Liao Xiaoyou didn’t say a word throughout the whole process, and she always looked at Brucille with evasive eyes.
On the emotional level, she did not believe in Brucille. The reason why she was willing to come out with Brucille was that she could not stand being beaten by her father.
The two of them sat in the corridor of the hospital. Brucille took out the letter in his hand. There was also a bank card in the envelope that was handed over to Liao Xiaoyou.
Liao Xiaoyou took the letter from Brucille. When she opened it, she realized that her father had written this letter to her. However, this letter was a dead end. That was to say, by the time she received this letter, her father had already left her.
Liao Xiaoyou, who had been broken into pieces, was even more upset after receiving the letter. Her delicate little hands were tightly clasped together, and her tears kept falling like the spring rain in April.
After a long while, he finally squeezed the bank card between his two fingers.
The letter he gave his daughter did not say how much money was in the bank card. On the contrary, the letter he wrote to Brucille indicated that there was a balance of 350 thousand yuan in the card.
Liao Xiaoyou asked, “Who are you? How do you know my father?”
“I am a doctor. Your father got an incurable disease. Before he left, he asked me to give you this important thing. You are his only concern in the world. He told me a lot. He has hidden in the dark countless times to look at you, but he didn’t have the courage to come out in the end, for fear of ruining the peace between you and your mother.”
“But I don’t think he knows that your daughter, who lives under someone else’s roof, is actually not very good, right?”
Liao Xiaoyou suddenly felt that she had lost another person who really cared about her. In fact, there was no deep relationship between her and her father. The memories of her childhood had long been blurred.
However, that kind of emotion, which was thicker than water, dominated her emotions and made her unable to extricate herself from the pain for a long time.
This worry was very different from the worry of the stepmother in front of him.
She had been beaten all day, and her thin body was almost unable to hold on.
Liao Xiaoxi muttered to herself, “That place is like a cage. Every time I get close to it, I feel like I’m locked up. I don’t know how long I can last. In fact, I can’t hold on any longer. That place is full of fear.”
“But in fact, they will soon be free. They sold me to a rich middle-aged man…”
Brucille’s anger was beyond words when he heard that.
It was said that it was hard to be a stepmother, but she didn’t expect that her biological mother was so bad. Since she had a son with this stepmother, she had never regarded this daughter as a human being.
In the past few years, the weak Liao Xiaoyou had become a punching bag for the three people. Her descendants, her biological mother, and her half-brother could scold her, scold her, or beat her hard.
This life was like living under a dark cloud that could never see sunlight, dark and devoid of sunlight.
Anger was not enough to describe Brucille’s mood at this time. Mr. Liao gave his last hope to his 19-year-old daughter. Of course, Brucille did not want this fire to be put out in his hands.
This girl was strong enough to dominate the rest of her life.
Brucille asked, “If you want to get rid of your family’s humiliation, I can introduce you to a job or something else. At least you don’t have to live under that roof to meet them.”
Liao Xiaoyou shook her head with a bitter face. “I started working at the age of 16, but I have to live under their noses. Otherwise, they won’t let me go. I have to do housework and get married now.”
“You have hands and feet. What are you afraid of? If you want to leave, I’ll help you.”
“Help me?”
In the past few years, Liao Xiaoyou had been looking forward to seeing someone say something like that to her. No matter who it was, she would treat him like a god.
But as she grew up little by little, she found that this kind of hope was only hope and fantasy in the end. No one would care about other people’s affairs.
Therefore, when she asked this question, there was more mockery and self-mockery. Brucille in front of her was just a meddlesome doctor. It was already a big favor for him to be able to give this letter and bank card to her.
She understood, she understood everything.
Without a father’s love and a mother’s love, she had already understood everything.
Tears poured down like a flood that had broken the dam.
One minute, ten minutes, a hundred minutes…
Brucille didn’t say anything, and Liao Xiaoyou was completely immersed in sadness. It wasn’t easy to pull her out.
This scene reminded Brucille of Rainie, who was far away in Hai Zhou. A father who was addicted to gambling was destined to have a family tragedy.
After a night of melancholy, Liao Xiaoyou’s eyes were swollen like eggs at dawn.
Brucille was delighted to see her like this.
“Alas, Xiaoyou, we have been rubbing the air conditioner in the hospital for the whole night, but your eyes are like eggs. You’d better get your clothes clean first and wash your face. Otherwise, how can you go out with blood all over your body?”
Liao Xiaoyou was drowsy at this time. If she was asked to go home to get her clothes now, she would not agree. Moreover, once she went home, her mother would definitely not let her out.
So she said, “It just so happens that this card is rich. I bought new clothes for myself. If I don’t go back, shouldn’t I take a bath first?”
“I’ll accompany you to buy clothes first, and then I’ll take you to the hotel to take a shower. After that, I’ll help you solve your problems. In order to fulfill your father’s last words, I will let you live like a normal person.”
Perhaps it was because Brucille had been accompanying her for the entire night that they had increased their trust in each other.
Liao Xiaoyou brought Brucille to a small store market nearby. It was not comparable to the style in a big shopping mall, but much better than her shabby one.
Xiaoyou took a fancy to a pink dress with a beautiful body. She asked, “What do you think of this one? Do you think I can walk through it?”
“You’re so thin that you’re as thin as a bag of bones. I don’t think anything you wear will look good.”
There was always someone who loved beauty. Liao Xiaoyou was already very distressed about this, but Brucille didn’t know how to chat at all. She angrily walked into the changing room and put on this pink skirt. The effect was not bad.
Her body was a little thin, but her skin was fair. This skirt matched her perfectly.
“Very good. I think it’s quite suitable for you. Just this one.”
After seeing the effect of the clothes, Brucille expressed his own opinion and agreed that she should take it down.
Liao Xiaoyou asked, “Madam, how much is this dress?”
The innkeeper curled her lips and said, “I’m going to give you a discount.”
“Ah?”
This expression was like 4950 yuan or 49500 yuan. In short, Brucille felt that there was no need for such an exaggerated amount of money.
He said lightly, “All right, we want it.”
Liao Xiaoxi originally wanted to refute, but she found that Brucille paid with his own money, so she rushed into the changing room to get her clothes back.
Suddenly, she shouted, “I lost my bank card.”