Rebirth of the American Super Boss Road

February 1978, 2, is just an ordinary day for the vast majority of Americans, but for Chinese people living around the world, this day is extraordinarily different and of extraordinary significance - today It’s December 6, 1977 in the lunar calendar, New Year’s Eve.

The Spring Festival is an extremely important festival for every Chinese living abroad. Every family attaches great importance to it, and Li Hongfei is no exception. After consulting with Sophie, Nancy and Catherine last night, Li Hongfei specially talked to Everyone said that they would go home to celebrate the Spring Festival and "ask for leave" in the next few days. The company's affairs made them more concerned.

As Americans living in San Francisco, although Sophie, Nancy and Catherine have never celebrated the Chinese Spring Festival, they are no strangers to this festival. They have also visited Chinatown during the Chinese Spring Festival and experienced exotic customs. After knowing that the traditional Chinese New Year festival was coming soon, he immediately said cheerfully: "Boss, you can just celebrate the festival, and leave the company's affairs to us."

Since today is New Year's Eve, the pharmacy naturally does not need to open. When Li Hongfei arrived home, his great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-grandmother, grandparents, and parents were chatting in the living room.

As for why they are all elders, it is because the tradition of the Li family is that "the eldest family inherits the family business, and the other children live separately after they reach adulthood." Therefore, there are no elders in the family... Speaking of which, Li Hongfei is in his generation He was the third eldest child in the family, but according to this tradition, Li Hongfei also had to go out to live alone after he got married a few years later.

Seeing that Li Hongfei was back, several old people were very happy and hurriedly asked him to come and sit down. Great-grandmother even held Li Hongfei's hand and asked repeatedly: "Hongfei, is the business going well during this time? But no matter how busy you are, you still have to do it." Take care of yourself."

"Tainai, my business is very good, everything is going smoothly," Li Hongfei said with a smile: "Besides, don't worry, I always pay attention to rest. Our family is a family of traditional Chinese medicine, so I'm paying attention."

The great-grandmother nodded happily: "That's good, that's good..."

After chatting with the elders for a while, Li Hongfei asked in a low voice to Zhao Xiao'e, who was sitting next to him: "Mom, did my brother call my sister? Did he tell me when he would be back?"

Zhao Xiao'e responded: "It's almost 10:[-]."

Li Hongfei nodded, and then asked: "How are their working conditions?"

Zhao Xiao'e was just trying to find a suitable time to talk to Li Hongfei about this, but she didn't expect her son to actually take the initiative to mention it, and she couldn't help but feel relieved - of course she understood what her son meant, which meant that her third son was not selfish, and that he was not selfish After my career started, if my eldest son and daughter were in trouble, my third son would be willing to help them.

"How should I put it, good or bad," Zhao Xiao'e said after thinking about it: "After you came back last time, your brother and your sister also came back once. Although they both said it was good and the work was going well, but you also You know, we Chinese are more bullied..."

Li Hongfei nodded while listening.

He did have the idea of ​​​​helping his eldest brother and eldest sister. The Li family did not do so many dirty things. Growing up, the eldest brother Li Hongbin and the eldest sister Li Hongyan took special care and love for the youngest brother Li Hongfei. Now he has this opportunity. , naturally willing to take care of his family.

Asking himself, Li Hongfei felt that if he did not do well but his brothers and sisters did well, he would go to them and ask them to help him, and the eldest brother and sister would not hesitate.

After Zhao Xiao'e finished speaking, Li Hongfei said softly: "Mom, my brother and sister have loved me since we were young. I remember all this. My career here has just started, and I can't promise you anything for the time being. But don't worry. , when my business here stabilizes and reaches a certain scale after a while, I will definitely give my brother and sister a hand."

Hearing these words, Zhao Xiao'e was satisfied. She smiled and nodded: "I'm relieved if you have this intention... As a mother, I don't have any other ideas. I just want to see you three brothers and sisters love each other." , support each other along the way, and don’t let others bully you.”

"Don't worry, you still don't know the feelings between the three of us brothers and sisters..." After a pause, Li Hongfei said, "Mom, I have something to ask you."

Zhao Xiao'e didn't take it seriously and asked casually: "What's the matter? Tell me."

"Have you ever thought about moving out of Chinatown to a better neighborhood?"

"move out?"

Zhao Xiao'e was stunned for a moment. She had never thought about moving out of Chinatown.

Don’t think that Zhao Xiao’e has deep feelings for Chinatown. As we said before, Chinatown is essentially a Chinese slum. For those Chinese who have money and ability, the first thing they do after making money is The thing is often to move out, move out of Chinatown, and buy a big house in an affluent area outside.

However, the conditions of the Li family are average. Although they rely on traditional Chinese medicine to ensure that the family has no worries about food and drink, as the saying goes, Chinese medicine succeeds and fails. Americans nowadays do not recognize traditional Chinese medicine very much, so the Li family can only live in the hospital. It’s hard to make ends meet in Chinatown, but you won’t be able to have any fun if you leave Chinatown.

"Yes, move out, move to a better place outside, live in a better big house," Li Hongfei said: "In the past, there was no way. With the conditions of our family, we didn't have the strength to move out, but it's different now. Well, I have calculated that according to the current development speed of my company, we will be able to buy a luxury house of US$60 or [-] by autumn at most."

By analogy, a five- to six-million-dollar mansion is roughly equivalent to a house worth about $60 million in 2023. In San Francisco, a house of this price cannot be said to be a top-notch mansion, but it is also in the ranks of luxury homes, with a construction area of ​​at least six to seven hundred square meters. The square ones are super mansions that can only be purchased by the wealthy and business owners on the second level of the San Francisco Pyramid.

After hearing that Li Hongfei said that he would be able to afford such an expensive house in half a year, Zhao Xiao'e, who went to Li Hongfei's company to see her son and confirmed that his son was doing something serious, did not suspect that the money came from improper sources. Instead, she had a feeling. Proud from the bottom of my heart: My son is so awesome!You can buy such a nice house in half a year!

However, proud of herself, Zhao Xiao'e still shook her head like a rattle: "Even if you can afford it, it's not easy for you to make money. You can't spend all your money on buying a house. Besides, there is no use buying us such a good house. , We are all so old, and it is good to live in Chinatown. We have been neighbors for many years, and we are still not used to moving to a new place..."

Speaking of this, Zhao Xiao'e looked at Li Hongfei, her eyes filled with a mother's love for her son: "On your side, if you really have that much money in the future, you can buy yourself a good house, which will help your business."