Returning wealthy individuals develop their hometowns and become rich in the 1980s

Rewind a bit, when Chen Dong's family was driving their Maybach at a speed of 40 km/h, they had already been spotted by road thugs waiting by the dirt road.

A man wearing a patched gray coarse cloth shirt, with a six-cent pack of coconut palm cigarettes dangling from his mouth and stubble on his lips, was running wildly toward a mud-brick house not far away, his cloth shoes with exposed toes almost flying off.

"Brother Fan, a car is coming this way!"

Inside the mud-brick house, two men, both dressed in gray coarse cloth shirts, were smoking and idly picking at the black dirt under their fingernails with twigs. When their companion shouted that a vehicle was approaching, they immediately perked up and asked the man, "What kind of vehicle is coming? A truck or a sedan?"

"A sedan," the man said, panting, before catching his breath, "I've never seen one like it before. It's gleaming, so old-fashioned!"

Upon hearing his accomplice's words, the man called "Fan Ge" glanced at his brother beside him. The two locked eyes and realized that this was a fat sheep. They immediately prepared to grab their weapons and pull off a big heist.

The three men stood on either side of the dirt road. Fan Ge watched the black, impressive sedan slowly approaching and secretly exclaimed in amazement, "Goodness, this car must be worth a lot of money. This bet will be enough for the three of them to live happily for a long time."

When the car was about ten meters away from them, Fan shouted, "Shutter, Bamboo Pole, attack!"

Upon hearing Fan Ge's shout, the other two immediately jumped off the side of the dirt road and ran towards the center of the road. Inside the Maybach, Chen Dong saw the three rush out and immediately braked, the car kicking up a cloud of dust before coming to a steady stop in the middle of the road. Zhang Yi, in the passenger seat, looked at the three who had suddenly appeared and nervously asked Chen Dong, "Tony, what are they going to do?"

"Don't rush, let's take a look first," Chen Dong said, watching one of the men in gray slowly walk to his car window. The man first looked Chen Dong's Maybach up and down before knocking on the window, signaling Chen Dong to lower it.

Chen Dong pressed the lock button next to the window button with his left hand, then lowered the window by about two fingers and asked the man, "What's the matter?"

"Comrade, there are rules to everything. You were driving way too fast. Look what you did to my brother. He's lying on the ground and can't get up." Fan Ge leaned close to the car window to look inside. He saw a woman sitting in the passenger seat, dressed very neatly, and a child in the back seat.

"You hit someone and didn't even get out to check if my brother was alive or dead. That's incredibly inconsiderate!"

"Tony, what should we do?" Zhang Yi asked Chen Dong in English from the passenger seat.

Upon hearing Zhang Yi speak in a language he couldn't understand, Fan Ge turned his head and reached for the car door handle. Finding it stuck, he realized the person inside was on guard. Annoyed, he pulled a small hammer from his waist and, through the window, said to Chen Dong, "You hit someone and didn't take my brother to the hospital. If he dies, you'll be eating peanuts!"

"Stop pretending, this is highway robbery," Chen Dong said to Fan Ge through the car window. "We're not giving you any money, get out of the way, or I'll just drive right through you!"

Upon hearing Chen Dong's words, Fan Ge spat and cursed, "You son of a bitch, you dare to try and do it? If you don't open this damn car door for me, I'll smash the window!"

Bamboo Pole, who had been lying on the ground pretending to be dead, saw that the cursing had already started and there was no need to keep up the act. He stood up and blocked the front of the Maybach, preventing Chen Dong from leaving. Earth Rat went around to the passenger door and violently pulled on it.

The door couldn't be opened. Given the current situation, Chen Dong grew up in America. Although he had a comfortable life since childhood, there were many reports on TV news about America's blatant zero-dollar purchases. How could Chen Dong not be on guard at all?

"Tony, give them some money and send them away," Zhang Yi said to her husband Chen Dong, seeing that Fan Ge and the mole outside the passenger seat had already brandished their small hammers and were about to smash the window.

Chen Dong glanced at the two people on either side of him and said in English to his wife Zhang Yi and son Chen Hui, "Hold on tight, I'm going to reverse quickly!"

After saying that, Chen Dong shifted the gear to R and stepped on the gas. The Maybach roared and sped backward. Seeing Chen Dong reverse quickly, the three of them immediately shouted and chased after him. Chen Dong then shifted the gear to D and floored the gas pedal.

The Maybach unleashed its powerful engine, kicking up clouds of dust as it shot forward like an arrow. The bamboo pole, still in the middle, saw the black car rushing towards them without slowing down at all, and scrambled to the side of the dirt road to avoid it.

After passing the three people, Chen Dong rolled down the car window, stretched out his arm and gave them the middle finger in the air, then drove away.

"Damn it, that son of a bitch, he got away!" Brother Fan cursed, pointing at the departing black car.

Bamboo Pole patted his chest in lingering fear, "Damn it, if I hadn't dodged, he would have run me over and killed me!"

Inside the Maybach, Chen Dong withdrew his arm and laughed heartily, turning to his wife and saying, "Trying to hijack my car? I grew up in America, what haven't I seen!"

"Daddy, you're so cool!" Little Chen Hui in the back seat immediately shouted, patting the seat. Zhang Yi in the passenger seat patted her bulging chest and looked at Chen Dong reproachfully, "You scared me to death!"

The Maybach continued along the dirt road. This time, Chen Dong increased the speed slightly. Thanks to the Maybach's excellent shock absorption, even when driving on this bumpy and muddy dirt road, there wasn't much vibration inside the car.

After driving for nearly half an hour, we finally saw a road sign nailed to a wooden post. Perhaps due to the passage of time, much of the white paint on the road sign had weathered and peeled off, but fortunately the lettering was still legible.

A forward arrow was marked in black paint on the sign, with the words "Nanshan County Urban Area" written next to it. Chen Dong slowed down and read the words on the sign before saying to his wife Zhang Yi, "It seems we are still in Tuocheng. Nanshan County Urban Area is not far ahead."

Hearing her husband Chen Dong's words, Zhang Yi unzipped her handbag, took out her wallet, and looked at the stack of bright green US dollars inside. "Can I use these?"

"It should be fine," Chen Dong, who grew up in America, believed that US dollars couldn't be spent there.

After driving for nearly ten more minutes, the road turned from dirt to cement. More and more pedestrians began to appear around us. People riding bicycles, carrying bamboo baskets, and holding lunch boxes all stopped and stared at the uniquely designed black car that suddenly appeared in their field of vision.

As the Maybach slowly pulled over to the side of the road, Chen Dong was about to ask someone for directions when he was immediately surrounded by a crowd. People dressed in uniform gray-blue uniforms gathered from all directions outside the window, pointing and gesturing at the Maybach.

"Daddy, there are so many people!" Chen Hui, who was sitting in the back seat, struggled to get out of his child seat and shouted out the window.

"Jimmy, stay in the car with Mommy and don't open the door. Daddy's going to ask for directions!"