Chapter 613 Finale
"Come on, Eggplant."

In July 2003, in Zhangjiajie, Li Shengli and his family were standing at the gate of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park taking pictures.

The family happily released the frustration of being isolated at home.

There have been a lot of things happening this year, and the most special thing should be the sudden outbreak of an infectious disease.

Ever since the first case of pneumonia symptoms appeared in the city of Beijing in March, Li Shengli and his family have not left their home for a long time.

The whole family is isolated in their home.

Li Shengli's family moved out early on, and the family had some spare money. Although Li Shengli didn't know anything else, he knew that housing prices were rising every day.

So he bought courtyard houses in the old city early on. These things can be regarded as fixed assets and left to his three children in the future.

Over the years, Lee Seung-ri's three children are of course married and each has their own area of ​​responsibility.

After handing over the business to his three children, Lee Seung-ri no longer had any worries.

The new breed of broiler chicken that Li Shengli had people researching had already been successfully developed.

Because of having their own broiler chicken breeds, domestic fast food such as fried chicken has become popular. Fried chicken is no longer the exclusive domain of the white-bearded old man and Ms. Mai.

Lee Seung-ri is getting older, and he has earned enough money, so the number of schools he donated to has gradually increased.

Just like what Lee Seung-ri said before, even if there are more schools and tuition is free, some people still cannot go to school, especially those from single-parent families or orphans.

So after Li Shengli's broiler chickens were raised, Li Shengli tried his best to build the chicken farms he wanted to build in some relatively poor mountainous areas, unless they were places where there were no roads and no way to get in.

Although Li Shengli's costs have increased, he does not expect to make much money from the chicken processing plants in these places. The real money-makers are those chicken processing plants scattered across the country.

With this move, Lee Seung-ri directly lowered the price of chicken in the country, especially the price of fried chicken.

With the supply of meat and the fact that Lee Seung-ri was relatively wealthy, he imitated the business model of the old man with white beard and added a series of fast food products, including fried chicken that he prepared himself to suit the taste of Chinese people.

Lee Seung-ri's Master Lee fried chicken is very popular. In addition, Lee Seung-ri's marketing methods are also good, and the food safety is also professionally guaranteed, so Lee Seung-ri's fried chicken restaurants quickly opened in cities all over the country.

Fried chicken restaurants, barbecue restaurants and chain hot pot restaurants have become a business card of the Victory Group.

At the same time, the boat that Li Shengli bought before also came in handy. The fishing company established on the seaside can generate a lot of profits every year, especially now that these people have money and have started to eat seafood.

To this end, Li Shengli specially hired a real oceanography expert, contracted a long section of sea area on the coast, and started seafood farming.

The dairy factory's business is also making steady progress. When it comes to food, Lee Seung-ri and his three children are very insightful, from various flavors of milk to various flavors of ice cream.

Even the subsequent production of milk powder and Victory emulsion business is proceeding in an orderly manner.

To date, Victory Group has become one of the leading large companies in the country.

It can be said that the scale of Shengli Group in frozen products, catering, dairy industry, snacks, convenience foods, foreign trade and condiments is now unmatched.

That's why Lee Seung-ri is in the mood to relax now.

After today, I guess the kids will have to go back to work.

Just as Lee Seung-ri had expected, the family only had a few days to play together. The three children received calls one after another and said goodbye to Lee Seung-ri and his wife.

Seeing this, Han Qiuyun lost interest in playing and simply followed the children back.

When people get old, they like to watch their grandchildren acting coquettishly and lovingly in front of them.

Li Shengli had no objection to this. Although he was only sixty years old, Li Shengli had already started to live his old age life in advance. He went out for a walk with his wife early every morning and took care of the cages of birds he raised.

In my free time, I would go out and listen to crosstalk, drama and other things to kill time. In the evening, I would go out and play chess with others.

In short, life is very comfortable, even a little nostalgic. Lee Seung-ri will turn on the TV and game console and play a thrilling game, especially when his grandson comes to his house.

Lee Seung-ri often plays games with his grandson, and to outsiders, it seems that there is no generation gap between the grandfather and grandson.

As for the other neighbors in the original courtyard, we have to talk about them.

Ever since Sha Zhu injured his arm again, he could no longer do cooking work. Fortunately, Qin Jingru was also a capable woman. Under Sha Zhu's guidance, she gradually took over the work of running her own barbecue restaurant.

But she is a woman after all, and has a congenital disadvantage in physical strength.

At this time He Daqing came to the door.

Ever since Xu Damao went to Baoding to find He Daqing in order to cause trouble for Sha Zhu, He Daqing began to think about what he should do in the future.

Especially after the White Widow died, her three sons immediately revealed their true colors and directly drove He Daqing out of the house.

It can be said that these father and son are worthy of being father and son. Sha Zhu was almost childless because of Qin Huairu, and He Daqing was no better. He and Bai Guafu also had no children.

After thinking about it carefully, the White Widow and the Qin Widow are of the same type of people, both are ruthless people. I guess the White Widow had an IUD installed long before she got together with He Daqing.

She got together with He Daqing in the hope that he could help her family and help her take care of her young children.

Now that the children have grown up and the White Widow has passed away, He Daqing has no relationship with their family anymore.

After He Daqing was kicked out, he thought again and again and decided to return to his original courtyard. After he was kicked out, he carefully inquired about Sha Zhu's movements.

This idiot Zhu's life is really pitiful. Even his martial arts skills have been wasted.

Sha Zhu's child is only that little, and he still wants to be closer to his grandson.

In the TV series, He Daqing was embarrassed to come back, but he came back shamelessly later. He was afraid that he would disturb Sha Zhu, and Sha Zhu's life was indeed happy at that time.

There is a large house with several rooms at home, and there is also an illegitimate child outside. The most important thing is that the illegitimate child’s mother is very rich. She even bought the entire courtyard house and gave the house to Sha Zhu.

He Daqing certainly didn't want to come back because he had no face in front of his son, but if he didn't come back he would freeze to death or starve to death outside.

That's why He Daqing returned to the courtyard.

Things are quite different now than in the TV series.

Sha Zhu is not so glorious now. He Daqing thinks he is still somewhat capable, so he came back with an attitude of helping him.

He Daqing's return really caught Sha Zhu off guard. He had no place for He Daqing to live, and the rest of the courtyard was already full of people.

He Daqing had no choice but to live in the temporary house at the door of Shazhu. After knowing that her father had returned, He Yushui also came to see He Daqing, and even wanted to take He Daqing to her home to stay for two more days, but this was rejected by He Daqing.

He really doesn't have the face to do that.

He could say to Sha Zhu that he didn't treat him badly, but to He Yushui, he was a really bad father.

He Daqing refused He Yushui's offer on the grounds that he had to help Sha Zhu take care of his children, so He Yushui had to visit Sha Zhu's home frequently to visit his father.

With the help of his father, Sha Zhu's restaurant business became even better. Later, Sha Zhu even took a different approach and opened a buffet.

I also saw that other buffets were very popular.

After his business became booming, Sha Zhu realized that his family's living conditions were not very good, so after he became rich, he bought a small house with a courtyard outside.

It's not just Sha Zhu's family who live there.

At this time, Jia Zhang was not as happy as she used to be. In 1995, she died of a serious illness. However, she was considered to have lived a long life at her age.

As for Yi Zhonghai, he collapsed in bed early and died in 1995, just like Jia Zhangshi.

Before his death, Yi Zhonghai might have thought that he had indeed let Sha Zhu down, so he finally left the house to Sha Zhu. It was by selling the two houses to Li Shengli that Sha Zhu was able to buy a small courtyard again.

As for Mr. and Mrs. Yan Bugui and Mr. and Mrs. Liu Haizhong, since they no longer had a house, their children would not even come to visit them.

So after his wife passed away, Yan Bugui consciously found a nursing home and spent his last days there.

The same thing happened to Liu Haizhong, except that when Sha Zhu decided to move out, he also followed Sha Zhu's example and sold his house to Lee Seungri, and then moved into a nursing home with his wife.

The three of them passed away one after another in 1998 and 1999.

Qin Huairu had nowhere to go after Jia Zhang's death. Her son had also passed away. She lived alone in this compound and didn't know anyone around her.

Originally, she wanted to leave with Sha Zhu, but when she saw how happy Sha Zhu and Qin Jingru were, Qin Huairu didn't have the courage to say it.

Xiaodang and Huaihua are relatively filial and often come to see her.

But after Shazhu's family moved away, Qin Huairu sold her house and bought a small one-bedroom apartment near Xiaodang's home, and helped Xiaodang take care of the children.

It was just because Banggeng lost money, Qin Huairu had been taking care of the family, and she had never taken care of her health before.

He had always been in poor health and died in 2003 due to the epidemic.

Xiaodang and Huaihua's life is pretty good.

Both of them are good at dealing with people like their mother, so they did a good job as store managers. At least they didn't give Li Shengli any reason to fire them.

Li Shengli was in no mood to pay attention to these two people who were also his juniors.

In the end, the entire courtyard house fell into the hands of Li Shengli. Li Shengli had no intention of selling the courtyard house, nor could he make a major renovation of it.

So Li Shengli simply rented it out. Nanluoguxiang is now considered a tourist attraction, and many people are willing to rent a few of Li Shengli's houses to do small business here.

"Hey, isn't this Xu Damao?"

After returning to Beijing, Li Shengli strolled around everywhere as usual. Unexpectedly, he saw Xu Damao when he strolled to Nanluoguxiang.

This surprised Li Shengli very much. Logically, he should have gone to his father.

Li Shengli remembered that Xu's father and mother did not suffer much loss because of Xu Damao's behavior. Although his son was imprisoned for committing a crime, Li Shengli remembered that the old couple should leave the house to Xu Damao after his death.

Xu Damao shouldn't be left without a place to live.

"It's you, Li Shengli."

Xu Damao glanced indifferently at Li Shengli, who was wearing a sweatshirt, holding a birdcage in his hand, and looked like a typical idle old man.

There was no fluctuation in his heart. He didn't know whether he should hate Li Shengli or not.

He thought a lot in prison. After so many years, the labor reform in prison had made him different from before.

But when Lee Seung-ri stood in front of him, he still felt mixed emotions.

"Why, are you missing your old life?"

Li Shengli wanted to know what Xu Damao was thinking. He had experienced many ups and downs in his life, and the final result was because he could not see the situation clearly.

As long as he does his job honestly and doesn't dream of getting rich, and takes things step by step, he will not sell his house even if he loses money.

The key point is that Li Shengli can't understand why he is so anxious to make a lot of money.

He is unable to have children, but he has no worries about food and clothing every day, and his food and clothing are all of the best. If Lee Seung-ri was in Xu Damao's position, he would definitely have a stable income, and then he could eat, drink and have fun.

When I get old, I will find myself a nursing home.

It seems that he was still stimulated by the silly pillar at that time.

Speaking of which, Xu Damao should thank himself. If it weren't for him, not only would he not get his money back, but his parents would also die because of it.

As for him, he was wandering outside alone and almost froze to death. If Sha Zhu had not extended a helping hand in the end, there might have been another corpse outside the courtyard that day.

"By the way, Xu Damao, if you have time, you can go to this address and take a look."

The address Li Shengli mentioned was not some other place, but the address of the buffet restaurant opened by Sha Zhu.

Although Xu Damao didn't look like he would continue to cause trouble, Li Shengli didn't do anything unnecessary.

After finishing speaking, Li Shengli picked up the birdcage in his hand, smacked his lips, then turned his back to Xu Damao, waved, and left.

Xu Damao fell into silence as he watched Li Shengli leave.

Thinking about the address Li Shengli gave him, Xu Damao thought about it and decided not to go.

What was he going there for? To apologize to Sha Zhu or to watch Sha Zhu walking around with his and Qin Jingru's child in front of him?

After losing his parents and going to jail, Xu Damao could only set up a stall on the street to make a living. Fortunately, he still had a place to live.

(End of this chapter)