"Say a few words while everyone is together, even if you have nothing to say, you have to say it."
After dinner, Lao Dou called A Zhuan and asked her if she had any information to prove that this big house was It belonged to the Kang family, but Ah Zhuan said she had to go home and dig through the safe to find out if it was there. Today, she went to Ruins of St. Paul's with her friends. Now there is no boat back to the port city. However, she also knew that the situation was urgent and promised to take the first boat back tomorrow morning.
Seeing this, the five brothers of the Kang family tacitly walked into the second brother's room for a meeting. The second brother's opening remarks continued: "We brothers haven't sat together for a long time. Since we can sit together, we can be regarded as brothers. So."
Ayao became impatient and interrupted. The second guy said: "Hey, hey, hey, you are in a meeting, you have so much to talk about? The prelude is already a big part, when will we get to the topic? Let's go straight to the topic."
"You are such a cadre of an agency? "You're not familiar with the leader's way of speaking?" The second guy joked, and then went straight to the topic: "As Rui said, we need to prepare with both hands. Now my grandma won't have a reply until tomorrow, so let's Let’s talk about the second way. How much can each of you give out for one million?”
"I can still afford a thousand and a few hundred yuan. If you exceed ten thousand yuan, don't ask me." Boss Guang was the first to express his stance, but his words made everyone frown. Kang Qirui asked: "Big brother, aren't you? You don't even have 10,000 yuan? I only got more than 100,000 yuan from the lottery before."
The other three people also stared at the big boss. Lao Guang was shocked by what he saw. He explained: "The 130,000 yuan was used to renovate the noodle shop. As a result, the business was not as good as before after the renovation. Now, Xianglan and I only have 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in our bankbooks. Our family The three of you have to keep some for spare, right?”
Kang Qirui was speechless after hearing this, why is this big guy still so poor? How is this done?
“I can come up with fifty thousand.” Azu thought for a while and said, “You all know that I used to be a moonlighter, and I was forced to save some money by Diana after I got married. But some time ago, it was used to set up a film and television company, but I can ask Diana to get the money. She shared almost 30,000 yuan when she won the lottery. Although our finances have always been independent, it should be no problem to ask her to get 50,000 yuan. "
"What about you, handsome?" The second guy also knew that Azu had tried his best, so he turned to look at Ayao. A Yao looked at the two men and Kang Qirui respectively, and after a while he said: "For Xingzi and I, it would be two hundred thousand. Last time you talked about real estate speculation, in fact we also bought one. So now we only have this A lot." Ayao Sachiko won more than 80,000 yuan last time in the lottery, not to mention their usual income.
"Azu's fifty thousand and Ayao's two hundred thousand, but we're still short of 750,000." The second brother did a simple calculation and looked at Kang Qirui, "Each of us two brothers will contribute half of it?" The second brother said this very easily. , he was the first to start a business partnership with Kang Qirui, and he had shares in several companies, large or small. The last time he split the lottery money, he had split a total of 300,000, so it was relatively easy for him to come up with more than 300,000 now.
Kang Qirui was even more okay. He nodded to express his agreement.
“It’s been a day, the problem is solved, hahaha.” The boss said with a smile when he saw that the money problem was solved. Just when everyone thought the meeting was over, the second brother said: "The money matter has been resolved, let's talk about the share of Xiguan House."
"What do you mean, Azong?" Lao Guang asked.
"Literally." The second guy was also very straightforward, "When I bought Ming Tsai's Xiguan House before, I went to the notary office to allocate each person's share of the Xiguan House according to the amount of capital contributed by each household. Now that I have to pay one million to buy the ones here, shouldn’t everyone’s shares be recalculated?”
Kang Qirui was the first to nod in agreement, and he also agreed with his brother Ming's settlement. Ayao and Azu looked at each other and agreed. This is like starting a company together. After the second capital injection, the shareholding ratio will of course have to be recalculated.
The boss didn’t say he agreed or disagreed. He pretended to be relaxed and asked: "If it is calculated as you said, how much share do I have?"
Two The old man took out a piece of white paper from the drawer and started to calculate: "Last time, Mrs. Dou said that their shares should be divided equally among our five brothers, so we can calculate it based on the amount of investment. Last time I bought Ming Ming The total of Zai’s Xiguan mansion is 300,000. If you don’t contribute 20,000 this time, that’s 2/130. From now on, you will take 1.5% of this Xiguan mansion.”
The second guy simply calculated everyone's share, "Azu, you paid 20,000 last time and 50,000 this time, that's 5.4%. Ayao added up to 260,000 twice, which is 20%. Ari and I They both paid 475,000, each accounting for 36.55%. "What? 1.5%?" The boss jumped up and cursed excitedly: "Brother, you said it’s okay to sit together. We must be brothers. This big house in Xiguan was left by our ancestors. I am the eldest son and grandson. According to the old society, none of you have a share. Now you can just use a piece of paper to calculate and keep 1.5. %Give it to me? You are wrong.”
"Boss, you all know how to talk about the old society. Now is the new era. In the market economy, you get as much share as you pay. It's fair and equitable. We didn't take advantage of you." The second guy replied.
The big brother just ignored the second brother and walked out angrily. When he closed the door with great force, he made a "bang" sound. "What time is it now?" Ayao asked when no one said anything.
"Is there any point? My brother has settled the accounts clearly, but he won't agree until he says he doesn't agree?" The second brother was also very angry and said angrily: "Anyway, if you have to pay for it, just follow the payment of each household. How much does it cost to calculate the share?" Ayao and Azu had no objections to this, and the meeting ended like this. After Kang Qirui returned to the room, he told Zhu Wanling what happened during the meeting.
"Then what if the uncle disagrees?" Zhu Wanling thought for a moment and asked.
"If you really have to pay for it, then this Xiguan mansion must be divided according to the proportion of everyone's investment as the second brother said. This is fair to everyone. You can get as much as you pay. It's very fair." Kang Qirui He said without thinking that the five brothers in the family must be numbered clearly to be fair and just.
Zhu Wanling nodded, and suddenly said with emotion: "I said uncle and the others are the same, but they don't even have tens of thousands of yuan. Where do they have to spend money? I see that they usually eat, cheep, and cheep. , everything is cheap, I really don’t understand why their financial management skills are so poor.”
Kang Qirui shook his head and said with a bitter smile: “I heard from the boss that they took all the hundreds of thousands they distributed before. I went to renovate the noodle shop, but the business was poor. Now I can just pay the wages to the workers every month. "The better the decoration of a fast-food restaurant like the noodle shop, the better the business." The owner of the store just says it's delicious and not expensive. If you decorate it so luxuriously, people will preconceptionally think that your store is expensive, so will the business be good?
Kang Qirui thought for a while and then said: "Forget it, don't think about it. Maybe my grandma will call back tomorrow and tell me that I have found the supporting documents." As for the boss, he is not worried about it, but what about it? The boss only has shares in the tea restaurant company, so it is impossible to be really poor if you are poor.
As Kang Qirui expected, Ah Zhuan called back the next morning and said that he had found information that could prove that the Xiguan House belonged to the Kang family. He asked Lao Dou to make an appointment with Ma Guifan. She immediately came up from Hong Kong City to Guangzhou. Mansion.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Ma Guifan came to Kang's house as scheduled. Ah Zhuan, who had already arrived, took out an IOU and showed it to him, and said: "This IOU was written by a man named Madengke eighty-seven years ago, that is, in 1917, to my father-in-law Kang Dingbang. It says Clearly and clearly, Madenko lent my father-in-law seven hundred yuan. If he doesn’t have the money to pay it back in two months, this big house will belong to my father-in-law.”
“Later on, Madengke never paid back the money. So my parents-in-law moved in naturally. I don’t know who this Madengke is, but this big house in Xiguan does belong to our Kang family.”
Ma Guifan. He was stunned looking at the IOU in his hand, and after a while he said: "My great-grandfather's name is Madenglong, and Madengke is my great-grandfather's boss. When the war broke out at the end of the Qing Dynasty, my old great-grandfather took my great-grandfather to South America. I left my great-uncle’s boss to guard the house. I didn’t expect”
As he said this, he sighed loudly, “I didn’t expect that my great-uncle... he actually lost the whole house. I’m really sorry, everyone. , I didn’t know this was the case before. In this way, I treat everyone to dinner tonight as an apology.”
After that, he stood up and bowed 90 degrees to everyone. Kang Qirui quickly helped him up and consoled him: "Aso, you don't have to do this. You really don't have to do this. We have been here all the time and we don't know anything about our great-grandfather. We don't even know about the division between you and your great-uncle across the North and South Oceans. We all don't know." I understand, it’s a misunderstanding.”
"Yes, yes," Ma Guifan nodded lonely. It was difficult for him to accept the fact for a while. He once again agreed with everyone to treat everyone to dinner in the evening and left.
Everyone is very happy to be able to keep the Xiguan House without spending any money. Lao Dou looked at Ah Zhuan and said with a smile: "It's really too much this time. If you hadn't come up with that IOU, we would have really suffered a lot of bleeding this time."
A Zhuan waved his hand. Said: "Ah Shou, do you still remember that there was a secret compartment in the closet in your old Dou's room?"
Old Dou nodded, "Remember, after you left, I went to look for that secret compartment, and it turned out that it was inside All the things were gone.”
Ah Zhuan smiled awkwardly and said frankly: “Yes, I took them away when I left. When I got to the port city, I took it out and found that it was just some contract IOUs and the Kang family tree.”
As she spoke, she took out a genealogy and a stack of papers from her bag and handed them to Lao Dou solemnly, saying: "After so many years, I almost forgot about it myself. I didn't remember until you called me yesterday. Kang The family tree and those contracts are all here, and now they are handed over to you, the head of the Kang family."
Old Dou doesn't care much about the IOUs and contracts. What he cares about is the Kang family tree. His hands trembled as he held the family tree, and he said to his mother in tears: "Uncle, the family tree, the Kang family tree."
In Lao Guang's eyes, the family tree is very, very important. , is a very important part of the traditional culture of southern Guangdong. They believe that the compilation of genealogy has the function of being careful about the future, remembering the source when drinking water, making the past and future prosperous, and protecting the clan. (End of this chapter)