Mr. Li's soul was separated from his body and floated in the air, looking at the crying Li Jianfei and the speechless Yu Peng sitting next to him.
It can be confirmed that Mr. Li is really dead. This old man, whom he only met once and whose name Yu Peng still doesn’t know, passed away right in front of his eyes.
Mr. Li had just taken on the form of a ghost and had not yet adapted to it. His thoughts fluctuated with his mood. Countless memories began to emerge and were transmitted to Yu Peng's mind through fluctuations in consciousness.
In an instant, Yu Peng was pulled back into the river of history.
The memory of before he was three years old is a little blurry, and Yu Peng can’t clearly see what those pictures are.
Five years old: "Dad, dad, my second uncle has joined that organization. Will all our families join?"
Five and a half years old: "Mom, mom, and dad have also joined that organization. When will you join? Oh, you don't know how to join. That's so boring."
Five years and eight months old: "Dad, what's wrong with my second uncle? I haven't seen my second uncle in a long time."
Five years and 10 months old: "Dad...how did my second uncle die? Didn't he join that organization? Why is he still dead?"
Six years old: "Dad, Mom, do you think I will die? Today, my private school teacher told me that if the Chinese nation wants to rejuvenate, someone must sacrifice, and someone must be a pioneer. Even if they die, they must do it for future generations." To pave the way, I also want to be a pioneer in history! Hey, Dad, why are you hitting me!"
Six years and one month old: "Dad, dad, dad~~ Our private school teacher has been gone for several days. We have been left unattended these days. When will the new teacher come?"
Six years and one month old: "Dad, the private school teacher who came yesterday said he was going to follow Mr. Chen Du in Shanghai. Who is Mr. Chen?"
Six years and one month old: "Dad, Mom, we have had several private school teachers in the past few days. They always stay for two days and leave, and then leave after two days. We can't learn anything. Uncle Wang's children still have You keep bullying me, but you don’t care about me~"
Six years and one month old: "Mom, dad has also gone to Shanghai. What does Mr. Chen Du do? Why is he so powerful and so many people go to see him?"
Six years and three months old: "Dad, Dad, you are back~ Have you seen my private school teachers? When will they come back? Ah? They sacrificed their lives for the country? What is sacrifice?"
Six years and five months old: "Dad, why are the teachers so noisy outside recently? There are parades everywhere. What are they doing?"
Six years and 5 months old: "Mom, mom, what's the noise outside? Is it shooting? What's wrong?"
Six years and 5 months old: "Ugh~ Ugh~ Wow~~Mom, there are so many people dead outside, and blood is everywhere. Mom, I'm scared."
Six years and eight months old: "Mom~... I'm so tired, I'm so sleepy, am I going to die? I've been dreaming about a lot of ghosts recently, why hasn't dad come back recently? I miss dad~ woo hoo Woo woo"
Six years and 10 months old: "Dad, you are back. I am a little sleepy. Dad, can you stay with me when I sleep?"
Seven years old: "Grandpa Li, I heard that the recent New Youth articles are very good. Find me a few books and let me read them! No? I am the eldest young master of the Li family, why can't I?"
Seven years old: "Grandpa Li, what's going on over there in the Northern Expedition? Aren't there several teams with money from us? Why did they all fail?"
Eight years old: "Grandpa Butler, why is there so much commotion in Shanghai recently? I heard that several of our family's waterways have been sealed off by the Kuomintang? Why didn't our family send anyone to contact us? If this continues, how can our family still make money?"
Eight years old: "Grandpa Butler, who is that Wang Jingwei? Several of our properties have been given to the Japanese. How dare you dare to touch our family's business and transfer money from my private treasury? How much money can you give me?" An assassin killed him."
Eight years old: "What? The assassination failed? Then we will send a group."
Eight years old: "The assassination failed again? Grandpa Guan, do I still have money in my hand? Oh, no, can you borrow some for me? Ah? You can't even borrow it, why? Our assassin over there in Shanghai Can't pave it over? Oh, forget it, when I grow up, I will find a way to get him."
Nine years old: "Grandpa, housekeeper, it seems that dad has been away for several years. What is he busy with? And recently, he always takes money from the family, saying that he wants to provide funds for some red organization. If this continues, we will lose all our money. ah?"
Nine years old: "Grandpa, housekeeper, what's going on with dad? Half of the family's business has been sealed off, so dad still takes money from the family to give to that red organization, what should we do? No one cares about him? You!! Even so!" He is the clan leader, so he can’t do this?”
Ten years old: "Butler, show me that book Against Capital. I heard from many people that it is very well written. What's so good about me studying it?"
Ten years old: "Butler, are you opposed to the book Das Kapital? How do I feel that it is talking about us? Oh? Are you talking about foreign capitalism? I am not familiar with it and don't know what it is like. Oh, but how do I feel? Is it similar to us? Are we a feudal society? No, why do we say we are a feudal society? Where are we feudal? "
Ten years old: "Grandpa Butler, socialism, why do I feel better and better the more I read about it? How about I join that organization too? No? Why not? I want to take over the family business? I am only ten years old, how can I take over the family?" "
Eleven years old: "Grandpa, housekeeper, I haven't left the house for three months. Please let me go out and play for a while. They are fighting wars. It's better if I don't go far."
Eleven years and 5 months old: "Grandpa Butler, two-thirds of my dividends can be used as funding for that red organization. It's okay. I'll just spend less money."
Twelve years old: "Grandpa Housekeeper, when are we going to get rid of those stupid little Japanese people? I haven't had any income in two months."
Thirteen years old: "Steward, our family's recent industrial income has all been used to buy guns and bullets. Except for family security needs, everything else has been sent to the Red Army. It's okay. If someone from the clan comes to ask about this matter, I'll carry it"
Fourteen years old: "So there are so many businesses in the family? I am actually just the person in charge of our family. There are actually ten people in charge of different families in the whole family? Am I still the youngest? The one with the least power? Butler, why did these things happen before? Won’t tell me?”
Fourteen years old: "Butler, use one-third of the dividends from father and me to train a group of assassins. I will be useful in the future. Don't worry about why. Just do what I ask you to do."
Fifteen years old: "You are all the assassins I raised and my dead soldiers. Remember, if I hadn't raised you, you would have become bones on the roadside by now. Those who are not loyal to me are just like over there." There are several corpses. Those who don’t listen to me will have the same result. Do you hear me? Louder, do you hear me?!”
Sixteen years old: "Have all the people on the list been dealt with? How many Japanese are left? What happened to the Japanese? What I want to kill most are the Japanese! If the Japanese hadn't invaded us, how would our family have changed? It’s like this”
Sixteen years and six months old: "Steward Li, starting from today, you will be transferred to my place. Grandpa Steward has dedicated his life to our family. Please bury him well."
Seventeen years old: "Steward Li, the heads of the other families have all died recently, right? Thanks for your help, help me collect all their properties. If there are any who disagree or resist, make a list. tell me"
Eighteen years old: "There are 348 direct bloodline members of the Li family, 1,420 collateral bloodline members, and more than 3,600 other members. Butler Li, it's useless for you to give me a classified list of these people." Those who smoke, those who support Japan and Chiang Kai-shek, all should be dealt with by me."
Eighteen years and three months: "The ancestors of the Li family are above all, and I am an unworthy descendant, Li Yaoguang. Thanks to my great love, I will take up the great cause of the Li family today..."
Eighteen years and six months old: "Collect all the family's businesses. I want to see stable income in the shortest possible time. By the way, I will get a separate sum of money every month to support the Red Army. Also, Isn’t there a shortage of medicine recently? Please collect more from overseas routes and send them over.”
Nineteen years old: "It turns out that war money is so easy to make. No wonder capital countries like the United States are so rich and powerful. It seems that my previous ideas were still too simple."
February 22: "Father, you are back"
Twenty-two years old: "Father, there is no conflict between loving family and patriotism. I am responsible for the thousands of people in the Li family, and I am also responsible for this nation, and I will also be responsible for this country. With these suggestions of yours, I I support everyone, and I will cooperate with the new government’s requirements. As long as it can ensure the continuation of the family’s inheritance, there will be no problem.”
Twenty-five years old: "On the basis of ensuring the running of the Li family, no matter what you ask for, I will cooperate! It's okay, as long as money can solve it, I can help."
Twenty-eight years old: "New China, the world is finally at peace? Butler, prepare wine!"
Twenty-nine years old: "Although these industries are cutting meat, they just need to adapt to the times. Since they don't like the businesses in our hands, then let's cut them off. The Li family is not short of money."
Thirty years old: "Butler, we have recently cut down some businesses. There are some objections in the family. You go and deal with them. I don't want to listen."
"Mr. Yu, I'm sorry, I lost my temper. I'll arrange for someone to take you back first."
Yu Ping was immersed in Mr. Li's memory fragments. Li Jianfei stopped sobbing and looked at Yu Ping, who had a perfect face next to him, and realized his gaffe.
Yu Peng did not refuse and followed Jian Fei's guidance and walked out of the room.
The moment he left the room, Yu Peng's face turned into that ordinary face again in a trance. Li Jianfei once again had a fundamental refreshment on Peng's ability, and he also had a better understanding of Peng's true ability. More and more curious
The old man outside the door was still loyally guarding the outside, constantly wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeves.
After Li Jianfei opened the door, the old man quickly turned around and came over with a concerned look on his face.
"Grandpa is gone"
Li Jianfei said these words to the old man very seriously
Hearing the bad news, the old man burst into tears even more sadly, but he didn't say anything. This was a done thing, but when it came to it, he was still so moved that he burst into tears.
Yu Peng was arranged to come out of this courtyard, get in the car again, and be taken to the house in Wangjing.
Li Jianfei and the old man began to make arrangements for Mr. Li's funeral, which Yu Peng could not participate in, nor did he need to participate.
Moreover, their process for handling Mr. Li's funeral will be particularly cumbersome and troublesome. Li Jianfei knows very well that Yu Peng does not like such occasions.
On the way back, Yu Peng was still thinking about the scattered memory fragments of Mr. Li just now.
After death, the soul leaves the body and begins to leave the body. During the period when it has just adapted to the changes in its form, the ghost does not know how to contain its own energy, nor how to stabilize its thinking.
Therefore, during that period of time, they will review all their life experiences, from childhood to adulthood.
Yu Peng has always been reluctant to go to places like hospitals, because people die there every day, and there are countless ghosts every day, emitting their own consciousness and energy fluctuations, just like turning on a radio with different channels at the same time, it’s a mess. Yes, it can really drive Yu Peng crazy.
Moreover, each of them has different life experiences. These fragments of consciousness, obtained by Yu Peng, will also bring a lot of unreality to Yu Peng, which can easily affect Yu Peng's own mental state.
After all, watching those memories is not like watching a movie. It is viewed from the perspective of a bystander. Entering their conscious memory is the first perspective, and it is easy to form illusions and biases.
This review process actually takes a while, but many people who are dying and come back to life feel that it happened in an instant. The main reason is that ghosts have no concept of time. Human beings think that something that happens in an instant does not matter to ghosts or conscious energy bodies. Said, actually a long time has passed
Mr. Li's life can be said to be a legend, and it can also be said to be many symbols of that era.
After experiencing the war years, he survived the war, and took advantage of the current situation to grow from a child to the head of the family, and then gathered power, annexed the properties of other families, killed decisively, and finally succeeded in becoming the leader of the clan. These are all This was a feat that Mr. Li accomplished when he was eighteen years old, and in the following decades, his family successfully ranked among the top ten families in Beijing.
It's indeed legendary
However, people are only people after all, but people, or ordinary people, are inseparable from birth, aging, illness and death. In this way, Mr. Li can still live to more than 90 years old. His health is considered very good.
From the memory fragments, Yu Peng saw that Mr. Li did not come into contact with the world of monasticism until he was 30 years old and after the founding of New China. At that time, he had no chance of cultivating Taoism.
We can only rely on the family's power and resources to allow future generations to practice Taoism and pave more roads.
Although the middle generation, that is, the son of Mr. Li, there are not many successful monks, but fortunately, the descendants of the generation have a Jianfei, and they also get to know Yu Peng.
The future becomes infinitely possible
From Mr. Li's words, Yu Peng guessed that the Li family had made a big bet on themselves. Although he didn't know the details, he thought that the bet must be very big, so big that it might affect The stability of the top ten families in Kyoto
But very cleverly, Yu Peng only needs to provide Li Jianfei with enough help and support at the appropriate time. The specific operations and planning are arranged by the Li family.
Come to think of it, the thousands of people directly related to the Li family have a lot of brains and can arrange these things properly.
I just need to make a statement at the appropriate time, at some critical moments, or provide some Taoist help to Jian Fei, which should be enough.
Not too much trouble
Yu Peng hasn't thought about what he can gain in this process. He just feels that it doesn't matter. His impression of Jian Fei is not bad, so he can help.
Anyway, I have never thought about getting involved with these big family members for too long.
Yu Peng has been confused about this issue since he was a child. He always feels as if he does not belong to this world. He has no particularly strong sense of belonging to anything or anyone, nor does he have any sense of closeness to integrate into this world.
My future may really be like that little boy said, in the sea of stars, right?
When a person's dream is to fly out of the stars, the power, money, interests, and fame and status in this world seem to be meaningless.
