Levi's heard what he just said. Li Weiwen was a little embarrassed and worried that he would be displeased. However, Mai Weiting didn't pay too much attention. She also felt contempt for Levi's eavesdropping on their conversation.
After Gu Xun and Levi shook hands politely to get to know each other, she nodded and said simply: "We probably haven't passed each other before. We haven't been here for so long, maybe grandpa doesn't remember. By the way, I just went to pick Xun up and haven't introduced him yet."
Let’s get to know Grandpa. We’ll go in first.”
After saying that, she didn't care about Levi's reaction, waved to Li Weiwen, and went in with her boyfriend on her arm.
Li Weiwen asked carefully: "You won't be angry, right? She didn't mean it."
"No, why are you angry?" Levis laughed.
Why are you angry? She is just a girl with a better family background. Levis was like this before, but to different people. Now he is accompanying a few of them, and he is not here to ask the Mai family to do something. Neither is it.
I want to make friends with Mai Weiting.
Seeing that her brother seemed to be really considerate, Li Weiwen felt relieved. She was not old after all. She would not think so much and would show her happiness or unhappiness.
"Cousin Weiting is really not familiar with you. You haven't been here for a long time. I guess the last time I came here, I was still young and she was also young. Now she is studying in college in the United States and she didn't expect to come back to celebrate her grandpa's birthday.
Humph. I guess she mainly took this opportunity to bring her boyfriend back to show her family. Gu Xun said that he is a Chinese-Japanese mixed-race, probably a Chinese-American and Japanese-American mixed-race. Uncles and the others will definitely recognize such a person.
I have an opinion. She happened to be taking advantage of my grandpa’s birthday, so it’s not convenient for my uncle and aunt to get angry and say that she..."
Li Weiwen started chattering. After talking, she found that Levi's didn't interrupt. Then she remembered that he probably wasn't interested in listening. She smiled sheepishly and pulled him away, "Let's go in too, dad and the others are waiting.
Already."
Maitian is the oldest and oldest person in their family, but he does not have any status as the head of the family. The Maitian Group he controls is his own, and his brothers and sisters also have their own family businesses. This year is their birthday.
So it was a little more lively than usual, with relatives and friends coming. Representatives from the collateral branches who didn’t have space would also come.
There were a lot of people, and Levi knew almost no one. Li Weiwen didn't know a few either. Only her uncle Mai Zhiwen's children knew them, Mai Weiting had already met them, and her cousin McGrady had not seen them.
In the yard, two people saw Li Bingjian and his wife.
Mai Qiongshan is a strong woman who is good at communication. Although these are relatives and friends, in many aspects, they are also places where she can do business. She talks very enthusiastically to every relative, friend and business partner who comes to wish her father a birthday, no matter how close they are.
,
Compared with the dull and serious life at home, Li Bingjian is a little more active, but only a little. Now he has more social activities. Such scenes are also small scenes for him, but his personality and professional habits make him do the talking.
Sometimes, I still remain strictly taciturn.
Identity determines a person's status. Status determines a person's status.
This seems nonsense, but it is the fact. You have no status, and you have no status in social situations. After you have status, others will naturally raise your status higher. From a vicious circle to a virtuous circle, the middle point is
Land is individual talent, effort and opportunity.
Fifteen years ago, they also appeared at the gathering of relatives and friends at Mai's house. Although Li Bingjian was already quite famous at that time, eight out of ten people looked down on him. They all felt that Mai Qiongshan was carried away by emotions and was just a waver.
Just a lawyer who comes and goes at a moment's notice, waving a checkbook.
Ten years ago, Li Bingjian had become a well-known barrister. Friends and relatives of the Mai family were a little more polite to him, but behind the scenes they also felt that he was relying on his wife. Without Mai Qiongshan's relationship and Maitian's support, he could have risen so high.
quick?
Now, even if they don't need help from him, everyone will be polite when they see him. No one will talk openly about anything. They all envy their dual swords of law and business.
Seeing the two of them coming, Mai Qiongshan came over immediately. Then Li Bingjian also came over.
"Let's go see grandpa first. He hasn't seen you for a long time." Mai Qiongshan said with a smile. She was very happy that Levi was willing to come today.
Being a stepmother is difficult. Although she is a strong woman, she is also a woman. In this matter, she believes that she has done nothing wrong. However, she still feels frustrated after being unable to gain the approval of her husband's ex-wife and son for more than ten years.
The distance from the yard to the house and upstairs was only a dozen meters, but for Mai Qiongshan, it took more than ten years. Finally, Levi's was willing to go back to her parents' home with her, which can be regarded as officially accepting her as stepmother.
, the return of a family of four and busy people was something she once thought was hopeless.
All the way in, like an ordinary mother, Mai Qiongshan introduced her children to the relatives and friends she met. She also told them that this was Uncle So-and-so and this was Aunt So-and-so.
Upstairs, Levi finally met today's birthday boy, Wenwen's grandfather Mai Tian. In the memory he had, he didn't have much impression anymore, but he had a sense of resentment against the former Levi. He felt sorry for looking down on him, even his father's Mai Tian family.
Ground resentment.
The old man had passed his seventieth birthday, but he was still in good spirits. At this time, he was talking to two people in the room. When the two people saw his daughter and son-in-law coming in with their children, they wisely excused themselves and let them talk.
"Dad, Weiss and Wenwen are both free today, so they came over to have dinner together." Mai Qiongshan smiled and went to sit down next to her father.
Li Bingjian gave the family a gift, a rare antique.
Can a daughter not understand her father's preferences? Now that Li Bingjian has many friends and his family can afford to spend money, he can naturally buy gifts that suit his needs.
Wheat Field was indeed very interested. But after all, he was an old man. He just looked at it for a while and then turned his attention away from his interest. He put the antique down casually and looked at the Levis brothers and sisters with great interest.
"Grandpa, I wish you good luck and longevity in the East China Sea." Li Weiwen sat obediently on the other side of the wheat field and took out a greeting card hidden somewhere like a magic trick. "Grandpa, I am still studying. I have no money.
I bought you a gift, so I made a greeting card myself. Gifts are less important than affection."
Maitian laughed loudly and touched her head: "Very good, very good. It's a gift made by Wenwen herself. Grandpa likes it better than the gift from your parents."
Li Weiwen smiled obediently and implicitly. Then she said innocently and casually: "Do you really like it? Do you want to give me a red envelope or something?"
"Wenwen." Li Bingjian called his daughter.
Mai Qiongshan didn't pay too much attention, knowing that her father was trying to take advantage of her.
Sure enough, Wheat Field made Wheat Field laugh out loud: "No problem. Grandpa will definitely give me the land."
"I'm quite careless. I never prepare any gifts for you."
After hearing Levi's words, Maitian looked at him, then noticed his daughter beside him, and motioned for him to come over.
Mai Qiongshan stood up and stood aside with her husband. She asked Levis to sit on the sofa next to her father. When Levis sat down and could look at him levelly, Mai Tian smiled happily and sighed: "Weiss, you can come. It's already great."
What a great gift. I heard from Qiongshan that you have now joined the police force. You have just made a few great contributions, been promoted, and received awards. You were also interviewed by the Commissioner of Police. You, the younger generation, are promising.
Give me the best gift!"
Levi smiled in agreement. He had no experience in such an occasion. Although he could handle it, he still felt a little unnatural inside.
"You go out to greet the guests first. Wes and I haven't seen each other for a long time, let's have a chat."
Maitian's words surprised everyone. Even Mai Qiongshan did not expect that her father would leave Levis alone to chat. Of course she knew that her father would not neglect him. But she was afraid that Levis would be too sensitive.
Seeing Wenwen was a little surprised, but he resisted asking. His parents looked at him, and Levi gave them a smile, indicating that he was fine.
When the three of them went out and closed the door, only two people were left.
Maitian looked at Levis with a half-smile, picked up a pipe and held it in his mouth.
He didn't speak. Levis waited for a while and then asked: "...Grandpa, do you have anything special to tell me?"
Calling out the word grandpa, he felt a strange feeling in his heart. It seemed that the missing part of the family was enriched a little bit.
"Haha, I've been waiting for you to call me grandpa." Mai Tian didn't seem to be joking, and sighed after saying: "Just like Qiongshan has been waiting for you to call me mother for nearly twenty years. I have been waiting for you to call me grandpa.
.”
Levi looked at him puzzled and said bluntly: "Actually... I am not your grandson. I have only met you when we were children. We have no feelings. Your grandsons, granddaughters, and granddaughters all have..."
"So you think what I said is pretentious?" Maitian smiled slightly. "Young man, you have grown up now. In the past six months, Qiongshan also said that you are slowly becoming more sensible. In your childhood, grandpa is completely
Very clear. Very understanding. When I was a teenager, you wouldn’t talk to me alone like this. Even if I tell you, you wouldn’t understand.”
Levi immediately understood and believed that he had also had such communication with his father, and his father could understand it. The relatives and friends of the Mai family were relatives and friends of the Mai family. The old man himself had never disliked Li Bingjian, and similarly, he had no dislike for Levi.
"When you grow up and have your own independence, you have never been here with your father again, but I have a general understanding of your growth process over the years, and Qiongshan will also communicate with me. Regarding your growth over the years,
She is not doing her job properly. She is also in pain. She doesn’t know how to make you regain your progress.
I'm different. I'm a lot older. What kind of situation have I never seen before? I know that this is a process for young people to grow up. Even if I don't have an experience like you, there are still such stages. These are the talents of people who want to be parents.
Only by understanding can you gain experience. I believe you will understand it on your own one day. You will get tired of eating, drinking and having fun. At that time, you will be able to find your own direction. Now Qiongshan finally believes in me."
Having said this, Lao Mai smiled a little proudly.
Levis smiled and acquiesced to what Levis did.
"Well, I'm not young anymore, I should be more mature."
"Now your uncle and the others have a headache. Haha, this kid McGrady will be the same when he grows up. He eats, drinks, has fun, and doesn't do his job properly. There is nothing he can do about it. In my generation, there is no good father. We are just a few brothers and sisters.
When we work hard, we understand that it is difficult to start a business, so we will be wary that it is even harder to maintain a business. We will be more strict with our children, so your mother, your uncle, and their generation are still considered promising.
McGrady and Tingting are different. Everything is given to them as soon as they are born. There is no need to work hard. There is no need to work hard. You only need to enjoy it since you were a child. He and I have not endured much hardship. It is impossible to be as strict as us. There is no need to worry about work.
There is no need to worry about livelihood. Naturally, there is no motivation to work hard. So why not enjoy it?
But in general, this is just a process. Everything will get boring. When they pass this stage, they will naturally find their own direction. I am not worried. Now that you are also a positive example, I am even more relieved."
In the words of Confucius, at seventy, one should follow one's heart's desires without exceeding the rules. At his age, he has seen everything and can indeed take everything lightly. When life becomes short, time will also be stretched.
Levis didn't say anything, just listened to what he said.
Maitian patted him on the shoulder. "Don't think too much, I'm just older and nagging a little more. Anyway, I treat you as my grandson. I'm happy and supportive that you can find your own place."
, there is a drawer there, go and open it."
Levis went over and opened the drawer he said.
"That card is for you. It's a card issued in your name, and the password is your birthday."
"Why?" Levis looked at the gold card.
"This is because you haven't come to pay New Year's greetings in these years. Let me save the red envelope money. I know what you thought before. If you want to prove to those who look down on you, being a policeman may be your interest, but if you have other
You also need start-up capital for your idea. Your family’s current income is largely occupied by Qiongshan. I don’t think you will want your family’s land." Maitian said as if he had seen through his heart.
Levi's didn't move.
He speculated on many possibilities for Wheat Field to keep him here. But he didn't expect that he would just chat and then give a gift, "Take it, this is our private land, and you don't need anything in return. You should know the rules of our family."
.The family has been separated for a long time, and now it is the Dimaitian Group. When I die, I will still give them the land again. I regard you as my grandson. You will have a share when the time comes, and it will only be more."
Seeing that Levi still didn't move, Maitian gave a wry smile: "You are just like your father! So be it. Just think of me as asking you to take more care of Maddie, Tingting and the others in the future. I am already seventy years old, and I am getting older every day.
.You can't take care of them for too long. When they stumble on their own, you don't know when they will understand. If you don't wait until you are prosperous in the future, and I haven't died yet, just return it to me and use it as the capital I lent you.
Is that okay?"
Looking at the old man, Levi believed what he said. He was not short of money and nodded. He picked up the gold card inside.
"I accepted it. Grandpa."
"That's right! I'm here to beg you to accept it. Today I am the birthday boy." Maitian said with a smile.
Sitting down again, Mai Tian said seriously: "What do you want to do? You decide for yourself. Don't be influenced by others. Don't care about the eyes of the world. If you need help and it's not convenient to go to your parents, just come to me. Just come to me."
I'm still alive. Again, I'm happier than anything else to see that you guys are making a difference."
"You...don't have some terminal illness, right?"
"You brat! I'm celebrating my birthday today, and you actually cursed me? Did I have this chance? You are so arrogant, who knows if the next time you come to see me will be ten years from now?" Mai Tian laughed and cursed.
He is very accurate in reading people. He also has a very good grasp of Levi's current psychology, knowing that he is no longer the sensitive child he used to be.
"Don't think too much. There is no need to tell them in particular. I will tell your parents myself if necessary."
Levis nodded. He received a gift for no reason. Although he didn't know the exact amount. But with the way Wheatfield was doing it, he believed that the price would not be low.
He had a strange feeling in his heart towards the old man in front of him. He had known him for less than half an hour, but he had a very cordial feeling. Maybe it was because he had never had such an elder before. He had no such experience, or maybe it was because of the wheat field dialect.
The kind of mentality that sees through everything. He has traveled through time and space. Everything around him has changed, and he also has a mentality of looking down on everything.
When he came out of the room, Levi felt his chest was very warm. There was the gold card here. This was not a gold card with money in it. It was more about family ties, elders and younger generations. They felt like friends at first sight and had a complicated understanding.
Chapter completed!