Chapter 106

After getting the flowers, Li Chengxi and Lin Tao went home, picked up Yueyue, and the family of three went to pay tribute to Lu Xiangchun.

When they arrived at the tomb, Li Chengxi placed the lilies on it and said, "Mom, I brought Ah Tao and Yue Yue to see you."

On the tombstone, there was a photo of Lu Xiangchun, she was smiling in the photo, Li Chengxi looked at least 50% similar to her. Lin Tao hugged Yueyue and called her mother, and asked Yueyue to call her "grandma".

In the past, Lin Tao asked Yueyue to call for help, but at least Yueyue could see people, so this time she asked Yueyue to call for help at the grave. But the little guy was also very obedient. Although he didn't understand much, he still called out crisply: "Grandma!"

Lin Tao noticed that Li Chengxi's eyes were red. This man was always stable. As long as he was around, Lin Tao would feel safe enough. But he would also be sad sometimes. When Li Chengxi lost his mother, Lin Tao could not be by his side.

But this time she was there.

Lin Tao said to Yueyue: "Let daddy hold you."

When Li Chengxi held Yueyue in his arms, Lin Tao reached out and held her hand, and also pulled Yueyue's small hand over. She didn't say anything, but this one action could express everything.

After paying their respects, the family returned home.

Meanwhile, at the Li family, Zhang Sufen sighed as she looked at Li Guodong, who was not feeling well but was still going out. She said, "You are not feeling well. The doctor said you should have a good rest. It's so cold now, why do you insist on going out? How about forget about it this year and go out when you are better?"

Zhang Sufen's words earned Li Guodong a stern look. He put on a serious face and said, "No, today is Xiangchun's death anniversary. I must go see her."

Zhang Sufen had no choice but to follow Li Guodong out.

Li Guodong was ill a while ago and has not been in good health since then. Illness comes like a mountain falling and goes like a thread being pulled out. Especially for an old man, the symptoms are more obvious when he is sick. He has lost a lot of weight and his hair has turned a lot whiter.

When they arrived at the tomb, Li Guodong saw the bunch of lilies at the tomb and understood what was going on. He said, "Lilies, Cheng Xi must have been here. He is the only one in the Lu family who would give lilies to his mother."

Zhang Sufen said nothing, just looked at the photo of Lu Xiangchun on the tombstone. In fact, since Lu Xiangchun's death, Li Guodong would come to sweep her grave and pay tribute to her every year.

She didn't think much of it before, and she felt that they were sorry for Lu Xiangchun. But this time, seeing that Li Guodong was so sick, but still had to come to sweep Lu Xiangchun's grave, she understood more deeply that even if she stayed with Li Guodong, he would never forget Lu Xiangchun for the rest of his life.

Li Guodong stayed in front of the tomb and talked with Lu Xiangchun for a while before leaving. On the way, he said to Zhang Sufen, "Sufen, Chengxi must have brought her child with her. The child must be over one year old. The last time I saw her, she was still so young. She must have grown up a lot now..."

Zhang Sufen knew what Li Guodong meant. He missed Yueyue and wanted to see her.

She said, "Okay, I'll go to Lu's house in two days."

After Lu Xiangchun died, the Lu and Li families became sworn enemies. At that time, the Lu family asked Li Guodong to swear that he would never set foot in their Lu family again in his life. Therefore, Li Guodong could not go there himself, and had to let Zhang Sufen go.

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On the sixth day of the New Year, Lu Xiangdong and Lin Changhai took Li Chengxi with them to go through the customs.

Lu Xiangdong: "Chengxi, you really have to help your uncle and your father-in-law this time. We have passed the first six levels, but the seventh level is too difficult. We have studied it for two days and still can't crack it."

Lin Changhai: "Yes, Chengxi, if we pass four more levels, we can get the chess record. We can't just give up like this."

In fact, except for the first level, which was broken by Lin Changhai, the rest were broken by Lu Xiangdong. After all, Lin Changhai's chess skills were really not good, but it didn't matter, the important thing was to participate. As long as he and Lu Xiangdong broke all ten levels, he would get the chess records and he could take a look at them!

Lin Changhai's mentality is still pretty good. No matter who passes the level, as long as he can read the chess score when the time comes, it's fine.

The tricky thing now is that this chess record may not be available!

So Lin Changhai and Lu Xiangdong decided to ask Li Chengxi for help.

Li Chengxi had just finished feeding Yueyue breakfast, and wiped the tofu pudding off Yueyue's mouth with a towel, and then used the towel to wipe Yueyue's face. Washing her face was like a battle, and Yueyue's hair was all tangled up.

"A Tao, you come and look after Yue Yue and lend us Cheng Xi for a while." Lin Changhai said.

Lin Tao came over, hugged Yueyue, and said, "Okay, then I'll lend Chengxi to you. Chengxi, go and help your uncle and dad win the chess manual back."

Li Chengxi laughed, pinched Yueyue's little face, and followed Lu Xiangdong and Lin Changhai out.

With Li Chengxi's help, Lu Xiangdong and Lin Changhai solved the chess game that they had been unable to solve for two days in an instant. It took them less than half a day to win the game back.

When we left, the bosses were still reluctant to let us go.

It wasn't that they were being rude and refused to give him the chess manual, but they thought Li Chengxi was a good chess player and wanted to play a game with him. So Li Chengxi was dragged to play chess with them again, but they made a deal first: "Just one game, one game for each person."

The masters: "No problem, just one!"

My uncle was going to buy groceries with my aunt, so he went back first.

Finally, Li Chengxi played chess with the uncles. Lin Changhai took the chess record, and the father-in-law and son-in-law walked towards home.

But what they didn't expect was that they would run into Zhang Sufen on the road.

Zhang Sufen looked much more haggard than she did a year ago. When she saw Li Chengxi, she subconsciously felt a little afraid of him, but she still walked over and said, "Chengxi, are you going back to Shanghai for the New Year this year? Why didn't you tell your family when you came back?"

Li Chengxi said expressionlessly: "Just say whatever you want to say, otherwise I'm going back."

Zhang Sufen had long been accustomed to Li Chengxi's indifference and said, "Your father misses Yueyue very much. He wants you to take Yueyue to see him. Can you..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Chengxi said, "No."

After that, he said to Lin Changhai who was standing beside him: "Dad, let's go back first. Ah Tao is still waiting for us at home."

Lin Changhai was not a fool. He could guess the relationship between Li Chengxi and Zhang Sufen from their conversation.

He didn't say anything more and followed Li Chengxi back, but was stopped by Zhang Sufen: "You are the in-law, right? In-law, please do me a favor and persuade Chengxi... His father is in poor health and has been in the hospital for several months. He has not recovered yet. He just wants to see his granddaughter. Is that not okay? We are all parents, you should understand this feeling..."

Lin Changhai said, "I am Lin Tao's father, but Cheng Xi does not acknowledge you. I dare not respond to your words of in-law. You are right. We are all parents. I will not do such a thing."

With just one sentence, Zhang Sufen's face turned pale and looked extremely ugly.

This sentence may sound insignificant on the surface, but in fact it is an invisible slap in the face of Li Guodong and Zhang Sufen. Lin Changhai looks down on Li Guodong as his relative from the bottom of his heart. It's only been five years. Even if everyone thought that Lu Xiangchun was gone and dead, they only waited for five years.

You haven't even seen her corpse. Is the friendship between the two of you only worth five years?

This was not the case with Lin Changhai. Perhaps it was true, as the villagers said, that he was born with hotter blood than others, and his feelings lasted longer than other men. He could say with a clear conscience that after his wife died, he, Lin Changhai, had never liked any other woman.

No matter whether it is twenty years or forty years, he is willing to never remarry in his life.

"Chengxi, let's go back." Lin Changhai said, patting Li Chengxi on the shoulder, "Chengxi, our family is fine. Dad will always be a family with you."

Lin Changhai didn't think Li Chengxi's attitude towards Zhang Sufen was wrong at all, he even supported Li Chengxi. This kid had suffered such things since he was young, he had endured too much, and he was not the kind of person who liked to talk about his inner suffering.

The more this kind of personality you have, the more pain you feel in your heart.

As the saying goes, a son-in-law is half a son, and Li Chengxi is like Lin Changhai's own son. Lin Changhai feels distressed when he thinks of this.

"Yeah." Li Chengxi responded, and said, "Dad, don't tell Ah Tao about this when you go back. It's New Year's Day, don't let her be unhappy."

"Of course. You feel sorry for your cousin, and I feel sorry for my daughter. Let's not tell anyone when we go back. Let's just talk about the happiness of winning the chess game." Lin Changhai patted Li Chengxi on the shoulder.

In fact, Li Chengxi didn't like being patted on the shoulder, but this person was his father-in-law, so he was naturally very happy.

When the father-in-law and son-in-law arrived home, Lin Tao was already waiting with Yueyue in her arms. When she saw them coming back, she asked, "How was it? Did you win?"

"Of course we have to. Now that Cheng Xi has taken action, how can we not win? Right, Cheng Xi?" Lin Changhai said with a smile.

Li Chengxi smiled at Lin Tao, and Lin Tao felt that there was a hint of pride in that smile, just like the male peacock spreading its tail when they went to the zoo last time.

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Li Chengxi's vacation is only half a month in total, and he will be delayed for a few days on the bus, so after the eighth day of the New Year, the family has to return to the mountain city.

Excluding the time spent on the road, we only stayed in Shanghai for about ten days in total. My grandmother felt that we had not stayed long enough. It felt like we had just arrived, so why did we have to go back so quickly?

The night before she left, grandma held Yueyue in her arms and was reluctant to let go, muttering, "Why are you leaving so soon? You've only been here for a few days... There are still a few days left before the Lantern Festival. Why don't you just wait until after the Lantern Festival before leaving?"

Lin Tao knew that her grandmother was reluctant and somewhat helpless.

My uncle said, "Mom, look at what you said. Chengxi and his men are in the military. The military is very strict. They have to report back to the military on time. Can you bargain?"

But as soon as my uncle said something fair, my grandmother glared at him and said unhappily, "How could I not know this? Isn't it because I can't bear to leave Yueyue and A Tao that I said this?"

After talking about my uncle, my grandmother came up with another idea: "How about this, Chengxi, you go back first, and let Yueyue, Atao and the in-laws stay here for a few more days. Anyway, the army is only concerned about Chengxi, and it doesn't matter when Atao and the others go back."

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Having said that, whether you go back a few days earlier or a few days later, you still have to go back to the mountain city.

The next day, my uncle drove Lin Tao's family to the train station. They brought a lot of luggage when they came, and they brought even more things when they left.

Some of the things were bought by Lin Tao in the department store. Shanghai is one of the most prosperous cities in China. It was not easy to come to Shanghai, so she had to bring some things back.

When they came here before, Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting asked Lin Tao to bring some cloth back for them. Of course they needed cloth, and Lin Tao also had to buy some for her family. When the time came, the children would need cloth to make clothes and so on.

There were also shower heads for bathing. Lin Tao bought new clothes for Yueyue, and had originally planned to buy new clothes for Li Chengxi and Lin Changhai, but both of them refused, saying that they would look better in clothes made by Lin Tao, so Lin Tao did not buy any.

Indeed, the clothes she made herself were not only comfortable to wear but also warm.

Grandma and her family bought a lot of things for Lin Tao and Yueyue. After knowing that Lin Changhai had chronic cold legs, her uncle specially brought some plaster, saying that this plaster was used by his colleague's father and he always said it was very good, so he asked Lin Changhai to take it back and try it.

"Yueyue, when you get to the island, remember to think of your wife." Grandma hugged Yueyue, her eyes full of reluctance.

Yueyue looked at her mother, then at her grandmother, kissed her on the face, and said in a baby voice, "I miss my wife! I miss my uncle, my aunt, my great-aunt, I miss..."

Yueyue's clear and childish voice made people feel more uncomfortable at the time of parting.

They got on the train reluctantly and sat in the window seat. Lin Tao held Yueyue in her arms and looked at her grandmother and her group outside. She waved her hand. Her grandmother's eyes turned red and she turned her face away and began to wipe her tears. Her aunt and younger aunt both persuaded her. With a sound, the train started.

The worries about the pros and cons were greatly alleviated during the dozens of train rides.

Lin Tao slept on Li Chengxi all the way, but when she got off the train, her feet were still numb. Even though Li Chengxi rubbed them for her before she got off the train, she still felt uncomfortable when she walked.

It took a while to get better.

Yueyue was still asleep. Li Chengxi held Yueyue in one hand and the luggage in the other. After Lin Tao's feet had recovered and were no longer numb, he said, "Let me hold Yueyue. You have to carry the luggage, which is inconvenient."

Li Chengxi had just handed Yueyue to Lin Tao when suddenly a little boy of four or five years old ran over without thinking and almost bumped into Lin Tao. Fortunately, Li Chengxi reacted quickly and blocked Lin Tao in an instant. Otherwise, Lin Tao would not be able to keep her balance while holding the child and would most likely be knocked down by the child.

The child ran and cried, "I don't want to go back, I don't want to go back, I want to find my mom..."

Then a man grabbed him by the collar, slapped him on the head, and shouted angrily: "Why are you running? Your mother has gone back to her parents' home. Didn't she say she would be back in a few days? Can't you wait in a few days? You bastard, if you dare to run again, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!"

The man was a big, strong man, but when he saw Li Chengxi in his military uniform, he immediately smiled and bowed, saying, "I'm so sorry, comrade. My child is not sensible, and I usually spoil him too much."

Li Chengxi stared at the man, then said to Lin Changhai, "Dad, take Tao and Yueyue to the front and wait for me in the waiting room."

Lin Tao and Lin Changhai didn't know what he was going to do, but they didn't ask. However, after they walked forward for a while, Li Chengxi put down his luggage and chased after the man.

The man directly held the child under his armpits, ignoring the child's struggle, and walked forward quickly. But the next moment, the man grabbed the child's shoulders from behind, and Li Chengxi said, "Put the child down."

The man's face looked a little ugly: "Comrade, let's talk it over nicely. I got angry because the child was disobedient and made a fuss all the way. What else can I do to my own child..."

He took the opportunity to put the child down and immediately wanted to run away, but Li Chengxi had already prepared for his escape and grabbed his arm, twisting it behind him, and said in a cold voice: "Why are you running? Don't you want your own child anymore?"

"Brother, what on earth do you want to do?" The man suddenly knelt down in front of Li Chengxi and shouted to the people getting off the train, "Everyone come and see, the People's Liberation Army is beating people and robbing children."

Taking advantage of the opportunity when people were watching him, he reached into his trousers and took out a small knife. However, the knife did not touch Li Chengxi at all. Instead, his other arm was pinched so hard that it felt like the bones were about to break.

The man hurriedly swung his knife at the child who was sitting on the ground and crying.

Li Chengxi's eyes dimmed and he quickly reached out to hug the child. However, in order to protect the child, he accidentally cut his arm.

The man took advantage of Li Chengxi holding the child and ran away.

Li Chengxi put the child behind him so that people could see him, and immediately chased the man. The man wanted to scare Li Chengxi with a knife, but Li Chengxi kicked him and knocked the knife out of the man's hand, and the man was also kicked to the ground.

He hurriedly got up and tried to run, but Li Chengxi stepped on his back and twisted his arms behind his back. The man was like a dead fish, unable to move on the ground.

Lin Changhai knew that Li Chengxi must have something going on when he suddenly said that, so he didn't doubt it at the moment and took Lin Tao and Yueyue to follow what Li Chengxi said. However, before they had walked far, a fight broke out.

Lin Tao's heart skipped a beat. Although she was confident in Li Chengxi's skills, she couldn't help but worry when she heard someone in the crowd say that someone had a knife. She quickly handed Yueyue to Lin Changhai and said, "Dad, hold Yueyue for a while. I'll go see how Chengxi is doing."

By the time Lin Tao walked into the crowd, Li Chengxi had already subdued the gangster.

Seeing the hero-like Li Chengxi, Lin Tao heaved a sigh of relief, as long as Li Chengxi was okay. But when she looked more closely, she found that Li Chengxi's left arm was bleeding, and Lin Tao's heart ached.

The commotion here was too loud. The police at the train station rushed over. Seeing Li Chengxi in a marine uniform, they ignored the man who was being stepped on by Li Chengxi and was wailing: "Police, the People's Liberation Army is beating people..."

Instead, he asked Li Chengxi in a very friendly manner: "Comrade, what happened?"

"This man is a human trafficker, and he kidnapped the child," said Li Chengxi.

After the police arrived, Li Chengxi was able to let go of the man. The two police officers held the man down, but he was still shouting, "Don't think you can wrongly accuse people just because you are a member of the People's Liberation Army, comrade. He wronged me. This child is my son. I am not a trafficker at all, really..."

But the two public security comrades ignored the man's words.

To understand the situation in detail, they had to go to the Public Security Bureau. The police held the man down, while Lin Tao took the little boy and walked to Li Chengxi.

After investigation, it turned out that the boy was not the man's son. However, the boy was too young and frightened to explain where he was from or who else was in his family. But when the police asked the boy if the man was his father, he shook his head like a rattle.

The public security comrade poured a glass of water for Li Chengxi and Lin Tao and asked Li Chengxi: "Comrade, how did you know that this man was a human trafficker?"

The child can't even explain himself now, and the man insisted that the child was his son. If it were someone else, they probably wouldn't doubt the relationship between the two.

Lin Tao also looked at Li Chengxi, and she was also surprised, because when the child was with them, she did not doubt the relationship between the child and the man. Although the man was fierce, many parents would also be fierce to their children.

Then Lin Tao heard Li Chengxi say, "The man's accent is different from the child's. The man is from the north, and the child is from Sichuan. I studied in Sichuan, so I can tell the difference."

accent?

Lin Tao and the police were shocked when they heard Li Chengxi's answer, but they suddenly realized it. After listening carefully, the child's accent was not from Shancheng, while the man's accent was from Shancheng. Li Chengxi saw this, and when he looked at the child and the man, he naturally found the difference between them.

The police repeatedly exclaimed: "Comrade, you are so amazing!"

After the human trafficker's confession, he had indeed kidnapped the child from Sichuan City. He refused to admit it at first, but finally realized that Li Chengxi had seen through it, so he had no choice but to confess and try to get leniency. He used to make money by kidnapping children and women. In some places, people who couldn't give birth to children but wanted children had to buy children back.

Some people, who cannot find a wife, would buy one instead.

Li Chengxi's small discovery solved many previous cases of abduction and trafficking. The current information is not connected enough. Those abducted children and women were abducted from the south to the north. Even if their families look for them, they can't find them, let alone go home.

But because Li Chengxi caught this trafficker, these cases might be solved one by one. Those abducted women and children can go home again!

Regarding this child, the public security department will send someone to send him home.

When Li Chengxi and Lin Tao finished their statements and left, the child bowed deeply to Li Chengxi and said, "Thank you, PLA uncle!"

Tears were still on her face. She was only four or five years old, and was abducted by bad guys to a place so far away from home. Fortunately, she took the opportunity to run to their side and was spotted by Li Chengxi, otherwise, she really didn't know what would have happened.

This kid was smart. He saw Li Chengxi in military uniform and ran towards them on purpose. When he was caught by the man again, he thought it was over, but he didn't expect Li Chengxi to come to save him.

"Be good here, the police will send you home. Don't be afraid and don't cry, auntie will give you some candy." As she said that, Lin Tao took out a few fruit candies from her pocket and put them in the little boy's hand.

The little boy sniffed, wiped his tears, and nodded: "Well, I won't cry, thank you auntie!"

After walking out of the police station, Lin Tao looked at the wound on Li Chengxi's hand. The weather was too cold and the blood had solidified. She frowned, with an undisguised look of heartache on her face, and said, "How could you be so careless?"

"It's okay, it's just a minor wound, it doesn't hurt." Li Chengxi used his other hand to hold Lin Tao's hand. In his opinion, the cut was really not big, and it just bleeds a little, which is nothing. "Let's go to the train station."

They had too much luggage, and the bus station was closer to the train station. Li Chengxi was the only one who could take the statement, but Lin Tao was worried, so she followed. Lin Changhai took Yueyue and waited for them in the waiting room of the train station. It was troublesome to go back and forth.

Lin Tao said, "No, you need to treat your wound. Let's go to the hospital."

"It's okay. It's winter, the wound won't get infected. I..." Li Chengxi's eyes met Lin Tao's and he saw that she lowered her face, her fair cheeks puffed up, and she was obviously angry.

Li Chengxi couldn't help but chuckle and reached out to pinch Lin Tao's cheek. Over the past few years, Lin Tao had gained some weight compared to when Li Chengxi first met her. She used to be skinny, but now her face had some flesh on it, and it felt quite soft when pinched.

"Okay, I'll go to the hospital." Li Chengxi was helpless. No matter how mighty a warrior was, he could only surrender when facing his wife. "You're already so old, why do you act like Yueyue when you get angry?"