A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1479 The real culprit has been found! (Please subscribe!)

Cui Xiaohong didn't appear much in the original story, but she left a very deep impression on Hua Shier.

That's selfishness, extreme selfishness!
What she did was somewhat similar to Zhou Rong in 'The World of Man,' but in terms of selfishness, she was even more so.

It's fair to say that compared to Cui Xiaohong, Zhou Rong is nothing but a delicate flower.

Despite knowing that Feng Huacheng was undergoing labor reform, Zhou Rong disregarded her family's objections and secretly pledged her life to him.

That's bad enough, but Cui Xiaohong's behavior is even more outrageous!
Knowing full well that Huo Dongfeng was a scoundrel and a big hoodlum, she became pregnant out of wedlock with him and even gave birth to the child.

Zhou Rong, after all, had a child after getting a marriage certificate, and she stayed by Feng Huacheng's side during his labor reform.

But Cui Xiaohong acts on her own whims. What's a marriage certificate? It doesn't matter! Let's have the child first.

Huo Dongfeng was on the run for his life and was arrested just a few days after Cui Xiaohong gave birth.

Because of her relationship with Huo Dongfeng, Cui Xiaohong was gossiped about. When Grandpa Cui stood up for his daughter, he got into a fight and was injured and hospitalized.

As a result, during Mr. Cui's hospitalization, Cui Xiaohong not only failed to take good care of her father who was implicated by her, but also asked Cui Guoming to hold her son for a while, saying she needed to go out for a bit.

They never returned, and when they called back several days later, they found out they had gone to Japan.

Hua Shier is now Cui Guoming, and he clearly remembers what Cui Xiaohong told him back then:
"Guoming, come help me carry Erpang, I'm going out for a bit."

That departure lasted for more than a decade.

Moreover, Cui Xiaohong wasn't idle while she was with the Japanese. This woman married an old Japanese man and had another child in Japan. In the original story, she didn't return until her mother passed away, and she left again after handling the funeral arrangements. She didn't fulfill any of her responsibilities as a daughter or a parent.

To be honest, if Cui Xiaohong had waited for Huo Dongfeng, Hua Shier would have thought more highly of her.

But this woman only cares about herself.

At this moment, under Hua Shier's disdainful and mocking gaze, Cui Xiaohong's expression became increasingly unnatural:

"Guoming, please don't treat me like this. You know I have my reasons!"

Inside the house, Old Master Cui saw Hua Twelve go to open the door and stand there without coming in, so he asked curiously:
"Guoming, who's here!"

Hua Shier stepped aside, exposing Cui Xiaohong to Old Master Cui:
"See for yourself, this is a rare guest!"

Although they hadn't seen each other for many years, Grandpa Cui recognized his daughter at a glance and said with emotion:
"Little Red."

Cui Xiaohong's tears streamed down her face instantly. She walked in, her voice filled with remorse, and called out:
"dad"

Grandpa Cui raised his hand, unsure what to say, then sighed and pointed towards the bedroom:
"Go see your mother. She's been crying every time she thinks of you all these years!"

Cui Xiaohong thought she was seeing the old lady one last time, so she responded and went into the inner room crying. Seeing the old lady lying on the bed with her eyes closed, she quickly grabbed her hand and cried out:
"mom!"

The expressions on everyone's faces in the living room varied. Li Xiaozhen, who had been married into the Cui family for so many years, was seeing her sister-in-law for the first time. She stood up and asked Hua Twelve:
"Honey, this is our sister!"

Hua Twelve scoffed:
"Let's not try to get close to those Japanese people, aren't you ashamed?"

Erpang Huo Xiaoyang also looked at Hua Shier: "Uncle, is that my mom?"

Hua nodded twelve times:
"Oh, that woman is your own mother, the one who only cared about her own pleasure, got you out of there, and then abandoned you!"

Cui Mengmeng couldn't help but burst out laughing. Li Xiaozhen didn't know what to say either; how could her man say such things?

When Grandpa Cui heard him say that to the child, he glared at him:
"What nonsense are you talking to Erpang about? That's your sister!"

Hua Shier chuckled: "I won't argue with you. Just tell me which sentence I said was wrong?"

The old man wanted to defend his daughter, but he found that although Hua Shier's words were harsh, upon reflection, they were all true!
He had nothing to say, and could only say, "Then you can't tell the child everything!"

At this moment, the sound of Cui Xiaohong crying came from the bedroom. Old Master Cui couldn't sit still any longer, so he got up and pushed open the bedroom door. He saw his wife already sitting up, stroking their daughter's hair, while their daughter was sobbing in her husband's arms.
"Mom, I'm sorry, I was being unreasonable."

Seeing his mother crying her eyes out, Erpang took a tissue and went inside, handing it to Cui Xiaohong.
"for you!"

"Thank you!"

Cui Xiaohong took the child, wiped away her tears, and then, looking at the chubby child, subconsciously asked:

"Whose child are you?"

Everyone looked at Cui Xiaohong with strange expressions.

Erpang was also speechless and could only tell the truth:
"Your child!"

Cui Xiaohong was taken aback: "Huh?"

Erpang asked timidly, "I heard you're my mom? You look a lot like her in the photos!"

Cui Xiaohong's eyes widened: "You're Xiaoyang?"

After Hua Shier's acupuncture treatment, the old lady could speak without any problems, and seeing this, no one could bear to look at her like that:
"Xiao Hong, that's Erpang!"

Cui Xiaohong was also a little embarrassed, and quickly hugged Erpang's head:

"Erpang, my Erpang!"

Hua Shier curled his lip: "It's obviously fake!"

The old lady then introduced Li Xiaozhen to Cui Xiaohong:
"Xiao Hong, that's your younger brother's wife."

Cui Xiaohong released Erpang, wiped away her tears, and smiled as she was about to speak to Li Xiaozhen when Hua Shier interrupted her:

"Grandma, don't make up stories. What sister-in-law? What relationship do I have with Cui Xiaohong? You'd better give me a rest!"

Grandpa Cui couldn't help but say, "Guoming, how can you talk like that? She's your sister!"

"That little devil wants to be my older sister? Bah!"

After Hua Shier finished speaking, he said to the old lady:
"You should rest. I'll come back tomorrow to do acupuncture for you again!"

Then he called out to Li Xiaozhen and Cui Mengmeng, "Wife, daughter, let's go home!"

Li Xiaozhen smiled apologetically at Cui Xiaohong: "Sister, we'll head back now!"

Cui Mengmeng also said, "Goodbye, Auntie!"

Cui Xiaohong nodded awkwardly: "Oh, goodbye."

Hua Shier pulled Li Xiaozhen and Cui Mengmeng away.

After hearing the sound of the door opening and closing outside, the old lady sighed and said to Cui Xiaohong:
"Don't blame your brother. Erpang has benefited a lot from his uncle and aunt taking care of him all these years."

Back home, after her daughter went to sleep, Li Xiaozhen began to recount the day's events:
"Why are you being so harsh? She's your own sister after all!"

Hua Shier scoffed: "So what if she's my older sister? Someone like Cui Xiaohong is better off not having. If it weren't for the old lady, you'd be lucky to even see her!"

Li Xiaozhen thought about it and realized it made sense. Back when she married into the family, she wasn't even pregnant yet, but she already became a half-mother, helping to take care of Erpang. To say that she had no complaints about her sister-in-law would definitely be a lie.

After thinking about it, she decided not to try to persuade them anymore. After all, it was their own business, and as their daughter-in-law, she should just do her job.

Hua Shier leaned against the headboard and read his law exam book for a while. Li Xiaozhen came over and poked him with her toe:
"Hey, how long will your sister stay this time?"

Hua Shier didn't even look up:
"Stay as long as you want, it's none of our business."

Li Xiaozhen poked him with her foot again:
"I'm just worried about Erpang. His mother finally came back, and if she leaves again soon, I'm worried that the child won't be able to handle it!"

Hua Shier turned a page of his book and casually replied, "Don't worry, Erpang is much stronger than you think!"

In his heart, he was thinking that if Cui Xiaohong could leave this time, he would change his name.

Li Xiaozhen stretched out her foot to poke him again, and this time Hua Shier couldn't stand it anymore:

"You poked me first."

He lunged forward as he spoke, and then turned off the light.

Li Xiaozhen:
Hua Shier originally wanted to wait until Li Xiaozhen fell asleep before going out to run errands, but this woman wouldn't sleep for a long time and kept poking him with her feet. So, he decided to poke each other back, who was afraid of who?

After Li Xiaozhen fell asleep from exhaustion, Hua Shier snapped his fingers and entered the mirror space. In the mirror space, he used a portal to reach the Songhua River.

With a single step, the four realms of Heaven, Earth, Man, and God opened simultaneously, instantly transporting one into the inner realm.

Inside the scene, Hua Twelve travels back in time to the night Guo Dapao burned paper money.

At this moment, in the inner world of "Yesterday Once More", Guo Dapao is seen running over at midnight to burn paper money and throw knives.

Just a few dozen meters away, several anglers who were fishing at night were watching this side.

These fishermen must be the eyewitnesses that Da Zeng was talking about.

Hua Twelve released his divine sense and sensed the surrounding river. At that moment, there was no female corpse in the water.

Therefore, it can be confirmed that the female corpse that floated to the surface appeared in the river after Guo Dapao burned the paper money.

After Guo Dapao finished his rambling and incoherent work, he finally left the riverbank.

Those anglers who were night fishing were probably frightened by Guo Dapao's behavior. Fearing they might run into trouble late at night, they discussed it briefly, packed their things, and left quickly.

Hua Shier casually waved his hand, and time in the inner world began to accelerate. A moment later, he pointed:
"stop!"

Time seemed to speed up and stop. At this moment, less than half an hour had passed since Guo Dapao burned the paper money, and a figure riding a bicycle arrived at the riverbank.

The man was wearing the same green cotton-padded jacket as Guo Dapao, a dog-skin hat, and a mask, so his face was obscured. He was tall and thin, and his build was the only clue.

The tall, thin figure seemed to be searching for something, his eyes scanning the shore. Once he could make out the ashes of the burned paper money by the moonlight, he stopped his bicycle and muttered to himself:

"This should be it!"

The man carefully examined the terrain, then turned and rode away.

Hua Shier was somewhat puzzled and didn't understand what this person meant.

With a casual wave of his hand, time accelerated.

More than an hour later, a small boat appeared on the river, its silhouette visible in the distance.

The small boat glided along the riverbank, drifting with the current. The person rowing the boat was none other than the tall, thin figure who had just left. As he rowed, he glanced at the shore.

When he saw the ashes of burnt paper on the shore, the man cursed, "Damn it, this is so hard to find!"

After cursing, he turned the boat around and rowed towards the center of the river. When he was about 30 meters from the shore, he stopped and then threw a human-shaped object from the boat into the river.

Hua Shier suddenly understood. No wonder Guo Dapao still got into a murder case even though he helped him miss the 17th. It turned out that this was not a coincidence, but a deliberate frame-up.

Therefore, time is irrelevant; the key is the person lurking in the shadows, ready to frame Guo Dapao at any moment.

After the man disposed of the body, he rowed away. In the blink of an eye, Hua Shier appeared at the bow of the man's boat.

The man rowed the boat about two kilometers downstream, abandoned it, and let the small boat drift downstream. He then found a bicycle on the shore, rode it, and sped away.

Hua Shier exited the interior scene and scoffed:
"You were quite careful, not showing your face the whole time, but I've got my eye on you. I'll drag you out later!"

The reason Hua Shier didn't immediately go find the real culprit was because he had another matter to attend to that night: he was going to Japan overnight to cut off Cui Xiaohong's escape route.

The next day, after Hua Shier dropped Li Xiaozhen off at work, he went to Guo Dapao's house to check on her. He saw that the nanny Guo Dapao had hired was taking good care of Guo Dapao's father, so he praised her and gave her a reward of fifty yuan on the spot.

The nanny was overjoyed and thanked her repeatedly, saying, "Thank you, boss! Thank you, boss!"

Hua Shier performed acupuncture on Guo Dapao's father, chatted for a while, and then went to the Cui family to treat his own grandmother with acupuncture.

At this time, Grandpa Cui had already gone to work at Dingqinglou, and Erpang had gone to school. Only Cui Xiaohong and the old lady were at home.

Cui Xiaohong now knows that the hospital really did issue a critical condition notice for her mother, and that it was Hua Shier's miraculous acupuncture that brought her mother back from the brink of death. Seeing him treat her mother with acupuncture today, she couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Guoming, when did you learn acupuncture?"

Hua Shier didn't even lift his eyelids: "What does it matter to you when I learned it?"

Cui Xiaohong was speechless after being rebuked, and the old lady, unable to bear it any longer, slapped her son:
"Talk to your sister nicely, she's had a tough time too!"

Hua Shier chuckled and said, "You make it sound like it's easy for us!"

Cui Xiaohong quickly apologized:
"Guoming, it's all my fault. I've let you down all these years, and I've also let down Mom, Dad, and Erpang. Can you please forgive me?"

Hua Shier turned to look at her:
"You want me to forgive you? Fine, then promise me now that you won't leave again this time. Stay with your parents, take care of them, and fulfill your responsibilities as a mother. Take good care of Erpang. How about that? Can you promise me?"

"I"

After hesitating for a while, Cui Xiaohong finally managed to say, "Guoming, I have my reasons. Don't worry, I'll send you more money when I get back!"

"Send money? Do you think I need your pittance?"

Hua Shier sneered, "What hardship? Let me guess, did you find a sucker among the Japanese and marry him? Started a new family, huh!"

Cui Xiaohong was taken aback, then nodded and said:

"Since you've guessed it, I won't hide it from you anymore. My sister has had a hard life all these years, so she found someone to rely on over there."

The old lady was stunned: "Xiao Hong? You really looked for her?"

Cui Xiaohong nodded, took out her wallet, opened it, and showed the old lady and Cui Guoming a family photo of the three of them inside.

In the photo, besides Cui Xiaohong, there is an old man and a child.

Hua Shier couldn't help but laugh and said, "Wow, is this your husband? He looks about the same age as our dad!"

Cui Xiaohong was extremely embarrassed: "Guoming, this is your brother-in-law!"

"Brother-in-law my foot! Who is Huo Dongfeng anyway? You were the one who told me to call Huo Dongfeng brother-in-law, weren't you?"

Hua Shier spat:
"If that old devil really considers you his wife, why didn't he come back to see Mom when she was critically ill? Brother-in-law? Whatever makes you happy!"

After finishing the acupuncture, he didn't want to waste any more words with Cui Xiaohong and left as soon as he removed the needles.

Hua Shier went to the vegetable market where Guo Dapao sold meat. He stopped next to Guo Dapao's meat stall, right next to another meat stall.

A man was sitting behind the meat stall. When he saw a customer approaching, he stood up with a smile. He was a tall, thin man.

"Dude, you want to buy meat? Stop looking, this place's closed down, they arrested the guy!"

"Come and take a look at my pork; it's all fresh today."

Hua Shier looked at that familiar face: "You're a mage, right? I've got you!"

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