Chapter 46: The Little People of the Great Era (Part II)

"In those years, with the intervention of the government, the economy of Hong Kong City gradually stabilized, and the stock market gradually recovered from the bottom. As a result, the port city government readjusted the urban development positioning of the port city, and a modern financial center was proposed for the first time. A series of preferential policies have been promulgated and implemented, and the status of the port city as an international financial center has gradually become prominent, and the population has exceeded the 5 million mark for the first time. ”

At the same time, the port city began to build a subway to expand the radius of the city. Under a series of favorable conditions, the property market in Hong Kong City has recovered rapidly. ”

Gradually, more and more people asked Daddy to order boxed lunches, and Daddy couldn't keep busy, so he hired a lot of people to help, and the lunch business got better and better, and Daddy slowly began to sell some other things, such as soft drinks, popsicles and beer. ”

"Daddy is getting busier and busier, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, but no matter how busy Daddy is and how big the business is, every year on my birthday, Daddy will come back and buy me a big cake, and then tell me, Mary, Daddy has made a lot of money again, and soon, Daddy will be able to buy us a big house for Mary. ”

"I remember when I was 12 years old, in 1982, on that birthday daddy didn't bring back the big cake like in previous years, but carried me into a car, told me to close my eyes, and then opened it when he said to open it. ”

I obediently closed my eyes, and I really didn't peek, I just counted silently in my heart, waiting for my father to say that I would open them. ”

"I counted from one to a hundred, and from a hundred to a thousand, and then to six thousand or seven hundred. I heard Daddy open my eyes and the barking of the puppy. ”

"I opened my eyes and saw a tall house, a big yard, a swimming pool, and an earthy dog. Daddy said that the dog's name was Pluto. It's the name of Mickey's pet dog from my favorite cartoon "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck". ”

Daddy took me to the roof, pointed to the sea across from me and said, Mary, that's the sea, and pointed to the pool in the yard and said, Mary, you can go swimming every day. Then Daddy pointed to Pluto, who was running around the yard excitedly and screaming, and told me to get along with him......"

"Daddy later picked me up, saying that he hadn't hugged our Mary for many years, and that little Mary had grown so big that Daddy couldn't hold me anymore. ”

"Daddy really did it, and it took him five years to buy this big house of more than 5,000 square feet. ”

Daddy hugged me for a while, then pointed to the big cake on the new table and said, Mary, your wish five years ago Daddy helped you come true, and now you can make a new wish. ”

"I thought about it and said, I want Daddy to give me a parent-teacher conference, to drop me off at school, to pick me up from school, to tell my classmates that I'm not the wild kid that no one wants. I also want to be with Daddy, Pluto, forever and ever. ”

"Dad said, okay, I promise you, and I will accompany you more in the future. ”

"However, Daddy broke his promise this time. ”

"Since then, Daddy has really spent a lot of time with me, taking me to school, picking me up from school, and giving me parent-teacher conferences. No one ever said I was a wild child that no one wanted. ”

"On my fifteenth birthday, I was clamoring to go to the marine park in Wong Chuk Hang to see sharks, because one of my classmates had said that he had gone to see sharks, and he also said that we children were afraid to see sharks. Daddy was sick that day and was going to rest at home. As a result, I couldn't help it, so I had to take a few pills and drive me. ”

As a result, at the traffic light of Heung Island Road to Wong Chuk Hang Road, a runaway truck suddenly rushed out. Daddy may have been less focused because he had taken medicine, and when he saw the truck, he hurriedly hit the steering wheel to avoid it. Although he managed to avoid the truck, he crashed into the guardrail on the side of the road, which was deformed and the sharp horns pierced the window. Daddy saw it, and quickly pounced on me and took me in his arms. ”

"I still remember the last thing Daddy said to me, Mary, sorry, Daddy probably won't be able to go with you to see the sharks. ”

"I didn't see it as a shark after all, and I lost my daddy forever. ”

"I don't remember how I attended Daddy's funeral. All I remember is that I never left that house that year. Just like Daddy went out to work before, he just hugged Pluto tightly, waited for Daddy to come back, and told me that Mary had grown up again. ”

"Daddy can't come back, but Daddy's Mary has grown up. ”

"That year, several of Daddy's former employees took over his business and took turns taking care of me and feeding and drinking. ”

"Pluto and I have been together for a year. ”

"Then one of Daddy's employees told me that Han Sheng (Mary's Daddy) wants you to live happily too. ”

So, I tried to get out. I went back to campus. ”

"When I was eighteen years old, I was approached by Daddy's staff, and they offered me a large sum of money to study in Eagle Country. Tell me that when I become an adult, I will have to rely on myself for the rest of my life. Let me study hard and don't disgrace my daddy. ”

So I took Pluto to study abroad and studied finance. ”

"Thanks to my father's business acumen, I successfully completed my master's and doctoral studies in just three and a half years. When I returned from school, it was my twenty-first birthday. ”

"Then I got into the Hong Kong City Futures Exchange. I have been working steadily and living a stable life. Occasionally, I go shopping with Silence Joe, and sometimes I take Pluto to the cemetery to see Daddy. ”

"Until the year before last, Pluto disappeared. ”

"I searched everywhere it could go and couldn't find it. ”

"It's very old, and it can't go too far. But I just couldn't find it. ”

"In the process of looking for Pluto, I met my ex-boyfriend, Valentine. ”

"He accompanied me looking for the dog and listened to me tell me the story of Pluto. ”

"Tell me that Pluto may have been hiding himself. ”

He said that when many dogs know that they are dying, in order not to make their owners sad, they will hide in a place where their owners can't see and die silently. ”

He also said that in the future, he would take the place of Daddy and replace Pluto to guard me. ”

"Later, we got together. We went to see Daddy together, and he swore at Daddy's grave that he would take good care of me and let Daddy feel at ease to hand me over to him. ”

"Then we made a mound for Pluto too, with pictures of him, collars he used, balls he played with, ......"

"He seemed to really love me and always found ways to make me happy. ”

"Sometimes I think it's nice to have life going on like this. ”

"But the good times didn't last long. ”

"One day, he suddenly told me that his investment had failed and he had lost a lot of money, and that he had accompanied all the milk powder money from our BB in the future. ”

He looked very self-reproachful and said he felt sorry for me. Say you should give me a better future than be so much of a failure. ”

I comforted him and said, it's okay, people don't have smooth sailing, failure is the mother of success, you have to fail a few times to succeed. ”

"He seemed to be encouraged by me and started to cheer up, and he asked me to borrow a sum of money, saying that as a start-up capital, he was going to regroup. ”

"I lent it to him, and he was very angry. Soon he told me that he had earned it, and he gave me back the money and said he would buy me a car. ”

"I said no, you can save the money yourself. ”

"It didn't take long for him to come and tell me that he had lost again. This time I lost a lot of money, not only did I lose all my money, but I also owed a lot of money to others. ”

"I asked him how much he owed, and he said more than two million. ”

"No way. Who made me love him too badly. ”

"I scraped together the money that my father had left over from my father's house, plus the money I had saved from my work in the past two years, and gave it to him. It's a pity that it's not enough, there is still a gap of more than 600,00 ”

"He asked me to sell the house, and I didn't agree. Pluto is also gone, and the house is the last thing Daddy left me. ”

He didn't speak, silently took the money and left. ”

"Then the next day, I saw him being gagged by a bunch of thugs who said they were going to chop off one of his hands so that he would have a long memory. ”

I ran over and stopped them, saying that I would pay back the money slowly. ”

"I signed a mortgage, 600,000 principal, I repay 20,000 every month, for five years. ”

Then he was gone. ”

"I couldn't find him. ”

"Until one of the leaders of the gangsters, that is, the big B brother. He told me that his name was not Li Weisi at all, and it was not an investment failure. Man is just a gambler and a liar in Magang. People have been eyeing me for a long time, just for the money in my hands. ”

"It turns out that he has been lying to me all along. ”

This is the end of the story.

Mary Han took a sip of tea and didn't speak again.

He Huanyu and Lu Tenglong, Xu Jianguo, you look at me, I look at you, they don't know what to say.

This story is too depressing.