Xiaojing and Zhou Xueyi got married in May of the following year.

Xiao Jing didn't want to have a wedding. Her younger brother's wedding back then almost plunged her into a nightmare. If it weren't for her older brother and sister-in-law saving her, Cheng Jing would no longer exist. So she had no intention of having a wedding at all.

Zhou Xueyi has no relatives left, only a younger sister. He doesn't care whether he holds a ceremony or not. Xiaojing doesn't want to hold one, so he says he won't either.

So the two of them didn't have a wedding ceremony. After getting their marriage certificate, they simply invited close family and friends from both sides to a restaurant for a simple meal.

After graduating, Fang Qiao stayed at the university as a teacher, teaching spiritual medicine and also responsible for research on spiritual plants and medicinal plants. Because things related to spiritual energy were still classified, only a small group of people had access to this field, so Fang Qiao's workload was quite heavy. She had to devote almost all her energy to her work in order to make it look effortless.

Fang Qiao no longer had the energy to manage the garment factory, so she hired a dedicated manager and handed over the work. At the same time, she gave Xiao Jing a two-month honeymoon during the summer vacation so she could go on her honeymoon with Zhou Xueyi. When Xiao Jing returned from her honeymoon, all the affairs of the garment factory would fall on her shoulders, while Fang Qiao would only be responsible for collecting her share of the profits.

Xiaojing and Zhou Xueyi went to many places. First, they went to Guangzhou in the south, where the clothing market was very large. Xiaojing did some sightseeing and some research. After that, they went to Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan Island, and Sakura, and toured the surrounding areas. Then they flew directly from Sakura to the Western Hemisphere and had a great time.

I played until the end of the holiday before transferring in Hong Kong to return to Beijing.

At the same time, she also brought a message.

She saw Fang Lu in the waiting hall of Hong Kong Airport. He was dressed very fashionably at the time, wearing jeans, a leather jacket, sunglasses on his head, and a watch worth tens of thousands of dollars on his wrist.

Although he appeared glamorous, he was arm in arm with an older woman. The two were very intimate, and Fang Lu's behavior was quite ingratiating towards the woman.

Xiaojing said, "It doesn't seem like a normal relationship between a man and a woman."

Fang Qiao's insightful comment: "He's probably being kept by a rich woman as a gigolo. The wealthy circles in Hong Kong are quite extravagant; the men keep mistresses and other women are not to be outdone, keeping gigolos as well. The couple each do their own thing, and neither of them cares about the other."

Xiao Jing clicked her tongue: "Isn't anyone going to do anything about it?"

"If you walk by the river often enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet." Fang Qiao smiled. "There are some tough guys who are allowed to have their own affairs but won't allow their wives to cheat on them. When you encounter someone like that, you're bound to pay a price."

The price Fang Lu had to pay came rather quickly.

He was in a car accident, hit by a motorcycle driven by gangsters and ended up in the hospital. Unfortunately, he was hit on the head and couldn't be saved when he was taken to the hospital.

The gangster was quickly arrested and confessed to the crime.

Fang Lu had an affair with a gangster's woman, cuckolding his boss. The affair became common knowledge, and the boss, losing face, wanted to teach him a lesson.

This gangster took money from his superiors, so the task of teaching Fang Lu a lesson fell to him.

He originally only intended to break Fang Lu's bones, not kill him, so he only hit him with his motorcycle. It was just bad luck that he was actually killed by the motorcycle.

Fang Lu is an unregistered resident in Hong Kong.

He arrived in Hong Kong just before the crackdown in 1983. In the early years of reform and opening up, he did not do anything good. He made a lot of money, but it was all dirty.

On the eve of the crackdown, he got the news from the person he was in contact with. Fearing being purged, he panicked and sold his domestic assets and fled to the United States. He had no connections and some money, but not enough, so he and a few other thugs smuggled themselves to Hong Kong.

Not long after arriving in Hong Kong, he squandered all his money. These people were used to taking shortcuts and no longer knew how to walk the right path. So some of them went to casinos to work as thugs, some started to join the underworld, and Fang Lu and another person who was a little good-looking became gigolos.

After Fang Lu got into trouble, all of his underlings were arrested by the Hong Kong police, served six months in jail at the Immigration Department, and were then transferred to Customs and Excise Department and deported back to the mainland.

Back in the country, Yang Fengxia and Fang Yaozu were still dreaming of their youngest son going abroad to make a fortune.

The craze for going abroad to seek gold led ordinary people to believe that gold was everywhere overseas and that as long as they could go abroad, they could make a fortune.

Yang Fengxia and Fang Yaozu had been waiting for their son to return home in glory, but instead they received news of his death.

What Yang Fengxia found most unacceptable was that her son had gone abroad to avoid the crackdown, but the crime he committed only required a few decades in prison, not execution. Instead, he ran away to avoid jail and died in a foreign land.

Secondly, she only received the news of her son's death six months later. She was unable to see him one last time and only received a handful of light ashes.

Yang Fengxia couldn't accept reality. She kept muttering to herself that if she had stopped Fang Lu from going abroad, at worst he would have spent decades in prison, and at least he would still have something to look forward to.

But the dead cannot be brought back to life, there is no medicine for regret in this world, and no amount of remorse can change anything.

Yang Fengxia fell ill and never recovered; her health gradually deteriorated.

Fang Yaozu is still in good health. He usually stays at home, buys groceries, cooks meals, and takes care of Yang Fengxia. He is not short of money. In recent years, Dong Ping has earned money and is not stingy with her filial piety towards the two elders. She gives them a generous amount of money every month.

Everyone thought Yang Fengxia would pass away before Fang Yaozu, but despite her failing health, Yang Fengxia persevered year after year until the year 2000.

On the contrary, Fang Yaozu, who was healthy and without any illness, went out to the toilet on a rainy night in the early 1990s, tripped and fell to the ground, and was unconscious when he was discovered.