Reborn as a widow in the 70s

The ancestor of the Sheng family became a well-known wealthy businessman in the north through three generations of hard work from a street vendor.

Of course, some shady means were also used.

At that time, the biggest competitor of the Sheng family was the Guan family, who also lived in Chihe.

The two families had been competing at an equal level for many years. Later, when Sheng Minghai's grandfather Sheng Hongde took over his own business, he secretly determined to drive out the Guan family.

Sheng Hongde is vicious and ruthless in his actions, leaving no room for error.

At that time, the Guan family was responsible for the annual supply of furs to the palace.

Sheng Hongde asked his confidants to sneak into the Guan family's warehouse as a clerk and replace the tributes with inferior products when no one was prepared.

When the furs were delivered to the palace, the officials and eunuchs who had been bribed by Sheng Hongde naturally became angry.

In the end, not only were all the shops of the Guan family closed down, but the second and third sons of the Guan family who were responsible for the matter were beheaded and the other was exiled.

Even so, Sheng Hongde still did not let go of the surviving Guan family.

He used money to bribe the local magistrate and sealed up all the money the Guan family had in the bank to replenish the national treasury. He also incited the business community in Chihe to crowd out his family. In the end, the Guan family had no choice but to move their family to other places.

But before leaving, the old man of the Guan family left a message.

As long as our Guan family is still alive, sooner or later your Sheng family will be wiped out!

The arrogant Sheng Hongde didn't take these words to heart, he just regarded them as a loser's incompetent vent!

But from then on, the Sheng family seemed to be really cursed by this sentence.

The Sheng family, which has always been prosperous, is busy with errands one after another, and they are all young people.

Especially in Sheng Hongde's lineage, he had one wife and three concubines, but neither boy nor girl lived to be 12 years old.

As a result, Sheng Hongde, who had never believed in gods and Buddhas, went to the temple to donate money for incense.

Finally, he saved a son when he was over forty.

This man is Sheng Minghai's father.

Although the children grew up successfully, they still faced the difficult problem of having children after getting married.

Only after losing five children did Sheng Minghai retain his roots.

Sheng Minghai and Tang Wanru were middle school classmates, and they were childhood sweethearts and fell in love with each other.

Not long after her marriage, Tang Wanru was diagnosed with difficulty in conceiving.

For the Sheng family, which already had few heirs, it was even worse.

Facing the tremendous pressure from his parents, Sheng Minghai knelt in front of his ancestral tablet and swore.

"I, Sheng Minghai, will only have Tang Wanru as my wife in my life, and I will never take a concubine."

"If God really doesn't want to give us a son and a half daughters, I will admit it."

"My ancestors, if you are blaming me, blame yourself. It is your lack of virtue that has caused the difficult situation for your descendants today."

Hearing his son's rebellious remarks, Father Sheng almost died of anger!

A son is better than a father. Father Sheng knew that his son was a big lover, and it was completely impossible to force him to accept another woman.

So he went to various places to find famous doctors to help Tang Wanru regulate her body.

Tang Wanru also knew that the Sheng family valued their children, so she cooperated with the doctor's treatment.

Finally, in the third year after marriage, Tang Wan became pregnant as she wished.

Since Tang Wanru's body was not suitable for childbirth, she began to have an abortion from the day she knew she was pregnant.

During the ten-month pregnancy, Tang Wanru suffered several times more than ordinary women.

Finally, it was time to give birth. After three days and three nights of torture, an eight-pound boy was born.

Sheng Minghai, a first-time father, named his child Sheng Tianze, which means that this child is a blessing from God.

Just when everyone in the Sheng family was feeling happy, the new garrison commander of Chihe arrived.

This person is the descendant of the Guan family, Guan Yaozu!

Since ancient times, people have not fought with officials. In order to save the Sheng family, Sheng's father took the initiative to come to seek peace.

Guan Yaozu greeted him with a smile and kept saying that the grievances of his ancestors were over and now it was time for a new society to have a new beginning.

Sheng's father was doubtful. Although Guan Yaozu did not embarrass the Sheng family, the entire Sheng family was still walking on thin ice.

Half a year passed peacefully like this.

Late one night, a group of bandits suddenly broke into the Sheng family. Not only did they kill many of the nurses, but they also took away little Tianze, who was just six months old.

Before leaving, he left a message asking the Sheng family to prepare a hundred small yellow croakers to redeem the person.

A hundred small yellow croakers were not difficult for the Sheng family. Just when Sheng Minghai arranged for people to move gold bars from the basement, Guan Yaozu led his troops into the bandits' den.

He hacked Xiao Tianze to death in the name of suppressing bandits.

When they saw the bandits' den that had turned into scorched earth, Sheng Minghai and Tang Wanru were so frightened that they sat on the ground.

The servants soon found the body of a baby among the many corpses.

When she saw the clothes she had sewn with her own hands, the special golden lock, and the baby's body that had been slashed dozens of times, Tang Wanru fainted immediately.

The child's death was like an avalanche to the Sheng family. Sheng's father and Sheng's mother passed away in less than half a year.

And because Tang Wanru was over-stimulated and suffered injuries during childbirth, it was no longer possible for her to have children!

The devastated Sheng Minghai transferred all the local businesses, and then took his wife and left this sad place!

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After hearing this, Lu Aiguo couldn't help but wonder: "If I were your child, then who was the one who died back then?"

Sheng Minghai: "I was puzzled before, until I went to Shijiaying and found your adoptive father."

"He just told us things we didn't know!"

When Shijiaying suffered a disaster, Lu Laowei'er took his wife to Chihe to seek refuge with his cousin.

As a result, my cousin was cheated in his business and became addicted to cigarettes. When he was desperate, he went up to the mountains and became a bandit.

With the cousin's recommendation, Lu Laowei'er and his wife stayed in the mountain to help the bandits cook.

This work lasted more than two years, during which time Lu Laowei'er's eldest son was born.

Later, the bandits robbed Xiao Tianze to the mountain, but no one would take care of him, so they threw the child to the Lu family and his wife.

Seeing how rich and luxurious the child was, Mr. Lu and his wife became greedy.

They took off all the clothes on Xiao Tianze and took off the gold locks.

Put them all on your son.

The couple held their son, who was dressed in rich clothes, and felt happy.

But before he was happy for a long time, the local garrison came to kill him.

The leader went straight to the room of Mr. and Mrs. Lu and his wife. After entering the door and seeing the two children lying on the kang, without waiting for others to say anything, he raised his knife and slashed at the children wearing the gold locks.

Lu Laowei'er's wife was frightened to death on the spot, and Lu Laowei'er was trembling and hiding in the corner, not daring to make any sound.

After the battle on the mountain was over, Lu Laowei'er and his wife dared to go forward to check the situation.

He saw that his son had been chopped beyond recognition, but the child beside him was still sleeping soundly.

Lu Laowei'er's wife immediately ran to the kitchen angrily to find a kitchen knife and prepared to chop the child to death to satisfy her hatred.

But the kitchen knife could not be dropped in his empty hand.

No matter how much I hate you, this is still a human life!

How could a woman who had never even killed a chicken do so?

Lu Laowei'er on the side said resignedly: "That's all, maybe this is God's will!"

I originally wanted to bury my child properly, but at this moment, people from the Sheng family came to the mountain.

Lu Laowei'er was afraid that he would be retaliated as a bandit, so he planned to sneak away without anyone noticing.

But before slipping away, his wife actually picked up the sleeping child.

"What are you going to do!" Old Lu asked in confusion.

His wife said viciously: "Our son died because of him, and this child can't even think about it easy!"

"Isn't he a young master from a rich family? I want him to live in poverty for the rest of his life!"

"Let him never recognize his ancestors and return to his clan for the rest of his life!"

"As for our son, let him be buried in the ancestral graves of wealthy families and receive their incense for generations to come!"

In this way, the child of the Lu family was buried as Xiao Tianze by the Sheng family, but the real Xiao Tianze returned to Shijiaying with the Lu family and his wife and became their eldest son, Lu Aiguo!

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After hearing the whole story, Lu Aiguo let out a long sigh!

Then he continued to ask: "Where is Guan Yaozu! What happened to him later!"

Sheng Minghai: "Actually, this kidnapping incident was planned by Guan Yaozu from beginning to end."

"He has long been colluding with the bandits on the mountain. He originally promised that he would not give up any of the gold bars after they accomplished the task, but only wanted the child's life!"

"Who would have thought that Guan Yaozu would kill all the bandits in the mountain for fear that the news would be leaked and affect his career in the future!"

"This is what I found out later when I met one of his adjutants at the time on Hong Kong Island!"

"But that Guan Yaozu didn't end well either!"

"The adjutant who told me the truth took advantage of Guan Yaozu to fight on the front line, took all his money and fled to Hong Kong Island with his concubine."

"Guan Yaozu, who suffered a defeat, was captured by the People's Liberation Army. After checking his past, it was found that he was engaged in eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, feeding the common people, and committed all kinds of evil."

"So I shot him to death!"