Chapter 59: Hong Kong

 After the Chinese New Year, Ma Zi, who had not contacted Wang Licheng after going to Hong Kong, suddenly called him. Mazi said that he wanted to go back to Pucheng and continue to work in the grocery store without going anywhere.

After Mazi arrived in Hong Kong, his mother took him to a detached luxury house. Mother said this is his future home.

There are two servants in their family, and their mother and son don't have to do anything at home, they are completely like rich wives and rich sons living in the old society.

Mazi didn't feel happy, but felt awkward and uneasy, especially when his mother asked him to wear a suit every day and invited him to study with a teacher.

His mother stayed with him at home every day, until a week ago, a middle-aged man came to find his mother. The two of them closed the door and talked loudly in the upstairs study room. The sound of throwing things attracted Mazi to go upstairs. Worried that his mother would suffer, he stood outside the door and listened to the movement inside, and heard words that made him unacceptable.

"How could you bring that man's child into my house?" He knew that he had made a mistake; he had already brought her out, and even brought her to Hong Kong to feed her and live in her. It made his own house restless, so she secretly went back to the mainland and brought the man's child over without even saying hello to him.

"Have you forgotten the year and month when my son was born? I can remind you that he was born on the tenth day of October, 1974." She married that man for five years without getting pregnant, and after she was raped by him, she became pregnant shortly thereafter. These years, she was only suspicious. Every time she wanted to go back and bring her son to Hong Kong, he would stop her. Even if it was just suspicion, for the sake of her son, she had to confirm this suspicion.

"What do you mean, it's impossible; how could he be my son?" He couldn't believe it, if it was his son, why didn't she say it earlier, why didn't she take their son with her back then.

"I have been married to him for five years and have not been pregnant. It was just that time when I was married to you. I became pregnant not long after. You can calculate the time yourself. Isn’t he your son?" A village woman who does not lay eggs. Because he was drunk and she went out to find her drunken man, the two met on the field ridge late at night, and he raped her in the haystack.

She thought that her life would be easier if she gave birth to a son for her man, but she didn't expect that life would become more difficult, and he would beat her every time he was drunk.

Later, when she heard that the educated youth was going back to the city, she secretly followed the educated youth, and the educated youth brought her back to the city because of his guilt towards her.

After returning to the city, the educated youth married a rich lady under the arrangement of his family. It was also because of Miss Fu's relationship that the whole family went to Hong Kong and took Mazi's mother with them at that time.

Because of the existence of Mazi's mother, the rich lady had many fights with the educated youth. The educated youth explained that he was just pitied Mazi's mother, and no one would believe such nonsense.

After arriving in Hong Kong, they knew that Hong Kong people like to marry concubines, so Mazi's mother naturally became a concubine. She took the initiative to ask to move out. These years, she lived outside alone, and every time the educated youth came over, he only gave her money to spend.

She has always saved the money that the educated youth gave her. Over the years, she has made a little investment and made some money. This time, she is able to go back alone and take her son over.

"Okay, I don't care if what you say is true or not. Let him live if you like. I won't give you any more money, and I don't allow a third person to know about it." It was given by his wife, and he really didn't like the woman in front of him. If it wasn't for being ashamed of her, he wouldn't...

He walked away angrily after speaking, and didn't find the pockmark at the end of the corridor.

Mazi couldn't accept what he just heard, and when the educated youth came out, he instinctively avoided it.

When Mazi's mother came out, she saw her son standing motionless in the corridor, and hurried over to explain to him.

"Son, did you hear what we said just now? Mom has nothing to do with that man. You have to trust Mom. Mom has never done anything wrong to your dad."

"Dad? Who is my dad?" Mazi finished.  Without listening to his mother's explanation, he went back to his room and locked the door and closed the curtains, shutting himself in a dark room.

He was too naive to listen to her words. If mom was really good to him, why didn't she take him with her when she left?

 Now he doesn't even know who his father is.

And lied to him that he had nothing to do with that man, and that a man who had nothing to do with would suspect that the stranger was his child? He's not smart, but he's not stupid either.

How much he hates his father in his mouth, even so, he can't accept a strange man as his father, and all the suffering in his childhood began because his mother ran away with this strange man.

He was ridiculed by the children in the village since he was a child, his mother ran away with someone, and his father was a man who only drinks and beats children.

All this is because of their fault, why did they tricked him into Hong Kong, and somehow added a father who didn't recognize him at all.

Yesterday, his mother told him what happened back then, and repeatedly emphasized that she had nothing to do with that man.

Although she was able to live a good life all these years thanks to him, but what happened that night, she will never forget it for the rest of her life.

After Mazi heard the whole story, it was even more difficult to accept. It turned out that even his mother could not be sure who his real father was.

What made him feel unacceptable was what happened to his mother back then. If he wasn’t the child of that man, then he was the product of his mother being raped by another man.

He sat alone in the room all night, not knowing what to do? The next morning, he called Wang Licheng, he wanted to go back to Pucheng, he wanted to go back to the non-staple food store. Under Wang Licheng's questioning, he told Wang Licheng what happened. It doesn't matter if he is laughed at, Wang Li knows all about the wrong things he has done.

"Mazi, do you think your mother is really good to you?" He knew that Mazi's father treated him very badly, and used to beat him often.

Mazi carefully recalled the past few months when he came to Hong Kong, his mother took care of all his clothes from top to bottom, and even the food on the table was his favorite. Ask the teacher to give him lessons, take him out for shopping, and buy him a lot of things.

These should be really good to him! No one had ever been so kind to him before her.

"It should be."

"Then you stay, stay in Hong Kong, stay with your mother. You are still young; you should learn more cultural knowledge and see the outside world more." There is nothing worthwhile in Pucheng, this is what he remembers, why not stay with those who sincerely treat him well.

If Mazi really returned to Pucheng, with his complacent attitude, it would be very difficult for him to develop.

"Stay in Hong Kong?" Everything here is too unfamiliar to him, and the language barrier makes him afraid to go out alone.

"Yes, stay in Hong Kong, and I may visit Hong Kong after a while, whether you like it or not." Hong Kong, a shopper's paradise, the place he dreamed of in his previous life, all his favorite stars are in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has a prosperous economy, well-developed transportation and convenient life. These are incomparable in the current mainland.

After hanging up Mazi's phone, he did what he said, and asked Xue Zhiyong how to get to Hong Kong, and he and Chen Derong's Hong Kong and Macau Pass were issued together.

Before Wang Licheng hung up the phone, Mazi asked Chen Derong if he would come to Hong Kong to see him. He thought it would be nice to have a companion when the two of them went together, so he promised Mazi on the phone that he would bring Chen Derong to see him. It was this decision that had pitted him for a long time.

It is more complicated to go to Hong Kong. It will be July when the Hong Kong and Macau Passes are issued, and Hong Kong has returned to the embrace of the motherland.

Xiao Hongyan left school in May this year and went back to work in the Propaganda Department. In the first month of her return, she was appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Secretary Section of the Propaganda Department, and officially became a deputy of a department-level cadre.

When she arrived in the new department, except for the first month when she was in a hurry, she has already adapted to the work of the secretarial department very well. The chief of the secretarial department is an old acquaintance of Zeng Lihua, and he also takes good care of Xiao Hongyan.

The economy is picking up, and the food factory feels the most obvious. The dealer who only ordered 30,000 goods in the same period last year, the first call this year is to get 100,000 goods. The business in the Jiangcheng store has also improved significantly, and the workers in the factory who have been idle for a year have started intense production again.

Thanks to the profit made by the garment factory last year, Wang Licheng's 5 million loan has been paid off, and he is debt-free. Now he only wants the food factory and garment factory to make more profits as soon as possible. This year he will go to Hong Kong.

The Asian financial crisis broke out this year, and he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

The domestic stock market does not have the method of short selling (buying or selling), let alone the method of short selling the stock index. Once the stock market encounters a bear market (slump), you can only choose to sell at a high point to avoid disaster, and then buy at a low point and wait for the rise. During a bear market, the stock market is bleak, and almost no one can make money.

But the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong is different. A single stock can only be bullish, but the Hang Seng Index can be played in two ways: buying and selling.

No matter how big the bull market (big rise) in the stock market is, it will not be able to double the stock price in a short period of time. The bear market is different. Once it encounters Waterloo, the stock price will plummet and drop by the limit every day.

Wang Licheng wanted to sell short at a high point before the financial crisis broke out, and then sell it at a low point to make quick money.

The idea is very good, but the reality is very skinny. When he prepared the 3 million cash from the two factories, he realized that he could not bring so much cash through customs, and remittances to Hong Kong can only be remitted to a maximum of 50,000 US dollars a month. .

After Wang Licheng remitted the money from the bank, he was a little depressed. He was distressed because he could only withdraw 3 million and felt that the money was too little. Now he is not even allowed to bring 3 million. With such a good opportunity in front of him, he can only watch it slip away, how unwilling he is!

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