"That was when he was 12 years old. He told me at that time that he was going to write a groundbreaking book and he would definitely make a lot of money."

"What groundbreaking subject matter?"

Lu Qingxuan couldn't help but think about the development of domestic literature in recent years, and could not think of any subject matter that could be called "groundbreaking".

Chen Chi smiled bitterly and said: "I also want to know. Unfortunately, I still don't know what theme he is talking about."

"You didn't ask him?"

Chen Chi's smile became even more helpless: "I didn't ask."

Lu Qingxuan was silent, Chen Chi said with a smile:

"You must be thinking, why am I so indifferent to this matter and why am I not at all curious about my nephew's affairs?"

Lu Qingxuan felt a little embarrassed about Chen Chi's straight ball problem: "That's not true..."

"It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't believe it at all," Chen Chi told her. "I didn't believe that Chen Ya could write at all. After all, he was only 12 years old at that time!"

Lu Qingxuan was speechless.

It feels like this scene is a bit familiar.

"So, you just took what he said as a joke and didn't ask him? Then, how did you know that he really wrote it?"

Chen Chi smiled, his half-made-up face showing the color of memories:

"To talk about this, I have to tell you what happened in the first few years when we first arrived in the capital. But this story is a bit long. Miss Lu, you still have something to do..."

"I'm fine now." Lu Qingxuan's eyes were firm and her tone was tough, "Let's just have a chat before the wedding to help you relieve your tension."

Chen Chi looked at her gratefully and nodded, as if he was very grateful for her understanding. Then he sorted out his thoughts before slowly starting to say:

"That was when my brother and I had just arrived in the capital for two years. In the first year because we were not familiar with the way of life in the capital, we encountered obstacles everywhere and suffered a lot. Later, we finally settled down.

"We found a basement with a monthly rent of 1,000 yuan. Although it was dark and damp, it was large enough for three people to live in. It was much better than the previous rental house where I had to remind the people next to me if I even stretched my legs.

"There was a policy at that time that some schools were specifically open to the children of migrant workers. Chen Ya and I both went to school there. Although the quality of education was not good, at least there was school to go to.

"Our life is difficult. But I know that it is really difficult for my sister-in-law who stays in my hometown. Our income in the capital has increased a lot, but in my hometown, the income from farming is meager, and we have to take care of two children. Hers

The difficulties can be imagined.

"So, what I have been thinking about is how to go out to work to earn money, and how to help my family alleviate their difficulties.

"I secretly found a part-time job in a restaurant and worked odd jobs every day after school. In three months, I saved a thousand yuan. I filled out the remittance form according to the procedure and sent it to Chen Ya. I told him to take the money.

Subsidize household expenses.

"Soon, he replied and sent the remittance slip back, telling me that he had made a lot of money writing books and that his family no longer had to worry about life."

Lu Qingxuan sat on a stool nearby, with his hands in front of his knees, and listened blankly to Chen Chi's story. The makeup artist was applying makeup for Chen Chi, and his movements were deliberately gentle, as if he was also listening to Chen Chi's story.

Hearing this, Lu Qingxuan's heart lifted.

Perhaps this is the beginning of Chen Ya's entire life experience. It is here that he started from the mountain village to the world, and finally successfully founded Jiang Lizhi.

Lu Qingxuan is a person who pursues excellence. She likes to read celebrity biographies. Listening to Chen Ya's story, she felt as if she was reading a celebrity biography.

Chen Chi continued: "I naturally thought that Chen Ya was just comforting me, but when I went to the bank to go through the formalities, I found that there was an extra 50,000 yuan in my account, and I realized that he was definitely not lying."

"So, have you asked him what he is writing?" Lu Qingxuan asked quickly.

Chen Chi frowned and said, "I seem to have asked, or I haven't asked. It's been too long and I can't remember. But regardless of whether he asked or not, he didn't tell me. At this time, my brother got remarried and married again.

There was a quarrel at home and there was less contact, so I was too embarrassed to get to the bottom of it."

Lu Qingxuan said: "Wait a minute, there's a quarrel with the family? What happened? Didn't you just..."

Her expression was a little stunned. According to the few words she heard from Chen Ya, Chen's father abandoned his wife and children and left his hometown at the beginning, but what Chen Chi said was different.

Chen Chi pursed his lips and said: "Did Chen Ya say that his father abandoned his wife and children and left his hometown in order to marry a young lady from a wealthy family? From his point of view, this is indeed the case, but this does not mean

Not all the truth.”

"Then, what is the truth?"

Chen Chi said: "You think, if he came to the capital to abandon his wife in the first place, why would he bring me and Chen Hai with him? He didn't want to abandon his wife, at least not at that time.

"Ms. Lu, you may not know the background of that era. At that time, a large number of rural people came to the city to work, and my brother was just one of the people who came to the city.

"Going to the city does not mean betraying my hometown, but the countryside at that time was too poor to support so many people.

"The reason why he wanted to take me with him was because my parents died young and I was still in school. He couldn't leave me to my sister-in-law to raise me. That would put too much pressure on my sister-in-law.

"He took Chen Hai and I to work in the capital, and the money we earned was sent home; while my sister-in-law raised Chen Ya and Chen Xi at home. This was what the two of us had discussed from the beginning, otherwise my sister-in-law would not have agreed to him doing this.

leave.

"Looking at it now, it's obvious that going to the capital means a successful career. But at the time, it was hard to say which one was better. After all, for a migrant worker who drifted to the north and had no fixed place to live, how could he say that he would definitely be successful?

good?

"It's just that fate played a joke on everyone. My brother met a noble man, and everything started to look different."

After hearing this, Lu Qingxuan finally understood.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chen Sheng’s story is not as dramatic as Chen Shimei’s, but rather ordinary.

At that time, 600 million people in China successively moved from rural to urban areas, and Chen Sheng was just one of these 600 million.

He didn't come to the capital to abandon his wife and children from the beginning. He came to the capital first, then met Lu Ruixiang, established a relationship, and then flew up a branch and became a phoenix.

At the beginning, he may have really come to the capital to work in order to make money for his family. However, after arriving in the capital, he experienced many things and his mentality changed.

Chen Chi bit her lip. She still had a deeper story hidden in her heart, but she was hesitant to tell it to the eldest lady of the Lu family in front of her.

After thinking about it again and again, she felt relieved. What happened in the past was over, and everything was different from what she expected at the beginning. No matter what she said, nothing would change.

"Actually, it was not Chen Hai that my brother wanted to take away, but Chen Ya."

When Lu Qingxuan heard this, he immediately asked: "Really?"

Chen Chi nodded and said: "Because Chen Ya is a little older. The consideration at that time was that after graduation, the two children brought to the capital can work with the eldest brother to make money. Of course, Chen Ya is more suitable."

Lu Qingxuan asked: "Then why did it become Chen Hai later?"

"Two reasons, one is that Chen Ya won't go no matter what, and the other is that Chen Hai has to go no matter what." Chen Chi smiled bitterly.

"..."

Lu Qingxuan didn't expect it to be like this, and asked after a while: "Why doesn't he go?"

Chen Chi said: "After the eldest brother told Chen Ya their decision at home, Chen Ya was very unhappy. No matter how the eldest brother and sister-in-law explained to him, he firmly believed that this was tantamount to betrayal.

"I still remember what he said at that time. He said that making money actually doesn't matter. There is no need to separate family members just to make money. He just wants his family to live a good life together."

Lu Qingxuan said: "It sounds like something a child would say."

Chen Chi smiled and nodded: "Yes, so no one took what he said seriously until he announced that if his father really wanted to leave, he would sever the father-son relationship with his eldest brother."

Lu Qingxuan raised his eyebrows.

Although she can now empathize with Chen Ya, she now feels that this is a bit too extreme.

"Did he really do that?"

Chen Chi thought for a while and said, "I think, even if he still regarded his eldest brother as his father in the beginning, after his eldest brother divorced and remarried sister Lu Ruixiang, their family would have ceased to exist in name only."

Lu Qingxuan noticed a detail. The "sister-in-law" mentioned by Chen Chi was still Chen Ya's biological mother, and she called Lu Ruixiang "sister".

It can be seen that in her heart, the weight of this later "sister-in-law" in her heart is still not as good as that of the previous one, even though more than ten years have passed.

"My eldest brother only went back once in the first three years of working," Chen Chi said. "That time I went back was to apply for a divorce certificate from my sister-in-law.

"I was very worried that time and went back together. I originally thought that Chen Ya would have a big fight with my eldest brother, but he didn't.

"He just stood aside and watched coldly, watching his elder brother rummaging through the boxes to find a marriage certificate, as if he had already expected such a day.

"After the eldest brother found the marriage certificate, he saw Chen Ya standing aside and wanted to touch his head, but he walked away. This made the eldest brother a little embarrassed.

"The eldest brother suddenly said to him: 'Actually, at first, I wanted to take you to the capital, and now I still think that you may be more suitable for the capital, but that kid Chen Hai is too thief, and he is afraid that I will throw him away.

Here, take you away. So he will never come back alive or dead.'

'You are smarter than Chen Hai, but you are not as good as Chen Hai. Being a chicken thief is different from being smart. A smart person can figure out any problem, but a chicken thief is better at seizing opportunities.'

'The capital is a place where people and thieves are forced. If you want to survive in the capital, you must be good at seizing opportunities. Because opportunities are limited, if you don't seize them, others will snatch your opportunities and trample you until

He will be trampled to death so that you will never fight with him.'

'I know you might hate me, but I'm sorry, I actually have no choice. I have no choice, this is the law of survival in the capital.'

"After the elder brother finished speaking, I can still vividly remember Chen Ya's face. He was neither confused nor sad. There was no expression on his face.

"He said to his eldest brother very calmly: 'So you think that if Chen Hai goes to the capital, he will be more promising and destined to be successful?'

"Brother was very embarrassed when he heard this question, because for everyone, this is common sense. As long as we can stay in the capital, education, medical care, and various resources will be hundreds or thousands of times better than those in rural areas.

"He said: 'You will come to big cities in the future, and everyone will eventually come to big cities. I just want you to remember that you still have a home in Beijing. I am here to lead the way for you.'

"Chen Ya shook his head and said in a calm tone:

"'If you don't have a choice, the one who has less choice than you is my mother; the one who has less choice than the capital is the countryside. Because no one cares about whether there is a choice in the countryside, and no one gives them a chance to choose.'
To be continued...