Chapter 009: A Turning Point in Life
In the previous life, in 1998, the Luo family experienced a major catastrophe, which not only caused the family's economic situation to fall to the bottom, but also indirectly led to a major change in the life trajectories of Luo Fei and Luo Ke.
Before 1998, although the Luo family was not rich and wealthy, it was still above the middle level in the local area, and although Luo Youwei and Mulan were strict in disciplining their children, they were not stingy in terms of living conditions.
From childhood to adulthood, the books Luo Fei read and the electronic products he owned were among the earliest children of the same age, and the Luo family was among the earliest families in Lucheng County to have personal computers and the first batch of users who registered to dial-up Internet access.
More exposure to new things and new knowledge opened Luo Fei's eyes early, allowing him to have an open mind that children in small counties generally lack, which is also one of the factors for Luo Fei's success in later generations.
Luo Ke has loved art since she was a child, and Luo Youwei not only invited well-known teachers from art academies for her to tutor, but also often took her to art galleries and art galleries in big cities to visit exhibitions to cultivate her artistic cells.
With the support of his family, Rocco could have embarked on the path of an artist and become a brilliant painter.
All this provided by parents for their children made the Luo family brothers and sisters have a very happy and beautiful childhood.
But it didn't last long, and it all came to an abrupt end in the summer of 1998.
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The source and fuse of all these changes is a report letter from Lucheng Iron and Steel Plant.
After Luo Youwei left his job due to overbirth, he opened a riveting and welding processing factory, with years of experience and contacts accumulated in the system, Luo Youwei undertook a lot of business orders of state-owned enterprises, and the processing plant was also impressive.
Although he was forced to resign, Luo Youwei still has a lot of feelings for his original unit, so the raw materials of the processing plant are purchased from Lucheng Iron and Steel Plant, but due to the overall economic recession in those years, especially the large-scale losses of state-owned enterprises, many of Luo Youwei's customers have been in arrears, resulting in his inability to pay in time.
Luo Youwei is an honest and trustworthy man, he has been running for the payment of the goods, and also provided a repayment schedule to Lucheng Iron and Steel Plant, but he never expected that his old employer would turn his face and deny people, and directly found the police to report the crime, which was charged with contract fraud.
In the environment of that economic transition period, the relevant departments were very sensitive to events involving state-owned assets and the interests of the masses, and I don't know if the energy behind the Lucheng Iron and Steel Plant was playing a role, and everything seemed to be coming for Luo Youwei.
After the incident, Luo Youwei was quickly controlled by the police department, the Luo family's plant, machinery and raw materials were seized, and the backbone and means of production were lost.
The most excessive thing is that some people splashed red paint on the gate of Luo's house and wrote a lot of very sensational words.
In order to protect her husband's reputation and let her children have a safe environment, Mulan had to sell all the movable and real estate in the family, and moved out of the red brick building, using the funds raised to pay off debts.
At the same time, Mulan also actively ran around, asked for help and sued the relevant departments, asked a lawyer to appeal and appeal, and fought for freedom and leniency for her husband Luo Youwei, but to no avail, and finally Luo Youwei was convicted of fraud and sentenced to five years in prison and fined two thousand yuan.
Since then, the Luo family's economic conditions have plummeted.
Luo Fei not only lost everything he had in his childhood, but was also stigmatized as the "son of a fraudster", was discriminated against and excluded in school and life, and his personality also changed from cheerful and outgoing to gloomy and autistic, full of distrust and suspicion of people and things, and eventually led to parting ways with his loved ones and gradually drifting apart.
Although Luo Fei in his previous life seized the opportunity of China's economic rise to start a successful business, it was already after the age of 30, and later, although he had the wealth and status that he did not have when he was young, he could never find the person he loved back then, nor the innocent and kind heart that he once had.
Luo Fei is not alone in being affected by his father's imprisonment.
In order to maintain the family economy, her mother Mulan supported her two children to go to school and study, and worked part-time in many factories.
Luo Youwei actively behaved in prison and fought for a commutation of his sentence, but he did not wait for the day he was released from prison.
In an accidental fire in a prison, Luo Youwei died in the fire in order to save his fellow inmates.
Mulan, who has been looking forward to it for many years, did not receive her husband who finally returned home, but received a prison guard who escorted her husband's ashes into the door, and a notice of commutation of her sentence due to major meritorious service.
The irony is that the man who went to prison for wrongful conviction and gave his life to save others can no longer enjoy this commutation and does not need it.
After that, the Supreme People's Court corrected Luo Youwei's wrongful judgment by correcting the unjust, false and wrongful cases, but Luo Youwei could no longer see this belated justice.
Because of this lateness, the series of losses caused by the Luo family cannot be recovered, and what cannot be changed is the reversed lives of the three members of the Luo family.
This is the regret and hatred that Luo Fei never forgets in his previous life, and it is also the reason why he is full of expectations for returning to this life.
Even if there are a hundred possibilities in life, if you take one wrong step at one juncture, you will not be able to reverse your life after that.
Luckily, Luo Fei was given a chance to do it all over again.
This time, Luo Fei must go the right way.
He had to turn it back.
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After figuring out all this, Luo Fei finished pulling the fried noodles in the bowl in a few moments, took the initiative to walk to the yard, and pushed out the old-fashioned Jialing motorcycle, Mulan carried a stainless steel insulation bucket, and just sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, Luo Ke ran out of the house and shouted with a sad face:
"Brother, take me, I'm going to see my dad too. ”
Mulan frowned, and reprimanded in her usual serious tone:
"Little girl's house, don't talk casually, it's a mess where Dad is, you can't go now. ”
Seeing Rocco pouting his small mouth, hanging his double ponytail, and grinding the ground with his heels, Luo Fei knew that although her sister didn't say anything, she still wanted to see her father in her heart.
It is no wonder that from childhood to adulthood, his father Luo Youwei has always treated his daughter as a baby princess, compared with his mother Mulan, who is rigid on the outside and soft on the inside, Luo Ke has a closer relationship with his father and a more harmonious relationship.
Luo Fei touched his sister's head and said softly:
"Coco, Dad is not at home, and after my brother and mother went out, there was no one at home. You have to watch the door and don't let the bad guys in, your task is important, you know?"
When her brother said this, Luo Ke's mood quickly reversed, she raised her head, looked at Luo Fei's calm and determined face with two dark eyes, nodded very seriously, and replied:
"Well, got it. ”
Luo Fei carefully closed the iron gate of the courtyard, and under the eyes of his sister, he drove out on a Jialing motorcycle.
The snow-bright lights of the motorcycle split the dark night outside like two bolts of lightning.
This dark night has just begun.