Cheng Yu returned to his previous position and sat down.

"It seems that you don't know everything, and you guessed wrong this time. I didn't even remember to ask about the conversation between you and him, but he said that you had never said anything about your grandfather's debts, and that Wang Gu was talking about him, and he thought that I should learn to stop there. ”

Cheng Guangnian shook his fingers and said, "But you don't plan to stop there." ”

Cheng Yu nodded and said, "I still can't suppress my curiosity." ”

"When did you start paying so much attention to things at home?"

"Maybe it's just that you don't realize that in this family, the person who cares the most about things at home has always been me. Other people only care about how much money you have, and whether you will give them some in the future, but I am the only one who has no interest in the wealth you have earned in this life. ”

Cheng Guangnian was angered by Cheng Yu's rather provocative words.

He looked at Cheng Yu deeply and said, "Cheng Yu, you are very smart, in one year, the company has developed well." But don't forget, although I didn't give you a penny when you started a company, your funds actually came from me. ”

Cheng Yu nodded and said with a smile: "I have never denied this." But you really make me laugh at it. If that's the case, I can have life, I can live in this world, and before I opened that company, it was all given by you. But does that make people feel like my company belongs to you?"

Cheng Guangnian was silent.

"Why do you have to know about your grandfather?"

"Curious. Of course, you can categorically reject me. But since I know everything else about the old mansion, you should also know that I can investigate grandpa's affairs sooner or later. ”

Cheng Guangnian chose to remain silent again.

After a long time, he picked up his glass and drank the remnants of the wine.

"Actually, the story is not complicated. ”

Cheng Yu sighed inwardly, and said in his heart that it was a similar opening remark.

Why do these so-called elders always like to use such a tedious and lengthy opening sentence before telling a story?

Cheng Guangnian seemed to be aware of Cheng Yu's inner activities, and he unexpectedly chose to get straight to the point.

"Your grandfather didn't owe a penny in debt, and I'm not saying he didn't owe money, but he didn't owe money. Your grandfather is eighty-two years old, and he gave birth to me when he was thirty-two. ”

Cheng Yu's heart moved slightly, yes, Cheng Guangnian will be fifty years old after this year.

The so-called year of knowing the destiny of heaven.

With his identity and status, presumably on his fiftieth birthday, he will also have a big event.

"Your grandfather was born in the year when the war of aggression against China officially began, and at his age, he gave birth to his first child at the age of thirty-two, which was actually very late. ”

Cheng Yu seemed to have faintly noticed something, but he didn't speak, but waited for Cheng Guangnian to reveal everything.

"You can also see from the fact that our family can inherit such a big house, and before the founding of the People's Republic of China, your grandfather's family also belonged to a fairly wealthy class. ”

Cheng Yu frowned, and said in his heart that he thought Cheng Guangnian had gone straight to the point, but now why is it coming out again?

"Don't be annoyed, I'm just thinking of telling you everything, and you will have questions about this in the future, and it's annoying to ask questions. ”

Cheng Yu shrugged, spread his hands and said, "Okay, you can continue." ”

"People who have such a big house usually have some antiques, calligraphy and paintings, famous ancient books and the like, or even gold and silver.

But as you can see, none of that.

This house was returned to our family by the state at the end of the seventies.

In the short years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, until the end of the seventies, this house was not in the hands of your grandfather.

Of course, don't get me wrong, the house was close to the four walls of the house at that time.

Your grandfather's grandfather was an official in the Qing Dynasty.

And your grandfather's father was just a reader.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, your grandfather's father was just a man who made a living by renting out some of his ancestors' properties.

And after your grandfather was born, he encountered the full-scale start of Japan's war of aggression against China.

What happened to us in Wudong after that, you must also know.

At that time, your grandfather was not yet a year old, and all the other properties of the family were destroyed in the war, except for this old house.

And your grandfather's father was also killed by the Japanese because of his bookish anger.

It was your grandfather's time that he had no brothers and sisters, and his mother raised him alone.

Before the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the land deeds of those properties that had been destroyed by artillery fire were sold out by his mother.

Even all kinds of things you can imagine in our old house.

Your grandfather was actually not impressed, after all, he was only twelve years old until he was liberated.

However, he vaguely had some impressions, saying that the furniture in our old house was all old mahogany, and to put it bluntly, it was saying that our ancestors had also been brilliant. ”

Cheng Yu knows a small part of these things, and Cheng Qingsong once told him that the ancestors of the old Cheng family were cultural people and officials.

Cheng Yu also knew that his grandfather died at the hands of the Japanese, but Cheng Qingsong did not tell him more details.

This is probably also related to the fact that Cheng Qingsong actually has no impression of his father, but he heard his mother say that his father died at the hands of the Japanese, but he doesn't know the more detailed content.

At that time, women did not go out of the door, but I am afraid that Cheng Qingsong's mother did not know the detailed cause of death of the man.

"I guess there are still some remnants after liberation, but there are probably not many left.

On this point, your grandfather said in detail that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he said that the family was already very dilapidated, and that his mother even thought about selling this old house.

Thanks to the liberation at that time, and after the constitution stipulated that land could not be bought and sold, how many pairs of eyes were stared at by our Wu Dong, and your grandmother was unable to sell the house.

Your grandfather said that your grandmother had never been in good health, and when he was fifteen years old, your grandmother died, and he became a lonely person completely.

After that, the state took the old house, but your grandfather kept the title deed and house deed of that year.

He said that when he moved out of the house, there was only one queen bed left in the house.

That bed may have been mahogany too, something that had disappeared in more than twenty years, but it was the only one.

When your grandfather was eighteen years old, he heard the news that the emperor had a young man with knowledge and went to the Northeast, which was the Great Northern Wilderness at that time.

But he didn't belong to the intellectual youth, but at that time there was no clear concept of going to the mountains and going to the countryside, so your grandfather felt that he could also make a difference in the vast world, so he bought a train ticket and went to the northeast.

This stay is twelve years. ”

About Cheng Qingsong's stay in the Northeast for many years, Cheng Yu also knows a little about it.

Cheng Qingsong told him that it was mainly to describe the snow scene in the northeast, and it was impossible for Wudong to have such heavy snow.

"In six or seven years, your grandfather returned to Wudong.

In fact, your grandfather's composition is not very good, but because your grandfather died at the hands of the Japanese, your grandfather was one of the first young people to respond to the policy of going to the mountains and going to the countryside - this helped your grandfather a lot, and for a long time, he took the initiative to go to the Northeast at that time as the factual basis for his foresight.

Because of this, when the large-scale movement to the mountains and countryside began in six or eight years, your grandfather became a model and a model.

That's when your grandfather met your grandmother.

Your grandmother's family composition is very bad, she belongs to the urban petty bourgeoisie, and although she broke off relations with the family at the request of her family, she still belongs to the class that is looked down upon during that time.

Your grandfather married your grandmother, which changed her life and made her completely break with her petty bourgeois family. In the words of the time, it was to join the urban poor.

Your grandmother's parents didn't survive that time, and by the time the campaign was over, they were rehabilitated, but it didn't help.

It can be said that if it weren't for the government's psychology of compensating your grandmother, our family's old house would probably not even be returned.

In short, in the first year of the slogan of reform and opening up, the government returned the old house to our family, and your grandfather took us to live in it, and at that time, your grandmother was pregnant with your sister-in-law. ”

Cheng Yu nodded, and said in his heart that this is how the old mansion came from.

From this point of view, Cheng Qingsong can be regarded as a fool and a fool, and he went to the Northeast for some reason, but the composition problem failed to become an obstacle that made him miserable during that time.

In the eyes of others, the fact of marrying the children of a petty bourgeoisie in the city constituted the main reason for the government to return the old house out of compensation.

This is really a peck and a drink, it is not heavenly.

Cheng Guangnian got up again and poured himself some wine, Cheng Yu saw it and said, "Dad, you drink less." ”

Cheng Guangnian looked at Cheng Yu with some relief, smiled slightly, and said, "That's it, don't drink it." ”

After sitting down, he shook his cup and continued: "After the reform and opening up, people from other cities began to come to Wudong to beg for a living, and your grandfather split the family's old house and rented out a lot of rooms. Although the rent at that time was very small, it was enough for our family to have food and clothing. ”

Cheng Yu frowned slightly and said, "That means that it is impossible for grandpa to owe a huge debt?"

Cheng Guangnian sighed and said, "Yes." This is also the reason why your second and third uncles insist that your grandfather sold the old house to raise funds for my start-up. ”

"Three hundred and eighty thousand, ninety years...... Oh, ninety-one years, it took a year for that crew member to convert all the more than 600,000 Hong Kong dollars into soft sister coins. How much can grandpa build, so that he can quietly make the light of the 380,000 in that era?"

"There is no 380,000 yuan, your grandfather, people help him change money, and he will inevitably express something. And some of that money is going to improve our family's lives. But 300,000 is there. ”

"So, you actually know very well where the 300,000 went?"

Cheng Guangnian bowed slightly and said, "I found it." ”

Cheng Yu was silent, he waited for Cheng Guangnian's final revelation.

After a slight pause, Cheng Guangnian said, "Your grandfather has never been a really good person......

Cheng Yu smiled and said, "The old man is very bad. ”

Cheng Guangnian couldn't help but laugh dumbly, in this family, I am afraid that only Cheng Yu dares to say this, and he dares to say this in front of Cheng Qingsong, and Cheng Qingsong will never be angry about it.

"Yes, bad old man, he wasn't a good bird when he was young. If your grandmother wasn't beautiful, how could he marry someone who might bring trouble to himself? This old man, who has had no money and no ability to do anything all his life, is not small. ”

Cheng Yu chuckled slightly in his heart, and he said, "Don't tell me what bad things he did when he was in the Northeast?"

Cheng Guangnian sneered twice and said, "It's not just that I've done bad things. Of course, it's not about spoiling other girls, people are also willing, and if it weren't for being sick and coming to Wudong to see a doctor, I'm afraid that I won't contact your grandfather for the rest of my life. ”

Cheng Yu almost knew it thoroughly, and he said, "So, you actually have a half-brother?"

Cheng Guangnian nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It's not the eldest brother, it's the eldest sister, your grandfather has a daughter in the Northeast." ”

"I'll go, old scoundrel!"

Cheng Guangnian waved his hand and said, "It's not that your grandfather is not responsible, he didn't know that the woman was pregnant at the time."

Later, my eldest sister in the Northeast told me that it was her mother who said that your grandfather was not the only woman in the Northeast for 12 years.

Of course, she was the last, and probably the only one, to be pregnant with your grandfather's blood. ”

Cheng Yu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I believe this, after all, if it weren't for the child he gave birth to after he left the Northeast, it would be impossible for the eldest girl to let him go." If he had done evil before, I am afraid that he would have been forced to marry by the fierce Northeast people with a hoe. In that case, there would be nothing to do without you and me. ”

Cheng Guangnian laughed.

"My eldest sister's birthday is seven months after your grandfather returned to Wudong, which means that your grandfather should not have known that he had a child in the Northeast.

When your grandfather first returned to Wudong, he wrote a letter there.

But it was a very remote mountain village in the Great Khing'an Mountains, and the letter your grandfather wrote in the past was not obtained until almost two years later, when the woman went to the county to do business.

By the time she replied, your grandfather had already married your grandmother and had me, and his place of residence had also moved, so your grandfather probably hadn't received the letter. ”

Cheng Yu blinked and said, "Then how did they get in touch again?"

"The eldest sister told me that her mother was sick that year, and she took the old man to Harbin, and the doctor in Harbin suggested that she go to our Wudong Military Region General Hospital to find an expert, saying that the expert was the authority on this disease.

The eldest sister brought her mother to Wudong.

It was at that time that her mother told her about your grandfather and took out the letter that your grandfather had written.

In fact, the conditions of your eldest sister's family were quite good at that time, otherwise if she was an ordinary rural woman, as soon as she heard that she was going to a big city to see a doctor, she would have lost her courage in terms of money alone.

When I arrived in Wudong, I found the expert, and after her mother was arranged for surgery, the eldest sister thought, no matter what, she still wanted to see what her biological father was like if she had the chance.

So, with the address of the letter back then, she found the neighborhood committee of that place.

Although there has been a gap of more than 20 years, there is really a cadre in the neighborhood committee who knows your grandfather.

That cadre is a woman, when your grandfather returned to Wudong, it is estimated that he also thought about others, but because your grandfather's initial composition was not good, the other party did not accept it.

Later, when the government returned the family's house, some people said that she didn't open her eyes at the beginning, otherwise with this house, your grandfather would definitely be worth marrying.

Of course, this is a joke.

It was because of the information about the house that the eldest sister found your grandfather.

After the meeting, the eldest sister didn't tell me in detail, only said that your grandfather swore at that time that he would compensate her.

After two or three years, your grandfather suddenly went to her with a sack of cash, but unexpectedly, the eldest sister's mother had died.

Your grandfather mentioned at that time that he wanted the eldest sister to come to Wudong, but the eldest sister was unwilling.

And the eldest sister was already married at that time, how could she leave her man to come to Wudong?"

Cheng Yu was a little silent.

"The eldest sister said that she refused to ask for the 300,000 at that time, but your grandfather insisted on giving it to her.

After that, she thought about returning the money to your grandfather and to us.

But your grandfather lied to her and said that the house had been bought, and now she can't buy it back with the money, and the whole family has already moved out.

The eldest sister felt that the house was sold, and your grandfather didn't leave her a new address, let alone a phone number or something, so she died and thought about returning the money to us.

In the eldest sister's heart, I felt that our family was in a state of disconnection for her. ”

Cheng Yu nodded, and said in his heart that in that era, a rural woman who had only left the mountains once because of her mother's illness, without any clues, was indeed unlikely to come to the big city to find someone.

Moreover, Cheng Yu also believes that the aunt may indeed have the idea of returning the money to Cheng Qingsong, but it is not realistic to say that she is not tempted at all in the face of a huge sum of 300,000 yuan.

At that time, let alone a woman from a rural northeast village, even if it was a person from these places in the imperial capital and demon capital, 300,000 might be an unimaginable number for them.

"For the 300,000 yuan, the eldest sister and her husband opened a small food processing factory, and it is not bad. When I found her, she was also a well-known township entrepreneur. ”

Cheng Yu asked, "What year did you find her?"

"Eight years ago. ”

Cheng Yu slapped his head, and said in his heart that I don't seem to be sprinkling?

"She didn't know about our family's situation at the time, and told me that she wanted to give some shares of the food processing factory to our family, which could be regarded as a return to your grandfather for the 300,000 start-up capital that her grandfather gave her back then. ”

"It's also a rare simplicity. Cheng Yu said with emotion.

Cheng Guangnian nodded and said, "Yes, and her husband, as well as her children, don't even object." So, I simply invested some money in them and let them open a decent farmhouse in the mountains. ”

"Country love like that?" I don't know why, Cheng Yu's mind involuntarily came up with the TV series that has been filmed for eleven seasons and is still popular in the Northeast.

Cheng Guangnian said: "Probably it's so." ”

"My aunt's family is doing well?"

"It's a net worth of 100 million, and the children are more competitive, which is good. ”

Cheng Yu pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "The old man has nothing else, his life is quite good." The eldest daughter and eldest son are all so promising, but it's a pity that they have such a broken disease. But does my aunt's family know about you?"

Cheng Guangnian nodded and said, "I know." Ever since we first met, the whole family has been following me. During the New Year's holidays or something, we will have some contact. ”

"So you're like this now, and they haven't thought about anything else?"

"My eldest sister told me that if our brothers were just ordinary people, she would be willing to keep in touch with us as relatives. But because of my situation, she didn't want to keep in touch with us. ”