Chapter 125 Dai Ping
Dai Ping lay on the bed in the hotel that had a faint odor, with his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling, unable to fall asleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, he seemed to see the smile of his wife Lu Ya.
He couldn't tell what he was thinking now. Was he regretful? He was. Was he guilty? He was guilty. After all, they had loved each other so much and they had a son. But at this moment, he felt more relaxed and relieved.
Dai Ping doesn't even want to recall how he managed to get through the past two years.
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Lv Ya and Dai Ping, both of whom were born in poverty, met each other through an introduction when they first started working. Although they were not very satisfied with each other at the beginning, Lv Ya was gentle and virtuous, and Dai Ping was warm and considerate. There was nothing special about either of them, so they just tried to get along with each other. As time went by, their feelings gradually warmed up in their constant interactions. In addition, both parents were not picky, so marriage was put on the agenda.
It was just such an ordinary beginning, a smooth process, without many family difficulties, social tests, not as dramatic as in TV dramas, just the formation of an ordinary family, countless families in this world are born in the same process. Both of them have mature minds, and they are not looking forward to a vigorous love like young boys and girls, but just hope to find someone who is pleasing to the eye, to support each other, and to accompany each other for life.
True love comes after marriage.
After marriage, the couple did not find any unbearable bad habits in each other. On the contrary, the husband found that his wife had a tolerant and generous personality and superb cooking skills under her ordinary appearance, and she also knew how to enjoy life. The wife saw her husband's thoughtfulness in taking the initiative to do most of the housework every day, and that he studied hard every night to take on the civil service examination in order to take on the responsibility of the family. Every day, it seemed that they could discover new advantages in each other, and every day, they felt that the couple became more in tune. Not only did marriage not lead them to the grave of love, but it allowed them to truly taste the sweetness of love.
Until that disaster happened.
Dai Ping and his wife didn't have much savings. They worked hard in the big city, and everything cost money except air. So they couldn't afford the medical treatment after the car accident. But both parents who lived in small towns had houses under their names. If they sold all the houses and borrowed some money from relatives, they could barely make up the medical expenses for Lu Ya. But this meant that both parents, who were old, would have to live a homeless life and owe a lot of foreign debts that they didn't know when they would be able to pay off. Lu Ya's treatment was not a one-time thing, and the subsequent recovery treatment would cost a lot of money. Even so, there was no guarantee that she would be completely recovered like a normal person...
After considering various factors, they finally made the decision to give up further treatment.
Since then, Lu Ya has changed.
She was full of resentment and thought that everyone had let her down. She often ordered Dai Ping around and insulted him at every turn, and she didn't care about her son. Because she was paralyzed in bed, she had to rely on her husband for everything in her life, so Dai Ping became all she could rely on. Any change in his mood would make her suspicious. She was afraid that Dai Ping had been seduced by some little vixen outside. Every day she would interrogate him about who he met and what he did, secretly read his text messages and phone calls, and search his clothes and shirts. If she found a long hair that might have been stuck somewhere because he sat, she would become hysterical and cry loudly. She was sometimes happy and sometimes angry, sometimes sad and sometimes full of resentment . This situation did not improve as time went by, but became worse. Sometimes she answered a call from a female colleague or friend to Dai Ping. Even if the other party was a female director in her 50s at Dai Ping's unit, she would suspect that the other party was seducing her husband and cursed at her on the phone regardless of the consequences.
Dai Ping was patient at first because he felt guilty towards his wife. But he had to go to work during the day, and he had to go home to cook three meals a day, take care of all the housework, take care of his wife and children, and always be careful not to irritate his wife's fragile nerves with his words. He was really too tired. However, because he never left his seriously ill wife, his colleagues, relatives, and friends praised him for this, and because this incident helped him a lot in various aspects, they were all watching him. His behavior made people around him believe that true love still exists in this world, but their "belief" formed moral pressure, which made him unable to give up Lu Ya. He felt that he was suffering every day since he opened his eyes, and he could not see hope or future. He just endured it day by day.
——Dai Ping, who only recalled the events from his own perspective, forgot that the decision to give up treatment was initially proposed by Lu Ya herself; she had also asked for a divorce, with her son to be raised by Dai Ping, so that their lives might be easier; when she saw that Dai Ping was almost being dragged down by life, she even tried to commit suicide, hoping not to become a burden to them.
——When did Lu Ya start to become hideous? Perhaps it was after the failed suicide attempt that she realized the value of life and had a strong desire to survive; perhaps it was because she was trapped in a small room day and night, enduring loneliness, darkness, the shame of incontinence, the guilt and powerlessness of being unable to do anything, and all kinds of dark emotions gradually occupied her once kind and tolerant heart; perhaps it was when Dai Ping's inadvertent emotional changes revealed that he began to regret, felt that she was a burden, and began to avoid facing her, the husband's gradually deepening disgust destroyed her safety fortress, made her desperate, and made her torture herself while torturing others.
But Dai Ping would not consider these. From his own perspective, he only felt aggrieved and suffered for two years. In the past, he could only endure that kind of life, hoping that one day when Lu Ya died, he would be free. But with those hundreds of thousands, he could start a new life. He did not expect to become rich immediately, but the same money used to treat Lu Ya's illness might not cure her. After all, two years of treatment had been delayed, and it could not solve their current debts and the dilemma of not even having a house. If he did not use it for treatment, even if he used the capital to start a small business, life would gradually get better, right?
After excusing himself for a long time and with hope for the future, Dai Ping's mood gradually improved. He was not sleepy, so he turned on the TV.
A documentary was playing on TV, showing a group of little penguins migrating with their parents, looking around, chirping and looking restless, looking very cute . Dai Ping was quite interested and watched for a while. Suddenly, the TV screen went black. He thought it was because the TV in the small hotel was of poor quality and was about to take a picture, but the picture jumped out again.
"Ah!!" Dai Ping screamed and jumped up from the bed, then shrank to the wall and looked at the TV screen in horror.
——The new picture was not of a little penguin, but of the deceased son of Lu Ya and Dai Ping. In the black and white photo, the woman and the child still had a smile on their faces, staring at him. Seeing such a photo in the middle of the night was as terrifying as it could be.
Dai Ping screamed and ran out of the door. The hotel owner was lying drowsy at the front desk. Dai Ping grabbed him and spoke incoherently about what had happened to him, so he simply dragged him into the room to see.
On TV, a few penguins fell into a ball like a fool.
"What do you mean you saw the pictures of your wife and son on TV? Are you dreaming?" The hotel owner shook off his hand, said contemptuously, turned around and walked away, yawning.
Dai Ping was skeptical, but after calming down, he thought it was probably a dream. However, he was still a little frightened, so he turned off the TV and went to sleep.
The next morning, Dai Ping went to the hotel front desk to check out. Even if it was a dream, he still felt uneasy about this hotel and didn't dare to stay there any longer. The hotel owner checked him out without any concern.
The computer at the front desk has two screens, one for the owner and the other for the tenants. Dai Ping and others were checking out and looked at the screen out of boredom. Suddenly, the screen flashed and turned into a red-circled newspaper screenshot. The content was very brief, about a paralyzed woman who committed suicide with her four-year-old son yesterday morning.
Dai Ping's heart skipped a beat, and he felt a tingling sensation from his scalp to his spine. His hands, which were placed on the front desk, began to tremble involuntarily.
"Hey! Hey! Stop daydreaming! This is your deposit, keep it safe!" The hotel owner knocked on the table impatiently. He had called out several times, but the man in front of him just stared blankly and didn't respond, as if he had lost his soul.
Dai Ping woke up with a start and took the deposit with sweaty palms. He forced a smile and pointed at the display screen and asked, "Boss, are you still showing news on this?"
“No!”
The hotel owner said this sternly, looked at him with a look that said "you idiot", turned around and ignored him.
Dai Ping, with a pale face, didn't know how he walked to the street. He wandered around like a ghost for a long time and saw two telephones next to a newsstand on the side of the road. He hesitated for a moment, walked over and called a former colleague, lowering his voice and lying that the caller was his friend, asking about his family's situation.
"I don't know where Dai Ping has gone. I can't get in touch with him... His wife committed suicide, and her child died with her..."
Dai Ping's hands began to shake violently.
There was a very small display screen on the phone that showed the number and time. At this moment, the news he had just read was popping up word by word on the screen, like black eyes blinking at him.
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"Dai Ping is dead." Wandou reported the result with a somewhat low tone.
"Hmm?" Rong Yuan made a questioning nasal sound.
"He rushed to the road and was hit by a car and died," Wandou said. To be precise, Dai Ping was almost driven crazy by the photos and news that followed him everywhere, and rushed to the road in a panic without knowing the direction, and was hit by a speeding car and flew several meters away, dying on the spot.
"No traces left, right?" Rong Yuan asked.
Pea said, "No."
Dai Ping's last-minute thought led to disastrous consequences, but he did more good things than bad things in the first half of his life, and most importantly, he did not have the opportunity to commit serious crimes, so his negative merits were not high.
Because of Dai Ping's incident, Rong Yuan was deducted nearly 10,000 merits because of the money that led to Dai Ping's bad behavior, the death of Lu Ya and the child, the misuse of the charity funds, and other bad things. Of course, this is not much for Rong Yuan's current merits of tens of millions, but it is not a number that can be easily ignored. Dai Ping's death can only make up for it slightly. The most important thing is that Rong Yuan couldn't swallow his anger if he didn't do something because his kindness was wasted and losses were caused. But when he saw Pea's unhappy expression, he suddenly realized that killing Dai Ping was nothing to him, but as the spirit of the "Book of Merits", it would be difficult for Pea to accept such a thing.
"Sorry." Rong Yuan said apologetically, "I won't let you do this again."
Pea shook his head and was about to say something when he suddenly heard the sound of the door lock being opened. He quickly turned into a pen. Ever since Jin Yang pointed out the problem with the headphones last time, Pea began to consciously turn into different but common objects without Rong Yuan's instructions.
Jin Yang pushed the door open and came in, saying hello, "Xiao Yuan, a kid came to me and claimed to be your brother, Rong Yuanyuan. Do you know him?"
"Tell him to get out." Rong Yuan said without thinking.
