"I'm ready to retire, so the time doesn't matter."

"Retire?"

"My little wife doesn't want to follow me to the army, so does that mean I have no choice but to come back? Besides, the family business is getting bigger and bigger, and it's really time for me to come back and take over." Xiao Jinchu said.

"Jinchu, the business is getting better and better. I think it will be even better next year, so I want to open another branch."

"Let's wait until the college entrance examination is over before we talk about it."

"If I don't take the college entrance examination, will you think I'm a fool?"

"How can my wife be a fool? She is only a fool when she is giving birth to a child. Anyway, no matter what you want to do, I will support you with both hands."

Yan Shuhua hugged him tightly, because she felt extremely safe when Xiao Jinchu was by her side. This sense of security was not something that everyone could give her.

Xiao Jinchu gave her a kiss.

The New Year has passed quickly and the Lantern Festival is approaching, making it even more lively. Every household is decorated with lights and children are having a lot of fun playing with lanterns.

Although Grandma Fan is old, she has very deft hands and is very skilled in making lanterns. She can make a lot of money by selling a lantern for 20 cents, which is less than the cost of making a lantern.

Fan Zhiqiang has also been helping to make lanterns at home during this period, as has Li Jialing.

Li Jialing often came to the Fan family. The people in the Fan family were very nice to her and treated her like their own daughter.

"Let's go see the lanterns together in the evening. It's very lively." Fan Zhiqiang took the initiative to invite. Yan Shuhua had wanted to go for a long time.

The Lantern Festival every year is really more lively than the Chinese New Year, because there are lanterns, riddles, and a group of people agree to go lantern viewing together.

Yan Shuhua placed a lantern in the water, hoping that it would bless his family with peace and safety.

Xiaowa Village was bustling with activity, but the Yan family in the capital was dead silent. The pitch-black night made the entire Yan family feel lifeless, and the atmosphere in the study was so deafening that one could hear a pin drop.

Xiao Yanmin was sitting in Yan Zhenhua's study. He was smoking. His facial features could not be seen clearly because of the smoke. One could only make out his firm chin and tight corners of his lips through the slight glow of his eyes.

Yan Zhenhua handed him a document he had written.

"I have written the entire agreement. You can take a look at it and see if there is anything you want to add." Yan Zhenhua no longer treated him calmly as before. After all, they were already like enemies.

"Because of a child?" Xiao Yanmin hardly smiled. In Yan Zhenhua's heart, he felt that he was not worthy of being a husband as he could still be so calm.

"In your heart, you think it's just a child, but don't forget, it's proof that my daughter loves you. If she didn't love you so much, she wouldn't have collapsed mentally because of such a child." Xiao Yanmin took a look at the agreement and threw it on the table: "I will never sign this agreement."

Hearing this, Yan Zhenhua stood up instantly and slammed the table heavily: "You have already harmed my daughter to this extent, why don't you sign this agreement?"

"Then tell me, why should I sign this agreement? This agreement is totally unfair to me. You said that I should give her half of my property. Why?" Xiao Yanmin felt that Yan Zhenhua was asking for too much. He wanted a divorce, but he was dreaming about giving her half of his property. "Look at my daughter's mental state now. She has gone completely crazy because of this child. Don't you think it's right to give her half of your family's property as compensation?"

In order to get the compensation he deserved, Yan Zhenhua spoke to Xiao Yanmin fearlessly for the first time, asking him to think carefully about the best solution to the matter.

"If that's really the case, then I will take Qingxue back with me, and I will assign someone to take care of her for the rest of her life. But you want me to take out half of the money, which is impossible."

"Xiao Yanmin, I didn't want to discuss this with you during the Chinese New Year. Now that the Chinese New Year is over, if I start discussing this with you, it's not like I'm discussing it with you, it's like I'm ordering you."

"Why do you think I will take out this money? Or do you think you have something on me?" Xiao Yanmin suddenly sneered, "It's still uncertain whether the child in Yan Qingxue's belly is mine or not."

Yan Zhenhua's nerves tensed up instantly, and the fuse in his body was instantly ignited: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can you say such cruel words? What do you mean that the baby in my daughter's belly may not be yours?"

Xiao Yanmin continued smoking, looking calm and composed: "Then I'll tell you the truth. Every time I was with her, I would take precautions. So how did she get pregnant with my child?"

"What did you say?" Yan Zhenhua's mind was instantly shocked.

"Think about it. When she married me, you were already eyeing my money. If she really gave birth to my child, wouldn't you be able to use the child to threaten me as much as you want? So do you think I would let her get pregnant with my child?"

It turned out that it wasn't that Yan Qingxue couldn't get pregnant, but that Xiao Yanmin didn't want her to get pregnant with his child, so he took precautions every time, and her daughter actually fell in love with such a heartless man.

Yan Zhenhua felt even more annoyed that this man had played his family around, so he pointed at the agreement and said, "Xiao Yanmin, no matter what you say or think today, you must sign this agreement for me."

"Okay, I can sign it, but you have to reduce the compensation to the lowest possible. I can give you 10%, but it's impossible for me to give you half." This was Xiao Yanmin's final retreat.

Yan Zhenhua was indeed a little selfish, because he didn't have much money, he bought a house, and there were so many changes in his family, so he wanted to dig some money from Xiao Yanmin. He originally thought that he could make a lot of money this way, but who knew that this man was smarter than a monkey and didn't notice anything.

"Father-in-law, I know your inner thoughts better than you do, but do you know why I didn't expose your true colors? Because you are the mayor after all. There are still many areas for us to cooperate. As long as we continue to cooperate, you can still get your share, and I will treat her well."