272 The Secret History of Hardships Selling one's body to bury one's mother
At about five o'clock in the morning of June 2, Li Jiayi and Miss Liu left the room early with joy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Chen Qiang and Comrade Xiaoxue also got up early to clean up all the traces that may have been left in the room last night. After all, in the morning, this mother-in-law may come over at any time to make rounds, and any small mistake will instantly cast an unnecessary shadow on the happiness in front of him.
For his newlywed wife's tolerating of everything, Chen Qiang felt extremely surprised and deeply grateful, but he could no longer express his feelings at this time in any words. At about seven o'clock in the morning, I went to Xiaoxue's grandfather and grandfather's room, and after saying good morning to the two elders, I went to the parents of both sides to say hello, and finally the two went directly to the restaurant of the Wangfu Hotel for breakfast.
Next, some of the relatives and friends from other places who attended the wedding last night met again in the cafeteria one after another. After breakfast, the shrewd Wang Xue'e first found Manager Xiao, and first returned the room where the Wang family had been staying in the past few days, and of course, the newlywed room of Chen Qiang and Ouyang Feixue.
As for the Chen family and his wife, as well as those relatives and friends who came from other places, it is natural to live with them for a while, after all, it is rare for everyone to come to Beijing.
At nine o'clock in the morning, with doubts in their hearts, Chen Longqing and Liu Xiaoying, with their son Chen Qiang and daughter-in-law, couldn't wait to find the room of Mr. Chen, who attended the wedding last night and claimed to be a close relative of the Chen family overseas. It turned out that just before the end of the wedding last night, Yezi Furong, the female secretary who claimed to be Tang Xuerou, took the initiative to find Chen Longqing and asked him to take the whole family to Room 1308 on the thirteenth floor of the hotel at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and Mr. Chen would take the initiative to tell the details of everything at that time.
Immediately the doorbell rang continuously, Yezi Furong opened the door of the suite with a smile on her face, welcomed a group of four people in, and after bringing the guests to the living room to sit down, she enthusiastically poured a cup of coffee for everyone.
After seeing this move, the careful Chen Qiang was also very surprised that this wild hibiscus had changed his habit of drinking Longjing tea before, and it seemed that this Japanese woman had completely transformed herself. After this moment, the white-haired old Mr. Chen finally walked out of it, looking at the state of everyone in a hurry to get up and say hello, he kept waving his hands and said: "This is all a family, so there is no need to be polite!" ”
"Just last year, I didn't expect to have such a miraculous meeting, with a flick of my fingers, it has been more than 200 years, I remember that starting from my father, our Chen family came to the mainland many times, so we searched for countless times, but there was no result."
"But I didn't want to, just ten days ago, I found Miss Tang Xuerou on the beach in Xia Weiyi, USA, and I found Miss Tang Xuerou very unexpectedly, from this long-lived jade pendant hanging from her chest, I finally, finally, finally found it, found my roots in Chinese mainland."
"Having said so much, I haven't told everyone who I am, just keep talking, I'm so excited, so excited!"
Out of concern for this elder, Chen Qiang took the initiative to step forward and help him sit on the sofa on the side, running the true qi of the Youlong family in his body, and kept smoothing out the depression in his chest for him, and motioned to Yezi Furong to pour some boiled water. After a few minutes of rest, the old man surnamed Chen drank some more water, and then he looked serious and slowly talked about the specific situation of the overseas Chen family branch with great difficulty.
It turns out that this old gentleman's name is Chen Zude, who is 80 years old this year, and now lives in the United Kingdom, and is the chairman of the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Association. The Chen family now has as many as 13 large group companies under its name, and there are even more than 1,000 other large and small industries, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a completely independent financial empire.
As early as the 38th year of Qianlong, in 1773 B.C., the ancestor of the Chen family, who created a great ancestral industry, was not originally from the small town of Jiangnan Water Town, but was born in Wenshui County, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi Province, the son of a wealthy businessman. As early as when Chen Yaozu was ten years old, he passed the county examination presided over by Cai Zhi County in February of that year, so as to obtain the status of a child. In the next two years, he participated in the provincial examination and the provincial examination of the state capital, and actually passed three levels in a row, and finally showed off his talent in high school in one fell swoop.
For a while, the reputation of "prodigy" spread all over the world. But the next year was not long, and the Chen family underwent earth-shattering changes with this. Because his father poured everything he had, he did not hesitate to borrow usury, and dozens of merchant ships that went to the south of the Yangtze River to transport back silk, tea and other goods, when crossing the Yangtze River, accidentally encountered a monstrous wave and sank to the bottom of the river.
It wasn't until a month later that this shocking news reached the home. Some people say that they met water bandits and were killed and overlooked; Others said that they met the enemy in the previous business field, which led to this catastrophe; There are even some people who bizarrely say that they did not sacrifice the dragon lord when they crossed the river, which caused the ship to capsize. Anyway, it's all about everything.
The Chen family suddenly suffered such a major change, and Chen Yaozu's mother, Chen Wu, who was already frail and sickly, fell ill directly all of a sudden. And the red-eyed creditors, when they flocked to the door to ask for arrears, directly snatched away all the valuable things of the Chen family one by one, leaving only the four walls of the family, and finally ruthlessly drove the mother and son out of the Chen family's deep mansion compound and forced them to live in the land temple in the suburbs.
On a snowy night a few days later, Chen Wu, who was seriously ill, passed away unwillingly in anger with a full affection for his son. And the relatives of the Chen family, as well as the Chen Wu family's mother's family, did not dare to do much, for fear that these creditors would come to them to ask for the Chen family's arrears after they went crazy.
As for how to bury his mother first, and then find an opportunity to find the real cause of his father's death later, and now he is unable to survive alone, which makes Chen Yaozu, who originally wanted to be dedicated to gaining fame and fame, and has always been full of wit, suddenly had no idea. At this time, a seemingly huge turning point in his life suddenly appeared in front of him.
At this time, a wealthy businessman surnamed Cui from other places came to see him, but he didn't want Chen Yaozu to be ruined now, and he couldn't live in this world anymore.
The other party offered to bury his parents, but at the same time, he also put forward a very unexpected condition, that is, he was to sell himself to their Cui family as a slave for ten years, and he could choose to stay or leave in the future. Out of helplessness, in the end, Chen Yaozu had to grit his teeth and agree first. After all, there are no relatives at home who are willing to help him now, which is still for his parents to "settle in the ground", and this is a child who still has to do filial piety first.
As for the great humiliation he suffered, he had no choice at all. This kind of behavior of engaging in business is also a means of livelihood that is not ashamed of the majority of people in ancient times, Sima Qian once said: "The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit".
The social environment of "valuing agriculture and suppressing business" formed by this kind of common cognition under traditional Chinese culture is a basic national policy that has been jointly implemented by successive rulers in China for thousands of years.
Confucius said: "A gentleman is a man of righteousness, and a villain is a man of profit", believing that profit-seeking is the act of a villain, and a gentleman is not ashamed. Chen Yaozu, who has been reading the books of sages since he was a child, how can he not understand the truth, but in this unsolvable situation in front of him, what can he do as a little scholar?
After signing a contract with a wealthy businessman surnamed Cui to sell himself as a slave for ten years, the other party secretly entrusted someone as promised and buried Chen Yaozu's parents first. Three days later, he quietly left his hometown with this wealthy businessman and came to Jingle County, nearly 400 miles away from his hometown, in a manor of the Cui family, he endured humiliation and became the son of this family's scholar.
This Cui surname is a rich businessman, his surname is Cui Wanfa, his grandfather originally made a fortune from making flax oil, mentioning this oil, it is a fatty oil extracted from the seeds of the Hu family vegetable fat column, and this Jingle County has been a place rich in flax since ancient times. And the locals are completely inseparable from it in their daily life, whether it is to make a fire for cooking, or to light up at night, and even a snack is also used as the main condiment, that is, it is mixed with cold powder to eat, which is also a delicacy at that time.
Now the Cui family not only operates this sesame oil, but also operates several large coal mines, one of which was extremely unexpectedly mined anthracite two months ago. This was an excellent thing at the time, and all the wealthy and powerful families had to use it for heating in winter. It was sold at a high price for a while, but this is the case, and the price has been rising all the way.
This "people are in good spirits on happy occasions", this Cui Wanfa took a few truckloads of anthracite coal and three thousand taels of snowflake silver, and gave them to Lord Taitu in Taiyuan Mansion, which also wanted to give his own baby a fame of talent, so that he could glorify his ancestors.
Later, after leaving the house, in a hotel in the city, he unexpectedly heard Chen Yaozu's name, which made him inexplicably think for a while. Why is his son eighteen years old this year, and he is just a child who has finally gotten it by giving gifts by himself. He was bent on seeing what was different about this prodigy in Wenshui County.
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