Chapter 577: What else can you do besides this?
"Dad!"
Zhaodi quietly took a peach candy with bite marks from her pocket and stuffed it into Qin Dazhuang's mouth.
"Dad, stop crying. Eat the sweet peach candy, and you won't cry anymore."
The little child naively thought her father was crying because he was afraid of the pain from injections and the bitterness of medicine.
Every time she had an injection, she would eat a sugar ball. This peach candy was given by her aunt last time, Zhaodi couldn't bear to eat it and kept it in her pocket.
Now she took it out to comfort her dad.
Her small hand stroked Qin Dazhuang's cheek.
Qin Dazhuang chewed on the peach candy in his mouth, it was sweet, but also bitter.
Tears streamed down.
Can't die, but can't live either.
Qin Dazhuang felt that as vast as the world is, there was no place for him to fit in.
He felt guilty towards so many people.
Sorry to Jiang Xin, sorry to his children, sorry to his family.
Sorry to everyone who was good to him.
How could he not control his own hand?
Qin Dazhuang closed his eyes, if he was to live, he had to truly live, for the sake of the children.
No matter what, Zhaodi and Ladi weren't wrong.
During this period, he lived in a trance, not even as good as a person, believing in what he had done, Qin Dazhuang truly regretted it.
Zhaodi watched Qin Dazhuang close his eyes, sitting obediently on the bench, saying nothing, afraid of waking her father.
Father will be fine.
Children have pure hearts, the hurt Qin Dazhuang once caused them has been forgotten, he's still their father. Every child longs for their family.
Five days later, Qin Dazhuang was discharged from the hospital.
Jiang Laoshi led the two children to send Qin Dazhuang out, they settled the medical expenses.
Knowing well that Qin Dazhuang didn't have a penny now, asking him to pay the medical bills would only embarrass him.
Jiang Laoshi wasn't that kind of person, although Qin Dazhuang indeed made people angry and disappointed, Jiang Laoshi's character determined he couldn't do that.
"From now on, go home and be a good person. Stop gambling, even if not for the kids, for yourself you shouldn't gamble again. Gambling is a killer, you can't always seek death. If you truly think about the kids, reform, start fresh, and work hard to earn money.
After all, you're the father of two children, think about them carefully."
Jiang Laoshi said no more, taking the kids away.
Qin Dazhuang quickly stepped forward and knelt in front of Jiang Laoshi, kowtowing three times.
"Dad... Master Jiang, I will remember your words, I will surely reform myself."
Jiang Laoshi shook his head, gamblers are always like this.
He wouldn't believe Qin Dazhuang, believing him meant bringing risks to his daughter and grandchildren, he firmly took the kids back home.
Qin Dazhuang kept looking back at the father-in-law taking his two daughters walking away until he gritted his teeth and left.
He didn't even have a place to stay now, the house his mother had already sold.
During those days, he was always gambling at a friend's house, now he never wanted to return there.
At the street corner, Fatty Wang smoking a cigarette saw Qin Dazhuang, "Oh, Dazhuang you're back, then come, come, come, we're just one short for the card game. Let's go play cards."
He put an arm around Qin Dazhuang and started to walk.
Qin Dazhuang shook his head, "I'm not going, I won't play anymore!"
Clenching his teeth, refusing Fatty Wang in front of him, suddenly realizing when he said this, it seemed not that hard for him.
Unlike before, when someone suggested it, he would immediately follow.
Just now he was quite itching to play, but at that moment of saying it, he suddenly felt he could do it, and was full of confidence.
Fatty Wang laughed, "I know you well, come on, come on, don't we all know each other well? Surely you don't have money on you, don't say you won't play, I'll lend you money."
Everyone knew what Qin Dazhuang's situation was now.
Fatty Wang naturally had his own agenda, for a gambling addict like Qin Dazhuang, although apparently good for nothing, he could still do some other things. As long as he could help himself earn money, naturally he was willing to lend him money.
Not giving a few small favors, how could he let these people keep sinking in the gambling swamp and do things for him?
Qin Dazhuang didn't go, but Fatty Wang still dragged him to his yard.
"Don't be polite with me, I already said I'd lend you money, tell me, how much? Is 50 enough?"
Qin Dazhuang forcefully struggled from Fatty Wang's grip, "It's not about the money, Brother Wang, I'm really not gambling anymore. I swore, I can't gamble again, I must live up to my daughter."
His face turned red with urgency, he couldn't forget the look in his daughter's eyes that had just released his hand, that reliance, treating him wholeheartedly as her father, made it unforgettable for Qin Dazhuang until now.
Fatty Wang had a sarcastic look, "Dazhuang, what can I say to you? What's there about that daughter of yours to be attached to, isn't she just a burden. Besides, isn't she with your ex-wife, what are you worried for?
Someone is always feeding them, they don't lack your bit of money, besides, if you don't gamble now, what else can you do? Let me tell you straight, while you were gone these few days, you didn't know. Your factory has already posted a notice terminating you, you tell me what else can you do?
By gambling, maybe you can still make some money and get by, could you do anything else? You probably don't even have a place to stay now, where else can you go besides my place?"
This was the truth, and it was also the reason Fatty Wang was trying hard to draw in Qin Dazhuang.
"Dazhuang, Brother Wang, now that you're here, hurry inside, come, come, come, we're shuffling cards here, we can start a game right now."
The people inside warmly invited.
Fatty Wang dragged Qin Dazhuang inside.
"Have a seat!"
Pushed Qin Dazhuang onto a chair, lit a cigarette for him.
"Alright, from here on, with brother here you'll be sure to have good food and drink, knowing you have no place to stay, stay at my house from now on, follow brother and do business, you'll definitely not lose out."
Fatty Wang grinned maliciously.
The few others got a signal from Fatty Wang, hurriedly shuffled the cards.
Qin Dazhuang shivered with his hands, eyes staring at the cards in front of him, a voice in his mind telling him.
"Come on, play now, what are you thinking? You have no home, no wife and kids now, not even a job, if you don't play cards, don't gamble, what else can you do? It's your only way to survive."
In his mind appeared the little pigtails of Zhaodi, the naive dimples, the trusting gaze, and the smile.
The soft little hands holding Qin Dazhuang's hands, making his trembling gradually calm down.
"Flip the card, it's your turn, Dazhuang!"
"Hurry up, Dazhuang, don't dawdle. If you win this pot, it's more than a hundred bucks. This time you'll really be in luck."
"It's rare for Brother Wang to lend you money, don't waste it."
A flash of red appeared before his eyes.
Qin Dazhuang suddenly rushed towards the coffee table.