That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 632 Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings

The day after the negotiations with Wang Laboratories broke down, Li Ye and others began to act separately.

Luo Runbo contacted those unknown small manufacturers to discuss the possibility of establishing joint ventures or OEM factories in Hong Kong Island.

Pei Wencong took Li Ye, Wen Leyu, Fu Yiru and others to visit Mr. Witt Jeff.

Jeff lives in a small town in the suburbs of New York, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It is not only very quiet, but also the air and scenery are very good.

When Li Ye and others arrived at the town, they saw from afar that Jeff was already waiting at the door of his villa with his wife and three children.

Wen Leyu looked through the car window and saw that Jeff's family of five were all wearing brand new clothes and lined up neatly, so he said to Li Ye: "Mr. Jeff seems to value us very much!"

Li Ye nodded silently and whispered, "Because we changed his life, people in Lighthouse generally focus on benefits, but they may not be ungrateful."

Before meeting Pei Wencong and Li Ye, Jeff was an auto mechanic. Although Li Ye didn't understand why a Stanford history graduate would work in the auto repair industry, his life at that time was undoubtedly a bit difficult.

Because at that time, after Jeff looked at the conditions proposed by Pei Wencong and confirmed that "there would only be profits and no losses", he did not bargain and signed the contract without hesitation, causing Li Ye to doubt whether he was a lighthouse man.

After signing the contract, Jeff immediately asked Pei Wencong to send a car to take him to Hong Kong Island Airport and fly back to the lighthouse overnight.
Li Ye looked at his hurried look and felt that besides being afraid of delaying Dengta's auto repair work, he seemed to want to save all the accommodation, taxi and meal expenses.

But now Jeff is a middle-class person with two million in royalties, and in order to write with peace of mind, he moved from his crowded city home to his favorite countryside.

You have to know that in Dengta, the cost of settling down in the suburbs is not necessarily lower than in the city!
Wen Leyu nodded slowly, because Li Ye gave her detailed information about Jeff. It can be said that it was indeed Li Ye who changed the lives of Jeff's family.

And his younger sister Fu Yiru leaned over and asked admiringly: "Brother, as a kind-hearted person, how many people's destinies have you changed?"

Wen Leyu also looked at Li Ye quietly.

Li Ye changed Jeff's fate, changed Fu Yiru's fate, and also changed Wen Leyu's fate.

Li Ye said calmly: "Kindness is always mutual. If you change others, it is equivalent to changing yourself. It's like you have to like someone first before others will like you!"

"Oh~"

Fu Yiruo turned her head to look at Wen Leyu and said with a giggle, "Sister-in-law, is my brother saying sweet words to you? How did he fall in love with you in the first place?"

Wen Leyu was both angry and amused, and he reached out and pulled Fu Yiru's little head away roughly.

It was obviously she who liked Li Ye first, okay? She is an honest girl.

But after Fu Yiru was pushed away, she remained unyielding and pushed her head back with a giggle, determined to make Wen Leyu blush.

She had known Wen Leyu for almost two years and knew very well that although her sister-in-law was rational, calm and decisive,
But when it comes to her relationship with Li Ye, she is just a "thin-skinned" little girl who is very fun to tease.

But this time, Wen Leyu spoke first: "Don't ask questions if you don't understand. Also, if any boy says sweet words to you in the future, report it immediately and honestly. Don't make decisions on your own, otherwise I will call Aunt Fu."

Fu Yiru's mouth immediately opened into an O shape, as if she saw a second "strict mother".

Li Ye couldn't help but smile.

Do you really think Xiaoyu is someone you can easily mess with? Look, she's getting desperate!
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"Welcome, Mr. Pei. On behalf of me and my family, I would like to thank you all for coming. This is my wife, Ilia, this is my eldest son, Hunter, and this is my second daughter, Aleka."

As soon as Pei Wencong got off the car, Jeff warmly welcomed him and introduced his family to Pei Wencong, Li Ye and others.

In fact, Jeff knew that Pei Wencong was coming, and he wanted to take the initiative to visit Pei Wencong, but Pei Wencong refused and said that he hoped to spend a pleasant weekend at Jeff's house.

So Jeff quickly began to prepare, treating this reception as a big event.

"Mr. Jeff, you're welcome. Actually, we are disturbing you. This is my friend Mr. Li, and this is Ms. Fu and Ms. Wen."

Pei Wencong greeted him with a smile, and then presented a gift that was neither light nor heavy.

Li Ye, Fu Yiruo and Wen Leyu also gave a gift to Jeff's child each.

Jeff's wife and children were very happy, and Jeff looked at Li Ye and recalled carefully, then suddenly remembered that when he signed the contract in Hong Kong Island, Li Ye was sitting on the sofa in the office.

Jeff didn't care much at that time, but now Li Ye followed Pei Wencong across thousands of miles to meet him at the lighthouse, so could Li Ye be the original author of "A Song of Ice and Fire"?

So Jeff quickly shook hands with Li Ye: "Long time no see, Mr. Li, welcome."

Li Ye was quite surprised. Didn't they say that people in the Lighthouse looked at East Asians the same? How come Jeff could recognize him after only meeting him once two or three years ago?
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Jeff prepared a sumptuous dinner to entertain Li Ye and others. Everyone ate and chatted, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

However, when Pei Wencong brought up a topic, Li Ye noticed that Jeff's expression changed, and there was something obviously wrong.

"We came to Lighthouse this time to invest in some high-tech companies. Mr. Jeff should know that this kind of venture capital is very common in Lighthouse,"

"But when we were looking for cooperation, we always encountered some unnecessary resistance due to differences in culture and beliefs, so we hope to find a partner from Lighthouse." Because Pei Wencong knew that Mr. Witt Jeff was a relatively honest person, Pei Wencong did not hide it and directly invited Jeff, and implicitly expressed the reason for inviting Jeff.

"Due to differences in culture and beliefs," it is actually because of differences in skin color. The "unwarranted" resistance is actually unfriendly discrimination.

Venture capital is not like foreign exchange speculation or stock speculation, which are quick money-making businesses where you can trade casually without regard to your identity, buy low and sell high, and leave when you make a profit. At least you need to have a formal company and have some fame in the industry.

For example, Li Ye took a fancy to a small technology company, and then went to the door and said directly, "I am a rich man from a mysterious country in the East. I am very optimistic about you. Please name a price."

People might think Li Ye is a liar.

What if it was Sequoia Capital that came to you? They would take it seriously and state their true requirements.

As for the contact with Wang An Computer Company this time, Pei Wencong first contacted Mr. Wang An, who was also a Chinese, through his relationship with the wealthy Chinese circle in Hong Kong Island. After many tentative exchanges, he reached the final stage. The process was very cumbersome and consumed a lot of Pei Wencong's energy.

That’s why Wang Lie’s sudden change of mind made Li Ye and others so angry.

However, if a well-known company in the industry were to discuss cooperation with Wang Lie, this situation would never occur.

So after Li Ye and Pei Wencong discussed it, they believed that there could be many channels for injecting and flowing out of Dengta, but there must be a venture capital company and a reliable partner in Dengta.

Jeff is a good candidate, especially since he is a graduate of Stanford University. Although he graduated from the history department, he has more convenient connections in Silicon Valley.

After listening to Pei Wencong's words, Jeff nodded silently, said nothing, and just ate in silence.

Pei Wencong was a little surprised.

Under normal circumstances, since he has extended an olive branch, Jeff should take advantage of the situation and talk to Pei Wencong about questions like "How much shares do I own? How much can I earn? How much risk do I take?"

But why does Jeff seem to be having trouble with money now?

Or did I say it too implicitly and not clearly enough?
Pei Wencong pondered for a moment, and then asked directly: "Mr. Jeff, are you interested in becoming our partner?"

Jeff shook his head: "Mr. Pei, thank you for your trust and kindness, but I am very satisfied with my current life, so I don't want to make any changes."

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There's no way to talk about this. It's not a good deal if you're the one who's trying to make money with me. How can I beg you to make money with me?
But Pei Wencong felt a little depressed. He had failed in two consecutive things when he came to the lighthouse this time. How could this not be a disappointment?
So at the next dinner table, Pei Wencong turned the topic to Jeff's three children.

According to the tradition of the flower-growing family, you have so many children, so you should make more money to make their lives better, right?

Although two million dollars in royalties is a lot, it is not much when it is distributed to each child!

But Jeff's wife smiled and interrupted, "Mr. Pei, we Lighthouse people are actually different from you Oriental people. The children's future needs to be controlled by them. Their lives can only be decided by themselves."

Isn’t this the Eastern saying “Children and grandchildren have their own blessings”?

"Ha~"

Li Ye smiled silently.

In his previous life, the nephew of Li Ye’s boss married a girl from Lighthouse, which made the whole family unhappy. Li Ye’s boss even swore that he would “never marry a girl from Lighthouse”.

Because the girl's parents are almost 60 years old, they don't have their own house, they don't have a penny in savings, and their daughter won't have a penny in dowry when she gets married.
But the problem is that despite this situation, the girl's parents still drive around all day long, travel around and have fun, don't work hard, and even owe the bank a lot of credit card debt.

This is like showing off to her son-in-law and his family: "Look how carefree I've been in my life. Why are you idiots so foolishly forcing the suffering that my children should have to endure on your own heads?"

When Li Ye's boss told this matter, Li Ye's colleagues were divided into two factions.

Some people say that the parenting habits of lighthouse people are superior, and that young people should rely on themselves, and get out of the house after turning 18 and don't come back to rely on their parents.

However, the opposition believes that if any traditional custom can be passed down for thousands of years, then there must be a reason for it.

The tradition of a flower-growing family is that the whole family, with three generations working together, tries their best to support the new generation of successors, hoping that each generation will be stronger than the previous one, rather than pinning their hopes on their own descendants to be exceptionally talented and break the vicious cycle of poverty from one generation to the next.

The two groups argued back and forth and neither could convince the other, but in the end Li Ye's boss said something quietly.

"If your family always leaves the blessings to the children and grandchildren, then within a few generations, there will be no children and grandchildren at all."

The tradition of the flower-growing family actually forces every generation to work hard. No one is allowed to be lazy and they must work hard to pass on the family bloodline and also pass on hope.

And Jeff's family's current thinking is not shared by all the people in the lighthouse. After all, those rich people don't do it that way.

That old man, who has been clamoring for years about donating all his property, doesn't he want to regret it now that he is old?

However, just when the dinner was about to end, Li Ye realized that he had misunderstood Jeff again.

(End of this chapter)