3. Chapter 3 Panic of Powerlessness
Cheng Mingxuan stormed into Cheng Jizhou's study aggressively and saw his grandfather lying on the imperial chair with his eyes closed and meditating. Rich families have always been well-educated. In the past, Cheng Mingxuan would never have dared to disturb him, but now, he
He felt a ball of fire burning in his body, making him restless.
"You inexplicably asked them to lock me up just to get me a wife?" Cheng Mingxuan stood in front of Cheng Jizhou's recliner and said angrily.
Cheng Jizhou didn't open his eyes, "Don't even call me grandpa, you, yours, no matter how big or small!"
Cheng Mingxuan half-knelt in front of his grandfather, shook his legs, and said coquettishly, "Grandpa, if you don't obey me, you still have to go to school! I've missed so many classes! Mr. Lu should be anxious!"
Cheng Jizhou opened his eyes and glanced at Cheng Mingxuan, "You have already heard about it, so I won't hide it from you. Your daughter-in-law is Yu Lanzhi, the daughter of Yu Laoba of the Yu family. Your second uncle did it all. It can't be wrong.
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"I knew it was my second uncle! Grandpa, please don't listen to him, okay?"
"Why do you listen to him? You are already seventeen. It's time to marry a housewife and calm down. Don't hang around with that foreign devil all day long." Cheng Jizhou said sincerely.
"I don't care! Anyway, I have never seen anyone from the Yu family or the Bird family. How do you know whether I like her or not? I will definitely not marry her. Grandpa, I want to go to France with Mr. Lu.
, that free country can realize my ideals and ambitions!"
Cheng Jizhou was so angry that his beard stood up straight, "What a bastard! Are you going to France? You are the eldest grandson of our Cheng family. Your ideals and ambitions can only be the Cheng family compound and the Cheng family's business! Where are you?
I can’t go either!”
Cheng Mingxuan stood in front of his grandfather with neither humility nor arrogance, "Grandpa, I have never cared about the Cheng Family Courtyard or the Cheng Family Shop. China is so backward because of a group of capitalists like you who are stuck in their own ways and have no ideals or ambitions! I won't
People like you live guarding these coffins all day long."
That place full of dreams was the ideal paradise that Mr. Lu sketched for him, and it carried all the sustenance of Cheng Mingxuan's young and wild life.
"Look, look what that foreigner has taught you? You're almost going crazy!"
Cheng Mingxuan watched his grandfather's beard curl up and up, and the hand pointing at him trembled. He knew that the old man was really angry, "Really, grandpa, Chinese people should learn from Westerners how to achieve national independence and national independence."
You have to save yourself, otherwise you will always be bullied by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces and let the little Japanese do whatever they want! I know that the Cheng family's large business is all your hard work, but Mingyuan is also your grandson, so leave it to him. I just want to think about myself.
The life you want!”
Cheng Jizhou stood up and said, "Fart! It's all fucking fart! Do you think you can make the decision? Do you think you can give it to others just by saying you give it to others? Let me tell you, you were born in this compound.
It’s doomed for you, and the path you’re going to take, unless...unless you’re like your father, who is taken away by your grandma early!”
Cheng Mingxuan was still unwilling to give in and turned to Cheng Jizhou, "Grandpa! Can you take a longer-term view of the world? The current political situation in the country is unstable, with internal and external troubles. It is not a good time to develop industry at all. Tell me something you don't want to hear.
, our little family wealth will be swallowed up by this crazy era sooner or later... Please let me go out and have a look, Grandpa!"
The last thing Cheng Jizhou could bear to hear was that his Cheng family was going to be in dire straits.
The Cheng family has been a well-known big family in Fuxin City as early as the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Any business that can make money these days is indispensable for the Cheng family shop. Even in bad times, the Cheng family shop can always turn danger into safety. Some people say
The old house of the Cheng family has good feng shui. Some people say that the Cheng family's ancestors were virtuous, while others say that the Cheng family's background is too strong and they all rely on the distant "cousin" who is the servant of the imperial court.
In fact, the future generations of Cheng family masters and young men no longer know how that "cousin" behaved, and from which life he should start talking about it, and it has become unimportant.
Cheng Jizhou took over the Cheng family shop from his father when he was in his early twenties. At the age of thirty, he established his business in the capital. At the age of forty, he became a supernumerary firm of the Nanjing Presidential Palace. Everyone who does business in Fuxin City is a fan of this popular business.
The most popular "giant businessmen" paid homage to him.
He had to admit that times were bad, the Qing government was at the end of its rope, the Eight-Power Allied Forces robbed Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi died in desolation, the government repeatedly ceded territory and paid compensation, and then ushered in the Revolution of 1911, and after that, the Republic of China, and the war
There has never been any interruption.
History has swallowed up Cheng Jizhou's ambition so heavily. He is old and really feels powerless. No one knows the fear in his heart about this era. He doesn't know that when this family business is passed to his precious grandson,
Chapter completed!