Chapter 142

Xingxing said, "Yes, we sold out a long time ago, and we also had beef noodles, which were delicious."

Yueyue said, "Mom, we brought you a basket of steamed buns. Eat them while they're hot."

The steamed buns were bought at the noodle shop. They tasted good and the meat inside was fresh. However, Lin Tao didn't dare to eat too much because she had to take a boat back to the island soon and eating too much would make her seasick.

When they got home, Yueyue told Lin Tao how much money she had earned today: "I didn't make much from selling popsicles. We saw someone selling popsicles outside the cinema, and we were afraid that if we bought too much, we wouldn't be able to sell them all, so we only made a little more than one yuan. The rest was from selling small seafood, a total of twelve yuan. I could have made more, and I opened a can and let everyone taste it for free, without charging any money."

Yueyue said: "There are quite a lot of people setting up stalls outside the cinema. I just came here to sell this. No one knows if it tastes good or not, so they are reluctant to buy it. So I just let everyone try it for free. If they think it tastes good, they can buy it. If it doesn't taste good, they don't have to pay."

It was Yueyue's idea that brought in business. After the store opened, more and more people came to try the food, and it was sold out in a short time. Some people still wanted to buy it but haven't been able to buy it yet.

Lin Tao really didn't expect Yueyue to be so thoughtful and thoughtful, and she felt very relieved.

Twelve yuan is the gross profit, but Yueyue actually has more than that.

Yueyue wanted to give the money to Lin Tao, but Lin Tao only took the cost. She did the math in her mind and realized that if she could make twelve yuan a day, that would be a gross profit of three hundred and sixty yuan a month, which was more than her and Li Chengxi's salary combined. Moreover, Yueyue had sold out all the seafood before she had even started selling for long today. She had been worried that there were too many seafood here and that these small seafood would not be easy to sell.

But Yueyue said that some people who had just watched the movie came out and said that the seafood she cooked was delicious. They asked her when she would start selling it and they wanted to buy from her next time.

"Mom, I told them I would go again in two days. Can I go again then?" Yueyue asked, her eyes full of anticipation.

Xing Xing said, "Go ahead, I'll help too."

Of course he was willing to help. He was very happy today as he ate popsicles and beef noodles.

Lin Tao said: "Sure, mom will sell with you then."

When Yueyue went to sell seafood outside the cinema for the second time, Lin Tao went with her. As Yueyue said, the business was pretty good. She even came to buy some seafood that she didn't buy last time. This time, Yueyue made more, a total of more than 40 cans, and they were all sold out in less than three hours.

After returning home, Lin Tao began to look through the passbook at home to see how much money was saved in it.

When Li Chengxi married her, there were more than 3,000 yuan in his savings account. In the past ten years or so, they saved a lot more together, and their total savings were more than 10,000 yuan. However, more than 10,000 yuan is a lot for ordinary people. They are now famous for their 10,000 yuan savings. However, it was difficult for Lin Tao to do what she wanted.

After Li Chengxi returned from Beijing, Lin Tao told him her inner thoughts.

"The small seafood sold by Yueyue is really good. The first time, the kids went to sell it themselves because I had to go to the Education Bureau for a meeting. They sold out all of them in one afternoon and earned twelve yuan. The second time, they sold more and also sold them all. I thought that now that the policies are good, it's not bad to be a self-employed business owner." Lin Tao said.

"Yueyue still has to go to school and will be going to high school. She will be busy with her studies and can't focus all her attention on this. I thought about it, isn't the canning factory on the island going to close down? So many workers don't know what to do, so I thought, why not I contract the factory and hire workers to make small seafood cans. Since we've started it, we have to make it bigger and stronger, and take over the market while there's nothing like it on the market." Lin Tao said.

Li Chengxi: "Your idea is quite good."

"It's just that the money at home is not enough to undertake the contract." Lin Tao said.

This is the most important issue. Without enough money, everything is in vain.

Li Chengxi gave her an idea: "I have an idea. You can try to implement it and see if it works. If it works, that's great. If not, don't contract the factory and open a store in the city first."

Lin Tao: "What idea?"

Li Chengxi: "Have you ever heard of the shareholding system? When the factory is contracted out, workers will definitely be needed. You can talk to everyone first to see if they are willing to contribute money to contract with you. If they are willing to contribute money, you can divide the shares according to the amount. If the factory is profitable in the future, everyone can share the dividends. There is an advantage to doing this. Everyone's interests are tied together. Everyone wants the factory to succeed, so they will naturally work hard. However, everything has its pros and cons. When there are too many shareholders, there will be problems when making decisions. There will definitely be disagreements, so the majority of the shares should be in the hands of two or three people."

The joint-stock system originated in Europe in the 18th century, which Li Chengxi had read in a book.

After hearing this, Lin Tao thought this was a good idea, so she asked Yueyue to make some small canned seafood. After they were done, she took these small canned seafood to find those unemployed people at home, letting them taste it first to see how it tasted, and then she proposed the matter of contracting the factory with a shareholding system.

At first, they were quite hesitant. Although it was a good thing for the factory to be able to restart, the prerequisite was that they had to invest money first. They were afraid of one thing: what if they lost money...

After all, the cannery was doing so well in the beginning, but it has gone bankrupt now. If the cannery goes bankrupt, at most they will lose their jobs, but if they invest money now and the factory goes bankrupt later, they will lose their money.

However, after Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting, who was on vacation on the island, learned about this, they immediately chose to pay for the contract.

Chen Shuifen took out several thousand yuan. She had eaten the small canned seafood made by Yueyue. This small canned seafood can be eaten right after opening, which is convenient and delicious. Moreover, Lin Tao told her that Yueyue earned more than ten yuan on the first day. She had nothing to do now, so she just invested in this.

As for Xu Yuting, after graduating from university, she was poached by a company to work as a fashion designer. Now she is a senior fashion designer and earns more than a thousand yuan a month.

She was very supportive of Lin Tao's contracting and invested several thousand yuan with only one request: "A Tao, our company will hold a fashion exhibition next month. I would like to invite you to be my model. Please don't reject me."

"Don't you have a lot of foreign models in your company? Can I do it? I won't be a drag on you, right?" Lin Tao said.

Xu Yuting said, "How could you possibly be a drag? Foreign models are pretty, but they're just that after a while. And the theme of my design this time is Oriental beauty. I spent half a year traveling to many places and seeing the costumes of 56 ethnic groups. With these as references, I designed a Chinese-style skirt. You must be my model. I think no one is more suitable than you."

"Then considering that you have invested, I agree." Lin Tao said jokingly.

After thinking for a while, the workers on the island heard about Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting's investment, and heard about Yueyue's profit from selling small seafood. One of them gritted his teeth and became the first to invest. She didn't have much money, only a few hundred yuan, but because of her, the rest of the people came as well.

The most important thing is that everyone trusts Lin Tao and believes that Lin Tao will help them make money and will not let them lose money.

When signing the contract, Lin Tao also asked them to sign another contract, which stated that they could not use the factory's recipes to make and sell small seafood, otherwise they would have to pay compensation.

Even though they have known each other for more than ten years, Lin Tao still wants to keep this friend.

Li Chengxi knew about this and supported her. People's minds are unpredictable. What if someone thinks that doing this business can make money and doesn't want to make money with everyone else in the same factory, but wants to go out and do it on his own after learning how to make this small seafood?

Sign a guarantee letter to have more peace of mind.

After the factory was contracted, they adopted a wholesale model, with small profits and quick turnover. For a while, small canned seafood became popular in Shancheng. But Lin Tao's eyes were not limited to Shancheng. Shancheng was only this big, and it was close to the sea. Small canned seafood sold well at the beginning, but it was hard to say how it would sell in the future. Moreover, it was not difficult to make small canned seafood. You could buy a can and study how to make it. Even if you couldn't make it taste exactly the same, if everyone saw that it sold well, someone would definitely follow suit.

This is why Lin Tao wanted to contract a factory to do this from the beginning. Since she decided to do it, she had to do it on a large scale and become a wholesaler. She not only had to sell in the mountain city, but also in the neighboring cities. Especially in those cities without the sea, people there have never seen the sea, so they will be more interested in this, and small canned seafood will also sell better.

Last time, she unexpectedly saw the young comrade who used to live in the guesthouse. However, the young comrade is now over 30 years old and his child is about to go to junior high school.

The young comrade’s surname is Zhou, and his name is Zhou Ping.

When the two met again, Lin Tao asked him what he was doing now. He said that when self-employed people first appeared two years ago, he wanted to quit his job at the guesthouse and become a self-employed person. But when his wife found out, she would never agree to his quitting his job to become a self-employed person. She said that if he quit his iron rice bowl, she would divorce him and take the children back to her parents' home.

But his iron rice bowl was gone some time ago, and now he is completely out of work.

Zhou Ping said, "I don't blame her. No one knew it would turn out like this. At the time, everyone envied my job. Maybe I will go wholesale some things and sell them in the future. I know people who make money selling buttons."

Lin Tao asked him if he was willing to help her. She wanted to sell the canned seafood to other cities. She was too busy to do it herself, let alone Li Chengxi. Although her father Lin Changhai was free at home and wanted to help her in this regard, Lin Changhai was old and was over 60 years old this year.

Although the old man was still in good health, Lin Taoning wanted him to stay at home and did not want him to regret it if something happened to him.

Lin Tao remembered that Zhou Ping was very smart and was good at this. After listening to Lin Tao's introduction, Zhou Ping immediately said, "I never thought that the canned seafood was made by my sister-in-law. My daughter has been clamoring to eat it since she ate it once at her classmate's house. Her mother and I tried it and it tasted really good."

Lin Tao smiled and said, "Actually, my daughter made it. She has loved cooking since she was a child."

The two hit it off immediately, and Zhou Ping said he could start working tomorrow.

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On the other side, Shen Guobin got into trouble.

In 1979, Shen Guobin retired at the age of 40. After retirement, he was assigned to a factory in Shancheng. During an inspection, he accidentally fell from a height and broke both legs.

While in a coma, Shen Guobin's mind was filled with images of his previous life.

In his previous life, he married Lin Tao instead of Lin Hui! Lin Tao was very supportive of him going to the artillery school. He was promoted in his previous life, unlike this life, where he was sent to Shimizu Island to do development work and was still a battalion commander until he retired!

And all of this was caused by Lin Hui.

Over the years, Shen Guobin no longer had any feelings for Lin Hui, but if he didn't know that he had reached such a height in his previous life, he might have just let it go. However, he knew what happened in his previous life, especially that Li Chengxi liked Lin Tao in his previous life, and Lin Tao was his wife, and Li Chengxi got nothing in the end. But in this life, Li Chengxi married Lin Tao and became a teacher in his early forties.

It felt like stabbing him with a knife.

This psychological pain has even surpassed the pain of a broken leg. Looking at Lin Hui walking into the ward, Shen Guobin wanted to strangle her to death. If it weren't for Lin Hui, he would have married Lin Tao, and he wouldn't be like this now. All this is because of Lin Hui, it's all Lin Hui's fault!

When Lin Hui heard that Shen Guobin had fallen from a high place, she rushed to the hospital.

After a series of rescue efforts, the doctor still told her that Shen Guobin's legs could not be saved and he would never be able to walk again.

Lin Hui noticed that Shen Guobin looked very bad and thought that he couldn't accept the fact that his leg was broken. Anyway, she had gotten used to Shen Guobin's behavior over the years.

She no longer felt that it mattered whether Shen Guobin was as good to Lin Tao in his previous life as they showed. The most important thing was that her son Shen Jiahao had become successful!

After the reform and opening up, Lin Hui has always supported Shen Jiahao to start a business as a self-employed individual, and Shen Jiahao did not disappoint her, even though the business in the first two years was not profitable because there were too many people doing this. Shen Jiahao was too ambitious to set up a stall on the street to sell food.

Later, he somehow found a way to get a batch of fashionable clothes to sell, and at first he just set up a roadside stall. However, his clothes were fashionable and good-looking, and were very popular among young people. They sold very well right after he set up the stall. Many people said that some of the styles were not even available in Shanghai, and there was only one piece of each style, so the clothes sold even better.

After all, it is much better to wear a piece of clothing that is the only one in the whole city than to wear the same piece of clothing as others.

Shen Jiahao also made his fortune by selling clothes. He started out as a roadside stall, and in less than a year he bought a shop and opened a clothing store.

Although Shen Jiahao's current achievements have not reached even one percent of what he achieved in his previous life, in Lin Hui's view, it is already very good. At least this gives her hope and makes her understand that she did the right thing in marrying Shen Guobin in her life. She has finally waited for this day!

No matter how much suffering you have endured in the past, what does it matter?

Her son Shen Jiahao had become successful, allowing her to live a good life. After Shen Jiahao made money from selling clothes, Lin Hui returned to Xiangcheng once, just to show off in front of those people in Taohua Village who used to talk behind her back, so that they would shut up and know that she, Lin Hui, did not marry the wrong person.

So what if Lin Tao's man is a teacher? How much can he earn in a month? But Shen Jiahao now earns hundreds of dollars a month, and thousands when business is good, which means he can earn nearly 10,000 yuan a year. She is now a 10,000 yuan household!

Shen Jiayi has always remembered what she said when she grew up. She just went to Hong Kong at the beginning of this year. Because Lin Hui remembered that in her previous life, Shen Jiayi also went to Hong Kong to become a star. Now the movies in mainland China are not good. If you want to be famous, you have to go to Hong Kong.

Lin Hui felt that everything was getting better. Her eldest son had a talent for business, and her youngest daughter had gone to Hong Kong again. It would probably not be long before she became a big star.

As for Shen Guobin, maybe Lin Hui really liked him at the beginning, but Shen Guobin's attitude towards her over the years made her feel cold. She thought that she had chosen to marry Shen Guobin in order to snatch away Lin Tao's promising children. Now that her children have become successful, it doesn't matter if Shen Guobin treats her badly.

But she still had to do the surface work. Lin Hui walked over and said to Shen Guobin: "Guobin, I know you feel bad about this, but..."

Before he could finish his words, Shen Guobin picked up the cup next to him and threw it at Lin Hui.

The cup hit Lin Hui's forehead, breaking her head. Blood dripped down her face. Lin Hui heard Shen Guobin shout at her, "Get out of here! Get out of here! If it weren't for you, I would have married Lin Tao a long time ago. I wouldn't be like this now. Get out of here!"

Lin Hui covered her injured forehead, looked at the collapsed Shen Guobin, and suddenly laughed.

When Shen Guobin was unconscious before, he had been calling Lin Tao's name. She knew she was not mistaken. Now Shen Guobin's words made her understand that maybe Shen Guobin also remembered things from his previous life.

After knowing all this, Lin Hui was not afraid at all. Instead, she kept smiling at Shen Guobin: "Why, you know everything? Do you really want to find Lin Tao now? You regret marrying me and want to marry her, right? But look at you now. Your legs are broken. Can you still walk? Where can you go? I am not afraid to tell you that I also know about my past life, and I deliberately took away everything from her. I deliberately told my grandmother that I wanted to marry you, so my grandmother went to find a matchmaker, and the matchmaker went to find your parents..."

Lin Hui looked at Shen Guobin, whose eyes were bloodshot and veins were throbbing on his forehead, and suddenly she felt very refreshed.

She should have kept this secret for her whole life, but she didn't expect that Shen Guobin had memories of his previous life after he fell into a coma. She was not afraid to tell Shen Guobin that she did all this on purpose!

Shen Guobin looked at Lin Hui's arrogant smile and wanted to get out of bed and strangle her to death, but he couldn't move at all. His legs were broken and he would be disabled forever.

"Lin Hui, I will kill you, I will kill you!" Shen Guobin shouted.

At this time, Shen Jiahao also came. As soon as he entered, he heard Shen Guobin shouting, and asked quickly: "Dad, what are you talking about? What did mom do to you? Mom has given so much to our family, can't you be nicer to her?"

Lin Hui quickly hid behind Shen Jiahao and cried, "Your father did it all for that bad woman. He has always had her in his heart. Now he blames me for marrying him and causing him to be unable to be with that bad woman..."

Over the years, Shen Jiahao has regarded Lin Hui as someone closer to him than his biological mother. He believes whatever Lin Hui says, and is not that close to his biological father, Shen Guobin.

After Shen Guobin was discharged from the hospital, he lived at home. He had a bad attitude towards Lin Hui, and Lin Hui didn't care much about him. If he didn't eat the food, he would go hungry. She rarely gave him water because if he drank too much water, he would go to the toilet more often.

She dresses up every day and goes to the mahjong parlor early to play mahjong.

Shen Jiahao didn't care about Shen Guobin. He thought Shen Guobin was unfair to Lin Hui. He would rather have Lin Hui as his stepmother than Shen Guobin as his stepfather. He also said that if Shen Guobin dared to scold Lin Hui again, he would throw Shen Guobin out of the house.

By chance, Lin Hui learned that the popular canned seafood in Shancheng was actually made by Lin Tao. In order to get revenge on Lin Tao, Lin Hui told Shen Jiahao about this after playing mahjong: "I have eaten that small seafood. It is said to be delicious, but in fact, the taste is just so-so. If we want to make it, we can make it. Why don't we open another store next to the clothing store and sell canned seafood?"

Shen Jiahao did what he said. Now that he had made money, it was not difficult for him to open another store. Lin Hui also specially brought Zhang Hongying and Lin Changshan from Xiangcheng to help her run the store.

However, Lin Tao's canning factory had already occupied the market. For the same price, everyone preferred the Little Moon brand canned seafood produced by Shengshan Island Factory.

They hired workers to can seafood, but they couldn't sell it. But seafood is different from other things. Looking at the cans they bought back home, they were going to go bad if they didn't make any more. Lin Hui and Shen Jiahao were dumbfounded. If they didn't can the seafood, it would go bad immediately. But if it was canned, it could be stored for a longer time, but it was useless if it couldn't be sold.

So Lin Hui and Shen Jiahao discussed it together and came up with an idea.

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Recently, a store specializing in canned seafood has appeared in the mountain city.

In fact, Lin Tao had already made preparations for this. If she can sell it, others can sell it too, but she seized the market first. People in the mountain city are more familiar with the Little Moon brand canned seafood, and she is a wholesaler, so she is not too worried about this matter.

Zhou Ping is also very capable. In the past few months, he has already expanded his seafood canning business to the neighboring city. The production capacity of his factory has been greatly increased. Recently, the workers in the factory have even worked overtime to increase production.

But the strange thing is that the price of the canned seafood store is very low, so low that it is only enough to cover the cost, which is not right.

The buyers only cared about comparing which store was cheaper, but did not think about whether there would be any problems with such a low price. Lin Tao asked Zhou Ping's wife to go to the store to buy a can of seafood. After buying it, they found that the packaging of this can of seafood was very similar to theirs. It was written on it that it was "Xiao Mu Liang" canned seafood. If someone who didn't know bought it, they might think they bought the Little Moon canned seafood.

I opened it and tried it, and immediately felt something was wrong.

The seafood they use for canned food is very fresh, just caught from the sea the day before and processed the next day. Shellfish will be kept for a few more days to spit out the sand before processing. Therefore, the canned seafood tastes fresh, and is paired with some chili and chili oil to enhance the flavor.

However, this canned food tastes spicy. The spiciness is very strong and pungent, as if the spiciness is trying to suppress other flavors.

Chen Shuifen took one bite and spat it out: "Puh, puh, puh, what the hell is this? It's not tasty at all. It's seafood, seafood. It doesn't have any freshness at all. How can it be called seafood? Look, there's not much seafood in it, but a lot of chili peppers. It's so disgusting. How can anyone buy this kind of thing?"

"The price is cheap, so there are always people who want to try it, thinking it doesn't cost much." Lin Tao said, "They can't keep doing this for long. People will try it and think it's not tasty, so they won't go back next time."

The factory staff said, "Then we don't need to be so nervous. In fact, our production has not dropped since we opened this store. Hasn't Assistant Zhou already opened up sales channels in the neighboring province? I checked and our production has not dropped in the past few months. In fact, it has increased."

Lin Tao shook her head and said, "Look at this packaging, isn't it similar to ours? Even if it doesn't affect us, we have to take action to deal with this matter. We can't let such canned food ruin the reputation of our Little Moon brand canned food. Their prices are so cheap, they are close to our costs, which means their costs are lower than ours. But we buy seafood wholesale from fishermen on the island, and our prices are already the lowest in the entire mountain city. How can their costs be lower than ours? There is only one possibility, the ingredients they use are not good, not fresh, and may even be smelly. They use so much chili to cover up the bad taste of the seafood."

"This is too immoral!" Chen Shuifen cursed angrily, "What if you tamper with food and spoil it? Aren't you afraid of retribution? Teacher Lin, what should we do? How should we manage it? Or should we tell everyone not to buy this kind of rubbish?"

Lin Tao shook her head: "It's no use telling others. If things go wrong, they might bite back. We should leave this matter to the police."

"Yes, yes, report it to the police and let them investigate!"

That was all that was discussed at today's meeting. After the meeting, Lin Tao had to go to school, so she went there first. She had to take care of both the school and the factory, but she only had two classes a day at school. Fortunately, she didn't need to take care of the factory all the time. She just spent some time thinking about the strategy before, and she needed to take care of the recent counterfeit canned seafood issue.

Yueyue has been admitted to high school and is currently studying in the first grade of the city’s No. 1 Middle School. She only comes home every Saturday afternoon, stays at home for one night, and has to go back to school on Sunday afternoon.

Yueyue never thought that she had only mentioned the idea of ​​selling canned seafood, but her mother had made such a big business. Now when she goes to school, everyone knows that she was the first to make canned seafood, and they all admire her very much. They also say that they want to try her craftsmanship next time. Yueyue also enjoys it. When she goes home, she will make some for herself and take it back to school.

This time, Yueyue came back with a can of seafood. When she saw Lintao coming home, she said very seriously, "Mom, my classmate bought a fake Little Moon can."

Yueyue pointed at the can of small-sized fish on the table and said, "I've tried this, it's not tasty at all, but many students in our school bought it, and some people said our canned food was not tasty after eating it, which really pissed me off. I've explained to several people this week that this is not our canned seafood, but I also know that this explanation is useless, and I have to think of other ways."

While washing her hands, Lin Tao said, "Mom already knows about this. We held a meeting at the factory this morning and have worked out a solution. It's okay, don't worry."

Yueyue nodded. She felt relieved with her mother around.

In the past, I always thought my mother was very gentle, spoke softly, loved to laugh, and was a kind of gentle beauty. But after opening the factory, Yueyue realized that her mother, who looked as gentle as a lake of autumn water, was also very good in this aspect.

Contracting factories, hiring workers, and gradually expanding the factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy, and also expanding the abnormal business of Little Moon Seafood Canned Food to other cities. From the beginning, my mother did not do this on a whim because of her words. Perhaps from the moment she started to mention this matter, my mother had already thought about how to do it well and expand it.

Yueyue really admires her mother.

Although she was the first to make the canned seafood, and her mother named the brand after her, and everyone praised her for her talent when they went out, she knew that the truly talented person was actually her mother. It was her mother who had the ability. Even if her mother did not open a canned seafood factory, but opened another factory to sell other things, she would definitely be able to make it successful.

Although Lin Tao is now the factory manager, she is still the same as before and starts cooking the first thing she does after returning from school.

Today we cooked fish balls, fried shrimps and sour bean wedges at home. Yueyue hadn't eaten home for a week and had been missing it for a long time. It was also the time when she was growing up, so she ate a big bowl of food. Xingxing hadn't seen her sister for a week and missed her too, so she took the initiative to pick up some food for her.

After the two siblings grew up, although they sometimes quarreled, they had a really good relationship.

Li Chengxi knew about the incident and knew that Lin Tao was going to ask the police to investigate, so he said, "You're busy at school recently, so don't bother. I'll make a phone call tomorrow and ask them to check what's going on."

"That's fine. I don't have to make the trip. The final exams are coming up soon and I'm quite busy." Lin Tao said.

After dinner, it's Xingxing's turn to wash the dishes today.

Since the two children grew up, the job of washing dishes has been rotated among the three of them. Xingxing sighed and went to wash the dishes silently. Li Chengxi said, "Wash them cleanly. Your mother said the dishes you washed last time were too greasy."

Dad spoke, and Xingxing immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Got it."

After dinner, Li Chengxi and Lin Tao went out for a walk to help digest the food. Yueyue also went with them. Lin Changhai stayed at home reading newspapers and accompanying Xingxing. After Xingxing finished washing the dishes, he had to play a few games of chess with his grandfather.

The sea breeze blew gently on her face, blowing up Lin Tao's skirt. Lin Tao reached out and pinned Yueyue's hair behind her ears, saying, "Your hair has grown too long and is blocking your eyes. It's time to cut it."

Yueyue pursed her lips and smiled, which was about 70% similar to Lin Tao's smile: "Okay, then mom will help me cut my hair when I get home."

"Dad, Mom, can you tell us about the first time you met? How did you fall in love? Was it dad who liked you first?" Yueyue asked.

"Why are you asking about this suddenly?" Lin Tao reached out and gently tapped Yueyue's smooth and plump forehead.

Li Chengxi's expression was serious: "You didn't have a romantic relationship in school, did you? I told you that you can't have a romantic relationship while you're studying, at least not before college. You don't even know what love is when you're so young."

"I know. I've read about love in Zhang Ailing's novels." Yueyue snorted. "And I'm just asking. I always hang out with the female classmates at school. The only male classmate is Wang Qingming. So go and tell Wang Qingming not to go back to the island with me on the boat in the future."

Thinking of Wang Qingming, Li Chengxi thought of Wang Yuanliang. Li Chengxi knew what Wang Yuanliang was thinking. He said, "You and Wang Qingming should also keep a distance. You can only be friends or siblings."

Lin Tao glanced at Li Chengxi and realized that her father was afraid that the little girl would be taken away by someone else's pig at such a young age. She smiled and said, "Okay, your dad cares about you. Now is the time for you to study hard. But mom believes that you are not in a relationship. If you are, you will definitely tell mom."

Yueyue held Lin Tao's arm and said, "Mom really understands me. I just want to know what happened between you and Dad."

"Your father and I met at a social dance in 1968..." Lin Tao's tone slowed down as she recalled what happened back then.

She seemed to see Li Chengxi at the dance that year again. He walked out of the crowd with an upright posture, told her not to be afraid, and sent her away.

At that time, she still had long black hair tied in two braids. She was obviously very nervous, but she appeared calm and told Li Chengxi that if they dared to bully her in the factory, she would report it to the police.

At that time, she never imagined that she would later marry Li Chengxi and spend the happiest decade of her life with him, giving birth to children for him, and the two of them lived a simple and happy life.

She thought, if she could go back to that day, she would definitely fall in love with him at first sight.

They don't want to miss even a day and want to be together forever.

Lin Tao smiled as she thought of the past, and she was annoyed that she fell in love with Li Chengxi first.

But Li Chengxi said, "I was the first one to fall in love with your mother."

He felt something was different about her the first time he saw her.

With some people, you only need to look at them once to know that she is the one you want to spend the rest of your life with.