Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

Ruochen graduated from high school and was admitted to the Fine Arts Department of Peking University. After graduating from university, she went to study in the UK.

During his university years, Ruochen held an art exhibition with the financial support of Su Jinru. Su Jinru did not expect that her son's paintings would fetch such high prices, and many of them were bought at high prices.

My son earned all the expenses during his university years and his studies abroad on his own.

Su Jinru funded his art exhibition simply because she felt she had the means to support her son's hobbies and wanted to make him happy by spending some money. She didn't expect her son to be able to support himself through painting.

Su Jinru unconditionally supports her son's painting, simply because she feels that her son was born in an era where food and clothing are plentiful, and she has the ability to provide him with enough money to last a lifetime. So she lets him do whatever he likes. Even if he doesn't have the qualifications, with his education, he could make a living as a teacher at an art academy.

But the son didn't choose a stable job; he wanted to paint freely.

After Ruochen returned from studying abroad, he traveled everywhere, ostensibly to gather inspiration, but actually to explore and see the beautiful mountains and rivers.

He lived a carefree life, drawing and playing at the same time.

Seeing that her son was living a good life in his own way, Su Jinru stopped worrying about whether he had a stable job.

She doesn't have a stable job, but she's not worse off than others.

Perhaps her son inherited her yearning for freedom and her love of living life on his own terms!

As parents, the greatest support we can give our children is to let them live their lives the way they want.

Therefore, Su Jinru and Yuan Wenjie let go of their son and allowed him to unleash his boundless creativity. For parents, isn't that also a form of freedom?

According to critics, Ruochen's paintings exude a sense of freedom, ease, and etherealness.

Ruoxi studied Chinese Literature at Peking University, then pursued a master's degree, and stayed on to teach at Peking University after graduation.

Ruoxi writes in her spare time; her poems and essays were published in newspapers and magazines when she was in high school.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, poetry was very popular, and Ruoxi published two collections of poems, which were once all the rage.

Later, she focused on writing novels, and several publishing houses competed for her copyrights.

For Su Jinru, she didn't understand what was good about either her son's paintings or her daughter's writing.

The common thread among the critics' comments on Ruochen and Ruoxi's works is their spirituality.

Both children said that their inspiration for their work came from growing up on a beautiful island.

The island boasts a magnificent sea, golden beaches, spectacular sunrises and sunsets, idyllic rice paddies, a variety of delicious fruits, the kindness and friendliness of the island's people, and the boundless love and care from their parents and entire family—all of which serve as endless sources of inspiration for them.

A happy childhood can nourish a person for a lifetime, and this is perfectly exemplified in Ruochen and Ruoxi.

In the early 1980s, Su Jinru began to buy houses continuously, mostly old houses within the Third Ring Road of Beijing, some of which were even street-front shops.

Yuan Wenjie didn't understand why Su Jinru was so keen on buying houses.

Su Jinru said, "I don't like buying houses; I'm interested in the land. The land will become more and more valuable in the future, so I'm treating it as an investment."

"You already have so much money, and your monthly income is more than other people's salary for several years. Why do you still want to invest?"

"Even if we do nothing right now, we can't spend all this money, but isn't it better to have more money?"

"Fine, fine, you like money, you love money, it's all your money anyway, you can spend it however you want."

Su Jinru bought many houses in prime locations. After 2000, the real estate market began to boom, and Su Jinru demolished all those old houses and rebuilt them into high-rise buildings.

The ground floor shops facing the street are rented out at high prices, while the upper floors have been converted into office buildings, hotels, supermarkets, and shopping malls, all for rent as a whole.

Su Jinru had a lot of money and spent her days buying land and building houses. Not only did Yuan Wenjie have no idea how many properties she owned, but Su Jinru herself was afraid of making a mistake. She kept a record of all her properties for easy access, management, and rent collection, making her a successful landlady. During the peak of the housing market, her monthly rent was in the eight figures.

Su Jinru took advantage of the booming real estate market to accumulate a large amount of real estate and funds, and then sold off those properties that might depreciate in value when prices were at their peak.

However, on the surface, Su Jinru is very low-key, and her relatives and friends do not know that she is a hidden rich woman.

Even her four children thought she was just an old lady who had no retirement pension and was supported by Yuan Wenjie, and that her four children would give her money to spend.

Su Jinru accepted all the filial piety from her children, but then turned around and spent the money on her grandchildren.

Su Jinru bought a piece of land in the center of her hometown, Nanyang County, and built a three-story house for her second younger sister.

The first floor is rented out as shops, and the second to fourth floors are each built with four bedrooms and two living rooms. The second floor is for my parents to live on, and the third floor is for my second sister and her husband to live on.

The four shops downstairs have an annual rent of about 200,000 yuan, which is used for the living expenses of my parents and my second sister and her husband.

My second sister's three children all work and live in the county town. They each have their own housing, and their jobs and salaries are considered above average in the county town. Their parents and maternal grandparents are in good health and do not require their financial support. They only need to visit them when they have time and get together for a meal on holidays.

After Dou Dou became the county head, he oversaw a major overhaul of the road to Daben Village. The previously narrow dirt road was transformed into a wide, two-lane asphalt road. What used to take more than half an hour now only takes a little over ten minutes.

Daben Village was one of the first villages to have its roads paved with cement, and its houses were planned and arranged neatly from the beginning. Families who built new houses according to the plan received substantial compensation from the village, so everyone was willing to follow instructions and accept the plan. Daben Village benefited from numerous support policies and was the first village in Nanyang County to become wealthy. Daben Village was also the first civilized village in Nanyang County. Daben Village became a model village in Nanyang County.

Daben Village and Xiaoben Village merged into one village. The names remain Daben Village and Xiaoben Village, but due to village planning and construction, the houses were built together, so mentioning Daben Village actually includes Xiaoben Village as well.

The surrounding villages all envied Daben Village, saying that it had good feng shui, that it had produced two county magistrates, and that it was also the village with the fewest people who starved to death during the famine. Many girls considered it an honor to marry into Daben Village.

Since the famine years, Nanyang County has been able to resolve the famine ahead of schedule thanks to the emergence of new products, and agricultural production has quickly recovered. Later, it vigorously developed agriculture, enabling the people to completely get rid of hunger.

After the reform and opening up, timely investment was attracted to develop industry and support the development of individual enterprises, which led to economic development, increased tax revenue, increased fiscal revenue, and provided employment opportunities for many people.

Nanyang County became the richest county among the surrounding counties. Later, it was upgraded from a county to a city, becoming a county-level city.