Los Angeles, Mountain View Boulevard, P&A Headquarters.

Looking at the faces in the conference room full of anticipation and confusion, Lu Kaiwen was making the final consideration.

"Chairman, if you have any plans, just tell me. We believe in you. Your bold change four years ago has transformed us from a restaurant chain into the investment group we are now. We did it. We believe in you. Cheng Mengqiu broke the silence of the conference room and made all the directors mentally prepared.

"Ladies and gentlemen, seniors. Four years ago, I had a proposal to look to China. But we haven't really taken a step forward. I went to China myself, and I got acquainted with the investment environment there. I made tentative investments there. In Province F, your hometown, I invested 30 million in marine aquaculture and an oceanarium. The biggest thing I learned there was that our program could provide stable employment for more than *** people. At the same time, our industry has driven the surrounding tourism and catering industry. In S City, I invested 50 million to acquire a 15% stake in a real estate company. This company is about to go public. I can't say I'm successful, but I'm proud to tell you that I've done something I'm proud of. At the same time, I can confidently tell you that we have experience in investing in China and that the time is ripe for large-scale investment in China. Now, I can accept the questions from the directors about investing in China. Please get started. Before sitting down, Kevin Lu focused his anticipatory and encouraging eyes on each director.

The room was eerily quiet, so quiet that you could hear the sound of breathing.

The first to stand up was Chen Fanrun, who was in charge of the company's finances.

"Chairman, we are developed in the United States, do you want to deny the development in the United States when you make such a decision? What is the basis for us to believe that investing in China is better than growing in the United States? Could the chairman please give us a convincing explanation? Chen Fanrun's face was expressionless, and his voice was very rigid.

All the directors, including Old Man Cheng, nodded lightly in agreement with Chen Fanrun.

"I do not deny the development of the United States, although the United States is experiencing an impending crisis, but the United States' strong manufacturing capacity and its ability to innovate can enable the United States to overcome any crisis. The U.S. remains the best place in the world to invest. The United States remains the frontrunner in the world economy. Because the United States has a free spirit and a well-established social system. More importantly, the US dollar, the international monetary system, cannot be replaced for a long time to come. So, I do not negate our strategy of development in the United States. Kevin Lu gave an answer that he had already considered maturely.

Everyone's faces were filled with more or less doubt. They didn't raise their own confusion, they were waiting for the young people to give them a perfect answer.

"My decision to invest in China is not contradictory to our development in the United States, on the contrary, investing in China is a better complement to our development in the United States. The crisis in the United States will provide us with a good opportunity. In the process of continuous consolidation, we will be able to acquire assets and technology. My plan is to invest in the automotive industry in China, so that I can choose a series of core production technologies for a mid-range brand car in the United States. Such technology and production and sales are difficult in the United States, but in China we can make great progress. That's the best perfection and the best supplement. Ladies and gentlemen, we are too weak in the American system, so we have to look for opportunities to go out, and we have to choose shortcuts. There's never been a better time to do that. Without this economic crisis, I don't know when I would have been able to start my program. But this crisis presents us with a rare opportunity. I ask the directors to support my decision. Thank you! Kevin Lu said the plan he was proud of.

Everyone in the room was groaning and commenting on the young man's plan.

"I don't agree with the chairman's plan." A man stands up.

This abrupt objection made the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly strange. All those who had been hesitant began to be moved.

Kevin Lu knew the man who stood up, a middle-aged man from Province F. His name is Hou Guoqing, 55 years old.

"Okay, tell me what you think." Kevin Lu became interested in listening. He was not naïve enough to think that his plan could pass unhindered.

"It's simple. I don't believe in China. I don't believe our assets will be secured. This is proven by history. I can't agree to put our hard-earned money in a place where we're having a bad experience. Is this reason enough to change the chairman's decision? You've all had similar experiences, do you agree with me? Hou Guoqing couldn't stop scanning everyone in the conference room.

Almost everyone's eyes quickly lit up with approval. At the same time, there is more or less pain and disdain in everyone's eyes.

Lu Kaiwen's heart quickly tightened. He knew the most difficult moment had come.

Kevin Lu has read a lot about China in China, and he pays attention to everything related to his mother's experience.

He clearly knows what kind of painful experience these smugglers have in front of him.

The motherland has made these people too entangled, and they have been deeply disappointed.

What I have to do now is to arouse their confidence in the motherland and arouse their deep attachment to the motherland.

Only when their attachment transcends their pain will they not look back.

It's bound to be a tough one.

I'm just a 28-year-old young man, and I don't have that kind of experience. Such a thing is more like a sarcasm.

Kevin Lu has the embarrassment and difficulty he has never encountered.

However, he had to convince the seniors in front of him. At least don't let them get in your way.

"Uncle Hou, since you are doubting your motherland, please forgive me for talking about your pain. I'm sorry. You went to the Northwest with your lover back then. There, you supported each other through the most boring and unbearable three years. When Zhiqing returned to the city, in order to obtain a place to return to the city, your lover succumbed to the obscenity of the secretary of the production team. She was raped by the secretary in human skin. In the time that followed, she suffered a long period of abuse. But in the end, she was deceived. There is still no place for her to return to the city. Your lover committed suicide with humiliation and remorse. Unable to find the protection of the law, you want to kill that scum in your unbearable anger, but he is not dead, and you have become a fancy and a wanted criminal. You fled back to your hometown and smuggled to Los Angeles with the help of your family and friends. Am I right? Lu Kaiwen told the story of an overseas traveler in a blunt tone.

There was a sobbing sound in the conference room. Hou Guoqing couldn't cry anymore.

"When I first came back to China, I was hesitant and unfamiliar. I have an indifference to everything there. I went to visit your loved ones who stayed there. I went to where my mother grew up. Did you know? I quickly abandoned my apathy. Because they quickly made me feel that I was not a stranger, that I was their child, that they had returned from afar. The land where my mother grew up made me suddenly find something that I had never cared about. I quickly learned that it was my roots. My mother's roots. In the place where my mother grew up, I listened to the people in the village tell me about my mother's past, and the little girl they said was their child. Their adoring expressions and tone of voice are something I will never forget. They are my mother's roots, and they are my Lu Kevin's roots. Uncle Hou, you have not forgotten the history of the motherland in the past, and you have not forgotten the painful past in that history. But you're sending money home every month, and you're sending it back for attention. Have you forgotten your loved ones back home? You haven't forgotten that you're always on your mind. Your lover has given you lingering pain, and that scum has left you with a bitter hatred for that history. But how much did your relatives and friends back home pay to protect you? How much risk do they need to take for your cover? How much money did they give to the head of the snake? They're breaking the bank to protect you. Where are they now? They live in the bosom of the Motherland, which you do not trust, under the new system of the Motherland. We all look forward to the change of our motherland, but we are not waiting, we should do what we can. You didn't go back, so you'd rather stay in the memories. I went back, and I witnessed the rapid changes in my motherland. In S City, there is not much gap between that pearl-like city and here. However, there are still many poor places in China, and there is still a lot of room for change. I did my own thing, so I can proudly say that I found my roots. What about you? My seniors, my uncles. Where are your roots? Is it here? Is it in this paradise-like place? If you hate the history of your motherland, then please help your own country, help your loved ones, help their descendants become more individual, more thoughtful, help them have stronger self-confidence, so that they will never repeat the pain you have experienced. Uncles, please! Lu Kaiwen's voice was full of passion.

The directors gradually put away their sobs, and they gradually focused. No one laughs at the young people who are full of the vicissitudes of the motherland, and no one laughs at the young people who are talking about the heavy history they have experienced.

At this moment, their hearts are connected. They are not drunk in heaven.

There was a moment of silence in the conference room.

"Kevin, Uncle Hou retracts the objection just now. I lived in vain. No matter how bad it is, I can't let you, a junior, see the jokes. I support your decision. Not only can you use all my money in the company, but also my own teahouse in Chinatown, my hotel. What do you need, just tell Uncle Hou. I just want to tell all my relatives that I, Hou Guoqing, have not waited to die in this paradise-like place, and I have not forgotten those relatives who remained in the motherland for a single day. Hou Guoqing stood up and vented his emotions in a rough voice.

After a brief silence, there was a round of applause.

"Thank you, elders. Thank you also to the new directors. It took a long time for my decision to come true. I believe that my wish will come true, because I believe that I have you behind me. There is a group with a super cohesive force. A group of wanderers who have coalesced into a single heart in the process of life and death of smuggling. I, Kevin Lu, am lucky. Our motherland is lucky. Thank you. Kevin Lu finally bent down.

This is his third bow today, the highest salute to the respectable wanderers in front of him.

Lu Kaiwen had no scruples or hesitation at this moment.

It was only at this moment that he realized a precious truth.

My mother left her most precious legacy.

A collective made of blood and tears.

A community that always remembers the roots of its own life and soul.