Chapter 380: The Famous Lee Family and Temasek Call

"Is it your aunt Li Weiyun who called?" Li Xiaofan said happily.

"Yes, it's your aunt Weiyun. Here, this is her home phone number."

Aunt handed Li Xiaofan a piece of paper with the home phone number of aunt Li Weiyun on it.

"Now Xiaofan has made some progress, and the Li family finally thought of our Xiaofan! Oh, thinking back to the past..." Uncle sighed.

Uncle was interrupted by his aunt halfway through his words:

"Xiufeng, let the past be the past! Weiyun is different from Xiaofan's other uncles and aunts. She still cares about Xiaofan. Xiaofan is the flesh and blood of the Li family after all. If you have time, Xiaofan, you still have to go to grandpa's birthday this time!"

Hearing this, Li Xiaofan took out two cigars from his pocket and handed one to his uncle.

He lit one himself, took a deep puff, and fell into deep thought...

The Li family, where his father Li Weichao was from, was a large family in the history of Minnesota, and it was also a famous family.

Grandpa Li Mingxian's ancestors were a branch of the famous Mingzhou Xiaogang Li family, which was once glorious in Mingzhou.

But by the time my father Li Weichao was born in the 1950s, the family had already declined.

In the "glorious mother" era when women were encouraged to give birth, Grandpa Li Mingxian's two wives gave birth to ten children for him, and the genders were quite balanced, just five boys and five girls.

Among them, Li Xiaofan's father Li Weichao was the eldest.

At that time, the policy of going to the countryside required every family with adult women to send one. As the eldest, Li Weichao was the first to sign up to receive labor education at the agricultural reclamation farm in Ningdong County in the late 1960s.

While working at the agricultural reclamation farm, my father Li Weichao was introduced by an enthusiastic person to Tang Xiujuan, a girl from the village next to the farm, and they gave birth to Li Xiaofan soon after they got married.

This was originally a happy family of three, and Li Weichao also liked to live and work in the countryside of Ningdong County.

But bad luck followed. When Li Xiaofan was in the third grade of elementary school, his father Li Weichao went up the mountain to chop firewood. When he was picking wild vine pears, he was unfortunately bitten by a five-step snake entrenched on a wild vine pear tree. At that time, Li Weichao was bitten by a poisonous snake in the mountain. He lacked experience and did not take it seriously. He continued to chop wood and work until he fainted on the way home.

When the villagers passing by found him in the evening and carried him back to the village and sent him to the township clinic for emergency treatment by tractor, the best time for treatment had been missed and Li Weichao died.

The five-step snake is highly toxic, and its scientific name is Agkistrodon acutus. Two hours after being bitten, symptoms such as general fatigue, drooping eyelids, blurred vision, and bleeding from the wound appeared. In severe cases, respiratory paralysis and death occurred.

The accidental death of his father dealt a heavy blow to Li Xiaofan's mother Tang Xiujuan.

After giving birth to Li Xiaofan, Tang Xiujuan caught a severe cold during the confinement period, which left her with a weak body. Coupled with the heavy blow of losing her lover, her body and spirit began to fall into a slump and she became depressed. When Li Xiaofan was in the fifth grade of elementary school, his sick mother also passed away along with his father Li Weichao.

After his parents died of illness, only Li Xiaofan, an orphan, was left.

After handling the funeral of Li Xiaofan's mother, his uncle Tang Xiufeng and his aunt took Li Xiaofan to Mingzhou City to find Li Xiaofan's grandfather Li Mingxian, hoping that their Li family could adopt Li Xiaofan, the flesh and blood of the Li family.

At that time, his grandfather Li Mingxian had Parkinson's disease, his grandmother had passed away, and Li Mingxian himself needed the care of his children, so he was unable to adopt Li Xiaofan, his eldest grandson.

At that time, his father Li Weichao's brothers and sisters, who were already adults, all stayed in Mingzhou City, and some of them had quite good family conditions.

His uncle and aunt took Li Xiaofan to visit Li Xiaofan's uncles and aunts one by one, begging them to take Li Xiaofan in.

But no family was willing to take in the young Li Xiaofan.

In a fit of anger, the helpless uncle Tang Xiufeng and his aunt stomped their feet and took Li Xiaofan back to Ningdong County, adopting Li Xiaofan as their own son!

From then on, Li Xiaofan basically lost contact with the Li family in Mingzhou.

Among the many brothers and sisters of his father Li Weichao, there was an exception who was better to Li Xiaofan, that is, the youngest aunt Li Weiyun.

Aunt Li Weiyun was born in the early 1960s. When Li Xiaofan's father got into trouble, she was just in high school.

When Li Xiaofan went to Mingzhou City to study in electronic technical secondary school, aunt Li Weiyun had already started working.

Among so many uncles and aunts in Mingzhou, only aunt Li Weiyun was thinking about Li Xiaofan. She would often visit Li Xiaofan at school when she was free, and give him some pocket money from time to time, and she cared about Li Xiaofan very much.

After Li Xiaofan graduated from technical secondary school, aunt Li Weiyun also got married, and the two of them had less contact afterwards.

After Li Xiaofan returned to China last year, he went to the dormitory of Dajiang Printing Factory where his aunt Li Weiyun used to live to look for her. But the administrator of the dormitory of Dajiang Printing Factory told Li Xiaofan that Li Weiyun had moved out of the dormitory long ago after getting married, and she also left Dajiang Printing Factory to work in other units, and now she is missing.

Now that his aunt Li Weiyun took the initiative to look for Li Xiaofan, it is a good thing.

Li Xiaofan said to his aunt: "Did his aunt say anything else on the phone?"

"Your aunt called, in addition to asking you to attend grandpa's birthday party, she also asked how you are doing now, and asked you to visit her home when you are free, she misses you very much..."

"Aunt, have you told her about my recent situation?"

"I didn't say much. I just told her that you are working in Singapore now, and you are doing well at the moment, so she can rest assured."

After talking about the call from his aunt Li Weiyun, Li Xiaofan said to his uncle and aunt:

"I bought Qianqian an export house in Shanghai Hongqiao Gubei, and I also bought an old house in downtown Shanghai. If you two miss Qianqian, you can go to Shanghai and live there for a while..."

Li Xiaofan's words shocked his uncle and aunt.

Aunt said distressedly: "Xiao Fan, why are you wasting that money! Houses in Shanghai are so expensive, and they are export houses. How much does it cost? Qianqian is still studying, and I don't know where she will work after graduation. You should return this export house quickly, and save the money for you to marry a wife! Besides, your uncle and I are two country people who are used to staying in Ningdong. Let alone Shanghai, we are not used to going to Mingzhou city."

Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "Aunt, I was just thinking of buying you a house in Mingzhou city..."

Uncle Tang Xiufeng interrupted: "Xiao Fan, don't waste this money! We live very comfortably here now, and we won't live in any house you buy. It's not easy for you to work hard outside alone, don't waste this hard-earned money!"

"Xiao Fan, you always buy export houses and old houses in the Chamber of Commerce, where do you get this money?" Aunt asked worriedly.

"Aunt, don't worry, I earned this money in an open and aboveboard way!"

...

The next morning, Li Xiaofan was on the way back to Minnesota when he received a call from Lin Muchu in Singapore.

"Muqiu, good morning!"

"Good morning, Mr. Li, I want to report to you that our group has approved my resignation report."

"Wow, that's great news. When can you come to work in our company?"

"It will take about two weeks, after I complete the transfer procedures. Mr. Li, I'm calling you for another matter..."

"What's the matter? Just tell me."

"Temasek Holdings has also contacted our park just now, saying that they plan to visit you. When is a convenient time for you?"