Changes in Li Family Village

After buying the homes and having a meal that day, Li Rui returned to the hotel. Several days passed, and all the appliances and furniture for the spacious single-floor apartment had been purchased. It was ready to move into, but if Li Rui moved in now, accommodating his twenty-odd bodyguards would be difficult, as would parking his five supercars. Meanwhile, the villa still needed to be left to air out for a while.

So he continued staying at the Sun Grand Hotel these past few days, living a homebody's life of scrolling through Douyin and watching beautiful women's livestreams.

Even with more money than he could spend, he still preferred not to go out if he could help it.

Watching all kinds of beautiful women enhanced by beauty filters, Li Rui sent a few thousand yuan in gifts. Hearing those beauties call him "big brother" in their sweet, delicate voices gave him a thrill, and he came to understand the men who showered beautiful streamers with money.

But understanding was one thing; Li Rui still thought those people were fucking idiots. Spending a little for entertainment was fine, but asking him to spend hundreds of thousands, millions, or tens of millions on those streamers? Even with practically more money than he could spend, he would never do it unless someone held a gun to his forehead.

Without their beauty filters, who knew whether they looked human or like ghosts? Who knew how many big brothers those beautiful streamers had rolled in the sheets with? He, Li Rui, maintained that he was no fool. With millions or tens of millions, what kind of pure, beautiful girl couldn't he find? Why insist on finding those women of the pleasure quarters online?

After several days of the homebody life, Li Rui began wanting to go out and let loose again. Just then, Lü Yifan called to invite him out to bars and nightclubs that evening. Li Rui had never been to bars or nightclubs before, so naturally he was curious and readily agreed.

While Li Rui enjoyed himself over those few days, Li Family Village also underwent considerable changes. The village road was widened from its original three meters to eight meters. Money made things easy, and in just a short time, all eight hundred meters of the village road had been widened and finished.

The foundations for the ancestral hall and Li Rui's family's new house had both been laid, and construction of the main structures had begun.

Another considerable change was that Li Family Village, which no one had paid any attention to before, now had matchmakers from villages and towns everywhere flocking in to arrange marriages. The thresholds of Li Rui's unmarried male cousins' homes were nearly worn through by all the visitors.

Even eighteen-year-old Li Tai from his eighth aunt's family had become a hot commodity. Plenty of people offered to introduce him to a wife. As for his being only eighteen, the matchmakers said that if he wasn't old enough, he could get engaged first. His seventh aunt could only turn them down again and again, yet an endless stream of matchmakers still came to the door every day with introductions.

Who within dozens of miles didn't know that Li Family Village had produced a big shot? He had spent nine million yuan buying every household in the clan a car worth over a million, fifty million building an ancestral hall, several million on roadwork, and twenty million building a house. There were even rumors that the technology park of over two thousand mu under construction in the county belonged to the Li family too.

Wasn't that something! The Li family had unmistakably become a wealthy clan. If people didn't seize the opportunity to promote their daughters now, they feared they would have even less chance later.

Li Yongde had been beaming these past few days. He used to worry constantly that his son would never find a wife, but now he had nothing to fear. No fewer than thirty matchmakers had offered to introduce his son to a wife over these past few days.

And all the girls were good-looking. After all, with the Li family's current prestige, the matchmakers wouldn't even dare bring unattractive girls to Li Family Village for introductions.

Li Yongde sat smoking by the door, smiling happily to himself over who knew what, when he suddenly spotted Li Weiguang driving back. His smiling face instantly darkened. He stood, went over, and kicked Li Weiguang in the backside just as he got out of the car. Caught off guard, Li Weiguang staggered and nearly fell. "You little brat, where have you run off to play this time?"

Li Weiguang patted his backside and said with a face full of smiles, "Dad, I just took a friend into the county town for a bit of fun."

"Hmph, playing is all you know! Your eldest brother has already started a company. What about you? Xiao Rui has given you brothers such a great opportunity-resources whenever you need resources, money whenever you need money-and all you know is playing! You wastrel, do you believe I'll beat you to death?" As he spoke, he raised a sandbag-sized fist and moved to hit Li Weiguang.

"Dad, I'm being wronged! I had serious business to take care of. This wasn't just ordinary fun!" Li Weiguang protested as he dodged Li Yongde.

"Not just ordinary fun? What, you've turned playing into an art? Neglecting proper work! Get over here. I promise I won't beat you to death."

"Dad, I was taking Wenxiu out. Tell me, doesn't that count as serious business?" Li Weiguang said aggrievedly.

"What? Who's Wenxiu? Sounds like a girl's name?" Hearing his son's words, Li Yongde stopped the fist that was about to land on his son's head.

"She's the girl whose contact details you gave me a few days ago."

"Oh, the girl Matchmaker Zhang introduced you to? I nearly forgot. That certainly is serious business. Well done, son. How was it? She's a pretty nice girl, isn't she?" Li Yongde, who had looked like a ferocious fiend ready to devour someone a moment earlier, now wore a warm, kindly smile.

"Yeah, she's pretty nice." In a rare sight, Li Weiguang blushed.

"Heh, heh, heh. That certainly is serious business. Do you still have money? I'll transfer you some more." Li Yongde's kindly smile left Li Weiguang thoroughly bewildered.

"I'll give you fifty thousand. Think that's enough? Better make it a hundred thousand." As he spoke, he took out his phone to make the transfer.

"Dad, you don't have a fever, do you?" Seeing his father's abnormal behavior, Li Weiguang reached toward Li Yongde's forehead.

Li Yongde slapped his son's hand away and cursed, "You're the one with a fever, brat! You're twenty-seven and still unmarried. Now that someone finally finds you worth a look, what's so strange about your old man giving you some money to pursue a girl?"

"No, Dad, where did you get all that money? A hundred thousand yuan must be your entire savings, right?" Li Weiguang's head was full of questions.

"Hmph, if I had to rely on you, you little brat, your old dad would probably starve to death in his old age. Xiao Rui gave it to us-a million each for us uncles. There's no relying on a son like you. Hurry up and give me a grandson. If you don't get married this year, don't set foot through my door!" Li Yongde threatened angrily.

"Dad, marriage isn't something you can just decide to do on the spot! Even if Wenxiu and I like each other, don't we still need to date for a few years before getting married?"

"What? You want to wait several more years to get married!" Come, come, come, get over here. Look how thin you've gotten. Today, Daddy will give you something good to eat and fatten you up a little. Come here.

Looking at Li Yongde's smile, which couldn't have been more kindly, Li Weiguang shuddered all over. "I'm not coming over. If I do, you'll definitely hit me. I'm going to tell Mom!" As he spoke, he tried to skirt around Li Yongde and run into the house.

Seeing his son about to go tattle, Li Yongde bellowed, "Stop right there! We can talk this over properly. How about this? I'll transfer you two hundred thousand, but you have to win Xiuwen over. You have to get married this year, and next year I want to hold my grandson."

"This isn't just my wish. It's your mother's wish too. Can you really bear to watch the two of us nearing seventy without a grandson to hold?" By the end, Li Yongde was putting on the appearance of a man with one foot in the grave, bending his back and knees and coughing repeatedly.

"Dad, aren't you still fifteen or sixteen years away from seventy? Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?" Li Weiguang looked speechless.

"I don't care. Time rushes by like flowing water-haven't you heard that song? I'll send you the money right now. I'll take that as your agreement." With that, he tapped away and transferred two hundred thousand yuan to Li Weiguang.

"This counts as our agreement. If you don't fulfill it, you owe me ten times the money back. Hear me?"

Li Weiguang, who had been looking miserable, immediately broke into a delighted smile when he saw that his father really had sent him two hundred thousand yuan. He agreed repeatedly, "Dad, no problem. I guarantee I'll complete the mission!" He liked Zhang Wenxiu quite a bit anyway, and now he had the two hundred thousand his father had given him too. Only an idiot would refuse.