The Xu family had vast assets in their early years.

Back then, the joint venture involved voluntary investment, with the state paying a fixed annual interest of 0.5%. However, the property rights would remain permanently state-owned, and the policy clearly stated that factories, shops, and equipment would not be returned.

Having gone through a long and unusual period, Xu Yueyun never thought about these fixed interest matters and simply pretended they didn't exist to avoid causing trouble for her family.

All of these fixed interest payments were repaid in 79.

In addition, all former personal belongings and private shops that can be vacated will be returned; those that cannot be vacated will be provided with replacement housing and rent compensation.

Including the Xu family's overseas assets, half of the recovered assets will be returned to the family at a discounted price, and the other half will be turned over to the national treasury.

The Xu family used to be underground members of the Communist Party, providing a lot of funds to our Party. They used their business identities to cover up the revolution and donated a large amount of money to support the organization.

Those who have made contributions to the revolution will be appointed as revolutionary comrades by the Party, and the United Front Work Department will give them priority in approval and simplify the process.

Leaving aside bank deposits, foreign currency, and treasury bonds, Xu Yueyun recovered a lot of gold, silver dollars, and gold and silver jewelry. The damaged paintings, calligraphy, and antiques were returned directly to the original pieces that remained, and compensation was made according to the appraised value for any damage or loss.

After discussing it with Su Bingcheng, Xu Yueyun donated the calligraphy, paintings and antiques to the museum.

But she still had a lot of gold and silver jewelry that she wanted to keep for her children.

Xu Yueyun called the two girls upstairs to the study, opened the safe, and said, "Come here, there are some pieces of jewelry here. Pick a few that you like, and Grandma will give them to you."

The safe was divided into layers and lined with velvet, and filled with all sorts of jewelry.

There are gold ornaments, jade, and gemstones.

Another compartment was filled with jade artifacts, some of which had become dry and dull due to not being worn for a long time.

At the bottom were stacked several gold bars and some round silver dollars, carefully wrapped in oiled paper.

Linlin and Shen Man were startled at first and quickly declined.

Xu Yueyun took their hands and put a pair of white jade bracelets on their wrists. "There's an old saying that jade nourishes people, but people also nourish jade. I'm too old to wear these anymore. You look so pretty in them, and it makes Grandma happy."

Linlin rubbed her forehead against Xu Yueyun's shoulder and asked, "Grandma, do Sister Peipei and Sister Yaoyao have any?"

Seeing through her granddaughter's thoughts, Xu Yueyun laughed, "Yes, of course, Grandma isn't biased. I've even prepared some for your mother and your second aunt. Everyone can wear them together."

Xu Yueyun held Shen Man's hand again, "You're Chengzhou's girlfriend, so we're family. Whatever our daughter has, you'll have too. And when Lili grows up, I've even prepared something for her future wife."

She sighed, "Your two older brothers are getting married. I've prepared some money for them as a token of my appreciation as an elder."

"Linlin, your parents aren't in the capital. You and Yan Yuan are both successful. Even if your uncle and aunt come looking for you later, you don't need to worry about it. This isn't your children's business."

But Xu Yueyun knew all too well what kind of people her eldest son and daughter-in-law were.

Now that policies are loosening and they're getting old, Su Ding and Fan Biyun might return to the capital someday.

Deng Jing is too refined and can't win against them, but Su Jue is stubborn. The eldest brother's family used to bully Deng Jing and her child, and even made her sick. Su Jue has a grudge and will not forgive them.

Lin Zhilan and Su Lang were not worried about Xu Yueyun, as the eldest daughter-in-law's family could not defeat them.

However, as the younger generation grows up, Xu Yueyun is afraid that if the children are too sensible and give them too much face, the trouble will never end.

Xu Yueyun still doesn't like her eldest son and daughter-in-law, but people tend to become more soft-hearted as they get older.

Su Ming had been admitted to a junior college, and Su Ding called to share the good news.

Although Xu Yueyun didn't say anything, she was happy for Su Ming.

Upon further investigation, Xu Yueyun scolded her eldest son and daughter-in-law again.

After being transferred to the northern frontier, and without the support of Xu Yueyun and Su Bingcheng, Su Ding and Fan Biyun returned to their previous extravagant lifestyle.

He only called back to beg for forgiveness after his savings were all gone.

Xu Yueyun certainly wouldn't give him money. Both of them had jobs and wouldn't starve themselves and their child.

Xu Yueyun never expected that Su Ding and Fan Biyun, those two fools, would be so biased towards their two sons.

The brothers Su Ming and Su Lei had a bad relationship since childhood and often fought over things.

Su Lei is favored because of his sweet talk and young age.

It was fine before; there was a lot of stuff, and Su Ming would only get a smaller share at most.

Later, when the two were not as well-off as before, they still couldn't change their habit of wanting to eat and drink well, so they could only give Su Lei any things they had.

Su Ming felt resentful, but what could a child do to their parents?

What he truly couldn't tolerate was that Su Ming had just turned 16, which was the last period of the educated youth going up and down the mountain.

Su Ming found a way to make a living by becoming an apprentice and a temporary worker. Those with jobs didn't have to go to the countryside.

But in order to buy a bicycle for Su Lei, Fan Biyun actually contacted someone to transfer the temporary job to someone else, leaving Su Ming with no choice but to go to the countryside.

Later, Su Ming figured it out himself. After the college entrance examination was reinstated, he took it for two consecutive years and finally got into a junior college.

Su Ding and Fan Biyun thought their son had made something of himself and that the old man would be happy, so they rushed over to share the good news.

Little did they know that their promising son had long since lost their hearts.

Xu Yueyun only learned about what had happened over the years after she called Su Ming.

Xu Yueyun knew that Su Ming might have used a bit of self-inflicted suffering on her, but since he was able to get into university on his own, Xu Yueyun still offered him a few words of encouragement.

Xu Yueyun didn't say anything. She could hear the probing and disappointment in Su Ming's tone, but she didn't give in.

But she secretly planned to leave Su Ming a sum of money.

As for Su Lei, his personality is exactly like his parents', and Xu Yueyun really couldn't be bothered to care.

She had already instructed Su Jue and Deng Jing to keep Su Lei's money with them for now, so that if Su Lei really had nowhere else to turn, they could use the money to help him out.

Of the three sons, the eldest was the most troublesome.

Xu Yueyun had already figured it out. When it came to how much the family had invested in their three sons, they had actually invested the most in Su Ding because he was not ambitious enough.

Su Jue and Su Lang both got into university on their own merit, and their jobs were assigned by the government.

Su Ding was jealous of her two younger brothers and insisted that her parents were biased. Xu Yueyun had wanted to prove something in the past, but now she had long since let go of the past.

Now the second son's family and the youngest son's family are doing very well, but the eldest son's family is still the same.

Having gone through so much before, Xu Yueyun didn't want Su Jue and Su Lang to help their older brother, nor did she want the children to be affected by the events of the previous generation.

The early death of her daughter has always been Xu Yueyun's greatest pain.

She doted on Jiang Chengzhou the most, and now that Jiang Chengzhou has a girlfriend, she has extended that same affection to Shen Man.

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