Mr. Cai Qi should be Miss Cai's uncle.
Before 1984, the house was left unclaimed after Ms. Cai's family left. Under the coordination of the government, all of their relatives moved in. However, the policy changed later, and the house was returned to the Cai family. Since Mr. Cai Qi was the only one living there, he did not want too many houses, so half of them were still given to his cousins.
He only took the portion that rightfully belonged to his own family.
If Ms. Cai hadn't come here, she wouldn't have known that even the paving stones on this street were cultural relics, and her family might not have argued about it. But who could have imagined that the place her parents desperately wanted to escape from has now become a gold mine?
Because her parents had instructed her not to reveal anything, she dared not tell anyone or introduce herself.
But the more Master Cai looked at the child, the more he felt that her face resembled his sister-in-law. So, when she entered the martial arts hall, he asked, "Is this young lady also from the Nie family? Is she from Hong Kong?"
Nie Han was also eager to find out more about Miss Cai, so she said, "No, no, she's from the United States, and like you, she's surnamed Cai... By the way, Miss Cai, what is your father's name...?"
Feeling guilty under Master Cai's gaze, Miss Cai started lying: "You know, although I can speak Chinese, I can't write it. My dad, we usually use his English name, his name is John."
Changing the subject, seeing the photos of Master Cai with various people on the wall, Ms. Cai said with a smile, "It seems that this Master Cai has a very close relationship with the mainland authorities. The people you are taking photos with are all mainland officials."
Although Master Cai was only in his fifties, he had already experienced a rough life. As a martial artist, he had seen all kinds of people, and he felt that this little girl's arrival was strange given the current trend of demolition and relocation.
But it still comes down to the Nie family's reputation.
Besides, he didn't want to argue with a little girl, so he said, "I served in the army when I was young, but my family had some misfortune and I came back. I lost a leg and am disabled, but I opened a school and taught students. My students are all good, and the government has treated me very well. Over the years, I have also benefited from the care of the neighborhood committee and the civil affairs department."
He spoke the truth, and deliberately concealed the suffering.
Because his older brother ran away with the money the government had given him for further education, along with the family's valuables.
He promised his parents that once he arrived in Hong Kong, he would hire a smuggler from the local area to pick up the whole family.
But when he got there, he found that prices in Hong Kong were outrageously high, and the things he sold weren't enough to hire a smuggler to pick him up. So he simply bought a plane ticket and took his wife and children directly to the United States.
Master Cai's parents, unaware of the situation, waited in vain for their son to come and pick them up. Fearing he had been delayed there, and with the time for classifying their social status approaching, and knowing they were indeed considered less honorable landlords, they simply found a familiar smuggler, agreed to pay him upon arrival on the other side, and the whole family went to Hong Kong together.
Several died in the storms on the way, and a few were lucky enough to reach Hong Kong, but they couldn't find their relatives. If they couldn't find them, the smugglers would demand money. Hong Kong was a tough place to live back then, and after all that trouble, they were all gone.
Cai Qi was in the military at the time, but after that incident, he naturally retired.
As for his leg, it was because he was young and in good physical condition when he thought of Hong Kong, so he wanted to swim there.
However, he was devoured by a seven-star shark, and then he himself was swept back by the waves.
He became disabled, and his property was seized by the government. When it came time to determine his class status, he was just a poor peasant, and of course, he was never persecuted.
On the contrary, because of his excellent kung fu teaching, his disciples became successful, and government leaders frequently visited him.
Just 84 years ago, he was even a recipient of the "Five Guarantees" (a government-provided social welfare program for the elderly, disabled, and orphans). From his perspective, he had lived a pretty good life.
However, from Ms. Cai's perspective, things take a different turn.
This withered, dark-skinned old man was her uncle, but he looked older than her father. Given his close relationship with the government, she naturally wondered if, in the years before the government opened up, her father had returned, would this old man have colluded with the government to arrest him, detain him, and send him to jail?
Besides, after her parents went abroad, like most people, they couldn't use the knowledge they had learned. They did manual labor and opened a laundry shop, washing clothes for people every day. Fortunately, her brother was good at studying and found a good job, which improved their family's financial situation and allowed them to live in a big house.
But after all, her family was just a working class. Her uncle gave the house to outsiders but not to her family. She felt not only uncomfortable but also very angry. However, she dared not make a fuss because her parents told her not to.
However, she was unhappy, so of course she had to deliberately do something bad.
At this moment, everyone was in the pavilion by the pond in the courtyard. Master Cai was holding a picture album and showing Chen Rou the history of Cai Family Boxing, and he asked A Tao to go inside to find some calligraphy works written by various famous artists for the Cai family in modern times.
Since everything was stuck in a large porcelain urn, A Tao simply carried the urn out.
Miss Cai glanced at the door and saw a mop standing next to it. She kicked it and stomped on it. Tao didn't notice where he was stepping. In an instant, all the calligraphy and paintings, including the porcelain urn, were released from his hands and scattered in all directions.
Nie Han was the first to see it, because she wasn't very interested in history, which was normal given that Miss Cai was up to something.
With a cry of "Ah!", all the scrolls and paintings flew out, and the porcelain urn flew straight toward the pavilion.
At this very moment, the Nie siblings were about to witness true hard-core kung fu.
Two young men, Ah Dong and Ah Kong, watched as the paintings and calligraphy flew into the pond. In front of his brothers, one of them leaped up, stepped onto a pillar with one foot, and bounced twice in the air, catching the two paintings.
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