In the first half of 1978, Cui Zhiyuan had just returned from a business trip in Country Y. When he got home, he received a call from his old classmate Qu Qiuyang, who said that his parents had asked Qu's relatives to deliver a letter from home and asked him to find time to go and pick it up.
In fact, he had received a letter from his parents as early as last year, saying that his eldest brother, third brother, brother-in-law and nephew had all been sentenced. He was not surprised by this.
They were born from the same mother and grew up together. He knew the personalities of his brothers and sisters very well. They were selfish and greedy at heart. They had probably been in high positions and had everything going smoothly over the years, so their appetites had already been puffed up. The fact that they were now imprisoned was their own fault.
In the letter, his parents did not mention their crimes or mistakes, nor did they mention the unpleasant past. Between the lines, they were urging him to return home to help the family.
After reading the letter, he threw it into the office drawer. He did not ask anyone to reply to them, nor did he send anyone to inquire about the Cui family. He pretended that he had never received any letters from home.
But unexpectedly, I received another letter half a year later.
He knew his parents well, and he thought the purpose of their letter this time was probably similar to the last time, so he didn't rush to find his classmates to get the letter. He only found time to go over a week later.
"The Gong family is all alive, Gong Wantang is also alive, and she gave birth to a daughter for you."
A sentence in the letter shocked Cui Zhiyuan so much that his face changed drastically. He turned around and wanted to buy a plane ticket back home, but was stopped by Qu Qiuyang in time.
Qu Qiuyang knew the character of Cui's parents. He thought that this news might not be true. It might be fake news deliberately arranged by the Cui elders to deceive him into returning to China.
Since this matter concerns Gong Wantang, Cui Zhiyuan cannot ignore the letter regardless of whether the news is true or false. He immediately forces himself to calm down, and then urgently contacts the company employees in Hong Kong, asking them to go to the country to inquire and confirm.
For Cui Zhiyuan, the more than half a month of waiting felt like a year.
When the person sent to investigate came back and told him the good news, Cui Zhiyuan couldn't sleep that night. He didn't close his eyes the whole night and looked at the photos taken when he and Gong Wantang got married.
Returning to China after twenty years, he felt extremely complicated, but mostly happy.
Before meeting the mother and daughter, he had countless guesses in his mind. He thought they would not see him, that Wantang hated him, and his daughter would also hate him, and would not want to have anything to do with him. But after formal contact, he found that things were completely different from what he thought.
After not seeing each other for twenty years, the man standing next to Wan Tang is no longer him, but another man, Han Ji. Time has left some traces on her face, but her quiet and indifferent temperament has not changed at all.
His daughter is very beautiful and looks very much like her mother. She is married with her ideal husband and has triplets who are the envy of others.
The night they met, no one mentioned anything unpleasant, and the atmosphere was more harmonious than he had expected.
Later, he found out that the mother and daughter had never resented him, and Wantang had never said a bad word about him to his daughter, nor did he prevent them from recognizing each other.
Cui Zhiyuan learned from his daughter what happened to the Gong family back then, as well as what the mother and daughter had experienced in the past twenty years. He blamed himself to the point of feeling suffocated, but she said it had nothing to do with him and that it was not him who caused them pain.
The mother and daughter have different personalities, but they both have the same tenacity and pride. His daughter's precocity and excessive understanding make him feel even more guilty.
He owed the mother and daughter too much. Wan Tang already had a new family, and it was not appropriate for him to disturb her current life. He could only compensate his daughter as much as possible materially, and provide appropriate and timely assistance when his daughter needed help.
Both father and daughter are very career-oriented people, and they are on the same wavelength in this matter. When it comes to business operations and planning expansion, their ideas often coincide.
Cui Zhiyuan was a smart man, so he quickly found a way in. With the help of his son, the relationship between father and daughter became more and more harmonious.
It was not until his daughter took her triplets to study abroad that the unfamiliarity between them completely dissipated, and he also experienced the joy of having both a son and a daughter and living in harmony.
In the past few years, Cui Wenhao and Cui Mingyuan were released from prison one after another. They contacted him after they came out. The two elders of the Cui family also found various reasons to want to meet with him, and even found him in front of their daughter, but he refused with a tough attitude.
Although he had not met them, he learned about the current situation of the Cui family from his nephew Wendong. His parents had hidden a large sum of money in the past. As long as they did not squander it recklessly, it was enough for the family to have food and clothing for nearly ten years. If they used the money to do some small business, they could live a stable life.
It’s a pity that they used to be in a high position and were used to seeing glory. After being in prison for so many years, they still didn’t see the reality clearly, let alone reflect on themselves.
They inherited the selfishness and greed in their parents' bones. If he gets involved with them, there will only be endless troubles in the future, and it will also have a bad influence on his daughter and son-in-law. So he would rather be called a cruel and ungrateful wolves by them than give them any chance to suck his blood.
As for his other hardworking and ambitious nephew Wendong, Cui Zhiyuan took the initiative to provide a lot of help. When his printing factory expanded, he donated several sets of the latest production line equipment and helped him get a lot of stable orders.
In 1983, twin granddaughters were born. This time he accompanied them outside the delivery room and hugged both granddaughters as soon as possible.
Wantang said that Linglong looked the same as her twin granddaughters when she was born. Unlike other children, she was not red and wrinkled. She was born with fair skin, had many expressions and small movements, and had a unique personality and a little temper.
His daughter and son-in-law are developing in China, and his three grandsons and two granddaughters also live in Kyoto. Cui Zhiyuan gradually shifted the company's development direction to Continent Y. He also settles in Kyoto for two months every year and tries to spend more time with them.
The 1980s and 1990s were a time of booming economic development. Cui Zhiyuan's company grew bigger and bigger, with operations spread all over the world. He had abundant assets and became an important member of the top wealthy circle.
After his son graduated from university, Cui Zhiyuan gradually handed over the company to him and decisively announced his retirement at the age of 60.
After retirement, Cui Zhiyuan settled in Kyoto and helped his daughter manage the charity foundation. In his spare time, he would have tea and parties with classmates and friends. Occasionally, he would make appointments with his ex-father-in-law to go fishing and play golf, and accompany him to see the beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland.
Born and raised in China for the first twenty years of his life, he then went abroad for nearly forty years in pursuit of his ideals and ambitions, and finally chose to return to his homeland.
In his later years, Cui Zhiyuan lived with his daughter and son-in-law. With their careful care and companionship, he lived to be a hundred years old without illness or pain.
When he passed away, his white-haired ex-wife was by his side, and his children and grandchildren also gathered around him to say goodbye to him. He left with a happy smile.
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