Chapter 3 Give me back my things

Three days later.

Li Ke's yard was bustling with activity. I heard that they were hosting a festive graduation banquet.

When Tian Xin arrived at the place, she found out that everything Li Ke told her before his death was true.

A large red cloth hung on a wall in the middle of the courtyard. On it was a large calligraphy piece: "Celebrating Li Xiangli's daughter, Li Ke, being admitted to Gucheng Jiaotong University. She is the only university graduate from our village this year."

Li Ke's mother and several relatives were busy preparing the banquet, and her father Li Xiangli was at the door welcoming relatives and friends who were arriving one after another.

The whole yard was filled with a warm and festive atmosphere, celebrating Li Ke's joy of becoming a college student.

Li Ke was dressing herself up in the house. She wore a floral dress, a high ponytail, and had powder and lipstick on her face.

"Welcome everyone to my daughter's graduation banquet today. She's done a great job and got admitted to Gucheng University. I'm so happy today, so I've prepared some light drinks. Please eat, drink, and have fun. Let's begin—"

Li Xiangli raised his glass and stood at the head of the table to toast everyone. Warm applause broke out around him as he raised his glass and began to toast.

Tian Xinsheng waited for Li Ke to come out of the house before taking Xiaoxu to the banquet!

Li Ke was startled when he saw Tian Xu holding her hand, but he quickly recovered and walked towards her.

"Tian Xin, you guys..."

"Pa——" Before Li Ke could finish her words, a slap hit her in the face!

"Are you crazy? Why are you hitting me?" Li Ke covered his face with one hand and yelled at her.

"Hit you? Why? Why? Of course you deserved it!" She said, "You almost killed Xiaoxu with that slap."

"Pa!——" She slapped Li Ke's left cheek again: "This slap is because you took my things and almost destroyed my family..."

"What are you doing? How can you hit people?" The guests at the next table grabbed her, and Li Ke was also pulled behind her by her father Li Xiangli.

"What's the rush? We haven't settled the accounts yet!" Tian Xin broke free: "Li Ke, since we used to be friends, I'll give you one chance. Hand it over!"

"Xinxin, what are you doing? Why are you hitting Li Ke for no reason?" Li Xiangli asked with his eyes wide open.

She ignored Li Xiangli and stretched out her hand to Li Ke: "Take it out!"

"What do you want?" Li Ke covered his red face with his hands and screamed.

"The admission letter! Mine! Give it back to me!" She spoke in a steady and low voice, but her eyes were fierce.

Seeing how aggressive she was, the guests at the surrounding tables began to point fingers at her and say, "Young lady, if you have anything to say, please talk to us nicely. Don't use violence. The Li family is entertaining guests today, don't disrupt their place!"

"That's right, this girl has such a bad temper!"

"Give it to me! Give it back to me!" She ignored the accusations around her and continued to stretch out her hand to put pressure on Li Ke.

Li Xiangli was confused and asked angrily, "Xinxin, you must be mistaken. Today is my Li Ke's graduation banquet. I heard that you didn't get into university this year. What letter do you want?"

"What admission notice do you need? You should ask your daughter!" Tian Xin said calmly, "Uncle Li, do you really not know, or are you pretending to be ignorant? The admission notice your daughter Li Kena is holding is mine? Don't you know?"

"Yours?" Li Xiangli looked incredulous and turned to ask Li Ke: "What's going on?"

Li Ke looked aggrieved: "Dad, I didn't!"

"No?" Tian Xin sneered, "You lie so easily!"

She squatted down and said softly to Xiaoxu: "Xiaoxu, tell everyone what you saw. Don't be afraid, I'm here, no one dares to touch you!"

Tian Xu raised his head, looked at Li Ke, and said slowly: "A few days ago, I was playing at the door of my house. An uncle came to look for my sister and gave her a letter. My sister was not at home. Sister Li Ke came to play with my sister, she saw the letter, and took it away!"

"What letter? What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Ke's mother rushed over and grabbed Xiao Xu's shoulders, asking loudly: "Did you see clearly that it was Sister Ke Ke who took it?"

"She took it and left immediately! I called out to my sister at the door, but she covered my mouth and took me to the old house. I almost fell from the tree!" Xiaoxu said loudly.

Tian Xin pulled Li Ke's mother's hand away, hugged Xiao Xu in her arms, and said to everyone: "Everyone heard it! This is what Li Ke did. For a piece of notice, she actually killed such a young child. For such a person, what do you think? Should I ask for my things back?"

After this sentence was spoken, the people below immediately exploded!

"Why did you kill him? You can't talk nonsense, kid! Human life is at stake, this is illegal!" said Auntie No. 1.

"That's right. If this is true, Li will go to jail. He can't talk nonsense." Aunt No. 2 continued.

"Stop talking," said Auntie No. 3 weakly, "We don't know whether it's true or not, so stop shouting!"

Tian Xin sneered after hearing this: "Is it true? The big hole at the entrance of the village is still across the road. If she hadn't dug up the road, my brother would have almost never been able to come back! If you don't believe it, you can see it at a glance."

"Oh, that big hole was dug by someone. I thought it was washed away by rain! I almost fell in yesterday. It's too deep!" said Aunt No. 2.

"Well, then..." Auntie No. 1 whispered, "No matter what, you can't dig a hole to harm others. The child is still young..."

"If you've taken it, you should give it back to the child. It's not easy to get into college!" The good lady said, "This girl doesn't even have a father, and her family is poor. We can't let her family have no hope for the future!"

"Whether she expects it or not is none of my business? And none of your business?" Li Ke shouted at Auntie No. 2, "I didn't take it..."

"Why are you like this, kid? Speak nicely!" Auntie No. 3 said, "Your aunt is speaking nicely to you, kid, why don't you know what's good for you!"

Li Ke saw that Auntie was not on her side, so she turned around and called out, "Dad—"

Seeing that she was unmoved, Tian Xin extended her hand again and said in a deep voice, "I'll give you one more chance. Give it to me!"

"How can you believe a child's words? He said he took it and you believed it?" Li Ke continued to be stubborn: "Dad, I really didn't take her notice."

"Since you didn't get it, then take out your notice and show it to everyone! Is my name, Tian Xin, on it?"

"My admission letter is mine. How can I take yours if you didn't even pass the exam?"

"You keep saying this notice is yours, but you're unwilling to show it to everyone. Are you hiding something and afraid to show it to everyone?"

These words went back and forth, stirring everyone's hearts. Seeing Tian Xin's tough attitude, everyone began to whisper and point fingers at Li Ke. Li Xiangli's face was a little embarrassed, and he turned to Li Ke and said, "Li Ke, go get your notice and show it to everyone!"

Li Ke didn't move: "Dad, why should I believe her? I didn't take it."

"Go quickly!" Li Xiangli shouted angrily.

"Dad!" Li Ke cried, "Why don't you believe me? Who is your daughter?"

Li Xiangli didn't reply to her, and once again shouted with a cold face: "Go!"

The sound was so loud that everyone around was frightened and trembled. Li Ke sat on the chair crying and kept wiping away tears.

"Go get it quickly, kid, why are you so stubborn?" Auntie No. 2 said, "It's not like you'll lose anything by just taking a look."

"Yes, it's from the Li family!" Auntie No. 3 said, "Hurry up and ask the baby to take it out and show it to Xinxin. The matter will be resolved!"

“That’s right…”

"That doesn't make sense..."

The noise of the crowd grew louder and louder. Li Xiangli became furious and shouted, "Go!"

"I won't go—" Li Ke cried, "How could I have a father like you? Why don't you believe me..."

"Go get it if your dad tells you to. Why are you crying here? Go quickly..." Li Ke's mother held her daughter and whispered, "Everyone is watching. Give your dad some face! Go quickly!"

face?

hehe!

Li Ke looked at her parents and suddenly burst into laughter: "These are my good parents... Hahahaha... How unreliable are I? You would rather believe an outsider than me! Face? How much is face worth?" She shouted like crazy: "I am your biological daughter, not a tool for you to show off..."

"Shut up!" Li Xiangli reached out and slapped Li Ke: "Go!"

Li Ke had just been hit by Tian Xin, and half of her face quickly swelled up after the slap. She covered her face and sat on the stool, smiling weakly: "I really deserve to die. Why did you give birth to me? If you had known how tiring life was, you should have strangled me to death. Why did you do this to me! Why?"

"How dare you talk to your parents like that!"

"That's right, how much trouble can it take to get a notice?"

"I didn't take it!" Li Ke screamed hysterically: "I don't have it, I don't have it, I don't have it..."

Crazy!

This kid is crazy!

This was the unanimous expression on everyone's face.

Tian Xin turned her back and said in a deep voice: "Since you don't want to take it out, forget it! But don't regret it later!"

Li Ke said nothing, slumped down on the stool, her face swollen. Her father looked at the eyes of everyone at the table, pulled her up and walked towards the room.

But it's too late...

"Wooo-woo--" A burst of sirens came from afar and stopped at the door of Li Ke's house. Two men in uniform walked in from outside and stopped in front of the few people.

"I'm a police officer from the local police station, and this is a comrade from the Education Bureau. We received a report that someone here tampered with the university admission notice. May I ask who Li Ke is?" The police officer took out his police officer ID and showed it to everyone.

When Li Xiangli saw the police coming, he panicked and quickly returned to greet them: "Hello, comrades, come on, come on, please take a seat.

Li is my daughter. The tampering notice you mentioned was a misunderstanding. We have already figured it out. It was just a misunderstanding!"

He asked the two officers to sit down, but was rejected. He quickly signaled to Li Ke's mother to let Tian Xin go.

Tian Xin broke free from her hand and asked, "Misunderstanding? If it's a misunderstanding, why don't you let Li Ke take out the notice and show it to everyone?"

She turned around, pointed at Li Ke and said to the police officer: "Comrade police officer, I am Tian Xin, and this is Li Ke! She changed my admission letter!"

"Are you Li Ke?" the police officer said, "Please show us your admission letter! Cooperate with our investigation!"

"I already told you, I didn't take it!" Li Ke screamed hysterically: "If you keep pushing me, I'll die in front of you!"

Li Xiangli was so anxious that he pulled her away and said, "Go get it quickly, take it out quickly, don't let people laugh at you!"

When the people at the table saw how things had turned out, they couldn't sit still any longer: "I'm leaving first..."

"Then I'll leave first..."

"Sorry, Li family! Let's go..."

In a few minutes, all the guests had left, leaving only his family, Tian Xin and her brother, and two public officials in the yard.

"Please cooperate with our investigation!" The police officer repeated what he had just said to Li Ke.

Li Ke smiled bitterly, looking at the untouched tables in the courtyard, and then at his parents' unhappy faces. He walked into the room with a shaky step and took out the acceptance letter.

The police opened it in front of everyone, and it read: "Student Tian Xin, you have been admitted to our school as a freshman in the class of 2000..."

The notice was stamped with the official seal of Gucheng Jiaotong University, but the photo on it had been replaced with Li Ke's.

Seeing this, Tian Xin took out her ID card, handed it to the policeman, and told him the truth.

"I see. In that case, you two come with us!" The police officer handed the admission notice to the staff of the Education Bureau and said something to Tian Xin and Li Ke. After listening, Tian Xin took Xiao Xu out!

"This...how could this happen?" Li Xiangli looked incredulous. He turned around and pointed at the notice and asked Li Ke, "Is this what you said you would show us after the banquet? Huh? Li Ke, how could you do this?"

He turned to Li Ke with trembling hands: "You...you...you've brought shame upon our family! If I don't pass, I can just try again next year. How could you do such a thing? How can we live like this in the future?"

"Shame on you?" Li Ke sneered, "Now you feel ashamed of me? Well, Dad, Mom, from today on, you'll just pretend you never gave birth to me. I'm no longer your daughter."

After saying that, without waiting for her father to react, she strode out the door, leaving her mother crying heartbreakingly.

Li Xiangli was so angry that he fainted on the spot...

Several people were taken to the police station to record their statements!

Li Ke was extremely disappointed with her parents, and she felt hopeless, so she told them everything!

Changing the admission letter was too complicated, and she couldn't make it too obvious, so she only had someone change her photo and some basic information. She had thought that as long as she went by Tian Xin's name at school and no one recognized her, there wouldn't be any major problems. But she was still discovered!

Tian Xin filed a lawsuit in court, and Li Ke was later sentenced to five years in prison for impersonation and intentional injury, and was ordered to pay Tian Xin 5,000 yuan in compensation.

A few days later, all her information was restored and the Education Bureau informed her that she could go to college!

This incident caused a lot of uproar in the village. Not long after Li Ke went in, his family moved out of the village...

This hatred, which should have ended in the previous life, has caused her to suffer for more than twenty years!

More than 20 years! More than 7,000 days and nights. How did she survive?

No one knows, and no one will know.

Fortunately, everything is over...

She was reborn and put an end to it all with her own hands.

In this life, she rescued Xiaoxu, saved her mother, and was no longer alone.

She will study hard in college, protect everything, and make up for all the regrets of her previous life!