Chapter 5 — Behind the Ladder is a Life of Atonement

Luc Can Chau's face was pale, his voice trembling: "Le Le, I was wrong. Don't be angry in front of your mother, it will harm your health." "She is not your mother." I looked at him. "What satisfied you was not morality, but your false sense of superiority. Take your adoptive mother away, don't dirty my mother's shrine." When the security guard stepped forward, Luc Can Chau did not resist. Before being invited out, his eyes fell on the curved crutch next to the altar, his fingers shaking slightly. Aunt Trinh was about to sit on the ground and cry, but was pulled away by my cousin with a cold face. "No one here will fall for your tricks." The day after the funeral ended, I went to the lawyer's office. "I want to file a divorce lawsuit, and at the same time reclaim the marital property that he spent and transferred." Lawyer Ha looked at the bills, his eyebrows increasingly furrowed. "Massage chairs, heating pads, money." The nursing home deposit and Ms. Trinh's birthday party expenses, were all paid from the joint account during their marriage?" "Yes." I opened the recording on my phone. "There was also a call the night my mother was hospitalized." In the recording, Luc Can Chau's voice was calm to the point of cruelty. 【Adults must pay the price for losing control of their emotions.】 Lawyer Ha was silent for a few seconds. “The evidence is complete.” That night, Luc Can Chau still stood outside the funeral home and refused to leave. He sat alone on the steps. Aunt Trinh sent a text message to her phone again. 【Can Chau, today Le Le is too much. I can't hurt you.】 He stared at that sentence, not moving for a long time. The lights in the funeral home turned off one by one. The wind blew the paper ash on the ground up to his pant leg. Luc Can Chau suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard in the face. The sound was not loud, but it rang out extremely clearly on the empty stairs. I saw through the glass door, just withdrew my eyes, my heart did not waver. A few days later, Luc Can Chau sent a text message: "My mother's remains have been arranged, please go back and get them." To take the last things of my mother away, I returned to that new house. But when I pushed the door open, there were absolutely no relics in the living room that had been tidied up, on the contrary, it was full of people. Luc Can Chau's parents, relatives, old classmates, and neighbors he met on moving day all looked towards me. Luc Can Chau was wearing a black shirt, had lost a lot of weight, and had a low, almost cowardly voice. "Hua Le, I invite everyone to come and testify. From now on, I will definitely put you in the first place." Luc's mother sighed: "Le Le, which husband and wife have an overnight hatred? During this time, Can Chau has become five pounds thinner. The story between us and our mother is also very painful, but life must continue." A relative also advised: "In the future, it is still possible. having another child. It's okay for a man to know his mistakes, don't destroy the family."I stood in front of the main bedroom door on the first floor. The sign has been taken down, but the glue mark remains on the wall. I didn't argue, just opened the phone and connected it to the screen. A video of my mother climbing the stairs appeared on TV. Every time she went up a floor, she stopped and panted. Pants rolled up, legs bruised, fingers clutching the armrests. No one in the living room spoke. The second video is on a rainy day. Mom fell in the mud, I knelt next to her to stop the car. The image shook violently. The third photo is an emergency medical card, the time of emergency treatment for brain hemorrhage is clearly written. I looked at everyone. "Everyone says he knew he was wrong. What about my mother? Can she come back to life?" Luc Can Chau's face turned white. "Hua Le, don't show it anymore." I pressed play on the recording. 【It's normal for the elderly to get a little excited, don't take it personally

Blood in the brain scared people.】 【Adults must pay the price for losing control of their emotions.】 Luc's father suddenly stood up and slapped Luc Can Chau hard in the face. "Are you someone else's husband or are you a filial son for another family?" Luc Can Chau did not avoid it. His face was tilted to one side, and the light in his eyes gradually shattered. I took out the book again and flipped through the pages for them to see. "Auntie Trinh's imported massage chair cost eighty-six thousand yuan, a heat-retaining mattress thirty-two thousand yuan, a personal medical check-up service twenty-four thousand yuan, a nursing home deposit of one hundred and fifty thousand yuan, a birthday party of sixty-nine thousand yuan." I stopped. "My mother only has a crutch with a discount of ninety-nine yuan and an old wheelchair to rent, sixty yuan a day." Mother Luc che. His mouth and eyes were red, but he couldn't say any more words of conciliatory advice. At that moment, the doorbell suddenly rang loudly. A man smelling of alcohol and leading two relatives rushed in. "Where is Luc Can Chau? My mother said you promised to give me another two hundred thousand yuan to exchange for a retirement apartment, where is the money?" Luc Can Chau frowned. "Who are you?" The man sneered.