Siheyuan: I am a big capitalist after the founding of the People's Republic of China

After two days, Li Zihang visited relatives and friends everywhere.

Today I came to my seventh uncle's house to visit the couple.

Uncle Seven, who was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper, put down the newspaper.

Said to Li Zihang.

"Boy, why are you not at home at this time? Why are you here?"

Li Zihang also answered with a grin.

"You, too. Shouldn't you be sitting in your office at this hour?"

Uncle Seven hasn't played with Li Zihang for a long time since he moved out of the Li family.

I suddenly miss the days when my uncle and nephew used to bicker and play.

"Stop being stinky~"

"Tell me the reason for coming to my place today."

Li Zihang sat on the sofa next to his seventh uncle, tossing the apple in his hand up and down.

Said with a relaxed expression.

"I came to see you, aunt."

"To be honest, it won't be long before the old man arranges for me to leave."

When Uncle Qi heard this, he understood everything clearly.

Know what he meant by this.

Uncle Seven: "Boy, I didn't expect you've reached the age to take this journey."

Then he said with emotion.

"I am your seventh uncle~"

"When I first took that trip, it was so hard~"

"I remember that at the worst time, I was starving for three and a half days before I could eat a mouthful of swill."

"At that time, your father and I were arranged to leave one after the other by the old man."

"Your father was assigned to a hunter's home in the mountains."

"I was arranged to be among the beggars, to experience the sufferings of the world."

Uncle Qi recalled the past again, as if he was thinking of some unpleasant memories.

I shivered unconsciously.

Then Uncle Seven continued.

"At that time, I couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I tried. What was the old man doing?"

"No matter what I say, he is still the young master of a wealthy family, even if his family was in a bad state at that time."

"But it's better than most people."

"I can't understand why I was thrown into the crowd of beggars and became a little beggar."

Uncle Seven continued with lingering fear.

"Fortunately, at that time, the Republic of China had only just begun a few years ago."

"If it were during the Anti-Japanese War, I would definitely not have survived."

"I was just thrown into a group of beggars. I had nothing to eat and couldn't sleep well."

"Following a group of beggars, walking around the streets every day will make you stutter."

"Even if I become a beggar, those people will still divide the territory and be the boss."

"If I were a normal child, I would have been kidnapped, had my legs broken and was begging on the streets, or been bought by a thief and became a pickpocket if I hadn't been watching over me at home."

“It was literally a fall from heaven to hell.

I didn't know that until I had been a beggar for half a year.

It turns out that swill is not only for feeding pigs, but can also be eaten by humans.”

"In winter, a few beggars would fight to death for a bundle of straw."

"I didn't understand at that time. It's just a bundle of straw. What's the big deal?"

Uncle Qi said this and lit a cigarette.

Half lying on the sofa, looking at the ceiling, he exhaled a puff of cigarette and continued.

"Later I realized that what they were grabbing was not straw."

"What they are robbing is the chance to survive."

"In my first year as a beggar, I knew nothing. I watched them fighting over a bundle of straw. I even laughed at them in secret."

"When winter came and I was about to freeze to death, I realized how stupid I was."

"It was then that I realized that it wasn't straw, it was the grass that kept me warm and saved my life."

"Before I became a beggar, I would take a bath once every three days, even in winter."

"I didn't expect that~"

"I've been a beggar for a year and a half, and including the summer, I've only taken a bath three times."

"It's not that I don't want to wash, I'm just afraid of getting sick."

"Minor illnesses can be treated on their own. Major illnesses are all up to fate. If you die, you deserve it. If you don't die, it's a blessing in disguise."

"At that time, my hair and clothes were full of lice."

"I've been a beggar for a year and a half. I feel like I can get a bite of food by kneeling down to people. I don't feel ashamed anymore."

"People also think that the pancakes they throw on the ground and spit on are delicious."

"I feel nothing after being humiliated."

"As long as I can survive, I don't think there's anything wrong with crawling through a dog hole or stealing eggs from someone's chicken coop."

"Kneeling in the mourning hall and crying for people, I can earn a meal and I don't feel sorry for my ancestors."

Li Zihang was shocked when he heard this.

He didn't expect that the old man could do this to his seventh uncle.

Uncle Qi said this and looked up at Li Zihang.

Said in his mouth.

"You look so much like your father."

"If your father had taken this path, he would have survived."

"If a person is too strong, he will be broken; if a person is too strong, he will be hurt."

“Environment makes the person.”

"If your father's knees were weaker, I think he would have lived to see you two brothers grow up."

"What a pity~ He took another path. That path can accomplish great things, but ninety-nine people will die on the way."

After saying this, Uncle Qi changed the subject, seeming to tease Li Zihang on purpose.

"Boy, you suddenly have a younger brother. Aren't you afraid that he will steal your family property in the future?"

Li Zihang didn't take this sentence to heart at all.

"That chair, that cup of tea, if it were so easy to drink, you wouldn't have suffered so much before."

"Then again, what's really important to our family are those material possessions, right?"

"That intricate network of relationships is the foundation of our family's existence."

“To put it bluntly, as for money, as long as you have power, you can get it.

Just like a pile of fresh shit, flies are always hanging around it."

When Uncle Seven heard this, he looked at him with a smile.

Then he said.

"The words are rude but the logic is not. But remember, kid, not all money can be touched. Money is a good thing, and no one has too much of it. But some money can cost a person's life."

The uncle and nephew talked about their insights into life.

However, a group of people set their sights on the Li family.

A bearing, inside a processing plant.

Two workers were chatting quietly while moving materials.

The content of the chat was also related to the Li family.

"Second brother, have you found any news on what I asked you to investigate?"

The man called Lao Er answered while moving materials.

"There is some clue, but it's not easy to do."

"Do you know what I saw when I passed by his house?"

The other man stopped moving materials, stood up straight and stretched his waist.

Then he said.

"Stop talking nonsense and speak quickly."

The second brother, who was still moving materials, also stood up and answered.

"Brother, that family is not easy to deal with."

“People, there are all kinds of iron plates on the walls of the gatehouse.”

"The family of a martyr, the family of a hero, the family of a first-class meritorious service, the family of a model worker."

"My dear~"

"There were more than a dozen signs nailed to the door wall, up and down."

"Brother, we really need to move this kind of family."

"The mess that was made was no less serious than robbing a bank."

"We need to discuss this matter again."

"Otherwise, we brothers might all have to eat peanuts."

An old furniture factory in Sijiucheng.

The Li family's secret guard is now trying to get close to an old man.

Secret guard: "Master, you said that you made a whole set of sofas for an old man. He gave you 150 yuan as a reward?"

"You say this yourself, do you believe it?"

"At that time, I think a whole set of high-quality sofas would cost about that price. Please don't brag to me."

When the old man heard this, he felt that he had lost face.

The tone of his voice became a little higher.

"Don't you still not believe it? Do you know why you gave me so much money?"

After saying that, he turned his head and looked around.

Then he spoke in a low voice.

"Boy, let me tell you this."

"The money they gave me wasn't hard work money. It was fucking hush money."

"Do you know what I saw on the leather back of that sofa?"

“There’s a map drawn on it.”

"Although I don't know what that map is for."

"But it's definitely a name. Otherwise, making a set of sofas, including the materials and labor, would only cost more than 300 dollars. But they gave me 150 dollars more."

"If there is no secret behind this, I won't believe it even if you kill me."

After getting the information he wanted, Li family's secret guard was thinking about his own things.

Go back and find your brothers to discuss countermeasures.

Nanluoguxiang Street, the alley diagonally opposite Li’s house.

In a courtyard, the Li family's secret guards returned.

Gather all the information you have received and find useful information.

"So, the royalist hid the money and made a treasure map."

"Then the treasure map was obtained by Yuan Datou's men.

Yuan Datou's men hid the treasure map in the sofa again."

"In the end, all of Yuan Datou's men were slaughtered."

"That house, along with the treasure map sofa, was bought by a foreigner again."

"Later, the foreigners returned to their own countries for political reasons."

"The sofa was given to someone else and confiscated as illegal property. And then it was sold?"

Although the people nearby found it confusing, they still understood the cause of the incident.

The leader thought of the key issue and continued.

"The key now is to find that sofa. Only then can we find the treasure."

Another secret guard asked another key question.

"Have you found out the name of that foreigner?"

"And who was it that confiscated the rebel property back then?"

As soon as the question was asked, the room fell into silence again.

After a long while, someone finally spoke.

"At that time, it was the skinheads who confiscated the counter-revolutionary assets. And it has been so many years since then."

"It's probably impossible to find someone to confiscate the property."

"But I know who that foreigner is."

"That foreigner, his name seems to be something like Bush, Jiaerluo or something like that."

"Foreign names are too long. I don't remember their full names."

Leader, hear this.

After thinking for a while, he said.

"We still have to report this to the master, and let him use his connections to investigate."

Li Zihang also staggered back home.

The summer vacation has just begun, and he has to make clear everything he needs to say in the remaining days.

Otherwise there will be too many things to do and things will easily go wrong.

In addition, there are two people who measure at the bearing processing factory.

Finally came up with a solution.

"Second brother, come with me tonight. Let's find out what happened to that family."