Chapter 451 Remarried Widow 44
In the twelfth month of 1982, the land in the village was contracted to each household. Since Yuanchun and her four children were still registered in Hongxing Village, the team leader notified Yuanchun to return to the village to divide the land.

For this purpose, Yuanchun took a day off and took a few children on winter vacation back to Hongxing Village.

Yuanchun's family was allocated 20 acres of dry land, 2 acres of mountain land, and half an acre of private land. Yuanchun rented all the land to a family with the largest labor force in Hongxing Village for farming.

The other party was responsible for paying taxes and grain, and gave her 300 kilograms of corn, 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and 100 kilograms of millet or sorghum every year.

Yuanchun only collected 500 kilograms of grain from the other party for the more than 20 acres of land. One acre of land is equivalent to 20 kilograms of grain. It was like giving it to the other party for free. The family was very grateful to Yuanchun.

Everyone in the village envied that family.

In 1985, Yuanchun opened two more chain braised meat shops. The braised meat was braised by Yuanchun herself and the goods had to be delivered to the braised meat shops. She transferred Sanfeng and Shuilian to look after the shops.

At this time, Yuanchun already had assets worth more than 300,000 yuan. She invested all the money in real estate. Not only did she buy houses and shops in the county and the city, she also went to Beijing to buy a large mansion with three entrances, spending 150,000 yuan.

At that time, people with an annual income of ten thousand yuan were rare, and Yuanchun's 150,000 yuan was not cheap. The other party was going abroad and wanted to bring more money with him, so the house was not sold cheaply.

Yuanchun fell in love with the three-story mansion at first sight and didn't mind spending 5,000 yuan more than the market price to buy it.

However, several years later, when the other party returned to China and wanted to buy a house in Beijing, he found that he could not afford it. He had worked hard for decades abroad and saved more than 10 million yuan. He thought he could return to China and live a luxurious life. However, with this little money, he could not even afford to buy a house in Beijing.

The house he sold decades ago has now increased in price to hundreds of millions.

At that time, the Lord regretted his decision.

Now, after happily locking the doors of the three-story mansion, Yuanchun hurried to catch the train back to the county town.

Afterwards, Yuanchun opened several more braised meat shops. Because her shops needed too much pork, she also suggested that the Chen family open a pig farm.

In order to supply her with goods, the leader of Hongxing Village has opened a chicken farm and a duck farm at home, and also encouraged the whole village to grow vegetables to sell. Since Yuanchun took the lead in doing business in Hongxing Village, many people also started to do business, many of whom started from setting up stalls and then opened shops.

Gradually, Hongxing Village developed better than several surrounding villages.

It was also the first village within a hundred miles to become prosperous.

In 1988, when Yuanchun saw Cui Laoer again, she almost didn't recognize him.

Cui Laoer is already very old. He is only in his forties, but looks like a seventy-year-old man.

His hair turned completely white, his waist became bent, and his back became hunched.

It seems that life is even worse than in the previous life.

Cui Laoer was picking up scraps. He was pulling a cart and had picked up a full cart of scraps. When he passed by Yuanchun's small restaurant, he saw steamed buns and porridge for sale. He came in to buy a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun, which he ate with free pickles.

Pay after eating.

When Cui Lao Er recognized that the person who collected the money was Yuanchun, his eyes seemed to flash, "You...you are Mei Yuanchun?"

Yuanchun didn't recognize him at first, but she recognized his voice.

Yuanchun pretended to be surprised, "Oh, it's Cui Laoer. I haven't seen you for so many years. How come you have aged so much?"

"I heard that three years ago, after your father died, your family split up, and you and your sons were kicked out by your brothers. I didn't expect that you would become a rag picker. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, it's a good thing that I had high standards and didn't fancy you back then, otherwise, wouldn't I be following you to pick up rags now?"