Chapter 13: The Li Family
Today, Ling Shizhe accompanied Li Li to Taiwan to meet Li Li's parents, and his parents were going to go, but Ling Zhigao suddenly had something to do and went to Europe, and his mother Zhang Yuzhen saw that Ling Zhigao couldn't go, so she didn't go, saying that now let Ling Shizhe go to see Li Li's parents first, the other party did not object, and when the time came, the parents of both sides would meet at an appointment, and this matter would be done.
In this way, there were only two people on the flight to Taipei, Ling Shizhe and Li Li.
When she got off the plane in Taipei and walked out of the airport, Li Li suddenly ran out and shouted, "Big brother, hehe." Hanging from a middle-aged man who is almost 40 years old.
"Ouch, come down, you're so old, and you're still the same as when you were a child." got Li Li off his body, and the middle-aged man looked at it seriously: "Well, yes, you've grown taller, and you're beautiful, it seems that you're doing well in Canada."
Ling Shizhe knew that this was Li Li's eldest brother and walked over. Li Li introduced the two of them: "Big brother, come, this is my boyfriend and my boss, Ling Shizhe; Shizhe, this is my eldest brother, Li Zhen".
Ling Shizhe stretched out his hand and shook Li Zhen gently, "Hello, big brother." ”
"Hello, Zhe Shao, I've heard of you a long time ago, the inventor of the new mutton fat white jade porcelain, the last time I went to Hong Kong to talk about agency, you had already gone to Canada, and you didn't have the chance to meet, but now you can see the real person."
"Hehe, it's good for the eldest brother to call me Shizhe or Xiaozhe, Zheshao is called me by people outside."
"Okay, then I'll call you Shizhe", Li Zhen is not hypocritical, "Shizhe, your new type of porcelain, but it's really good, now many people in Taiwan have used your new type of porcelain at home, your ceramics are very popular, many big hotels in Taiwan have purchased your ceramics, and they are bought in large quantities." Your ceramics are so popular."
"Oh, it's so popular, it's a big surprise to me." Ling Shizhe felt strange and said: "This is not cheap, his target customer group is middle-class customers in Europe and the United States, and the positioning is mid-to-high-end, any set is hundreds of dollars, willing to do it." ”
"Hehe, of course ordinary people can't afford it", seeing Ling Shizhe's puzzlement, Li Zhen explained to him: "It's all big families and those big hotels, of course."
It turned out that this was the case, Ling Shizhe suddenly realized, and thought in his heart, it seems that there are still a lot of rich people in Taiwan, and it is no wonder that when they retreated from the mainland, they swept up the mainland and left a mess for the Red Party, they are indeed rich.
After getting in the car, Ling Shizhe looked at the Taiwanese buildings and roadside street scenes in the 60s, and felt that it was similar to the early days of the mainland's reform and opening up in the 80s.
After driving for more than an hour, it seems that I have arrived in the suburbs, and the scenery on the side of the road has also improved, and there is a lake over there, the surface of the lake is the color of the sky in the sun, and the lake water is crystal clear. Seeing a large garden villa by the lake, Ling Shizhe thought to himself, I don't know if it was there, sure enough, Li Zhen drove to the door of the villa, there was a big iron gate at the door, there was no guard at the door, the big iron gate opened automatically, the car drove in, as soon as the car entered, Ling Shizhe saw a guard room on the right hand, and an old man was sitting in it.
Li Li stretched out her head and shouted, "Grandpa Zheng, do you remember me?"
Old man Zheng is over 80 years old and a little confused. looked at Li Li and suddenly said, "Oh, it's the second miss, I have become recognizable, second miss, have you been doing well in a foreign country in the past few years?" I don't know what you young people think now, they all like to run to foreign countries, what is good about foreign countries, all foreigners, they don't understand what they say, back then your father ran away from Taiwan, and now you run to foreign countries, you all run out one by one. ”
Li Li obviously didn't want to listen to his nagging, and said, "Grandpa Zheng, this time I came with me to bring back a few bottles of Xinghua Village that you like to drink, you always taste it slowly, give." With that, Li Li handed a few bottles of wine in her hand to Old Man Zheng.
Old man Zheng, after taking the wine, looked at it, and said: "The second lady still has a heart, and she can afford to think of me, a bad old man, and actually bought me a few bottles of Xinghua Village from abroad, and I want to taste it to see if there is any good in our China." ”
Dizzy, this old man, the black line of steamed buns that Ling Shizhe listened to, the apricot blossom village made in foreign countries, is there an acot blossom village in foreign countries? I bought it in Hong Kong, okay.
Ling Shizhe bought a few bottles of wine, in a company called China Resources, this China Resources company is very big, he was founded in 1938, the founder Yang Lian'an, at that time in order to unite Hong Kong and overseas support for the anti-Japanese war of democratic people, accept and keep anti-Japanese donations and materials from all walks of life, for the anti-Japanese base to purchase military supplies and medicines, under the leadership of Zhou Enlai, Chen Yun, Yang Lian'an established in Hong Kong "Lianhe Xing" (liow&co) is the predecessor of China Resources.
In 1948, Luen Ho Bank was reorganized and expanded, and was renamed "China Resources Company". "Hua" represents China, and "Run" is taken from the word "Runzhi", which contains the beautiful meaning of "the land of China, moistened by rain and dew", and Qian Zhiguang served as the first chairman.
China Resources has been the general agent of China Import and Export Trading Company in Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia, specifically to earn foreign exchange for the Chinese government, and China Resources is responsible for the three daily trains from the mainland to Hong Kong.
Some of the things that Ling Shizhe brought with him when he came to Taiwan this time were purchased from the China Resources Company, and now the two sides of the strait are in a confrontational relationship, and everything from the mainland is not allowed to enter Taiwan.
After Li Li got in the car, she said to Ling Shizhe: "Grandpa Zheng is the old man of the Li family, he grew up watching his father, he has no heirs, his father came to Taiwan, he also followed, and has been guarding our house." A few years ago, my father asked him to watch the door, and wanted him to retire with peace of mind, but Grandpa Zheng didn't do it, saying that I had seen the door all my life, otherwise I would watch the door, and I wouldn't be able to pass, so my father had to let him go."
The car continued to drive in for a while, passed the flower bed, came to the door of the villa and stopped, Ling Shizhe got out of the car and saw that there was a fountain ten meters away from the entrance of the villa, there was a rockery on it, there was a floor rain grid on the mountain, and the fountain gushed out from the top of the mountain, which was elegant and abnormal.
Stepping through the door, there is a large living room, antique and classical. Li Zhen said to Ling Shizhe: "Shaozhe, you sit, I'll call my father." After finishing speaking, Li Zhen went upstairs.
Ling Shizhe was on the sofa, his eyes looking around, which was a typical Republic of China decoration style. Li Li also did it next to him, took the fruit on the coffee table and peeled it.
After eating some fruit, he saw an old man in his 60s walking down from upstairs, followed by Li Zhen, Ling Shizhe knew that this was Li Li's father, Li Chunlai, and his future father-in-law, Ling Shizhe didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly stood up, and followed Li Li forward.
Li Li walked to the old man's side, stretched out her hand to hold the old man's arm, and said, "Dad, how are you doing in the past few years?" ”
The old man looked at Li Li kindly and said: "The girl will come, let me take a good look, well, I have grown up, and I am beautiful, I really miss your mother."
Li Li knew that he was thinking of his dead mother and didn't want to cause him sadness, so she said, "What about my mother and sister? "My mother is Li Li's stepmother, and after Li Li's mother died, Li Chun came to Taiwan for the follow-up strings.
"She took your sister back to her mother's house in Kaohsiung, and she won't be here in a few days." After speaking, Li Chunlai turned his head to look at Ling Shizhe.
Ling Shizhe saw Li Chun coming to see him, took a step forward, bowed, and said, "Uncle, hello, junior Ling Shizhe, please give you a greeting, come to the door for the first time, bring some small gifts, please accept the uncle with a smile", said Ling Shizhe with the gift he brought with both hands.
Li Chun came to see him, his eyes flashed, he quickly looked him up and down, and said: "You are really peculiar, under the appearance of a young man in his 20s, and with the heart of an old man, a pair of eyes full of vicissitudes of the world, this should only be the eyes of an old man who has been weathered all his life, it is really strange to appear on you."
Ling Shizhe was so frightened in his heart that he was so frightened that he shouted in his heart: God, what kind of person is this, can he see that I am a time-traveler, my previous life was a weathered old man.
Just when Ling Shizhe didn't know what to do next, Li Chunlai took the gift in his hand and said, "Little friend, please sit down." ”
After seeing the old man sit down, Ling Shizhe sat down with him, he was uneasy in his heart, not knowing what would happen next; Li Chunlai's two children also sat down.
Li Chunlai looked at him again, and nodded slightly in his heart, well, this kid this girl is looking for is good, I have been fighting horses all my life, I have seen countless people, and I have never seen such a peculiar person, this kid is so peculiar, maybe he will be able to achieve a career in the future, this girl, it is good to have a good vision.
Li Chunlai asked about Ling Shizhe's family affairs, Ling Shizhe did not hide the slightest, answered one by one, and then chatted about other things, during the chat, Ling Shizhe knew that Li Chunlai and Ling Zhigao had known each other when they were out of the army, one was a general who commanded thousands of troops on the front line, and the other was an officer in charge of military logistics, although it was not a system, but the two often dealt with each other, Ling Zhigao was responsible for the logistics of several divisions, including the division led by Li Chunlai. Later, after the failure of GMT, Li Chunlai went to Taiwan, and Ling Zhigao came to Hong Kong, and they both began to engage in business, and there was some cooperation in business.
Through chatting, Li Chunlai became more and more satisfied with Ling Shizhe, and agreed with him very much, especially his views on the emerging industry of electronics were very much the same as him.
After chatting for an hour and having dinner, Li Chunlai drank tea again, because he was old and lacked energy, he called Ling Shizhe at will, and after staying at home at night, he went upstairs to rest.
Li Zhen chatted with Ling Shizhe for a while, then left, and when he left, he said: "Shizhe, come to Taiwan this time, have a good time for a few days, Taiwan's scenic spots, good, let Li Li be crazy with you." ”
Ling Shizhe looked at the time and found that it was only half past eight in the evening, due to the curfew system in Taiwan, there was no nightlife at all, so he went to the room arranged by the Li family with him, now Ling Shizhe did not dare to run to Li Li's room, the Li family is a traditional family, they live together before they get married, Li Chunlai will be furious, although Ling Shizhe and Li Li have been together for a long time, but this is in the Li family, and the rules still have to be suffered.
Came to his room and entered the house, Ling Shizhe turned on the TV, looked at it, flipped through the 3 channels, watched it for a while, felt that it was not interesting, and prepared a few books on the bookshelf to pass the time. took a closer look and found that there were all kinds of books, and took out one of them, and Journey to the West slowly passed the time.
As soon as he opened it, he heard a knock on the door, Ling Shizhe opened the door and found that it was Li Zhen standing outside the door.