Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Feng Sizhe ignored his aunt's thoughts. Yes, at this time in his previous life, Feng Sizhe didn't talk much to his grandfather, and this was also because of the influence of his mother. It's still a very sad story.

Feng Zhe's father, Feng Kangsheng, was a very ambitious and handsome young man. He became a university lecturer at a young age, and was thus known by his mother, Zhao Lirong, who was also studious and ambitious. The two naturally came together.

Feng Kangsheng was an orphan with no background. He grew up eating at many people's homes, which helped him develop a habit of being studious and motivated. In the 1960s, there were not many cases of free love, but there were quite a few. But it was unacceptable for an orphan to marry a general's daughter. Even if there was no concept of family background, the social atmosphere still existed. For this reason, Feng Sizhe's grandfather Zhao Mingyuan made the most basic obstruction to his eldest daughter's marriage.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Lirong was a woman with her own ideas. She liked Feng Kangsheng and believed that happiness had to be earned by one's own efforts. For this reason, she secretly took the household registration booklet from her family and went to the Civil Affairs Bureau with Feng Kangsheng to handle the formalities. When Zhao Mingyuan learned about this, his daughter had already lived with Feng Kangsheng. The old man was so angry that he shouted that he had given birth to an unfilial daughter.

Zhao Lirong originally thought that her father was just trying to save face, thinking that since the matter had already been settled, her family would not say anything. However, she never expected that when she brought her lover, Feng Kangsheng, home, she was scolded by her father. Zhao Lirong was so angry that she left the Zhao family with her husband and voluntarily applied to work in the countryside.

Zhao Mingyuan also had a terrible temper. He thought it was no big deal if he was going to go. But if his sons and daughters hadn't held him back, he would have even said that he was severing the father-daughter relationship.

Feng Kangsheng and Zhao Lirong lived a decent life in the countryside. After all, they were educated people and were respected everywhere. But things never went as planned. The Cultural Revolution, which the Republic could never forget, finally spread to the countryside. Feng Kangsheng, who was straightforward, could not stand some exaggerated things and published some articles that were not conducive to the current situation. Then Feng Kangsheng was taken away by the Cultural Revolution youths for re-education and criticism.

Watching her beloved man being kidnapped and her belly growing bigger day by day, Zhao Lirong had to return to Beijing to beg her father for help for the sake of her lover and her unborn child, hoping that he could intervene and save her husband.

But at that time, the Cultural Revolution was raging in Kyoto. Zhao Mingyuan, as a former bodyguard of Duke De (later the head of the Southern Tour and the chief architect of socialism with Chinese characteristics), was also affected. He could hardly protect himself, so how could he protect others?

How could Zhao Lirong, who didn't know much about politics, understand her father's difficulties? She thought it was because her family didn't help, so she got angry and returned to the countryside, where she brought food to her husband every day and waited to give birth to the baby in her belly.

As the situation became more and more tense, Feng Kangsheng not only had no regrets, but on the contrary, he spread his ideas to everyone during the labor reform process, telling everyone that they should seek truth from facts instead of exaggerating and boasting. In this way, he inevitably offended many people in power, and finally, under the planning of someone with ulterior motives, Feng Kangsheng, who was only in his twenties, passed away with hatred.

More than 22 years have passed in the blink of an eye. The fetus in Zhao Lirong's belly, Feng Sizhe, has grown up and become a 0-year-old boy. After the Cultural Revolution, at the beginning of the reform and opening up, Zhao Lirong took Feng Sizhe, who was only years old, away from her motherland and went to the economically developed UK. There, with Zhao Lirong's intelligence and knowledge, she was admitted to teach at Cambridge University, one of the world's top ten universities. Feng Zhe also began to study in that environment and started a new life.

It was not until a while ago that Zhao Lirong received a call from home. Her brothers, sisters and brothers all hoped that she could return to her motherland and come home. As the eldest daughter of Zhao Mingyuan and the second child of the Zhao family, she certainly knew the reason. It is also very interesting to say that Zhao Mingyuan had a total of five children, two boys and three girls. Zhao Lirong was the eldest sister, and she only had one older brother, Zhao Wanyong. However, the seemingly prosperous Zhao family did not have a single male child in the third generation. The eldest brother, Zhao Wanyong (Feng Sizhe's eldest uncle), had three children, all of whom were daughters. The third brother, Zhao Wangang (Feng Sizhe's youngest uncle), had two children, all of whom were daughters. The fourth brother, Zhao Lishu (Feng Sizhe's second aunt), also had two children, all of whom were daughters. The fifth brother, Zhao Lizhu (Feng Sizhe's youngest aunt), had no intention of starting a family at all after her husband died in an accident shortly after their marriage. She was in her thirties, which was considered an absolutely old age in Kyoto at that time. Even if she was divorced, she could still look for a husband. But no matter how General Zhao Mingyuan put pressure on her, she always kept putting it off on the grounds that she was in a bad mood about the divorce.

As a wealthy family like Zhao Mingyuan, how could a military general tolerate the fact that there was no third generation to inherit his legacy? Then he remembered his eldest daughter Zhao Lirong. Although Feng Sizhe's surname was Feng instead of Zhao, he had the blood of the Zhao family and was an authentic member of the Zhao family.

Zhao Lirong, who understood this deeply, knew that her father asked her to go back only because he was interested in her giving birth to a son. For this reason, she did not respond to the phone calls from her siblings. She was even determined to give Feng Sizhe a different educational environment, to let him develop in the UK and continue to write a different life. To be honest, she was a little scared of the domestic situation. She was afraid that if there was a movement and her son was involved, she would really have no courage to live.

Her beloved son Feng Sizhe did not disappoint her. At the age of 22, he obtained a double master's degree in financial economics and business administration from Cambridge University. This was due to Feng Sizhe's natural talent, his parents' genes, and the special care and evening lessons of Zhao Lirong, who had been promoted to associate professor of the Department of Finance at Cambridge University.

Zhao Lirong was very pleased to have such a son. She felt that she had done her best for the deceased Feng Kangsheng and her lover.

But things did not change quickly enough until one day, Zhao Lirong received a call from her mother He Jiayu. Her mother told her that Zhao Mingyuan's health was deteriorating because of her stubbornness in not allowing Feng Sizhe to return to China to see her grandfather. Finally, Zhao Lirong was moved.

No matter what, her father is still her father. Without her father, she would not have her own life. Moreover, she later understood that it was not that her father did not want to save his lover, but that the situation did not allow it. It can be said that Zhao Lirong's mentality was much better after understanding the political situation at that time.

Zhao Lirong, who had already forgiven her father, received a call from her mother and decided to take her son back to China. After all, the child was half Zhao family blood, so it was only right for him to meet his grandparents. In this way, Feng Sizhe returned to his homeland with his mother from the UK where he had been accustomed to living.

After returning to China, Feng Sizhe naturally lived with his mother in Zhao Mingyuan's ancient courtyard. Just as Zhao Lirong had just returned to the courtyard, Zhao Mingyuan, as a father, personally talked to her, with only one thing in mind: Feng Sizhe must stay and carry forward the future of the Zhao family.