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

Chen Family Ancestral House in Lianzhai Village

Grandma Wei Shufen, leaning on her cane, slowly walked out of her house. In the hall, several children were secretly eating the cookies and snacks that Chen Dong had brought. Hearing the noise, they were so frightened that they quickly hid the snacks behind their backs. When they saw that it was their great-grandmother, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Grandma Wei Shufen saw the mischievous boys eating snacks but didn't say much. She just lay down on her bamboo chair and rocked leisurely. Chen Rongxiong came over with a piece of White Rabbit milk candy and said, "Grandma, have some candy, it's very sweet."

"Good girl, you eat it yourself. Grandma won't eat it because it's too sweet and will hurt your teeth," the old lady said with a smile, politely declining. Seeing that all the adults in the family had gone to work, she thought of the bundle of money Chen Dong had given her last night and reached for her belt pouch.

She took out some money and said to Chen Rongxiong, "Rongxiong, you've started school and can read now, so Grandma will test you. Can you count how much money is in here?"

Chen Rongxiong took the bundle of foreign exchange certificates handed over by Grandma Wei Shufen, his eyes widening in surprise. It was the first time he had ever seen so much money. He thought that the red envelope Uncle Dong gave him last night, which contained a thousand dollars, was the most money he had ever seen in his life. He never expected that his great-grandmother had so much money.

"Grandma, how...how do you have...so much...money!"

Chen Rongxiong stammered as he spoke. The old lady tapped him on the head and said, "You're so useless. You're already blinded by this little bit of money. Quickly help your great-grandmother count how much this is."

"Oh, oh, oh," Chen Rongxiong said, clutching the bundle of money in both hands. He couldn't touch it after being hit on the head, so he could only clumsily count the bills one by one. The other children who were still eating snacks gathered around when they saw their fourth brother counting money, shouting excitedly.

"Grandma, you have so much money!"

"Grandma, you'd better hide it well! The red envelope Uncle Dong gave me last night was taken by my mother!"

"Yes, Grandma!"

Surrounded by her great-grandchildren, Grandma Wei Shufen laughed and said, "Who dares to take money from your great-grandmother? This was given to me by your Uncle Dong. Even if you had three times the courage, you wouldn't dare mention the word 'money' to your great-grandmother!"

Upon hearing this, the children immediately exclaimed, "I should have left the red envelope with Great-Grandma! Next time Uncle Dong gives me a red envelope, I'll leave it with Great-Grandma!"

"Yes, I'll save it here too, Grandma!"

"Me too!"

Chen Rongxiong, who was counting money, was so annoyed by his younger siblings' noise that he forgot how much he had counted. "Hey, stop arguing! I've miscounted!"

"Fourth brother is stupid! No matter how much I argue, my dad can always count the money correctly. Fourth brother is so stupid!"

"Oh my god, Fourth Brother is so stupid!"

Enraged, Chen Rongxiong shouted, "I'll strip you all naked one by one and spank you!"

"Run! Run! Silly Fourth Brother is angry and about to hit us!"

The little ones, covering their bottoms and giggling, ran out the door, leaving only Grandma Wei Shufen and Chen Rongxiong recounting the money. "Grandma, ten for a thousand!"

"What do you mean, ten thousand?" Old Mrs. Wei Shufen laughed and tapped Chen Rongxiong on the head again. "That's ten thousand! I bet you've been sleeping soundly at your desk during class!"

The old lady took the money Chen Rongxiong had counted and put it into the cloth bag at her waist. She then took out a bundle of loose change tied with a cloth rope, counted out a five-cent note, and handed it to Chen Rongxiong. "You've been counting for Grandma for so long. Take this five cents and buy some candy for your younger siblings. Keep an eye on them and don't let them run around."

"Thank you, Grandma," Chen Rongxiong said happily as he took the crumpled five cents and ran out the door. He then led his younger siblings to the peddler's stall in the village and bought some candy. Each of the children took a piece and licked it as they walked back to their ancestral home.

As soon as they reached the door, they saw several people, men and women, young and old, trying to enter their ancestral home. Chen Rongxiong quickly said, "Who are you? My parents aren't home; they're all at work in the production team!"

One of the older men glanced at Chen Rongxiong and asked, "What's your father's name?"

"My father's name is Chen Zaiguang!"

"Oh, it's Zaiguang's son. I'm your uncle. I used to hold you when you were little. Don't you remember?" The old man's face beamed like a chrysanthemum.

When I was little! He even hugged me!

Chen Rongxiong looked at the unfamiliar face of the man, who kept saying "I am your uncle." Chen Rongxiong knew all the relatives in the Chen family. They visited each other during holidays, but he had never seen these people before.

"But I don't know you," Chen Rongxiong replied bluntly.

"You silly child, we are your great-grandmother's nephews and cousins. Even your grandfather has to call us cousins ​​when he sees us," another middle-aged man said.

Chen Rongwen leaned closer to Chen Rongxiong and whispered, "Fourth Brother, we don't know them at all. Only Grandma is home. Uncle Dong brought so many nice things yesterday, but the adults aren't home. We can't let them into our ancestral home!"

After saying that, Chen Rongwen said to the group of people, "The adults are all working in the team and aren't home right now. Why don't you come back later?"

"It's alright, we'll just go in and sit for a while. Is your great-grandmother home? We can chat with our great-aunt too," an old woman said with a smile.

"No, the adults aren't home, we can't let you in," shouted Chen Huijuan, the eldest daughter of the fourth son, Chen Zailong.

"Hey, you little girl, you have no manners at all. Your relatives have come, and you won't even let them into the house," the old woman immediately stopped smiling and reached out to grab Chen Huijuan.

"What are you doing?" Chen Rongxiong immediately stood up and shielded his cousin Chen Huijuan behind him, but the old woman was persistent and started to pull at Chen Rongxiong.

After all, he was just a fourteen-year-old boy, no match for the old woman who worked in the fields all year round. He was pulled down and thrown to the ground in no time.

Four-year-old Chen Rongguo was immediately terrified and burst into tears. His older sister, Chen Huifeng, held him in her arms and comforted him, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay, your sister is here!"

"They're beating up Fourth Brother, waaaaah!"

The child's cries immediately drew out Grandma Wei Shufen and the surrounding neighbors. Aunt Cai, who was cooking pig feed at home, rushed out when she heard the child crying, forgetting to put down the cleaver she was using to chop the pig feed.

Seeing several outsiders confronting the Chen family's sons and daughters in front of the ancestral home, with the eldest son of the third son even being 'beaten' to the ground, Aunt Cai immediately shouted, "What are you doing, coming to our village to bully people!"

"Auntie, please don't misunderstand. We are relatives of the Chen family. We've come to visit relatives," the old man who spoke first explained politely when he saw that Aunt Cai had a kind face and was holding a rusty knife.

"Visiting relatives like this, and now they're bullying the children!" Aunt Cai immediately stepped between them and the Chen family's children.

"I don't think you're any good people either!"