fictionpage Chapter 652: Fortune Turns Around
Chapter 652: Fortune Turns Around
The world depicted by Sijiucai (a pseudonym) can be found in "1990 I'm Back".
That evening, Zou Dan returned home. Overwhelmed with excitement, she rushed into the house without even tidying up her shoes.
In the living room, her husband, Ji Conglin, was watching TV. Seeing his wife return, he asked with concern, "You're back! Have you heard from your older sister and your mother?"
Zou Dan didn't answer, but instead walked to the sofa and asked Ji Conglin a question: "Honey, do you know who the richest person in Asia is?"
Ji Conglin was watching a TV series. His eyes were glued to the screen as he absentmindedly replied, "Anyway, it's not me. Why should a working-class person like me, who earns one and spends two, care about this?"
Zou Dan was very dissatisfied with Ji Conglin's answer. She plopped down next to him and shoved him in annoyance: "I'm talking to you! Can't you be a little more serious?"
Ji Conglin retorted, "Stop fooling around, I'm watching TV!"
To everyone's surprise, Zou Dan grabbed the remote control from the coffee table and turned off the TV.
Ji Conglin was now in a panic. He had been following this TV series for a long time, and the plot was at a crucial moment. But damn it, this old woman was going to cause trouble again.
"I'm telling you, my son just fell asleep. I rarely have a little free time, so stop making a fuss and give me the remote right now."
At this moment, Zou Dan said arrogantly, "Let me tell you, Ji Conglin, you'd better treat me better from now on. Do you know who I am?"
"Who are you? You're my wife, the mother of my son. What do you want?" Ji Conglin sometimes had a real headache with his troublesome wife.
Zou Dan was very dissatisfied with Ji Conglin's answer and said smugly, "Tch! Let me tell you, I'm the sister of Asia's richest man!"
Ji Conglin thought his wife was delirious. He nudged Zou Dan's forehead with the back of his hand: "What's wrong? She doesn't have a fever. Why are you talking nonsense? There are only two sisters in your family, where did you get a brother? Is he your father's illegitimate child?"
Zou Dan slapped Ji Conglin's hand away: "I'm not joking with you, it's true, he's my aunt's youngest son, my cousin. Didn't the newspapers publish a lot of news about him a couple of years ago? Have you forgotten? You even said he was too young back then."
Ji Conglin knew that his mother-in-law had an older sister and a younger brother, but since he met Zou Dan and got married more than ten years ago, he had never met these two legendary elders. He also found this strange, but since it was his mother-in-law's family matter, it was not convenient for him to ask. Besides, it had little to do with him, so he was too lazy to care.
Now that his wife has suddenly come back and said this, he is still somewhat skeptical.
He looked his wife up and down: "Really? We've been married for so long, and our son is all grown up. How come I didn't know you had a cousin? Your family's relatives are really well-hidden!"
Zou Dan didn't want to discuss her aunt and uncle with Ji Conglin, so she evaded the question by saying, "Do you know where my eldest sister and brother-in-law are with my mother right now?"
Ji Conglin casually replied, "Shanghai, of course, I know that!" After all, he and his wife had spent a lot of money on his mother-in-law's medical treatment in Shanghai, which pained him greatly, so he knew this matter better than anyone else. Moreover, Ji Conglin also knew that if his son hadn't been unable to leave without someone to take him, Zou Dan might have gone to Shanghai as well.
"Hong Kong! You didn't expect that, did you? My cousin personally arranged a private jet to take her there, a private jet! And let me tell you, the hospital my mom is staying in now is the best hospital in all of Asia. Do you know who owns that hospital?" Zou Dan boasted to Ji Conglin with a proud look on her face.
"Whose?" Although Ji Conglin had a general idea in his mind, he didn't want to be Zou Dan's straight man, so he didn't say what Zou Dan wanted to hear.
Zou Dan glared at Ji Conglin with displeasure, as if he were an idiot: "Of course it belongs to my cousin."
Ji Conglin couldn't stand Zou Dan's smug face, so he poured cold water on her: "Tch! Your cousin has money, but it's not yours. Why are you so excited? We've known each other for so long and we've been married, and I don't even know how many cousins you have, or what they look like. I don't think you two have any contact. They probably don't even know you, but you're so excited in front of me."
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Zou Dan was furious that the man had ruined her plans to show off. She grabbed a cushion from the sofa and started hitting Ji Conglin.
"Stop hitting him! Stop hitting him! We'll wake our son up!" Seeing that his wife was really angry, Ji Conglin quickly grabbed the cushion and begged for mercy in a low voice.
After Zou Dan calmed down and sat down, she began to daydream again.
"Conglin, my cousin is so good to my mom! He even sent a private jet to take her to Hong Kong for medical treatment. It seems like my cousin is a pretty good person. That's what I'm thinking. I'll go to Hong Kong to see my mom first, and then..."
Before Zou Dan could finish speaking, Ji Conglin poured cold water on her: "Then you should hurry back and take care of the child."
"Ji Conglin," Zou Dan spat out the man's name through gritted teeth, indicating that she was about to explode.
Ji Conglin retorted confidently, "Don't you find this strange? You have such a powerful relative, yet you and your family have never mentioned him. That doesn't make sense!"
To be honest, Zou Dan didn't know much about her parents' generation. She had only vaguely heard her parents talking about severing ties, but she didn't know the specifics.
Upon hearing Ji Conglin's question, Zou Dan was also puzzled. It seemed that only her parents knew the truth about this matter, and she should ask them properly.
Zou Weifeng, alone at home, tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Perhaps the heating was too strong, as Zou Weifeng felt hot all over. He decided not to sleep at all and went from the bedroom to the living room to drink a glass of cold water.
Then I opened the balcony window, sat down by the window, and lit a cigarette.
He knew about the feud between Zeng Liping and her family, but he didn't want to get involved. In the 1970s, he was a descendant of the working class with impeccable revolutionary credentials and was also a cadre. He supported Zeng Liping's actions at the time, and he also looked down on his mother-in-law's family, which belonged to the old bureaucratic capitalists.
So, in the decades he was married to Zeng Liping, he never visited her family home. Zeng Liping herself only went back to her parents' home a few times, but she always returned listlessly. Eventually, she simply stopped going, and slowly she even forgot that she had this relative.
It's truly unbelievable! Like begets like, and even a rat's son knows how to dig holes. There really is a genetic component to this. Now, this person has become a big capitalist. The most ridiculous thing is that Zeng Liping now has to rely on her family, which she has always disliked, to prolong her life. It's truly a case of the wheel of fortune turning.