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

"Okay, two copies, one for each party, and one for the neighborhood office as well."

Tian Chulian took the agreement signed by Liu Guomin and Chen Lianxiang and looked at it. Then he handed it to Wang Fuquan. Wang Fuquan glanced at it and nodded. "As for Lianxiang and the children's household registration, you two should go to the district in the next few days to complete all the necessary procedures. After that, you can come to me to get a certificate. Then you can go to the town to transfer your household registration."

Chen Lianxiang nodded after hearing this, while Liu Guomin wiped his fingers, which were stained with red ink, with a tissue and looked at Chen Lianxiang, saying, "Lianxiang, I plan to move out of the old house after I get back. Once I'm settled, I'll come and pick up the children to stay with us for a while, is that alright?"

Chen Lianxiang did not answer Liu Guomin directly, but turned to look at Lin Qingsheng. Seeing Lin Qingsheng nod with a smile, she then said to Liu Guomin, "Okay, we'll talk about it after you've settled in."

"Then I'll be going now," Liu Guomin said, picking up the signed agreement from the table, folding it in half, stuffing it into his pocket, and turning away without looking back.

Seeing this, Fang Songmao quickly followed them out. Liu Guoliang glared at Chen Lianxiang and Lin Qingsheng resentfully, gritted his teeth, and left as well. After everyone had left, Chen Xiangui said to Tian Chulian and Wang Fuquan, "Thank you both for your help today. We'll be leaving now."

After Liu Guomin left the Lianzhai Subdistrict Office, he didn't wait for Fang Songmao and Liu Guoliang. Instead, he walked back to Shangzhai on his own.

Fang Songmao rode his old-fashioned bicycle with his brother-in-law Liu Guoliang on the back, following closely beside Liu Guomin. He wanted to say something, but Liu Guomin kept a dark face the whole time, walking with an attitude of keeping strangers away.

Liu Guomin walked very slowly, lost in thought the whole way. Before he knew it, he had arrived at his doorstep. Although Fang Songmao was riding a 28-inch bicycle, he didn't dare to ride too fast and leave Liu Guomin behind, afraid that he might have a moment of despair or something bad might happen to him while he was walking alone. So he rode slowly all the way, which exhausted Liu Guomin.

Liu Guomin stepped into the house without stopping when he arrived at the door. His mother, Liu Lishi, was speaking in the courtyard. Her voice was sharp and sarcastic as she scolded her younger brother and sister-in-law, He Guiqin. He Guiqin did not reply. She just squatted down by the wooden basin with her head down and silently rubbed the bowl.

Still grumbling, Liu Li-shi's face lit up when she saw her eldest son, Liu Guomin, return. She immediately walked towards him, her fat jiggling as she hurried. "Guomin, how did it go? How much did you get?"

Liu Lishi was well aware that her son and son-in-law would not get any answers from the Chen family in Lianzhai. In addition, she secretly gave her second son a "lesson" last night, telling him to ask for as much as he could.

Seeing that Liu Guomin had returned alone without his child, she knew he had probably gotten the money, so she stopped pretending and directly asked how much he wanted.

Liu Guomin looked at his mother, Liu Lishi, with a cold face, and asked, "What? How much did you ask for?"

"How much money did you ask the Chen family for?" Liu Lishi still thought that her son Liu Guomin was being mistreated by the Chen family for his old age in Lianzhai, which was why he had a dark face and was still as shrewish and cunning as ever.

How many do you want?

"What? How much do I want? I want a hundred million, and the Chen family will give it to me?" Liu Li rolled her eyes. Seeing her son still staring at her with those dead fish eyes, she took a half step back and asked, "Guomin, have you suffered some kind of shock?"

"Listen to the nonsense you're spouting!" Liu Li jumped up abruptly, jabbing Liu Guomin in the face. "Liu Guomin, have you been bewitched by those Chen family people? That money is meant to support you in your old age and take care of you in your final days, and you came back without taking a single penny! Have you lost your mind?!"

"That's enough!"

Liu Guomin roared angrily. This was the first time in his life, since he could remember, that he had ever yelled at his mother, Liu Lishi, like this. "Stop being unreasonable! I'm really tired!"

Liu Li was stunned by the shout. Only after Liu Guomin entered his room did she come to her senses. She immediately started jumping up and down, jabbing her fingers wildly in the direction of Liu Guomin's room, wailing like a shaman, "Heavens! You unfilial beast! How can you treat your own mother like this? You'll be struck by lightning!"

"I raised you three siblings with great difficulty, what did I get in return? I only thought about making sure you didn't go hungry or cold, and now you've all grown up, become independent, and even despise your mother for being in the way. I might as well be dead!"

"I might as well die. I'll hang myself in this main room," Liu Li said as she rushed into her room, rummaging through drawers and cabinets looking for a rope. He Guiqin just watched Liu Li's 'performance' with a cold eye, wondering what tricks she could pull.

Fang Songmao and Liu Guoliang heard Liu Li's wailing in the courtyard. They knew that it must be the mother-in-law making a fuss because she found out that her brother-in-law had returned empty-handed. They rushed in and saw Liu Li holding a brand new thin hemp rope, about to move a stool to hang herself with the rope.

Fang Songmao was startled and shouted to Liu Guoliang to stop the man. His mother-in-law was so fat that the thin rope would definitely break if she tried to hang herself, and then she would fall down, which would be quite a sight.

Fang Songmao wasn't really concerned about whether Liu Lishi lived or died; he was afraid that if Liu Lishi suffered some serious injury from the fall, such as breaking her leg or something, she wouldn't die, and he would have to spend money to send her to the hospital.

That would add a huge burden to the family, requiring people to take turns caring for her. Moreover, with Liu Li's foul mouth, she would spread rumors that her son and daughter were unfilial and drove her to hang herself.

"Mother-in-law, what are you doing? You're a grown woman, what could be bothering you?" Fang Songmao pressed Liu Li's back down from the stool, while Liu Guoliang, standing beside her, hugged Liu Li's waist, his arms barely able to fully encircle her. "Mom, what's wrong with you now?"

"I don't want to live anymore! My three grandsons were given away to the Chen family for nothing, and that idiot didn't even get a single penny back!" Liu Lishi wailed, pointing at Liu Guomin's tightly closed door. "He came back and yelled at me! What's the point of me living? Just let me die!"

"Brother, come out here! Mother is going to hang herself at your door!" Liu Guoliang shouted at his older brother's door. "Guiqin, quickly call my brother out and help persuade Mother."

He Guiqin sighed. She actually wanted to say that she should just let that old hag Liu Li hang herself and stop her from causing trouble, but she didn't dare to say that. She could only walk slowly to the door of her uncle Liu Guomin's room and prepare to knock.

Before He Guiqin could even knock, Liu Guomin opened the door himself, carrying a bulging canvas bag. Seeing that she had tricked Liu Guomin into opening the door, Liu Li was about to resort to her old trick of wailing and acting again, but Liu Guomin walked out without looking back, saying, "I'm moving out of this house today!"

"Brother-in-law!"

"elder brother!"

"Uncle!"

"national!"