The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 258 Illegitimate Daughter

When dinner starts in the evening, there is a large table of people. It is lively and everyone enjoys their meal.

Before dinner, Zhou Xingcai privately told his wife Xie Xiuyun that he had returned the one hundred dollars to Jiang Chengcheng yesterday. Xie Xiuyun was relieved, as the one hundred dollars could not be used for food in China, and she still had to spend three hundred dollars.

Zhou Fanyi planned to ask his father-in-law if there were any more foreign exchange matters after dinner.

Zhou Hewang came over halfway through dinner. It wasn't because he came early, but because there were many people eating and there was a lot of food, so dinner was naturally late.

"Uncle is here. It's just right that I'm taking the kids to eat over there." When Zhou Lingying saw Zhou Hewang coming, she immediately picked up her rice bowl, picked up some dishes, and stood up and said.

"You all have a big family here today. I came here after dinner, so don't be so polite." Zhou Hewang said with a smile as he looked at the people in the room.

But even so, after Zhou Lingying gave up her seat, others took it first, and Zhou Hewang still sat next to Zhou Dongming. In this era, people still pay attention to the position of elders at the table, and it is not the case that Zhou Lingying gave up a seat and Zhou Hewang would sit there.

It is still possible to have a drink after dinner. Zhou Dongming and Zhou Hewang both like to have a sip.

"The main reason I came here this time is because of the 500 US dollars Jiang Cheng gave me yesterday. It's just that the price you gave me, Jiang Cheng, might be a little inappropriate~." After Zhou Hewang sat down, he ate two bites of the food, clinked glasses of wine with Zhou Dongming, and then said to Jiang Cheng in front of everyone.

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of several people changed slightly.

Zhou Dongming took one hundred US dollars and gave three hundred yuan to Jiang Chengcheng at noon. In his opinion, the price of three to one was not a big deal, whether it was too high or too low.

Zhou Xingcai smiled faintly. He thought that the exchange rate must be too high. If it wasn't too high, how could it be wrong? No one would complain that the price was too low.

Even Zhou Fanyi had the same idea. He was also wondering if his uncle thought the ratio of three to one was too high. If that was the case, his uncle could get the five hundred yuan for his father-in-law.

"Uncle, what's wrong with it? I got this ratio from my friend in Guangzhou." Jiang Cheng said.

"The price you gave me is too low. If you want to take foreign currency out of the country, you have to report it. When I went to report it today, the leader saw that I had foreign currency and wanted it..." ">~~@%>."

Zhou Hewang and Jiang Cheng slowly talked about things in the company. Anyway, the boss had offered a price of five to one. As long as he could get two thousand dollars, he might be able to make further progress after the Chinese New Year.

Now Zhou Hewang doesn't expect Jiang Cheng to get two thousand US dollars at once. He already has five hundred dollars. If he collects the three hundred that others took yesterday, he only needs to get a little over a thousand.

Zhou Hewang was going to give Jiang Cheng the 500 he got yesterday at a ratio of 5 to 1. After all, he couldn't take advantage of Jiang Cheng according to the price his boss charged. If he could get 2,000 according to the price his boss gave him, he could earn a favor and make further progress in his work.

Zhou Xingcai felt a little unhappy when he heard his uncle's words. He returned the US dollars to Jiang Cheng before dinner. He didn't expect that one hundred US dollars could be exchanged for five hundred RMB.

If they could make a profit of 200 yuan, Zhou Xingcai and his wife would not be able to earn that much even if they went without food or drink for two months.

Zhou Fanyi was a little embarrassed to ask for foreign currency at this time, as his uncle had already offered such a high price. Even if he asked his brother-in-law for it, he had no say on the price.

"Uncle, if you are going abroad to use the money for yourself, you can give me the money at the rate of three dollars. I can't make money from you. If you are going to give it to others, you can give me the money at the rate of four dollars. If someone wants it in the future, we can earn a little together." Jiang Cheng said.

Zhou Hewang pondered for a while. If he lost one dollar, he could get 500 dollars with the 500 dollars. But it was obvious that Jiang Cheng was not doing a one-off business. If he had a source of goods, he could help many people make money.

"Can you get those two thousand US dollars?" Zhou Hewang asked.

"It's not a big problem, but it takes time. Yingying and I came out this time to visit Sijiu City after the New Year. After we return to Changcheng, I will contact my friends in Guangzhou to get it." Jiang Cheng said.

At this time, Jiang Cheng couldn't show that he had too much foreign exchange, but he also admired the leader above his uncle. He wanted two thousand at once, which was equivalent to ten thousand yuan.

You know, the term "ten thousand yuan household" has not become popular yet. After several years, it would be quite impressive to have 10,000 yuan. But now it seems that many people are just relatively low-key and will not show off their wealth.

Jiang Cheng felt that there would be many such "low-key" people. In the future, it would be difficult for a company to earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. But the director of a small hospital could make so much money, and there was also a cadre who could own hundreds of houses, and even use houses to store money.

Those who are really high-profile are often in the transition period because they need the fame. Because of their fame, it is easier to get things done all over the country.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to be a celebrity, with people following him wherever he went. Just like in Hong Kong, his ability was not bad, but his business was too low-level, and his brand was famous, but he himself was not famous.

This is just like selling toothpaste, kitchen knives, and noodles. Maybe everyone has used some branded products, but the founder of this brand is unknown.

Zhou Hewang was happy when he confirmed that his niece-in-law Jiang Cheng could get two thousand dollars. At least he could use the five hundred dollars to go abroad.

Of course, he also has to go to the unit tomorrow to find Director Wang and confirm with his superiors, so he has to wait for the time.

Since this was the case, Zhou Hewang did not get too hypocritical with Jiang Cheng. Even if he used it himself, he would give it to Jiang Cheng at the rate of four yuan. The remaining two thousand yuan was also earned by Jiang Cheng.

Zhou Hewang is not a saint. His unit does have access to many people who need foreign exchange. In fact, even the dancers who went abroad with him this time also wanted to get more foreign currency to bring things to their families, so they were also in need of foreign currency.

This is profitable, and people can owe you a favor, so naturally you will be interested. However, if Jiang Chengzhen can continue to get foreign money, Zhou Hewang will not sell it to others casually.

Obviously, Jiang Cheng also needs time and money to make ends meet. So even if he can get foreign currency, he has to use it wisely. It is not worth it to sell it to ordinary people just for the profit.

Since the price was set at 400, Zhou Hewang also asked his younger brother Zhou Dongming if he had any use for the 100 US dollars. If not, he would give it to him first, also at the price of 400.

Zhou Dongming bought it for fun when his brother asked for it. He made a hundred yuan from it and gave it to Zhou Hewang.

Mother-in-law Liu Xiaofang saw that her husband was also making money from his son-in-law. He gave Jiang Cheng 300 yuan at noon and sold it to his eldest brother for 400 yuan at night. Isn't this making money from his son-in-law? She immediately asked Zhou Dongming to give the extra 100 yuan to Jiang Cheng.

Zhou Dongming didn't deliberately want to earn this hundred yuan. Not to mention this hundred yuan, with the care of his son-in-law Jiang Cheng over the years, if Jiang Cheng had difficulties, it would be no problem to give him a few hundred yuan directly. But Zhou Dongming gave Jiang Cheng a hundred yuan, Jiang Cheng refused, and let his father-in-law earn a hundred yuan to be happy. If someone wants foreign money in the future, let him earn it.

But when Zhou Hewang asked his two nephews whether they had used the 100 yuan, Zhou Fanyi told the truth that the 100 yuan was taken by his wife to his father-in-law.

Everyone knows Zhou Fanyi's situation. If the second son Zhou Xingcai's wife likes to calculate some small things, the eldest son Zhou Fanyi's wife is Gu Niangjia.

Hu Xuan used to take care of her younger brother who went to the countryside. She bought things from Jiang Cheng and sent them to her younger brother. Her father used to be the director of the street office and is now a leader in the district.

Although Hu Xuan took care of her family, it was not the kind of poverty alleviation, but her family had status and economic strength. Hu Xuan was a little bit more supportive of her family, and Zhou Fanyi also received a lot of help from his father-in-law.

Now Zhou Fanyi is also a small cadre in the unit, and he is doing much better than Zhou Xingcai.

So when Zhou Fanyi said that he gave the US dollars to his father-in-law, everyone understood.

Zhou Xingcai was a little embarrassed. He couldn't say that he felt he was being ripped off by his brother-in-law by buying one hundred US dollars with three hundred RMB, so he should return the one hundred US dollars to Jiang Cheng before dinner.

In the end, Jiang Cheng took out the hundred yuan and said that Zhou Xingcai worked in the unit and would return it to him if he didn't need it.

Although it still made Zhou Xingcai feel a little embarrassed, it was better than if he said it himself.

The foreign exchange issue has basically come to an end. Jiang Cheng actually just felt that Zhou Lingying's relatives were doing okay, so he brought them to make some money from foreign exchange.

This path alone will have a market for at least ten years and will allow them to make a lot of money.

But Jiang Cheng doesn't care about this little money. He thinks it would be better to buy a few courtyard houses in the old city in a few years.

Jiang Cheng still remembers some jokes about starting a business in Beijing. Some people sold their house to start a business and made millions. Their business was considered successful and they doubled their money in a few years. But when they wanted to buy the house back, they found that the house price had more than doubled.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to make a profit by buying houses. The houses in Hong Kong needed someone to take care of them just to collect rent. When the time came, he would start "Jiangdonglai" in China. When the land price was not expensive, he could directly approve the land to build shopping malls in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.

Just the land granted by attracting investment will allow Jiang Cheng to have endless wealth in the future. Of course, with his current assets in Hong Kong, he already has more money than he can spend.

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Xiangjiang, a mountaintop villa in Kowloon.

In Hong Kong, polygamy was abolished in October 1971. Why was this system abolished? Because it harmed the interests of the rich. Some young women who smuggled from the mainland even married older men in order to have a place to live.

Some people who don't have much money marry several wives.

Can the rich in Hong Kong tolerate this? Even if the rich play with the poor, they should not let them get away with it.

After the system was abolished, Shen Li became the concubine of a married man before she was sixteen years old.

Now, more than six years have passed, and apart from having two illegitimate daughters, he still has not obtained any status.

Even after six years, Shen Li didn't know where her husband's first wife, 'sister', was. This was why she was a little sad. She volunteered to be a concubine, but the key was that she didn't even have the status of a concubine.

Shen Li wanted to offer her 'sister' a cup of tea, but after six years, she didn't know where her 'sister' lived in Hong Kong.

Moreover, her life as a concubine was quite miserable. Not only did she have no status, but her husband only showed up two or three days a month at most, and he was also busy with a lot of work.

Even if he didn't show up during the Chinese New Year, even if he was a concubine, at least he spent the Chinese New Year with him. Even if he didn't think about her, at least he still had two daughters. Shouldn't an illegitimate daughter spend the Chinese New Year with her dad?

Because they were not married and had no legal status, Shen Li did not even have the qualifications to check how much assets her husband had. She was not after her husband's money. According to Hong Kong's laws, she was not eligible to share her husband's property.

But even if she is an illegitimate daughter, she is eligible to share the family property in Hong Kong, unless the father takes the initiative to declare that he will not give the illegitimate daughter the family property. Because in that case, let alone an illegitimate daughter, even if it is a biological child, the parents have the right not to give their children the family property.

Shen Li didn't want her daughters to share her husband's property, but she hoped that her husband would announce the identities of her daughters and let her two daughters become real daughters, even if they were not legitimate daughters.

Now Shen Li lives in a villa in a wealthy area with her two daughters, but she always has to be secretive when communicating with people here.

Fortunately, things are about to change. Shen Li's husband is going to open a processing plant in the mainland. The wages of workers in Hong Kong are too high now, and going to the mainland can save 90% of the wages.

Shen Li felt that her husband did not dare to disclose their identities in Hong Kong, so she went to the mainland. She felt that her husband was worried that if he disclosed his identity, his "sister" in Hong Kong would know about it, and it would be difficult to deal with.

Shen Li thought that she should just go to the mainland. Since she couldn't see her "sister", she would just avoid her sister. She only hoped that her husband would publicly acknowledge her and her daughter's identities in front of outsiders, even if they were in a remote country.

"Jiang Fei, get off Mommy." Shen Li said to her four-year-old daughter.

"Mommy, I won't get down. When Daddy was here, I slept on you like this." Jiang Fei said coquettishly.

Shen Li was a little embarrassed. It was fine if her daughter imitated her father and lay on her. Maybe she thought she was young and ignorant, so she didn't avoid her in some things.

Now Jiang Fei was not only pressing on Shen Li, but the key was that he was also arching his body like a maggot. He really had to be careful from now on.

The reason why they call each other "Daddy and Mommy" is because the children of the wealthy people in the area call their parents this way. Now I live in a villa in Kowloon. When I was in the New Territories, most people there still called them "Mom and Dad".

Shen Li forcibly took her daughter Jiang Fei off her body. She was thinking about going to the mainland after the New Year. Would her husband Jiang Cheng give her and her two daughters a legitimate status? If she made it public in the mainland, she would never let her "sister" know.

(End of this chapter)