On the evening of December 31, 1911, the Gregorian New Year, and also the eve of the New Year (New Year's Day), this is also a festival that the Japanese attach great importance to. Matsuda Haruki took several subordinates to Koji Inada's home to drink and celebrate the festival together. This was originally the mansion of Lao Jintou.

Koji Matsuda actually didn't find much money in Lao Jinto's family. Because the situation was unstable, even the old Maozi was in charge of the first day and the Japanese were in charge of the second day. Lao Jinto, who was worried, exchanged most of his property for US dollars and gold and deposited it into a safe in foreign banks in the capital and Jintian. Although he didn't get much money, Koji Matsuda and Haruki Matsuda, who had the sweetness, were preparing to take a few more actions after a few days. The New Year's party was when their uncle and nephew discussed their next goal.

Lao Jintou bribed a Korean servant hired by Koji Matsuda's family for a large sum of money and put anesthetics on their meals. After they were numbed, the servant came out to tell Lao Jintou and ran away with the money they received. Lao Jintou took people into his own home. They poured oil on the house and the Japanese and paid tribute to their family with a handful of fire.

Lao Jintou shared a large sum of money for his servants. Several of them said goodbye to tears, and each hid their names and wandered around the world. Lao Jintou, the homeless Lao Jintou fled to Jintian by boat. On the way, he scattered his family's ashes into the sea. When he arrived in Jintian, Lao Jintou took out the gold in the bank and carried it with him. After several twists and turns, he came to the capital and bought the house of Cao Tianbao's original home family under a pseudonym, preparing to spend his life here.

The murder case of Lao Jintou was wanted by the Japanese, so he gathered the Sun, Cao and Liu families who he liked in his yard as a cover for the case. However, after years of life together, the frozen relationship between Lao Jintou gradually dissolved until Sun Cheng sacrificed his life to save people, Lao Jintou completely let go of his heart.

From then on, happy laughter often came from the courtyard. During the New Year Festival, everyone gathered at home, and was invested by Lao Jintou, purchased by Sun Cheng and Cao Tianbao, Chef Cao took charge, and the rest of the people did chores. The dinner in the courtyard was prosperous and lively. Everyone communicated casually during the meal, or made strange things, or current affairs pros and cons, and expressed their opinions and were happy. The most popular ones were Lao Jintou's experience outside the pass, Teacher Liu and his wife's experiences and current affairs comments, and the story of Liu Hanwen fighting with the nanny and aunt and other children in kindergarten.

This kind of dinner has become a tradition in the courtyard. Even if Sun Cheng and Chef Cao left home to participate in the revolution in 1937, it was not interrupted until the old golden head passed away with a smile.

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The naming conference is still in progress.

Chef Cao, who successfully seized the naming power, was already crazy. It was difficult to talk to everyone. He proposed several names that he was satisfied with, but they were rejected one by one. He had no choice but to decide to take his luck.

Chef Cao spread the entire set of six "Kangxi Dictionary" on the table, closed his eyes, touched one, opened a page casually, and pointed it on the book with his right index finger.

Sun Cheng, who was standing beside him, laughed out loud. Chef Cao, who was puzzled, opened his eyes and immediately felt God's full of malice towards him.

What he called was the word "Cao". The Cao family's son was named "Cao Cao"? Chef Cao said he would not obey.

Chef Cao, who was quite anxious and wise, found a reason: "I just clicked it with my right hand, both on the left and on the left and on the right, so this time it doesn't count. I'll do it again."

Fortunately, there was no monster in the second choice of characters. Chef Cao solemnly announced to everyone: "My son is named Cao Yong."

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"What happened later?" Lisa, who was lying on the bed, asked her husband Cao Yong.

During dinner, Cao Yong, who received the permanent citizenship application form for Xiangjiang, was still very excited when he returned home. In the letter he received, his father Chef Cao finally let go and agreed to settle in Xiangjiang with his mother after retirement next year. Due to the special period of ten years, Cao Yong left the capital in 1963 and came to Xiangjiang, he had not seen his parents for 18 years because he was afraid of bringing adverse effects to his parents. Every year, he and his parents were sent and received from Shajiao Village. Since 1979, people around Cao Yong have returned to the mainland to visit relatives. Cao Yong planned to take Lisa to the capital for the New Year this year. But no matter what, visiting relatives is not as convenient as his parents to settle directly in Xiangjiang. Cao Yong, who was still so excited that he couldn't sleep, told Lisa about the past of his father's family.

"Later, I grew up in the capital until the second year of the Chinese New Year." Cao Yong continued: "During the Spring Festival in 1958, I met my grandfather and grandmother. That year, when I was 8 years old, my parents took me to Guangzhou by train, and then returned to the old house in Shajiao Village. My third uncle smuggled my grandfather and grandmother with a fishing boat. We spent the Spring Festival in the old house."

Lisa laughed: "My third uncle and the others are used to smuggling."

"Most of the fish markets in Xiangjiang are nearby mainland fishermen. After catching fish boats turn around, they are sold to Xiangjiang. As long as they are not overestimated, the Police Department will turn a blind eye to this. Think about it, there are only a few fishermen in Xiangjiang."

"Aren't you also sent it to Xiangjiang by your third uncle?" Lisa teased her husband.

"Yes, I told you before. My third uncle not only sent me to Xiangjiang, but also helped me the greatest benefit. He issued a certificate of my disappearance from the village, then he stamped it with the fishery administration and the public security, and sent it back to the capital. Half a year later, the capital cancelled my household registration. Fortunately, this would otherwise, my parents would suffer in the special period of ten years. Now, the country has given up on the people who smuggled through Xiangjiang, so I dared to plan to go back to see my parents."

Cao Yong fell into memories.

Xiangjiang Zhengji Printing Factory was jointly invested by Cao Yong's grandfather and his friend Wang Lao. The major shareholder Wang Lao had another business in his home, so the printing factory was run by Cao Yong's grandfather, and later passed it to his uncle Zheng Ziwei. In 1963, Wang Lao's business failed and urgently needed capital turnover, so he discussed with his grandfather to sell the shares. Grandpa spent his whole life on the factory, so he was unwilling to lose his equity, but he had no strength to take over Wang Lao's shares. In desperation, grandpa couldn't afford to get sick. Grandma had passed away two years ago, and grandpa missed his daughter and son-in-law's family far away in the capital. After his uncle found out, he found the third uncle who sold fish, told him the situation and asked him to go to the capital to find Chef Cao's family.

The third uncle rushed back to Guangzhou and headed north to the capital.

In the courtyard, Sun and Cao families were drinking with their third uncle. Chef Cao had decided to let the 13-year-old Cao Yong go to Xiangjiang. This meal was also a farewell to the third uncle and Cao Yong. While eating and drinking, the third uncle accidentally mentioned the difficulties faced by his grandfather. Sun Cheng felt attentive when he heard this.

The next day, when he was seeing Cao Yong off at the train station, Sun Cheng handed a military bag to Cao Yong. Cao Yong opened it and saw that there was a HSBC bank certificate of deposit of US$100,000 and 5 big yellow croakers in it. This was already most of Sun Cheng's property (mainly the inheritance of the old golden head).

With the relationship between Sun and Cao's families, Chef Cao did not refuse the money. He asked Cao Yong to kneel down and thank Sun Cheng, asking Cao Yong to remember this kindness and said that the money was borrowed and must be returned. Cao Yong bid farewell to his family, uncle Sun Cheng and Sun Weiguo and Sun Weimin who came to see him off, and followed his third uncle to board the train to the south.

With the help of his third uncle and uncle, Cao Yong successfully arrived in Xiangjiang and applied for permanent identity in Xiangjiang. His grandfather and uncle did not expect that Cao Yong, 13, would have taken out such a large sum of money. What surprised them even more was that when the bank inquired about the certificate of deposit in Hong Kong HSBC Bank, was told that the automatic rolling fixed deposit certificate issued in 1911 had a total of more than 300,000 US dollars. The uncle, overjoyed, bought Mr. Wang's shares, added the remaining money, replaced some equipment, and the business of the printing factory gradually improved.

Cao Yong lived in his grandfather's house. He spent a year practicing English and Cantonese. A year later, he was admitted to Kowloon Huaren Middle School. After graduation, Cao Yong went to Cambridge University to study law.

In 1978, Cao Yong, a Ph.D. in law, returned to Xiangjiang with Lisa, who graduated from the Master of Sociology at Cambridge University, and got married the following year.
Chapter completed!