After settling the work matters, the New Year was ushered in. He did not participate in the recording of the program during the New Year, so Li Wei went back to Huiliang.
Li Jianping is busy with the health care hotel. It has been basically completed and welcomed the first batch of guests at Christmas time. Tennis courts and bicycle loops were opened in the early stage, but the turf of the golf course has not been maintained and is temporarily closed to the public.
Li Jianping not only has to take care of the hotel's affairs, but he also needs to be involved in the hotel. When there are too many things, it becomes difficult to cope with them.
When Li Wei saw him, Jian Ping couldn't help complaining to her: "It's better for you, Jian Bo, to hide quietly. I'm almost exhausted."
Li Wei said: "Those who are capable work hard. Who can tell my eldest brother to have such ability?"
"Come on, don't come to flatter me. I've worked really hard."
Li Wei then suggested: "Why don't we close the hotel at the end of the year, move them all here, and run it well. After the year, we can recruit some people from outside and at least it can run normally. Brother, you are not so tired. ”
Li Jianping said: "I planned to close it down, but my mother seemed reluctant to let it go."
"The environment here is so nice. It's as beautiful as a leisure park. Why can't Mom want to leave it there?"
Li Jianping said to the point: "My mother was told that it carried too many things. When the street was renovated, it was said to be developed here, so we invested a lot here. Although the hotel seems to be small now, A little bit, but it was built with hard work by everyone, and it is as important to mom as the original hot pot restaurant.”
This last sentence is the key point. Li Wei also understood. She found a bicycle and rode it, and rushed to the small hotel over there.
There are no more guests in the small hotel, but the things haven't been emptied out yet. Liu Chunzhi was sitting in the yard in front of the two-story building, basking in the sun, with a little white dog watching quietly next to her.
Li Wei walked over and called softly: "Mom!"
Liu Chunzhi slowly turned to look at Li Wei and said, "Why are you here? Why don't you stay with your elder brother to help?"
"I can't help you at the moment, so I came here to talk to you."
Liu Chunzhi heard about it and stared blankly at the white clouds in the sky. Li Wei watched from the side, not knowing what his mother was thinking.
"Mom, my eldest brother said that this land was bought by our family and it will always belong to our family. After this place is completely closed, a small part of these houses will be retained, and the rest will be demolished. It is not vacant, and it will be flattened and restored. Can you grow flowers and vegetables? "
"Your eldest brother is in charge now. Just let him say yes."
The mother's thoughts were clearly written on her face, and Li Wei thought to herself that at this moment, her mother was not only missing her father in heaven, but she must also be thinking about her second brother.
In the mother's old concept, she definitely wanted her second brother to be with her all the time, instead of just going away without saying a word. But the second brother has been yearning for the outside since he was a child, and his restless heart has never settled down.
"The business at home is getting bigger and bigger, and I am becoming less and less useful. After thinking about it these days, I'd better go back to the city with you. Helping you cook and clean the house can still be of some use."
Liu Chunzhi is still willing to live with Li Wei.
"As Mom wishes, you can live wherever you like. It's just that I often go to work and I'm afraid I won't have much time to spend with you."
"You go to your class, I can talk to someone by myself without any further delay."
At this point, Li Wei couldn't refuse anymore.
There were several regular guests here at the hotel. Liu Chunzhi cooked the food himself, while Li Wei helped. After greeting the guests and having dinner, and cleaning up the bathing pool, the mother and daughter were able to rest.
"Mom has worked hard these years. It's time to take a good rest and enjoy your old age. Although the elders of us have made you angry, it's time for you to take a rest."
Liu Chunzhi said: "I have been working hard all my life. If I am asked to do nothing, I can't take any time off."
"Then don't be tired."
The topic of mother and daughter naturally turned to Li Jianbo. Liu Chunzhi was very puzzled by Li Jianbo's resignation from what she considered to be a good job to go to the capital.
"I have been working here for several years and I have done well. Why don't I suddenly stop doing it again? It will not be easy to go back home in the future if I have to go to such a far place."
"It's not easy. Transportation is so developed now. There's nothing that a plane ticket can't solve. Mom, what my second brother likes all his life is freedom. Just let him have his wish."
Liu Chunzhi didn't like hearing this, so she said displeasedly: "Is it because I pushed him too hard, and that's why he caused such a scene?"
"How could Mom force him? It's not your fault."
Liu Chunzhi glanced at her daughter for a long time and then said, "Jianbo went to Japan to find you, didn't he?"
Now that her mother already knew, Li Wei felt that there was no need to hide it anymore, and she nodded.
Liu Chunzhi then asked: "Why did he come to you?"
Li Wei said: "The second brother told me that he was going to the capital, and then he wanted to celebrate my birthday."
"That's all you said?" Liu Chunzhi asked one after another.
Li Wei was afraid that his mother would be angry, so he didn't say anything about his second brother asking her to follow him to the capital. After hearing this, Liu Chunzhi was still a little frustrated and said: "He is just trying to get angry with me. Weiwei, I told your second brother that day What didn't he tell you?"
"No, the second brother didn't say a word."
"What a crime!" Liu Chunzhi sighed, and then said: "He is your brother, how can he have any thoughts about you? I almost got mad after knowing this from your eldest brother. Later I found him and asked him, but he didn't I didn’t deny it. I’ve been treating him like my own son for all these years. That night he actually said in front of me that he would try hard to make me change my mind and accept this matter. Are you angry?”
"Mom, the second brother is still the second brother before, and he will always be someone I respect. Those things have passed. You should also look at it. His going to the capital is not because of you, and it is definitely not because of me, but Aunt Qi put pressure on him. Then he quit his job and found another way. The second brother is smart and capable, and he will definitely be successful no matter where he is. "
Liu Chunzhi looked at her blankly and said in disbelief: "You said it was his mother who made things difficult for him. How could his mother do this?"
"Mom, don't you believe it?"
Although Qi Jingzhen and Liu Chunzhi were familiar with this person, they never really understood him. Qi Jingzhen is a high-level intellectual. She is just a rural woman who can't even read a few Chinese characters. There are many things about Qi Jingzhen that she can't understand. For example, Qi Jingzhen never told her who Jian Bo's biological father was.
"That means this is the Qi family's business and has nothing to do with our Li family?"
"Mom, it's not impossible for you to think so."
(End of chapter)