MMB Chapter 1026 The Miraculous Fruit of Destiny
Chapter 1026 The Miraculous Fruit of Destiny
Chapter 1026 The Miraculous Fruit of Destiny
"Is it colder in the Northeast or in Beijing?"
After picking up Han Shu and her daughter, Shen Guodong entered the house and saw Li Xuecai asking about Brother Biao.
He smiled and said, "You will know once you go there!"
After saying that, he gestured to Lao Biaozi and said, "Your brother Biao said that peeing on the ground can freeze your penis to the ground, so you have to hit it with a stick after peeing."
"Hehehe~"
Li Xuecai also developed a mischievous streak when he was with them. He teased Lao Biaozi and asked, "Brother Biao, is the chicken frozen?"
"What do you say?"
Lao Biaozi looked at him speechlessly and said, "Whatever your brother Guodong said is true. You are not hitting the chicken with a stick, you are hitting the urine."
"oops--"
Ji Yuxiu came down from upstairs and walked into the restaurant. When she heard them talking about this, she couldn't stand it.
She scolded Li Xuecai and said, "Can you learn something good?"
"Hey! Director Ji, you are right!"
Sha Zhu pointed at the younger generation in the restaurant from the kitchen and said, "Catch everyone here, there are no good people!"
"Hey! Who's the biggest here?!"
Lao Biaozi leaned against the sofa and said to the kitchen: "If anyone is the leader of a bad thing, it must be you!"
"Don't be guilty of saying this!"
Sha Zhu curled his lips and said: "I am an honest and decent person, I get along well with others, and I never learn bad things."
"Um--"
Shen Guodong pulled out a chair and sat down at the dining table. He snorted and said, "You are so shameless!"
"That is!"
Li Xuewu said jokingly: "Brother Zhuzi has seen and tasted it before, how much does a pound of face cost?"
"Hey! The majority is bullying the minority, right?"
Sha Zhu laughed and said, "You guys are all getting together, you really think I'm easy to bully, don't you?"
After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves, pointed at a few people and said, "Are you guys coming one by one, or all together?!"
"Hah~ha!"
Shen Guodong and Lao Biaozi looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.
He raised his eyebrows and said to Lao Biaozi, "Brother Biao, how many years have you not seen someone who dares to say that?"
"That's because you don't have any knowledge!"
Sha Zhu hooked his fingers at a few people and said, "Come here!"
"Brother Zhu, you don't want to be lazy and not cook while you're being beaten, do you?"
Lao Biaozi stood up and clenched his fists and said, "If I make you lie on the kang for half a month during the New Year, wouldn't that be impolite?"
"Okay, don't be so careless."
Li Xuewu packed up the big carp in his hand and said to the two of them, "Just make it lie on the kang for a week, that's enough."
"Also, if you want to fight, you have to wait until after dinner, otherwise I will have to cook."
"No need! No need to persuade!"
Sha Zhu blocked the kitchen door and shouted, "If you come with one, I'll knock one down. If you come with a pair, I'll knock a pair down!"
He bowed his arm and said, "Why don't you ask around, who was the king of Jiaodaokou in the past?"
"Hey! Today really opened my eyes!"
Lao Biaozi pointed at the dining table and said, "Come on, man. The place is small, but the world is in your hands."
He rolled up his sleeves, sat down on the chair leisurely, shook his arms with great vigor, and said: "Let us meet the old senior from Jiaodaokou."
"Well - you have to call the front wave!"
Shen Guodong cheered on the side, "As the old saying goes, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves in front of them, and the waves in front of them hit the beach."
"Brother Zhu, if they say so, I don't agree."
Li Xuewu put down the scissors in his hand, shook his head and said, "You are a famous wrestler in our hospital. How can you be afraid of him in terms of strength?"
After saying that, he waved his hand, raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother Zhu, cheer up and don't lose face."
Seeing Sha Zhu coming out of the kitchen with his arms swaying, he said angrily, "Good job!"
"You guys are really good at it!"
Li Xue also came down from upstairs, followed by three children, two older and one smaller.
Dong Mengyuan, Zhang Xinmin, and Li Shu.
Including the two upstairs, as well as Wen San’s son and Sha Zhu’s son in the courtyard, how many children will be playing together in the future.
"Look, the children are watching us, and you're playing with the fire instead of cooking!"
"I see, I see"
Li Shu didn't care what her aunt was saying, she just knew that it was very lively here.
He walked around the dining table, climbed onto the sofa, and leaned against the backrest, watching the adults chatting and laughing.
But when she saw Uncle Biao and Uncle Zhu arm wrestling, she thought they were fighting. Her eyes widened with excitement, and she was afraid of missing any exciting details.
"beat!"
When she saw that the two men were just competing with each other without fighting, she became anxious and jumped up and shouted that they wanted to fight.
Shazhu and Lao Biaozi made him so amused that he didn't even have the energy to arm wrestle.
"She's still my daughter."
Li Xuewu smiled and praised: "You are such a peace-loving person. You are afraid that uncles and grandfathers will fight each other."
Li Shu blinked her eyes, not understanding what her father was talking about. Was that what she meant?
In the end, it was Sha Zhu who was swinging the big spoon who had more wrist strength and was very proud of himself.
"I don't want anything from you either!"
He pointed at Lao Biaozi and said, "When we get to the table, drink three cups first and I'll let you pass."
After saying that, he pointed at Shen Guodong and asked, "What about you? Do you want to try it? You were the most arrogant just now."
"I fear you?"
Shen Guodong did not lose the battle even though he was defeated. He stepped back but remained harsh with his words.
"I'm just worried that you might get hurt and won't be able to swing the spoon for a while. Wait until we've eaten and drunk our fill, then let it hang out outside."
"Hey, man, you said that!"
Sha Zhu nodded at him and said, "We need to do something."
"You tell me, I'll take it!"
Shen Guodong said arrogantly: "As long as you don't play with money, it's up to you!"
"Look at your potential!"
Sha Zhu curled his lips and said, "You are not a man at all. You go out without any money. Yan Zi is too strict with you!"
"Brother Zhu~"
Xiaoyan heard it from outside the door, walked in and asked angrily: "How much does sister-in-law leave you every month?"
"Hey! Look at what you're asking!"
Sha Zhu patted his chest and said, "Do you know the status of the head of the family? Do you know what it means to be a man who makes money?"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Seeing him covering up, Shen Guodong asked with a smile: "I don't believe you have more than me!"
“I don’t care how much”
Sha Zhu walked towards the kitchen nonchalantly, hesitating as he walked: "I don't care about money, I don't like money, I have no interest in money..."
"I said yes!"
Shen Guodong raised his eyebrows and said, "Your pocket is cleaner than your face, and you still have the nerve to say that to me!"
He patted his trouser pocket and said arrogantly: "No matter what, I still have a few dollars in my pocket to support myself."
“Yeah, quite a lot.”
Li Xuewen suddenly interrupted and said, "It's more than my pocket money."
"Hahaha!"
The men working in the house compared with each other how strict their wives or partners were, how clean their pockets were, and how miserable and wronged they were, which made everyone laugh.
Li Xuecai looked at them with amusement and turned to look at Ji Yuxiu.
Ji Yuxiu wrinkled her nose and gave him an expression that indicated that he should do the same in the future.
Just now he was just watching the fun, but now Li Xuecai suddenly became unhappy.
We are all wanderers in this world. After laughing at others, we laugh at ourselves.
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Li Xuewu didn't know how many dishes he was going to cook today, he only knew that Qin Jingru asked Han Jiankun to move out a lot of stock.
They were all sent by others before the New Year, or brought back by Li Xuewu.
There are only a few people in the family, and even if Han Jiankun and his wife were eating here, they couldn't finish it.
Chickens, ducks, fish, cattle, sheep, pigs, seafood and local specialties, now that the outside world is flourishing, the cellar can no longer store anything.
So when there are a lot of people eating these things, we should eat them quickly. Not wasting them is also a form of frugality.
Li Xuewu caught three big carps, Li Xuewen caught a chicken, and Lao Biaozi caught a duck.
It seemed that the seafood and other things were originally frozen in a block of ice and had been taken out by Han Jiankun to thaw them. Xiaoyan and Ji Yuxiu came in to help clean them up.
Li Xue was not idle either. Her three children were chattering away. It looked like she would rather work in the kitchen than take care of the children.
Li Xuecai got what he wanted and kept watching the fire. All three stoves in the house were used.
Not only that, he also took care of the heating boiler and the firewood in the fireplace.
There was a lot of busy work inside and outside, carrying firewood and adding to the fire.
Here we have to mention Sha Zhu's skills and ability. He uses three woks, three stew pots and a steamer on the heating boilers at the same time, doing it with ease.
Maybe this is the basic skill of a chef, keeping an eye on all directions and having nimble hands and feet.
Xiaoyan's knife skills are pretty good, and with the help of Ji Yuxiu, she can fully meet his needs.
If special knife skills are required, he can prepare the dish with just a few swipes of a kitchen knife.
While he was cooking, several people who had finished their work put on their coats and stood outside the hallway smoking.
There are too many restrictions in this family. There are many children, and they are very young. He might even smoke one when he is alone at home.
But there are so many people smoking, and no one dares to smoke in the house.
It was just that Gu Ning was not feeling well, so when he moved downstairs, the smell of cigarettes left by the old lady in the room could not be dissipated.
The smell of cigarettes is more overbearing than that of farts.
If you don’t believe it, just think about it. When someone smokes, you can smell it upstairs and downstairs, but farting may not have such a far-reaching impact.
Second, as long as there are people smoking in a space frequently, the smell will not dissipate for a long time.
But I haven't heard of farts in the bedroom always smelling bad.
Secondhand smoke is not just the white smoke emitted when smoking, it also includes the smell that is emitted eight or nine meters away, and also the kind that lingers for a long time.
So Li Xuewu has to learn his lesson from now on. He should not smoke in front of his children, and he must not let the smell of smoke affect his children.
Adults don’t care, but children may suffer from slow intellectual development due to the effects of smoke.
Of course, if you say that the old ladies in the family used to have a big pipe and there was no fool in the family, Li Xuewu would not argue with you.
To question science on an individual basis is itself a form of ignorance.
Persuading people to quit smoking is like killing them, but they still stubbornly say that someone got lung cancer or something after quitting smoking, and they can't see those people whose health improved after quitting smoking.
why?
Because smokers are the most stubborn. Even though they know that this is a problem of probability, they still choose to look at the paranoid side of their hearts.
Li Xuewu consumes a lot of cigarettes, but he doesn't smoke them, he just smokes them.
He is still young and has no smoking addiction. He controls his smoking well and basically does not smoke except in meetings or social occasions.
Of course, intentional ones don't count.
If he wants to be naughty, he can keep smoking without ever passing the puff from his mouth. He will puff and spray, just like a smoke bomb.
The only ones standing at the door smoking were three brothers, Li Xuewu, Li Wenbiao and Shen Guodong.
Smoking is just a side topic, the main thing is to talk about Steel City.
On weekdays, we communicate via radio or secret letters, so there is no need to go into details about key business.
In particular, Li Xuewu appointed Lao Biaozi as the person in charge of developing business in Northeast China, and would not restrict him in specific business matters.
Micro-control has proven to be a failed management method. Li Xuewu does not have the great talent and strategy of the captain, and he is even less capable of doing such willful things as him.
The three brothers were still talking about strategic issues.
"I went to Fengcheng before the New Year and made some contacts, mainly to train agents."
Lao Biaozi took a puff of his cigarette, shook his head slightly and said: "There are many bold ones, but few serious ones."
"normal"
Shen Guodong stood at the bottom of the stairs, looked at Lao Biaozi and said, "How many decent people dare to engage in speculation and profiteering these days?"
He looked around and said, "People who live and work in peace and contentment probably won't risk their lives for a few small things."
"one more"
Shen Guodong hesitated for a moment and said, "You have to be careful. You must not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others. The Northeast is much more barbaric than the capital."
“Yeah, I’ve experienced it.”
Lao Biaozi pointed to his forehead, then gestured with his thumb and said with a smile: "This thick hunting pipe is the best I can afford, and the starting price is five thousand dollars."
"Fuck, what he said makes me want to do this job. It's so profitable."
"Whose relationship?"
Li Xuewu frowned slightly. He had not heard of this matter. If he had known, he would not have let Lao Biaozi do such a dangerous thing.
However, Lao Biaozi shook his head and said, "It's the past. No business will be smooth sailing. I'm here to make money, so I can't act rashly."
He waved his hand and said, "I know, if I tell you, it can be easily dealt with, but what about in the future?"
"We can't always use our connections and status to pressure others, right?"
Lao Biaozi took a puff of his cigarette and said, "There are rules in the underworld. If I want to make this money, I have to abide by the rules of the game."
He knew that Li Xuewu was concerned about his safety, and reminded him with a smile: "You taught me this."
“I didn’t teach you to risk your life.”
Li Xuewu glanced at him, then took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Hurry up and coordinate the local relationships, both in public and behind the scenes."
“Well, it’s already being done.”
Lao Biaozi nodded and reported: "Everything on the surface is easy to handle. With connections, we can always find people."
“As for the following ones, I am still screening them.”
He shook his head slightly and said, "As for the get-rich-quick plan you told me about, I'd rather be safe and add a layer of insurance."
Having said that, he explained to Li Xuewu that he wanted to set up an agent mechanism and also adopt a model of separating the money and goods accounts.
Even in terms of the method of handling, we choose to handle it remotely, and convert it all into public-to-public matters, leaving no future troubles.
Of course, if you want to know where so many public-to-public relationships come from, it’s actually quite simple.
The relationship between a company and a factory is called public-to-public, the relationship between a commune and a company is called public-to-public, and the relationship between a cooperative and a factory can also be called public-to-public.
There is no electronic system for verification these days. As long as you do it covertly, no one will know what you are doing.
Unless they catch the financial personnel on your line and get your account book.
Otherwise, why is it that there was a period of time in later generations when auditors tried their best to grab the account books while performing their duties?
Of course, it is no longer necessary later on. As long as all operations are within the country, the system will check and trace them, and there will always be something you can't match.
Especially the invoices, they will directly block you.
Don't believe what various channels tell you about whether you need to offset the bills. If they don't check you, you'll be fine. But if they do, no one can save you.
Of course the ticket seller will tell you that it's okay. If I were selling you something, I would also say that there's no problem with my stuff. Okay, that's great.
“Maybe I’m thinking too complicated.”
Lao Biaozi squatted on the ground, smoking a cigarette and said: "But there is still time. If we look slowly, we will eventually find Da Congming."
"Don't let the snake bite your hand"
Shen Guodong reminded: "Don't think that you are the only smart person in the world. Others may treat you as a fat pig."
"It's normal to play tricks on someone."
Lao Biaozi turned around and looked up at Li Xuewu and said, "Brother Wu, when will the first batch of electrical appliances be available?"
"At the end of the year"
Li Xuewu flicked the ash off his cigarette, looked at Lao Biaozi and said, "You still have time. If you want to sell the goods in bulk, it will take at least until the middle of next year."
"But the shipbuilding speed in Yingcheng is very fast, just like making dumplings."
He reminded: "Shipbuilding equipment is already being installed, fiberglass equipment has also begun to be placed in position, and supporting industries are all rushing to complete the installation and commissioning by the end of June."
"Your factory is really awesome, risking your life and time."
Lao Biaozi shook his head and sighed: "It takes only half a year to put the equipment into use and have production capacity. Many factories dare not even think about it."
"After all, technology and equipment have a limited leading edge."
Li Xuewu explained to him: "In addition, the installation and debugging of the equipment are handled by a professional team of engineers."
It has to be said here that Li Xuewu clearly avoided pitfalls when creating the contract.
The installation of the equipment is entirely up to you, but you must ask the other party to provide installation instructors.
Furthermore, installation time and production quality directly determine the subsequent production rate.
The sooner you start production, the sooner you can make money. The power of capital is enormous. Just look at the equipment and engineers that have arrived at Yingcheng Port and you will know how anxious foreign investors are.
"The sacrifice of manpower and material resources is not worth mentioning if the mechanical equipment is installed and produced."
Li Xuewu flicked away his cigarette butt and said, "The simplest example is that it is impossible to produce fiberglass according to the usage of the shipyard. It is bound to exceed the standard."
"why?"
He raised his eyebrows and said, "As long as the steel mill wants to sell it, there will be units that need it. It is a must for technological leadership."
"Of course, these products must be limited to meet the needs of the steel mill's own industry."
Li Xuewu explained: "This is a material of the future, including shipbuilding, car building, motorcycle building, equipment and packaging, etc."
"I'm telling you to make preparations early. Colleagues who are building yachts, Yingcheng Shipyard is about to launch a speedboat project."
He emphasized: "When the time comes, we must first open up channels and relationships, and then start with small commodities. We cannot start by dumping home appliances."
"You want to save face, right? Hehe."
Lao Biaozi laughed and said: "That's what I meant. We just started working together to build a factory, and now you're cheating them. That's really not fair."
"What do you mean by face? How can you be kind and righteous when doing business?"
Li Xuewu curled his lips and said: "We couldn't engage in dumping of electrical appliances at the beginning because there was no market for this category of appliances."
He explained to the confused two people: "You have to wait for foreign investors to cultivate the market and make them think that this kind of thing is profitable before they will cooperate with you. Otherwise, how can you make money?"
"Oh, it's high! It's really high!"
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"Let me suggest one!"
Sha Zhu stood at one side of the dining table, holding a wine glass, and said to everyone at the table: "Those who are married and have children are considered adults when they sit at the table."
After saying that, he glanced at Li Xuecai and Shen Guodong, smiled and said, "The rest can go to the kids' table."
"Hahaha!"
Except for Gu Ning who was in confinement upstairs, Zhao Yafang who was taking care of the child, and the pregnant Mai Qinglan who were eating in the small living room on the second floor, the rest of the people came down to the dining room.
The old lady and the great-grandmother sat in the main seats, Ding Fengxia and Liu Yin sat next to the old lady, and Li Shun sat next to the great-grandmother.
Han Shu, Ji Yuxiu, Xiaoyan and Li Xue sat at one end, and the men sat at the other.
The children set up another table on the coffee table in the restaurant. Including the upstairs table, the dishes on the three tables were the same, with only the portion sizes varying.
This gathering can be regarded as a New Year celebration, and also as a celebration that there will be successors in this small circle.
Ding Fengxia had rarely come into contact with such people from the city, but she could see a different kind of youth and carefreeness from their jokes and liveliness.
Although they are all ordinary people, their eyes are full of hope and spirit of life.
The temperaments displayed by men who have careers and men who love their families are different.
Especially in conversations and communications, there is a unique elegance in the vulgarity, making him appear proud and independent.
Even as a chef, He Yuzhu possesses a different kind of confidence and high spirits.
Being a worker, having a skill, having a harmonious family, getting married and having children, for the young generation who grew up in the hutongs, this is considered the peak of life and the top of the hutongs.
In Li Xuewu's family, he may not be the best, but he is definitely one of the happiest ones.
Happiness does not depend on how much you have, but on how much you see.
Some people say that my circle is so big, my network is so wide, and I know so and so.
Useless!
The guys in the old city dare to claim to be related to the above-mentioned person even if they say they know him in a roundabout way.
You have to tell me what you do!
Oh, you said that in our circle there are big brothers who are cadres, in our circle there are younger brothers who are businessmen, and in our circle there are also scientists.
Ask yourself, I am unemployed at home.
Then you are not a member of this circle. Even if you get into this circle, you are just a vassal and a foil of this circle.
Circle culture has existed since ancient times. The more high-end one was in the Song Dynasty, with the power struggles among prime ministers, and people like Wang Anshi, whose names were left in history.
A more ordinary one wrote "Preface to Farewell to Ma Sheng of Dongyang". Although he was a poor boy, he was known for his talent and was listed as one of the "Three Great Poets and Prose Writers of the Early Ming Dynasty" along with Liu Ji and Gao Qi.
Do you think this is over?
No, it is a model of grassroots counterattack. The reason why this article has been circulated for a long time is related to his identity.
He, Liu Ji and Fang Xiaoru are collectively known as the "Three Great Prose Writers of the Early Ming Dynasty", and he was also Fang Xiaoru's teacher.
You may not know who Liu Ji is, but you must have heard of his pen name, Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang's right-hand man.
What about Fang Xiaoru?
A great thinker, he was transferred to Beijing to be Zhu Yunwen's teacher when Zhu Yuanzhang died.
Just think about it, it was so difficult for Song Lian, a poor boy, to cultivate a student who was as famous as himself and whose history could be compared with that of Liu Bowen.
So what is the role and significance of circles to a person?
According to Li Xuewu's analysis of his circle and his cultural definition of this kind of friendship, each should have its own merits and make progress together.
Simply put, everyone must have a career and motivation to advance, as well as a love and interest in life.
Lao Biaozi is a playful guy who never takes things seriously.
But he is more motivated and serious than anyone else when it comes to doing things and working.
I know that running a recycling station in the Northeast is not a thankless job and it requires a lot of work and responsibility.
But when Li Xuewu asked, he took the initiative to step forward and went with his wife without hesitation.
The Northeast at that time was different from later generations. Some customs were relatively dangerous, and due to survival and other reasons, the remote and low-end areas or some corners where the sun didn't reach were full of unstable factors.
Of course, if we follow this standard, the whole country is the same, and there are such dark corners everywhere.
But just as Lao Biaozi himself said, when doing business away from home, nothing will go smoothly.
If you think this place is dangerous and that place is troublesome, then should you still do business?
Being willing to take on responsibilities is the most common perception in this small circle.
Even Shen Guodong, who is lazy and not good at competing, can show his ruthless side at work.
At the age of eighteen or nineteen, each of us has a handful of bitter tears. We go out, stand up, and bear the pressure given by the times and family.
When we get together again, each of us has achieved something new and we thank each other for their hard work, it is a whole different feeling.
Li Xuewu hoped that everyone would be well, and when he raised his glasses and clinked them together, he felt very emotional.
The happiest things in a person’s life are to be loved, to be loved by others, and to dare to love others.
Whether they are blood brothers or childhood friends, as long as they can get together, work on a common cause, and have a common goal in life, one glass of wine is not enough.
Sha Zhu was noisy and happy, drinking a lot, accepting everything that was offered, finishing his cup, laughing loudly, and being unrestrained and free.
If he went to someone else's house, he might have to be reserved and take care of his image.
But here, the only thing you don’t have to worry about is your image. If you still have to put on airs in front of your friends, how boring your life would be.
He and Lao Biaozi are both capable of drinking. When they were together, they were the only ones who could drink together.
Grandma and Second Uncle also drink, but they are slow-drinking wines that are better in taste.
Sha Zhu and Lao Biaozi are both noobs. When they fight each other, they are all competing for momentum. They will definitely fall down after drinking.
The dining table in Li Xuewu's house is very large, and he only uses one end for meals on weekdays.
I had thought about replacing it with a small table, but it was too much trouble to move it.
Neither he nor Han Jiankun could lift the large solid wood table.
It was used at the party right now, with more than a dozen people sitting at one table and it wasn't crowded at all.
All the bowls and plates in the house were used, and there was still room for the food, so we ended up having to use basins.
Slowly, a large table was set up, and everyone was chatting and laughing, drinking and eating, talking about the one-year separation.
Even someone as quiet as Li Xuewen picked up his glass and drank silently with everyone.
Li Xuecai is curious about everything. Unlike his elder brother, he is not as calm as others. He holds a glass of wine and drinks like Sha Zhu and the others.
The wine in his second brother's house was all good wine, and it was pleasant to drink, but his face turned red and his head felt dizzy without him noticing, which made Ji Yuxiu, who was sitting at the other end, just glare at him.
The children admired their parents and followed their example. Each of them held a small cup filled with soda and toasted like the adults.
The adults' table was lively, but they were even more lively than the adults.
Li Shu was very happy today. A brother and an uncle came to her house to play, chattering non-stop.
She was still too young, and she couldn't speak clearly, and if she spoke too fast her words would become tangled.
Just listen. Dong Mengyuan and Zhang Xinmin couldn’t understand what she said, and she herself couldn’t understand it either.
Li Shu was so anxious that she could only shout while holding the wine glass.
"Don't shout, don't shout"
Old Biaozi, whose face was red from drinking, turned around with a smile, held the wine glass and taught Li Shu: "My girl, you use a cup to drink, and you talk with wine. Let's have a drink together."
"Go ahead~"
Li Shu was even happier when she saw someone responding to her. She took her own small cup and drank seriously with Uncle Biao.
That’s not all. After drinking Uncle Biao’s toast, she walked around the sofa, holding the wine glass and toasting everyone along the dining table one by one. At such a young age, she had already learned how to circle.
"Hahaha~"
Li Shun and others couldn't stop smiling at their eldest granddaughter's generosity. Grandma Ding Fengxia had to hug her and stop them from toasting.
When it was Shen Guodong's turn, he picked up Li Shu, called her "daughter", and taught her the toast words and the way to drink, word by word.
Liu Yin smiled with heartache, snatched Li Shu away, and slapped Shen Guodong.
"There has never been a drunkard in our family. If I ask you to teach one, I will never forgive you."
"Hahaha!"
Shen Guodong smiled and toasted Li Shu, who was staring with wide eyes, and teased her, "Grow up quickly and drink with your uncle."
Li Shu nodded in her grandmother's arms, not quite understanding what was said. She waved her empty glass in her little hand and shouted, "Cheers!"
"Hahaha!"
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Reunions are always short and separations are always hard to bear.
The meal took a long time. Everyone sitting together was reluctant to leave the table, and everyone was reluctant to leave.
Lao Biaozi, who came back from Gangcheng, knew that this trip might be his last chance to relax before busy work.
When Xilin took over the task from him, she had already told him what Li Xuewu had told her about his ideas and vision for the work of the Northeast Recycling Station.
Although Li Xuewu didn't tell him explicitly this time, the pressure on him became even heavier.
Steel City, Capital City and Port City will serve as the three main supporting points of the recycling station trade-related economy in the future.
The Northeast serves as an industrial production and sales base, the capital serves as an operation and resale base, and the port city serves as an export and high-profit base.
Multiple places interact and connect, make coordinated progress, and develop together. If any of the three legs develops slowly, it will have an impact on each other.
Even though Li Xuewu has repeatedly asked for steady and cautious progress, the development speed of the three places is still accelerating.
He came back this time to meet his brothers in the capital again and also to say goodbye to the previous stage of his life.
He is no longer the old Biaozi who hangs around in the alleys and has no aspirations, but a well-known Biaozi in Gangcheng, Brother Biao.
Behind every success there is sadness, and this trip back was not entirely satisfactory.
When Mai Qinglan became pregnant, she advised him to return to the capital and visit his family.
Not visiting Mai Qinglan's parents, but his parents.
Lao Biaozi also told her about his family situation and his relationship with his parents.
But Mai Qinglan said, if one day your child asks where your grandparents are, how should you answer.
The few problems this old man encountered after going to the Northeast were very difficult.
In the end, taking advantage of the New Year and the opportunity to return to Beijing for reporting, he still wanted to go home.
He did not bring Mai Qinglan with him because he did not want her to be embarrassed by her parents' troubles.
And when he walked into the door of that former home, he saw his brothers sitting at his side and his parents enjoying the happiness of family life.
I was just a little surprised, a little strange, and even embarrassed by his sudden return.
No one asked him how he was doing outside, nor did they ask how Mai Qinglan was doing. It was as if a stranger had broken into the house.
The old father remained silent, and it took a long time before the mother asked where he was.
Lao Biaozi did not answer. Instead, he looked at his younger brother, then at his cautious sister-in-law, left two hundred yuan, told her to take care of herself, and left the house.
This time he was not disappointed or sad, but seemed to be relieved.
I don’t even know where he is, let alone how his life is now.
In other words, even though the recycling station was located in Nanluoguxiang, they had never asked about him.
No idea where he went, no idea whether he was dead or alive, no idea whether he was good or bad.
Therefore, he has no interest in sharing his success or experiences with his parents and family, let alone showing off his life in front of them.
This is not a relief from hatred for me, but rather a spiritual trauma, which is not worth it.
The two hundred yuan was not something he wanted to give, but something Mai Qinglan insisted that he keep, no matter whether the situation of returning home this time was good or bad.
She only had one thing to say: it’s okay to have bad parents, but you can’t have unfilial children.
If being together is a burden and you are tired of each other, then just don't see each other, but don't feel resentful in your heart.
This complaint punishes oneself and affects one's children.
Lao Biaozi knew that Mai Qinglan was more concerned about the health of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and also wanted to provide for them in their old age.
He did not object. After all, people must have family ties, otherwise they would just be living like animals.
Perhaps my father-in-law and mother-in-law never received these two hundred yuan from Mai Qinglan, and insisting on giving it to his parents is also a kind of explanation.
When I talk about this with my children in the future, I can only say that I have no regrets and faced it calmly.
After dinner, everyone found a place to sit and chat to sober up. The young brothers sat on the sofa in the restaurant, listening to Lao Biaozi's stories. It was not easy to see him, a grown man, covering his face and crying.
Shen Guodong's parents died early, and his grandmother lost her home as well, so he was deeply touched.
The second child is not around, and when he talks about his parents, he can't even remember what they look like.
Wen Saner became a lowly stray dog after his parents died, begging for a living everywhere and being looked down upon.
Silly Zhu, your mom died a long time ago, and your dad is no different from being dead when he's alive. In his own words, it would be better if he had died.
Li Xuewu has a family and his parents love him very much, but he just didn't understand it back then.
Now he was sitting with his brothers, listening to Lao Biaozi sobbing in a low voice and watching Sha Zhu wiping his tears.
Perhaps men only have reason to show their cowardice or express their grievances after drinking.
Everyone was advising each other, and the only thing they said the most was to look forward.
Life cannot stand still, and you cannot live in the past and let sad things continue to torture yourself.
Mai Qinglan heard the noise and came down from upstairs. Seeing Lao Biaozi’s red eyes, she walked silently to him and put her arm around his shoulders.
The man did not shed tears, but he did not go to the sad place.
If someone bullied him, he might retaliate to vent his anger.
But for such parents, he had no choice but to suppress it, endure it, and let go.
Especially today, with the reunion of his brothers and the comfort and relief of his wife, the grievances he had suffered in the first half of his life were further highlighted.
Finally, Li Shun and his grandmother came to the restaurant. They didn't preach any profound truths, nor did they try to comfort him. They just said that the compound was home, and all the children who left the compound could go home.
Grandma also nodded silently. The recycling station is a spiritual harbor and an emotional sustenance for young people. For him, it is also a place that can be called home.
Shen Guodong, who had sobered up, drove the command vehicle to send people away one by one, and Li Xuewu saw them out again and again.
When bidding farewell to Mai Qinglan and Lao Biaozi, he patted his brother on the shoulder and urged him to live well and live a good life to show the world.
Lao Biaozi hugged him and then was stuffed into the car by Shen Guodong. Sha Zhu was also fainted in the car. He was still crying, but no one knew how to comfort him.
If I tell him about his current situation to comfort him, like he is married with children, has a successful career, owns a car and a house, and both his parents are "dead"... it seems as if I can't compare to how comfortable his life is.
In the words of Shen Guodong, this kind of person would benefit from crying more. It would help clear out the water in his brain and help him recover.
Before getting in the car, Li Xuewu said to Mai Qinglan, "Be more tolerant, more understanding, and live a good life. You may be a strong person, but your heart is as soft as a bean."
Mai Qinglan also knew what he meant and nodded seriously. How could she not be clear about the man she had chosen?
He chose her to marry because he liked her and also because she was more miserable than Su Qing and needed his help more.
When she came back this time, she knew that Li Wenbiao wanted to go see Su Qing, but she was sure that he didn't go.
Maybe it was because she was pregnant, or maybe it was because she asked him to give the two hundred yuan she had saved to her parents-in-law.
It is also possible that the couple tolerated and understood each other, and forgave the life that the times had given them.
There are not so many talented men and beautiful women in this world, who are well matched. Most of them are just ridiculous fates and coincidences.
No matter how sweet love is, after marriage, it will leave a mess, the two sides will hate each other, and the original beauty will be destroyed.
Meeting such a man who seemed heartless but was kind and filial at heart, she felt that it was a magical fruit that fate gave her as compensation.
It looks wrinkled, ugly and horrible on the outside, but the flesh is sweet and mellow, leaving a long aftertaste.
Li Xuewu said that showing her more care was an entrustment from a brother and also a promise. And that showing her more understanding was a consolation and also a wish.
Lovers will eventually get married, it is destined in previous life, so don’t miss the chance.
(End of this chapter)