Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband-Chapter 594 - 575: The Past

He originally planned to take leave after this mission to go home for a blind date. He was afraid he might not make it back, so that night, he specially called him out, gave him a package, and said if he couldn’t come back, to help mail these things back home for him.

If he did come back, then forget it.

At that time, he was still a rookie soldier, unaware of how dangerous the mission was.

The captain didn’t say, but I knew a bit about it too.

Later, that captain only lost an arm. Then he retired from the military.

One time we met while drinking, he mentioned that mission.

He said when they went, there were eight people, and only six returned safe and sound.

The person they rescued was in the camp and got injured during the rescue, remaining unconscious the whole time.

Before falling unconscious, that leader gave him a small card.

He didn’t understand the specifics, but it seemed to contain important secrets.

Recalling this incident, Han Yi realized what his father-in-law used to do.

At that time, they were all selected from the team; his father-in-law must have been chosen back then.

Those chosen usually had highly confidential missions, not even notifying their families, unless they might inform them that the person was dead or had other tasks and couldn’t return for a short while.

Why didn’t Xiao Wan and the others receive any notification?

The family’s doubts kept growing, and imagining alone only made their anxiety worse.

It was rare for Mei Lang Jun to be here today, and the son was back as well.

Liang Hongmei couldn’t ignore the doubts in her heart, quickly got up to buy groceries. She didn’t know when these people would return.

Liang Hongmei prepared the groceries first, afraid that there wouldn’t be time to prepare when they returned.

As for Lin Guozhi and his party, after leaving the police station, Lin Guozhi directly took them to a state-run restaurant.

The procedure was just a formality; he wouldn’t let anyone who bullied his family go unpunished.

Over these years, first Li Fugui and until now, it’s hard for him to imagine how many people his family had to endure abuse from.

So much so that in the village, his Nannan dared not go out alone, choosing to leave their home rather than stay.

As for Li Fugui, wait for her to go back, she’d deal with him sooner or later.

If he didn’t make sure the woman bullying him lost a leg, how could he repay these years of "care"?

When Lin Guozhi returned home, the whole family was waiting for him in the living room.

After more than ten years of separation, the son and daughter had grown to be as tall as him. It was an emotional moment.

"How did it go?" Liang Hongmei walked up and asked.

"It’s almost handled, the rest is left to Lawyer Xu."

Lin Guozhi looked at several people. When he glanced at Han Yi, he paused, nodded to him and said, "I missed your wedding, kid, you’ve got good taste."

Han Yi slightly curled his lips and replied, "Hello, Father-in-law," which Lin Guozhi appreciated.

He pulled Liang Hongmei to sit in the main seat.

"Dad, not only did you miss my wedding, but you also missed the birth of your first granddaughter. My daughter is already a year old." Lin Wan teased, enlivening the room’s atmosphere.

Lin Guozhi raised an eyebrow, smiled, and said, "Nannan, do we have a granddaughter already?"

"Yes." Each call of "Nannan" made Liang Hongmei blush in front of her son and daughter as Lin Guozhi kept calling with such enthusiasm. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Where is the child? Bring her over for me to see?"

"She’s at her grandmother’s place. We’ve been busy with Ah Hui’s matters, so we left the child there."

"...Oh."

"Dad, you’re not too late in coming back. Qingqing and I haven’t held our wedding yet."

Lin Yinghui’s words made Mu Qing, who was sitting next to him, a little anxious. What happened to Ah Hui was all because of her.

She feared that Ah Hui’s family might have opinions about her, or they might directly ask them to get divorced just like her parents did.

As she was feeling anxious and uneasy, Lin Yinghui privately squeezed her hand to reassure her.

Over there, Lin Guozhi also spoke, "Okay, let’s have a good wedding for our son, Nannan, what do you think?"

"Yes... let’s hold it well."

The words from the future parents-in-law were undoubtedly reassuring for Mu Qing, almost moving her to tears in front of everyone. "Ah, these years, it’s been hard on you, kids. It’s my fault. I feel guilty in my heart."

"Where have you been these years?" Upon hearing Lin Guozhi’s words, Liang Hongmei’s eyes reddened again.

"I went outside, after I joined the army, I got unwittingly caught up in an incident, and on the battlefield, someone accidentally shielded me from a bullet, saving my life. Later, he didn’t make it and gave me something, telling me to find someone outside. I didn’t want to go at first, and I reported this to the authority above. No one knew this issue was so entangled, and in the end, I had to go over. Before I left, I mailed letters home. I don’t know why you didn’t receive them?"

"Did you mail letters home? Dad, could you have sent them to the wrong address?" Lin Wan was full of doubts.

"Before this, Dad sent letters home without making mistakes in the address. There was even three hundred yuan in the envelope."

Lin Guozhi’s words made Liang Hongmei and her children frown. They couldn’t think of who might have taken the letter.

"Could it have been Li Fugui?" Liang Hongmei immediately thought of him.

Lin Wan frowned and shook her head, "Doesn’t seem like him."

"Then who could it be?"

"Could it have been lost? Such incidents are very common, and it’s been more than ten years. Investigating it might be troublesome," Mei Lang Jun thought it was very likely lost.

"Investigating might indeed be troublesome, but it’s not impossible. Once this matter settles, I’ll find someone to look into it," Han Yi thought. The letters sent from the military shouldn’t be easily lost.

"Dad, did you stay there for many years?" Lin Wan was curious about his life over there, whether he married and had children.

"Yes, once I was there, they treated me as one of their own, gave me a not insignificant position, and I lived there under an alias, constantly on edge." Lin Guozhi spoke vaguely, the specific things he did were national secrets, he couldn’t tell even his family.

"Actually, the person responsible for contacting me, I didn’t know who they were either. I wanted to learn about your situation through them but was afraid of causing trouble for you if things were exposed. I spent ten years over there without revealing one bit about you."

Reflecting on these years of experiences, Lin Guozhi felt deeply moved. Before, he never thought he would have such an experience.

He had planned to stay in Kao Shan Village, look after his family, and live a steady life that way.

Later, he gradually had two children, and the family could hardly get enough to eat or clothes to wear. Lin Guozhi thought he should go out and make a name for himself so his family could live better.

Unexpectedly, things turned out this way.

He carved a place in the world but failed his family over the years.

"Uncle Lin, then is Grandpa Lin your...?" Mei Lang Jun was a bit confused. Lin Guozhi’s current status, wasn’t Uncle Lin Grandpa Lin’s son? How could he have gone to become a sent-down youth?

"Guozhi, did you find your parents?" The fact that Lin Guozhi got separated from his parents was something she heard about in his early years.

At the age of seven or eight, he got separated from his family when they moved to another place.

At the time, being five or six, he was very playful and didn’t remember where his parents were going. He got separated at the train station.

After getting separated, Lin Guozhi was smart enough to find the announcement desk at the train station. It was just that the relative of the staff at the announcement desk happened to come over and saw such a fair-skinned child and got greedy, directly taking Lin Guozhi away.

The couple were both factory workers and had been married for many years without a child.

They raised Lin Guozhi that way; he cried and made a fuss for a full month. Seeing that the child was not easy to pacify, the couple arranged for some sedative drugs.

Every day, they gave Lin Guozhi several pills, leaving him in a drowsy state for several months until he stopped making a fuss. At eight, the couple welcomed their first child, and after that, they were not as concerned about Lin Guozhi.

He became the family’s little housekeeper, doing laundry and cooking, doing everything. A few years later, they had three more children one after another.

With the family burden heavier, they ignored Lin Guozhi more. They didn’t even let him go to school.

Lin Guozhi was smart, always sitting beside when his younger brothers and sisters were writing, learning some words along.

Later, a retired professor moved in next door. When the family adults went to work and the children went to school, Lin Guozhi would take his sibling’s textbooks and go to the old professor for help with what he didn’t understand.