When I was leaving, I heard the music teacher, Mr. Zhang, whispering, "I didn't expect that Mr. Lin would get angry. I used to think that people like Mr. Lin would never get angry..."

In the past, no one really messed with her.

This is the kind of person Lin Tao is. On the surface, she looks weak and gentle, loves to laugh, is usually kind to students, and has a gentle appearance, so everyone thinks she has a good temper and never gets angry.

But if someone really provokes her, she is not so easy to bully.

Xu Yuting only vomited out a little acid. She had a poor appetite and had eaten nothing in the morning. She only drank some milk, and now she vomited it all out.

Lin Tao patted her on the back gently, then went back to the office, mixed a cup of warm water from Xu Yuting's cup and brought it out, and helped Xu Yuting rinse her mouth after she finished vomiting.

Xu Yuting took the cup of water, rinsed her mouth, and smiled at Lin Tao: "A Tao, thank you."

Seeing that Xu Yuting's face looked bad and her eyes looked weak, Lin Tao worriedly said, "Yuting, if you feel so bad, why don't you take a day off and go back to rest? This won't work."

Xu Yuting shook her head and said, "I'm fine. Actually, it's not that serious. I just smelled something. As long as it's not a disgusting smell, it's fine. It's okay for other ages. The sixth graders will go to junior high school next year. It's not easy to get into junior high school in the city. We can't let them fall behind in their studies."

Lin Tao sighed when she heard this.

Xu Yuting is obviously so responsible to her students, but no one understands. I hope her students can understand her painstaking efforts sooner.

"Then don't go into the office yet. The smell of mutton won't dissipate quickly. Come here and get some fresh air. I'll get you your textbook."

Xu Yuting nodded.

Lin Tao returned to the office and took the lesson plan she and Xu Yuting had prepared. After thinking for a while, she opened a few windows, so that the smell inside would dissipate faster.

By the time they finish this class, the smell will probably be gone.

The main reason is that the gardenia's flowering season has passed. If there are still gardenias in the office, the mutton smell will dissipate faster.

The class was about to start. After being scolded by Lin Tao, Jin Pingping felt embarrassed to stay in the office any longer. At this time, Teacher Yao was the only one left in the office.

Teacher Yao called Lin Tao and asked:

"Teacher Lin, is Teacher Xu pregnant?"

Lin Tao was stunned for a moment, pursed her lips and asked back: "Teacher Yao, why do you ask that?"

Teacher Yao smiled and said, "This is what happens when you're pregnant. You can't stand strong smells or you'll feel like vomiting. This is what happened to me when I was pregnant. I don't mean anything else, I'm just asking."

Lin Tao believed Teacher Yao when she said she had no ulterior motives. Teacher Yao was usually a nice person and had no bad intentions.

But as to whether Xu Yuting was pregnant, Lin Tao didn't know.

So she shook her head at Teacher Yao and said, "I haven't heard her say that."

After saying this, Lin Tao nodded to Teacher Yao and walked out of the office with the textbook.

Xu Yuting felt much better after enjoying the fresh air for a while. After receiving the textbook from Lin Tao, they wanted to chat for a while, but the bell rang, so they didn't say anything more and went to their respective classes.

After school, the two went home together as usual.

Lin Tao thought about what Teacher Yao said in her heart, and recalled how the new brides in Taohua Village looked when they were pregnant. Then she looked at Xu Yuting and felt that they looked quite similar.

But isn't it a good thing that Xu Yuting is pregnant? Why can't we say it?

However, there is a saying in the village that the first three months of pregnancy cannot be told to others, otherwise it will be bad for the child. But this is also the feudal superstition of the villagers. Even Lin Tao does not believe this. How can Xu Yuting, who has received Western education, believe it?

Lin Tao was almost confused by Xu Yuting. Fortunately, before they had walked far from the school, Xu Yuting took the initiative to tell her about her pregnancy.

Lin Tao breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she was pregnant and not sick.

But Xu Yuting was obviously not happy, she sighed.

Lin Tao was even more confused and asked, "What's wrong with you? Isn't being pregnant a good thing? Why are you still sighing?"

"What if I don't want this child?" Xu Yuting's expression didn't sound like she was joking.

Lin Tao was frightened by this. She was really confused this time. Xu Yuting and Wang Yuanliang were a legal couple. Wasn't pregnancy a normal thing? Why didn't Xu Yuting want this child?

Lin Tao had a lot of things to ask Xu Yuting, but outside was not a good place to talk.

She pulled Xu Yuting and said, "Let's talk about it when we get back."

When they got home, Lin Tao first poured Xu Yuting a cup of brown sugar water, then went to the vegetable garden to pick a cucumber, washed it, and handed it to Xu Yuting:

"Try this. Cucumber tastes quite refreshing. You should like it."

Xu Yuting took the cucumber and took a bite. It tasted really refreshing. Her stomach felt much better after eating it. The feeling of wanting to vomit but not being able to was suppressed a little.

She had had no appetite for the past two days, but she ate the cucumber with gusto.

After Lin Tao had finished everything, she sat down opposite Xu Yuting and asked her, "Why don't you want a child?"

Xu Yuting no longer hid it from her and told Lin Tao everything.

"You also know the relationship between me and Wang Yuanliang. He agreed to marry my father to repay his kindness. In other words, it was a 'fake marriage'. I think he didn't really love me and married me out of helplessness. I didn't want to embarrass him, nor did I want to spend my life with someone who didn't love me. So I have been thinking that when the movement is not so serious, I will divorce him. Then he can marry whoever he likes."

When Lin Tao heard the words "fake marriage", she looked a little dazed. She even felt like she had heard such words somewhere before, but it was clearly the first time she heard them.

"We have been on contraception for the past two years. This child must have been conceived accidentally on his last birthday. I don't want to give birth to my child in such a family. I don't want the child to become a shackle between the two of us, so I can't have this child."

Xu Yuting touched her belly, obviously reluctant to give up.

Lin Tao frowned: "I think you are really confused. What you said now is all your guesses. How do you know that Captain Wang doesn't love you? If he didn't love you, how could he be so good to you? Yuting, you should speak reasonably. Ask yourself, how does Captain Wang treat you normally? You can't just say that you have made up your mind and sentence someone to death."

"Have you told Captain Wang that you are pregnant?"

Xu Yuting shook her head: "Not yet. He took me to the clinic yesterday, but there was only a doctor on duty. He couldn't find out what was wrong with me, so he prescribed some digestive medicine, but I didn't take it. I still felt uncomfortable this morning, so I went to the clinic by myself, and then I found out that I was pregnant."

Lin Tao said, "You can't hide this from Captain Wang. This is your child. You can't make the decision alone. He is the child's father. You two have to discuss how to deal with this matter."

"Yuting,

Let me tell you my personal thoughts. I still stick to my own opinion. I think Captain Wang loves you. You can tell whether he loves someone from his eyes and every little thing he does. I know better than anyone that Li Chengxi loves me. I think you have a preconceived idea and think Captain Wang married you to repay his kindness, so you can't see his love for you. "

"In fact, I once asked Li Chengxi if he would marry her if he encountered such a situation. His answer was that he would marry her if he liked her, and if he didn't like her, he would choose other ways to protect her. I believe Captain Wang is the same. If he doesn't love you, even if he marries you to repay you, he shouldn't do it like this. At most, he can treat each other with respect, but look at the way you get along with each other, is it just treating each other with respect? You have a better relationship than most couples in the army. I don't know how many people envy you."

Lin Tao doesn't talk much usually. She feels that in all the time she has been on the island, she has probably not said as much as she did today.

I have been saving these words for so long, and finally said them all today.

Xu Yuting is usually a very opinionated person, but now she became a little hesitant after hearing what Lin Tao said.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, Tao, I'll listen to you. When I get back, I'll tell Wang Yuanliang about the child and see what he says."

"Okay, go back and talk to him carefully, and think about what happened in the past and see what's going on."

After Lin Tao finished speaking, she sent Xu Yuting home.

He watched her walk away with his own eyes, then he let out a sigh of relief and closed the gate.

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When Li Chengxi came back in the evening, Lin Tao couldn't help but tell him about this.

Li Chengxi frowned when he heard this, not understanding why Xu Yuting felt that Wang Yuanliang married her just to repay a favor.

He and Wang Yuanliang have known each other for almost ten years, and he has some understanding of the relationship between Wang Yuanliang and Xu Yuting.

But he can guarantee that the reason why Wang Yuanliang married Xu Yuting was not just to repay a favor.

Li Chengxi put his slender arms around Lin Tao's slender waist, and put his chin against Lin Tao's fair cheeks: "Tao, it's a good thing you persuaded me, otherwise, according to Xu Yuting's temper, I really don't know what she would do."

If she really hid it from Wang Yuanliang and tried to find a way to abort the child, Wang Yuanliang would probably go crazy.

On the other hand, Wang Yuanliang knew that Xu Yuting had a poor appetite recently, so when he came back today

I ordered a sick meal in the army canteen. There were two poached eggs on the white noodles.

"What did the doctor say?" Wang Yuanliang took chopsticks from the kitchen and placed them on the bowl.

Seeing that Xu Yuting's complexion was still not very good, her brows were full of worry.

Xu Yuting looked at Wang Yuanliang, who was very caring towards her. He had delicate features, but his skin was a little dark. But she liked his eyes very much, which were particularly bright.

Xu Yuting remembered that when she first met Wang Yuanliang, she was also attracted by his eyes.

At that time, he was kneeling on the street, holding his seriously ill mother. He was only a teenager, and his face was filled with grief as he wanted to save his mother but was powerless to do so. Many people were having a hard time at that time, and passers-by felt sorry for him, but they could not help him.

But the Xu family can.

The Xu family was once a well-known merchant in Shanghai Beach. Xu Yuting's grandfather used to be in the jewelry business. The family had a deep foundation, so saving a patient or sponsoring a poor child to go to school was just a piece of cake.

It was Xu Yuting who offered to help Wang Yuanliang. Wang Yuanliang, who was then only fifteen or sixteen years old and thin, wanted to kneel down to thank her, but she stopped him.

In fact, the two of them didn’t have much contact afterwards. Xu Yuting had her own friends. Everything changed after the movement began…

Something happened at home and her parents were sent down to the countryside. To protect her, her father wrote a letter to Wang Yuanliang. Not long after, Wang Yuanliang, who was far away in the mountain city, came to pick her up. The two quickly got a marriage certificate and became husband and wife. Under Wang Yuanliang's protection, she was much luckier than her former friends.

After spending the past two years together, she has developed some feelings for Wang Yuanliang.

It was because she understood her feelings that she always reminded herself to control them. She always believed that Wang Yuanliang was just grateful to her. Maybe after spending two years together, he might have other feelings, but gratitude was definitely the dominant one.

But Miss Xu has been watching Western romantic love stories since she was a child. The love in her heart is not like this. What she wants is the other person's pure love for her.

She also didn't want to tie the other person down for life out of gratitude; that wouldn't be fair to either of them.

But today, Xu Yuting was touched by Lin Tao's words, so she confessed to Wang Yuanliang that she was pregnant.

"Wang Yuanliang, the doctor said I'm pregnant. Don't be nervous. If you don't want this child, I won't give birth to it.

, I don’t want this child to become a bond between us.” Xu Yuting lowered her eyes and said.

He did not notice the ecstasy on Wang Yuanliang's face when she said she was 'pregnant', nor the nervousness in his expression when she said the second half of the sentence.

Wang Yuanliang walked up to Xu Yuting, squatted down, touched her belly which had not changed yet, and said in a serious tone: "A-Ting, why do you think this way? How could I not want this child? How could a child become a bond between us? I am so happy that you are carrying my child."

Xu Yuting looked at Wang Yuanliang, puzzled: "Do you really think so? Didn't your family in the countryside arrange a marriage for you? You two grew up together and have been childhood sweethearts. Don't you want to be with her?"

Although she thinks that arranging marriages among children is an outdated idea and a feudal dregs, others may not think so.

She only found out about this later, when she was already married to Wang Yuanliang. If she had known about it at the beginning, she might not have agreed to marry Wang Yuanliang.

Wang Yuanliang was stunned for a moment, then helplessly said: "It must be my aunt who told you this, right? She has no good intentions, you don't have to take her words to heart. My family had arranged a marriage for me when I was a child, but that was many years ago. At that time, the relationship between the two families was good. Later, we didn't visit each other much. I left my hometown to study when I was a teenager, and I haven't seen her for more than ten years. And when I was a child, I didn't like to play with girls, I only went out with boys. I heard from my mother that she got married a few years ago, and now the children are probably old enough to make soy sauce. I can't even remember what she looks like, so why would I want to be with her?"

Wang Yuanliang felt that he was really having a headache. Wasn't his love for Xu Yuting obvious?

Xu Yuting: “…”

Is there such a thing? She really didn't know. No one had ever told her about it. She had been thinking about it for so long. Whenever she thought about it, she felt sad.

"Wait a minute, I've got something to show you." Wang Yuanliang said as he walked into the room, opened the cupboard, and pulled out a yellowed diary.

Xu Yuting took it with suspicion, opened the diary, and saw...

A diary written by Wang Yuanliang several years ago.

Even if not all of the diary is about her, at least 80% of it is about her. Judging from the date, this was written when Wang Yuanliang was studying at the military academy.

The text is not beautiful, but

Every word was filled with true feelings, and all his love for Xu Yuting was written in it.

Xu Yuting didn't finish reading it, but her eyes were red and she looked up at Wang Yuanliang.

She couldn't believe that Wang Yuanliang had fallen in love with her eight or nine years ago?

Wang Yuanliang smiled, a little bitterly: "A Ting, I don't know why you think I don't love you. After all, I have loved you silently for many years."

Even the reason he chose to go to military school was because of what she said. If nothing had happened to the Xu family, he would have felt that he would never be worthy of her and would not have dared to express his love.

In the past, as a grown man, he was embarrassed to say the word "love" and felt as if his lips were burned when he said it. But now, he no longer cares about that. He loves Xu Yuting and has loved her for a long time.

Perhaps, it was when he was at his wit's end and she was the only one who reached out to him.

Perhaps, it was just a quiet afternoon when he went to Xu's house to visit his benefactor and saw her sitting barefoot on the swing in the garden reading a book.

Unconsciously, he had already fallen in love with Xu Yuting.

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The next day when Lin Tao went to school, she saw that Xu Yuting looked much better than the previous two days. Perhaps it was because the knot in her heart had been untied, and she naturally felt refreshed.

Seeing her like this, Lin Tao knew that her earnest advice yesterday had worked. After Xu Yuting returned home, she must have talked it out with Wang Yuanliang.

During the break, she asked Xu Yuting a few questions. Xu Yuting had no embarrassment and told her everything openly.

He added, "To thank you for your ideological education yesterday, my husband Wang Yuanliang said that he will cook dinner for you and Captain Li tonight. You must come."

Wow, he has become 'my' Wang Yuanliang.

Lin Tao smiled, but she didn't tease Xu Yuting on purpose, and agreed, "Okay, we will definitely go."

Lin Tao didn't cook because she was going to Xu Yuting's house for dinner tonight.

Autumn has arrived. Autumn comes later on the island than in Xiangcheng, but once autumn arrives, the temperature drops quickly.

Lin Tao took advantage of the sunshine today to wash all the short-sleeved shirts they wore in the summer, then sorted them out and put them in a box. She then put the autumn clothes in the closet so that she could take them out whenever she needed to wear them.

However, when Lin Tao was sorting out Li Chengxi's clothes, she discovered that Li Chengxi seemed to have no autumn clothes.

His clothes seem to be divided into only two types.

That is summer clothes and winter clothes.

After hearing from Xu Yuting that it was still quite cold on the island in late autumn, Lin Tao thought about it and decided to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in two days to buy a few pounds of wool and knit a sweater for Li Chengxi.

She dug out the remaining cloth at home and found a piece of darker-colored cloth that felt slightly thicker than summer cotton, intending to make a long-sleeved shirt for Li Chengxi.

Long-sleeved shirts are a little more complicated than vests, short jackets and other clothes, so Lin Tao spent a little more time. By the time Li Chengxi returned home, she had just finished making the long-sleeved shirt.

The new clothes had not been washed, and Lin Tao was afraid that they were not clean, so she did not dare to let Li Chengxi try them on.

Instead, he took the clothes and tried them on Li Chengxi a few times. It seemed to fit him well.

Li Chengxi saw that Lin Tao had made new clothes for him again and said, "Make a few for yourself when you have time. I have enough clothes to wear."

Lin Tao was both angry and amused when she heard what he said. The only thing this man had enough clothes to wear was his military uniform. He had very few other casual clothes, yet he always said that he had enough clothes.

But she didn't expose him. She knew that he didn't have no money to buy clothes, but he really felt that he had enough clothes. So she nodded and said, "I know."

Even though it was autumn, Li Chengxi still couldn't help sweating when he came back from training.

"I'll go take a shower first, and then we'll go over." Li Chengxi said, walking towards the kitchen and fetching a bucket of cold water.

Lin Tao said quickly, "It's getting cold now. It's not good for your health to take a cold shower. I've heated two pots of hot water. You can mix it."

As he said this, he went to get the kettle and poured some water for Li Chengxi.

Li Chengxi had no choice but to take the kettle and said he would do it himself. However, he was used to taking cold showers, so today he took a warm shower and actually felt pretty good.

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Li Chengxi and Lin Tao went out.

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Before leaving, Lin Tao picked a cabbage from home and brought a bowl of pickled sour beans.

Knowing that they were coming, Xu Yuting had already opened the gate to the courtyard and cut a watermelon and placed it on the small stone table in the courtyard. Xu Yuting and Lin Tao were talking in the courtyard, while Li Chengxi went into the kitchen to look for Wang Yuanliang.

Wang Yuanliang can cook, but to be honest, his cooking skills are average.

Otherwise, the couple would not have been eating in the army canteen for the past two years.

But even if Wang Yuanliang's cooking skills were average, his wife was pregnant with this kind of wine, which was worth a good drink.

It would be a good thing. He would have to cook some delicious dishes and have a few drinks with Li Chengxi.

"You are in a really good mood, your mouth is almost stretched to your ears." Li Chengxi walked into the kitchen and patted Wang Yuanliang on the shoulder.

Wang Yuanliang turned around and looked at him, smiling even more proudly: "Of course, my wife is pregnant, how can I not be happy? Captain, when will you and your sister-in-law get pregnant too?"

Li Chengxi looked at Wang Yuanliang's boasting expressionlessly and said, "You got pregnant after more than two years of marriage, and we've only been married for less than half a year, so there's no rush to have a baby. After you have a baby, there will be quarrels at home every day, and you'll know how annoying it is then."

Wang Yuanliang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll worry about it first."