What Chen Rou depicts is a cruel history that Chen Ke is unwilling to accept.
She began by saying, "On the night of the 19th, there is another possibility: the kidnapped Chen Rou will die at Anilao Port, while Sanmao Factory, Li Xia's daughter, another Chen Rou, will survive. However, Song Yuanchao, who is lurking in Anilao, will die, and the first batch of ICPOs sent to the Philippines from the South China Sea will also fail due to a plane crash, with the plane disintegrating in mid-air. The ICPO's mission will be declared a failure, and your mission will become to secretly protect patriotic businessmen in Hong Kong. You will complete the mission in a year, but you are destined not to see your daughter again. Because it is during the reform and opening up period, and there is no large-scale crackdown operation, the drug trafficking gang under Gui Touchang will infiltrate the mainland in advance. And your brother-in-law Li Gang is one of the thousands of speculators who went into business. He and his accomplices were discovered by you to be trafficking drugs and were brutally murdered."
When Chen Rou said these things, Chen Ke tried to refute her several times and interrupt her, because he felt that it was not true and impossible, but in the end he shut his mouth.
The reality is that he and Yue Zhongqi were not among the first group to go to the Philippines.
Because they were originally from the Marine Corps, while the first batch of people who went were mostly military experts from the Navy responsible for topographic surveying and exploration, and the soldiers were mainly from the Naval Corps, such as Wang Baodao, Hu Yong, and Sun Dahe. However, the trip was abruptly stopped by Nie Zhao, who had been kidnapped but woken up from a coma.
Afterwards, the military re-selected personnel and chose Chen Ke, who, although he came from the Northwest and had always been involved in land warfare, was naturally meticulous, good at summarizing, and had a strong learning ability, to lead the team. The experts' work was also completed by him with his own hands and feet.
Therefore, if Nie Zhao hadn't intervened urgently, everything Chen Rou mentioned would have happened.
After all, Chen Ke had watched Chen Rou slice off that acquaintance, Li the Cripple, with his own eyes.
If what Chen Ke and his old superiors experienced was a quantitative change from nothing to something, then what Chen Ke and his comrades experienced was the mushroom cloud of the reform and opening-up period, a dramatic change in their lives that could be described as a big bang.
However, if he hadn't gone through these years of fighting bandits, he would have died at Li Gang's hands.
So what is Li Gang's motive? He was not satisfied with deducting all of his brother-in-law's allowances from his sister's hands, and he wanted to make even more money. But how much money does he need to make to be satisfied?
Even if his daughter survived, he would never see her again, and Chen Ke was still very saddened.
He slumped his shoulders and sighed deeply, but after thinking for a moment, he said, "If that's the case, I'm afraid Xia will suffer a lot."
The reason Chen Rou didn't want to tell her father the truth wasn't because she didn't want to, but because the truth was too cruel.
Although Chen Ke initially thought his wife would raise their daughter alone, upon closer reflection he realized something was amiss. He abruptly looked up: "If your sister-in-law hadn't miscarried that day, we'd all be family. I wouldn't have such a deep-seated prejudice against Li Gang. I... I..."
Like Li Xia, he has only one flaw: he is too kind.
So if their daughter survives, although they also hate and despise Li Gang, they will eventually forgive him.
After Chen Ke discovers that Li Da Quezi is suspected of drug trafficking, Li Da Quezi will bring up Li Gang, saying that Li Gang can prove that he did not traffic drugs, and beg Chen Ke to let him go. Chen Ke will then tell Li Xia about it and ask her to inquire with Li Gang, because in his underlying logic, Li Da Quezi is a pitiful person, and Li Gang could not possibly have committed a crime.
But his question alerted the enemy, and Li Da the Cripple killed Li Xia as well.
Seeing Chen Rou nod, Chen Ke seemed to be struck between the eyebrows, frozen in place, and after a long while he said, "My daughter will become an orphan!"
His aunt, Chen Juan, was the most outstanding woman Chen Ke had ever met in his life.
Because of Chen Juan, he had always wanted a girl, a girl as dazzling and radiant as Chen Juan.
He also imagined countless times that he would not be like his grandmother, who favored boys over girls and gently broke his daughter's foot bones to bind her feet, nor would he force her to change her brother's wife. He lost his aunt forever, but he wanted to raise a girl like his aunt in a better way, so that she could go further and fly higher.
But he was even worse than his ancestors; even though he had a daughter, he would make her an orphan.
Even if Chen Ke is dismissed for violating regulations, he can leave calmly and go home.
But he couldn't accept that he was incompetent, that he was inferior to his ancestors.
At this moment, after more than two months of unwavering integrity and unyielding spirit, he finally couldn't hold on any longer. His spine finally bent. A man doesn't easily shed tears, but at this moment, tears streamed down his face because he suddenly realized that he was a failure.
But Chen Rou told her father these things not to discourage him or deliberately cause him pain, but to help him learn from his experience.
One should not have the intention to harm others, but one should not be without the intention to guard against others.
When someone is truly pushed to the limit, they'll find fault with him and try to take him down. He'll also have to curry favor with whoever he can.
But she had already brought Chen Ke to the brink of collapse, and she needed to rebuild his confidence.
There are many things that can only be seen clearly by living into the future, like Chen Rou, and then going back to the past.
She got up and made Chen Ke a cup of tea, placing it in front of him. Then she asked, "Do you know why your grandmother was so determined to bind Chen Juan's feet, even at the cost of her life, forcing her to marry at such a young age and find a new daughter-in-law for herself?"
Chen Ke said, "She favored sons over daughters; she only cared about her son."
Chen Rou then asked, "Do you know why she favors boys over girls and treats her daughter like she's not human?"
Chen Ke said, "It's about inheritance. She herself had her feet bound and got married in her teens, so she felt that her daughter should be like that too."
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