Old Man Han felt as though something had lodged in his chest, making it hard even to breathe.
Back then, he had thought that losing this daughter was no great loss! Since they had already fallen out, he had never expected her to be filial to him again anyway.
Besides, Li Zhongfa had been about to retire then. Once a man left, his tea went cold—how useful could he still be?
But who could have imagined that the world was so unpredictable? In just eight years, the Li family had grown into what it was today.
After Li Zhongfa retired, not only had his tea not gone cold, he had even become familiar with city and provincial leaders. Was a star enterprise and major taxpayer really that prestigious?
And starting the year before last, Li Kaijian had begun stepping in dog shit luck again.
The county Fertilizer Factory had once merely been a fairly decent work unit, but it had expanded year after year. Li Kaijian had risen right along with it, becoming one of the outstanding cadres of his generation.
As for that Li Ye, who had been stupid as a child, he had gotten into university and stayed in the capital. They said he had become a section-level cadre at twenty-five. How had Heaven gone blind?
Still, at first, Old Man Han had refused to utter a word of regret even if beaten to death. After all, he still had his capable younger daughter, Han Chunlan. Every few days, she could bring home eighty or a hundred yuan, and there was never any shortage of liquor or meat. Life was still very comfortable.
But this time, things had truly gone off the rails. Han Chunlan actually wanted to cut off family ties with the Old Han Family just