【274】The second batch of overseas Chinese return home
Because there are more overseas Chinese returning to the village this time.
Therefore, Li Aiguo and others did not immediately make arrangements for ancestor worship and grand celebrations for the two old people and their descendants.
Li Aiguo planned to make it a lively event this time. He planned to make it a lively event after the overseas Chinese who called to say they were coming back and the villagers from Lijiacun who were living abroad all came back.
As for the date of this big event, Li Aiguo also calculated it with someone who could tell the date and decided it.
October 1st is the so-called National Day. It is said that this day is the best and most suitable day among the 365 days in a year to hold various happy events. [Can't it be wrong, this day is celebrated by the whole world.
What a great day.]
Tonight, since he had no plans to worship his ancestors or anything like that, Li Aiguo simply arranged a banquet for the whole village that night.
Although it is simple, it is still very effective. Li Aiguo hosted a banquet for all the villagers in Lijia Village and the construction team working here, and then held a lively reception banquet for the two old people and their families.
The wine and dishes at the banquet are all the characteristics of Lijiacun. The wine is Lijiacun's unique self-brewed rice wine, and the dishes are the unique cooking methods passed down by Lijiacun. This makes the two old people who have been homesick for more than 70 years a rare occasion.
Had a great time eating.
Li Zhongguo and Li Aiguo, who usually could only eat one bowl of rice, today for the first time picked up the big bowl of rice commonly used in Lijia Village, and started eating and drinking happily with the villagers.
Although the consequence of this was that they had a bit of indigestion and had to walk around the village several times to digest their food, and went to the toilet several times before the burden in their stomachs was relieved, they were very happy.
It's sweet until you sleep at night.
The day after the feast, the villagers of Lijia Village started early in the morning again, beating gongs and drums, wearing new clothes and hats, and began to welcome them at the entrance of the village, the second batch of overseas Lijia Villagers who returned today.
Overseas Chinese.
The villagers greeted them at the entrance of the village, while Li Bu, Li Hong, Li Aiguo, Li Wanfu and other people who had more say in the matter personally followed the construction team's boat to the other side. After the overseas Chinese got off the bus, they stepped forward.
greet them.
The overseas Chinese this time were relatively young, from the generation of Li Aiguo and Li Wanfu, so when the five overseas Chinese got off the car, they immediately walked forward excitedly and said with a slightly trembling tone: "Shuzi, monkey.
, Pork belly...Welcome home, hahaha... I haven’t seen you for more than thirty years. If I hadn’t come here to greet you today, I would almost not recognize you guys!!”
"Patriot, let me go, you old boy has changed so much, but your physical fitness is too good, right?
Look at the rest of us, we all have beer bellies, but you are still all muscular. Are you trying to envy us to death?
Hey, Wanfu, let me go, Brother Wanfu, we miss you so much.
Brother Wanfu, when we see you, we remember that you took us to find food every three days.
Brother Wanfu, it was fortunate that you were able to take us to find food. Otherwise, how could our family have given us a chance to stay up until we could go out?
Brother Wanfu, thank you, thank you for taking care of us before..." Seeing Li Aiguo, the five overseas Chinese were very excited and happy, but when they saw Li Wanfu, they burst into tears.
After reaching out and patting his former followers, Li Wanfu smiled and said, "It was not easy for everyone in those days, and you are my younger brothers no matter what, how could I watch you starve all day long?
Besides, these are actually what I, as an older brother, should do... Just go home, just go home."
"Brother Wanfu, we want to eat grilled sweet potatoes, we want to eat grilled fish, we want to eat beggar's chicken, we have been thinking about these things for more than 30 years, and you must make them for us today." The five overseas Chinese did not.
He looked down on Li Wanfu because of his wealth. Instead, he surrounded him like a younger brother, coquettishly shouting that he wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes.
After reaching out and patting the five people, Li Wanfu pointed at Li Hong and Li Bu and introduced them; "Let me introduce to you your two nephews. This is my eldest son Li Hong, and this is my youngest son Li Bu. You
Why are you two still standing there, call me uncle!"
"Hello uncle, nephews Li Hong and Li Bu, welcome you home uncle..." After hearing Li Wanfu's words, Li Hong and Li Bu quickly turned around and greeted the five overseas Chinese respectfully.
After Li Hong and Li Bu said hello, the five overseas Chinese immediately looked at them and said with relief; "Yes, yes, both of them are very handsome. They are as handsome as our brother Wanfu when he was young. By the way, you are all
Have you married a wife? Do you have a regular job? Do you want to go to Southeast Asia with your uncles?"
"Uncle, I'm working in self-media now. Although I can't make as much money as you, I can still make several million a year. I also have a wife and children, and my wife is from Vietnam.
, we can visit you when we have time, and we don’t have to work..." Facing the questions from the five overseas Chinese, Li Hong, as the boss, stood up and spoke first.
After Li Hong finished answering, Li Bu then replied: "I am also a self-media person, and I also opened a small company, and the income is pretty good. I also have a wife, and Li Aiguo is my father-in-law."
, my wife is his eldest daughter."
"Oh, that's good, that's good. The annual salary is one million. It's okay. It doesn't embarrass our old Li family...
Wait, wait, Li Bu? Your name is Li Bu? Are you the great philanthropist Li Bu who casually lost one hundred million several times?" The five overseas Chinese chatting with Li Bu and the others suddenly seemed to remember something.
, suddenly looked at Li Bu and asked with an incredulous look on his face.
His own information can be found by searching on the Internet, so Li Bu had no intention of hiding anything and simply nodded and said, "It's true that I am that Li Bu, but I haven't lost any money. I just
I just set up a foundation and put some money into it..."
"Good guy, I just made a little money. In front of your kid, we don't dare to say that we are overseas Chinese anymore. We should all say that we are overseas workers.
I think we left our hometown and worked hard for more than 30 years. We originally thought that we had made money and could be prestigious. But before we even arrived at this door, you took away the limelight.
.." When they learned that Li Bu, who had been in the limelight at home and abroad recently, was actually his eldest brother's son, the five overseas Chinese suddenly showed helpless expressions and smiled bitterly.
"Uncles are joking. Those charities are actually tax-deductible. In fact, I don't make a lot of money. It's just a little money a year."
After changing the topic with a smile, Li Bu took the lead and led everyone down the road to get on the boat. He said with a smile, "By the way, uncles, you guys are a bit uninteresting this time. Brothers, sisters, and sisters."
You didn’t bring a few back with you..."
"I'm going, this bridge, I'm going, there are so many new houses, I'm going, is this Lijia Village? I'm going, I'm going..." Before the five overseas Chinese had time to answer Li Bu's words, the people in Lijia Village on the other side of the river were in front of them.
The sight stunned them at first.
A bridge several hundred meters under construction, a humid village full of new houses, and a large group of neatly dressed villagers in new clothes at the entrance of the village made it impossible for the five overseas Chinese to put what they saw in front of them into their memories.