Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 1147: Settling a Concern
The air was filled with joy and excitement, as if Qingxidian was about to celebrate a new year. The young and strong men in the village took the initiative to take on the work and help prepare for the wedding banquet. Li Jianxun was like a commander-in-chief commanding the three armies.

Deputy Director Li treated this matter as the top priority in his life.

As the old saying goes, an elder brother is like a father.

Although his father was still at home, he was an unreliable guy. Li Jianxun always felt guilty towards his younger brothers and sisters, thinking that he had not fulfilled his responsibilities as an eldest brother. He always wanted to make up for it, but could never find a chance.

It's really because his younger brother is too strong that even he benefits from it.

Although he never used Jiankun's banner, many times he didn't need to do so. The fact that he was Li Jiankun's elder brother was known to everyone from the county to the city and even the province. Li Jianxun knew very well why he was promoted so quickly.

The 16th day of the first lunar month is approaching, but fortunately, we have enough helpers and many things do not need to be purchased.

There is a group of farmers in the village, and they have all the common meat, livestock, and fish that are found on the dining table.

There is a small fishing port near Xiachen Bay. One third of the fishing boats moored at the port are closely related to the people of Qingxidian. There are all kinds of fresh seasonal seafood.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
The slightly warm sea breeze under the bright sun carried the sound of sharpening knives throughout the village.

The naughty kids took the New Year's money they had saved and rushed to the store to buy firecrackers. Most of them liked to play the trick of blowing up cow dung. However, cow dung on the roads in the village was becoming increasingly rare. Whenever they found one, they cherished it very much and made sure to blow it up until it was all over the place.

It’s not lively.

As the protagonists of the wedding banquet, Li Jiankun and Shen Hongyi are surprisingly free.

Li Xiaomei took her sister-in-law to travel all over the country, to see the beautiful scenery of Qingxidian, and to visit her childhood friends. Sometimes she would be happy that the latter were doing well, and sometimes she would sigh with regret that they failed in the major exams and had no chance to go to higher education. There were also times when she was completely confused.

"Oh my god, Xiaozhen, you gave birth to a baby?!"

"You're crazy, Slug! You're actually the father of two children?!"

The little monkey just grew up to be a beautiful girl, but her peers became the breadwinners of the family.

Time flies.

All the chairs were moved out to the dirt floor outside Old Li's yard, and a large circle of people sat around Li Jiankun.

"… That's about it. For shoe factories, it doesn't have much impact. Compared to the current environment where they have to rack their brains to sell goods, this way they don't have to worry about sales, they can sell nearby, there is no pressure, and small profits and quick turnover may not necessarily mean less profit.

"As for other types of factories, there's nothing we can do. The situation has changed. If you are stubborn, it will definitely cause trouble. Now at least there is a compromise, if you still want to do business. Anyway, you can think about it among yourselves..."

While everyone was discussing, Li Jiankun did not disturb them. He patted his butt and stood up, went back to the house to look through his luggage, and when he came out, his eyes were fixed on the first concrete building in Qingxidian, and he walked slowly along the path.

This two-story concrete building was so magnificent back then.

It is not only the first concrete building in Qingxidian, but also the first in the entire Shitouji Town.

Now, compared with other buildings nearby, it is not so impressive, but rather seems quite lonely and desolate.

This time when the Li family returned home, all the families in the village came to visit them, but no one showed up from their family.

Although Li Jiankun knew that his family was angry with him, he had a clear conscience, so when he arrived at their door, his steps were steady and confident.

Hearing the footsteps, a woman appeared in the slightly dark hall. After seeing Li Jiankun clearly, her expression was extremely complicated. She tilted her head and called out, "Dad, Jiankun is here."

"He still has the nerve to come!"

With a roar, a figure tried to run out of the house, but seemed to be unable to do so and almost fell when crossing the threshold.

The woman came forward to support him.

Snapped!
He slapped her in the face with his backhand.

The woman stood beside the peeling wooden door, her gray hair disheveled and her expression dull. She wanted to cry but had no tears.

th.

The man who was the same age as Li Guifei had more white hair than her. He was one of the strongest men in the village back then, but now he was so thin that he looked like a skeleton, with a hunched back, and looked even older than old man Guiyi.

Li Jiankun ignored his murderous look, brushed past him, walked into the main room, and brought out three armchairs with the word "囍" on them.

Then he turned back and helped the woman sit down in the warm sun in front of the yard. He then tried to help the man, but he waved his hand away. The man grinned and said:

"Hey kid, I'm not afraid of death now, just use whatever tricks you have, just frown and I, Li Dazhuang, will be your grandson!"

After saying that, he swaggered over to a chair and sat down, crossing his legs with a provocative look.

As he walked over, Li Jiankun took out a handful of candies from his trouser pocket, put them in the woman's hand, and handed a cigarette to the man. The latter hesitated for a moment, took it, and Li Jiankun lit it for him.

"Cough! Cough! Cough..."

The man took a sip with great relish and nearly coughed up his lungs.

In fact, he quit smoking a long time ago and has no money to buy new cigarettes.

The only son is now as good as dead and will never come back. The shoe factory has gone bankrupt. He has been lying at home doing nothing for these years and has no motivation to do anything. The family has no source of income.

It’s all this little bastard’s fault!
"I don't mean anything else. These are wedding cigarettes and candies. I will hold a wedding banquet on the 16th day of the first lunar month and invite the whole village. I hope you two can come too." Li Jiankun said calmly.

Li Dazhuang seemed to have heard a huge joke and laughed so hard that tears came out.

"No matter what you think, Uncle Dazhuang, some things are over and done with. I have never considered you an enemy. My actions were not directed at people, but at the matter. Even if it was Li Guifei who was running a parallel import shoe factory, I would still make him desperate and unable to run it. Even if it was Li Jianqiang who was transferred to Li Jianxun, I would still send Li Jianxun to jail."

Li Dazhuang sneered, "Oh, you are so great, you kill your relatives for the sake of justice."

Li Jiankun shook his head and said, "No, I am not great at all. I am very selfish. I call you 'uncle'. The relationship between our two families is recorded in detail in the family tree. Even if we break bones, we are still connected.

"I am very ambitious and I cannot bear to see such relatives embarrass me. Take the case of Li Jianqiang for example. Fortunately, he has a foreign passport, otherwise he would be sentenced to death. If he is really beheaded, do you think I will attend his funeral?

"Look at my current reputation. If I don't participate, people will say I'm ungrateful. If I participate, then the incident will become even bigger, and everyone in the world will know that I have such a relative.

“They are not human beings.

"So, it's easy to deal with other people, but if anyone in our Li family's genealogy dares to do something that harms the world, I will not forgive him."

Li Dazhuang's eyes were bloodshot, and he said disdainfully: "This is what I really say from the bottom of my heart. You are just a selfish villain!"

Li Jiankun shrugged and said, "Then you'd better go to my wedding and have a drink instead of making things difficult for me. Although I know you are not afraid of death and will definitely fight me, you'd better think about the third generation of your family."

Li Dazhuang's eyes suddenly widened. "Third generation?"

Li Jiankun said as if chatting, "Li Jianqiang's character has changed. You shouldn't be too surprised if he goes to jail again in Italy. His foreign wife divorced him. They have a child. The child has black hair and brown eyes. This kind of Sino-foreign joint venture style usually looks good and looks more like a Chinese. The woman plans to remarry. She is worried about leaving the child to others to raise. If it is the grandparents, she would be willing."

Not to mention Li Dazhuang, even the woman next to him who looked like a walking corpse, had a pair of cloudy eyes that suddenly became frighteningly bright.

"How, how did you know?" Li Dazhuang leaned forward and asked hurriedly.

He didn't even know he had a grandson.

Li Jiankun laughed, "You still don't know who you are talking to?" Li Dazhuang was slightly startled. In fact, he not only knew it, but also knew it better than most people in the countryside. Because he prayed to the heavens and the earth every day, asking God to punish this little bastard.

However, God did not grant what people wished for.

Every time he heard in the news that this little bastard was doing better, he would vomit blood.

Li Jiankun stood up from the armchair, reached into the lining of his leather jacket, pulled out a photo, put it in the hand of the stunned Li Dazhuang, and said quietly as he turned and left:
"If you give me face, I will give you face.

"Then I will help you get the kids back. The town has development plans. You are the first person to open a shoe factory in Qingxidian. As long as I give the nod, it will be easy to make a living. Then you will have money to support your grandson of a Sino-foreign joint venture."

Li Dazhuang looked at his back with an extremely complicated expression.

The woman had already rushed over and carefully took the photo. She kept stroking it with her withered hands, laughing and crying, "It's really beautiful."

"It's so good, why are you crying? Come here, let me see... Wow, what a handsome boy! He looks just like the person in the painting!"

Under the warm sunshine, the Qingxidian couple, who hated ghosts and hated each other, snuggled together and cried with joy.

"When you bring the child back, you must educate him well. I will only take care of his food and clothing. You can just stick your ass up to make money and leave it to the teacher to teach."

"Get it!"

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Li Jiankun, who had solved a problem on his mind, hummed Zhang San's song as he strolled towards the village branch. He would go up to every door he passed by, ask if the elderly were in good health, and hug the baby who was born on his back in the village.

Of course, don’t forget to give a red envelope.

It took me two hours to walk a distance of less than one kilometer.

The village branch of Qingxidian has also been completely renovated. The former Su-style white-walled and black-tiled house has been transformed into three red brick bungalows forming a "品" shape.

Borrowing the village branch's landline phone, Li Jiankun dialed a number to the capital.

"Bored? Come over here..."

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It is said that 1980s and 1990s was a time of intense labor and wild growth.

This phenomenon is not limited to the business sector.

Some of the gangsters nowadays are so bold and daring.

For example, something like robbing a train is probably difficult for children in later generations to imagine.

This time, Li Jiankun wanted to defeat a group of guys who occupied the mountain and acted as kings.

After learning some information from Chen Zhengjie, he did not plan to seek help at the county and city levels just in case, although Chen Zhengjie could not explain the specific details of the intrigues.

Regarding this kind of things, Li Jiankun believes more in the saying: There is no smoke without fire.

Fortunately, he has some connections in the provincial capital.

When Xu Fangguo was contacted, he happened to be inspecting a large water conservancy project in Vancouver.

So on the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, after eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls at home, Li Jiankun drove Fu Hua's white Xiali alone to the next county, which was also a prefecture-level city.

At the city guesthouse, I met Xu Fangguo with a head full of white hair.

"What is this?" Xu Fangguo asked with a smile when he saw Li Jiankun carrying the thermal lunch box to the five-drawer table.

"sweet dumpling."

Xu Fangguo was stunned for a moment before he slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, it's the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Aren't glutinous rice balls usually eaten at night?"

"Some people still get up in the early hours of the morning to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve."

Xu Fangguo nodded, a hint of sadness flashed across his eyes. His home was like that in the past.

While he was eating the glutinous rice balls one bite at a time, Li Jiankun sat on the edge of the bed, smoking a cigarette, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Without even turning his head, Xu Fangguo said softly, "I was originally planning to quit. I owe my family too much. When I first met Liu Wei, she shouldn't have been this kind of person. I really don't know when she started to change. This shows how unqualified a husband and father I am.

"It's just that I had a good idea, but Liu Wei didn't give me a chance. She has gone crazy and is determined to get revenge on you.

"I knew there was no way back, so I asked her for a divorce, thinking that she might give up.

"But my understanding of human nature was still too shallow. After returning from the capital, she went crazy and one day she committed suicide by cutting her wrists.

"Maybe some of my old brothers took pity on me. Just like Xu Qingyou's case, it was hastily resolved. I am really clean. On the surface, I have formed an image of being untainted by mud and sacrificing relatives for the sake of justice. I have risen instead of falling."

Li Jiankun was silent for a while, then said, "I'm sorry."

"No matter what, you can't be blamed. I have also investigated privately. Before Liu Wei went crazy, she stirred up public opinion in the capital's media. You and your people never caused trouble for her. It's to the point where the world can't stand it anymore, and the people want to destroy her."

Looking at the "old man" in front of him, Li Jiankun felt very uncomfortable. Seeing him smacking his lips with satisfaction and putting down the bowl and spoon, Li Jiankun handed him a cigarette with both hands.

Xu Fangguo waved his hand and said, "I have given up. I want to endure for a few more years. Otherwise, I really don't know how to make up for this sin."

"You are not guilty!"

"This is hypocritical. The saints have said that if a son is not well educated, it is the fault of his father."

Xu Fangguo changed the subject and said, "Tell me, what's the situation? Is there anything in our small county that you can't handle?"

Only then did Li Jiankun remember that Wanghai County was also his hometown.

Without hiding anything, Li Jiankun recounted all the situations he had heard and confirmed in the tone of a report.

Snapped!
After hearing this, Xu Fangguo flew into a rage and slapped the five-drawer table, knocking over the uncovered thermal lunch boxes. Some soup spilled out, and Li Jiankun quickly rushed over to pick them up.

"How ridiculous! Who is backing this up?"

Li Jiankun shook his head and said, "I'm afraid we won't know until we have the abortion."

"Okay, very good!"

Xu Fangguo laughed out of anger. He had been tackling corruption and gangsterism here and there, but he never expected that a big bomb would explode in his hometown.

Just like a man in a high position like a provincial governor in ancient times, his old face turned red and his expression was like an angry King Kong. The previous dejection and frustration completely disappeared.

Li Jiankun was so overwhelmed by the fierce momentum that he wanted to retreat.

(End of this chapter)