Flipping through the photos further, you'll find Li Xia and Chen Ke's wedding photos.
The military has always valued social gatherings and destination weddings. Since most people don't have the money to afford elaborate weddings, they don't hold wedding ceremonies. At most, they might have an engagement banquet with the elders as witnesses, and then have a couple of meals.
Chen Ke and Li Xia got married two years ago, and there are photos of the two of them getting engaged in the album.
Chen Rou had never seen these photos because Li Xia died from drinking the pesticide dichlorvos. In the 1980s, as is well known, pesticides went through a period of chaos. Pesticides such as dichlorvos and dimethoate were not only very effective at killing insects, but also very deadly. Coupled with the harsh environment, they were a major cause of suicide for women for many years. It was not until later, with repeated product improvements and upgrades, that the situation improved.
While Li Xia was being taken to the hospital after drinking pesticide, Chen Rou was taken away by Li Xia's family. The house caught fire due to an electric stove that hadn't been turned off, and was completely destroyed.
Yue Guoqi found her about a year later.
At that time, Chen Rou was too young to remember anything, but she vaguely remembered that an old lady always beat her. Later, Yue Guoqi wanted to adopt her, but for some reason, he didn't. By the way, he had a son and a daughter. His son was an excellent student and was admitted to a military academy at the age of 18. However, he was in a car accident before going to university and was knocked into a ditch and died.
His daughter is still alive, but she lives with his wife in their hometown in Northeast China.
Chen Ke died because of drug trafficking. The case was very simple. During his routine maritime patrol, he detected drugs on someone's body, seized the drugs, and arrested all the people transporting the drugs. He was prosecuted.
He and his colleague, a total of two people, caught five so-called "mules" transporting drugs, seized more than 200 grams of drug capsules, and arrested five drug dealers. After obtaining more valuable information through interrogation, he and his colleague pretended to trade drugs and went to the sea to meet with the drug dealers. When his colleague found him, his head had been smashed to pieces with a hammer.
His colleague managed to escape, but a year later, his house caught fire, and none of his family members survived.
Drug enforcement and drug control have never been short-term tasks, but rather a protracted war.
The personal safety of anti-drug police officers and their families has always been a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the police, and it is also a cause that is just as important as drug trafficking in the minds of drug dealers, because it is a deterrent and a demonstration of the ability of both sides.
If they are in danger, then drug traffickers can find more drug mules.
If they are safe, the drug dealers will not be able to sleep. They will use every means they can think of to frighten and intimidate the anti-drug police by harming their families, so that they will not dare to enforce the law when they see them. In this way, they can transport drugs continuously.
In her past life, Chen Rou had made guesses and imagined that Li Xia might not have died of natural causes, but rather had been murdered.
After all, her father died fighting drugs, so it's very likely that her mother was also murdered.
She served in the military until she was thirty. Yue Guoqi would tell her about her past, but not much. Later, she transferred to the special police team and asked Yue Guoqi about it a few times. But he would always say, "Don't dwell on the past. Just know that your parents will be proud of you."
Enabling Li Xia to go to school was only one aspect; Chen Rou's main goal this time was to change the drug bust case a year from now.
She flipped through the photo album and came across photos of Li Xia's younger brother, Li Gang, and his wife, as well as Li Xia's adoptive parents, her uncle and aunt. Strangely enough, Chen Rou had no memory of these people before, but she felt very familiar with the photos, probably because they had raised her for a period of time.
As she flipped through the photos, she saw a middle-aged man with the same slicked-back perm as Liang Lisheng, smoking a pipe, a mole on the corner of his mouth, and thick, bushy eyebrows that formed a straight line.
Her heart skipped a beat, and just then Li Xia came in smiling and placed a plate of fruit in her arms.
Chen Rou then held up the photo album and asked, "Sister-in-law, this person is quite fashionable. Who is this?"
Li Xia looked at him and said, "He's a big celebrity in our Baofu Town, but you probably don't think he's anything special. He's just a small business owner doing foreign trade, well..."
Chen Rou tried asking again, "Is he a cripple?"
Li Xia found it strange: "Don't you know him? Everyone calls him Li the Cripple."
He sat down next to Chen Rou and said, "He's openly involved in foreign trade, but he's also a human smuggler in private. Whatever he does is something the police would arrest if they found out. He's only been able to fish in troubled waters in the last few years since things opened up, but he'll get into trouble sooner or later."
Seeing that Li Xia was about to get up, Chen Rou stopped her, saying, "Have some fruit with me."
“There are still two young men busy here, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be right to ask them to cook,” Li Xia said awkwardly.
Chen Rou placed the fruit in Li Xia's arms and said, "I have something to ask them to do. Could you peel the orange for me? Oh, and I don't like orange tendrils, so peel those off too."
Oranges should have their roots and seeds removed, but orange roots can cure coughs.
However, since Chen Rou had given the instructions, Li Xia had no choice but to bite the bullet and slowly peel the food, leaving the cooking to the other two employees.
Chen Rou took out the photo and called A Fa and Xiao Ding into the hallway. Pointing to Li Da the Cripple in the photo, she said, "You two change your clothes, get some local clothes, get a motorcycle, and go to Baofu Town. Tell them you want to find the Cripple to smuggle you to Taiwan, the Philippines, or Japan. Ask him about the price for one person and the next departure time."
Xiao Ding asked, "Third Aunt, should we inform the president?"
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