Chapter 3 A New Life in Canada
Chapter 3: A New Life in Canada
"Grandpa, you can taste the porridge I made" Lin Yueran has been in Canada for half a month, and he gets along well with his grandfather. Grandpa remarried in the 70s, the object is a Korean woman who avoided **, but unfortunately died in 95, what is even more tragic is that the beloved daughter also lost her life because of an accident, lost her parents at an early age, lost her wife in middle age, and left him one by one in her later years, but she was suffering from illness, he was both excited and apprehensive about his arrival, with each other, both of them were not lonely, and they could enjoy the care of relatives.
Lin Yueran didn't know how long his grandfather could accompany him, but he hoped that this time could be longer, at least he would use his own efforts to honor his grandfather and let him leave this world with fewer regrets. Grandpa is in a very good mood today, although the weather outside is still very cold, but after drinking porridge, he seems to be in good spirits, and insists on going outside to bask in the sun. "Yueran, God is still kind to me in the end, and you have always come to my side" Lin Zhi gently patted his grandson's slender hands.
"There are many people I'm sorry for in my life, there are your grandmother, your father, your aunt, I want to make amends, but they left me one by one, and they didn't give me a chance at all" The old man who was tortured by his illness could no longer shed tears, but the sadness in his eyes revealed the sadness in his heart from time to time. Lin Yueran covered his grandfather with a thick blanket, "I believe they don't blame you, in fact, my father has forgiven you a long time ago, and a few times I saw him crying with a picture of you." He went to Ottawa to see you when he was studying in the United States, and although I don't know why I didn't meet you, it was comforting to know that there was a loved one in the world."
You don't have to guess to know that my father must have seen a happy family at that time, and he went to destroy the longing for family affection and warmth, Lin Yueran could understand his father's state of mind back then. "Let's go back, it's windy" It looks like it's going to snow again, grandpa and Cousins agreed to have some things to talk about in the afternoon, because of jet lag and mental reasons, Lin Yueran has been a little sluggish, and he wanted to go back to the room to rest but was stopped by his grandfather, maybe the things he wanted to talk about had something to do with himself.
Sure enough, Cousins came over to help his grandfather deal with some property changes, and the principle of inheritance tax is that governments can be as ruthless as they can, and the rich have long figured out a set of ways to deal with this situation. "Yueran, I feel very bad, I have to make arrangements for some things, these documents need your signature" Grandpa handed the sorted out documents to Lin Yueran, and at a cursory glance, they were all high-quality assets, which were transferred to his name in the form of personal gifts. There are also several legal representatives of foundations who have changed, the name is, of course, him, and the rich people have invested a lot of assets in various foundations in a charitable way, and let their children serve as directors in the foundations, even if they don't do anything, they can ensure their superior life, and if you don't die, you will be completely middle-class life.
"Grandpa, you should keep an optimistic attitude" Lin Yueran didn't know if the drinks and fruits in the Blue Bird Space could help Grandpa, and he didn't dare to eat it rashly in view of the sin he suffered at the beginning, so he added fruit juice to the meal in small doses. It doesn't seem to be very effective, and in desperation, Lin Yueran can only try to keep the old man happy.
In fact, what he didn't know was that his grandfather's body had already been eroded by the disease, and if it weren't for the support of the aura of the space fruit, he would have died a long time ago, and he wouldn't have survived it at all. "Leap, it's God's grace to live until now, arrange everything while I'm still sober" Lin Zhi trembled and handed a somewhat yellowed document to his grandson, "Maybe it's the stubbornness of the Chinese in our time, if you have money, you want to buy land, I earned my first pot of gold in the 70s, and my first thought was to buy a farm." At that time, the Americans bought land and built villas here, and they put all effort into managing it, and as a result, a lot of land was destroyed, so I bought a large piece of land at a small price."
Lin Yueran was a little surprised when he took the documents, these documents began in 1970 and continued until the new century, land sales contracts, ranging from Quebec to Ontario, from Newfoundland to the Northwest Wilderness and the Yukon, the area varies in size but adds up to a bit scary, and the area is about to catch up with a province in China. "Mr. Cousins has been with me for almost a decade and is a good lawyer. In addition, my investment adviser David has retired, he recommended his daughter to me, I have seen that it is a good investment consultant "Grandpa dealt with a little too many things today, and his spirit was a little bad, Lin Yueran used space water to make a cup of tea for his grandfather to let him have a better rest, and he began to sort out the assets left by his grandfather."
Stocks, bonds, etc. have been disposed of, leaving me more than 100 million dollars, and most of the real estate is residential, and the value of Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal is very high. In general, the most valuable asset left to me is the land, and I still have a space full of aura, which is definitely a promising career in this kind of field. However, there is one thing that makes Lin Yueran feel very uncomfortable, it turns out that in order to avoid the trouble caused by nationality, his grandfather asked Cousins to prepare materials for him to become a naturalized Canadian, because he is an ancestor and grandson, so it is easy to do, do you want to be an overseas Chinese?
Entering April, the aura could no longer support the grandfather's body, and the old man died in his sleep soon after. "Yueran, don't be too sad, my uncle has no regrets with you by his side" Zheng Chengxun patted the nephew. Zheng Chengxun is the nephew of Lin Yueran's Korean grandmother and one of the few relatives of his grandfather, and after learning the news of his grandfather's serious illness, he and his wife also rushed to Canada to see his grandfather for the last time. Lin Yueran knows his grandfather's thoughts, his grandmother's cemetery doesn't even know his father, but the Korean grandmother has been married to his grandfather for many years and has a daughter, and he hopes that his husband and wife will be buried together and accompany his daughter.
Of course, Lin Yueran would not refuse his grandfather's wishes, and asked Zheng Chengxun to preside over the ceremony of the joint burial, which gave this uncle enough face. Speaking of this uncle's life experience, it is also embarrassing, his parents fled to the United States and died prematurely, the only aunt is gone, there are almost no relatives in South Korea, and his wife's situation is not much better than him, as the only daughter in the family, he died soon after getting married, so grandpa is their closest relative.
The Zheng couple only have two daughters, and they have always wanted a son, but unfortunately they don't have a chance, Lin Yueran is smart, handsome and filial piety, so that the two like it very much, when they know that his parents are dead, they care for him even more, and Aunt Zheng almost wants to adopt him as an adopted son. After the death of his grandfather, the two stayed here with Lin Yueran for half a month, but the two daughters were still in South Korea and no one took care of them, so the two had to say goodbye to Lin Yueran, "Yueran, I have already bought fruit, bread and beef in the refrigerator, and I am not allowed to buy those junk foods anymore." I've ironed all the clothes and put them in the cabinet, don't wear them after your aunt is not by your side, and they will still be everywhere after you finish wearing, and I have also sorted out your study, don't pile the books together, it's not convenient to find them" Aunt Zheng kept admonishing Lin Yueran to pay attention.
"Auntie, I remember everything, you can rest assured" Lin Yueran persuaded his aunt with a wry smile, although aunt and mother's love are not the same kind of people, but the kind of care from the heart is indeed the same, to be honest, he doesn't want his aunt to leave. "You, although it is not easy to get into the University of Toronto, you must also pay attention to your body and don't stay up late often" As soon as Aunt Zheng came, she found that Lin Yueran often stayed up late to read, and she often made supper.
"Young people should study hard, and when they were in China, they went to a first-class university, and now they should work hard to get into a better university" Koreans attach great importance to academic qualifications, and the University of Toronto is one of the top 20 universities in the world, and Jung Sung-hoon certainly hopes that his nephew will be admitted to a good university. "Uncle, aunt, these are the gifts I prepared for Xiuyan and Xiujing, I don't know if they like it or not" said and handed over two boxes, one large and one small
, Since knowing that there are two cousins, Lin Yueran has been thinking about what kind of gift to give them, and after finding out the preferences of the two people from his uncle and aunt, he began to prepare. "It's all my own family, so I don't have to be so polite. These two girls are usually very naughty and annoying, and they don't like to study at all, you have to be their role model," mentioned the words of the daughter's aunt's reproach, revealing doting.
Seeing off his uncle and aunt, Lin Yueran asked his neighbor Old Jack to take care of the manor, and also asked someone from the cleaning company to clean the house regularly, and he lived in Toronto to start preparing for the upcoming entrance exams. Although he felt that his knowledge reserves could fully cope with the exam, after all, this was different from China's college entrance examination, it was a completely different system, and the lion and the rabbit had to use all his strength. When the last exam was over, Colin Yueran finally put his mind at ease, worthy of being a world-famous university, the knowledge of the test is very professional but also involves many disciplines, if there is no certain amount of knowledge reserves, it is really difficult to deal with, fortunately I am not arrogant to the naked test, otherwise I will be ashamed of myself.
Soon the results came out, Lin Yueran was admitted to the University of Toronto with excellent grades in mechanical engineering, when he received the notice the moment he excitedly called his uncle and aunt in South Korea, deep down in his heart they have regarded them as his relatives, especially every time he received a call from his aunt to greet him, he felt heartwarming, but because of the time difference, he didn't want to disturb his uncle's rest, maybe he was waiting for the moment when the results came out.