Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

"What did you say? He escaped from prison?"

In late December 1985, Zhao Mancang received a phone call informing him that his unfilial son, Zhao Zhirui, had escaped from prison.

That's incredibly brave of you!

Zhao Zhirui had previously been arrested for his involvement in the illegal dumpling scandal.

At that time, Zhao Mancang sternly reprimanded his family members, forbidding them from visiting Zhao Zhirui, and said that he would make him reflect on his mistakes inside.

At the same time, you also need to successfully quit this single-ingredient flour.

The matter was going quite well initially, and Zhao Mancang stopped paying attention to it.

However, he has now received news that his eldest son has escaped from prison, which infuriates him.

"Yes, sir, he has indeed escaped. We've sent people to look for him, but he's hidden, and we really can't find him right now."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mancang became furious:

"You can't find him? How is that possible? Post an arrest warrant, launch a nationwide manhunt! He's not my son, he's a criminal!"

To be honest, Zhao Mancang felt ashamed to have such a son.

His situation is not bad; at least in China, few people dare to mess with him or do this to him.

Xiao Taozi, Xiao Baozi, and Zhao Jinshi are all well-educated. Although they are not very successful, they are not as despicable as Zhao Zhirui, who has committed illegal and criminal acts.

Zhao Mancang had repeatedly warned his children long ago that no one was allowed to touch the flour.

Zhao Zhirui not only touched it, but now he's gone even further by escaping from prison.

That's incredibly bold.

Over the phone, Zhao Mancang gave the relevant person in charge a good scolding, and then went straight to the Yunlan City Government office compound.

He needs to return to Beijiang City in person to handle this matter.

This time, he had to teach Zhao Zhirui a profound lesson.

They did something wrong, refused to accept punishment, and instead thought about causing trouble.

If that's the case, he'd rather he had never had the child.

Inside the office compound, Lü Yangui and his colleagues listened to Zhao Mancang's orders, their pens constantly taking notes.

The water shortage in Yunlan City is not a major problem; the rapidly changing weather is a much bigger issue.

However, Zhao Mancang himself didn't have a better solution to this problem.

We need Lü Yangui and his team to take necessary precautions and do their best to resolve everyone's problems.

After finalizing these matters, Zhao Mancang returned to Beijiang City.

Inside the Limi Cave villa, Liu Baochan cried her eyes out, her eyes swollen from crying.

The children standing nearby, Zhao Zhicheng, Zhao Jinxi, Zhao Sihui, Zhao Leyong, and Zhao Linlin, were all trying to persuade her, but to little avail.

Zhao Zhirui was a piece of her flesh and blood, and now that he had actually escaped from prison, he had successfully angered his father.

Footsteps sounded at the door. Seeing Zhao Mancang appear, Zhao Jinxi and the others quickly stood up.

"Dad, please don't be angry. Second brother didn't mean it."

Liu Baochan just cried, looking at Zhao Mancang with hopeful eyes, hoping he would stop punishing her child.

"Whether it was intentional or not is none of your business."

At this moment, Zhao Mancang was still very angry, but his face remained expressionless, and he did not show it very obviously.

"You stay at home and try to persuade your mother not to think too much. I'm going out for a bit now, and I'll bring him back."

He came back first to visit Liu Baochan, lest she overthink things and cause health problems.

Lin Wan and Xiao Baozi stood aside, anxious but unable to do anything.

Zhao Mancang went out again after staying at home for less than half an hour.

After leaving his home, Zhao Mancang went to the office compound in Beijiang City, where Lu Shengwen, Yang Kangsheng, and others had been waiting for him for a long time.

"What's going on now? Where is he hiding?"

Upon arriving at the destination, Zhao Mancang immediately began to inquire.

Lu Shengwen forced himself to speak:
"Our investigation revealed that he boarded a train to Beijing, but he disguised himself on the train, and given the large number of passengers, we had no idea which station he got off at."

"So, having tracked them this far, we can only notify the cities along the route to search."

Isn't this like looking for a needle in a haystack?
Upon hearing this, Zhao Mancang coldly swept his gaze across the crowd.

"I really don't understand what you've done. How did he manage to escape from a place like that?"

"Although I haven't been to the scene to check, I believe you were just paying lip service to my orders and didn't take them seriously, right? Otherwise, how could he have escaped?"

"Humph!"

"Issue an arrest warrant for me now, request a nationwide search, and contact the media and newspapers to publish reports about him."

"A reward of one million yuan will be given to anyone who can provide relevant clues, once verified!"

"Remember, don't kill him. If he resists violently, as long as you don't kill him on the spot, it shouldn't be a big problem."

He was a doctor himself, so as long as Zhao Zhirui wasn't beaten to death on the spot, he could save him.

This is, after all, his son. If he dies like this, Liu Baochan will definitely hate him for the rest of her life, and the other children, such as Zhao Zhicheng, will certainly become somewhat estranged from him.

Of course, Zhao Mancang wasn't that heartless; no matter how angry he was, he wouldn't go that far.

However, Zhao Zhirui is indeed a relatively dangerous person now.

After all, you have to understand that people who have tasted gluttony can do anything once their addiction kicks in.

This addiction is probably a major reason why Zhao Zhirui was unable to quit and even managed to escape.

Therefore, this matter must be handled properly, otherwise, it could easily lead to trouble.

Lu Shengwen and his team immediately nodded solemnly, and then quickly issued orders to begin nationwide surveillance.

In addition, it is necessary to monitor ships and planes heading abroad.

In particular, underground vessels used for smuggling need to be strictly guarded against.

Zhao Mancang was worried that his eldest son might have a moment of despair and choose to become estranged from him.

When people are in extreme despair and have reached the end of their rope, they may indeed take very extreme measures.

In his past life, he had a cousin who was on his mother's maternal grandmother's side of the family. The cousin committed suicide because he couldn't think straight.

Before committing suicide, his cousin was heartbroken, having been heartbroken for almost a year.

The specific situation is that my cousin had been dating a girlfriend for almost eight years, and they were about to get married.

But it was because my cousin's girlfriend had fallen for someone else, was after his money, and cheated on him.

Even so, my cousin was still unwilling to give up, but the girl still resolutely broke up with him.

Thus, love turned into hate!

After more than half a year, my cousin started frequently updating his WeChat Moments with very negative posts.

For example, when I raise incense to pay homage to the gods, it doesn't ease the unease in my heart.

There's also the saying, "I can die on the road to a distant place, but I can't live without ever having been to a distant place!" and the line, "I've accumulated good deeds throughout my life, and I'm lucky enough to have seen the golden sunrise on Mount Everest. This is what I deserve, but now this world gives me the feeling that if I give my heart, I'll get my comeuppance."

Such extreme and pessimistic words seem to be a way of making final arrangements.

Sure enough, in his last post on WeChat Moments before he left: "The sun has set, but I'm not talking about time."

Then I heard the news that my cousin had left.

The world is so beautiful, why be so pessimistic?
Nowadays, Zhao Mancang's eldest son may not be affected by these factors, but Zhao Zhirui has indeed gone too far.

Furthermore, he touched the flour alone and didn't reduce the amount.

Because he has experienced the reaction and pain of quitting, he would probably be even more unwilling to accept quitting whole wheat flour.

Therefore, Zhao Zhirui was in extreme danger at this moment.

He might even be able to find some guns, ammunition, or fruit knives.

Zhao Mancang was even worried that he might commit suicide.

In short, finding the person as soon as possible is the most important thing.

At this time, Zhao Zhirui, who had hidden himself in a remote mountain valley in Sichuan, avoided everyone's sight and began living the life of a wild man.

He didn't have a single usable tool at hand, and he was extremely hungry.

So he had to find a way to steal a knife from a nearby villager's house.

When he carefully pushed open the door of what appeared to be a kitchen, the scene inside was immediately clear.

The phrase "a family with nothing but bare walls" became a tangible reality at this moment.

He really didn't know what to say; all of this was making him extremely angry.

He just wanted a knife, but this place didn't have one?
He then went to the second and third shops, and the situation was similar; he couldn't find any kitchen knives or cleavers at all.

What Zhao Zhirui didn't know was that the villagers in the vicinity didn't have any kitchen knives at all; they only had wood-chopping knives.

Even families with kitchen knives were taken away that day to chop firewood in their vegetable gardens.

In order to avoid being discovered by the villagers, he had no choice but to leave cautiously.

Fortunately, there were no dogs in this village; otherwise, he might have been taken away by a dog.

Unable to find a kitchen knife, he could only search for sharp stones in the stream and then make tools similar to knives or axes.

He and his father had previously gone to the primeval forest for wilderness survival.

Well, it can't really be called true wilderness survival; it's more like experiencing primitive life in the wilderness.

So he did remember some wilderness survival skills, such as starting a fire by rubbing sticks together, building shelters, and finding food.

Set traps to catch small animals, weave tools to catch fish and shrimp, and collect all the food you can find.

However, he has an urgent matter to attend to right now, which is to find a few more warm clothes.

Since leaving prison, he casually picked up a package, which was stuffed with a lot of clothes and other items.

However, among these clothes, there were very few thick ones.

Even now, even though he has found shelter, he still feels very cold when he sleeps at night.

After all, it's December, and it might snow in a couple of days.

How to do?
He had considered things like straw, but it seemed difficult to find them.

It can only be said that the timing of his prison break was not ideal.

And he was very hungry at that moment, because he hadn't eaten for a day.

He had already finished drinking the tap water he had taken from the train, and if he were to drink water from the wild, he might get diarrhea.

Suddenly, Zhao Zhirui felt pain, his vision went black, and he almost couldn't stand up.

He knew what was going on.

That was his craving for flour kicking in.

If he can't quit this stuff, then he can only try to find those special powders and continue to use them.

But this was the middle of nowhere, and he couldn't find it at all.

He rolled on the ground for half a day before he barely managed to pull through.

Even though the outside temperature was below zero, he was covered in sweat.

Enduring such pain nearly made him faint.

I need to find something to eat.

He wandered around outside for half a day during the day and finally found a trap set by the local villagers.

The trap also contained sharp bamboo skewers, wooden skewers, and a small wild boar that had been trapped in the snare.

Without hesitation, Zhao Zhirui killed the wild boar and then took all the animals with him.

And in order to avoid being discovered, he even erased his traces.

At this time, he had a strong sense of counter-surveillance.

He didn't want to be discovered because he didn't want to go back to prison.

Although he didn't know how long it would take for his father to find him, he hoped to hide for as long as possible.

However, after he finally managed to gather the dry firewood, he struggled to get the fire going.

Next, they gutted the wild boar, removed a piece of meat, roasted it, and found it difficult to swallow.

Because there's no salt!
"Damn, how could I forget about salt?"

Zhao Zhirui felt annoyed, but he couldn't care less at this point. No matter how bad it tasted, he had to eat it.

Otherwise, if he doesn't eat, something bad might happen to him.

Over the next two days, he went down the mountain again and secretly went to a nearby village.

He managed to steal a cleaver and a few packets of salt, but he didn't even notice the cooking oil.

In 1985, cooking oil was indeed quite rare in many rural areas.

At this point, Zhao Zhirui didn't care about anything else. After getting the wood-chopping knife, he spent time cutting down some bamboo to reinforce his shelter.

It was also for keeping warm.

Thus began his wilderness survival journey.

For several days in a row, he had to endure several bouts of nausea and vomiting each day.

Gradually, it seemed that he also realized that he could withstand the urgent need for the flour.

He was able to withstand this physical reaction.

If he can really get through this, perhaps he can quit even in the wild.

However, he believed that if he were to go back now, his father might beat him to death.

Ugh!
So in the days that followed, he planned to live like a wild man here and get through the winter.

As he prepared supplies and fortified his shelter for his upcoming days of survival in the wilderness, the outside world was already buzzing with excitement. (End of Chapter)