"Your grandson is a good man. It's not like he's helping outsiders by helping his own family." Wang Yulan gritted her teeth. The smile she squeezed out seemed to have been glued to it. She was afraid that it would come loose, so she tried hard to fix it.
Two hundred thousand!
Even though it was for her own brother, she still felt heartache!
"This is your brother's good fortune. Help them more. It's not easy for them to think of you." The old man tacitly agreed to let his daughter retire.
"I wouldn't dare to let them do that." Wang Yulan pulled the cup on the bed for him and said, "Go to sleep. Smoke less."
The mother and daughter turned off the lights, closed the door, and left the house.
Li He followed his mother to the front room. Li Zhaokun was still leaning on the bed watching television. The floor was covered in melon seed shells and peanut shells.
Li He leaned against the door frame and asked, "Why don't Grandpa go with you to Hong Kong?"
Since they were going to take care of the old man, they couldn't leave him here alone. As for Li Long and the others, they were separated by a layer, so it wasn't a big deal to leave them there.
Li Zhaokun said, "It's good to go, but I'm afraid that it won't be easy to come back. I can't even breathe. It'll happen in the blink of an eye."
"It's a little dangerous. "In Li He's memory, both his grandparents passed away later than they did in his previous life. It was probably because of his rebirth.
Wang Yulan said, "I'm thinking about it this way. Li Pei and the other two kids aren't young anymore. Li Ke will be fifteen this year. He's just going to school every day and relying on himself for his studies. The two of us won't be of much use there. If you say that you can't let go, didn't Qin Zi study there at such a young age? Isn't it great even if no one watches?
Your old man and I want to rest at home. "
"You can discuss it among yourselves." What his mother said was the truth. Li He couldn't refute it. When he asked his parents to go to Hong Kong, he wanted them to enjoy life there. Taking care of the three children was secondary. After so many years, he knew very well that although the old couple had adapted to life there, their desire to return home had never changed.
Moreover, it was quite hard on his mother. She was illiterate and had a lot of language barriers. She was very lonely and far from being at home.
As for Li Zhaokun, from his attitude, it was obvious that he wanted to come back and did not want to continue living in Hong Kong.
Wouldn't it be great if he came back and became the emperor emeritus?
Li He simply let them have their way.
He washed his feet and went to bed. The two kids weren't there, so he asked He Fang, "Where did they go?"
Usually, the two children slept in the room next door, but today, Grandpa came over, so he could only arrange another bed for them in the room.
Seeing Li He strenuously scratching his back, He Fang made him turn over. As she helped him scratch, she said, "They went to sleep at Third Brother's place. Our son will sleep with Li Pei, and our daughter will sleep with Li Ke."
"Then let's sleep like this." Li He was extremely sleepy.
Grandpa got up early in the morning. He sat on the doorstep and slurped the porridge that Wang Yulan had given him. When he saw that Li He had woken up, he said, "You squeezed the two kids until there's no space."
He felt embarrassed for taking up Li Lan's two children's bed.
Li He said, "The two of them can sleep anywhere. Moreover, it's only for a few days. Don't worry too much. It's fine as long as you sleep well."
Since Li Zhaokun and his parents were going to stay in their old home, they had to build a proper small house. Otherwise, as the children grew up and Four and Five came back, these few rooms would not be enough.
He told his thoughts to Li Zhaokun.
"The money we have to build a house is enough to buy a house in the county." Li Zhaokun's fingers flew up and down in the bamboo basket. He did not even raise his head. He did not want to stay in Hong Kong, but it did not mean that he did not want to live in his hometown. Deep down, he still wanted to be a stylish city dweller.
"Buy it in the county and build it at home." Li He was just informing his father as a matter of routine. He was the one who made the decision.
When Wang Yulan heard that her son wanted to build a house, she did not object. She only said worriedly, "Won't it be too ostentatious?"
Duan Mei said, "Didn't you see? Beside the county and in our town, many families are building houses. Believe me, as long as our family takes the lead, our village's Da Zhuang, Fatty Chen, and the rest will definitely follow suit."
Nowadays, many families were well-off, and there were many who were building houses. There were also families who were not as well-off, but their neighbors were building houses, and they were the only ones who still had a thatched house. They could not live up to their reputation, so they had to borrow money to build a two-story house.
Wang Yulan asked, "Where else can we build?"
There was only one piece of land in the family. Li Long had to apply for the house from the brigade.
Duan Mei said, "It's here. Just tear down the three houses at the back first. Leave the three houses at the front untouched. Just build a wall."
Wang Yulan said, "Then there's no place to live."
Although there were three houses at the front, only her and Li Zhaokun's house could live in. Her father was here now, so there was no place for him to stay.
Duan Mei said, "I have an empty house at my place. We don't stay at home much anyway. Let's stay at my place first."
In the morning, when she and He Fang were making breakfast, she heard from her sister-in-law about her father-in-law and mother-in-law's plans. She had no objections. Anyway, her two children were all grown up, and it was not that she could not let go of them.
"Then it's settled." Li He made the final decision.
Zhang Qinghua set up three big tables at the Qiaotou Restaurant and specially apologized to Old Li He and Old Yang's family. That was the end of the matter, but his business had plummeted.
The Li family and the Yang family had already given him face by not making a fuss about it. They would not be so kind as to take care of his business.
Then there were the relatives of the Li He family, such as his two uncles' families. Wang Yushan and Wang Yuguo's families had received a hundred thousand yuan from Li He, so they did not need Li He to say anything. Naturally, they had cut off all ties with Zhang Qinghua's family.
Duan Mei's family was also a wealthy one. Her brother and nephews all relied on Duan Mei. Now that Yang Huai had been wronged, they naturally shared the same hatred.
As for people like Fatty Chen and Liu Four from Li Village, they were on the same side as the Li family, so they would not give Zhang Qinghua any face.
Honghe Bridge was only so big, and there were only so many wealthy families in a dozen or so villages. In an instant, he had offended most of the rich people here.
Of course, the remaining small families could also revitalize his business, but most of them were on credit. It was common for them to be in debt for a year and a half. The liquidity of the funds would be much worse, and the business would not be as good as before.
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Xuewen went south to do the old wood business as usual. Since Wang Yulan and her husband were not willing to go to Hong Kong, the task of sending the children to school fell to her. Fortunately, Four was in eastern Guangdong, so he would not be like a headless fly.
At the same time, He Fang also went to the airport. She wanted to bring the two children back and prepare for school.
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