Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 385 Unlucky Female Educated Youth 85_1

Chapter 385: Chapter 385 Unlucky Female Educated Youth 85_1

Ah, ah, ah, he didn’t forget to pay the salaries before fleeing, the taxes were paid, the payments for goods were settled, and he even paid off the bank loans.

Huang Lei really didn’t know what to say, "He really was a good boss, paying all the workers’ wages."

Yeah, except for the investors’ funds being gone, nobody else suffered any loss.

"Right, how much investment did he actually get?" She didn’t inquire too much because it involved Fan Xiaofei.

"The exact amount is unclear, it seems like it was around twenty some billion."

"Some people say it was only a few billion."

Twenty some billion? Is that even possible? If it’s a few billion, that should be the bare minimum.

To set up such a big scheme just for this little money? That’s really underestimating someone.

"I think it’s more than a few billion, Fan Xiaofei later came to me, saying they were scammed, claiming they were cheated out of several tens of millions."

"He has tens of millions?" Huang Lei was surprised, "Tens of millions would probably include compounded interest as well, right?"

In the early ’90s, tens of millions was no small number, truly a hefty fortune, "If he really had that much money..."

"The day I saw him, he would have definitely boasted about it in front of me."

"But he didn’t brag."

"Wang Nan also told me that Fan Xiaofei is a very stingy person."

"Could he be that stingy if he had money?" Some things are just ingrained.

Once Fan Xiaofei had money, he would definitely brag about it, surely letting people know he’s a man of wealth.

"Right, he’s broke now." Huang Lei really wasn’t interested in how much money someone invested.

"Pretty much, after this incident, he got divorced from his wife, who insisted it was his failure to investigate properly that led to the nearly complete loss of their family wealth."

"She left Fan Xiaofei nothing but one apartment and one commercial property; she took more than ten commercial properties and houses."

How ruthless, Huang Lei felt that she had probably been irritated by Fan Xiaofei for a while, and the reason she didn’t divorce was because she feared benefiting some mistress once they separated.

Even splitting the assets half and half, in the eyes of Fan’s ex-wife, was a loss, so she firmly held onto her status as Lady Zhao Fan.

After Fan Xiaofei was cheated and became destitute, with little to his name, she definitely wouldn’t be willing to accompany him.

"Right, how’s Wang Nan doing?" Before, Wang Nan had wanted to become a permanent employee, and now that Fan Xiaofei was single, it was unclear if she aspired to climb up the ranks.

"Wang Nan, ah, it’s good that she was just suspended with pay at the time. Later, seeing that the situation was bad, she went back to continue working."

"After Fan Xiaofei fell from grace, the women around him all disappeared. Then, he sought out Wang Nan again, and it seems like they are together again."

Ah, ah, ah, after going round and round, they end up together? Huang Lei looked at Zhang Xia.

They both couldn’t help but remember the last time they saw Wang Nan, "The last time I saw Wang Nan, she was really giving Fan Xiaofei a tongue-lashing."

"She even accused Fan Xiaofei of deceiving her financially and emotionally, and then..." Zhang Xia still remembered very clearly.

There was no helping it, Wang Nan that day had made a lasting impression.

"This must be true love," Huang Lei took a deep breath, "at least she still has a commercial property and a residence."

If it weren’t for these assets, Huang Lei felt Wang Nan definitely wouldn’t have taken Fan Xiaofei in.

Over the years, with all the breakups and reconciliations, whatever deep affection they had has long since deteriorated.

"Yeah, but that’s still not enough for their son Huo Huo."

That day, Fan Xiaofei had drunk a lot and said a lot, "Wang Nan’s child is spoiled rotten by her, utterly lacking in knowledge and skills. Barely making it through junior high, he doesn’t want to study any further."

"He just hangs around outside, and when he has no money, he extorts them for it. If they don’t give him money, he beats them up."

"Did he say he regretted it, that they should have just completely split up when they broke up in the first place?"

"They also say that their eldest son is very good, very filial, and whenever they see him, they’d give him some money to spend."

"It’s a pity that a relative of the Zhu Family is doing well abroad, and his ex-wife took their son and emigrated there."

"They dealt with part of their domestic properties, and they continued to rent out the rest."

"Speaking of the filial son who went abroad, the children who stayed by their side are good for nothing, only asking for money all the time."

Zhao Aoran couldn’t help but sigh, "I myself have no accomplishments, and it turns out the children are the same."

"Can Fan Xiaofei educate children?" Huang Lei felt that Fan Xiaofei, or perhaps the Fan Family, were not very skilled in child-rearing.

"When the Fan Family was doing well, of course they’d put on airs and show off a bit, but once they fell on hard times, you see what the Fan descendants turned into."

"Wang Nan’s son, under the financial support of Fan Xiaofei, seemed like he should be fine, but once the money was gone, all the lackeys that used to hover around him disappeared as well."

"With such a drastic change, could they handle it at all?"

"They couldn’t handle it at all, and so they gave up completely, like Fan Xiaofei’s brothers and sisters."

An unsurprising outcome, "Although these are experiences they have gone through, it’s a pity no one would think of this crucial point."

"You reap what you sow." Now that she thought about it, in her previous life, the sons of Fan Xiaofei and Wang Nan were not entirely exceptional either.

It was just that back then, the Fan Family had a solid foundation, and they knew how to package themselves, and Zhao Aoran was also very attentive to this child.

Perhaps once something bad happened, both the Fan Family and Zhao Aoran would intervene, and any negative news would surely be covered up.

Knowing that Huang Lei and Fan Xiaofei were locked in a miserable marriage made her mood soar.

As long as there was one troublesome Fan Family darling around, that couple’s life couldn’t be expected to be any good.

Huang Lei was now focused on properly educating Da Bao and Er Bao, she couldn’t afford to laugh at Fan Xiaofei and his wife’s calamity only to be ridiculed in turn.

Not only did she think so, but Zhao Aoran and his wife and Zhang Xia also became more vigilant, even though the children were nearly twenty, they couldn’t slack off.

Fortunately, the children of all three families grew up slowly according to their expectations, if not exceptionally well.

After Da Bao and Er Bao grew up, they took over the burden from Huang Lei and Ho Ming, expanding and strengthening the company.

After sending off Huang Dapeng and his wife, Huang Lei and Ho Ming began their retirement life.

They lived leisurely until the last two years of their lives when they returned to Capital City; at that time, Zhao Aoran’s wife had already passed away.

He bought a siheyuan near Huang Lei’s house, and he would come over every day for tea, meals, and chats.

Old people often talk about the events of their youth, but as for their descendants, they rarely mention them.

Their thinking was that the children’s matters should be left to their parents; they couldn’t possibly worry about their sons and then their grandsons and great-grandsons as well.

At the time of Huang Lei’s passing, Zhao Aoran cried a torrent, even more heartbroken than Ho Ming.

After Huang Lei’s funeral was taken care of, Zhao Aoran never woke up again; when the Zhao descendants were to change his burial clothes, they found his hand tightly clenched.

After some effort to open it, they discovered he was holding a lock of hair.

As they were puzzled by it, they found out the old man had actually written a will, instructing them to add this lock of hair to his ashes after his body was cremated.

Though he didn’t specify whose hair it was, they knew it definitely wasn’t their mother’s/grandmother’s hair but likely that of the lady next door.

Zhao Aoran’s son always remembered that there was always a well-preserved black and white photo in Zhao Aoran’s study, and the lady in the photo was Aunt Huang.

He also knew his own mother was always gloomy, because no matter what she did, Zhao Aoran always had someone else in his heart.

He used to despise Huang Lei, thinking that if not for her, his parents might have had a good life.

But when he grew up, he couldn’t bring himself to hate Huang Lei, because the person she loved never once included Zhao Aoran.

And in his eyes, his father, who seemed capable of anything, strong and formidable, faced his biggest obstacle in life when he encountered Huang Lei.