Southern Province, on a certain highway.
An endless stream of vehicles was moving in the sa direction.
The sky also had countless flying objects heading the sa way.
One person’s departure was accompanied by the ebb of the Big Era.
"Father, there’s a huge traffic jam ahead. Will we even be able to make it to Research Island?"
"Yes, given the current situation, we might not be able to drive a thousand kiloters in a few days, let alone get to Research Island!"
The person they called Father stepped out; his hair had turned white as he still wished to send off the Chen Family founder one last ti.
Yet he realized he no longer even had the opportunity to rush to Research Island.
Father stood outside the car, gazing toward Research Island, and suddenly shouted loudly:
"Mr. Chen, have a good journey!"
The others also stood out, creating a unique scene on the highway, all wearing the sa suits and ties, with a white cloth wrapped around their hands.
"Mr. Chen, have a good journey!"
The influence of a generation’s legend finally materialized in the few days since his departure.
Whether they knew him or not, countless people had heard the na Chen Pingsheng these days.
And his story.
A symbol of the era, the foremost entrepreneur of Magic City who cared for the common people.
In his later years, he still dispersed his family wealth just so ordinary families could live a little better.
About his life, it was always low-key and not allowed to be publicized or reported.
Yet, after his departure, countless biographies of Chen Pingsheng sprouted like mushrooms after the rain.
Displayed at airports, libraries, and included on major internet platforms.
Many won said if they were to marry, it would be to Chen Pingsheng.
And many n also said, if they were to marry, it would be to Song Yanxi.
After decades, the couple could finally reunite in another place.
...
Research Island.
White cloths everywhere, snowflakes falling for thousands of miles.
An’an created a romantic scene for her father, basking in the sunny snow, just to send off her father on his last journey.
And tens of thousands of people on the island, all mourningly bidding farewell to their spiritual guide.
An’an stood at the front, loudly saying: "Bury..."
With just one simple word, eight elderly and prestigious figures together carried Chen Pingsheng’s coffin.
As the saying goes, in life, it’s fa, and after death, it’s evaluation; Chen Pingsheng didn’t write much about himself at the end.
Instead, he summarized his not-so-short and magnificent life in just a phrase... Hero or not.
As for his fa, why should outsiders need to comnt?
A thousand ships on the sea all whistled simultaneously, surrounding cities and even dostic traffic were altered because of him, which was enough to explain how towering his posthumous fa was.
Hero or not... The eight elders inscribed the assessnt while modifying the coffin.
Who says a gentleman’s na, shelters the cold and needy of the world.
For seven consecutive days, Research Island was holding funerals for Chen Pingsheng, and all activities, including work, were completely stopped.
And the outside world was entirely singing praises of Chen Pingsheng’s na.
In his father’s last wishes, there was actually another point, which was to ensure that the Chen Family must return to their original intentions and retrace the path of their forefathers.
Never forget the original intention, and not forget the mission and responsibility of the Chen Family.
After the funeral ended, An’an assembled all the Chen Family on the island, prepared to retrace the ancestors’ path once more.
According to the father’s final instructions, to see those places from his past, and particularly the story of his eting with their mother.
And Chen Lu, including Chen Wuyou, Chen Jiye, and the now-grown fourth generation of the Chen Family, were all required to follow the path their forefathers walked, and walk it again.
Actually, An’an also wanted to know what her father was doing late in his life when he’d leave for years and, although he never said anything when he returned.
But surely, the father had done sothing outside; he just never shared it with the family anymore.
Nowadays, the Chen Family’s wealth could already be described as rivaling that of a nation, but what her father always cared about most, the original intention of the Chen Family, was being forgotten farther and farther away.
In his later years, Father spent only a small portion of his ti in the Modu Chen Family, while most of the ti was spent outside.
After announcing her decision to the family, An’an quickly took all the Chen Family mbers to start the journey of finding her father’s path.
And their first station was her hotown, Wangcai Village.
From a very young age, Father earned his own living expenses by himself, and he rarely made the family worry.
Wangcai Village has undergone changes over the past fifty or sixty years, and people of Father’s generation have long gone.
The remaining younger ones are at least seventy or eighty years old.
Speaking of the na Chen Pingsheng, they all wore a face of pride.
"Mr. Chen, he’s the pride of our Wangcai Village; he hasn’t co back for many years."
Two elderly people in the village said:
"My father said back then that Mr. Chen made a great contribution to the village. She said after the reform and opening-up, people in cities gained the era’s dividends through urban renewal.
"And the children of these rural elders left their hos one by one to go to big cities, making the once lively countryside suddenly empty, with everyone tightening their belts to buy houses in cities, increasing the living pressure in the rural areas.
"Mr. Chen stood at the entrance of the village and said to everyone, and later he said, is there a hope called the New Rural, where young children no longer yearn for the city but rather can stay near their parents, developing well while staying in their hotown.
"Everyone said at that ti, how can it be possible, if that’s the case, it would be too good.
"No one expected, this was not a joke from Mr. Chen, but sothing he genuinely wanted to accomplish, and he has been on this task for fifty or sixty years."
The elder spoke with increasing excitent, noting how the father had always focused on rural developnt starting sixty years ago.
He even proposed the idea of developing the New Rural initiative, ensuring that entertainnt and consumption sectors were also appropriately elevated.
This would allow young people to be willing to stay and spend locally while developing.
Working to earn money and consuming for entertainnt must complent each other.
The elders in the village then took An’an and the others to see the new school in the rural hotown and the rural clinic, including the five-story entertainnt and consumption center in the town.
These are what her father spent his entire life working on.
He just disdained to preach about this aspect; otherwise, his reputation would be even greater than it is now.
He could even have beco an unprecedented, unparalleled legend in the business world.
After becoming wealthy in his early years, Chen Pingsheng indeed always thought about his responsibilities and what he could do.
His help for the ordinary social class, including the New Rural developnt direction, played an indelible role.
In his later years, he always hoped that the Chen Family could continue this social responsibility.
Not just to be a wealthy family enjoying current prosperity.
For him, the Chen Family would be dispensable otherwise.
It would hardly have much reason to exist.
This was the main reason why in his later years, Chen Pingsheng was considering whether to dissolve the Chen Family.
Eventually, it was the presence of An’an that made him give up on this idea.
What the future holds for the Chen Family was truly completely handed over to the next generation at the mont he closed his eyes.
When predecessors plant trees, their descendants enjoy the shade, and everything shall end.
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