The mining disaster has not happened yet, the return of educated youths to their hometowns has not yet begun, and all his relatives are still alive.
He still has a chance to save everything.
Li Wenjun grinned, but hot tears fell down. He had thousands of words in his heart, but when he came to his mouth, there was only one sentence.
"I'm back."
He wanted to reach out and hold Gu Zhanyan tightly in his arms, telling her his thoughts and guilt over the years.
However, Gu Zhanyan shrank, lowered his head and turned around to protect the child: "Don't do anything, the child is still here. If you have anything to say, talk to me."
Her voice trembled because of fear, and her originally bloodless face became even paler. The red slap mark on her cheek became even clearer.
Li Wenjun's hands froze in mid-air.
He almost forgot that at this moment, in the eyes of others, he had done all kinds of bad things, including gambling, stealing, drinking, playing hooligans, and beating his wife. He was recognized as a bad man by the entire mining area.
Even in the eyes of his relatives, he was expelled from all high school technical schools and was a brat who refused to change despite repeated admonitions.
Gu Zhanyan was not only afraid of him, but also disgusted and hated him.
When he came home drunk last night, Gu Zhanyan said something that made him feel uncomfortable. When his mind got hot, he slapped her conveniently.
Gu Zhanyan was beaten and fell to the ground.
Li Wenjun saw that she didn't cry a word and just fell asleep silently. He thought the beating didn't hurt her, so he didn't take it to heart at all and just fell asleep.
Her face was still swollen like this after a night. It turned out that it wasn't because she didn't feel any pain, but because she just couldn't hold back and kept silent.
How could he be so harsh? What a bastard!
Li Wenjun couldn't help but cursed himself again, and the ecstasy in his heart was replaced by guilt and distress.
"sorry."
Gu Zhanyan ignored him and carefully went down the other side to get out.
Li Wenjun hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop her: "Don't leave."
He was scared.
The situation now was so weird that he couldn't believe it.
What if, as soon as she goes out, he can't see them again...
Gu Zhanyan clung to the wall and avoided his hand, as if she wished she could hide inside the wall.
How rough he was to her would make her so scared.
"Don't leave..." Li Wenjun felt even more guilty: "I'm sorry. In the past, I was too stupid. From today on, I will never do anything to you again."
Although I know that he has done so many bad things, it is impossible to atone for his sins in just one or two sentences.
But he couldn't help but keep apologizing to Gu Zhanyan.
After all, this will make him feel better.
Gu Zhanyan didn't seem to hear, his face was expressionless and his eyes were lowered, but his arms holding Diandian tightened.
She had a habit of ignoring the damage done against him.
He didn't understand before and thought she looked down on him.
So every time she does this, he gets angrier and more rude to her.
The result was that Gu Zhanyan was even more afraid of him and avoided him even more.
Diandian was forced to cry by Gu Zhanyan,
Gu Zhanyan hurriedly let go, patted and comforted her, and waited until she stopped crying before answering in a low voice: "I'm going to the canteen to buy breakfast."
"I'll buy it." Li Wenjun replied quickly.
Gu Zhanyan glanced at him quickly, his eyes full of caution.
This bastard definitely has no good intentions.
Not to mention asking him to buy breakfast, if he is in a bad mood, even if she prepares a meal and asks him to come and eat it, he will probably lift the table and curse at others.
Li Wenjun's face heated up: "It's too hard for you to take care of your children at night. I will get up early to buy breakfast from now on."
Gu Zhanyan frowned: "What do you want to do? I don't have any money here. You don't have to pretend like this, I really don't have any money to give you."
He even lowered his face to please her, but she thought he wanted to lie to her.
Sure enough, you have to pay back everything you do when you come out to hang out...
It's no wonder she didn't believe her. After all, he had taken away her only living expenses from her several times before.
Tonight, he even took the only money he had at home and walked away irresponsibly.
So now it is useless to say anything, you can only prove yourself with actions.
Li Wenjun pointed to his face and signaled to her: "Your face is swollen, it's not good for others to see it."
He was named and criticized by the team yesterday. If he is known to beat his wife again, he might be fired directly.
Gu Zhanyan lowered his head again.
Li Wenjun knew that she had believed his temporary excuse, so he asked in a gentle voice: "What do you want to eat?"
But in the past forty years, he has never had the opportunity to talk to others so gently, so no matter how sincere he is, his smile is... so fake!
Gu Zhanyan turned her back to him and replied expressionlessly: "Whatever."
Li Wenjun could only turn to please his daughter and smiled fondly: "Diandian, daddy will buy you milk, okay? Just stay at home with mommy."
His smile was more natural than before, after all, he was facing his heart.
The little baby, who was still unaware of his sorrow, grinned, saliva flowed from his toothless mouth, and repeated Li Wenjun's words.
"Papa...milk..."
As soon as I saw my daughter's smile, the joy and sweetness that I had just regained came back.
Li Wenjun raised the corners of his mouth and put on a white shirt and army green pants.
The toes were exposed in front of the white socks, and the edges of the rubber shoes were torn, but they were more comfortable than any other luxury goods.
He stamped his feet, ran to the kitchen, quickly washed his face with cold water, looked up and saw himself in the mirror, his smooth and white face without any wrinkles.
Not to mention the fact that he could make up for his mistakes, just looking at himself at such a young age made him extremely happy.
He grinned at himself in the mirror: "Welcome back. This time, you have to work hard and make sure the whole family is fed, clothed, safe and healthy!"
Li Wenjun took out an old lunch box from the drawer of the chest of drawers in the living room and opened it. There were only a few meal tickets and cent tickets inside.
Gu Zhanyan quickly snatched the box and hid it between Diandian and his own body.
"What are you going to do? Your salary won't be paid until half a month, and your family only has this little money to buy groceries?"
Li Wenjun smiled: "Don't be nervous, I just want to buy some groceries."
Gu Zhanyan became more and more nervous.
Buying groceries?!
Do not make jokes.
How does he know how to buy groceries?
He didn't care whether there was rice at home, so how could it suddenly be so easy to buy groceries? In fact, he just wanted to test where she hid her salary.
In fact, the clothes Diandian wears are thick and long-sleeved in spring and autumn, and they are a bit short.
If Li Wenjun hadn't taken away all the money and had no money to buy cloth, she should have made some thin clothes for Diandian.
Anger made Gu Zhanyan's chest feel clogged and his lips numb.
She clutched the box tightly and turned her back to Li Wenjun: "You don't need to buy groceries."
Knowing that Gu Zhanyan was wary of him, Li Wenjun didn't mind, he just thought about how to get some money as soon as possible.
Because he only had two or three dollars in his pocket.
Although he came back, he went from being extremely wealthy back to an era of abject poverty overnight.
