Rebirth to the Eighties to Get Rich

Zhang Xueli was startled and said at once, “Divorce? Lao Qin, are you really going to file for divorce over this? What are you trying to do?”

“This? Zhang Xueli, let me tell you, this money is my hard-earned money from risking my life. I didn’t pick it up from the streets. If you dare to take my hard-earned money back to your maternal family, why should I not divorce you? You are not filial to my parents. You don’t like it when I give them more food. Tell me, how much money you gave them over the years. I married you, but why do I still have to support your parents and your siblings? Zhang Xueli, go back and get the money back to me, otherwise you don’t have to come back and we will divorce!” Lao Qin shouted.”

Zhang Xueli’s face was flustered. This time she could see that if she didn’t get the money back, Lao Qin would really divorce her. She immediately said, “Okay, I’ll go back at once to get it back. Don’t worry. My mother said she would only use it for emergencies.”

“Emergencies? Fine, go back and see if it’s really being used for emergencies. Zhang Xueli, I, Qin Aiguo, am speaking to you seriously after so many years of marriage. I haven’t done you any harm or treated you badly. You have done this many times, and I tolerated it. But this time, I absolutely cannot tolerate it. I don’t care how you do it, but the money you gave to your family must be returned to me. Even if you don’t come back, you must give me my money back, do you hear me?!” Lao Qin lashed out.

Zhang Xueli realized how serious this matter was. She wanted to leave now, but it was too late in the evening.

The next morning, Zhang Xueli hurried back, and Lao Qin didn’t go to work for the first time. He went to his hometown to visit Father Qin and Mother Qin.

Lao Qin explained it to them in this way, “Father, Mother, please help me in the future. I’ve transferred two children to a different school. When they go to school and come home, they’ll stay in the county.”

Father Qin and Mother Qin were confused. “Where’s Xueli?”

“Don’t worry about her. Just help me out,” Lao Qin said.

He has only one son in his family. He had two sisters and they married a long time ago. His parents were the ones who raised him. He didn’t care about these things before, but now he is a little tired of his wife.

When the country was opening up a few years ago, he was brave enough to follow his army brothers to work in the sea. He made him a lot of money. After that, he didn’t continue to work, because the world outside was too dangerous, so he went back to his country to guard it.

He also ran an orchard business. Although business was so-so, there were many families he contracted the land out to on the mountain. He could just live his life doing that and he saved up that money he earned in the past.

However, he wanted to see if he could run a business and settle down. After all, he was getting older.

So when Jianyun told him that his second brother-in-law’s business was good and asked him to come to the county town to open a business, he was very excited and started the business.

Currently, his chicken and egg business is excellent. In addition to that, he learned from Jianyun’s second brother-in-law to go get fruits and vegetables from the villagers and sell them along with the chickens and eggs. He made a lot of money during this time.

When the landlord came by and wanted to increase the rent, he actually had the idea to buy the shop here. That way, he could live here quietly.

He wanted to do it, but his family didn’t have enough money, so he didn’t think about it again.

He didn’t suggest for Jianyun to do anything, but he did mention it to him. He would not be offended if Jianyun didn’t say anything about it. He knew how much Jianyun spent on the truck, and even though Jianyun was not buying a truck right now, if Lao Qin wanted to borrow some money from him, he would definitely let him. But Lao Qin was afraid that Jianyun might not have much money left in his own family, and didn’t expect him to agree.

That’s why this time he really wanted to buy the shop. *∞:｡.｡ 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘹𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤.𝘤𝘰𝘮 ｡.｡:∞*

Although he usually didn’t manage the money at home, he had a rough idea of how much money there was.

He also knew that his wife liked to help her maternal family, and he didn’t mind if it was a few yuan.

But he didn’t expect that his wife would repeatedly give their money away. If it went on like this, then there would be no money left in his family. By then, would he even be able to speak?

He must think through this matter deeply. If his wife didn’t get the money back, then he was done with her. As for divorce, it was just to scare her. If she didn’t get the money back, then that meant she couldn’t find a way to do it. Also, he firmly believed that she would never get back any of the money.

It happened exactly  the way Lao Qin expected it to. After Zhang Xueli returned to her maternal house, she realized that the people in her maternal family completely changed their tunes. They said that they would only borrow from her, but didn’t think they needed to return it at all. Besides that, she was also criticized. “Your maternal family raised you to adulthood, so how can you be filial like this? Zhang Xueli, if mother didn’t give you birth, then you would be a wandering ghost without any ancestors to pray for1. Even if you don’t know how to be grateful, how dare you come back and ask for money?”

This was her younger brother criticizing her. Yes, the younger brother who she gave money to when he got married to buy a bicycle.

Zhang Xueli cried bitterly, “Mother, give me the money back. If you don’t give it back to me, Lao Qin will divorce me. He will divorce me!”

“Divorce? What divorce? He’s just trying to scare you. He’s just making it up. If it is like how it was in the past, he’ll be arrested!” Mother Zhang snapped.

“Mother, is that what you think of Lao Qin?” Zhang Xueli looked at her mother with disbelief.

“What do you mean? I used to see him as a son-in-law. Look at what he’s doing here. He dared to ask you to come back for money? I’m telling you, if you want money, there’s none! There’s only your life!” Mother Zhang shouted.

Zhang Xueli wept with grief. She then went to her eldest sister to ask for money. Her eldest sister was in the same village and had heard about what was happening earlier. The door of her home was tightly closed, and Zhang Xueli could not enter. Inside the house, her eldest sister was also crying. “Xueli, just let me off. My husband was locked up when he was younger, and he has been in poor health ever since then. I still have a big family to take care of. I really have no money to pay you back. But don’t worry, I will pay you back in the future!”

Zhang Xueli lost her spirit. She suddenly went into a trance. Was this why Lao Qin did not like her maternal family that much? Once he drank too much and confessed that those people in her maternal family were like a bunch of bloodsuckers!

How did she not know it would become like this? She also quarreled with him when he said that her maternal family were bloodsuckers.

She saw what her family was like, and weren’t they the same as what Lao Qin had said?

Each of them were only sucking blood from her. She had taken things from her husband’s family to supplement her maternal family for many years, and was this how her maternal family returned her kindness? She said that if she couldn’t bring the money back, Lao Qin would divorce her, and her mother, brothers and sisters all ignored her.

Were they still her family? Wasn’t there a saying that the maternal family was where a married off daughter came from? Was this where she came from?

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孤魂野鬼 – gū​hún​yě​guǐ – means a person who has no one to rely on