1970s: A hot-tempered wife who accompanied a soldier to the military compound and made a fortune.

Chapter 781 So how do you plan to compensate me?
But after he finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Changjiang.

Whether the others noticed this little action or not, Chu Xue saw it clearly, which shows that this person is not as honest as he seems.

Could it be that you want your uncle and your father to fight each other?
But things didn't go as planned. To everyone's surprise, Xiao Changjiang said directly, "I heard that your wife's job is also related to my grandmother's?"

Han Huaiming took a deep breath: "Yes, I did take over my grandmother's job."

Xiao Changjiang showed no mercy: "So how do you plan to compensate me?"

Thinking of something, he immediately added, "Don't forget that in another ten years or so, your wife will have a retirement pension."

Han Huaiming clenched his fist under his sleeve: You don't want to give me even the slightest chance of survival?

But in order for his family to stay in Haishi, he had to pretend to be magnanimous and say, "Of course, I will do my best to satisfy Brother Changsheng."

Just thinking about all those compensations made his heart bleed.

Over the years, with my son getting married, my daughter getting married, and supporting my younger siblings, I haven't had much savings left. What can I do?
Having worked for so many years, given the Xiao family's status, it would be very easy for them to find fault with me. After all, I'm not exactly innocent either, so if I want to maintain my current dignity, I naturally have to satisfy them.

Seeing that Han Huaiming was relatively honest, Old Master Xiao did not make things difficult for him.

The final agreement was as follows: First, the house he now owned and the family property left to him by his maternal grandmother would be returned to him intact. Second, Han Huaiming's wife's job would be compensated with half of her annual salary for all the years she worked, plus an additional six years of retirement pension, all in one lump sum. Han Huaiming was furious, but he dared not refuse.

Finally, Xiao Changjiang spoke up, saying that Han Huaiming had enjoyed so many years of good fortune on behalf of his younger brother, and he must compensate his brother with 50,000 yuan in one lump sum, since his life was stolen from his younger brother.

Even if Han Huaiming wanted to quit and leave, he thought of his family and gritted his teeth and accepted it.

The agreement was made in quadruplicate, with compensation to be paid within three months. It was witnessed not only by members of the Xiao family and Uncle Han, but also by several other elderly men in the compound who had a good relationship with Old Master Xiao.

As long as Han Huaiming pays compensation according to the agreement, the Xiao and Han families will no longer interfere with whether he stays in Haishi or returns to the Liu family. However, if the compensation is not in place, then it's hard to say.

This is an astronomical sum of compensation; words like "severe injury" don't even begin to describe it.

Once the matter was settled, Han Huaiming left with a sullen face.

Han Sihai originally wanted to leave as well, but Xiao Changjiang stopped him: "There are still many things to discuss about the second brother's return. Uncle, you can't leave."

If Jiang Huiwen hadn't come knocking on his door, urging Han Huaiming to return to the Xiao family and acknowledge his ancestry, Han Sihai would have had no chance of contacting the Xiao family at all. Back then, his younger sister initially wrote home saying she had found her ideal partner and was preparing to get married at the end of the month.

However, during those war-torn years, the letter arrived in the middle of the following month, by which time the matter was already settled.

Later, I received a letter saying that my sister was pregnant and had given birth to a son, Xiao Changjiang.

Separated by thousands of miles and with the situation unstable, there was nothing they could do but offer their blessings.

Later, Han Sihai lost contact with his family due to work. When he returned home, he found out that his sister was missing and had asked someone to send a child back, saying that this was the second child. As for his brother-in-law Xiao Yude, he only existed in the letters and they had never met him.

Later, due to a job transfer, they moved from Suzhou to Shanghai. The letters Xiao Yude sent to Suzhou after that disappeared without a trace, and they lost contact from then on.

If Jiang Huiwen hadn't sent someone to visit him earlier, saying that Xiao Yude was in Beijing and asking Han Huaiming to come to Beijing to recognize his relatives, he probably would never have been able to contact him in this lifetime.

Han Sihai knew that Xiao Yude couldn't be blamed for his sister's death, but he still felt resentful, thinking that Xiao Yude hadn't taken good care of his sister.

It wasn't Jiang Huiwen who sent the child to Shanghai initially; rather, she asked someone to send the child there. Along with the child came a letter that said her sister had sacrificed her life and that they couldn't contact Xiao Yude for the time being, so they had to send the child back to the Han family.

At the time, the whole family was incredibly grateful to Jiang Huiwen, feeling that without her, their sister would probably have died in the wilderness and their nephew would likely have lost his life.

Although they didn't know where she was, they always remembered her kindness.

Unexpectedly, although the child was not switched by Jiang Huiwen, there was a sinister intention hidden in the matter.

When Huaiming first went to Beijing to claim his relatives, he was told that he was an imposter, which made him quite angry. He thought that Xiao Yude had married a second wife. Was someone deliberately doing this?

Xiao Yude personally came to Shanghai to explain this to him in person, and he was utterly shocked.

Later, Xiao Yude sent Jiang Huiwen news frequently. He really didn't expect that Jiang Huiwen would be so capable.

It wasn't until Jiang Huiwen was arrested that people realized she had someone backing her.

(End of this chapter)