Meng Suqin paused for a moment, then asked, "Yanyan, did you go abroad this time to contact them?"
Meng Fuyan nodded. "Yes, the situation in China is very complicated. Mom, the Xu family has fallen and been exiled to remote areas to suffer. Some of our clans in secret have also been affected and are having a hard time. I was thinking of helping them, preferably getting them all back to Changning City. Even if the Xu family can't be reinstated, at least they can do some other good jobs, so that our Meng family's prestige won't be lost."
"It has been so difficult for the Meng family to get to where it is today. Our ancestors suffered so much, serving as slaves to capitalists for so many years before finally getting out. My great-grandparents worked so hard to establish a machinery factory even at such an advanced age. They worked hard for many years and eventually handed it over to the state. My maternal grandparents joined the army in their early years and were covered in injuries. They came back and worked hard to develop the machinery factory, which led to their poor health and early death."
"If my grandparents hadn't injured their health in the army, perhaps they could have had more children, or perhaps they could have lived longer? If they had lived longer, our family's strength wouldn't have been interrupted, and my mother hadn't fully grown up before my grandparents passed away."
"Later, you were also framed by enemy agents and were injured while protecting the machinery factory's property. Our family risked everything, even our lives, to finally rise from slaves to become the top trading family in Changning City. I'm not willing to let the hard work of generations be destroyed like this. If I don't do something, given the situation in the country, we won't be able to keep our last few rental buildings. I won't have the face to face my ancestors in the future!"
Meng Suqin: "..."
She sighed, "Don't even mention you, I'm too ashamed to go down and face my ancestors."
Who would be content to work hard for half their life and end up with nothing?
Even if the Meng family still has that wealth hidden away, they will definitely become rich again if the economy opens up in the future, but when will that be?
As time went by, people left and the tea grew cold; the prestige that the Meng family had accumulated in Changning City truly vanished.
She gave up love to return home and inherit the family business, and now she is absolutely unwilling to let it all go.
"You want to find them to do business with the domestic sector and help the domestic sector earn foreign exchange, in exchange for the Meng family members in the domestic sector being able to return to Changning City?"
No wonder he works in this industry; he's incredibly sensitive to foreign exchange.
Meng Fuyan nodded repeatedly, "Yes, everyone in the country is proud to generate foreign exchange. The country is in dire need of it. If our Meng family can generate a lot of foreign exchange, it shouldn't be too much to ask the country to take care of our relatives. However, there are quite a few people who have overseas relatives sending money back to buy supplies in foreign exchange shops that local people can't even enter."
“Those shops are specially prepared for these people. Ordinary people can’t get in at all. The supplies inside are much richer than those in the supply and marketing cooperatives.”
Meng Suqin nodded and said, "Actually, I could do this kind of thing, but I'm already deceased in China. If I show up, I don't know if it will affect your father. It's definitely more convenient for the collateral branches to do it."
Meng Fuyan frowned and said, "Mom, are they not trustworthy? Have they teamed up with the Su family to deal with you?"
Meng Suqin laughed. "Dealing with them? Not really. They just want the wealth I have. I have businesses in Hong Kong and Gotham City. When I first came out, I was a woman and not in good health, so naturally I would seek out people I knew. Who knew that the Su family and the Meng family's branch would develop so poorly?"
"But they are people I know well. I was short of manpower, so I still cooperated with them. In the past two years, both the Meng family's branch and the Su family's businesses have developed very well. It is because I secretly advised them that we have achieved today's situation."
Meng Fuyan was startled. Her mother was offering advice.
The reason why the collateral branch of the family developed so well with the Su family in the previous life was because it was always Mom who managed it behind the scenes.
She was in poor health. At first, she might have been able to deal with them, but as her health deteriorated, the Su family, fearing the loss of this strategist or perhaps coveting the assets she held, gradually developed malicious intentions. They detained her and even joined forces with a branch of the Meng family to place her mother under house arrest.
In order to survive, and in order to have another chance to see her children, her mother might actually help those people.
As long as there's value in it, those people will do everything they can to cure her, but...
Perhaps in the end it didn't turn out as my mother wished?
If all of this is true, then wouldn't all the huge family businesses of the Meng family's branch and the Su family in the previous life have been the result of my mother's hard work?
Depend on!
Those bastards from her past life came back to China and bragged to her, but they didn't mention her mother at all. They even tried to subtly find out if she had any of the Meng family's wealth. Those bastards!
Meng Fuyan's ruthlessness surged instantly. "Mom, how about... we continue to cooperate with them? They're all acquaintances, and you know them well. As long as you recover and have trustworthy helpers, even if those collateral branches join forces with the Su family, they won't be a match for you."
Meng Suqin raised an eyebrow. She knew her daughter well; after all, she had raised her herself. A smile played on her lips as she asked, "You mean, give them a taste of their own medicine, cooperate with them, control them, and finally, swallow them up?"
Meng Fuyan laughed, "What do you mean by swallowing up these two families? We are members of the Meng family, the direct line, while they are collateral branches. Isn't it only right that the direct line manages the property of the collateral branches? As for the Su family... who told them to put you under house arrest? If we don't retaliate, they'll really think we're afraid of them."
With a direction in mind, the mother and daughter began discussing the details of what to do next, and they spent a whole day discussing it.
Gu Tingzhi returned home in the evening.
After dinner, Meng Suqin took her medicine and went upstairs to rest early. Meng Fuyan brought a glass of milk into Gu Tingzhi's study, where he was reading documents intently.
Seeing Meng Fuyan enter, he looked up, his face, though disguised, revealed a smile very similar to Gu Tingzhi's, his eyes filled with doting affection, "What's wrong? Can't sleep?"
Meng Fuyan handed him the milk and replied, "I'm not sleepy for now. I was chatting with my mom today, and we started thinking about a lot of things from the past. Things in China have all come to an end. I never thought it would go so smoothly."
"Back then, I was furious that Wu Siyu had lost my bracelet and was determined to find it. Unfortunately, I searched the black market for a long time but couldn't find it. I don't know where Wu Siyu has gone now. I guess I'll never find my bracelet again."
Gu Tingzhi paused, remained silent for a moment, and then asked, "What kind of bracelet? I'll have someone keep an eye out for you."
"It's a Hetian jade bracelet, a rare type of peach blossom jade, pink and delicate, with a beautiful color. It's made of three pieces set together, with gold inlay on the jade!"
Gu Tingzhi lowered his eyes, reached into his pocket, and pulled out the peach blossom jade bracelet. "Is this it?"
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