Entering the first weekend of May, Li Jianhui and Chen Yulian accompanied their mother Liu Xiaojuan back to Liu Xiaojuan's hometown.
Liu Xiaojuan did not have a prominent family background, and her parents were both farmers. Later, her parents died of hunger and illness, and she followed her brother to Xiangjiang.
However, when she was in her teens, her brother also died young, leaving her alone in the family living a hard life in the city.
Later, due to fate, she married Li Jianhui's father, and they had five Li Jianhui siblings.
However, misfortune of fate befell this miserable woman again. When Li Jianhui was more than two years old, Li Minglin died unexpectedly, leaving Liu Xiaojuan to take care of the family alone.
As for her impression of her hometown, it still remains when Liu Xiaojuan was a few years old. In these years, Liu Xiaojuan has never thought about going back.
This is not to say that Liu Xiaojuan was ruthless, but the main reason was that her family was very poor at that time and had no land. After her parents passed away, they did not build a monument. Her brother and sister were young at that time and did not even build a tomb.
Moreover, when she and her brother were starving, the people around them did not give them any help, which is why they left their hometown and finally came to Xiangjiang.
After so many years, the whereabouts of the parents' bones are no longer known. In addition, coupled with the attitude of the villagers towards their siblings, it is better not to go back than to go back and be disappointed and sad.
But this time, news came from the Xinghua Society that the rebuilt ancestral hall in the village had been completed, and a new family tree would also be compiled. Liu Xiaojuan's parents and brother would be included in the Liu family tree, so an invitation was specially sent.
To be honest, Li Jianhui was quite speechless when he received the news. He admitted that ancestral halls and genealogy are important matters for a family.
But for Liu Xiaojuan, this is nothing more than a trivial matter. Even if the other party doesn't know his name, Liu Xiaojuan can write a letter and have Xinghua News Agency forward it to him.
You must know that this ancestral hall has nothing to do with Liu Xiaojuan. After Liu Xiaojuan married Li Minglin, her full name was Li Liu Xiaojuan, indicating that she was already a member of the Li family, not the Liu family.
Moreover, the worship at the ancestral hall this time has nothing to do with Liu Xiaojuan, and even the gate of the ancestral hall cannot be entered.
Li Jianhui knew that the sudden invitation over there was definitely not the work of those villagers. To put it mildly, it was impossible for those villagers to know about Liu Xiaojuan.
This time, the other party is probably following what Huo Yingdong said a few days ago and is preparing to play the hometown family card.
Liu Xiaojuan was not originally prepared to let Li Jianhui accompany her back. This time, in addition to entering her parents and brother into the family tree, she also planned to make a symbolic donation of money, which could be regarded as a way to accumulate some virtue for her parents and brother who were living underground.
As for the issue of her parents' tombs, Liu Xiaojuan has no plans to erect them in her hometown. Li Jianhui is already preparing to build a second private cemetery in Xiangjiang besides the He family. When the time comes, she will erect her parents' tombs there, and her brother's tombs at the same time.
His grave will also be moved in.
It's just that Li Jianhui considered that his eldest brother went to London for the development of his own industry, and that there was a lot of effort there to come up with such a trick, so it would be a bit bad if he didn't cooperate at all. Anyway, these two days happened to be weekends, so he just accompanied him.
Liu Xiaojuan went together.
Because Liu Xiaojuan's brother died before getting married and left no descendants, Liu Xiaojuan's father's family was considered to be unique in ancient times.
When Liu Xiaojuan goes back this time, those people may not say anything in front of them, but they don’t know what they will say behind their backs. This is why Li Jianhui wants to go back with Chen Yulian, and this time he also brings Li Zhipeng with him, just to compete for Liu Xiaojuan.
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Liu Xiaojuan's hometown is Maling Village in Shiling Commune, Huaxian County, below Yangcheng. Therefore, Li Jianhui and others chose to take a special plane to Yangcheng, and then took a car that Jingyi Electric had prepared for her here. Accompanied by the Deputy Minister of the United Front Work Department of Yangcheng
Head down towards Maling Village.
Driving out of downtown Yangcheng City, the main thing you can see is endless fields, there are no tall buildings, and there are not many vehicles on the road. If you compare it decades later, it can be said that it is sparse.
"Mr. Li, our transportation infrastructure is still relatively backward at present, so vehicles can only go to the commune. From the commune to Maling Village, we have to walk five or six kilometers of small roads."
"Thanks to Minister Chen for informing me, my family and I are well prepared for this. This time we will be able to exercise a bit."
Chen Dongze obviously will not just accompany Li Jianhui's family to Maling Village. His most important task is to use nostalgia as the starting point to deepen the relationship between Yangcheng and Li Jianhui and attract Xinjian-related industries to invest in Yangcheng.
So during the next journey, Chen Dongze introduced the economic development of Yangcheng in detail, from industry to agriculture, and also explained Yangcheng's foreign investment policy.
Currently, Yangcheng's foreign investment policies are far behind those of the major special economic zones, and there are also many restrictions on industries.
When foreign capital comes to Yangcheng to invest in industries, it is mainly through joint ventures, of which the typical representative is the White Swan Hotel.
It is a pity that Li Jianhui does not operate hotels. Xinhui Hotel is currently busy expanding in major cities around the world, and its own funds are relatively tight. I am afraid that it has no intention to enter Yangcheng at this time.
When it comes to investment in other industries, Li Jianhui will only look at the Chinese herbal medicine planting base of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Group that is currently being prepared. If the time is right, he would not mind cooperating with Yangcheng.
As for the state-owned enterprises that have invested in Yangcheng, Li Jianhui has no interest and will not invest in these enterprises unless he can obtain a controlling stake.
"Thank you very much for Minister Chen's introduction. Yangcheng has always been the center of South China, and I have always attached great importance to the market in Yangcheng.
It’s just that the time is not yet mature yet. I believe that with the continuous advancement of opening up to the outside world, my industries will inevitably enter Yangcheng on a large scale."
Although he was still a little unwilling, Li Jianhui obviously had no intention of investing in Yangcheng at the moment, and Chen Dongze couldn't bring up this matter.
Then he began to introduce some situations in Maling Village to Li Jianhui, Liu Xiaojuan and others. From his words, it was obvious that he had done a lot of homework.
It's a pity that Chen Dongze and the planners above are doomed to be disappointed. Liu Xiaojuan doesn't have much affection for Maling Village. This Maling Village is far inferior to Tiu Keng Ling where she has lived for decades.
Although Tiu Keng Ling was once very poor, it gave Liu Xiaojuan the warmth of her family and contained her countless memories and concerns.
Because he had already planned to donate money, and because this man specially accompanied them to Maling Village, Li Jianhui did not mind adding a little bit of political achievements to the other party.
Therefore, he said: "Although my mother left Maling Village when she was very young, it is my mother's hometown after all. On behalf of my mother, I donated 20 million Hong Kong dollars to Shiling Commune, mainly for Maling Village Primary School, Shiling
Construction of the commune middle school and the road from Maling Village to the commune.”