Chapter 143

The police were very quick. After Li Chengxi made the call, they took the issue very seriously. After checking, they found that the seafood used by the store was indeed unsaleable in the market. They deliberately waited until the seafood was dead before buying it, which saved a lot of costs.

This matter was discovered, and the higher authorities ordered rectification and payment of fines.

It's not that the punishment was too severe, but when the police were investigating the seafood restaurant, they noticed the clothing store next door owned by Shen Jiahao, so they checked it out as well.

This investigation revealed a huge problem. These clothes were not wholesaled from Hong Kong as Shen Jiahao said, but were foreign garbage!

Many of these clothes were taken off the bodies of dead people and then smuggled into the Chinese market. The country is now vigorously cracking down on this kind of foreign garbage, but it is more common in the south because there are many business people in the south and they have many channels to get this kind of foreign garbage.

This is also the first time that the public security in Shancheng has encountered such a thing, but the country is currently cracking down on it vigorously, and if you are caught, you will be sent to jail directly!

Shen Jiahao was arrested by the police while he was moving goods.

After Lin Hui learned about this, she was so anxious that she couldn't eat for several days. She looked for connections everywhere to get Shen Jiahao out of prison. But Shen Guobin was only a battalion commander after all, and he had no connections in Shancheng. It was impossible to get Shen Jiahao out of prison because he had committed a crime and happened to be shot. She thought of Shen Jiayi in Hong Kong, but she sent a letter to her but there was no news.

A lot of money was spent, but it was of no use.

When Lin Hui was at her wit's end, she suddenly thought of Lin Tao.

Sitting in front of Shen Guobin's bed, looking at the thin Shen Guobin, Lin Hui muttered to herself: "Shen Guobin, you can remember things from your previous life. Do you think if I tell Lin Tao about it, will she also remember things from her previous life? She was Jiahao's stepmother in her previous life. Jiahao was so filial to her and even bought her a villa. What's wrong with letting her help Jiahao in this life? Isn't it her duty? Yes, it is her duty..."

Shen Guobin's eye sockets were sunken, and after his legs were crippled, he could not get out of bed or walk. Lin Hui only allowed him to drink a little water and eat a little every day. During this period, he also had a fever, but Lin Hui did not send him to the hospital in time, and the fever turned into pneumonia. In less than a year, Shen Guobin had become skinny.

Shen Jiahao didn't have a deep affection for his father. He listened to Lin Hui in everything and ignored his advice. He continued to sell those foreign rubbish. Now, something bad has finally happened...

Seeing Lin Hui's mouth full of blisters from anxiety, Shen Guobin suddenly laughed out loud with a grim face, and coughed a few times because of the excessive strength.

His weird smile angered Lin Hui, who poured a cup of boiling water into the cup. Seeing that Shen Guobin's lips were cracked, she pinched Shen Guobin's mouth with one hand and poured boiling water into his mouth: "What are you laughing at? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me that I have lived a new life, or that I am living a miserable life? I tell you, I will definitely rescue Jiahao. Jiahao will be the richest man in Xiangcheng, and he will be great! Nothing will happen to him, and I will live a good life for the rest of my life!"

"Don't you always say you're thirsty and want to drink water? Go ahead and drink, go ahead and drink!"

The boiling water poured down his throat, and Shen Guobin let out a terrible roar.

Lin Hui poured out all the water, looked at the painful Shen Guobin, suddenly grabbed his hand, and said painfully: "You forced me to do this, Guobin, do you know that I wanted to live a good life with you at the beginning. In my last life, I married that scumbag Zhao Yuejin. He beat me whenever he was not satisfied, and his whole family bullied me! Do you know how much I envy Lin Tao? I envy her for being so lucky despite being a coffin-like woman. She married a good man and lived a happier life than anyone else even though she was supposed to be a stepmother. So when I lived again, I immediately said that I would marry you. I wanted to take away all the good days of Lin Tao. But why are you not good to me? Why? Am I so inferior to Lin Tao? Am I not good to you? Why, why do you want to ruin me like this!"

Lin Hui said this while shaking Shen Guobin wildly.

Shen Guobin looked at the crazy Lin Hui, his throat was already unable to speak, but his expression was saying, yes, you just can't compare to Lin Tao...

How could Lin Hui compare to Lin Tao? He fell in love with Lin Tao the first time he saw her. She was gentle, kind, and strong...

It’s a pity that she doesn’t like him, and she will never like him until her death!

Lin Hui left the room without saying anything more. Shen Guobin looked at Lin Hui's back and opened his mouth to say something, but could only make a hoarse hissing sound "Ahhh".

Is it useful for Lin Hui to go to Lin Tao? It's useless. Even if Lin Tao really remembered the things of her last life, she would not save Shen Jiahao. Except for Shen Jiaping, Lin Tao hated the people of the Shen family to the core...

Thinking of Shen Jiaping, Shen Guobin recalled his previous life. Shen Jiaping had always been the least noticeable of the three children. He was quiet and always liked to play with drums by himself. But Lin Tao liked him the most because she had brought him up herself.

After Li Chengxi was transferred, Lin Tao spent several more years on the island for Lin Changhai. Finally, after Lin Changhai passed away, she told him that she wanted to leave. Their marriage was just an agreement from the beginning. It was he who said it was a fake marriage, but he regretted it.

He hid all of Lin Tao's documents in order to trap Lin Tao and keep her by his side.

But Shen Jiaping helped to find the ID and gave it to Lin Tao, who left with it, leaving him forever. When he came back and found that Lin Tao was gone, he beat Shen Jiaping to death, and Shen Jiaping lay on the ground dying with a nosebleed.

Shen Guobin asked him, "Where is your mother?"

Shen Jiaping didn't say a word.

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"Don't play crazy all day long during the holidays. Don't forget everything after the summer vacation." Lin Tao sorted out her books and said to the students who couldn't wait to go out and play.

When they walked out of the classroom, Ma Xiaoying and Fu Jianye, who were walking towards them, called out to Lin Tao, "Teacher Lin."

Lin Tao nodded, and Fu Jianye took out another package and handed it to Lin Tao, saying, "Teacher Lin, this is what my brother sent. It's a specialty from Inner Mongolia, beef jerky and so on."

After graduating from high school, Fu Jianguo did not choose to take the college entrance examination like Fu Jianye, but joined the army. Now he is an outstanding soldier.

"Did Teacher Huilu also send beef jerky from Inner Mongolia? I tried some and it tasted pretty good." Lin Tao said, "Come to my house later. I've also prepared something for Jianguo. You can send it over then."

Some of the students taught by Lin Tao stayed on the island to become teachers, while others went to other places. Those students who were away from home would send some local specialties to Lin Tao every year even though they were far away.

In this way, the people of Lintao can also enjoy specialties from all over the world on the island.

Lin Tao did not refuse, she knew that these were the students' thoughtful gifts, but she would send something back every time.

After leaving school, Lin Tao walked towards home, but on the way, she ran into Lin Hui. When Lin Hui appeared here, Lin Tao immediately guessed what she was doing. Shen Jiahao was arrested and imprisoned for smuggling and selling foreign garbage. According to Lin Hui's thinking, she must have thought that it was all her fault, and she came to call for punishment.

Lin Tao was too lazy to say anything to Lin Huiduo. After frowning, she walked forward with an expressionless face.

However, at this moment, Lin Hui knelt down in front of her, grabbed Lin Tao's sleeve, and said, "Lin Tao, Jiahao is in trouble, and now only you can save him. Your man is a teacher, he will definitely find a way to save Jiahao."

Lin Taojian felt that Lin Hui was being inexplicable. She thought that even if Lin Hui came to cause trouble for her and questioned her why she let the police investigate Shen Jiahao, causing Shen Jiahao to go to jail, it would be more normal than Lin Hui kneeling here and begging her to save Shen Jiahao.

Let's not talk about whether she can do it or not. But why should she save Shen Jiahao? What is the relationship between Shen Jiahao and her?

Lin Tao pulled out her sleeves and was about to leave when she heard Lin Hui say anxiously, "Lin Tao, Shen Jiahao is your son from your previous life. You married Shen Guobin in your previous life and raised Shen Jiahao. Shen Jiahao was so good to you, his stepmother. You have to save him!"

Lin Tao listened to Lin Hui's nonsense and really wondered if Lin Hui was crazy.

In the previous life? She married Shen Guobin? She is Shen Jiahao's stepmother? What a mess!

Lin Tao turned around and continued walking forward, and then the next moment, she fainted. At that moment, many strange yet familiar images suddenly appeared in her mind.

First, there was the scene where Old Lady Lin gritted her teeth and scolded her for forcing her to marry a second-rate guy: "Lin Tao, you are a coffin-like woman, it's good enough that someone is willing to marry you, but you are still picky. You have ruined your father, a good man, into this state, and you still want to stay in our Lin family?"

Later, Shen Guobin came back from Chinese New Year and took the initiative to find her: "Comrade Lin Tao, I have heard about your situation and know your predicament. My children are still young, so I think we can have a fake marriage first, and you can bring your father to the island with me. When the children are older, you can leave anytime you want. I just don't know if you are willing to do so."

What was Lin Tao's situation at that time?

Her father broke his legs a year ago and needed someone to take care of him. Lin Tao had to work in the fields to earn work points and take care of her paralyzed father, and was also harassed by the second-rate people in the city. Not only did Mrs. Lin not help her, she also scolded her every day in order to force Lin Tao to marry the second-rate people.

Lin Tao lived like this for a year. When Shen Guobin saved Lin Changhai, Mrs. Lin asked her to marry Shen Guobin, but Lin Tao didn't want to be a stepmother, so she refused. Shen Guobin was not unhappy at the time, but told her to write to him if she needed help.

Under such circumstances, Lin Tao believed Shen Guobin and agreed to have a fake marriage with him.

And the fake marriage with Shen Guobin was the thing Lin Tao regretted most in her life.

She brought her father and followed Shen Guobin to the island, where she helped Shen Guobin take care of several children. She was very grateful to Shen Guobin for allowing her to bring her father with her. She took good care of the home and persuaded Shen Guobin to study at the Artillery School.

During this period, Lin Tao went to the mountain to pick bamboo shoots but unexpectedly encountered a wolf on the mountain. She also met Li Chengxi by chance. She was injured and it was Li Chengxi who sent her safely down the mountain.

In fact, Lin Tao had met Li Chengxi before, and always thought that Li Chengxi was a very serious person, but she didn't expect that the two of them could chat together.

But after asking around, Li Chengxi found out that Lin Tao was already married and married to Shen Guobin as his stepmother. Although he liked Lin Tao in his heart, he was a principled person and gave up the idea from then on.

In her previous life, Lin Tao and Xu Yuting were also good friends. Lin Tao once told Xu Yuting about her marriage by agreement with Shen Guobin. Lin Tao fell in love with Li Chengxi and told Xu Yuting about it.

Xu Yuting told Wang Yuanliang about it, and Wang Yuanliang knew what Li Chengxi was thinking, so he told Li Chengxi. Through the middleman couple Xu Yuting and Wang Yuanliang, Lin Tao and Li Chengxi understood each other's feelings.

After learning the truth, Li Chengxi expressed his willingness to wait for Lin Tao.

During this time, the two of them always acted out of affection and stayed within the bounds of propriety, and never did anything that crossed the line.

Finally, Shen Guobin came back after finishing his studies at the artillery school. At this time, the youngest, Shen Jiaping, was already five years old and started primary school. Lin Tao brought up this matter with Shen Guobin, and she thought that Shen Guobin would let her go as he had promised at the beginning.

However, Shen Guobin regretted his decision and was unwilling to divorce her. He also reported Li Chengxi's behavior, saying that he seduced a married woman.

Lin Tao never imagined that Shen Jiahao and Shen Jiayi, the two children she had raised for five years, would actually give false testimony in order to let her continue to be their mother. They slandered the relationship between her and Li Chengxi, saying that Li Chengxi always came to her house to find her and only Shen Jiaping insisted on speaking for her.

Li Chengxi was investigated and interviewed by many leaders including Division Commander Qi, Political Commissar Meng, Commander Yan, etc. Those people simply did not believe that Li Chengxi would do such a thing. In order to protect Li Chengxi, they came up with an idea, which was to let Li Chengxi get married immediately.

As long as they get married, the rumor will be self-defeating and Li Chengxi can be saved.

However, Li Chengxi was unwilling to marry someone else, and in order to protect Lin Tao, Li Chengxi was transferred away.

The scene changed again. The whole room was covered in white. The elderly Lin Tao was standing in front of the tomb. She looked at the photo of Li Chengxi on the tombstone, stroked the photo, and said, "Chengxi, next life, we will be together again in the next life."

Li Chengxi's concerned voice came to my ears: "A Tao, A Tao, it's okay, I'm here, I'm here."

There are also the voices of children: "Mom, Mom, please wake up quickly, Dad is here, we are here too..."

Lin Tao gradually woke up and opened her eyes. Looking at the tension on Li Chengxi and the two children's faces, tears immediately welled up in her eyes.

Lin Tao hugged Li Chengxi. If she was reborn with these memories at the beginning, she might feel pain because of them, but what she valued more was the relationship between her and Li Chengxi. It turned out that they loved each other like this in their previous life. Thank God for letting them start over again. With children, she will only cherish this life more. The hatred in the previous life is no longer important to her.

They were happy together, and that was enough.

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Lin Tao suddenly fainted and Lin Hui was taken away for investigation. Finally, Lin Tao woke up and was found to be fine, so Lin Hui was released.

After being discharged from the hospital, Lin Tao went to find Lin Hui. Seeing Lin Hui's expression as if she was a lifesaver, Lin Tao said calmly, "Lin Hui, you only know that I married Shen Guobin in my last life and that his children are successful, but you don't know that I was not happy with him and did not like him. The person I like is Li Chengxi. In fact, I should thank you. If you hadn't asked me to attend the social dance in the first place, I might not have been able to meet Chengxi so early."

Lin Hui thinks she is reborn and that she is the protagonist. She wants to take away everything that Lin Tao has from her previous life. However, she doesn't realize that what she has taken away is the very thing that Lin Tao wishes she would never see again.

Lin Hui's plan also allowed Lin Tao to meet the person she had longed to be with in her previous life early on.

She has always been snatching away those who she thinks are good, but step by step she helps Lin Tao meet her sweetheart.

No one can clearly explain the cause and effect of all this.

After Lin Hui was sent off the island, she tried other ways to rescue Shen Jiahao, but to no avail. People who had bought clothes from them before came to ask them for a refund when they found out that the clothes they bought were taken from dead people.

Since there was no money to return, they just robbed things. Everything that could be robbed in the house was robbed.

From then on, there was no movement in Lin Hui's house. Half a year later, the neighbors smelled a stench from next door and broke down the door, only to find that Shen Guobin had died at some point and no one had discovered it, and the body had stank.

As for Lin Hui, some people said that they had seen her eating from garbage on the street. She seemed to be crazy, and kept muttering something about how she was the mother of the richest man and would enjoy a happy future, and told others not to mess with her, because anyone who messed with her would suffer.

Lin Tao did not hide what happened that day from Li Chengxi.

She told Lin Hui what she had said, and also told them about their past lives: "Cheng Xi, I know you don't believe in those feudal superstitions, but when I fainted, the images in my mind made me believe that those things really happened."

Li Chengxi listened to Lin Tao telling stories about their past lives, about how he was transferred, how Lin Tao did not choose to look for him after leaving the island, and how she went to Hong Kong the year he returned to China to take a look on his behalf.

Li Chengxi hugged Lin Tao and kissed her between the eyebrows: "Believe me, I believe everything."

What he didn't say was that the first time he saw Lin Tao, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity in his heart. That strong feeling that she was the one made him realize that he had been single for the past twenty years just to wait for her and be with her.

They had missed out on a lifetime, but fortunately they had not missed out on it again in this life.

Hand in hand for a lifetime, grow old together.

The author has something to say: ?? The main text is over, there is still a lot of content in the extra chapters, including retirement life and the emotional drama of the children after they grow up~

To celebrate the end of the main text, I came to Changsha to play. I ate this chapter of the preface written by the potato skin. I am very happy.