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Seeing her mother's astonished face, Fu Zhiwen stepped forward, wrapped his arms around her shoulders, and said with a smile, "Mother, back then, when Second Brother wasn't here and Brother Fu had to go to Qingping City, I was the only man in the house, so obviously I had to take up the responsibility of the family. Brother Fu felt that it was necessary for me to know everything about our family affairs, but don't worry, Mother, I'm not going back now."
"Not going back now?" Lady Guan heard the implication in her son's words, her complexion changed, "Are you saying that you will go back eventually?"
"Mother, listen to me," Fu Zhiwen made her sit down at the table, poured her a cup of water, and handed it to her, his eyes carrying a hint of coldness, "Mother, Brother Fu said that we must retrieve what belongs to us—why should we leave the hard-earned family business to those people!"