I am the largest merchant in Laosha City and have three sons and one daughter: the eldest is in business and manages my department store; the third is a graduate of Huangpu Military Academy and joins the Anti-Japanese War; the fourth joins the Communist Party; and my daughter is married to a division commander of the National Army.
During the battle to defend Shacheng, the son-in-law defrauded the enemy of gold, bought weapons, and set them up outside the city gate. Together with Lao Si, they defeated the enemy three times and never let the Japanese enter Shacheng.
All of my children are excellent and outstanding. I have been in business for fifty years, and with the inheritance from my ancestors, I have saved a whole bank of gold. As long as I guard this family, run a good business, and be a good father, future generations will enjoy endless blessings. I can also enjoy a happy family and die in peace.
However, I was the most unlucky one in the whole family. I was greedy for money, lustful, cold and ruthless, a traitor to the enemy, put my daughter-in-law under house arrest, framed my in-laws, poisoned my first wife, and did all kinds of bad things. My four children hated me to the core. I was caught by my youngest son who was regarded as the People's Liberation Army and handed over to the police. He succumbed to the Communist Party and was finally tried and shot in the suburbs of Shacheng. All the gold in the basement was taken to Taiwan by his second son. But I was buried in the suburbs with nothing in my hands and a thin coffin. I didn't take a single son with me... The word "greed" made me completely devastated.
All laws are empty, only cause and effect are not empty. People, you must know how to be content and cherish the present moment.
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