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

"This is utterly absurd! I can't be bothered to talk to you."

Chen Zaiguang turned over, pulled the blanket over his head, and decided to ignore this crazy woman. Lin Ruiqing sat on the edge of the bed, gritting her teeth in anger.

Looking at her husband's unyielding attitude, she felt an urge to grab a kitchen knife and chop him up. Staring fiercely at the bulging quilt for a long time, Lin Ruiqing gritted her teeth and whispered, "Chen Zaiguang, if you won't do it, I'll do it myself!"

Chen Zaiguang, burying his head under the covers, snorted coldly after hearing this and muttered a retort, "You can't even cook, and you're expected to do it? If you feel uncomfortable about having too much money in this family, take the money to the riverbank, wrap some pebbles around it, and throw it into the river. At least you'll hear a splash!"

Lin Ruiqing felt that Chen Zaiguang's words were particularly hurtful today. She threw a tantrum and said, "I'll accept the loss. When we run out of money, I'll take Rong Rui and beg on the streets. I won't need you, a third-rate chef, to manage me!"

Little Rongrui peeked half his head out from under the covers and asked timidly, "Mom, am I going to have to beg for food on the street too? I still have to go to school."

Lin Ruiqing glared at him again, "Go to sleep! Why are you just like your father, always trying to make me angry!"

Chen Zaiguang sat up in bed, looked at her, and suddenly laughed, a laugh tinged with helplessness and bitterness. "Ruiqing, do you think opening a shop is easy?"

"Is it that difficult? Then how come my fourth uncle and younger uncles have been opening supermarkets one after another? Now they're even helping the government build residential communities," Lin Ruiqing retorted. "Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Then do you know where to open a shop, how to source goods, how to register with the Industry and Commerce Bureau, and how to do the accounting?" Chen Zaiguang sighed and said, "Don't look at how successful Lao Si and Lao Wu are after they made money and think that doing business is something anyone can do. Let me tell you, there are a lot of tricks to it!"

He got angrier and angrier as he spoke, "You're always envious of other people making money, but do you know how they made it? Zai Xing went to the Urban Construction Bureau so many times and drank with so many departments for that shantytown project, and now this mess has happened, and he's still in the hospital. Do you think money falls from the sky?"

Chen Zaiguang lay down again, his back to Lin Ruiqing. "Go to sleep. Don't think about those things anymore."

Lin Ruiqing sat on the edge of the bed, not moving for a long time, her mind still on this matter. She was indeed envious of the money that the fourth and fifth brothers were making. Why could they do business, but she, Lin Ruiqing, couldn't?

She just wouldn't believe it.

The next morning, several children who were going to school were eating porridge around a small square table in the ancestral hall. Xiao Rongrui had stayed up very late last night because of his parents' argument, and now he listlessly picked at the porridge in his bowl. He didn't eat the boiled egg that his grandmother Huang Lanzhi had peeled for him, and just left it dangling in his bowl.

Seeing Rong Rui's expression, Huang Lanzhi reached out and touched his forehead. "Rong Rui, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Your head doesn't feel hot."

"Grandma, my mom said she's going to take me to jump off the bridge," Xiao Rongrui said, startling everyone. Huang Lanzhi's face turned dark, and she slammed her chopsticks down on the small square table.

While Rongguo was still eating his boiled egg, shaking his head, he asked Chen Hui after hearing his brother Rongrui's words, "Brother, is Third Aunt going to secretly take Fifth Brother to play in the water? Let's go together."

Wu Fangru, who was eating at another table with her bowl, heard her silly son's words and came over to grab his ear, yelling, "What nonsense are you spouting? If you dare go playing in the water, I'll spank you until your bottom is raw!"

"Mother, I don't want to play in the water. If you want to hit someone, hit Third Aunt. It was Third Aunt who said she would take Fifth Brother to play in the water," Xiao Rongguo felt wronged. He had only spoken his mind and hadn't done anything wrong. Why was Mother pulling his ear?

"Third brother, Ruiqing, what's wrong with you two?" Huang Lanzhi, her face dark with anger, couldn't help but frown at Chen Zaiguang and his wife. "Why do you say such things in front of the child? Look how scared you've made him."

Chen Xiangui also angrily said, "How can parents say such things to their children? Third son's wife, if you have something on your mind, say it. Don't take it out on the children!"

When questioned by his parents in front of him, Chen Zaiguang's face turned bright red. Lin Ruiqing also lowered his head and dared not speak, thinking to himself, "Why does this silly son take everything he says so seriously?"

Seeing her daughter-in-law remain silent, Huang Lanzhi grew even angrier. "Ruiqing, I'm asking you a question! What did you say to the child?"

Lin Ruiqing looked up, hurriedly trying to cover it up, "Mother, I... I just had a few words with his father last night, and I said them in anger. I didn't know the child would take it seriously..."

"Things said in anger!" Huang Lanzhi slammed her hand on the table. "How can you say such things to a child in anger? Rong Rui is so young, do you know you've scared him!"

Chen Zaiguang also spoke up, "Father, Mother, this is my fault. I argued with her last night, and things got worse as we talked. Ruiqing is just anxious because she thinks I'm useless as the head of the household and wants me to do something."

"Shut up!" Chen Xiangui glared at his third son. "I'll talk to you about your matter later!"

Just then, Grandma Wei Shufen finished her porridge, wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and beckoned to Rong Rui, saying, "Rui, come here, come to Grandma."

"Grandma," Rongrui ran to Grandma Wei Shufen's side, standing there timidly. Grandma Wei Shufen patted his head and asked, "What else did your mother say to you?"

"My mother... she also said that she would take me to beg for food on the street. Grandma, I still have to go to school," Xiao Rongrui said aggrievedly.

Grandma Wei Shufen stroked Rongrui's head and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's all just a dream. The wind will blow it away, don't worry about it! Your mother is just lying to you. Hurry up and finish your porridge, then go to school with Rongwen and Rongwu."

"Oh, I see, Grandma!"

Chen Xiangui and Huang Lanzhi were about to criticize the third son and his wife when Grandma Wei Shufen coughed lightly, and Huang Lanzhi immediately shut up. After the children finished eating, carried their schoolbags, and went to school together, and after Xiao Chenhui and Xiao Rongguo went to the small building next door, Grandma Wei Shufen slapped the dining table.

The slap sent a shiver down everyone's spine. Old Mrs. Wei Shufen, her face cold, looked at Chen Zaiguang and Lin Ruiqing, the couple, and said, "You two, you've really got some nerve! Always causing trouble. Do you only want things when I, this old woman, have your father give you away?"

"Grandma, what Ruiqing said is all..."

Old Mrs. Wei Shufen interrupted Chen Zaiguang before she could finish speaking, saying, "We are the eldest branch of the Chen family. Although we have fallen on hard times, I have three daughters-in-law and more than a dozen granddaughters-in-law, and no one has ever dared to say such things before!"

"Ruiqing, tell me, what terrible injustice have you suffered that makes you want to jump off a bridge with my great-grandson? Or is it that you can't stand being in this house anymore, that you feel stifled? Give me a straight answer today! I've lived to this old age, and today I've truly seen something amazing!"

Even tigers don't eat their cubs!