He guessed correctly that the middle-aged man was Wu Zhizhi's biological father Wu Mingyong.

When Wu Mingyong saw Wu Zhizhi enter the store, he quickly smiled.

He was wearing a gray-blue jacket, with his head slightly lowered. His big goldfish eyes and high nose bridge meant that he looked good when he was young, but he was not tall, about 1.72 meters tall, with a sparse hair, and a typical honest image.

Wu Zhizhi walked in and ignored him.

She went around the back door and threw the bag in her hand on the wooden chair.

The atmosphere was awkward.

Wu Mingyong's fist placed on his knee was slightly curled up.

Mama Wu didn't dare to speak either.

Both of them were waiting for Wu Zhizhi to speak.

But Wu Zhizhi walked to the stove as if nothing happened, and slowly wrapped her apron.

Seeing this, Wu Mingyong glanced at Wu's mother.

Mother Wu pursed her lips and tentatively said, "That... Zhizhi, your father is back, so he will do this in the future?"

Wu Zhizhi glanced at the two of them, both of them looked at her nervously, pleasing to her.

Wu Zhizhi didn't say anything and turned her eyes to the beef brisket rice noodles on the table, "Beef brisket, 15 yuan, I'll give it money before leaving."

Wu Mingyong looked embarrassed.

Mama Wu was also in a very difficult situation, "Zhizhi..."

"Don't want to give it?" Wu Zhizhi raised his eyebrows, went to the side to get the landline, and dialed a number, "Hey, is the police station? Someone here doesn't pay for food..."

"No, no! Why don't you want to give it? I gave it to you..." Wu Mingyong quickly took out his wallet and gave it to her fifteen dollars. "Don't call the police, put down the phone quickly. Am I giving it to you?"

Wu Zhizhi collected fifteen yuan, stuffed it into the pocket of her shirt, glanced at him, "Let's go."

"..." Wu Mingyong looked ugly, hesitated for a moment, and sighed: "It's just a trivial matter. Zhizhi, do you have to call the police? If the police are called, how can you let your father be a human being in the future?"

"What does it have to do with me when you are a human being? It is natural to pay for food. If you have money, I welcome you to come and eat at any time. If you have no money, I'm sorry, we are not a charity hall." She answered simply, with her eyes covered with smoky makeup, staring at Wu Mingyong coldly.

Wu Mingyong was a little scared when she looked at him like this, "Hey, don't dad just want to come back to see you?"

"I don't want money." She raised her eyebrows and looked cold. "If you want to eat, you can just come and report your name. If you are full, leave. No one will welcome you here."

"Zhizhi..." Wu Mingyong looked at her with a lonely face.

People who don’t know the inside story think she is bullying an honest person.

But it looks like an honest person. When gambling, relatives refuse to recognize each other, when losing money, they are scolding the world, and when asking for money, they are like grandsons, and they can kneel on the ground and cry bitterly.

Wu Zhizhi no longer cared about him, picked up the internal organs that Wu Mingyong had processed this afternoon, threw them into the water to clean and process them.

This approach is undoubtedly a slap in Wu Mingyong in the face.

His face turned pale and he finally waved his sleeves and left.

When Wu's mother saw Wu Mingyong leaving, she sighed behind her.

Wu Zhizhi turned her back to her, her face gloomy, "If you feel uncomfortable, go inside and rest. Don't always sigh here."

"Zhizhi, he is your father at least, and you shouldn't treat him like this."

"Okay, stop talking, go in."

"I'm doing these things for you? You're going to be in the third year of high school soon. If no one is guarding this business at home, where will you get the time to review? How can you go to college?" Wu's mother still couldn't bear to have her daughter buried her life like this. Now she is young, of course she thinks it's okay. What if she can do it? Do you really want to be in this small town for the rest of her life?

Her own life was hard and failed, and she didn't want Wu Zhizhi to do the same. She hoped that her daughter would take the college entrance examination and have more choices to be the person she wanted to be in the future.

Wu Zhizhi's move to deal with beef brisket was paused, but he didn't look back, "I will find a way myself, you don't have to worry."

"How can I not worry? Look at your current transcript? If you fail the subject, you are often late and skip classes. If you continue like this, your life will be ruined."

Although her mother is a feudal remnant, she truly loves her children and is abused to this day because of her children.

Wu Zhizhi said: "If you really care about me, don't provoke Wu Mingyong in the future."

"I don't want you siblings to be ridiculed by outsiders? Everyone says you have a mother but no father..."

"Isn't it okay if you don't go and listen? Do you think no one will laugh at our house if you ask him to come back? Who doesn't know that you were beaten every day in the nearby streets? Wu Mingyong was still looking for a lady to give birth to a son outside, so you still want to call him back? Aren't you afraid that he will be infected with the venereal disease? Or do you think that relatives and neighbors are not smiling enough?"

"You!" Wu's mother choked at the pain by her daughter.

"A child without a father will be laughed at by others, but it is a real joke to never divorce a trash man who is trash, who is gambled every day, and asks a lady to have a son for more than ten years!"

It sounds bad, but that's the truth.

Mother Wu's face looked extremely ugly. After a while, she lowered her head and smiled bitterly, "This is my good daughter. I am worried about you every day. In the end, I am such a despicable woman in your mouth?"

"I said that to you? It was the neighbors who said that. Don't you always listen to them counting me behind their backs? Now it's your turn, how do you feel?"

"I'm for your own good!" Wu's mother said in an impatient tone.

"I don't have to do it for my own good. I will make my own decisions about my business. Go in. I'm going to do business. Don't argue with me here."

Mother Wu was so angry that she turned her wheelchair and went in, and closed the door inside heavily.

Wu Zhizhiwang didn't know that he hadn't heard of it, so he lowered his head and slowly cut the meat.

After a while, she stopped her movements, then raised her head and took a breath, and continued to cut the meat.

Lu Yanshi was across the street. After seeing all this, he said nothing, and took her the bicycle over and locked it.

"Your key." He said, and he was about to throw it away.

"Don't, I'm cutting things, just put it in the box on the back table."

"It's OK." Lu Yanshi walked over and threw the key into the box.

This table was where Wu Tong usually studied, and there were many books and papers stacked on it.

Lu Yanshi saw what happened just now, but he did not intend to inquire about it. Every family has conflicts and difficulties. These are not something he can do, but he can't ask, no matter what he is here, he will say sympathetically to others, "Why are your parents like this?"

It doesn't seem to be interesting to say it, and it can't be changed by this.

"Then... I'll go back first." Lu Yanshi pulled down the headphone cable with both hands and said.
Chapter completed!