Chapter 594

Cheng Army Supervisor's affair simply couldn't be hidden. Just as Han Chunming said, the neighbors, relatives, and friends all had an understanding of Cheng Army Supervisor; he was a petty person who cared about face. Not showing his face or returning home for a long time explained the problem well enough, and gossip had long since filled the sky.

However, this situation couldn't last for long. Real-life heat and internet heat are equally limited. It's just that information is rampant in the internet age, and the retention time of heat is too short. By comparison, the heat in real life lasts a bit longer.

Cheng's father and mother's vague answers—whenever asked, they would just say Cheng Army Supervisor was busy—kept this heat for a longer time, because people would say a few words about Cheng Army Supervisor whenever they had nothing to do. After seeing Cheng's father and mother greet them with a smile, they would turn around and gossip with the people they were with, every word stinging Cheng's father and mother's hearts.

This situation only gradually disappeared after lasting for more than a year, only occasionally being mentioned. The time it was mentioned most was during the New Year. No matter how busy, one couldn't not come back for a reunion for several years, not to mention there were children; not even taking a look, what a cruel heart one must have to do such a thing. So everyone had a tacit understanding: Cheng Army Supervisor had likely gone in again, and the sentence wasn't short.

Compared to Cheng Army Supervisor, who used to be filial but now no one knew where he had died, the couple Guan Ziqing and his wife, who used to be called unfilial by the neighbors, became the filial son and daughter-in-law praised by everyone.

People all said that Guan Ziqing and his wife gave up their comfortable life in America and returned to Beijing, which was backward and poor by comparison, making them absolutely filial children. After all, if it were an ordinary person, how many could make such a decision? That was the center of the world, the beacon of freedom, the rich America...

Just as Han Chunming said when eating mutton hot pot at the beginning of '89, this couple bought a restaurant, and later it was Han Chunming running around, helping them buy an apartment not far away. They actually wanted to suffer a bit and live in Old Guan's small courtyard, but Old Guan wouldn't have it.

This couple didn't want to live in a courtyard because they felt everything was inconvenient and not clean. Han Chunming told them very seriously that courtyard houses would definitely skyrocket in value, but they didn't believe it and looked down on that bit of money even more.

American dollars exchanged for Chinese currency were really hard to spend in the country. They had several hotels and inns in America, and a pretty good big house; adding it all up, that was over a million American dollars, which meant they were millionaires in Chinese currency. At a time when being a "ten-thousand-yuan household" in the country still had some gold content, this was a huge fortune. This couple didn't even look down on Han Chunming, feeling that what he did were all small, edge-of-the-law businesses...

Although they might cry to death later, this was an insignificant matter. What was important was that this couple returned to China to play the role of filial children and grandchildren. Basically, every day they had to return to Old Guan's place to take a look, show some favor, find a sense of existence, and perform filial piety. Although Old Guan looked like he didn't care for it, he still liked it a bit in his heart, even though he knew that his unfilial son and disrespectful daughter-in-law were just after his inheritance.

Mostly, it was because people grow old and see that line between life and death. If Old Guan were thirty years younger, could still take care of himself, and still had that spirit, then he absolutely wouldn't bother with such a biological son. Ultimately, he was old, and in the middle of the night, he had already started playing movies, started looking back on this life; this was a very complex emotion...

Without Su Meng's tossing and turning, and without Cheng Army Supervisor making trouble behind the scenes, Han Chunming's life was two words: smooth sailing.

Han Chunming's business wasn't small; he had a factory making electronic products in the south, and he also participated in the real estate business. In Beijing, besides several restaurants, he also started doing some municipal projects. For example, tearing down houses, building roads, etc.; although it was hard-earned money, it wasn't the kind of hard work of bending over and digging on a construction site, and the so-called hard-earned money was also a significant amount. When Old Su's eldest brother collapsed, he even got involved. After so many years, he could be considered to have a deep foundation and the aura of a big company. If he continued to develop, he might even be able to create a top 500 company in China.

Actually, since he started doing business, except for being caught because of goods flowing north and south before the opening up, and Wang Yan saving him once, he basically hadn't provided any help to Han Chunming. To have today's achievements, it was more that he had done it himself, accumulating a huge family fortune bit by bit. Of course, there were various things like bribing his way through, but let alone China, the whole world was like that, and these relationships were all exchanged by himself. Originally, there was Yang Huajian, so there were still some ways in this regard.

In addition, he had also cooperated with Ma Du on some things. Ma Du himself was very average, but he knew many unusual people. Having drunk wine together for so many years, of course, sometimes he would help out. This could be considered Wang Yan's side help; after all, without him in the middle, the two of them wouldn't have had the possibility of cooperation. However, as for the private friendship, it was the two of them themselves.

Besides business matters, daily life was also very harmonious. Cai Xiaoli was truly a virtuous wife and mother, a virtuous helper; whether it was at home or in business, she handled everything in perfect order, saving Han Chunming a lot of trouble. The most important thing, of course, was Han Chunming's brothers and sisters. With Cai Xiaoli blocking them, although they had always wanted to manage people and be leaders, it was basically useless. Just as Wang Yan thought before, he just gave some money to subsidize their lives, and gave some support when they didn't have enough room at home to buy a house, ensuring their lives weren't bad; this was doing his best.

The result was no surprise. The relationships in the Han family looked harmonious, but in fact, it was also a mess, stemming from people's greed for getting something for nothing. One by one, they had no ability, but opened their mouths wanting to be managers and leaders, managing others and showing off. They had worked properly for half a lifetime without becoming a team leader, yet they wanted to be promoted on the spot, and when they couldn't, they complained that their own brother was stingy, complaining that he gave too little; it would be strange if family relationships could be good.

Besides these, there was his son, Han Yi, who was well taken care of. This little brat's grades were passable, his health was quite good, and he had learned a few moves from Wang Bin, practicing for many years, and was Wang Bin's good brother. The two were in the same elementary school, the same middle school, and had fought their way up by wrestling and butting heads; these two stinky brats were quite impressive.

It was just that their studies weren't great, and Wang Bin was the same. Although deeply influenced by Wang Yan, Wang Bin, this little brat, had been reading books, newspapers, and writing big characters since he was a child, but these things had nothing to do with exams. After all, he read more literature, history, and philosophy, rather than science books. During exams, history, geography, and Chinese were considered better, while others basically hovered in the passing range.

No one at home cared about poor grades. It was just that when Old Su was alive, she always rambled about wanting him to get into a good university, wanting him to get into a good university. On a winter night in '93, Old Su passed away in her sleep and never woke up again; when she was discovered, it was already the next day. At that time, Old Su's hands were folded on her chest, her face was natural, and there was even a smile on the corner of her mouth; she left very peacefully, without suffering.

After that, no one rambled about Wang Bin's grades anymore, but after that, Wang Bin invested some energy into boring studies; he had a good relationship with Old Su, having been brought up by her since he was a child.

Su Meng, this biological mother, although she felt the grades were terrible, not comparing to Wang Yan, this genius, she couldn't even compare to her. However, she had never managed it. After all, Wang Yan could donate the cultural relics in that huge mansion, and she knew there were several other mansions in the family and antiques in the mansions, shares in the southern company, and the annual salary of Wang Yan, this chairman of "China Long Teng," was over a million; her own son would never have to worry about life again, so there was no problem.

Anyway, she lived freely, comfortably, and carefree, and didn't want to manage her own stinky brat who made her angry.

With Wang Yan's relationship, even though Wang Yan had never greeted anyone to say they should take care of Su Meng, there were still people who knew the relationship between the two. Not to mention anything else, just Su Meng's good friend Li Yuan helping to show off, it had already spread. What's more, even though Wang Yan's confidentiality level was very high, he was after all a public celebrity, and this thing couldn't be hidden.

It was also because of this relationship that Su Meng's official career was very smooth, and her relationship with colleagues was also very harmonious. She didn't fight or grab, just worked step by step, very smoothly going from deputy section chief to deputy division chief.

However, just like in the original drama, when the wave of "jumping into the sea" (quitting jobs to do business) came in the 90s, she still chose to resign.

The reason in the original drama was that before, in '85, Han Chunming was tossing cars and was messed with by Cheng Army Supervisor, which affected Su Meng, leading to her failure to be promoted to deputy section chief. Later, her good friend Li Yuan became a deputy division chief and truly became a leader; she couldn't accept being led by her good friend, so she resigned to do business. Now it was different; it was because she lived too comfortably, too peacefully. Every day was such a dull life, without a single ripple, it was really meaningless, and she had had enough.

After all, Wang Yan was there, so her official path was really different from others. It was still a cheap disease of people; one really couldn't be peaceful, life should have some ripples, and there should always be something to do, something one could invest in.

And another point was that Liu Jinyou, this old fat kid, was doing bigger and bigger business and was somewhat unable to handle it, so he expressed to Su Meng the intention of letting her resign to do business. After considering it for some days, it happened to be the winter when Old Su left, and she wanted to find something to do to divert her attention, so she naturally resigned.

She felt this was a correct choice, busy every day, working with great enthusiasm, and she found new happiness. After all, in her current work, not everyone knew her husband was Wang Yan, not everyone took care of her, and she was doing unfamiliar work in an unfamiliar field; besides the screaming between the sheets, she found a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling, a feeling called "tired," called "exhausted."

As for Wang Yan himself, of course, he was still peacefully doing his research. The "Dali Wan" (power pills) had long been selling out in Europe and America; these sales were all in American dollars. Just this one item's foreign exchange income had already exceeded the total export volume of other commodities in the country during this period; one could imagine how huge such a gold mountain was. With more foreign exchange, that is, more money earned from abroad, the country's currency could be issued more, and the country's development could be better.

At such a time before opening up, how much contribution such a group that was unreasonably "sickling" (harvesting wealth) made naturally didn't need to be said.

Having earned so much money, the investment in scientific research was naturally insanely high, and the projects Wang Yan was focusing on were advancing rapidly. Computers had long been manufactured and had undergone two rounds of iteration, and the response to the sales was not bad. Because of the rapid development of the computer industry, the price of ordinary computers was now far lower than in the same period, only a few thousand yuan. Of course, this was ordinary binary; his ternary was much more expensive because the performance was the best. Of course, no matter how low the price was, it was still something that people with a salary of only a few hundred yuan couldn't hope for. It was really too early for computers to enter thousands of households.

However, because the price of computers was lower, many people invested huge sums of money to open internet cafes, and many companies also had many computers. This had a huge impact on the development of the internet; this was a trend, and people with sharp eyes could see it. There were already many companies developing well that were doing these things. One could imagine that in this world, the development of the internet would be even better. This was not to mention Wang Yan personally entering the field; he was truly "dimension-reduction striking," the kind where others had no way to live. It was just that he hadn't done it. Where possible, he was more inclined to be the one "digging the well."

Space shuttles, space stations, etc., were also conquering technology on one side and building synchronously on the other. As for modifications along the way, etc., that was not in consideration; it was just that there was a lot of money, and one could afford to play by launching rockets every day to hear the sound.

In addition, other project results emerged one after another, and many technological by-products were improvements for people's livelihood. For example, mobile phones for calls, signal towers being erected everywhere, clothes made of new materials that people wore, etc.

In this world, China's technological development was bound to be better, about two or three years faster than the same period. This was all brought by Wang Yan. Of course, it was not to promote individual heroism, because behind him were hundreds of thousands of researchers studying day and night, millions of workers in related industries working hard, and tens of millions of family members supporting and understanding, only then was there today's achievement...

Summer of '95, in the suburbs far from the second ring road of Beijing, in front of a newly built, antique-style place with a plaque hanging at the entrance that read "Guanfu Classical Art Museum."

"You really managed to pull it off, kid." Wang Yan laughed and patted Ma Du's arm: "Everything else is quite good, it's just that your place is too remote."

Ma Du smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Lord Wang, it's not bad that there's a place for me to build and let me open a museum. There are too many buildings in the city, and there's simply no such a large piece of land."

"That's true, but your thinking is still rigid. If you can't go horizontally, then go vertically. Building ten or eight stories is no problem at all; it's not like you don't have money."

"That doesn't have the feeling of being down-to-earth. I still like this; it's comfortable. Being far is just being far, it doesn't matter. It's not like there are no cars; it's just that the time on the road is a bit long. But I don't run back and forth when I have nothing to do, so I can accept it."

"That's true, everyone has their own preferences. When I came just now, I circled around it. Your place has mountains, water, and forests; it's really not bad." Wang Yan nodded: "Alright, you go greet others; I'll just go in and stroll around by myself."

"Han Chunming and Lord Hou and the others have all come and are inside. Oh, right, that kid Wang Shuo also came over to join the fun."

Wang Yan waved his hand, didn't say anything, and strolled inside...