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

Now, taking advantage of her son's calmer temper, before he had even finished his meal, Liu Li-shi brought up the old issue again, earnestly advising her son, Liu Guomin, "Guomin, it was my fault before. I shouldn't have treated your wife that way. I was wrong!"

"You're in your mid-thirties now, and you have several children to raise. It'll be very difficult for you to find someone else. I can't bear to see you spend the rest of your life alone and helpless!"

"Otherwise, when your mother goes down to the underworld, how will she face your dead father?" With that, Liu Li put down her bowl and pretended to wipe her tears with her sleeve, glancing occasionally at her eldest son, Liu Guomin, who still looked blank.

The second son, Liu Guoliang, glanced at his mother's pretentious act and also began to advise his elder brother, "Yes, brother, don't be angry anymore. Just go over to Lianzhai and apologize to your sister-in-law and your brothers-in-law. They're all relatives; it's inevitable that they'll have a few disagreements. How can you really get divorced over this?"

The second daughter-in-law, He Guiqin, also spoke up. Although as her brother's wife, she shouldn't interfere in her uncle Liu Guomin's family affairs, she had to speak up for the sake of a better future. "Uncle, marriage is easy to get but hard to get divorced. If you don't think about yourself, you should at least think about your mother-in-law. If you really get divorced, who knows what the villagers will say about her behind her back!"

Despite being persuaded by the three men in turns, Liu Guomin only ate rice without picking at any other dishes. Seeing this, Liu Lishi cried out in distress again, "Oh, Quan Gui, why did you leave so soon, leaving this old woman to suffer in this world! My son won't listen to me anymore, I might as well die!"

As the saying goes, no one knows a son better than his mother. Liu Li Shi had calculated that as long as she wailed like that, Liu Guomin would definitely soften his heart. Just as Liu Li Shi expected, Liu Guomin sighed, "Mother, stop making a scene. This isn't something I can just decide to do. It's the Chen family who wants a divorce!"

Having already secured her son's favor, Liu Lishi realized that things would be much easier once Liu Guomin spoke up. The Chen family was now prosperous and still had some sense of shame, but if her Liu family severed ties with the Chen family, their good days would be over, and what would be the point of having any sense of shame then!

"As long as you don't get a divorce, the Chen family can't force you to. I refuse to believe that the people from the commune can really force you to divorce if you don't agree!"

As she spoke, Liu Li looked at Liu Shaozhong, who was eating quietly beside her. With a wrinkled old face, she smiled and said gently to Liu Shaozhong, "Shaozhong, your mother has now returned from recuperating in America. It's been over a year since she came home. She's been staying at your uncle's place, which has been quite a burden on your maternal grandfather's family."

"Shaozhong, tomorrow you can go with your father to your maternal grandfather's house and bring your mother, sister, and brother home together, okay?"

Liu Guomin also turned to look at his son Liu Shaozhong, his eyes darting away. He didn't really want to divorce Chen Lianxiang either. They were both this age, and if they divorced, let alone find someone else, just the thought of being laughed at by their fellow villagers, neighbors, and relatives made Liu Guomin's scalp tingle.

Liu Shaozhong didn't reply, but kept poking at the rice in his bowl with his chopsticks, just like the inner turmoil he was going through. He didn't want to leave his mother either, but he had witnessed how his grandmother, Liu Lishi, had treated his mother harshly since he was a child. As a son, he had his own selfish desires, but more than anything, he wanted his mother to leave this family and leave his grandmother, Liu Lishi.

After holding back for a long time, Liu Shaozhong finally mustered up his courage, put down his chopsticks, and said to his father, Liu Guomin, "I can persuade my mother and the others to come back, but you have to promise me that after my mother comes back, our family will move out!"

"Move out? Where to?" Liu Li's smile froze. Moving out meant her plan to send Chen Lianxiang home would be ruined. "No way! How can you move out? What will people say if they find out!"

Liu Guomin also angrily retorted, "Your grandmother is so old, I have to take care of her. What kind of image would it be if we moved out? Wouldn't people point fingers and call us unfilial!"

"It's all just what people say. They fed you and gave you money to spend, so why should you care what they say?" Liu Shaozhong retorted, unusually assertive. "You all know better than I why my mother drank pesticide!"

"Back then, when my mother was lying on the door plank, weren't you afraid of what others would say!"

"Now you're afraid of what others will say!"

"Shaozhong, listen to your second aunt..."

"Shut up, you're no better than me!"

"You little brat, how dare you talk to your second aunt like that!" Liu Guoliang was about to slap his wife across the face when his nephew yelled at him. Liu Lishi immediately shouted, "Guoliang, what are you doing!"

Liu Li quickly signaled to her second son with her eyes that he must not hit Liu Shaozhong at this time, as they still needed him to go to the Chen family. If Liu Shaozhong went to the Chen family with a red handprint on his face, given the protective nature of those uncles in the Chen family, this matter would probably not be over.

At that time, I'm afraid even Liu Shaozhong and his family won't be able to stay. We can't fight them!

Just as the family was arguing, the door was pushed open, and Liu Jiashui and her husband Fang Songmao arrived with their two children. Seeing that all four people at the dinner table were fuming, Fang Songmao gave his wife a look.

Liu Jiashui placed the aluminum pot she was carrying in front of Liu Shaozhong. "Shaozhong, this is braised pig's trotters that your aunt specially made for you. It smells so good! Your two younger cousins ​​kept asking for some, but I wouldn't let them. I told them it was for their older cousin. You should try it!"

Fang Songmao smiled and said, "Shaozhong, this is a pig's foreleg that your uncle had someone save for you from the commune. The foreleg is much more chewy than the hind leg. Eat it while it's hot."

"I'm full," Liu Shaozhong suddenly stood up, knocking over the stool he was sitting on, and ran into the room.

Seeing this, Liu Jiashui whispered to his mother, Liu Lishi, "Shaozhong, what's wrong? What were you talking about just now?"

Liu Li then recounted the words of advice that the others had taken turns giving him. Finally, Liu Guoliang said indignantly, "That little brat, he has no respect for his elders! He even dares to yell at his second aunt! He's so spoiled!"

"You didn't hit him, did you?" Liu Jiashui hurriedly asked Liu Guoliang. As for Liu Shaozhong yelling at her second brother's wife, He Guiqin, she didn't care.

She is now single-mindedly thinking about how to get in touch with her sister-in-law's brothers and arrange for her husband, Fang Songmao, to work as a driver at the Guangdong Factory, or at the very least, to be put into the fleet of vehicles at Huaxingsheng Supermarket.

She had heard that the truck drivers at Guangdong Factory earned a little over 200 to 300 yuan a month, plus allowances. If he could get his sister-in-law to put in a good word for him with the Chen family, then her family could also earn over 300 yuan a month.

Although her husband, Fang Songmao, only knew how to drive the hand-operated truck in the brigade headquarters, in Liu Jiashui's eyes, there was no difference between the hand-operated truck and the freight truck.

They all have four wheels spinning!