After the reform and opening up, individual businesses sprang up like mushrooms after rain.
Later, even people within the system started to go into business.
Over the years, many people have grown their waistlines and become quite respectable on the street. However, if they encounter Ms. Yu from Bincheng, they immediately slump their shoulders, suck in their stomachs, and greet her with a big smile.
Because this Ms. Yu was one of the first to take the plunge after the reform and opening up, and in just a few years she built a huge group that was involved in several industries, including clothing, food, housing and transportation, and mainly engaged in foreign trade, earning foreign exchange for the country. Her foundation was so solid that no one could shake it.
It is said that Ms. Yu initially only wanted to earn a respectable family business for her grandchildren.
These days, this business is so impressive, it's the envy of everyone!
Many people dream of becoming Ms. Yu's grandchildren.
Even a newspaper in the port city made a similar joke.
Feng Qiyuan, disheveled, stumbled upon the newspaper while buying wine on the street.
Upon seeing Ms. Yu's photo, his eyes, clouded by the smell of alcohol, instantly lit up. He grabbed a passerby and excitedly exclaimed, "This is my wife! My wife is the richest woman in mainland China! I also have grandchildren! My Feng family line hasn't died out! No, I have to find her and make my grandson change his surname to mine, to Feng..."
"Where did this madman come from? Get out of the way!"
The passerby shoved Feng Qiyuan aside and walked away cursing.
Feng Qiyuan was pushed and almost fell to the ground, but he was not angry. He grabbed the newspaper and happily headed straight for his pigeon house.
Thirty years after eloping to Hong Kong with his lover and taking his family fortune, the once dissolute eldest son of the Feng family moved from a luxury villa to a pigeon house. Although his extravagance was related to this, the main reason was that he was deceived by his lover.
The son his mistress gave birth to wasn't his at all; he was an illegitimate child, and that illegitimate child even ran off with his family fortune after reaching adulthood.
He was filled with hatred, so much so that he leaked the information directly to a certain gang. Soon, that bastard and that bitch were robbed of everything and eventually died in a dark alley.
But with his family fortune gone, he lost all hope and began drowning his sorrows in alcohol day after day. Recently, he's even run out of money to drink.
Fortunately, life gave him hope again.
Feng Qiyuan sold his only remaining valuable possession, a watch, bought a boat ticket back to the mainland, and then traveled all the way to Bincheng, arriving outside the small Western-style house.
When the neighbors saw a disheveled old man on the street, spying on Commander Zhou's house, they immediately reported it to the neighborhood committee.
So, Feng Qiyuan lingered outside the small villa for less than three minutes before being taken to the police station by the neighborhood committee.
"What right do you have to arrest me? I'm just going back to my own home!" Feng Qiyuan shouted angrily.
The police ignored his anger and routinely asked, "State your name, age, and gender..."
"I am Feng Qiyuan, Yu Jingqiu's husband. Tell her to come see me!"
Feng Qiyuan was uncooperative and made a scene at the police station.
Finally, after receiving the news, Feng Mingshu went to the police station.
Feng Qiyuan squinted at her for a moment, then became excited: "You're my daughter, right? Call me, call me..."
"My name is Feng Mingshu." Feng Mingshu gave his name and looked at the agitated Feng Qiyuan inside. He said calmly, "My biological father died twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, we built a tomb for him and revoked his identity. Now you're suddenly appearing and claiming to be my biological father. Where's the proof?"
Feng Qiyuan's eyes widened: "I'm not dead, I'm the proof, I am your biological father, you can't be unfilial and disown your biological father!"
Feng Mingshu laughed: "I'm unfilial? My biological father eloped with someone when I was ten years old and took all the family's wealth. My grandmother told me to treat him as my biological father from now on. I am very filial, and I will follow my grandmother's will."
"So, even if you were my biological father, what difference would it make? You can't provide any proof."
"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you something. After building a grave for my biological father, my mother remarried. She's no longer the daughter-in-law of the Feng family, but the head of the Li family. Even if you try to find her and impersonate Feng Qiyuan, it won't work, because she has absolutely no relation to Feng Qiyuan."
"You bitches, you're all bitches! I'm going to kill you all!" Feng Qiyuan roared furiously at her, his eyes wide with rage, as he gripped the iron bars.
Feng Mingshu calmly told the police, "I suspect he has a mental problem, that he has delusions, so I suggest he be sent to the hospital for an evaluation. I will pay for it."
Since Ms. Yu Jingqiu became the richest woman, all sorts of people have come out to claim kinship with her, some genuinely, some swindlers. The police officers, with their extensive experience in handling similar cases, naturally had no good feelings towards the old man impersonating Ms. Yu's ex-husband.
Therefore, they agreed to Feng Mingshu's suggestion and sent him to Anding Hospital for evaluation, where he was indeed found to have some mental abnormalities.
Out of humanitarian concern, Feng Mingshu paid for his medical expenses and sent him to a sanatorium.
He never came out again after that.
Feng Qiyuan gradually adapted to life inside and even found some enjoyment in it, considering it as his unfilial daughter taking care of him in his old age.
But one day, while watching television, he saw a report about the heroic deeds of a young soldier. The soldier looked very familiar to him, so he immediately grabbed a mirror and looked at his own face.
Although one is young and the other is old, their facial features are quite similar.
Feng Qiyuan was so excited that his body trembled. He insisted on seeing Feng Mingshu and even threatened to go on a hunger strike.
After Feng Mingshu went there and learned the reason for the matter, he calmly said to Feng Qiyuan, "That's right, the young soldier you saw is my younger brother, but his surname is Li, which is the same as my stepfather's."
Feng Qiyuan shouted excitedly, "That's my son, he must take my surname!"
"But when my mother was pregnant with my brother and sister, their biological father eloped with his mistress. They were born without a father. Fortunately, Uncle Li treated them as his own children and never mistreated them. Do you think my biological father's spirit in heaven would be grateful to Uncle Li if he knew about this?"
"puff--"
Feng Qiyuan spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Feng Mingshu calmly called for the doctor to come and treat her, using the best medicine and the best care.
But Feng Qiyuan did not survive this time. It is said that he cried out for retribution before he died.
Isn't that karma?
Back then, Feng Qiyuan disliked Yu Jingqiu for not being able to give birth to a son for many years, while his lover was already pregnant with a boy. However, the old lady did not agree to let his lover enter the family. In a fit of anger, he took his pregnant lover and ran away with the family fortune to Hong Kong.
Little did he expect that the child in his lover's belly was an illegitimate child, which also caused him to lose all his wealth.
His abandoned wife is pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. If only he had known...
There is no such thing as knowing beforehand, unless one is reborn.
Several days later, an urn containing ashes was buried in the cenotaph in the Feng family cemetery.
It wasn't that Feng Mingshu was attached to that blood relationship, but rather that in her previous life, her twin siblings were risked by Uncle Li to be sent to Hong Kong and placed with Feng Qiyuan.
If karma truly exists in this world, she is willing to do more in this life so that her younger siblings in the next life can have a smoother life.
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