The second son, Li Hongjian, was a straightforward person. When his father, Li Pingwang, asked him, he said directly: "It was my mother who asked him to come back."

Li Pingwang immediately got angry: "She asked you to come back, so you came back. How could she be so arrogant?"

He also scolded Li Hongjian: "Why do you want to come back here instead of collecting your good salary? Farming doesn't pay as much as you do."

He knew that once the children were grown up, if his wife dared to divorce him, wouldn't it be because she would see that her adult children would still provide for her in her old age?

Fortunately, the child has grown up. If it had happened in the past, if she had been driven out, she would not have had any of the seven children, and he would never have let her even look at them in her entire life.

When you get divorced, have you ever thought about the shame that will come to your children?

Li Hongjian didn't know what his father was thinking, but it didn't make sense for him to be angry with his mother, so he explained: "Dad, it's nothing, my mother just doesn't want me to come back, and I want to come back too. The work in the factory is too hard, sometimes I work all day and my whole body hurts and I can't sleep."

"Look at my shoulders. They are so thick and covered with calluses. They are all caused by blisters."

As he said this, he showed his shoulders to his father Li Pingwang.

It was indeed a thick layer of calluses, which showed how painful the grinding process was.

But Li Pingwang admitted that he had experienced hardships: "This is nothing. When your mother and I worked in the fields to earn work points, we were really risking our lives. There was a famine and people were so hungry that they had to eat tree bark. How did I survive?"

"Obviously you won't starve. There's nothing you can't do with this job."

He kept on babbling.

The second son, Li Hongjian, was heartbroken. He was injured and his mother felt sorry for him. He had no house, so his mother built one for him and even wanted to buy one for him in the county town.

Has his father thought about what to get him?

No, they always said, "You guys take care of it. I'm old now and I don't expect to enjoy life with you guys anymore. Just take care of yourselves."

Li Pingwang talked incessantly for a long time. Thinking that he had quit his job anyway, he asked him what he wanted to do in the future.

Li Hongjian then talked about the fucking arrangement again.

Li Pingwang stopped talking. He had nothing to say.

After the fourth child, Li Hong, just quit her job and came back, she set up a stall to sell buns in the morning and spent the rest of the day washing vegetables and dishes in a hot pot restaurant. Although the work required her to please people and serve them, she was really earning money.

"That's fine too. You guys can handle it yourselves. I'm old anyway, so you can't count on me."

"I will raise each of you, and when the time comes, each of you will give me a bite to eat. I just need to be able to survive without starving."

This has always been Li Pingwang's attitude towards his children.

Li Hongjian could only nod: "Dad, I know."

After separating from his father, when Li Hongjian returned to his home, he thought all the way that he must work hard for his mother in the future.

Look at the third child’s daughter, Li Yujie. It’s different going to school in the county town. My own Chaochao has a snotty nose and is so dirty that no one dares to speak to him. He is much worse than other girls.

Li Hongjian suddenly had a goal to strive for: to buy a house in the county town and let his children receive education in the county town.

The second son's wife, Wang Xiaoqin, was timid, but her husband arranged it for the good of her son. She hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay then."

In fact, Wang Xiaoqin is timid because she has met few people since she was a child and she has never had a father. There are many people who bully her and her widowed mother. As a result, her personality is like that of a snail, which will quickly shrink back into its shell when touched.

Li Hongjian explained to Wang Xiaoqin what his mother Chen Xiaoying meant. She was busy working in the county town and had to grow peppers in the fields at home.

Lijia Village is not far from the county town, so it is completely possible to take both into consideration.

Wang Xiaoqin immediately breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they could return to their home quickly, it didn’t matter.

Everything has been arranged for the second son’s family.

Chen Xiaoying successfully opened her third breakfast shop on the busiest street near the train station.

Here at Li Yutong's place, the food factory finally started recruiting workers after conducting various studies.

Her mother Liu Lanxiang came.

"Have you agreed on what to do with your uncle?"

Li Yutong said, "There are various positions such as material selection, packaging, and assembly line. What kind of job does my uncle want to do?"

In her opinion, if her uncle Liu Jianshe worked honestly, she hoped that he could start from selecting materials, and after learning a series of procedures, if he did an excellent job, he could at least get a leadership position, wouldn't that be great?

"Mom, what do you think?"

Liu Lanxiang didn't dare to think too much: "Be a leader? Can your uncle do it?"

"How do you know if you don't try?" said Li Yutong.

Liu Lanxiang was also moved: "Okay, I'll go back and talk about it."

Liu Jianshe was very concerned about his reputation, so he did not show up during the entire work process and only asked his fourth sister Liu Lanxiang to find Li Yutong.

When Liu Lanxiang said this, he was quite positive: "That's fine, isn't this a reserve cadre? I'll do it, why can't I do it?"

Who would want to be a worker when you can be a leader?

Liu Jianshe agreed, and Li Yutong told the director of the food factory.

The food factory that the county wanted opened for business. That day, firecrackers rang out and the whole Kaiyuan County seemed to be filled with vitality.

As a small county without any industrial support, it is fortunate to have a factory that can support the local workforce. Even the people of Kaiyuan County, which have nothing to do with the food factory, hope that the factory can continue to operate.

If the business is booming, it would be best if we could expand production and provide more employment for the local people.

Li Yutong has seen the development of the county.

After another sum of money came in, she quickly bought three more shops.

When she was running her business, some shops with bad locations were simply left idle due to the impact of online stores.

But Li Yutong is different. She is not a real estate speculator. She bought three shops, all of which she uses for her own business.

The hot pot restaurant also opened branches, and He Mingliang, who was originally planning to work elsewhere, was once again in a dilemma.

His mother Hao Cailing didn't want him to go out to work: "It's not like you can earn money here, and you can't spend money earned outside."

He Mingliang is still young after all: "Mom, I just want to go out and broaden my horizons. Otherwise, if I stay in this small county town all the time, I will feel like a frog in a well."

Hao Cailing didn't understand, but thinking about how her husband drove a big truck and traveled all over the country when he was still alive, she thought that her son probably wanted to go out and see the world at that time.

"It's fine if you leave, but tell Li Yutong in advance, otherwise she won't be able to find someone to take over and delay the business."

This is what He Mingliang meant.

In fact, his salary has now increased to 2,500 yuan, which is not a small amount. The salary of ordinary employees in the county government is only 1,500 or 1,600 yuan.

When the food factory opened, the salary of the grassroots employees was only 800 yuan.

He Mingliang thought about it and decided to discuss it with Li Yutong when he picked her up after evening self-study.

Li Yutong thought: "That's fine. If you don't go out, I'll want you to go out too."

"I may not always run a hot pot restaurant. If possible, I would like to open a hotel. Although restaurants are profitable, they are not as profitable as clothing stores and luggage stores. Hotels are also very tiring."

In fact, she would rather be a landlord. The hotpot restaurant is just something she likes and is her hobby.