By the time Li Jianbo arrived home, the food was ready.
Li Jianbo was very apologetic when he saw his brother.
"Originally I said I would come back earlier, but I ended up working overtime for a while, keeping my brother waiting for a long time."
Li Jianping patted Jian Bo on the shoulder and said, "My family, please be polite to me. I come here as if I'm at home. It's not like I don't know that you are busy at work. Besides, Weiwei isn't at home."
Li Jianbo smiled: "Brother, please sit down for a while." He went back to his room to put away his bag, but the phone suddenly rang.
Here Li Wei is rushing to serve the food.
"Where's the second brother?"
"Going inside."
Li Wei laid out the food, then went to get a bottle of red wine collected by his second brother, and brought out two tall wine glasses.
Li Jianbo came out after about ten minutes.
"Second brother, are you leaving soon?"
"I'm not leaving. It's a rare time for eldest brother to come here. I have to accompany him." Li Jianbo opened the bottle, filled the two glasses in front of him with wine, and then turned to look at his sister.
“Weiwei, would you like a small amount?”
Li Wei waved his hand and said: "No need. You guys can drink. I've already eaten. I'm going back to the house to practice listening."
They are all from my own family and don’t pay that much attention.
Li Jianbo invited his brother to eat food and drink.
Li Jianping and Li Jianbo said: "There is news about Jiao Yang."
Li Jianbo heard Li Wei mention the fact that his brother was defrauded in his investment, and asked quickly: "Will he still get the money?"
Li Jianping smiled bitterly and said: "How can I still pay? I heard that I committed a crime in Guangzhou and was imprisoned. With my previous criminal record, I am afraid that I will not be able to come back for seven or eight years. Even if I come back by then, I will not be able to pay back the money." Come on."
"How much loan do you still owe to the bank?"
Li Jianping took a sip of wine, praised the good wine, and then said: "Not much, only a loan of 50,000 yuan. This loan is nothing, but I still want to continue to open the previous hot pot restaurant. By the way. , you don’t know that our family once opened a hot pot restaurant, and the business was very prosperous at that time. There were several hot pot restaurants in Wu County. The taste of our family is unique, and it is thanks to my mother’s good craftsmanship.”
"Do you want to use all the space at home to open a shop?"
Li Jianping nodded.
"Doing catering is more tiring than anything else. Besides, my mother is getting older now and her energy is definitely not as good as before. What will happen to the hotel business if you come to open a shop again?"
Li Jianping sighed: "Yes, now I wish I had Monkey King's clone technique. How about you come back and help me?"
Li Jianbo smiled and said, "Brother, isn't this embarrassing someone?"
"Hey, I was joking with you too. Your serious job here is of course more important. I told my parents about my idea, but they didn't support me and said it would be better to rent the shop to others and not bother."
After Li Jianbo thought about it carefully, he said: "I think my parents are right. Instead of blooming more, it is better to improve in one area. Weiwei and I don't have time to help the family. My parents are also old and can't help much. My eldest brother now has a family, so he is naturally more worried about the development there. Why not take the opportunity to stock up on some land? With the land, we can build whatever hotel we want. It can also be integrated with leisure, health, dining and entertainment.”
"Land prices have gone up, and even if I want to get it, I don't have the ability to do so."
Li Jianbo thought about it carefully: "I'll help you."
"No, no, you have just returned home not long ago, and you only earn some dead wages. How much money do you have left?"
Li Jianbo smiled and said: "Since I can open this mouth, it is naturally within my ability. Let's get the land in our hands first, and then we will talk about other things, step by step."
Li Jianping's blood boiled when he heard that. He wanted to do something big, but he just didn't have the capital, and he didn't know where he could find a way out. Jian Bo is really a support person by his side.
"Even if you bought the land, I will help you manage it in the future."
"What's mine belongs to my family." Money is just a number to Li Jianbo. He can foresee the future, so making money is not difficult. What he values more is the home he once had, the warmth and affection this home gave him.
More than an hour later, Li Wei walked out of the room and saw that the two brothers were still drinking and talking. Li Wei stepped forward and asked: "The food is already cold, do you want to heat it up again?"
Li Jianbo looked at Li Wei with gentle eyes, smiled and shook his head: "No, will we disturb you?"
"It's not bad." Seeing that there were only leftovers, Li Wei said to prepare two more dishes, but both brothers refused. The two of them drank the wine in their glasses and did not refill it.
"Have the two brothers concluded any business again?"
Li Jianping praised him without hesitation: "Jianbo deserves to have stayed outside for ten years. His horizons are indeed high. If you say this, it is better than me studying for ten years."
Li Wei and Li Jianbo said in unison at this time: "This is called 'listening to your words is worth ten years of reading'." The level of tacit understanding between the two made them laugh.
After laughing, the tenderness in Li Jianbo's eyes couldn't be hidden, and it all fell into Li Jianping's eyes.
"Jianbo, you seem to be a little drunk. Let's go for a walk and enjoy the breeze."
They talked for an hour, wasn't it enough? Li Wei thought to himself,
The brother went out. This villa is located halfway up the mountain. From here, you can see the night view of most of the city in the distance.
"As expected of a provincial capital, it is many times more prosperous than Huiliang. The night view is also beautiful."
Li Jianbo disagreed a little: "It's just some optical pollution, what's there to see? The most beautiful night scene in my heart is when I was lying on the haystack and looking up at the stars in the summer when I was a child. There were so many stars in the night sky at that time, we two brothers Just count stupidly and make trouble with Weiwei. You even caught mice to scare her."
Li Jianping remembered: "It seems that once, Weiwei was so frightened that I was beaten by my mother for it. From then on, you must have been very protective of Weiwei."
"Well, after all, there is only such a little girl in the family. As brothers, we naturally have to give in to her."
Li Jianping's original intention in calling Jianbo out was to talk to him about his sister. Now that the topic happened to be brought up, he had no worries and further said: "When did you fall in love with my sister?"
At this time, Li Jianbo felt guilty, as if a child who had done something wrong was caught by his parents. He asked uneasily: "Brother, how could you... guess it?"
"You two have always been together since the beginning, and you don't often play with me. It shouldn't be the affection that arose at that time, after all, you didn't know your life experience at that time. Did the original brother-sister affection develop after Weiwei entered high school? Soured?"
Li Jianbo denied it: "No, brother guessed wrong."
"When is that?"
Li Jianbo said: "It was only after I came back from the United States that I gradually realized that the situation was a little different."
Li Jianping thought to himself, Jianbo is really an upright person, he recognized him so quickly.
(End of chapter)