There was a father and daughter having a conversation at the table next to where Zhao Mingyang was eating. After a while, a boy came, wearing a school uniform. The boy was a little reserved and scared, especially when the short-haired middle-aged man turned to him. The boy lowered his head and did not dare to look at the middle-aged man.
The boy didn't know where to sit, so he just stood there at a loss. The middle-aged man looked at the boy and said, "Sit down, sit next to my daughter."
The boy deliberately kept a certain distance from the girl. After taking a sip of noodle soup, the middle-aged man put down his chopsticks, picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth. He said: "I have no objection to your falling in love. At the age when love is just beginning, I asked you to come out to chat, not the teacher."
, I didn’t go to your parents. I know that if they knew about this, they would criticize you at most, and the more they criticized and objected, the more likely you were to resist."
The middle-aged man's daughter and the boy didn't speak. They were both silent. Zhao Mingyang was the only one sitting at the table with them in the restaurant. The boss was busy in the kitchen, so Zhao Mingyang heard very clearly at this time.
The main reason is that it's almost ten o'clock, and almost no one comes to the noodle shop to eat. Most of them go to food stalls or barbecue restaurants.
The two teenagers must have just finished their evening self-study. The middle-aged man looked at the two and said again: "I am also a person who has been here. There is a saying that is very good. The person you like most in life stays at the age of seventeen or eighteen, because most people
You can never get it or forget it, so you can always recall this beauty. Love at this age is the purest and purest.
But as a parent and a father, I have to consider my daughter's health and future. Don't worry, I won't stop you from falling in love. I even wish you a beautiful love. My daughter, you don't have to lie to me in the future.
I secretly went out to meet this guy on Saturday, and my love affair was very open and there was nothing shameful about it.
But there is a premise. You are in your second year of high school and will soon be your third year in high school. One majors in liberal arts and the other majors in science. You miss each other every day. Going to see each other right after class is really a waste of time and affects your emotions, which will ultimately affect your studies and future.
On Saturday, you can make an appointment to watch a movie. How great is this? The premise is that from now on, your grades must remain in the top twenty in the class. This is not a high requirement, right? If you fall out, I'm sorry.
This is the end of short-lived love.
Let’s put it this way, I will transfer my daughter directly to another school, and I will never approve of you being together, because you can’t even make a promise to me, let alone love.”
The two teenagers looked at each other, neither expecting the middle-aged man to say these words.
Zhao Mingyang found it very interesting. This father's idea was very unique.
"Okay, go back and give you time to think. You must send my daughter home safely. Her mother is at home. I will go back later. When I get home, I hope you all can give me an answer or ensure that you can maintain the previous status.
Twenty people, please separate as soon as possible." The middle-aged man said.
The two teenagers were a little confused. They didn't expect that the middle-aged man didn't object or criticize at all, which made them a little overwhelmed. The two stood up and left with their schoolbags on their backs. Zhao Mingyang looked at each other, this brain circuit was very novel.
After the two boys left, another middle-aged man wearing glasses came in and said, "Has my son left with your daughter?"
"Let's go." The short-haired middle-aged man said.
"What did you tell them?" the middle-aged man with glasses asked as he sat down.
"I said let them fall in love properly," said the short-haired middle-aged man.
"No, Lao Li, are you crazy? I asked you to persuade them to leave. My son didn't listen to me when I told him. I was afraid of repercussions, so I asked you to tell them. To scare them, you
Why are you still supporting it?”
"He Gong, you are still a university teacher. Why are you so pedantic? How can you teach your students? I would say that your university is not as good as ours." The short-haired man said with a smile.
"Go away, our school is much better than yours, why are you comparing with us? Wait, why are you talking about this? I'm talking about children, children, they are in love, it affects their studies,
Puppy love!
You actually let them continue talking, Li Shanhe, are you crazy? You are really crazy. You support this, your daughter." The man with glasses angrily yelled.
"I'm not crazy." Li Shanhe said.
"Are you not crazy? Don't you know what falling in love means to children's studies at this stage? If they fail to get into college or fail in college, do you know how serious the consequences will be? That is a matter of their lives, you
Can you take on this responsibility? You can't afford it," He Gong said.
"I know, how come I don't know? You and I both know that the college entrance examination changed our destiny. We came here from a small county and settled down here to work. Without the college entrance examination, we might have been stuck in that place for the rest of our lives.
Without the college entrance examination, we wouldn't be able to live the life we have today.
But He Gong, you have to be clear. Times have changed. In the past, people who slept in at sunrise and rested at sunset would be called lazy people and slandered in various ways. Staying up late was shameful if you didn't study hard, and you went out at night.
People are basically said to be bad at doing good things.
You are a university teacher, don’t you know that times have changed? Now many people have to work night shifts and sleep during the day. Do you think they are wrong? Are they lazy? For example, some young people now play games and live broadcasts at night. They are nothing more than
The work and rest are different from others, but game live broadcasting is also their job. They like this job and can still stick to it. Was there such a job in the past? No.
People who sleep in are all lazy people, so I decided to take my daughter to the bar to have a good look.
It will save her from being unkind to others out of curiosity in the future.
I want to take my child to see the scene and tell her some tricks so that she can be more careful in the future. The more you hide it and don’t tell them, the more curious they will be to try and explore, and the easier it will be to be deceived. Tell them.
Some things that cannot be done, why cannot be done.
Your son secretly goes to an Internet cafe, and you are going crazy, and your wife feels that the sky is falling. You take your son there openly and tell him who are the people surfing the Internet now. There will be plenty of time to surf the Internet in the future, but many people because of this
If you are happy, drop out of school and go online, you have to tell him what your life will be like in the end.
Just like falling in love, does it really affect your studies? Tell me, will those who have unrequited love and secret love affect their studies? What's more, they only think about messy things every day, which is even more terrifying.
Besides, is your son a heinous person? Is my daughter a bad girl? No, we are classmates. The two children have played together since childhood. They can be childhood sweethearts. Why don't we guide them correctly?
Maybe neither of them knows whether they are suitable for each other, it is only a temporary fit, but if we forcefully break them up, then they will hate us for the rest of their lives. If they find their other half in the future, they will not be as happy as the other person, and they will resent us for ruining their love.
Can you afford the responsibility? "
He Gong was silent for a long time when Li Shanhe said this. He really didn't know what to say.
Because He Gong couldn't refute everything Li Shanhe said, because what Li Shanhe said was objective.
"Let's put it this way, both of us attach great importance to studying to change our destiny. We feel that we have created such good conditions, and our children will definitely be better than us. Their foundation is better than ours, but the reality is different. We
We must be mentally prepared that our children will never surpass us throughout their lives.
You teach physics and I teach history. Let’s put it this way: at our children’s age, we must not be as good as our children. Their knowledge must be far beyond ours, but their opportunities must not be as many as ours. We had
How many people can go to school? How many are in school? If you go to college, you will have a guaranteed job. You will be given a job. If you work, you will be given a house. If you ask us to buy a house in Shanghai now, can you afford it or can I?
Affordable? Can’t afford it.
So I also hate those experts giving advice to young people. Nowadays, when young people graduate, how many of them are related to their majors? How many of them are assigned houses by their employers after graduation? Most of them are thinking about how to buy a house. How many people
Those who cannot stay in big cities. You and I have graduated now. We may have to go back. We are stumped by just one house. Regardless of the age and the advantages of the big era, experts are just a group of parallel imports. Last time there was one
The program asked me to give lectures to young people, but I refused directly because I was afraid of being called an expert.
I asked your son and my daughter to stay in the top 20 in the class before they are allowed to fall in love. Otherwise, my daughter will be transferred to another school and they will never be able to date in their lifetime.
Their school is pretty good, and they have a Shanghai registered permanent residence. To put it bluntly, the pressure is much less than that of other peers. It is not difficult to keep the top twenty, get into the 211, and it is not difficult to get to the end of the 985. After all, there are
A big advantage.
I just want them to study on a campus with a relatively better learning atmosphere. To put it bluntly, even if they go to the university where we teach, they are not the proud ones. After graduation, they may have better and easier jobs than most of their peers.
A little bit, but it can’t be too easy.
They will have children in the future, and we will probably help them buy a house. Your house and mine are now about 150,000 to 60,000 yuan per square meter. Your house is 128 square meters, and our house is 128 square meters.
It's almost the same. Even if it's 130 square meters, calculated based on 150,000 yuan, our house can be sold for 19.5 million yuan. Is this the result of our own efforts?
I can only say that it is a small part. Our biggest advantage is that we have the advantage of the big era.
We are the ones who take the elevator upstairs. How many of today's young people, including the graduates of your school and our school, can buy a house in the area where we live in Shanghai?
A down payment of 30% would cost 6 to 7 million. How many years does it take for a monthly salary to reach 40,000 to 50,000? Even if you don’t eat or drink, it will take more than ten years to afford the down payment. You also have to take into account the appreciation of house prices.
The growth rate is several times higher than the salary growth rate. Saving money in ten years may not be enough to pay 10% of the down payment.
In this case, if we don't make tens of millions in one go, we won't be able to buy the house we live in now, or the child's family has money, and it's not that the child wants to grow old and needs help from his parents, but it's us,
We will be the same as today's children.
Our children, you said that we will not help them buy a house in the future, and you let them buy a house by themselves. To be honest, just like my daughter and your son, there is no problem in buying a house. Maybe they will have to go into debt to buy a small apartment in the suburbs of Shanghai.
For thirty years, they will never be able to return to the place where they grew up.
There is actually not much difference between the suburbs of Shanghai and the urban areas of third- and fourth-tier cities. Just like the inner third ring road and the outer fifth ring road in the imperial capital are two different concepts.
He Gong, if you can't see this clearly, you have been a university teacher in vain, your life has been in vain all these years, and you have read so many books in vain. Don't expect too much from your children. Just be healthy and happy, and your youth will leave a good memory.
Very good. What was the purpose of getting into a good university when you were in college?
In order to have a better experience of college life and to have a few high-quality relationships, don't wait until you graduate from college. If you haven't had a single relationship, you will end up with a big fall, and then you will lose everything.
Look at the student who graduated from the school next door. He had a successful career in his thirties and had never been in love. In the end, he was deceived by a woman with average conditions and a bit of beauty. He lost his life and money. Why? He has no experience in love. Contemporary young people
The most important thing to learn is the lesson of love.
A marriage is likely to ruin a person's life. The reason why your marriage and I are pretty good is not because I married a college classmate. We understand each other, have common words, and appreciate each other. That is our choice. It is better than marrying someone else.
I didn’t like living together reluctantly from the beginning, so we should divorce in the end.”
He Gong was thinking about Li Shanhe's words. The boss walked to the table with a dinner plate and chatted with them in an authentic Shaanxi accent. He made home-cooked food specially for them. The three opened a bottle of wine in a Shaanxi accent.
Chatting.
It turned out that these three people were from the same hometown. Zhao Mingyang stood up and said: "Do you mind adding me? I benefited a lot from hearing the two brothers chatting just now. I didn't mean to listen. Please forgive me.
I don’t eat your food for free, I know the rules, and I brought wine.”
"What do you mind? If you don't mind, let's have a drink together," the boss said.
"Okay, I'll get some wine from the car. Don't worry, I live nearby. I don't drink and drive, and I don't drink when driving." After Zhao Mingyang finished speaking, he walked out and chose two bottles of liquor from the cigarette shop next door. He didn't choose anything too expensive.
A bottle costs more than 200. If you go directly to Maotai, you will probably not feel comfortable drinking this wine.
Zhao Mingyang took the wine and two packs of Yuxi that were more than 20 years old. He used what kind of cigarettes and what kind of wine for any occasion.
"It's not for nothing. This wine was given to me by someone last time. I don't usually drink much, and I don't know how it is. It's mainly because I saw you guys getting together to drink. I suddenly wanted to drink it, or maybe it was because I saw you guys getting together."
The friendship and nostalgia of being together makes me feel a little touched." Zhao Mingyang said as he opened a bottle of liquor.
"Tell me, we have wine here, what are you spending on it? This wine costs a lot," the boss said.
"It didn't cost much, so I gave it to a few old brothers. How many of them are fellow villagers?" Zhao Mingyang asked.
"Isn't that right? They are from the same county and came out together. These two are still university teachers. They were the top scorers in liberal arts and science in our place back then. They are very good." The boss gave Zhao Mingyang a proud thumbs up.
said.
"You are so awesome. Not to mention how brave you were, there are more people in Shencheng than us. The number one scholar in the county is here. If there are not ten thousand, there are only eight thousand. It is not worth mentioning. It is nothing more than making a living."
Nothing more, just a teacher.
Little brother, don't let me, a fellow countryman, open a noodle shop. He is so good. He owns this front house, and there are two houses here. He is the tenant." He Gong said after taking a sip of wine.
"Yes, the three of us were in middle school. He was one year younger than us. Later, this kid came to Shanghai after finishing middle school. He worked as a chef for several years and happened to catch up with the entrepreneurial wave. He started his business early.
I opened a noodle shop and made over a thousand yuan a day. At that time, many people in Shanghai only had a monthly salary of 1,800 yuan, and some people in other areas only had a monthly salary of 200 to 300 yuan. What was the concept? The customers just kept coming. It was nothing at that time.
He caught up with the trend of private noodle restaurants. He became the boss at the age of twenty at that time. We were still in school. Their children have now graduated from college. Our children are only sophomores in high school. He is ahead of us in everything.
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At that time, the house price here was 1,110 square meters, and his daily turnover was basically one square meter. He bought a facade house first, and then bought a house. If he had known where we would go to school, it would be great to come to Shanghai with you.
." Li Shanhe pointed at the boss and smiled.
"Boss, you turned out to be the landlord, so disrespectful." Zhao Mingyang looked at the boss and said.
"Hey~ I just caught up with the good times. When I bought this facade house, I had to find someone to buy it. Otherwise, I couldn't buy it. In the early 1990s, I spent 5,000 to find someone. If I didn't find someone, I couldn't buy the house here. There is a quota.
Limited. I am the most ordinary landlord on this street. The rest are either rich or expensive. The price of buying this house is more than 5,000 per square meter. If you think about it at that time, it is not cheap, so I agreed on a good location for the house.
It's not cheap to say the least.
My father told me that when I make money, I should first buy a front-end house, and then I will make money when I open the door.
I didn't think about anything at first. I didn't know what to do when I made money, so I bought a house. Fortunately, I caught up with the good times. At that time, a bowl of noodles cost three yuan, and people from other places came to eat and do business.
For tourism and other reasons, the beef noodles that cost five yuan a bowl are the best sellers, starting from three to five hundred servings every day.
To be honest, it was easy to make money at that time. After all, there were few competitors and the customer flow was large, but it was also chaotic and there were many hooligans who would rip you off.
I only made money for five or six years. Later, the competition became more and more intense, and the business became worse and worse. Now, compared to before, my daily turnover is one-tenth less than before. But I am also ready to retire, which is okay.
I didn’t invest randomly and bought a house.”
Zhao Mingyang chatted happily with a few people, talking about everything, including buying a car.
He Gong smiled and said: "Look at people nowadays, many people's underlying logic is wrong and unable to break through. In the end, they reach poverty and have been unable to break through. An economics teacher in our school specifically discussed this with me."
"What logic?" Li Shanhe asked curiously.
But Zhao Mingyang has been observing this He Gong. He has an impression of this person because one of his future research directions is very powerful. Zhao Mingyang deliberately approached them when he saw this person appear.
