Chapter 1 Legacy
At the beginning of January 1991, an old courtyard house in Jingjing City, Country C, was inhabited by a military commander who was nearly 50 years old, his name was Qin Shuitian, and this courtyard house had lived in several generations of the Qin family, which could be called the old house of the Qin family. At this time, it was evening, the Qin family's old mansion was very lively, it seemed that a banquet was being held, and laughter and laughter from the house could be faintly heard within ten meters nearby.
There were three tables of banquets in the middle hall, and some of the guests present were dressed in military uniforms, which was extremely powerful; Even if some are wearing civilian clothes, they can't hide the majesty of the soldiers between the eyebrows. Almost all of the men present were in the prime of their thirties and forties, and the only young man in the table sat in the middle of the table, with an angular face, thick sword eyebrows, deep eyes, a handsome nose, thin lips, and fair skin, and a very handsome boy, but his expression was deep and out of place with the surrounding festivities.
To the left of the boy sat a middle-aged man with gray hair, who did not smile and squeezed out a smile on his face to toast with the guests at the same table.
"Brother, your son is so good-looking! In the future, it must be a dragon and a phoenix among people! The man in military uniform, who was sitting three people away from the boy, said in a loud voice, his dark and simple face with a hint of drunken flush.
"It's over." Qin Shuitian touched the gray hair on his sideburns, glanced at the young man next to him, nodded with satisfaction, and then picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
As the night deepened, the table was full of cups and plates, and the guests were leaving one after another. The boy did not utter a word the whole time, even though the feast was for him. After leaving the table, he walked alone to the corridor behind the central hall, and stood in a secluded corner as far away from the hustle and bustle as possible to watch the potted plants in the courtyard.
"Don't you like the coming-of-age banquet that your uncle set for you?" A pleasant voice came into his ears, and the young man came back to his senses to find his reputation, and a beautiful girl dressed in a simple face walked towards him. She has long black and silky hair, delicate facial features, delicate eyebrows, cat-like charming big eyes, amber pupils, high nose bridge, soft thin lips, melon seed face, slender neck, fair skin that can be broken by blowing.
"It's too noisy." The boy replied lightly.
"Most of the people present are soldiers, so it is inevitable to speak loudly." The girl smiled sweetly and stood beside the boy to see the potted plant whose outline he couldn't see clearly.
"No, eighteen is not a number to celebrate." The boy's voice was still cold, but he talked noticeably more.
"Qin Cheng, you are really a piece of wood, if your uncle has put all his effort into you, you don't appreciate it, and you still say such things, you really feel worthless for your uncle." The girl pursed her lips and said indignantly.
The young man named Qin Cheng laughed and didn't reply.
"By the way, I haven't seen Aunt Bai for so long, where did she go?" The girl was puzzled.
"I haven't been back to the countryside these days." Qin Cheng replied.
"Yuerong, your parents are ready to go back, they are waiting for you in the middle hall." The two talked happily with each other, and they didn't even notice that Qin Shuitian was standing in front of them.
"Okay uncle." Hua Yuerong nodded obediently at Qin Shuitian, turned around and said goodbye to Qin Cheng and left directly.
On the corridor, the father and son stood looking at each other, Qin Cheng's tall figure of one meter eighty-two was still shorter than Qin Shuitian, although Qin Shuitian's body was already a little rickety. After a moment of silence, Qin Shuitian finally spoke: "Come with me to the study, I have something important to tell you." ”
Walking along the corridor into the inner room, the two entered the study, which was very simple, there was an old desk in the center of the room, there was a bookcase on the wall on the left and right, there was a window directly behind the desk, which was open at this time, and the cold wind blew the window left and right and made irregular noise, which was very annoying.
Qin Shuitian stepped forward and reached out to close and lock the window, then pulled out the old wooden chair in front of the table and sat down. Seeing Qin Shuitian sit down, Qin Cheng also sat on the chair opposite him, still looking like his face did not change even when the sky fell.
Qin Shuitian didn't ink, he went straight to the point, took out a key from his body, opened the only locked drawer of the desk, took out the iron box in the drawer and put it on the table, continued to grope for another key on his body, and opened the iron box. There were three bags of the same color in the iron box, Qin Shuitian looked at them one by one, and after making sure he took out one of the bags and handed it to Qin Cheng.
Qin Cheng was stunned in his heart, he didn't show it on his face, he took the bag and opened it directly, and there was a lot of money inside!
"Father, this is ......" Even his thousand-year-old iceberg face was a little unsettled when he saw so many banknotes again, and his voice trembled a little.
"This is the inheritance that your mother left you before she died, and you only have a third of it. According to your mother's wishes, you can get a third when you become an adult, a third when you get married, and the last third is given to you after your child is born. Qin Shuitian explained to him carefully.
"Can I count them?" Qin Cheng looked at the coins in the bag, and his eyes showed a rare blazing heat.
"Of course."
It took ten minutes for Qin Cheng to finish counting the money in the bag, his lips trembled slightly, and he slowly spit out two words: "One hundred thousand." ”
Hearing this, Qin Shuitian just nodded lightly, at that time, this amount of money could be said to be an astronomical amount.
"It's not early, let's go back to the room and rest." Qin Shuitian saw that Qin Cheng was still stunned, and reminded him.
Taking the money bag back to the room and sitting on the bed, Qin Cheng didn't sleep that night.
The next morning, when it was time to go to school, Qin Cheng didn't come out of the room, so Qin Shuitian went to knock on his door, knocked several times and didn't respond, so he had to open the door and go in directly. However, after entering, he found that Qin Cheng was not in the room, and there was a bulging envelope on the neat desk.
Qin Shuitian picked up the envelope and opened it, which contained a banknote of 10,000 yuan and a letter: Father, there are many business opportunities in the south, I will go to Zhongguang City to work hard, go, don't read it.
Putting the letter back on the table, Qin Shuitian sighed, rubbed his somewhat reddened eyes, and turned around to leave with the envelope containing the money.
Five years later, Qin Cheng returned to Shujing City. Time has passed, and he has changed from a teenager who has just become an adult to the chairman of the famous Aohuang Group in Zhongguang City. When he stood in front of Qin Shuitian in a straight suit, he only said one sentence: "Father, I am ready to marry Yuerong." ”
Looking at his dark eyes and slightly haggard face, Qin Shuitian actually slapped the coffee table next to the chair angrily, the teacup suddenly fell to the ground and shattered, and the tea was spilled, but Qin Cheng's face still did not change.
"The 10,000 yuan you left behind when you left is still there, and the money sent over the years is also intact, you take it all back, don't delay such a good girl as Yuerong." Qin Shuitian gritted his teeth and said.
"Father, I'll be good to her." Qin Cheng replied lightly.
"Are you sincere?" Qin Shuitian asked with round eyes.
Qin Cheng was silent, and was about to speak but was stopped by Qin Shuitian, he stood up and walked back to the room, put the money that Qin Cheng had sent him over the years and the 10,000 yuan five years ago into a bag, walked back and stuffed the bag into Qin Cheng's hand.
But Qin Cheng didn't take the bag, his expression was a little ashamed, he slowly lowered his head, sighed and said, "It's not enough." Please believe me, I will be good to her. ”
Qin Shuitian was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while.
A few days later, Qin Cheng and Hua Yuerong got married in a hurry. After the wedding, Qin Cheng took his mother's other inheritance and rushed back to Zhongguang City overnight with Hua Yuerong.
Two years later, Hua Yuerong gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, and Qin Cheng returned to the Qin family's old house in Shujing City alone with her newborn daughter in her arms. Qin Shuitian happily took the baby girl from Qin Cheng's hand, and made all kinds of grimaces at her while holding it in his arms, the grimaces he made were not funny, they could even be said to be terrifying, but the smile on his face was so gentle.
"Did you name the child?" Qin Shuitian asked Qin Cheng, but his eyes did not leave the baby girl in his arms.
"Not yet." Qin Cheng replied lightly.
Qin Shuitian nodded slowly, the expression on his face did not change much, and asked again, "Why didn't Yuerong come back with you?" ”
Qin Cheng was silent for a long time, there seemed to be tears rolling in his eyes, this was the first time he shed tears since he could remember, and replied with a slightly trembling voice: "Divorced, I couldn't keep her." ”
Qin Shuitian sighed and silently looked at the baby girl in his arms.
"Jin-kun." After a long time, Qin Shuitian spit out two words from his mouth.
Qin Cheng wiped away the tears in his eyes, and looked at the gray-haired old father on the seat suspiciously, not understanding the meaning of these two words.
Qin Shuitian sniffed, and after brewing his emotions, he explained to Qin Cheng: "Jinjun, it's your mother's name, this child will be called Jinjun in the future." ”
"Qin Jinjun." Qin Cheng muttered in his mouth.
After sitting for a while, Qin Cheng hugged Qin Jinjun in his arms, took the last inheritance and left Shujing City.