Chapter 397 Spoon, Cup, Chopsticks Vs. Sophora Japonica, Youth Treasure, Red Heart K

Younger aunt Weiyun brought Li Xiaofan to the old birthday boy Li Mingxian at the main table, pointed at Li Xiaofan and introduced him:

"Dad, do you still recognize who he is?"

Li Mingxian trembled and pointed his finger at Li Xiaofan and said, "You, you..."

Years of Parkinson's disease have made the old man slow to react.

Parkinson's patients who have survived for more than 20 years are almost all accompanied by dementia and cognitive impairment.

Li Mingxian looked at Li Xiaofan in confusion and said,

"You are Weichao? Weichao, you are back..." The Li Xiaofan in front of him looked almost exactly like Li Weichao back then, as if they were carved out of the same mold.

Although since he was born, due to inconvenient transportation, Li Xiaofan had only met his biological grandfather a few times and had no feelings for him.

However, when he heard his grandfather calling his father's name, Li Xiaofan's eyes instantly turned red and tears rolled in his eyes.

He held back his tears and bowed to his grandfather, saying, "Grandpa, I am Li Xiaofan, your grandson! I am here to celebrate your birthday today. I wish you good health and longevity!"

After that, he handed over a large plastic bag in his hand: "These are some daily necessities such as chopsticks, water cups, spoons and crutches for you..."

"Li Xiaofan... Who is Xiaofan?" The old man looked at Li Xiaofan in confusion. He was half-senile and could not remember that he had such a grandson.

Li Weiyun helped Li Mingxian take the gift from Li Xiaofan and said loudly in his ear, "Dad, he is the son of the eldest brother Weichao, your eldest grandson Li Xiaofan!"

The old man still looked at Li Xiaofan in confusion: "Isn't this Weichao..."

Li Weiyun, the younger aunt, smiled and said to Li Xiaofan, "Grandpa has a little dementia and can't remember these past events all of a sudden. Xiaofan, thank you for bringing so many daily necessities to grandpa!"

After that, Li Weiyun put the gift brought by Li Xiaofan on the gift pile behind the main table.

At the 80th birthday party, Li Mingxian's nine children and their families, plus some of his brothers and sisters and children from Minnesota and Shanghai, came to the party, totaling more than 20 Li family relatives.

Each family that came to celebrate the birthday carefully prepared colorful gift packages, such as the most popular red-packaged Chinese turtle essence, Qingchunbao anti-aging oral liquid, Hongtao K oral liquid, Sanzhu oral liquid, and a lot of large-boxed artificially cultivated ginseng... and so on.

Only Li Xiaofan's gift was the most special, a large plastic bag with some daily necessities in it.

After seeing the gift presented by Li Xiaofan, the Li family relatives around him burst into discussion again.

"This eldest grandson came to celebrate grandpa's birthday, and he just gave him some daily necessities such as spoons, chopsticks and cups. This, this... is not reasonable!"

"Alas, children raised in the countryside are just ignorant!"

"He said he went abroad to Singapore and saw the world, but this is all he has achieved?"

"This is too stingy. Grandpa's birthday, he gave him spoons, chopsticks and cups. Do you think our Li family is poor and can't afford these cheap things?"

"I thought he went to Singapore to work, and he would bring something good to grandpa, but this is it?"

...

The relatives of the Li family were talking about it, shaking their heads and sighing.

Li Weiyun introduced some of the elders of the Li family at the main table to Li Xiaofan. After Li Xiaofan briefly greeted them, Li Weiyun took Li Xiaofan to the table at the end of their family, No. 8.

After Li Xiaofan left the main table, the elders of the Li family at the main table also sighed and laughed at the eldest grandson Li Xiaofan for being too stingy...

After the younger aunt Weiyun brought Li Xiaofan to table No. 8, she introduced him:

"Xiaofan, let me introduce you, this is your uncle Sun Dahai."

"Hello, uncle!"

"You're welcome! Come, Xiaofan, sit down, I've heard of your name for a long time."

The younger aunt Weiyun's husband Sun Dahai looks like a very honest person. At that time, he and Weiyun worked at the state-owned Dajiang Printing Factory. The state-owned Dajiang Printing Factory was once very prosperous. Its main customer was Mingzhou Cigarette Factory. It exclusively printed cigarette labels, packaging boxes and other products for Mingzhou Cigarette Factory, and used to make money without doing anything! But later, after the private packaging and printing factories came up, Dajiang Printing Factory went from bad to worse. Soon after losing the business of the cigarette factory, it went bankrupt and was acquired by private enterprises.

Subsequently, some workers without any skills, such as younger aunt Li Weiyun and Sun Dahai, were also laid off.

Now the couple opened a small clothing store to make a living. In the past, clothing stores were very profitable, but now the threshold for opening clothing stores is very low. There are too many similar stores and the competition is fierce. The clothes in their small store are basically taken from wholesale markets such as Sijiqing in Hangzhou, and they are not competitive.

After introducing her uncle Sun Dahai, her aunt Weiyun pointed to a cute little boy beside Sun Dahai and said, "Xiaofan, he is Doudou, you have already talked on the phone. Doudou, call Xiaofan uncle!"

The innocent and cute Doudou said to Li Xiaofan, "Hello, Uncle Xiaofan!"

Li Xiaofan squatted down and took out two toys from a small bag and said, "Doudou is so good, these are two Transformers toys that uncle gave you!"

After Doudou took the box from Li Xiaofan, he was overjoyed and said, "Wow, these are Optimus Prime and Bumblebee! Thank you uncle!"

The two Transformers in Doudou's hand attracted the envy of the other two little boys at the same table, "Junjun" and "Beibei", of which "Beibei" is a relative of the Li family from Shanghai.

Junjun has a Bumblebee in his hand, and Beibei has an Optimus Prime in his hand, but their Transformers toys look much smaller than the two new Transformers in Doudou's hand. And they are far less delicate than the ones in Doudou's hand.

Just now, Doudou was envious of the Transformers in the hands of Junjun and Beibei. He had asked these two older brothers to play with them, but these two naughty brothers refused to let him play with them, and he had just cried.

But now, it is Junjun and Beibei's turn to envy the Transformers toys in Doudou's hand.

"Doudou, can we play with your Optimus Prime and Bumblebee?"

"Doudou, can we exchange our Optimus Prime and Bumblebee with you?"

Doudou was very angry with Junjun and Beibei because they refused to let him play with Transformers. He shouted, "No, I don't want to play with you!"

So Junjun and Beibei shouted, "Doudou, the Transformers in your hand are fake. Look at the Transformers Decepticon logo in your hand, which is different from ours!"

Doudou was fooled by them and looked at Li Xiaofan in confusion. "Uncle Xiaofan, are our Transformers fake?"

Li Xiaofan smiled and said, "Doudou, our Transformers are definitely real. Uncle will tell you a way to distinguish the real from the fake. Apply some water on the Decepticon logo of the Transformers. If it changes color, it is authentic!"

Doudou did it and cheered, "Wow, it really changed color! Uncle Xiaofan is so awesome, our Transformers are authentic!"

Back then, the way to identify the authenticity of Transformers was to apply saliva on the Decepticon or Autobot logo. If it changed color, it was authentic.

After hearing Li Xiaofan's method, Junjun and Beibei also applied a little water on the Decepticon and Autobot logos of their Transformers, but they did not change color.

They threw the Transformers in their hands angrily and cried to their parents, "Why did you buy fake Transformers for me to play with? It's so embarrassing, woooo..."

Junjun's father is Li Weijian, the local cousin of my aunt Li Weiyun, and Beibei's father Li Weiqiang is Li Weiyun's Shanghai cousin.

The two fathers were a little embarrassed by the crying of the two children, especially Li Weiqiang from Shanghai.

Although Li Weijian and Li Weiqiang could not get angry, they still glared at Li Xiaofan and thought: What a troublemaker, buying two toys is a big deal?

At this time, Li Weijian, the second son of Li Mingxian, who was the host of the birthday banquet tonight, picked up the microphone and delivered a thank-you speech on behalf of the host, and the birthday banquet officially began.

Li Weijian is now the deputy director of a small branch in Gulou under the Mingzhou branch of the Bank of China.

When Li Xiaofan's father passed away, Li Weijian had graduated from a financial technical secondary school and worked in the Bank of China. At that time, the state-owned bank had high income and good benefits, and was more popular than civil servants.

After the eldest son Li Wei passed away, the second son Li Weijian became the eldest of the Li family, and he was the main person in charge of some major events of the Li family.

Li Xiaofan still remembers the scene when his uncle and aunt took him to Li Weijian's house to ask him to take him in when he was young, but was rejected coldly...

Now, Li Xiaofan does not hate him, because every family has its own problems. He refused to adopt him, which was a lucky thing for Li Xiaofan. Later, living with his uncle and aunt, Li Xiaofan felt that he was still happy and happy...

The banquet started, and after three rounds of wine, after the first few rounds of toasts, Li Weiyun and his wife, the younger sister-in-law, took Li Xiaofan out to toast.

Among the many adult children of the Li family, Li Weiyun and his wife had the worst family conditions.

So, when Li Weiyun and his wife took Li Xiaofan out to toast, some elders were still polite, but more were lukewarm.

There are more snobs in this world.

"Xiaofan, this is your uncle, who is now the leader of the Bank of China!" Li Weiyun introduced Li Xiaofan when he came to Li Weijian's table.

"Hello, uncle. Here's a toast to you!"

Faced with Li Xiaofan's toast, Li Weijian was not impressed. He snorted softly, "Hmm," and raised the cup symbolically. Without even touching the rim of the cup with his lips, he turned around and continued chatting with his Shanghai relatives at the table.