Cheng Guangnian stood up and put out his cigar in the ashtray.
"The crew member couldn't pay back the debt, so he had to think of other ideas.
It just so happened that a friend of Hong Kong's father bought a courtyard house in the imperial capital for more than 100,000 yuan.
This has aroused the interest of many people in the Hong Kong father's circle.
At that time, the Imperial Capital had already begun to experiment with the free buying and selling policy of real estate as a pilot project, but not everyone had the means to find a suitable courtyard house in the Imperial Capital.
As a result, the crew member said that if you can't buy the ones in the Imperial Capital, you can buy the ones in Wudong. As a famous ancient capital in Chinese history, Wudong has many courtyard houses similar to those in the Imperial Capital.
Anyway, he didn't have to pay for it, so if he could really facilitate such a deal, he wouldn't be willing to give up tens of thousands of dollars.
So the Hong Kong guest's father asked the crew member to go to Wudong to find a suitable private residence.
How that crewman found your grandfather has been found to be unsubstantiated. In short, he tricked your grandfather into selling our old house for 380,000 yuan.
The father of the Hong Kong guest was restricted from leaving the country and could not leave Hong Kong Island. In addition, according to the policies at the time, there were many troubles for Hong Kong Island residents to purchase real estate in the mainland, so we could only entrust the crew with full authority to facilitate the transaction."
Cheng Yu frowned when he heard this and said, "Three hundred and eighty thousand. The exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar to the soft sister dollar back then was around 0.6, right? Isn't that more than six hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars? Can a Hong Kong customer trust this guy with six hundred thousand dollars?"
More than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to return to Wu Dong?"
Cheng Guangnian waved his hand and said: "Of course that's impossible.
At that time, a brother who was very trusted by the Hong Kong passenger's father took the money and the return permit and returned to the mainland. He was waiting in Wudong for the crew to return with the ship.
After your grandfather got the money, he gave the house deed and land title to the other party.
At the same time, the two parties drew up a contract, saying that the property transfer procedures would not be completed until two thousand years later.
It has to be said that the father of the Hong Kong visitor still has some brains. He saw that the imperial capital has gradually implemented free buying and selling of real estate, and knew that it was only a matter of time before other cities in the country would implement the same policy.
At the same time, no matter what, when 1971 arrives and Hong Kong Island returns, it is impossible that Hong Kong people’s real estate investment in the mainland will still have the same restrictions as before.
So your grandfather proposed that the house should not be handed over until two thousand years later, but they did not raise any objection."
Cheng Yu still frowned and asked in confusion: "Is it useful to just get the land deed from the old society? What if grandpa doesn't admit it in ten years?"
"What do they do?
He is a member of the society and a person who is restricted from leaving Hong Kong Island. How thick is his file in the Anti-Gangster Division of the Hong Kong Island Police?
Such a person would be worried that your grandfather would not admit his guilt in ten years?
They obviously didn’t expect at the time that Hong Kong’s associations would be so severely attacked by our party after the return of Hong Kong, and now they can be said to exist in name only (don’t correct this, this is to highlight the core values).”
Cheng Yu still shook his head slowly and said, "That's quite courageous."
"After all, it's only a few hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars. You're confident, and a few hundred thousand is not a big sum for you, and you really want to own an ancient house in China to brag about in the social circle. Later, that Hong Kong guest
He told me that just by owning such an old house in name only, their family’s benefit from the social circle in Hong Kong would be far more than the hundreds of thousands.”
Cheng Yu nodded, thinking that this barely made sense.
"Didn't you investigate that crew member? It shouldn't be difficult to find him, right?"
Cheng Guangnian said: "Dead."
"Dead? How old is the crew member?"
"Absolutely the same as me."
"Does this mean you will be punished if you do too much injustice?"
Cheng Guangnian snorted and said, "That's right. He died on Hong Kong Island."
Du Changfeng couldn't help but frown. Apparently, he had guessed the truth.
"Killed to death by a Hong Kong guest?"
Cheng Guangnian nodded and said: "The other party vaguely mentioned this matter. They probably don't dare to publicize such things as murder. But looking at the words and deeds of the Hong Kong tourist, it is very clear."
"Why? That crew member later owed them a lot of money?"
"They said the crew lied to them.
Three hundred and eighty thousand soft sister coins, according to the price at that time, was almost six hundred and thirty thousand Hong Kong dollars.
However, they have never been to the mainland and don't know much about it.
Although the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar to the soft sister dollar at that time was only 0.6, the private exchange rate was actually around 0.8.
In other words, if all the 630,000 Hong Kong dollars are exchanged through private exchange - that is, black market exchange, it can be exchanged for 500,000 soft sister coins."
"Didn't the money go to grandpa? What does it have to do with the crew member?"
"Do you think your grandfather would take more than 600,000 Hong Kong dollars to the bank to exchange it?
In those days, anyone who could spend so much Hong Kong dollars at once, and who didn’t have any wealthy relatives in Hong Kong, was sure that if he walked into a bank here, the police would receive a report and come over to investigate.
Even with the proceeds from selling the old house, in those days, something might happen.
According to the crew member's own account, after the Hong Kong man left with the land deed, he told your grandfather this, and then helped your grandfather gradually convert all the Hong Kong dollars into soft currency.
He said that he and other crew members on the ship often travel to and from Hong Kong Island and have a need for Hong Kong dollars, so they can help your grandfather exchange Hong Kong dollars.
But he actually took all those Hong Kong dollars and exchanged them on the black market, and exchanged them for a total of 500,000."
Du Changfeng couldn't help being happy and said: "This is what the crew member had planned from the beginning, right? He can forgive his gambling debt here, and he can also get more than 100,000 yuan in benefits from the old man."
"This guy can be considered a talent." Cheng Yu also said with a smile.
Cheng Guangnian also smiled and said: "He himself said that it took him almost a year to convert all the Hong Kong dollars in your grandfather's hands into soft currency.
At that time, he may have thought that the incident was over, so he took the money he had freed up and squandered it in a Hong Kong gambling stall.
He, a small crew member, suddenly had so much money, which was very eye-catching.
Hong Kong tourists also felt that this guy's money must have come from something illegitimate, but they didn't think much about it at the time, mainly because they didn't expect that Hong Kong dollars could be exchanged for such a big difference on the mainland's black market.
But that guy committed suicide. One time he won money and spilled the beans while drinking with someone. Unexpectedly, there happened to be a younger brother of a Hong Kong customer’s father in the shop at that time, so he reported the matter to his boss.
Boss.
The Hong Kong guest didn't say what happened next, but he could probably imagine it. The crew member had no relatives at home, and his wife had divorced him long ago.
Although I don’t know if he gave part of the money to his ex-wife, but he did it alone, and there is no need for me to disturb his ex-wife who has already married another family.”
Cheng Yu nodded. If it were him, it would be impossible for her to be the ex-wife who harassed the crew.
However, this only explained the situation of the Hong Kong passenger. Cheng Guangnian still did not mention a word about how Cheng Qingsong lost all the 380,000 yuan.
Just when Cheng Yu was about to ask a question, Cheng Guangnian said: "I originally wanted to discuss it with the Hong Kong customer. This old house was actually just an investment for them. The market price at that time could actually reach 40 to 50 million, but I just
I spent 20 million to buy back that old house."
"Does the other party give you face?" Cheng Yu didn't take it seriously. After all, spending 20 to 30 million to establish a good relationship with Cheng Guangnian, even if it was Cheng Guangnian eight years ago, is actually an investment. The Hong Kong guest family finally became a friend of Cheng Guangnian.
The money he earned must be far more than these two to thirty million.
However, Cheng Guangnian slowly shook his head and sneered: "Giving face? Have you forgotten that when I started, I said that the Hong Kong tourist was arrogant and extremely arrogant?"
"Huh?" Du Changfeng and Cheng Yu were both stunned.
“Their family thought about Wu Dong’s investment at that time, and they could have cooperated.
I thought that if the other party is willing to sell this old house back to me, even if I don't like that family very much, this cooperation can continue.
However, after I brought it up to the other party, the other party didn't give me any face.
Of course, when it comes to buying and selling, one must be willing to buy and the other willing to sell. If they don't want to sell, I can't force them.
Of course, cooperation will not be possible.
At that time, the Hong Kong customer was particularly arrogant. He pointed at me and said that he knew that I had just opened a branch in Hong Kong Island. Although he was not as strong-minded in the mainland, in Hong Kong Island, he had the final say.
Let me be careful.
At that time, I just smiled and said, there is no gangster society in China, I really didn’t think anything of it.”
Cheng Yu responded: "In the end, something really happened to our Hong Kong branch?"
"It's not really an accident. It's just that people often try to cause trouble. It's all harmless means, but if you go through too much trouble, it will become trouble after all. For this reason, I went to Hong Kong Island."
Du Changfeng touched his chin and said slowly: "Seven or eight years ago, I remember that you had a very good relationship with a senior police officer in Hong Kong Island at that time?"
Cheng Guangnian nodded and said: "It's not about how good the relationship is, and at that time, he was not really a senior police officer, he just happened to be in charge of the crackdown on crime. He did help me.
"
These are things that Cheng Yu doesn't understand at all, but Du Changfeng is very knowledgeable.
"Oh, yes, Thompson was promoted to a senior position only five years ago. You know him because his father just retired that year, so your company hired him as a consultant?"
Cheng Guangnian nodded and said: "This is also a practice in Hong Kong. After retirement, many public servants will take up temporary positions in some companies. To put it bluntly, entrepreneurs are taking advantage of their many years of personal connections, and they are also retiring.
Then I could make some money. When I opened a branch on Hong Kong Island, Thompson’s father just retired, and it was thanks to the then president of the Chamber of Commerce that I finally hired him.”
"Then what?" Cheng Yu asked.
"I went to Hong Kong Island and asked Thompson's father. As a retired police officer, isn't it his duty as a consultant to help solve such a matter?
I originally thought there would be some twists and turns, but Thompson's father laughed when he heard it and directly invited his son, Thompson, over.
I explained the cause and effect of the incident, and Thompson told me that he would do something about the association of the Hong Kong visitor's father in the near future.
Yu'er, don't get me wrong, this is not a collusion between government and business. Officer Thompson did not do anything extraordinary, and he never asked Hong Kong Hakka to sell the old house back to me.
But I didn't expect that the situation would turn out like that.
Thompson was only fighting against crime. However, because the Hong Kong society was targeted by the police, other societies also took the opportunity to cause trouble. Even within their society, some people began to target the father and son.
Amid internal and external troubles, he was also closely watched by the police...
I said that the Hong Kong tourist was very arrogant and arrogant. A smart person would definitely find ways to solve the problem in such a situation.
But that guy chose to fall out with other bosses in the club.
He thought he could take advantage of the chaos to take a step further, but his legs were broken by one of his own.
After the accident, Hong Kong's father realized the seriousness of the situation. After investigating, he found that the cause was actually his son causing trouble at the Cheng Group branch. The old man was furious.
I don't know how the society calmed down the situation. On my side, the old man took the Hong Kong guest and came to apologize in person.
The old man said at that time that in order to show his sincerity, he wanted to sell our old house back to me at the original price at that time, which was HKD 630,000.
I did not accept such conditions.
As for me, I don't care even if he gives it to me for free, but doing so may implicate Thompson.
So in the end, after negotiation, he sold the old house to me for 20 million.
And in order not to implicate Thompson, I donated the old house to the Wu Dong government as soon as I got it.
As for the subsequent development, that is a matter for later.”
Cheng Yu knew that the matter regarding this Hong Kong guest was basically over.
After that, Cheng Guangnian will definitely not have any contact with this family again. As the Cheng Group grows larger, the family will never dare to take any revenge against Cheng Guangnian, or even think about it.
.
But this still has nothing to do with why Cheng Qingsong owes a huge sum of money.
"How did grandpa owe so much money?" Cheng Yu did not give up. He felt that the reason why Cheng Guangnian kept this matter secret might be related to why Cheng Qingsong was so short of money.
Cheng Guangnian seemed to have said before that he didn't know about it, but Cheng Yu remembered it clearly. Cheng Guangnian said he didn't know why the old man thought of selling the old house, not that he didn't know why the old man was short of money.
They seem to be of the same origin, and they seem to be the same thing, but Cheng Yu's understanding of his father is much more than superficial.
If Cheng Guangnian didn't deny anything, it meant there was a mystery behind it.
Facing Cheng Yu's question, Cheng Guangnian pondered for a moment and said, "Is this important?"
"The more you avoid the question, the more important it becomes to me."
"But why are you suddenly interested in this kind of trivial matter? Lao Du, you are too quick to talk, right? Even if Yu'er is now half your son, you have to do this for my family.
Tell him?"
Du Changfeng smiled and said: "I told Xiao Yu about this because of my considerations. I think you can guess why I mentioned this, otherwise, you wouldn't have explained it to us for a long time.
The ins and outs of this old house.”
Cheng Guangnian sighed, looked at Cheng Yu, and said, "Let's not ask about this anymore, okay?"
Cheng Yu also insisted. He stared into his father's eyes and said, "No."
"Why?
Don’t you believe that what your father told is the truth?
I have never seen a cent of the money your grandfather made from selling his house.
Maybe part of that money was used at home. After all, when your grandfather sold the house, I was only in my early twenties, and your second uncle, third uncle, and your sister-in-law were still young.
Your grandma passed away early, and it was not easy for your grandpa to support the four of us brothers and sisters."
Cheng Yu still stared into Cheng Guangnian's eyes and said word by word: "I believe you are useless. What I want is that in case someone causes trouble because of this matter, I have someone who can completely convince me."
Reason, I stand by you unconditionally. Even if grandpa gives you all the money, there is really no reason for others to make an issue out of it."
Cheng Guangnian slowly shook his head, sighed and said, "If you know about this, you will be as secretive as me."
"I need to know."
Cheng Guangnian thought for a while and said, "Lao Du, it's not convenient for you to be present for this matter. Can I send it to you?"
Du Changfeng knew that if Cheng Guangnian could say such things to him, it meant that he would never listen to the following story.
So he stood up and Du Changfeng said, "Sit down for a while and let Xiaoyu see me off."
Cheng Yu also stood up and said, "Okay, Dad, I'll take you out."
The two left the study, Cheng Yu followed Du Changfeng.
Du Changfeng suddenly stopped and whispered: "Xiao Yu, in fact, with your intelligence, you can probably guess that what your father is going to tell you is probably related to your grandfather's reputation. Do you know the complete story?
The truth is not important, I think you can actually choose not to know it so accurately."
Cheng Yu still insisted, "I must know."
"The reason why you need to know the truth is that you need to trust your father. But I think knowing this part will not help increase your trust in Guangnian..."
"No, I trust him very much. I trust him 100%. There is another reason why I want to know the truth of this matter."
Du Changfeng frowned and said, "Is it related to Master Cheng?"
Cheng Yu nodded slowly and said, "Well, for some things, I think Cheng Fu may have come into contact with the truth. I'm not sure whether Grandpa's incident has anything to do with Cheng Fu's subsequent actions after he came into contact with that part of the truth, but
Now, I have to take control."
Du Changfeng's brows were furrowed, as if there was nothing worth persuading.
But Du Changfeng couldn't help but wonder how Cheng Qingsong's old story could be related to the so-called truth that Cheng Fu came into contact with.
He also didn't understand what Cheng Yu meant by the truth that Cheng Fu might come into contact with.
But in fact, Cheng Yu himself didn't know much. The reason why he insisted on letting Cheng Guangnian tell the truth was because he suspected that Cheng Fu knew that he had brain cancer. But he didn't know that Cheng Fu really knew that he had brain cancer.
, what kind of behavior will be taken.
In fact, there shouldn't be any connection between Cheng Qingsong's old story and Cheng Yu's brain cancer, but Cheng Yu was just worried.
Perhaps this is some kind of intuitive warning. This is something that cannot be expressed in words. It is just a feeling. Cheng Yu always feels that these two things will intersect if they are not kept in balance.
Therefore, Cheng Yu must break the casserole and get to the bottom of it.
"Okay, then you have a good talk with your father." Du Changfeng patted Cheng Yu on the shoulder and walked into the hall.
After sending Du Changfeng and Wei Lan out of the door and watching them drive away, Cheng Yu returned to the living room.
Everyone is watching the Spring Festival Gala. This should be the first or second program of the Spring Festival Gala, the opening song and dance performance.
"Yu'er, where is your dad?" Ning Kezhu asked.
"He is still in the study. I still have a few words to say to him. He will be over in a moment."
"Talk to your dad carefully and don't make mistakes at every turn." Ning Kezhu warned worriedly.
"Don't worry, I didn't quarrel with him."
Back in the study, Cheng Guangnian looked at Cheng Yu and said, "So long? What did your father-in-law talk to me about before?"
