On the small building halfway up the etou mountain, after washing her hands, Lin Yujing began to use a brush to write down the whole regular script of the worker in a scripture post:
"I''m a Buddha. Be careful not to make a cause. The first loving father, Lin Xizhen, the owner of the forest garden, and song Chunren, the sage husband, suffered an untimely life. Their relatives grabbed their hair and mourned, and were in pain. I''m incredible with Buddhist power, so I''m willing to hire..."
When she finished writing a whole Scripture post, the sound of car horns sounded outside. She walked out of this lonely building and bowed politely to the driver on the bumpy mountain road. Her 15-year-old daughter Feng Yunzhi politely got off a Ford 49 and stood outside the driver''s window, Then he carried his schoolbag to his mother who had come out.
"Mom, I''m off school."
Lin Yujing stood outside the small building and leaned slightly towards the driver who could not see anyone on the bus in the distance. After the bus turned and drove away, he entered the small building with his daughter. Although it was a two-story building in the middle of the mountain, etou mountain was not as beautiful as those peaks of goufu mountain and Taiping mountain. Here was a barren mountain in the south of Causeway Bay. There was no scenery. Second, the terrain was too high, No dignitaries and dignitaries were attracted to build houses here like Gefu mountain in Taiping mountain. Except that there is a Lin stage theater at the foot of the mountain and a film company rented it to be a studio on the west side of the mountain corner, there is only a two-story building on the hillside.
This building was also built before the war. Although Lin Chaojing''s mother and daughter have been repaired since they moved in, it still gives people a sense of dilapidation. Looking up, the amusement park facilities on the top of the mountain, which have been abandoned for more than ten years, are more like a strange and terrible place.
"Mother, I didn''t have an appetite at noon today, so I left my lunch for us to eat together in the evening." after Feng Yunzhi entered the small building, the first thing was to find out the lunch box from his schoolbag. After opening it, a box full of rich vegetables and rice was filled. The most obvious thing was that there was a abalone on the top of the lunch box. The whole box of food didn''t seem to have been touched by her. Lin Yujing touched it, It''s already cool.
She frowned slightly and said to Feng Yunzhi, who had turned around to prepare for her homework: "my mother is not hungry. Don''t leave lunch back next time. You are growing up. You should eat more."
"Hum hum, aunt Xiang has told me that uncle Kang hasn''t sent vegetable money this month. Mom, don''t worry. I''ll soon grow up. I''ll study hard, and then make money to pay off their vegetable money. I''ll move out of the Lin family, buy a big house, and pick up Grandpa to live together. By the way, I''ll pick up brother TIANYAO..." Feng Yunzhi put his schoolbag on the table in the living room, Then he lit the kerosene lamp and prepared to write the homework assigned by the teacher. He said in a relaxed tone.
Before I went to the foot of the mountain to fetch water, sister-in-law Xiang, the maid who had been with Lin Chaojing''s mother and daughter for many years, was carrying two buckets of water with a shoulder pole. When she happened to hear Feng Yunzhi''s words, Lin yuejing also looked at her. Sister-in-law Xiang grinned: "I told my good mother. If you want to blame me, madam."
"How can you talk to her like this? Every time something happens, she pushes it on you, and you block it for her." Lin Yujing smiled faintly, took the bucket from sister-in-law Xiang''s shoulder pole, and accompanied her to pour the water into the bucket in the kitchen.
Then the master and servant began to cook dinner. When the dinner was ready, Feng Yunzhi''s homework had been finished. They quickly packed up their schoolbags, emptied the dining table in the living room, and arranged the dishes and chopsticks. The three were ready to start eating. Lin Yujing had just sat down, and the voice of Wen Jingyuan, an old servant who lived at the foot of the mountain and guarded the mountain for the Li family, sounded outside the door:
"Miss Liu, there is a young man at the foot of the mountain who claims to be your nephew song TIANYAO. He wants to see you. I''ll let him wait at the foot of the mountain and let you know."
"Brother TIANYAO is coming?" before Lin Chaojing spoke, Feng Yunzhi blurted out, "he must have raised enough money to take us home!"
However, after this sentence, she sat down bitterly. Lin Yujing looked at sister-in-law Xiang with a low face: "sister-in-law Xiang, please bring the more than 200 yuan you saved. If TIANYAO didn''t encounter difficulties, he wouldn''t come to speak after dark. He must have encountered a very thorny thing."
Sister-in-law Xiang promised to put down the dishes and chopsticks and walk upstairs. Lin Yujing personally went to the locked door and opened the door lock. She opposed Wen Jingyuan ten meters outside the door and said, "Uncle yuan, please invite him up."
"I see, Miss Liu." already white haired, but still strong, Wen Jingyuan, who worked with Lin Chaojing''s father in his early years, dressed in a long shirt, turned and walked down the mountain road that had been bombed by Japanese shells but had not been seriously repaired after the war.
After a short time, a car drove up from the foot of the mountain with its lights on.
Feng Yunzhi, who secretly stood behind Lin Chaojing and looked out, said, "brother TIANYAO knows how to drive? Is he a driver?"
When the car stopped not far from the door, the lights went out and the door opened. When Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi saw the young people getting off the bus, their hearts beat a little faster. Song TIANYAO, dressed in suits and shoes, took down two large plastic bags from the car, smiled at them and walked over.
"Brother TIANYAO! Is that you? I can''t recognize you!" Feng Yunzhi ignored his mother and scolded himself for his indecent behavior. He raised his arm and stood at the door shaking at Song TIANYAO, shouting happily.
Lin Chaojing was absent-minded for a moment. She hadn''t seen song TIANYAO for about two years. The last time she saw song TIANYAO was when she went to visit her father-in-law song Chengqi. Song TIANYAO happened to secretly visit his grandfather. She hadn''t seen him for two years. At the beginning, the astringent half child has become a tall and handsome young man with elegant demeanor.
Lin Chaojing watched song TIANYAO come to her and said uncertainly, "ah Yao?"
Song TIANYAO looked at his third aunt and nodded gently: "it''s me, third aunt. I''m coming to pick you up and allow him to go home."
A short sentence made Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi''s eyes turn red. Lin Yujing covered her mouth and looked at the nephew in front of her. After half a sound, she stepped forward, hugged song TIANYAO in her arms, tried to restrain herself, let herself not cry, hugged song TIANYAO and took him into the room.
Sister-in-law Xiang was reciting and counting the scattered banknotes in her hand downstairs. When they saw that Lin Chaojing and Feng Yunzhi surrounded song TIANYAO, who she almost couldn''t recognize, to the table, they were excited and stunned at the entrance of the stairs. Feng Yunzhi, with tears in his eyes, smiled sweetly and said to sister-in-law Xiang, "brother TIANYAO said he would take us home!"
Sister-in-law Xiang shook her hands, and the money scattered all over the ground. Is this kind of life under the shelter of others finally coming to an end?
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"Here are twenty thousand Hong Kong dollars. Those two bags are food supplements. Please take good care of sister-in-law Xiang. My three aunts agree. The three aunts are not in good health. You can use those ingredients to help her maintain her health." song TIANYAO took out a stack of banknotes and put them in front of sister-in-law Xiang opposite: "Zhong you, what kind of clothes the other daughters of the Lin family wear, they must have the same or better clothes. They can''t be worse than them."
Lin Chaojing and Feng Yunzhi have not recovered. Song TIANYAO has taken out a stack of banknotes from his wallet, put them in front of sister-in-law Xiang, who looked silly after sitting down, and said with a smile.
"Brother TIANYAO, won''t you take us today?" Feng Yunzhi first responded and asked song TIANYAO: "Without so much money, my mother and I are very economical. I have quietly calculated it myself. Even if the vegetable money and rent over the years are all calculated together, there is only 23800 yuan. If we take those precious tonics to the pawn shop to sell, we should be able to make up the tail. Why don''t we give the money to Wen Jingyuan at the foot of the mountain and ask him to help return it to the Lin family, and now go back to Kowloon City to see Grandpa."
Song TIANYAO touched Feng Yunzhi''s head, rubbed the other party''s neat long hair like when he was a child, and said, "of course, I can''t go now. I want the Lin family to take you and your third aunt to the mansion, open the door, and wait for me to pick you up."
When Feng Yunzhi was a child, she hated song TIANYAO rubbing her hair. At this time, she let song TIANYAO''s hand move on her head. It seems that such an action makes her have no previous disgust, but only the memory she hasn''t felt for too long: "I want to see Grandpa and want you to take me to touch shrimp. I don''t want to live here to study."
"Ah Yao, how did you..." after Lin yuejing eased her excitement for a long time, she remembered to ask song TIANYAO how she could get so much money.
Song TIANYAO also looks at Lin yuejing. Her third aunt is only 40 years old now. Maybe in other people''s eyes, she is dressed in plain but expensive clothes. She is served by a maid. Her daughter can be picked up and sent by a car. Studying in the diocesan women''s college must be rich and noble. However, she can''t imagine the ups and downs of her past 40 years. Instead, she has been in great joy and sorrow Ordinary women, I''m afraid, can''t hold on long ago.
Lin Chaojing, born in 1912, is the concubine of Lin Xizhen, the Opium tycoon in Hong Kong.
The Lin family''s opium business has a long history. As early as the period of Lin Liangyi, Lin Yujing''s grandfather, Lin Xizhen was involved in the opium business and became a well-known rich man in Hong Kong. Later, Lin Xizhen didn''t want him to do the opium business. He asked him to study in Hawaii, and then returned to Huangren college in Hong Kong. With his proficiency in English since he was born in Hawaii, Lin Xizhen was hired into the UK after Huangren graduated Chinese people work for HSBC.
He could have enjoyed his wealth, but Lin Xizhen was energetic, not content with the status quo and wanted to do business. His father Lin Liangyi bought a cargo ship and asked Lin Xizhen to do wood transportation business. Lin Xizhen shuttled between Nanyang and Hong Kong in a boat. The strong wind and waves beat for several years, turning a rich young master of a gentle scholar into a man who was used to life and death, was not afraid of danger and dared to fight Life''s rich and powerful.
Lin Xizhen felt that the profits from timber trafficking were too small, so he began to trade opium in Myanmar like his father. At that time, Myanmar was another opium production base in Asia outside India. Smuggling opium by sea not only had to deal with the pirates who robbed opium merchants, but also had to prevent the Opium merchants from eating black. It was also the trafficking of crows between Myanmar and Hong Kong The experience of the film made Lin Xizhen not only practice the divine quasi gun technique, but also quench a group of capable men who live and die with him with the rough waves.
Over the years, Lin Xizhen did not rely on his father''s fame, but only on his own strength. Lin Xizhen seemed to be among the top five Chinese opium merchants in Hong Kong at that time, which was as much as his father''s opium business.
Moreover, he found that only British people had the legal right to operate the opium business in Hong Kong. Even if he was big, he just picked up some leftovers from the British. Therefore, he simply transferred to Macao and took the Opium monopoly in Macao from the Portuguese, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong and Macao. He was published in various newspapers in Chinese, English and Portuguese languages, calling him a Chinese opium tycoon in Hong Kong and Macao. At that time, he was three years old At the age of 15, his daughter Lin Chaojing was born.
When Lin Chaojing was born, the opium business of the Lin family was like the middle of the day. Although she was born by a concubine, she should spend money. That is, the legitimate women of a rich family may not have her scenery. However, her mother was weak and did not like to compete with other women. Therefore, Lin Chaojing, who was raised around her, was quiet and indisputable, but she was quite strong with her father in her heart.
In 1928, Lin Xizhen was shot and killed by a professional killer because of the dispute over opium monopoly. The Lin family suffered great changes. There were no heads. The children of the concubines were dismissed by the main family. Lin Yujing was hurriedly sent to marry Feng Youhua, the concubines of the Feng family, a drug dealer in Hong Kong, in 1929. Feng Youhua was also a concubine. Naturally, he was ignored, so he didn''t have much money in the Feng family, The couple opened a small pharmacy to make a living. However, Feng Youhua had a chronic opium disease and died at a young age, leaving only Lin Chaojing and his daughter Feng cuniang. After Feng Youhua died, the pharmacy was taken back by the Feng family, and Lin yuejing had nowhere to go. She had to make a living by pawning some jewelry and doing some washing and mending work to raise her eldest daughter.
In 1935, Lin Yujing was molested when she took her daughter to the pharmacy for medical treatment. She met song Chunren, the third uncle of song TIANYAO who came to bandage her wounds shortly after she lost her wife. Song Chunren was a small leader of some wharf coolies at that time. He learned boxing and ran away the bad guys and sent Lin Yujing home. Later, Lin Yujing felt that they were in sympathy with each other. He officially married song Chunren in 1937, As song TIANYAO''s third aunt, Feng cuniang, who has never had a big name, was named Yunzhi by song Chengqi and agreed to let her inherit her father''s surname and still surname Feng.
In 1941, when Kowloon fell and song Chunren died, Lin Yujing fled on the ship with her daughter. Her eyes cried until they shed blood, but she didn''t go with song Chunren. Instead, she vowed to see song Chunren again after Song Chengqi had finished her unfinished filial piety for song Chunren a hundred years later.
In 1945, in Chongguang, Hong Kong, Lin Xizhen''s eldest son, Lin Xiao, returned to Hong Kong to take charge of the Lin family after the war of resistance against Japan. Seeing that many brothers and sisters who had been separated or married had a very sad end, he opened his mouth to allow the concubined brothers and unmarried or widowed sisters to return to Lin''s home. The family paid vegetable money every month to arrange school for their children, but later the children''s marriage work, It needs to be arranged by the Lin family. These returning brothers and sisters have no right to decide. If they want to remarry or leave the Lin family, they need to pay off the expenses of many years'' rent, vegetables, tuition and so on.
In order to give her daughter a chance to study, Lin Yujing took her daughter back to the Lin family with the white eyes of many people in the Lin family, because her identity as Ke Liangfu was considered unlucky in the Lin family, and she didn''t even take their mother and daughter to live in the Lin family''s mansion. Instead, she was sent to the lonely small building of etou mountain until today.
Song TIANYAO felt that if Feng Yunzhi and song Chengqi had not become the fetters and concerns in her heart, Lin Yujing would have been occupied by the enemy in Kowloon. On the night of his third uncle''s death, he would have gone with him.
"In fact, aunt three, you don''t owe the Lin family. The Lin family owes you. When I go to the United States and come back, I''ll help you get back what the Lin family owes you." song TIANYAO heaved a heavy breath: "I did what I said."