Rebirth: Outstanding

In the small building halfway up the hillside of Etou Mountain, after Lin Yujing washed her hands, she began to use a brush to write a neat lower case description on a scripture post:

"I am Buddha, be careful not to cause the cause, the first father of the Lin Yuan Master Lin Xizhen, and the sage husband Song Chunren, suffered a tragic death, and his relatives grabbed their hair and sorrowed, and did not want to live. Yu Yi Buddha's power is incredible, and I am out of reincarnation. I would like to hire... …"

When she finished writing a whole scripture post, the sound of car horns happened to be heard outside. She walked out of this lonely small building, far from the bumpy mountain road, she was 15 years old. Daughter Feng Yunzhi politely got off a Ford 49, stood outside the driver's window and bowed politely to the driver, and then took her schoolbag to the mother who had come out.

"Mother, I'm off school."

Lin Yujing stood outside the small building, and leaned slightly towards the driver who was invisible in the car in the distance. After the car turned and drove away, she entered this small building with her daughter, although it was a building in the middle of the mountain. Two-story building, but Mount Etou is not as good as Gefu Mountain and the top of the scenic peaks of Taiping Mountain. This is a barren mountain slightly south of Causeway Bay. The house was built and settled here. Except for a forest stage theater at the bottom of the mountain, and the western side of the mountain corner rented by a film company as a studio, there is only a two-story building halfway up the mountain.

This building was also built before the war. Although Lin Yujing’s mother and daughter had been repaired after they moved in, it still gave people a dilapidated feeling. When looking up, those on the top of the mountain have been abandoned for more than ten years. Playground facilities, here is more like a strange and terrifying place.

"Mother, I don’t have an appetite at noon today, so I left my lunch and we will eat together in the evening." After Feng Yunzhi entered the small building, the first thing he did was to pull out the bento box from his schoolbag. After opening it, it was full. A box of sumptuous vegetable rice, most obviously there was an abalone on the top of the lunch box. The whole box of rice seemed to have not been touched by her. Lin Yujing touched it, and it was already cool.

She frowned slightly, and said to Feng Yunzhi, who had turned around to do her homework: "My mother is not hungry. You are not allowed to bring back lunch again next time. You are growing up and you need to eat more."

"Hmm, Aunt Xiang has already told me that Uncle Kang and the others haven't sent Caijin here this month, mother, don’t worry, I will be almost adult, I will work hard to study, and then make money to pay off their Caijin and move out of Lin’s family. , Buy a big house, take Grandpa to live with him, and yes, take Tianyao..." Feng Yunzhi put his school bag on the table in the living room, and then lit the kerosene lamp to write the homework assigned by the teacher. Said lightly.

Before going to the mountain to fetch water, the maid Xiang's wife who had been with Lin Yujing's mother and daughter for many years was walking in with two buckets of water on a pole. Just hearing Feng Yunzhi's words, Lin Yujing also looked at her, and Xiang's wife grinned: "I told the good girl, madam, blame me if you blame it."

"Why would you talk to her like this? Every time something happens, she pushes on you, and you block her." Lin Yujing smiled faintly, took the bucket from Xiang's wife's pole, and accompanied him. She went together to pour the water into the storage bucket in the kitchen.

Then the master and servant started busy making dinner. When the dinner was done, Feng Yunzhi had finished his homework. He quickly packed up his schoolbags, vacated the dining room table in the living room, and set up the table and chopsticks. The three were about to start eating, Lin Yujing Just sitting down, the voice of Wen Jingyuan, an old servant who lives at the foot of the mountain and guards the mountain for the Li family, rang outside the door:

"Miss Six, there is a young man at the foot of the mountain, who claims to be your nephew Song Tianyao. If he wants to see you, I will ask him to wait at the foot of the mountain. I will come up and let you know first."

"Brother Tian Yao is here?" Before Lin Yujing spoke, Feng Yunzhi blurted out with a surprised expression: "He must have raised enough money to take us home!"

But after saying this, she sat down angrily, and Lin Yujing looked at Xiang's wife who was a little depressed: "Xiang's wife, please bring the two hundred dollars you saved. If Tian Yao didn't meet her It's difficult, he won't come to speak after dark, it must be something very difficult."

Sister Xiang promised to put down the tableware and walked upstairs. Lin Yujing personally walked to the locked door, unlocked the door, and said to Wen Jingyuan who was ten meters away from the door: "Uncle Yuan, please invite him up. ."

"I see, Miss Six." She has gray hair but is still healthy. Wen Jingyuan, who worked with Lin Yujing's father in the early years, wore a long gown. He turned and walked along the potholes that were bombed by Japanese artillery. The mountain road that was carefully repaired went down.

After a short while, a car drove up from down the mountain with its lights on.

Standing behind Lin Yujing secretly, Feng Yunzhi, who also looked out, said: "Brother Tianyao knows how to drive? Is he a driver?"

When the car stopped not far from the door, the lights went out, and the door opened. Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi saw the young man getting off the car, their heartbeats speeded up slightly. Song Tianyao in a suit and leather shoes picked up two big men from the car. The plastic bag smiled at them and walked over.

"Brother Tianyao! Is that you? I'm almost unable to recognize you!" Feng Yunzhi was ignorant of his mother and would scold him for being indecent. He raised his arm and stood at the door swaying towards Song Tianyao, shouting happily.

Lin Yujing lost her consciousness for a moment. She hadn't seen Song Tianyao for about two years. The last time she saw Song Tianyao was when she went to visit her father-in-law Song Chengqi. Song Tianyao also secretly visited his grandfather. She hadn't seen him for two years. His half-year-old child has become a handsome young man with a tall stature and a handsome demeanor.

Lin Yujing watched Song Tianyao walk in front of her, and said uncertainly: "Ayao?"

Song Tianyao looked at his third aunt and nodded gently: "It's me, third aunt. I'm here to take you and Yunzhi home."

In a short sentence, both Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi's eye circles were red. Lin Yujing covered her mouth, looked at the nephew in front of him, and took a long time to step forward, holding Song Tianyao in her arms. Trying to restrain yourself, so as not to cry, put Song Tianyao in his arms and led him into the room.

Sister Xiang was counting the scattered banknotes in her hand and went downstairs, seeing Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi encircling Song Tianyao, who was almost unrecognizable, to the table with excitement, she was stunned at the top of the stairs, and Feng Yunzhi's eyes wore her eyes. With tears but a sweet smile, Chao Xiang said, "Brother Tian Yao said, he wants to take us home!"

Sister Xiang shook her hands, and the money was scattered all over the floor. Is this day of sending people under the fence finally coming to an end?

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"Here is 20,000 Hong Kong dollars. Those two bags are food supplements. Please take care of my third aunt Tong Yunzhi. My third aunt is not in good health. You can use those ingredients to help her nourish her body." Song Tianyao took out a stack of banknotes and put them in. In front of Xiang's wife on the opposite side: "Zhongyou, what kind of clothes the other daughters of the Lin family wear, Yunzhi must have the same or better clothes, and they should not be a little bit worse than them."

Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi beside him hadn't recovered yet. Song Tianyao had already taken out a stack of banknotes from his wallet and put it in front of the dumbfounded Xiang's wife after sitting down, and said with a smile.

"Brother Tianyao, don't you take us away today?" Feng Yunzhi was the first to react, and asked Song Tianyao: "I don't need so much money. My mother and I are very economical. I have already calculated it by myself. The annual vegetable money and the rent are all counted together, only 23,800 yuan. If you take those valuable supplements to the escrow store and sell it, you should be able to make up the balance. It is better to give the money to Wen Jingyuan at the foot of the mountain and let him help. To the Lin family, I will go back to Kowloon City to see Grandpa now."

Song Tianyao touched Feng Yunzhi's head with his hand, combed the other's neat long hair as if he was a child, and said, "Of course I can't go now. I want the Lin family to take you and the third aunt to the big house and open the door. , Waiting for me to take you home in an upright manner."

When Feng Yunzhi was a child, she hated Song Tianyao's messing her hair the most. At this time, she let Song Tianyao's hand move on her head. It seems that this kind of action made her no longer hate her before, only the nostalgia that she hasn't felt for too long: "I think Go to see Grandpa, want you to take me to touch the shrimp, I don't want to live here to study again."

"Ayao, what are you..." After Lin Yujing calmed down her excitement for a long time, she remembered to ask Song Tianyao how to spend so much money.

Song Tianyao also looked at Lin Yujing. Her third aunt is only forty years old now. Perhaps she is in the eyes of others at this time, wearing a clean but expensive clothes, with a maid serving by her side, and her daughter can even be cared for. Picking up and sending off, studying at Diocesan Girls' College, must be of wealth. But in any case, she couldn't think of it. In the past forty years, she had great ups and downs, joy and compassion, and if she changed to an ordinary woman, she would have been unable to sustain her death long ago.

Lin Yujing was born in 1912, the concubine daughter of Hong Kong opium giant Lin Xizhen's concubine.

The Lin family’s opium business has a long history. As early as when Lin Yujing’s grandfather Lin Liangyi was involved in the opium business, he became a well-known rich man in Hong Kong. Later, Lin Xizhen and Lin Liangyi didn’t want him to also be in the opium business. After returning to Hong Kong to study at the Imperial College, Lin Xizhen was hired to work at the British HSBC after he was born in Hawaii and was proficient in English since he was a child.

He could have enjoyed wealth and honor, but Lin Xizhen was energetic and uneasy about the status quo. He wanted to do business. His father Lin Liangyi bought a cargo ship and let Lin Xizhen do the timber transportation business. Lin Xizhen used a boat to shuttle between Nanyang and Hong Kong. After being beaten by the giant waves for several years, he gave birth to a wealthy son from a Sri Lankan book, and he became a rich man who was accustomed to life and death, not afraid of danger, and dared to fight for his life.

The lumber-trafficking profit was meagre. Lin Xizhen felt that he had made too little, so he started to trade opium in Myanmar like his father. Myanmar was another major opium production base in Asia besides India. Opium smuggling by sea, in addition to dealing with opium looting. Merchants’ pirates must also prevent various opium merchants from being blackmailed. It is also the experience of trafficking in opium between Burma and Hong Kong that Lin Xizhen has not only practiced the sharp marksmanship, but also used the stormy waves to temper a group of people with him. A capable man who lives and dies together.

For a few years, without relying on the fame of his father's generation and relying solely on his own strength, Lin Xizhen seemed to be among the top five Chinese opium dealers in Hong Kong at the time, and it was not much better than his father's opium business.

Moreover, he discovered that only British people have the legal right to operate the opium business in Hong Kong. No matter how big he is, he would just pick up some leftovers from the British, so he simply transferred to Macau and took the opium monopoly right from the Portuguese. , A sensational province, Hong Kong and Macau, was published in various newspapers in the three languages ​​of Chinese, English and Portuguese, calling him the Hong Kong and Macau Chinese opium giant. He was 35 years old when he was born and his concubine daughter Lin Yujing was born.

When Lin Yujing was born, the Lin family’s opium business was in full swing. Although it was a concubine’s concubine, the prostitutes of the wealthy family may not have her beauty at the expense of her, but her mother’s personality is weak and she doesn’t like competing with other women. Therefore, Lin Yujing, who is raised by her side, has a quiet and uncontroversial character, but she follows her father in her heart, and is quite strong.

In 1928, Lin Xizhen was shot and killed by a professional assassin because of the dispute over opium monopoly rights. The Lin family suffered major changes, and the dragons had no leader. The children of concubine were sent away by the main house. Lin Yujing was hurriedly sent to marry Feng, a Hong Kong drug dealer, in 1929. Feng Youhua, the concubine of the family, was also a concubine, and naturally he was not taken seriously. Therefore, he did not have much money in the Feng family. The two couples opened a small pharmacy to make ends meet. However, Feng Youhua suffered from opium sickness and died at a young age, leaving only Lin Yu Jing and a daughter, Feng Guiniang, after Feng Youhua's death, the pharmacy was taken back by the Feng family. Lin Yujing had nowhere to go, so she had to rely on pawning some jewelry to make ends meet to raise her eldest daughter.

In 1935, Lin Yujing was molested when he took his daughter to the pharmacy for medical treatment. He met Song Tianyao's third uncle Song Chunren, who just happened to be bereaved not long ago to bandage his wounds. Song Chunren was the little leader of some dock coolies at the time. After running away the bad guys and sending Lin Yujing home, Lin Yujing, who felt that the two had the same illness, officially married Song Chunren in 1937 and became Song Tianyao's third aunt. Feng Guai Niang, who has never had a name, was caught by Song Chengqi. Named Yunzhi, and agreed to let her inherit her father's surname, still Feng.

In 1941, the night when Kowloon fell and Song Chunren died, Lin Yujing took her daughter and fled on the boat. Her eyes were crying until she burst into tears, but she did not go with Song Chunren, but made a vow to wait for Song Chengyu. A hundred years later, after she has done her unfulfilled filial piety for Song Chunren, she will go down to see Song Chunren again.

In Hong Kong in 1945, Lin Xizhen’s eldest son, Lin Xiao, returned to Hong Kong to take charge of the Lin family after the end of the Anti-Japanese War. He saw that many of the brothers and sisters who were divided or married had a bleak end, so he opened his mouth to allow the brothers and unmarried or widowed sisters to return to the Lin family. For living, the family will pay monthly cash allowances for the children and arrange schooling for their children, but the marriage and work of the children in the family will need to be arranged by the Lin family. These returned brothers and sisters have no right to be the masters. If they want to remarry or leave the Lin family, they need to Many years of rent, food, tuition, and other expenses were paid off, and the relationship was severed.

In order to give her daughter a chance to study, Lin Yujing brought her daughter back to the Lin family with the blank eyes of many people in the Lin family, because her identity as her husband and wife was considered unfavorable in the Lin family, and she did not even take their mother and daughter to live in the Lin family mansion. I was sent to this lonely small building in Etou Mountain until today.

Song Tianyao felt that if Feng Yunzhi and Song Chengqi had not become her fetters and concerns, Lin Yujing would have fallen in Jiulong long ago, and that the night the third uncle died, she would have left with her.

"Actually, the third aunt does not owe the Lin family. The Lin family owes you. When I go to the United States and come back, I will help you get what the Lin family owes you and get it back." Song Tianyao sighed heavily, "I do what I said."