After the opening of the first Yanyu Department Store, it immediately became a landmark in the area. The mall attracted a large number of people to the surrounding area, and Fangzhuang Community also slowly developed.
Wang Gang was facing the spring breeze and his career was developing more and more smoothly, but there were problems at home.
In 1991, Li Shufen passed away. Wang Gang and He Yuyu held a grand funeral for her. All the neighbors in the courtyard came to express their condolences.
In accordance with Li Shufen's last wish, Wang Gang buried her and Yi Zhonghai together. Although the two never remarried until their deaths, they slept together after their deaths.
After Li Shufen died, the two rooms in her name were given to He Yuzhu and He Yuyu's brother and sister respectively, so He Yuzhu had four rooms in the compound.
But he no longer lived in the courtyard at that time.
After the first phase of Fangzhuang Community was built, Wang Gang and He Yuzhu built a bungalow and became neighbors.
They didn't sell their original house, they just left it there.
Wang Gang also built some courtyard houses when he had the opportunity. They were cheap anyway. A small courtyard house only cost 10,000 yuan. However, it was a little worn out and needed to be renovated at a high cost.
In 1992, Wang Gang's son Wang Yan and He Yuzhu's son He Tian took the college entrance examination at the same time. He Tian was admitted to Beijing University, but Wang Yan failed.
This made Wang Gang and He Yuyu realize that they had focused on their business these years. Although their careers were becoming more and more successful, they had neglected their only son.
He Yuyu blamed himself. Wang Gang asked his son's opinion whether he wanted to repeat his studies for another year or go out to study.
As a result, Wang Yan said that he did not want to study and wanted to learn business, which made Wang Gang very angry.
However, Wang Gang did not beat or scold his son. Instead, he took him to the company and asked him to work with him for a month.
During this period, Wang Gang asked Wang Yan that he could only read, not speak, and write down his feelings every day.
As a result, in less than half a month, Wang Yan went back to repeat his studies and prepare for the college entrance examination next year.
As the scale of Yanyu Company grows larger and larger, and it is involved in more and more industries, Wang Gang needs to learn more and more things. The intensity of work and study is simply not comparable to that of school.
After Wang Yan realized that doing business was more difficult than studying, he immediately returned to school and concentrated on studying. The next year, he was actually admitted to university. Although it was not the most prestigious school, it was also a key university.
But Wang Gang may have given him too much stimulation. Wang Yan ignored Wang Gang's objections and gave up the business school and enrolled in the liberal arts college instead.
This time Wang Gang almost lost his temper and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
I have worked hard all my life to build a huge family business, but my only son still doesn't want to take over. Do you think Wang Gang is in a hurry?
Over this matter, Wang Gang and He Yuyu had their first quarrel.
He Yuyu believed that with their family's current wealth, they would not be able to spend it all in ten lifetimes. Wang Gang had already achieved the original small goal of 100 million. Wang Yan did not need to inherit his father's legacy, and it was good to study with peace of mind.
Wang Gang believed that He Yuyu's loving mother often failed, and Wang Yan wanted to study literature not because of preference, but to avoid responsibility.
The couple got married in 1966 until their son was admitted to college in 1993. They were as loving as ever and never had a single quarrel. This time, they almost lifted the roof off the house for their son's sake.
In the end, He Yuzhu and Ran Qiuye came over after hearing the sound and separated the couple, so the fight stopped.
However, He Yuyu still moved back to his old house and separated from Wang Gang to support his son with actions.
In anger, Wang Gang cut off all his son's pocket money and even refused to pay tuition fees. He threatened He Yuyu with divorce if he gave his son even a penny.
After all, He Yuyu didn't really want a divorce. After arguing with Wang Gang, he finally managed to get his son's tuition fees. However, Wang Gang never gave in on living expenses and let Wang Yan earn it on his own.
Wang Yan is also adamant. He doesn't need living expenses at home and can earn living expenses by working and studying part-time.
Only then did Wang Yan realize how hard it was to make money, and how difficult it was for Wang Gang to build this family business. Suddenly he understood why his father insisted on him taking over.
Although Yanyu is a family business, it has tens of thousands of employees behind it and hundreds of thousands of families rely on the company for a living. Wang Gang wants to train successors, who not only have business acumen, but also have a sense of social responsibility.
In his sophomore year, Wang Yan secretly took economics as an elective. When Wang Gang learned about it, he comforted him.
The Wang family's side is calm, but the courtyard is not stable.
Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong, seeing Wang Gang and He Yuzhu making a fortune from business, also started to think about going into the sea, and decided to start a business partnership as in the original plot.
Later, the two met Li, the former deputy director of the steel rolling mill, and embarked on the road of smuggling. As a result, they were deceived and lost all their money.
Forget it that Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong were unlucky for themselves, they also caused many people in the courtyard to suffer, especially the third uncle Yan Bugui. They invested all their pensions, but they were investigated by the customs and were left with huge losses.
Liu Haizhong and the third aunt were both hospitalized for cerebral hemorrhage. The second aunt asked her son to pay the hospitalization fee. As a result, the three sons became hand-off shopkeepers and refused to take out a penny.
The same goes for the third aunt. Yan Bugui lost all his pension and looked for support from his children, but no one came forward with the money.
Because He Yuzhu did not live in the compound and was busy with work, he opened one branch after another in Chuanxiangfu.
When he heard the news and rushed to the hospital, Liu Haizhong and the third aunt had died, and the second aunt almost died in her excitement.
Yan Bugui later found He Yuzhu and said that he wanted to sell the house for his wife's funeral.
How could He Yuzhu agree? He said that he would first borrow some money from Yanbu and finish the funeral.
Yan Bugui didn't agree, and he had the guts to take out the real estate certificate and insist on giving it to He Yuzhu.
He Yuzhu couldn't resist him, so he bought a house in Yanbugui at a price 20% higher than the market price.
After getting the money and finishing the funeral, Yan Bugui rented a small house of less than five square meters in Sijiucheng and relied on his pension to support his retirement. He died alone within a few years.
The same goes for the second aunt. None of her three sons were willing to accept her, so she had no choice but to sell her house to support her in old age, which left her a little earlier than Yan Bugui.
Time passed little by little, and Jia Zhang's body could no longer hold on. After he passed away, the house was left in jeopardy to his grandson.
Banggeng kicked both sisters out on the grounds of marriage.
Fortunately, Xiaodang and Huaihua worked as salespersons in Yanyu Department Store. Their income was not low, and they were good-looking. They found two local people to marry and married themselves out.
However, the brother and sister never interacted with each other.
Bangge got a house, and later found a woman with a rural registered permanent residence. However, because she didn't have a good job and her education was low, they got divorced soon after, and his wife was still clamoring to share his room.
Only then did Banggeng realize how good his family was. He went back to find his two sisters, but was rejected.
In the end, Banggan had no choice but to sell the house to He Yuzhu. After getting the money, he gave some money to his ex-wife and then disappeared into the courtyard.
Wang Gang learned that He Yuzhu had become a big landlord in a large courtyard, with almost ten houses to his name. He couldn't help but laugh at him because he had the ability to buy all the houses of other neighbors.
As a result, He Yuzhu was really interested and contacted many neighbors and expressed his willingness to buy a house 20% higher than the market price.
Many neighbors were moved. In addition, after entering the 1990s, buildings with independent toilets became popular. Such large courtyards were not popular, and many people wanted to sell them.
As a result, in 1995, except Xu Damao's room, all the houses in the courtyard were owned by He Yuzhu.
Xu Damao became a key tenant in the courtyard, and Wang Gang was finally forced to step forward.
