hotmtlnovel Chapter 418 Zhao Zhifa's Past
Chapter 418 Zhao Zhifa's Past
Hearing Zhao Zhifa's confession, Gu Chaoxi found it a little unbelievable.
In fact, she just made this guess, who knew it turned out to be right.
Song Jiangwen and Zhao Zhifa are indeed half-brothers. Song Jiangwen is the older brother and Zhao Zhifa is two years younger than him.
Not long after Song's mother and father gave birth to Song Jiangwen, the Song family suffered a misfortune.
Theirs is a legacy passed down from their ancestors, and they can be considered a wealthy family. They have a house that they have always lived in.
As it happened to Song's father, the Song family began to decline and made enemies.
When Song Jiangwen's baby was one month old, the other party colluded with thieves, took advantage of the situation to cause chaos, and brought the Song family down.
At that time, Song's mother's health had not yet recovered, but she was forced to wander with Song's father, and she also had a baby who was just one month old.
Such a life soon became unbearable for Song's mother.
Her family was not poor to begin with, and it was better for her to go back to her parents' home than to suffer with Song's father.
Song's father did not try to keep her. Seeing that Song's mother was determined to leave, he was also afraid that he would implicate her in future problems, so he simply divorced her.
Song's mother, who returned to her hometown with her child, was actually not much better off. Although her family conditions were okay, a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. What was the point of returning to her parents' home with a one-month-old baby?
Now Song's mother was not happy living in her own home.
Fortunately, Song's mother had a childhood sweetheart who had never been married. When she heard about Song's mother's situation, she said without hesitation that she wanted to marry her.
Originally, Song's mother was unwilling to do so. If she married him with someone else's child, he would also be talked about by others.
But the other party doesn't care, he just hopes that Song's mother can live happily.
The two of them got together, and after they got married, the man was very kind to Song's mother and the young Song Jiangwen.
The two had a very good relationship, and the other party spoiled Song's mother in everything, so in the second year, Song's mother became pregnant with Zhao Zhifa.
Up to this point in the story, everything is so happy, so why does Song Jiangwen feel guilty towards Zhao Zhifa and want to compensate him later?
This brings us to Song's father.
When Song Jiangwen was ten years old, Zhao Zhifa's father died of illness, leaving only the three orphans and their widowed mother at home.
Five years passed like this. Song's mother had to manage the huge family business and take care of two children by herself, and her health also became ill.
At that time, Song's father had made a comeback with his own abilities and achieved some small success.
When people get older, they want their children to be around them.
During those years of struggle, Song's father did not find a companion, so he only had one son, Song Jiangwen.
So he sent someone to say that he wanted to take his son back to his side.
Song's mother is not an ignorant person. Since her father misses her son, it is natural for her to let her son go back.
She did not stop him, but asked Song Jiangwen for his opinion. Song Jiangwen thought that he had never seen his biological father, so he said to go and see him and come back after a while.
Then he went back with the people who came here.
Not long after Song Jiangwen returned, a flood occurred in Song's mother's home.
There was a thunderstorm and it was the middle of the night.
Song's mother and Zhao Zhifa were drowned.
Fortunately, Song's mother knew how to swim a little, and she took Zhao Zhifa to swim to the higher ground.
As a result, after sending Zhao Zhifa up, Song's mother ran out of strength. A big wave came and Song's mother disappeared into the night.
The next morning, the water receded a little. The people being rescued saw Zhao Zhifa on the roof and quickly rescued him.
I heard that Song's mother was washed away by the waves last night, and the rescue workers searched for her again, but the final result was not satisfactory.
Zhao Zhifa had no choice but to follow the other refugees and be resettled elsewhere.
After the flood receded, Song Jiangwen learned about this and hurried back.
But when he went to look for Zhao Zhifa, he heard that Zhao Zhifa had gone out to make a living with someone else.
Unable to find the person, Song Jiangwen had to leave a token in the village and told others that if Zhao Zhifa came back, he should take the token to find him.
As a result, Zhao Zhifa never returned home after he left.
He was just a thirteen-year-old kid, and he followed others around the country.
Later, he finally learned skills from a carpenter and started working on his own. Then he returned to his hometown along the river.
At that time, Zhao Zhifa was already 23 years old.
Ten years can change so many people and things, and his impression of Song Jiangwen has even faded.
After getting the token, Zhao Zhifa didn't think about looking for anyone, but just went out to find a job by himself.
The village where he lived with the carpenter was the same village where He Mei lived, so He Min and the others all thought that Zhao Zhifa was a good person.
It turns out that everything happened in this way.
So on the day he was forced to leave, when Song Jiangwen recognized him, he felt that he was guilty of his brother and tried his best to be nice to him.
Even when he accidentally killed someone, his brother helped cover up the crime.
"Then what's going on between you and He Mei?"
Gu Chaoxi sat back in the chair and looked up at Zhao Zhifa.
That memory must have not been very good to him, so his brows were tightly furrowed while he was talking about it.
"He Mei is someone I knew when I was learning carpentry."
But at that time, to the people in that village, Zhao Zhifa was just an orphan without a father or a mother, and without much family background.
He Mei's family naturally would not agree with the two of them being together, even if they had feelings for each other.
Later, in order to let He Mei let go of him, Zhao Zhifa left the village and looked for a job.
But he didn't expect that it was such a coincidence that he and Wang Chao ended up at the same construction site and that such a thing would happen.
He himself knew what Wang Chao thought of him.
Having been forced to leave, and being secretly hidden in the dormitory by Song Jiangwen, Zhao Zhifa decided to just let it go.
But after Wang Chao met him, he wanted to use this to threaten Song Jiangwen.
He even wanted to harm Song Jiangwen and leave here. This was the first thing that made Zhao Zhifa angry.
It was not until Wang Chao spoke of He Mei that she was so unbearable and not worth it.
In his mouth, He Mei was like a cheap item, as if Wang Chao had given her new value.
This made Zhao Zhifa unable to bear it no matter what.
The He Mei in his memory was the girl who would comfort him and make him laugh when he was doing poorly in his studies.
Such a wonderful person finally got married, but was not cherished.
He thought of his mother again, who disappeared in the flood while trying to save him.
All kinds of grief and indignation were aroused, and Zhao Zhifa even forgot how hard he was pressing down on Wang Chao's head.
In short, when Song Jiangwen was awakened and raised his hand to pat him, Wang Chao under him had already died.
He finally began to be afraid. Looking at the motionless Wang Chao, he could hardly believe that he had killed someone.
But Song Jiangwen comforted him, saying that everything would be fine and he would take care of it.