The machinery factory was originally one of the Meng family's businesses. Before his great-grandfather and great-grandmother handed it over, they brought in a large number of overseas orders for the factory, making a fortune in foreign exchange. After his grandfather took over, the factory expanded several times over in just a few years. Such performance naturally earned them a lot of support from higher-ups.
In this chaotic and unstable environment, the Meng family still managed to reap all the benefits of the times and accurately avoid pitfalls each time, climbing to the top of the pyramid in Changning City.
Given the Meng family's status, they have retained a considerable amount of assets, all of which have been legitimately acquired.
Some families in the south have indeed retained their strength, and quite a few of them. This is why, decades later, the folk culture of southern cities has been better preserved.
Because traditional forces are relatively strong, there are many powerful families.
Besides that villa, the Meng family also has an ancestral home, which is currently renting out.
She kept the rent money.
Meng Fuyan arrived in the suburbs and stopped in front of an abandoned house. These large houses used to be inhabited by wealthy families. Some were divided among many families and turned into tenements, while others were smashed and abandoned over time.
Meng Fuyan went to retrieve the money her mother had hidden years ago.
Apart from the inherited money, most of my mother's money was earned before 1966 when national capitalists were still living a carefree life.
My mother worked as a translator for them, bringing in foreign exchange orders, and so on. She got to know many foreigners and wealthy people in China, making money from both sides. Those people were very generous; as long as you could help them succeed, the rewards were quite substantial, ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands.
There is a real barrier between the lives of the rich and ordinary people. My mother has always been making money off the rich, so she became wealthy at a young age.
In every corner of these dilapidated houses that had long been ransacked, Mom had hidden a lot of money; she had once brought her here to scout out the place.
They took out everything: 30,000 yuan in cash and four bankbooks, totaling 60,000 yuan.
There was also an iron box containing some old items, not many: seven or eight gemstone rings and two large yellow croakers and eight small yellow croakers.
There were also two small boxes filled with gold, the kind of tiny gold ingots. Gold is a hard currency, and these gold ingots are small, making them easy to carry and exchange for things. Mom specially prepared them for her.
After storing everything in her spatial storage, Meng Fuyan took a shovel and headed towards the Zhang family's house.
Zhang Guifang's maternal family has a large number of members, some of whom work in the city, while most of them live in the countryside, and they have never separated their households.
His house was newly built three years ago. It's a large brick and tile house with a big courtyard. There's even a well in the courtyard. It has more than a dozen rooms in total, making it the first of its kind in the area.
Meng Fuyan felt very angry and resentful whenever she thought that the house was likely built with her mother's savings and dowry money.
He climbed over into the courtyard, lit incense in each room to lull everyone to sleep, and then stored everything in the house into his spatial storage.
Pots and pans, wardrobes and benches—anything that could be taken away was taken, not a single thing was left behind. Even their beds and blankets were all taken away, leaving them to lie on the ground.
After looting the room, Meng Fuyan took out a metal detector and began searching.
After searching the house, they found a pit under the bed in the main room. After lifting the wooden board, they found a hole inside, in which was a wooden box. Upon opening it, they found some jade and gold and silver jewelry, as well as five thousand yuan in cash. Meng Fuyan clearly saw a gold bracelet worn by a child, which her mother had given to her to play with when she was eight or nine years old.
"Depend on!"
It's really her mother's stuff!
After storing the items in my spatial storage, I continued searching for a while and found a buried jar in the corner. Inside was a thick wad of cash, probably tens of thousands of yuan, and a dozen or so small yellow croakers.
Meng Fuyan sneered. "They're really rich. They must have gotten a lot of benefits from Wu Guozhu over the years!"
Such a poor family, so many people, with more than half of the food in the kitchen being refined grains, living in such a large courtyard, and still having so much money.
I'll take them all into my spatial storage and take them with me. Let's see how you'll live a carefree life from now on!
I searched the entire yard, but the detector didn't react, so it must be gone.
Meng Fuyan hurried to the Wu family.
Wu's grandparents have lived in the suburbs for years in a brick and tile house.
It has been expanded twice, the most recent expansion being three years ago after her mother passed away.
This house is even more impressive than the Zhang family's courtyard!
Meng Fuyan chuckled and did the same thing she had done at the Zhang family's house again.
The Wu family is much wealthier than the Zhang family. After all, with her father's support, she's doing quite well among the people in the city, and is definitely richer than her stepmother's family.
Fifty thousand yuan in cash and two bankbooks were found in Old Man Wu and Old Woman Wu's house. The bankbooks had six thousand yuan on them, making a total of fifty-six thousand yuan.
Back in the 1970s, that was considered a household with 10,000 yuan!
Twenty years ago, the Wu family was just an ordinary farming family!
I found a few more old items, but apart from some gold rings and bracelets, the rest weren't anything valuable; I guess they didn't know their value.
Finally, they found an inconspicuous cellar in the backyard, which was quite well hidden. This cellar was incredible; it contained more than a dozen boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques. Meng Fuyan was shocked.
However, Wu's eldest son had a good job in the city. He was a member of the Ideological Committee and wielded considerable power. He led a group of people to raid many homes and committed numerous evil deeds. These things were probably obtained through corruption.
Changning City had quite a few big landlords and capitalists back then.
That's incredibly bold!
They dared to keep all these things.
Meng Fuyan stored everything into her spatial storage.
Neither the Wu nor the Zhang family had many ration coupons, but compared to rural families, they were still quite a lot. Adhering to the principle of taking every last penny, Meng Fuyan didn't mind taking too few and took them all.
Then they climbed over into the neighbor's yard.
Among the Wu brothers, the eldest and second eldest were the most successful. Her father, Wu Guozhu, was the second eldest.
With so many treasures unearthed by the boss, Meng Fuyan was now filled with anticipation for Wu Guozhu's wealth.
This small courtyard was built by Wu Guozhu in the countryside.
Sure enough, the metal detector made a particularly pleasant sound.
Meng Fuyan spent a lot of effort but only found four boxes: two boxes of gold and two boxes of old objects.
Is that all?
As far as she knew, Wu Guozhu had a very powerful backer, who was probably connected to enemy agents. The machinery factory had a lot of export business, and as the deputy factory director, he had embezzled an unknown amount by abusing his position.
Some enemy agents stole state property from this factory.
Logically speaking, the wealth of these people is unimaginable for ordinary people, and even decades later, many people will not be as wealthy as they are.
Meng Fuyan was unwilling to give up and searched for a while longer before finally finding a box buried deep in the backyard wall. When she opened it, it was full of 100,000 yuan, neatly stacked in piles, and looked to be worth about 100,000 yuan!
Oh!
This is the real Wu Guozhu!
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