Chapter 64 Chapter 64

To return or not to return?Surrender or continue to flee?Which one to choose?What is the result of these two choices?How much difference is there?These questions are probably the ones that have been on Lai Changtu's mind the most over the past six months. He flew from Xiamen to Hong Kong with his wife and children on June 20, 1999.They left with Lai Changxing's family. At the beginning, the third brother was very sure that going out was only temporary, to avoid the limelight, and he would be back in three months at most. Because it is a short-term action, so there is no preparation.At that time, several customers in China owed him a large amount of car sales, and he left the country in a hurry before he had time to collect the debt.Those IOUs are still in my hands, I really feel useless when I think about it.

Three months have passed, but unexpectedly, the wind became more and more serious. Ah Xing knew that the situation was not good, so he went to Canada early in August. Go abroad?Foreign countries are so big, which country should they go to?What kind of running method? His friends in Hong Kong gave him advice, spending more than 70,000 Hong Kong dollars to handle the procedures for his children to study in Australia, and they can also take advantage of the opportunity to go to Australia. Lai Changtu has three children, the eldest daughter is 17 years old, the son is 13 years old, and the youngest daughter is 6 and a half years old.In order to save his life and his children, he discussed with his wife and had no choice but to put all his eggs in one basket.

In order to raise funds, the wife stripped off the diamond rings, bracelets, and necklaces she was wearing and took them to the pawnshop to exchange for money.After finally scraping together 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, deducting 70,000 for tuition fees and 20,000 more for visa processing fees, there are only about 110,000 yuan left, which is converted into Australian dollars, which is about 12,000 yuan. On September 18, Lai Changtu flew from Hong Kong to Australia with more than 10,000 Australian dollars in his pocket, his wife and children. Their family lives in the house of a friend in Perth, Australia. The friend is called "A Qun", and he is also from Jinjiang.Aqun opened a local vegetable store. He provided Lai Changtu's family with a room where the sundries were piled up. He did not charge rent, but the condition was that Lai Changtu would help him move goods, pick up vegetables, and do chores in the store every day.Aqun would give Lai Changtu some tips when his business was booming, but he had agreed in advance that he would not be paid.Of course, if the green vegetables bought in the shop that day cannot be sold, A Qun will ask Lai Changtu to pick up some and fry them at home.

In addition to working as a helper in Aqun's house, Lai Changtu went to the beach to fish for abalone and crabs when he was free, and added some meat to his family.Sometimes I also wander around the nearby casinos, buy a cup of "Coke" and stand by the side as spectators, watching the excitement.He likes to gamble, and all his brothers from the Lai family like to gamble. He used to go to Macau to gamble with the third brother Ah Xing, and many people waited on them and circled around them.It's different now, I don't have the money to gamble even if I want to gamble, and it's not bad to be able to barely make ends meet.

Lai Changtu once thought that their Lai family was the most beautiful family in the world.Now they believe that the most embarrassing and miserable family in the world is their Lai family.Everything is not what it used to be. If he had tens of millions, even millions of funds, he might still choose to continue fleeing.It's a pity that I am now short of money and living in a difficult life.He hated that he always liked to gamble when he was rich, and how much money he threw into the bottomless pit of the casino like this.Smuggling makes a lot of money, gambling loses a lot of money, and in the end it's all for nothing.What he thinks most about now is his wife and three children. He doesn't want his wife to worry about him, and he doesn't want his innocent children to live a life of poverty.

The eldest brother Lai Shuiqiang is on the mainland side, and the third brother Lai Changxing is on the other side of Canada. They are in a tug-of-war, each arguing for their own reasons. He is caught between the mainland and Canada, in a dilemma, extremely conflicted, and extremely painful.The eldest brother persuaded him to return to China and surrender on the phone, saying that the task force had made a promise that if he returned to China and surrendered before the end of March, he would be treated with leniency.But the third brother yelled on the phone, if you feel impatient to live, you can go back, you will definitely die.Because the Communist Party can't let our Lai family brothers go.

Lai Changtu said to Lai Shuiqiang on the phone: "Brother, I am really terrified. I want to surrender, but I know that my crime is too serious, and I am afraid to go back and be sentenced to death."