Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 171 Summer Daily Life
In the next few days, Li Xu stayed at home with Ye Ling to deal with the funeral arrangements.

Most of the time, it was Li Xu who was busy.

After all, Li Xu has already proven himself in scientific research competitions and entrepreneurial competitions and founded a company.

I have already become familiar with organizing, deploying and coordinating.

He invited some helpers and gradually took charge of all matters big and small during the funeral.

Naturally, I also consulted some village elders to inquire about the standards to be met.

In fact, after the standards are established, the methods can be flexible, as long as the villagers who come to help are treated well.

So whether you cook on your own stove or have the restaurant deliver the food, it doesn’t make much difference to the guests.

The only trouble is that Li Xu doesn’t know most of the people here.

There will be some trouble when it comes to things that you have to ask relatives to do.

Fortunately, Ye Ling was able to go and get busy. All in all, the matter was completed smoothly.

It’s not that Li Xu was overworked, as he didn’t actually do much.

Most of the time it's just coordination and arrangements.

During this process, he couldn't help but think of Wang Xifeng.

In Dream of the Red Chamber, the first time Feng Lazi's cleverness and ability were revealed was when she was arranging a funeral.

After the initial grief, Ye Ling gradually calmed down.

When she gradually realized that Li Xu was the one who was worried about everything, she naturally felt a little ashamed.

After all, in terms of seniority, I am the elder.

And during these two days, she has a clearer understanding of Li Xu.

As soon as she opened her eyes in the morning, she could see that Li Xu had already arranged for the chefs who came into the factory to boil water and cook.

At noon, the dishes can be served on the table on time.

Late at night, Li Xu was also not idle. He assigned Lao Liu to collect money and write the gift list.

He was wandering among the crowds of people gathering here and there.

Li Xu can often be seen chatting animatedly with young people or elders in a village.

Ye Ling found it a little unbelievable. She really couldn't imagine that Li Xu had such a high level of education.

How can I chat with these people? Do they have common topics?
What Ye Ling didn't expect was that after burying the body in the early morning of the last day, everyone came down from the mountain.

Ye Ling heard a lot of people talking about Li Xu.

This person said, "Ye Ling's cousin is the smartest person I've ever met. He's a very nice guy, very warm and polite."

Others said: "He's not ostentatious. I think that guy is a really nice person."

Some people would ask in confusion: "Is that Ye Ling's cousin? Isn't he in the city? Oh, I thought he was the manager of the Ye family. I was wondering when such a capable young man appeared in their family."

Most of the discussions were praising Li Xu, while Ye Ling was numb.

What made her most speechless was that she couldn't understand why.

In just a few days, everyone seemed to know Li Xu.

You know, this time when she returned to her hometown, even many adults in the village didn’t recognize her.

It was as if Li Xu was the only one here.

After finishing the work here, Ye Ling did not delay any longer as she had work to do back home.

After talking to my parents for a while, I went back with Li Xu and his friends in their car.

In the car, Ye Ling couldn't help but ask, "What do you talk about with them? How can you have common topics with them?"

After Ye Ling asked this question, she saw Li Xu looking at her with a particularly funny look.

Ye Ling said unhappily, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Li Xu replied slowly: "Who said I was the one who initiated the conversation with them? In fact, most of the time, they were the ones who did the talking."

Ye Ling became curious and asked, "Why?"

Li Xu said seriously, "Chatting is actually very easy to do. It's very simple. Except for a very small number of people, most people are happy to share and have a strong desire to talk. All you have to do is to arouse their desire to talk and then listen to them quietly."

Ye Ling still looked confused, so Li Xu said, "Then let's try it out. Aunt, which do you think is better, Xieyang Township or your village?"

Ye Ling pondered for a moment before saying, "In terms of material things, our place is definitely better, but Xieyang Township gives me a different feeling."

Li Xu nodded: "Is it because you have more happy memories there?"

Ye Ling glanced at Li Xu unhappily and said, "They're not all happy memories. They're mostly bad ones. For example, when I first arrived there, I really didn't like the local bacon, and there was nothing better at the time."

"Why don't you like bacon? Are you afraid of getting fat?"

"It's too salty. Besides the bacon, there's also..."

Ye Ling had been talking about this topic for a while without realizing it. Suddenly, she came to her senses and looked at Li Xu with a surprised expression.

Li Xu blinked and said with a smile: "Go on, why don't you say anything?"

Ye Ling sighed deeply. "I understand what you mean. So is this how you chat with the elders in our village?"

Li Xu chuckled and said, "First, you need to understand their preferences, follow their preferences, and tap into their desire to talk. That's probably it." Ye Ling sighed and said, "But wouldn't that be very tiring for you?"

Li Xu shook his head and said seriously, "No, I think it's very interesting. If you learn to listen, you'll find that no matter who you chat with, listening to their stories will be quite pleasant. You can see the various aspects of life from their stories. No matter what class or age group they are from, there must be something they find interesting. Even if it's not interesting to you, when they tell it, it can make you think a lot."

Then Li Xu patted Ye Ling's shoulder earnestly and said, "So, cousin, you have to learn to listen. Listening is the first and most important step in communication. Learning to listen is equivalent to learning to communicate and chat."

Ye Ling nodded thoughtfully, then she reacted and glared at Li Xu unhappily, "I need you to teach me, but you are my junior."

Li Xu laughed heartily and said with a smile: "Okay, okay."

The tone was like that of coaxing a child, which made Ye Ling feel even more powerless.

She closed her eyes helplessly and leaned back in her seat. After a moment, she turned her head and looked at Li Xu.

Li Xu's profile has become angular, and from this angle he really looks like Leon Lai.

Obviously, I am his elder, but now it seems to be getting harder and harder for me to act like an elder.

But after a moment, Ye Ling lowered her head and chuckled, recalling the scene when Li Xu had just graduated from junior high school. He was so immature at that time, but now he can teach her how to behave?

Ye Ling smiled with some relief.

……

For the next period of time, Li Xu continued his previous pace of life.

Because An Duoduo did not come back, Li Xu took Tang Qiaoning and Xia Xiaohe with him when he went swimming this time.

It's worth mentioning that Xia Xiaohe didn't go home this summer, but instead stayed in the city and found a part-time job. Including her job at Rising Sun Technology, she's now a diligent young woman working two jobs.

In his free time, Li Xu would take them swimming. Tang Qiaoning could also swim, so there was no need for Li Xu to teach them.

After all, Li Xu is a rich second-generation and is now the boss of a startup company. He has no shortage of money, so the swimming pool he went to is naturally a relatively high-end place. The swimming pool here is crystal clear and sparkling, with comfortable lounge chairs placed around it. The biggest advantage is that it is relatively quiet and there are no noisy voices.

When they went swimming, Li Xu was a little surprised that Xia Xiaohe seemed more open than Tang Qiaoning. She was wearing a separate swimsuit, while Tang Qiaoning was wearing a one-piece one.

Xia Xiaohe's physical conditions were better than Tang Qiaoning's. Both of them had long, white legs, no belly fat, and were about the same height, but Xia Xiaohe was slightly heavier than Tang Qiaoning. The reason for this was unknown to outsiders.

Swimming is just a spice of Li Xu's new life. He has been keeping an eye on the situation in the capital, but he has not encountered any problems that require his intervention.

Now that Jinchuan University's plan has officially been put into operation, Li Xu occasionally visits Jinchuan University. After all, in the upcoming entrepreneurship competition, Jinchuan University's operating data will also be his bullet in the finals.

During this time, he also went to his father's company for a stroll. During this period, Li Xu could clearly feel that his father would intentionally or unintentionally bring up the issue of inheritance during the conversation, and would often take the initiative to talk about the company's business during the chat and ask Li Xu for advice.

Of course, this matter has a different perspective from Li Yuqian. Li Yuqian has recently gained new insights into the art of education. He believes that rather than indoctrination, it is better to influence. Some things should be passed on subtly and silently.

Whenever he saw Li Xu's expression of humbly listening, he felt that his understanding was correct.

The sales of Li Yuqian's educational experience are higher than he expected. Recently, a provincial education program invited him to be a guest. Unfortunately, he was a bit busy and turned it down. However, he immediately said that he would be able to participate after a while.

When Li Xu visited his father's company, he experienced a completely different experience than in his previous life. This time, after just a few simple strolls, he was already able to quickly grasp the company's key points, the problems with its organizational structure, and even the underlying conflicts between departments that seemed harmonious on the surface. The conflicts that had been incomprehensible to him in his previous life were now crystal clear in this one.

What concerns him most is his father's health.

Dad had a new personal doctor, but that doctor also only did some basic examinations. This time, at Li Xu's strong request, he dragged Dad for several physical examinations, but no problems were found.

On the contrary, probably because he was in a very good mood, my dad looked six or seven years younger than his actual age. It was really outrageous.

But Li Xu didn't dare take it lightly. It had been several years since his father's accident, and the true cause of his sudden death hadn't yet been determined. Could it be that, like the autopsy results from his previous life, he had died suddenly from overwork? Li Xu could only question it for now.

When he was just reborn, the urgency of this matter was not so strong, so Li Xu did not take it seriously. But now that he has been reborn for so many years and is about to graduate from university, the weight of this matter in his heart has become even heavier.

All in all, let's take it one step at a time. If it really doesn't work, I can arrange for my dad to rest for a year or two after I graduate, so as to avoid the time period of sudden death. That should be fine, right?

Apart from these trivial daily activities, the most impressive thing during the summer vacation was that Chen Feiyang asked her to attend a reunion with her junior high school classmates.

Chen Feiyang was his junior high school classmate, and he was also very keen on these things. He was always full of energy, like a little sun, and was keen on organizing various activities.

Honestly, my favorite time to attend class reunions was during college. Although there was already some initial class differentiation at that time, the vast majority of students still maintained their student innocence.

The simplicity here simply refers to not feeling embarrassed about attending a class reunion just because they got into different universities. The boys' logic is, "You might be in a better university now than me, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be better off in the future." And those who got into good universities also have the same mentality: "I'm in a better university than you, I'm better than you, and I want to show off."

As for girls, as long as they are not married, they are happy to attend such gatherings, so it is easy to get together for a class reunion at this time.

Chen Feiyang, the show-off, had asked his father for tens of thousands of yuan, a huge sum of money to organize this class reunion. The party was held in a luxuriously decorated hotel, with crystal chandeliers casting bright light and the tables laden with delicious food.

Although Li Xu didn't like to participate, he didn't want to offend Chen Feiyang, so he went to participate.

He went to this class reunion with a simple mindset: just to have a meal and chat. Junior high school had only been a few years for him, and including the time of his rebirth, he hadn't seen his junior high classmates in over 10 years. He couldn't even remember many of their names.

But what surprised him was that everyone still remembered him.

At the party, the show-off Chen Feiyang exaggeratedly introduced himself as the only one in his junior high school class who was admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University. He also talked about how terrible Li Xu's grades were when he just entered high school, but now he has achieved a comeback in life and how awesome he is.

The invited head teacher pushed his glasses and said with relief, "I could tell at the time that Li Xu just didn't put his intelligence into studying. You see, as long as he studies hard, he can go to a good university."

Under Chen Feiyang's manipulation, Li Xu unsurprisingly became the focus of the whole audience. Many girls took the initiative to talk to him, and Li Xu just responded politely.

It can be felt that compared to the simple minds of male college students, some girls have become much more mature, and their active approaches to conversation have a more ambiguous flavor.

Li Xu watched the performances of his female classmates with great interest, thinking to himself that in his previous life, he was actually controlled by Xu Zhiqing.

To be honest, some of the girls in these junior high school were of higher rank than Xu Zhiqing. He compared them out of boredom in his heart, but then buried this emotion deep in his heart and dismissed it one by one with a gentle smile on his face.

Such a fulfilling yet slightly boring summer vacation has passed, and after school started, the finals of the entrepreneurship competition finally arrived as scheduled.

The ginkgo leaves on campus are gradually turning yellow, and the autumn breeze blows gently, bringing a hint of coolness.

Li Xu and his team returned to Peking University and Tsinghua University in advance and began preparing for the roadshow. Just one week before the final roadshow, Liu Yunfei reported a piece of news to him.

(End of this chapter)