Chapter 781: Then How Do You Plan to Compensate

But after saying all this, he turned his gaze toward Xiao Changjiang.

Whether others noticed this small gesture, Liu Chuxue saw it clearly; it seemed this man was not as honest as he appeared on the surface.

Could it be he still wanted to stir up a fight between his eldest uncle and her own father?

But things did not go as wished; unexpectedly, Xiao Changjiang spoke directly: "I heard your wife's job was also taken from my grandmother?"

Han Huiming took a deep breath: "Yes, indeed, it was my grandmother's job."

Xiao Changjiang gave him no face: "Then how do you plan to compensate?"

Remembering something, he immediately added: "Don't forget, in another ten-plus years, when your wife retires, she will have a pension."

Han Huiming clenched his fist under his sleeve: Did he not want to leave him even a single path to survive?

But for his family to remain in Haishi, he had to pretend to be magnanimous: "It is only right; I will certainly show the greatest sincerity to make Brother Changsheng satisfied."

Yet thinking of these sums of compensation, his heart was bleeding.

These years, marrying off his son and daughter, and still supporting the few younger ones at home, had left him with barely any savings; but what could he do?

Having worked for so many years, given the Xiao family's status, finding some fault would likely be very easy; after all, he himself was not entirely innocent, so to preserve his current dignity, he naturally had to make them satisfied.

Seeing Han Huiming was still reasonably honest, the old master Xiao did not make things difficult for him.

The final negotiated result was: first, the courtyard they currently occupied and the family assets left by Han's grandmother must be returned intact; second, Han Huiming's wife's job compensation must be half of her annual salary for all the years she worked, plus an additional six years of pension, and it must be paid in one lump sum. Han Huiming was furious in his heart, but he dared not refuse.

Finally, Xiao Changjiang declared that since Han Huiming had enjoyed the benefits of his younger brother for so many years, he must compensate his own younger brother fifty thousand yuan in one lump sum, after all, his life had been stolen from his own younger brother.

Even if Han Huiming wanted to throw down his work and leave, thinking of his whole family, he still gritted his teeth and accepted.

The agreement was made in four copies, with compensation to be completed within three months; not only members of the Xiao family and Han's maternal uncle were present, but several other elders from the compound who got along well with the old master Xiao were invited as witnesses.

As long as Han Huiming compensated according to the agreement, whether he stayed in Haishi or returned to the Liu family in the future, the Xiao and Han families would no longer interfere; but if the compensation was not delivered, then that would be another matter.

This was an astronomical sum of compensation; even saying it broke his bones and damaged his tendons would not be enough to describe it.

As soon as the matter was over, Han Huiming left with a gloomy face.

Han Sihai originally wanted to leave as well, but Xiao Changjiang stopped him: "There are still many things to discuss regarding the second brother's return; Uncle, you cannot leave."

If Jiang Huiwen had not come to the door and asked Han Huiming to return to the Xiao family to acknowledge his ancestors, Han Sihai would have had no way to contact the Xiao family at all.

Back then, when his younger sister first wrote home saying she had found the partner of her heart and planned to marry at the end of the month.

But in those years of war and turmoil, by the time the letter arrived, it was already mid-next month, and the matter had become a settled fact.

Later, they received a letter saying his younger sister was pregnant and had given birth to a son, who was Xiao Changjiang.

Separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, with the political situation unstable, they could do nothing but offer their blessings.

Later, Han Sihai also lost contact with his family due to work reasons; when he finally returned home, he learned his sister was gone, and someone had sent a child back on her behalf, saying this was the second son, while Xiao Yude, this brother-in-law, existed only in letters; they had never seen him in person.

Later, due to a job transfer, they moved from Su City to Shanghai; the letters Xiao Yude subsequently sent to Su City also sank without a trace, and contact was severed from then on.

If Jiang Huiwen had not sent people to find them beforehand, saying Xiao Yude was in the capital city and asking Han Huiming to go to the capital to acknowledge his relatives, they might never have been able to make contact in this lifetime.

Han Sihai knew his sister's death could not be blamed on Xiao Yude, but he still held a grudge in his heart, feeling that Xiao Yude had failed to take good care of his sister.

The person who sent the child to Shanghai was not Jiang Huiwen; rather, she had entrusted someone to send the child over, and along with the child came a letter stating only that his sister had sacrificed herself, that Xiao Yude could not be contacted for the time being, and that the child could only be sent back to the Han family.

At that time, his whole family did not know how grateful they were to Jiang Huiwen, feeling that without her, his sister might have been left exposed in the wild, and his nephew might not have survived.

Although they did not know where she was, they always remembered this kindness.

Never did they expect that, although the child was not swapped by Jiang Huiwen, there was actually a hidden malicious intent in between.

At first, when Huiming went to the capital to acknowledge his relatives, the result was that they said he was an imposter; he himself was quite angry, thinking that Xiao Yude had married a stepmother, and wondering if someone had deliberately done this.

For this reason, Xiao Yude personally came to Shanghai to explain to him face-to-face, at which time he was shocked beyond measure.

Later, Xiao Yude sent news about Jiang Huiwen more than a few times; he truly did not expect that this woman, Jiang Huiwen, had such formidable means.

Only after Jiang Huiwen was arrested did they learn that there was someone behind her.