Meng Tao didn't want to leave. Wasn't it tiring enough to walk so much during the day? "Let's go home. Jinshan is lighting a fire in the kitchen. I have to bring water for everyone to soak their feet." Meng Tao said.

"I just told Liu Jianli and Xu Yuting that since they have nothing to do, let them show their abilities. It's no problem for them to bring water to the adults. We'll be back later."

Shen Yu held Meng Tao's hand and continued walking forward. His fiancée was always busy at home, taking care of this and that, and had no time to pay attention to him. It would be better for them to hang out outside so that they could talk more.

No matter how strong Meng Tao was, she couldn't hold him back, so she had to follow him.

The paths in the village are like a spider web, with branches and connections. Most of the roads are dirt roads, and a small part is paved with stones or slabs. The slab road they are walking on now looks quite old, and may have been paved a long time ago. It is considered the main road in the village, connecting the east and west of the village.

It was late at night, the moon was bright, most people had gone to bed, even the dogs had stopped barking. The two walked hand in hand, talking quietly. Meng Tao told Shen Yu:

"Go straight ahead and you will reach Zhou Cuiling's house. Continue forward, passing two vegetable gardens, and you will reach Tian Zhigao's house."

Hearing her mention Tian Zhigao, Shen Yu subconsciously squeezed the little hand in his palm: "Let's go our own way, who cares whose family it is."

Meng Tao smiled and said, "Yesterday at the engagement party, you were surrounded by several girls and wives outside the courtyard gate. Were they trying to teach you not to be fooled and marry a second-married woman like me?"

Shen Yu: "Did Zhou Cuiling tell you?"

"Yes, Zhou Cuiling came in angrily and told me not to bother with those people anymore."

"Zhou Cuiling drove those people away, and two more aunts came. They also mentioned the Tian family and Tian Zhigao to me."

"Are you embarrassed?"

"What's embarrassing? When I saw how you and Tian Zhigao interacted at the Qianjin Steel Plant, I knew you didn't have him in your heart at all. You love me, and I'm your destined other half. But I'm a little angry that Tian Zhigao appeared before me in your life. Fortunately, you were not mature enough at that time and didn't know what kind of man you liked... But he cheated on me, a 15-year-old girl, after all. I will remember this account with him."

Meng Tao scratched his palm twice, and Shen Yu held her tightly: "Tian Zhigao has divorced Xian Fangfang and took the initiative to resign from Qianjin Steel Plant."

"I know about this." Meng Tao said.

Shen Yu was very surprised: "Who is so well-informed? It has spread to the village in just a few days?"

"It didn't spread to the village. I just heard it by chance outside."

Meng Tao told Shen Yu about the conversation between Wang Shuifeng and Tian Yalan that she overheard at the door of the post office when she returned to the county town from Mengzhou that day, including Tian Zhigao's two predictions: the first was that Shen Heping would soon have problems with his sexual conduct, and the beneficiary would be Deputy Director Yuan, who would replace Shen Heping as the head of Qianjin Steel Plant, and Shen Yu would take revenge on Deputy Director Yuan; the second was that Shen Yu would die before he was forty.

Shen Yu raised his eyebrows slightly: Is this Tian Zhigao a charlatan? Can he tell fortunes and predict the future? He raised his hand and touched Meng Tao's hair: "How can Tian Zhigao know when I will die? It's just that he has evil thoughts and some kind of delusion, and he's just talking nonsense, don't worry about it."

"You can't be careless. It's better to believe it. You must take care of yourself and be careful when you go out."

"Um."

Meng Tao nodded and looked around. She found that the two people were talking without paying attention and turned a big corner and walked out of the village. In front of her was a quiet field and the bright moonlight covered it like a veil. There were only the two of them in the world.

She said to Shen Yu: "Do you believe in past lives and present lives? Sometimes people reach a certain state and suddenly have an epiphany and awaken certain memories. This is what people often call the memory of past lives. From the conversation between Wang Shuifeng and Tian Yalan, I think Tian Zhigao is very similar to this situation."

A gust of cold wind blew, Shen Yu opened his coat and pulled Meng Tao into his arms: "Past lives and present lives, probably, but only practitioners can have sudden enlightenment, we can't reach that level. You mean, Tian Zhigao awakened his past life memories, so he knew that I only lived to 40 years old in my previous life? In this way, doesn't it mean that our life cycle has started again? But why? How can Tian Zhigao awaken his past life memories, while we know nothing?"

Meng Tao lay in his warm embrace, thought for a while and said, "I guess, in my previous life, I might have been killed by the Tian family, so I didn't go to the provincial capital to find trouble with Tian Zhigao, so Tian Zhigao succeeded. He married Xian Fangfang, and got promoted and made a fortune with the help of Deputy Director Yuan. With money, he could do good deeds and accumulate virtue. Don't the elders always say that accumulating hidden virtues will lay a good foundation for the next life? Tian Zhigao was able to awaken his past life memories, probably because of this."

Shen Yu was silent for a moment, a cold light flashed in his eyes: "If it is really as you guessed, Tian Zhigao deserves to die..."

Meng Tao said: "Don't move him yet, and don't let him notice. Let's see what he will do next. Think about it, how valuable are the memories of the past life? We have to dig them out and use them for our own benefit."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Shen Yu held up his fiancée's face and kissed her, whispering softly, "I can't imagine... I didn't have you in my previous life, so it's better for me to die early, without any regrets."

Meng Tao's face became hot, her heart beat fast and her body went limp after being kissed by him. Just when she was about to respond to him, she heard a barking sound in her ear. She turned around and saw Xiao Wangcai running towards her on the white village road under the moonlight. There was a person following behind him. That handsome figure was none other than Meng Zhehan.

Meng Tao quickly let go of the arms that were clinging to Shen Yu's neck.

Shen Yu didn't know how to get angry, so he had to let go of his fiancée and watched her go forward to catch Xiao Wangcai. The arms that should have belonged to him now belonged to Xiao Wangcai.

Meng Zhehan walked up to him, and Shen Yu said, "Do you have a dog nose? You can find me from such a long distance."

Meng Zhehan pointed at Xiao Wangcai and said, "It found it. What happened to you? In the middle of the night, you took my sister out to the cold wind. What if she catches a cold?"

Shen Yu wanted to say, if you hadn’t come, we would have been so warm hugging each other, how could we have caught a cold?

Meng Tao was worried that they would quarrel again. It felt strange that they were quarreling in the wilderness in the middle of the night, so she quickly pulled Meng Zhehan's sleeve and said, "Brother, let's go home quickly. We have things to do tomorrow."

Meng Zhehan said hello and was about to hold Meng Tao's shoulders, but Shen Yu directly took her into his arms. The three of them took Xiao Wangcai and walked back home along the village road.

(End of this chapter)