When Wang Hao went back to get his things, he only saw several garbage bags.
He tried to enter the house, only to find that even the door lock had been changed.
Wang Meijuan had been waiting for him, holding Li Borui in her arms:
"Hao Hao, what should I do? What will Ruirui and I do?
"Dad went back to Wangjia Village. I can't go back there; Ruirui has to go to school."
Wang Hao's head throbbed. He had lost his own home, and now he had to deal with his sister's family.
Frustrated to death, he rummaged through the garbage bags. After finding a few important items, he told Wang Meijuan:
"Don't come to me. I'll say it again: I'm not Li Borui's father. The person you should be looking for is Li Jun."
Wang Meijuan cried, "I did look for him, but he won't talk to me. Hao Hao, you're the only one your sister has left.
"Didn't you just get five hundred thousand? Give me a hundred thousand."
Wang Hao thought he had misheard. "How much do you want?"
Wang Meijuan repeated herself, "I'm not asking for much, just a hundred thousand is enough.
"Hao Hao, your big sister isn't greedy."
Wang Hao laughed out of sheer anger, grabbed a garbage bag, and walked away.
A hundred thousand. How dare she even ask.
He had just gotten the five hundred thousand, and immediately, one after another, they were coming to him for money.
Liu Chunlan wanted some, and Wang Meijuan wanted some.
On what grounds?
Did they all think he was a pushover? Why didn't any of them dare to bother Wang Kai?
Wang Meijuan put Li Borui down to chase after him. She caught up with Wang Hao downstairs:
"Hao Hao, what do you mean? You're not going to give me the money?"
Wang Hao didn't even know what to say:
"Big sister, why on earth should I give it to you? I'm just your younger brother. Why would I give you a hundred thousand?"
"Why wouldn't you?" Wang Meijuan raised her voice:
"When I got married, Mom took hundreds of thousands in bride price and spent it on you, didn't she?
"Dare you say she didn't give you money to buy this house and this car?
"Wang Hao, I used to care about saving face, so I never pointed it out. That's why I only asked you to save a room for me.
"But looking at you now, you don't want to admit that you've used my money, do you?
"We are blood siblings, how can you be like this?
"I am in real difficulty right now. If I had even a little bit of money, I wouldn't be asking this of you.
"Hao Hao, Hao Hao, please think about it for your sister's sake."
Wang Hao started smoking again. He took several deep drags before telling Wang Meijuan:
"Listen closely. I never saw a single cent of your bride price. All your money is with Mom.
"As for where she spent it, I have no idea.
"Big sister, if you want money, go find her. Don't follow me."
Wang Meijuan watched helplessly as Wang Hao left. She returned to the hallway in a daze, only to discover to her horror that Li Borui was gone.
There was no one in the pile of garbage bags.
No one in the hallway. No one anywhere.
She shouted loudly, "Ruirui, Ruirui, where are you?
"Ruirui, Li Borui!"
No one answered her. She panicked.
She took the elevator back down and searched everywhere in the residential complex, but she couldn't find any trace of Li Borui.
Her face turned pale with fear, and she quickly called Liu Chunlan and Wang Hao.
Not long after, Wang Hao came back, and Liu Chunlan rushed back as well:
"How did he disappear? Weren't you watching him?"
Wang Meijuan cried anxiously, "I just stepped out with Hao Hao for a second, and he was gone.
"I can't find him, I've looked everywhere.
"What should we do? What on earth should we do?"
Wang Hao hurried to the security room, and the guard pulled up the surveillance footage for him.
Just as Wang Meijuan had chased Wang Hao downstairs, Li Borui had also come down holding a ball.
But he didn't play with the ball in the complex; instead, he kicked it out of the gates.
Wang Meijuan was utterly speechless:
"Where... where could he go..."
Wang Hao immediately called the police.
A few minutes later, the police officers started checking the surveillance cameras along the road.
Wang Meijuan searched the streets like a madwoman:
"Son! Ruirui! Ruirui, where are you?
"Come out quickly, Mommy is dying of worry, Ruirui!"
She couldn't find him, but the police did.
They spotted Li Borui in the surveillance footage.
He kept running and running after his ball. Finally, the ball rolled onto the road, and when he rushed over to get it, he was swept under a car.
Upon hearing the news, Wang Meijuan almost fainted. They hurried to the hospital.
Li Borui was indeed there, already undergoing surgery.
The driver was trembling all over with fear, giving a statement to the police:
"It's not my fault. I was just driving normally, and he suddenly dashed out.
"I was driving very slowly. You can check the cameras, I really was slow. I wasn't speeding."
Wang Meijuan stepped forward and slapped him hard across the face:
"Are you blind? Couldn't you see a person right there?
"If anything happens to my son, I will never let you off the hook. Never!"
The driver kept explaining and explaining, but Wang Meijuan wouldn't listen to a word.
She leaned against the door of the operating room, panicking endlessly.
He can't be hurt. Please, he must be okay.
Liu Chunlan grabbed the driver, demanding compensation:
"You dared to hit my eldest grandson! You must pay us one million."
The driver didn't even dare to speak anymore.
Only Wang Meijuan's crying and Liu Chunlan's cursing echoed in the hallway.
An hour later, the operating room doors opened.
A nurse shouted, "Family! Who is the family member?"
Wang Meijuan quickly ran up. "Me, I'm his mother! Is my son okay? He must be fine, right?"
The nurse handed her a surgical consent form:
"His life is saved, but one of his legs needs to be amputated.
"Sign this quickly, we need to operate immediately."
"What? Am... amputated?"
Wang Meijuan couldn't believe it. She absolutely refused to believe it:
"Impossible. He was perfectly fine, why would he need an amputation?
"You must have made a mistake, right? That's not my son in there, is it?"
The nurse confirmed again, "Are you the parent of the child brought in from the car accident? The child woke up and said his name is Li Borui."
"No!"
Wang Meijuan shook her head frantically:
"That's not my son. My son couldn't possibly need an amputation. How could he?
"I won't sign. I'm not signing."
The nurse had no choice but to continue:
"Please sign as soon as possible, we still need to perform the surgery.
"Otherwise, it won't just be a matter of amputation. His life could be in danger."
Liu Chunlan was also crying continuously. Only Wang Hao tried to persuade Wang Meijuan:
"Sign it, sister. Sign it right now. Saving his life is the most important thing.
"If he loses his leg, he can get a prosthetic later.
"Hurry up and sign!"
Gripping the pen, Wang Meijuan shakily scrawled her name.
The moment the nurse turned to go back inside, she collapsed onto the floor.
She grabbed Liu Chunlan's hand:
"Mom, how am I going to tell Li Jun? How on earth am I going to explain this to him?
"If he finds out, he'll definitely beat me to death. What do I do?
"What on earth should I do?"
Liu Chunlan didn't know what to do either, but Wang Hao immediately called Li Jun.
This was a huge matter. As the father, he had to know.
Sure enough, Li Jun roared over the phone:
"Wang Meijuan! You tell Wang Meijuan that I will absolutely not let her off the hook. Absolutely not.
"She's dead! Tell her she's dead!"
Wang Meijuan became even more terrified. Completely out of her wits, she desperately searched her mind for a reason, for someone to blame for all of this.
Finally, she thought of one person.
Lin Wanyi.
Yes, it was her.
Everything was her fault. She was the one who had driven their mother and son out.
If it weren't for her, they would still be inside right now, relaxing and watching TV.
If it weren't for her, there was no way Li Borui would have gotten into that car accident, let alone suffered an amputation.
Yes, it was all Lin Wanyi's fault!
