Lin Wan made soft noodles, mother and daughter took turns eating a bowl.

Little Star now could eat half a bowl of rice from a child’s bowl. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Walking unsteadily, constantly thinking of running around, holding onto the trampoline in the yard, was energetically wandering. Playing quite joyfully.

In the afternoon, Yin Peibai brought some goods over from Su Ling, arriving at Lin Wan’s home together with Su Ling and child.

Few people, along with two children, organized the goods.

"Xiao Wan, days ago, Su Ling and I got two overlock machines from a failing garment factory in our city. But they said delivery by month’s end."

"Really? That’s fantastic, what’s their price?"

"Each machine for two hundred," Su Ling gestured with her fingers, "Someone from our factory’s workshop, her sister’s husband works at the garment factory, he knows the equipment in-charge well, so I asked her to find out, he said could get us two new ones."

"Alright, two is enough for us now. When the machines arrive, we’ll process those clothes. Sell them, maybe earn a thousand bucks, covering our machine costs."

"Exactly."

"At year-end, when we calculate, if the funds are enough, let’s buy a site. Peibai, you must save some, if there’s a good spot, quickly find out."

"Don’t worry, I’m constantly on it, recently, our unit’s leaders are frequently meeting upstairs. Seems to be good news."

"Leave the factory matter to you."

After organizing the goods, Lin Wan looked at Little Star and Tiger, took a trip to the store together, then, the three headed to the hot pot place.

Dad, brother, and Han Yi were busy in the kitchen then. Meanwhile, Mom and sister-in-law were outside talking with Yin Peibai’s mom, and Aunt Jin. Even Aunt Tang and Uncle Liu came over.

"Hongmei, truly unexpected your husband returned, if you hadn’t insisted, imagine if you ended up with Guangjun, I would’ve felt like a sinner. Today Guangjun came looking for me. Saying he saw a man by your side, and asked what’s going on. Sigh. I just explained the truth. I bet he’s feeling uneasy alone, forlornly walked from my home. Sigh, I feel bad. I always feel I’m the culprit," Aunt Tang, a warm-hearted person with a kind soul, can’t tolerate seeing others in trouble, even giving food or a penny to beggars on the street.

Can’t stand hearing negative stories, such as some son’s unfilial acts or some daughter’s misfortune, upon hearing the start, she’d stop others from speaking further, feeling uncomfortable inside.

So, encountering someone like Du Guangjun, she just felt uneasy.

"Sister Tang, it’s not your fault, initially with Old Du, I rejected it. But never thought, he... sigh" Liang Hongmei too couldn’t articulate clearly. This matter always was unclear.