Long Yi picked up a letter casually and looked at it, only to see that the mailing address on the envelope was No. 572, Baylor Road, Shanghai, and the receiving address was the fourth class of the third high school of Mingde Girls' High School on Yide Road, Guangzhou, and the recipient was 'Xia Bing'. Long Yi opened a letter and read it, and the content of the letter was as follows:

I love it

Bestow tea

Letter received

Grandfather drove a crane

Grief

Yesterday changed dramatically

Barbarian Woko

Commit my Zhabei

I follow the crowd

Evacuate to South City

Worldly goods

have all been discarded

It's not a pity

Monthly usage

Fathers sent it

It's not a big deal

The times are turbulent

We are terrified

Or become

Redundant people

Months later

I miss it so much

Thou hast long and half a load

How long is the month

One to two days

Eight years later

and shall pursue thee

Achieve glory

May it be given to you

It's a long way

No more books

Shang Xi forgives

Ji Ping

The twenty-ninth day of the first month of the twenty-first year of the Republic of China

Yu Bo looked at the envelope and said, "This stamp is so beautiful, green and shiny, is it Yuan Shikai printed on it?" ”

The words in the letter were written vertically, without a single punctuation mark, which looked very laborious, Long Yi finally read the letter and handed it to Yu Bo, saying: "It's Sun Yat-sen......"

Yu Bo took the letter and read it, and said, "Why is it only a few cents from Shanghai to Guangzhou?"

Long Yi smiled and asked, "Do you know how many things you could buy for a dollar back then?" What can you buy for a dollar now? Let me tell you that...... At that time, one dollar was enough for one person to buy a month's worth of rice, but now it's not enough to buy a meal, understand? ”

Yu Bo looked at Long Yi suspiciously and asked, "Does that mean that one piece at that time is equivalent to one to two hundred pieces now?" ”

Long Yi smiled again: "Let me ask you, how much do you spend at least a month on food now?" ”

"Two or three thousand......" Yu Bo said after a moment's thought.

The dragon nodded a little and said, "That's right, the value of a dollar at that time is the same as your current two or three thousand......

Yu Bo still looked at Long Yi in disbelief and said, "Where is it worth so much?" ”

Long Xiaopeng looked at the two of them and laughed, and finally his eyes fell on Yu Bo's face and asked, "Xiaobo, do you know how much is the auction price of the most expensive silver dollar in the Republic of China?" ”

Yu Bo asked curiously: "Dad!" How much do you say? ”

Long Xiaopeng pulled his collar and said, "Last year, I photographed more than 6 million...... In other words, the pennies on the envelope are at least fifty or sixty according to the current standard of living......"

Yu Bo was surprised and said, "So powerful? ”

Long Xiaopeng nodded and pointed to the newspaper and said, "Look...... The newspaper said that it cost more than 100,000 yuan, which is not the salary of ordinary people more than 100,000 yuan a year, so how can it be said that it is also a huge amount of hundreds of millions...... And even more than ......"

Yu Bo looked at Tang Xuan and said, "It's amazing!" There was so much money in those days! It's just a tyrant......"

Long Yi shook his head and said: "I don't know if it's dirt or not, anyway, Hao is sure, but I believe that it's not dirty, and he was proficient in oil painting at that time, so I can't say that it's too foreign anymore, but I'm more and more interested in this grandfather's grandfather......"

Long Xiaopeng nodded and asked Yu Bo: "Xiaobo, what is written in the letter?" ”

Yu Bo said shyly: "I don't understand it, I don't even have a punctuation mark...... Not a few words......"

Long smiled: "Don't look at these few words, but the content is quite rich, let me translate it for you?" ”

Yu Bo nodded, and everyone looked at Long Yi......

Long Yi said: "It was Xia Bing who sent tea to Long Jiping, Long Jiping expressed his gratitude, and Long Jiping said that his grandfather was very sad when he passed away...... The day before Long Jiping's letter, there was a war in Shanghai, and according to the time, it was the 128 Incident in 1932, when the Japanese army attacked Zhabei ......"

Long Yi drank some water and said: "It was very chaotic at that time, many people were evacuated urgently, Long Jiping also moved to Nancheng City with the crowd, and nothing was brought out, but he told Xia Bing to rest assured that his father would send the monthly expenses to Shanghai on time......"

Tang Xuan also listened with relish and asked, "Gone?" ”

Long Yi continued: "Long Jiping felt the turmoil of the current situation and was very confused, saying that he was afraid of becoming a superfluous person, that is, a person who did nothing......"

Yu Bo nodded: "Of course I'm worried about my future after the war, it's normal!" And then what? ”

Long Yi looked at Yu Bo and said with a smile: "The following is even more interesting!" It's just that you're too young to know ......"

Yu Bo was anxious: "Where am I small?" Continue to translate, so a few words can be spoken for a long time? Did you make up your own story? ”

Long Yi said: "The black and white words are clearly written, how can I make it up myself?" Long Jiping said that we haven't seen each other for a long time, and we miss it very much, and also said that Xia Bing is about half a year old, if Long Jiping is two days longer than Xia Bing every month, then in eight years, he can be as old as Xia Bing......"

Yu Bo said in disbelief: "If you are half a year older, you can't be the same age, you must have made ......it up."

Long Yi said: "Can I make up Long Jiping's way of writing? It's so romantic! Admire, really admire......"

Tang Xuan understood that the letter written by Long Jiping was indeed romantic enough, and said to Long Yi: "What else? ”

Long Yi looked at Tang Xuan and continued to translate: "Achievement of glory, I wish to return to you...... Long Jiping said that he was willing to dedicate all his achievements in the future to Xia Bing......"

Tang Xuan was so moved that she almost burst into tears, and pulled a piece of paper from the coffee table to cover her nose.

Long Yi said: "In the end, Long Jiping said that because the situation was not good at that time, the traffic was not good, and I didn't know if the letter could be delivered, so I didn't want to write it anymore, and asked Xia Bing to understand and forgive me......"

Yu Bo said with emotion: "Why is it so long to write anything in a meeting now?" Then it seems that the words are not as many meanings as the previous people in just a few words! Has humanity progressed or regressed? ”

Long Yi looked at the envelope and analyzed: "I don't dare to comment on the progress and regression, but Xia Bing was still in his third year of high school at that time, and I estimated that he was less than twenty years old, and Long Jiping and Xiao Xia Bing were half a year old, so it was even more impossible to be twenty years old...... That's right...... When was the contract signed? ”

Long Xiaopeng looked at the newspaper and said, "March 9, 1947 ......"

Long Yi thought for a minute and said: "From thirty-two years to forty-seven years, it is almost fifteen years, that is, in fifteen years, Long Jiping has become a businessman and has accumulated a huge fortune, even if you look at it today, it is rare to achieve such great results in fifteen years!" ”

Gong Lao Er finally understood something, and said to himself: "Talent...... I just don't know what business to do......"

Long Xiaopeng picked up the newspaper and looked for it and said, "This newspaper says that it is in the jewelry business...... At...... Kingdom of the Netherlands...... Arms ......"

Ryuichi blurted out: "Amsterdam!" ”

Long Xiaopeng: "That's right! It's Amsterdam! ”

Yu Bo looked at Long Yi adoringly and asked, "Do you still know Amsterdam?" Where is it? ”

"The Kingdom of the Netherlands is commonly referred to as the Netherlands, Amsterdam is located in the west of the Netherlands, there are important ports in the world, and the seventeenth century is the "golden age" in the history of Amsterdam......

Tang Xuan also said: "Big brother knows so much! ”

Long Yi shook his head and said: "In front of this Long Jiping, we can all say that we are playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong, and it is really beyond our reach to be able to do business so far and so successfully in such a historical period......

Bai Dongmei asked: "Why is it so powerful, why doesn't it have a reputation in China at all?" Do you think it's weird? ”

Long Xiaopeng: "What's strange?" At that time, information was not developed at all, how could ordinary people know? And his business is in the Netherlands, maybe there is no business in the country, or he is low-key...... If you have the chance to visit the Netherlands, maybe you can find out something......"

Long Yi picked up the remaining letters and looked at them carefully, Long Xiaopeng handed the hookah to Gong Lao Er, everyone waited for Long Yi to make new discoveries, Tang Xuan and Yu Bo also opened one and looked at it, Bai Dongmei looked at the photos in the newspaper that looked very similar to Long Xiaopeng......

Long Xiaopeng walked to the phone and dialed a phone number, called his younger brother Long Xiaoyun, and asked Long Xiaoyun and Long Fenfen to come to the house for dinner, planning to tell Long Xiaoyun about the suitcase.

Tang Xuan put down the letter and said: "The two seniors in our family are so affectionate, I am a little jealous after reading it, what did my sister-in-law find?" ”

Yu Bo smiled and said, "I didn't find it!" I can't even understand what can I find? But Ryuichi should be able to find out something! ”

Gong Lao Er handed the hookah to Long Xiaopeng and said, "It's like listening to a story!" Your old dragon family is really talented...... People say that you can't be rich for three generations, but I think your family has been rich for at least five generations...... What did Long Yixin say? ”

Long Yi shook his head and said, "Nothing! The talks are all about two or three years, and there are only two letters in total sent through the post office, both of which were sent from Shanghai to Guangzhou, so the letters from Guangzhou to Shanghai may have been forwarded by acquaintances......"

Yu Bo said disapprerovingly: "Then why don't you hand it over to acquaintances from Shanghai to Guangzhou?" Just Guangzhou to Shanghai? ”

Long Yi was also puzzled: "I really can't figure this out, forget it, it may be futile to inquire about it after so long in the past, and it may always be a mystery...... I don't want to, I have to go see the workers......"

Gong Lao Er and Long Yi walked to the construction site, the workers were also curious to ask what it was, Gong Lao Er told the workers what he knew, Gong Jing listened the most seriously, and Gong Lao Er is also a family, the same grandfather, to the grandfather's generation divided into two branches, people are at least ten years younger than Gong Lao Er, do some rough work all day long but not like the kind of people with simple minds and developed limbs.

Gong Jing said: "Then it stands to reason that the old Long family should be very rich for generations!" Why doesn't there seem to be any big movement in Grandpa Longyi's generation? It seems that even this old house was not built by Grandpa Long Yi......"

Long nodded in agreement: "Definitely not, I heard that this house was built in the eighties of the last century, and my grandfather was only a teenager when he counted it......"

Gong Jing said: "Anyway, your grandfather's father is still successful, and it is not easy to build such a house in the eighties, you think about what house everyone else lives in, right?" ”

Long Yi asked, "What house do others live in?" ”

Gong Jing thought for a while and said: "There are some old photos of my family, most of which are adobe houses, and it was only in the 90s that brick houses began to be slowly built in the countryside...... I'll show you the pictures tomorrow......"

Ryuichi: "Okay! Bring me to see. ”