Chapter 348
Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 348
Back then, his father lived in poverty and he had failed to pass the entrance examination to get into
university. Therefore, Gerald’s grandfather had forced him to serve as a soldier in the army instead.
There, he met hisrade-in-arms.
After being in the army for two years, he returned to his hometown and took up farming.
He needed the money since he was broke.
Somehow, he managed to gather just enough to open a steamed bun shop and he stopped farming
then. However, since his father wasn’t one to just let a thief escape when he saw one, he ended up
maiming the thief. As a result, he had to give up his steamed bun shop to the other party as
compensation.
By then, he had also borrowed a lot of money and had a lot of foreign debt.
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It was a point in his life where he was so poor, that he didn’t even have the money to celebrate the New
Year. Seeing no other hope, he decided to look for hisrade-in-arms.
Hisrade-in-arms lived within the country and came from a pretty rich family. Both his parents were
civil servants so they naturally had a pretty good life.
However, every time his father arrived at his home ording to the address he had been given, his
comrade would never be avable.
It was nothing short of cold and disappointing back then.
While they were brothers, they were extremely close to each other. They had even made a pact that
their future sons would be brothers as well. If one of them bore a girl, then they would be a couple
instead.
Well, apparently that pact was just a joke to hisrade.
From then on, he didn’t try to contact him anymore.
Finally, when his father was at the ripe age of twenty-two, Gerald’s grandfather finally told his father
that he was actually a rich heir.
His father was then led to start up a business before he was finally able to inherit the riches of the
Crawford family.
It wasn’t until both Gerald and his sister had been born that his father and mother finally returned to
their hometown. They both controlled their businesses remotely while also nning a proper poverty
system to educate their children with.
Gerald could clearly remember that it was his neighbors, Mr. Winters and Mrs. Winters, who had taken
care of Gerald and his sister for arge portion of their childhood. Their parents were always busy
making money abroad to pay off their family’s debts.
His parents would onlye back to visit them twice or thrice a year at most to check up on their
progress.
That was a basic summary of everything that had happened.
As for when his father would finally meet up with hisrade-in-arms again, it happened when Gerald
was ready to begin his high school life. His father had brought him over to meet up with his old
When they finally locked eyes at the parking lot of hisrade’s home, hisrade-in-arms simply
said that he was busy with a meeting the moment his father asked for his help. He then immediately
changed the topic and told his father to meet him again sometime in the future to reminisce about the
past.
In the end, Gerald managed to enter a prestigious high school through his own good grades.
His father’srade seemed to have a very high status and it felt normal that he would look down on
Gerald and his family.
That was the only impression that Gerald personally had when he met his father’srade-in-arms.
“What about it, sister?” asked Gerald as he shook his own thoughts aside for the moment.
“Well you see, dad has constantly been saying that he misses his old friends. However, you know that
he’s always been indifferent to fame and fortune. Now that our poverty educating system is already
over, it wouldn’t be convenient for dad to return to Mayberry City to visit his oldrade in person, with
dad’s extremely high status and all. Yes, I know his so-called rade’ has always looked down on us
and our dad, but our father likes to see the good in people. Since I can’t go back to personally do
anything now, I’ll have to leave this matter to you now!”
“Since you’ll be staying in Mayberry City to clean up some of your business matters during summer
break anyway, try taking a few days off to go home and stay there for a while. While you’re there, you
could visit dad’s old friend as well as his special friend. I’ll be mailing something to you soon. It’ll
contain the contact information and address of the special friend in it as well. You’ve never met the
special friend before I think. If there’s anything you can do to help with the situation, please do so.”
“Also since Mr. Winters and Mrs. Winters had been taking care of us for so long, maybe build them a
vi on the mountain. Make sure you give their children some money to help them too! Well, I’ll need to
leave now, bye!”
After giving him so many instructions, she then hung up immediately.
Gerald could only feel puzzled at the moment.
Who was his father’s special friend?
Realizing that thinking about it wasn’t going to help, he simply shook his head before heading back to
the dormitory.
Everything that happened after then yed out as shown earlier
Back to the present, the night was silent as the boys slept peacefully.
Early in the morning the next day, Gerald had gone to the library with some textbooks in hand to study.
There were already several people there despite being this early.
Gerald simply walked on to his usual studying spot by the window.
As soon as he saw the familiar table, he was reminded of Giya. After all, this was where they had first
met.
He had wanted to give her the jade bracelet which he had bought for her. However, he didn’t see her
on his usual routes and he didn’t have her contact information either.
His secondary mission at the library was to see if he could finally meet up with her again.
After sitting down, Gerald found himself looking up from time to time.
All the while he did so, a few well-mannered looking girls who had been sitting at another corner of the
library continued to observe Gerald’s actions.
“Hey, hey! Who do you think that pathetic looking jerk is looking for?” asked one of the girls as she
smiled.