bookbashuk Chapter 206 Cancer? Sacrifice?
Chapter 206 Cancer? Sacrifice?
"Those paparazzi are really good at coming up with nicknames. I like 'Perpetual Motion Machine,' but 'Fat Motor' is a bit too much!"
Lin the Fat Man was not ashamed of these nicknames; on the contrary, he was proud of them.
"Virtue!"
I'm speechless. This guy has absolutely no sense of shame!
Ten minutes later, a phone call came in.
The person making the call was none other than Yu Mingyi, the fourth-generation head of the Yu family.
Less than half an hour after the phone call, Yu Mingyi arrived.
Yu Mingyi is not yet sixty years old, but his eyes are full of vicissitudes, revealing an indescribable weariness and fear.
"Master Feng, Master Lin, Ms. Long!"
After we met, he showed no airs of a billionaire and took the initiative to shake hands and greet us.
That's right. Even though the Yu family has declined, Yu Mingyi still has a net worth of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.
The main reason is that the land under his name is valuable.
At its peak, the Yu family owned more than 300 hectares of land.
A century has passed, and although most of these lands have been sold, Yu Mingyi still owns more than ten buildings and dozens of shops in prime locations.
This is what constitutes a profound foundation.
It's not just the Yu family; some declining old-money families on Hong Kong Island also hold a large number of properties.
As long as they don't think about restoring their family business and instead go out and do business on their own, they can live comfortably for generations and be landlords without any problem.
"Mr. Yu, Uncle Nan has told us some things about your family, but there are some details we don't know. Could you tell us more?"
After exchanging greetings, Fatty Lin didn't waste any time with pleasantries and went straight to the point.
"no problem!"
Yu Mingyi nodded and began to talk about the Yu family.
The Yu family's prosperity began with Yu Mingyi's great-grandfather.
Yu Mingyi's great-grandfather was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and Bai Feng Wan was developed by him.
Yu Mingyi's great-grandfather's greatest achievement was developing a drug addiction treatment powder, specifically for treating malaria and drug addiction among Chinese laborers. His merits were immeasurable.
Such a person, who had performed countless meritorious deeds, died young at the age of thirty-seven.
Over the past century, every time the Yu family's business has grown, a head of the family has inevitably died young.
Because of the Yu family's unique position in the Southeast Asian Chinese community, the entire community is spreading rumors that the Yu family is suffering from feng shui backlash and that their ancestral property is inauspicious.
"My grandfather divided his estate equally among his more than twenty children, and this was certainly a consideration in mind!"
When talking about the rumors of the Yu family curse, Yu Mingyi was somewhat emotional.
"So, your grandfather knew something, right?" Fatty Lin grasped the key point.
"right!"
Yu Mingyi nodded and said, "My great-grandfather was a feng shui master. I don't know what he did back then, but he told my grandfather that if my grandfather wanted to live a long life, he needed to undertake a large-scale construction project!"
"Large-scale construction?" I asked.
"Um!"
Yu Mingyi nodded and said, "My grandfather was born on the 13th day of the sixth lunar month, which is the birthday of Master Lu Ban. My great-grandfather said that my grandfather should have been a carpenter, but he switched to another profession and needed to engage in large-scale construction to live a long life!"
"My grandfather firmly believed in this and invested heavily in building twelve European-style castles. Three of these castles were built on Hong Kong Island, which are known in the market as the Yu Garden Three Castles!"
"Is that place in Repulse Bay also known as the most haunted house on Hong Kong Island?" I asked.
"There is such a rumor!"
Yu Mingyi sighed and said, "The Japanese killed prisoners there back then, but the place has already been sold to the New World!"
"Not only Repulse Bay, but also the two forts in Tai Po and Bonham Road have been sold and demolished!"
At this point, Yu Mingyi gave a bitter smile and said, "To be honest, these three castles are a nightmare for the Yu family. I have over a hundred cousins, and before those castles were sold, no one dared to go there except for ancestral worship occasions!"
"Ancestor worship?" Fatty Lin looked at Yu Mingyi with suspicion.
"My grandfather buried himself and my great-grandfather at the entrance of the Yu Garden Villa in Dapu!" Yu Mingyi said with a wry smile.
"You mean your grandfather, Yu Dongxuan, buried himself and his grandfather at the gate of his own villa, right?" Fatty Lin asked again, afraid he hadn't heard clearly.
"That's right!" Yu Mingyi nodded.
"Where is he buried now?" Fatty Lin asked.
"After the sale of the Tai Po Yu Garden Villa, the remains of my grandfather and great-grandfather were moved to the Tsuen Wan Chinese Cemetery!" Yu Mingyi said.
Fatty Lin thought for a moment and said, "The problems in your Yu family started with your great-grandfather, right?"
"right!"
Yu Mingyi pondered for a moment and said, "From my great-grandfather to my grandfather, and then to my father and second uncle, they all died in their prime!"
At this point, Yu Mingyi hesitated for a moment, then said, "Actually, I have some doubts about my second uncle's affairs!"
"Suspicion about what?" I asked.
"My second uncle started working for Uncle Shao when he was in his twenties. He was a major shareholder of TVB and served as its general manager for more than ten years. He was in charge of the Miss Hong Kong pageant, which was broadcast on TVB. He was truly Uncle Shao's right-hand man!" Yu Mingyi said.
"What are you trying to say?" Fatty Lin realized that Yu Mingyi's words had a hidden meaning.
"After my second uncle died, Uncle Shao appeared to be very sad, but what did he do behind the scenes? He used all sorts of means to erase my second uncle's traces from TVB. To this day, not many people even know that my second uncle was once the general manager of TVB for more than ten years!"
"My second uncle is dead. Dead people pose no threat to him, so why would he hide news about my second uncle?"
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Fatty Lin asked in a deep voice.
"Everyone says my second uncle was killed by a love curse, and that his stomach was full of worms when he died. But at the same time my second uncle got sick, Uncle Shao also got sick—it was cancer!"
Yu Mingyi pushed up his glasses and tugged at his striped shirt, saying, "A man in his seventies with cancer is still alive and well, while my second uncle, in the prime of his life, has died!"
"Mr. Yu, there are some things that cannot be said!" Fatty Lin said.
"If you do something, don't be afraid of what people say!"
Yu Mingyi took off his glasses, took out a glasses cloth, and wiped the already clean lenses one by one.
After wiping for a while, he put his glasses back on, looked at us, and said, "Will you tell anyone what I said?"
"No!" Fatty Lin shook his head.
"Master Lin, although our Yu family has declined, we are not fools. We know very well what some people have done, but we just don't have the evidence!" Yu Mingyi said again.
"We know very well what kind of person Li Feihong's godmother is, and we know exactly what she's done!"
"We're not saying this to seek revenge on Uncle Shao. We just want to know the truth: is our Yu family cursed?"
I didn't say anything. We had heard about Uncle Shao's story. Just a few days ago, Fatty Lin and I were talking about what Uncle Shao sacrificed to make his cancer disappear.
Now Yu Mingyi comes over and tells us that he suspects his second uncle was sacrificed by Uncle Shao Liu.
If true, these Hong Kong tycoons are all incredibly ruthless.