Family Always Comes Before Career

Aunt Wang and Cadre Liu returned to Li Ye's home, first offering their apologies, then chatting for a while before leaving.

After they left, Older Sister Li Yue said angrily to Fu Guiru, "That man didn't come back to apologize at all. Xiao Yu already told him you were her mother-in-law, yet he came back to pry and ask all sorts of nonsense. What a busybody!"

Fu Guiru shook her head slightly. "You're wrong, Xiao Yue. It was his duty. Twenty years ago, I was far worse than him. Whenever I encountered someone of unknown origin, it wasn't over until they had accounted for eight generations of ancestors."

"..."

Well then, so even you, the militia captain, had your annoying moments!

Li Yue stared speechlessly at her old mother for a long while before muttering, "Mother, stop talking about the old days. The times have changed!"

"The times have changed, but some things never will."

Fu Guiru said seriously to Li Yue, "Although you think Cadre Liu and the others are meddling, if you had lived overseas, you'd realize that this kind of vigilance isn't without merit. Never mind whether there are spies in the capital—the public safety here alone is world-class."

"World-class?" Li Yue said skeptically. "Mother, I saw people in a street brawl just the day before yesterday! And that's world-class?"

"What does a street brawl amount to? It's just ordinary people playing house," Fu Guiru said with a smile. "The business I've spread outside has grown larger and larger these past two years, and I've run into no shortage of vexing matters. Compared to the outside world, the mainland is doing quite well."

The mainland in the 1980s was actually full of contradictions. Street fights were a common sight, and every so often some tough guy like