Chapter 64 Will (Part 4) I just heard that the old man left a will...
The direct train's time was not right, and if they waited one more day it would have been too late, so Xie Chunxing and Yao Weiguo had to transfer from Beijing and rush back.
Finally I made it in time for the old man's funeral.
No one knew what Yao Jingye was thinking. It was obvious that his father was the old man's eldest son, and he himself was the eldest grandson and the clan leader, but he insisted that Yao Weiguo, the great-grandson, break the pot on behalf of Yao Jingzong, as if only in this way could the old man pass away in a dignified manner.
Yao Weiguo didn't want to take on this job, so he pushed it to Yao Weihua. Yao Weihua didn't want to do it either, and in the end, after pushing it back and forth, both brothers couldn't escape.
One smashed the pot, the other held the portrait, and they shouted together.
In these days, old people in rural areas are still buried. When they are buried, their descendants will cry and shout in front of the grave, and even rush over to dig up the coffin to express their reluctance and sadness.
Yao Jingye verbally reminded them several times, but the two brothers just stood there stupidly, refusing to cry or to open the coffin. Finally, Yao Jingye had to let his own son take over.
The funeral was barely completed.
When she came back, she was still mumbling, "Xing'er, the child doesn't understand and you don't try to persuade him. I'm doing this for the good of Grandpa and the two children. Grandpa will bless them in the future."
Xie Chunxing didn't believe this, but he didn't want to argue with Yao Jingye. After all, he was the eldest brother, so he simply spoke sparingly.
And when she comes back here, she always thinks of sad things. She is unhappy and too lazy to talk.
Yao Jingye had no choice but to sigh: "Forget it, it's good to be back. How is Jingzong? Is he in good health?"
"Thank you, that's fine." Xie Chunxing saw that it was getting late, so she made an excuse to go back and take care of the children and left early.
Poor Yao Jingye, he even prepared a grand crying scene, but in the end, none of Yao Jingzong's children showed up to support him.
All left.
On the way, Xie Chunxing muttered, "Really? He has no emotions, but he insists on making me cry. How can I cry?"
Yao Zhizhi was helpless, wasn't she? Even her tearful mother couldn't cry, let alone the others.
However, Yao Zhizhi still remembers what happened three years ago. At that time, the old man held her hand and wanted to say something persistently.
But she didn't understand a word he said, and this time she came back without even seeing him for the last time, which was a pity.
When they were almost at the village entrance, Yao Mengmeng caught up with them on a bike.
She was panting, but she wasn't afraid of having a miscarriage.
Yao Zhizhi quickly stopped and asked, "Are you going to die?"
Yao Mengmeng was panting. She wiped the sweat off her face, stopped the car casually, and dragged her to the side.
Yao Zhizhi was disgusted and couldn't help but frowned: "What are you doing?"
It wasn't the first time Yao Mengmeng had been disliked by her, so she wasn't afraid at all. She walked arrogantly for two or three minutes, until she had completely left the others far behind. Then she said, "I just heard that the old man left a will for you."
"What?" Yao Zhizhi felt that she was talking in her sleep. The old man had been mentally ill for a long time, so what will could he leave behind?
Yao Mengmeng was very sure: "It's true!"
"Then tell me, what will?" Yao Zhizhi was helpless. It couldn't be that he wanted her to inherit all the pots and pans of Old Yao's family, right?
Not interested, thank you.
Yao Mengmeng was furious: "Can you be more serious? Why would I joke with you about something like this?"
"Then tell me." Yao Zhizhi was speechless. Could he just speak up instead of hesitating?
Yao Mengmeng looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping, then whispered, "Didn't Grandpa find two boxes of gold ingots under the ancestral shrine when he returned to the countryside?"
"Ah, then what?" Yao Zhizhi was confused. Why did they bring this up? When did this happen?
Yao Mengmeng spoke mysteriously in a low voice, "I'm telling you this to remind you that the old man was once wealthy. When he was well off, he lent 100,000 yuan to a friend to start a factory, hoping to save the country through industry. The agreement was that the profits would be divided among the shares. Later, that person fled overseas with the company, and has never given the old man any dividends. I heard that he's now a big boss, and his will is about this. And the IOU is still there, but it doesn't say where it is. As for why he left it to you, I don't know."
"Where did you hear that?" Yao Zhizhi was completely baffled. What did this have to do with anything?
Yao Mengmeng sighed, "I overheard it. Yesterday, when I went to kowtow, I suddenly had diarrhea. You know, after a certain month of pregnancy, your stomach and intestines tend to get out of whack. So I went to squat in the toilet in his backyard. I overheard it."
"Who said this?" Yao Zhizhi frowned. Although she didn't know how much one hundred thousand oceans were worth at that time, it sounded like it was quite valuable.
Yao Mengmeng laughed. "Who else could it be? Uncle Jingye! His son wanted to burn the will, but he refused, saying he wanted to keep it and wait until he could contact that overseas boss. Then he'd split it 50/50 with you, so they'd get half and you'd get half. Unless you refuse, then it won't be too late to burn the will. He's just a dog that can't change its nature. How disgusting."
Yao Zhizhi fell into a long silence.
If this is true, then Yao Jingye is really stubborn.
The issue of money is secondary. The main thing is the feeling of being taken advantage of, which is really uncomfortable.
Yao Zhizhi couldn't just go and confront them rashly. If they didn't acknowledge it and hid the will, she wouldn't be able to cause any trouble.
Besides, it is still unclear whether the overseas boss will admit it.
After thinking it over, she advised, "Don't tell anyone yet. Wait until I find out who the big boss is."
"Okay." Yao Mengmeng breathed a sigh of relief. Well, her mission was completed and it was time to go back and rest.
I couldn't help but hug Yao Zhizhi: "I miss you so much, hmm."
"You're an adult, yet you still cry." Yao Zhizhi still disliked her.
There was no way. The two of them had a very bad memory. Yao Mengmeng had a good memory, but she held a grudge.
Whenever I see Yao Mengmeng, I think of how this evildoer used to be so stupid and aggressive, and I feel so annoyed.
Yao Mengmeng didn't care about any of this at all. She just wanted to act like a spoiled brat, clinging to Yao Zhizhi's neck and refusing to let go. "Such important information, and you won't even praise me? I'm so sad!"
"...If you don't praise yourself, you will easily become proud and complacent." Yao Zhizhi didn't want to fulfill her wish.
Yao Mengmeng curled her lips and touched her belly.
After being slapped away, he immediately became unhappy and yelled, "You bully me!"
Yao Zhizhi had a headache and didn't want to pay attention to her, so she pushed her away: "Stop making trouble. If you have time to bother me, why don't you go ask your second sister if anything big has happened recently."
Yao Mengmeng didn't know about Yao Taotao's divorce yet, and thought Yao Zhizhi just wanted to get rid of her.
When she returned home, she saw Cao Guangyi's cold reception and Yao Taotao's disdainful attitude throughout the whole process, and suddenly her alarm bells went off.
I quickly asked, "Did you two have a fight?"
Cao Guangyi immediately denied it: "No. No!"
Yao Taotao gave him a direct blow: "We're divorced, and he wants to find a woman to have a child. I'll help him."
Cao Guangyi: ...Wife, you are so cruel!
He hurried to explain to Yao Mengmeng. As soon as he mentioned surrogacy, Yao Mengmeng grabbed Liu Hongwei's belt and beat him up!
Cao Guangyi was beaten so hard that he covered his butt and ran around the village.
Now, the news that Yao Erdan’s second son-in-law got divorced and found someone to bear a child through surrogacy spread like wildfire.
The yard was soon crowded with people.
The Yao family is a powerful clan. Even if Yao Erdan has no blood relationship with them, he is still a legitimate adopted son listed in the Yao family tree.
Now that he is dead, his daughter is bullied by his son-in-law, and the slap is not on his and his daughter's faces, but on the face of the Yao family clan.
Even if they hate Yao Erdan at ordinary times, they will stand up at this time.
Poor Cao Guangyi, he suddenly became a rat crossing the street.
The son of this family came to beat him, the grandson of that family spat on him, the daughter-in-law of the east family called him a beast, and the daughter of the west family threw feces on him.
Yao Taotao effortlessly won the sympathy and support of the entire village.
"We haven't even been married two years yet, why are you so anxious? Are you going to die before next year? Are you so anxious to see the King of Hell?"
Amidst the pointing and insults, Cao Guangyi didn't dare to refute a word. In the end, Yao Taotao stood up and said a few words to defend him.
Praise him for being a filial son, and say that he did this to make his mother happy.
It would have been better if he hadn't said it. Once he did, Cao Guangyi would be criticized by everyone.
Cao Guangyi looked at those mouths opening and closing, his head buzzing, he could no longer hear what they were saying, there was only one thought in his mind, he seemed to be really wrong.
It's really, really wrong.
After the angry tribesmen finally left, Cao Guangyi knelt down in front of Yao Taotao with a plop: "Tao'er, I was wrong. Should I change my job? I won't dare to do that again. From now on, I will do whatever you say! You told me to beat the dog, but I didn't dare to call the chickens. You told me to go east, but I didn't dare to go west. Tao'er, I was really wrong. I didn't mean it, Tao'er..."
Yao Taotao didn't want to pay attention to him, but Yao Mengmeng was direct. She got angry and fetched two buckets of well water and poured them over him from head to toe.
I feel chilled to the bone, yet my heart is high.
The manure was flushed away, but the people were also washed away.
I started to have a fever in the afternoon and was in a daze. I kept shouting, "Taoer, I love you, Taoer, I can't live without you."
Yao Taotao carried him into the house and laid him down, then went to the village entrance to call a barefoot doctor to give him an IV drip.
Yao Mengmeng was afraid she would be soft-hearted, so she reminded her, "Second sister, don't let him trick you into remarrying with just a few words! The fact that he has such thoughts shows that he's fundamentally crooked. You must never turn back!"
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Yao Taotao found it quite ironic that this idiot actually thought that having a child through surrogacy was no big deal.
Only when he truly understands the exclusivity between husband and wife will he have a chance to start a new life.
But what does this have to do with her? They're already divorced.
As a couple, she took care of him when he had a fever, so it was considered a good parting.
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After Lu Henian finished writing the story of his parents, he used up more than a dozen sheets of letter paper.
This requires a larger envelope and a special wax seal to prevent it from being opened.
While searching for sealing wax, he remembered that his parents had left behind a golden nanmu box, which should contain envelopes with foreign-style photos printed on them, which were popular during the Republic of China period. So he found a stool and searched on top of the cabinet.
An ordinary fir box was placed outside the box to avoid attracting attention.
After taking it down and unlocking it, he neatly stacked some old things beside the bed.
When I picked up the envelopes to try out the size, I discovered that some of them actually contained postcards.
He didn't care and cleaned them out one by one to see which ones were still usable.
When I cleaned the eleventh one, I found three yellowed pieces of kraft paper.
Hey, why didn't I notice it before? It's really well hidden.
The one on top is actually a will?
What are the other two?
I quickly opened it and took a look...it was actually two IOUs?
The lender turned out to be the old man who had just passed away? And his own great-grandfather who had died long ago?
It's strange, this photo of my great-grandfather is normal in his house, but why is the photo of the old man from the Yao family here too?
Now let’s look at the borrowers…
It’s actually...it’s actually that foreign financial tycoon?
And both IOUs were written by that tycoon.
Lu Henian was shocked. After looking through it again and again, he confirmed that it was indeed the man he knew, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Will anyone acknowledge this old debt?
Even if you admit it, given the current domestic situation, you won't be able to enjoy any dividends, right?
But... I'd better keep it. This state won't last forever. Just in case it comes in handy someday.
But his place is not safe. After thinking about it, it is safer to leave it to Yao Weihua.
Even if there is any disturbance, no one dares to go to the courtyard and commit humiliation.
Unlike him, he was alone and his parents died unjustly.
What's more, one of the lenders is the old man of the Yao family, so it is reasonable to let the descendants of the Yao family keep the IOU.
As for the will...
It was the will made by his great-grandfather before his death. As long as the borrower built up the company and distributed dividends in the future, the inheritance would be divided equally among the descendants, regardless of gender.
These last four words are worth a thousand gold.
That was an instruction left by an old man from the Qing Dynasty - regardless of gender!
It can be seen that no matter what era, there are people who treat their children equally.
Lu Henian couldn't help but feel a deep respect for this great-grandfather who died young.
Quickly put away your things and wait for Yao Weihua to come.
After it got completely dark, two people came to the door.
One is a little over 1.8 meters tall, and the other is a little over 1.9 meters tall.
His height is just average, neither too tall nor too short.
He quickly closed the door and looked at the unfamiliar man in front of him: "Cousin?"
Yao Weiguo smiled and nodded: "It's me."
"You came at the right time." Lu Henian quickly led the two people into the house.
After taking out the three pieces of brown paper, he sat aside and listened to the brothers' opinions.
Yao Weihua reacted the most. He uttered an "eh" and said in surprise, "I thought my little sister was deceived by Yao Mengmeng. It seems that the old man really did have a will, but I don't know who has it."
Yao Weiguo was also surprised: "It's not your fault. Yao Erdan and Wang Fang's crimes are too numerous to list. I wouldn't trust their children."
Yao Weihua was puzzled: "Brother, don't you find it strange? Why did the old man make a will and designate my younger sister as the heir? Did he already know that my younger sister was our child and wanted to make amends to her?"
"It's possible. He is old and his legs and feet are not very flexible, but that doesn't mean he is deaf and blind." Yao Weiguo read the IOU and the will over and over again. Judging from the traditional Chinese characters, it was indeed written by a Qing Dynasty veteran. Moreover, the ink was obviously old and could not be fake.
It’s a pity that I don’t know whether this kind of IOU has any legal effect.
Moreover... in the current environment, even if people abroad owe T's great grandfather a shipload of gold, there may not be a way to repay it.
I'm afraid it will just be a false alarm in the end.
Yao Weihua, however, had already moved on to other questions. He looked at Lu Henian seriously and asked, "Do your parents know about the existence of these three pieces of brown paper?"
"They should know." Lu Henian was not sure either, so he could only infer based on the facts. "I found this out of their belongings."
"Then your parents' deaths... maybe there's another story behind them." Yao Weihua had to remind him of this cruel reality. "Perhaps that man was worried that we'd ask him for dividends. Look, it's clearly written above. Our two great-grandfathers each contributed 100,000 yuan, and he only put in 25,000 yuan. Even if we count our two families separately, we're still the largest shareholders!"
Lu Henian had no idea about this before, but now he was a little suspicious: "You mean, Director Hu might be a minion of the overseas compradors?"
"That's right. I originally thought he was just a little greedy, but now it seems he is actually a big crocodile." Yao Weihua was very angry. If he really wanted to harm people because of these two IOUs, it meant that the overseas boss was not a good person either.
"But that's not necessarily the case. Maybe Director Hu simply has a grudge against my cousin's parents." Yao Weiguo added objectively, "There's no basis for this right now, it's all just speculation. So, if you trust us, we can take the things back to my younger sister. Wei Hua said she has a way to hide it where no one can find it. It doesn't look very safe here."
"I thought so too. You can take it." Lu Henian quickly put the things away, walked around the room, found an old canvas bag that could not be washed out, wrapped the things in the cloth and put them in.
This way it is inconspicuous and won't be robbed. The society has been unstable recently and people are restless, so there are always people stealing.
Yao Weiguo and Yao Weihua chatted with him for a while and learned that he could only make a living by substitute work. They couldn't bear it and left him another hundred yuan.
The so-called substitute means working for someone else. Although some people have jobs, they have no ambition. One wants to be lazy today, and the other wants to go out on a date tomorrow, so they will look for him.
It's pitiful that wages are paid daily.
The two brothers sighed and were still discussing how to tell their younger sister about this matter when they left the house.
They had just walked a short distance when a man in a hat rushed up from behind, bumped into the two brothers without saying a word, snatched away the old canvas bag, and ran away.
Yao Weihua was so frightened that he turned around and chased after him: "Stop!"
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