Chu Xuan and uncle Ankang chatted for a long time, and Liu Yifei also interrupted from time to time.
In response to the development of the Brilliant Era, uncle and Ankang also expressed some constructive suggestions, which Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei also accepted happily and took them to their hearts.
By noon, all the delicacies were ready.
"It's time to eat!" Grandma shouted as she brought a plate of food to the table.
"Qianxi, Xiaoxuan, let's eat." Ankang stood up and said.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and their uncle stood up and headed towards the restaurant.
When Chu Xuan stood up, Liu Yifei held his hand for fear that he would feel uncomfortable.
Chu Xuan lowered his head and looked down. After chatting with his uncle and Uncle An for an hour or two, he was not so unfamiliar anymore, but he still felt completely warm when he felt the warmth of his palms.
At the round dining table, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei sat side by side.
The sister-in-law started to pour the wine, and Chu Xuan looked at it. It was Jiangcheng’s specialty liquor [Baiyunbian].
"Drink something, Sissi?" my sister-in-law asked, holding a wine bottle in her hand.
Liu Yifei didn't say anything, she held the wine dispenser and handed it under the bottle with a pretty face.
The sister-in-law understood, took the wine bottle and poured wine for Liu Yifei, and then sat down.
In the center of the round table was a hot pot. In the hot pot, the old duck cooked dumplings. The clear yellow soup greatly increased everyone's appetite, but no one moved their chopsticks or spoke, waiting for grandpa's instructions.
Grandpa glanced at Chu Xuan, picked up the small wine glass and said, "Xiao Xuan is visiting our home for the first time. Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year and it is still the Spring Festival. Everyone is welcome."
Uncle, Uncle An, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and several brothers and sisters of the same age as Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, all held cups together and faced Chu Xuan.
Liu Yifei did the same, raising her wine glass to Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan picked up the wine glass and said: "Grandma, thank you for your hard work in preparing a table of food; thank you grandpa, uncle, sister-in-law and uncle for the hospitality, thank you uncle for your hospitality, thank you brothers and sisters for their greetings."
With that said, Chu Xuan drank it all in one gulp.
After listening to Chu Xuan's words, everyone also poured wine into their mouths.
"Xiao Xuan, how do you feel when you come here for the first time?" Grandpa put down his wine glass and said with a peaceful look on his face.
After hearing grandpa's question, everyone looked at Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, then said: "To be honest, I was a little scared at first, but the uncle, sister-in-law and uncle are all approachable, and I gradually relaxed my nervous heart."
Hearing this, the corners of everyone's mouths raised slightly.
"A big man should be calm and not panicked when things happen." The uncle said, taking a mouthful of cabbage and eating it.
Chu Xuan nodded, looking like he was being taught.
Grandpa glanced at him and said, "Xiaoxuan came here as Sissi's boyfriend, can it be the same as usual? When you came to ask for a wife, you looked as timid as a dog."
Liu Yifei suddenly made a "poof" sound and started to laugh together with the elders.
Chu Xuan also found it interesting. Grandpa's generous character was indeed that of an experienced cadre. He said whatever he wanted.
The uncle was a little helpless. His father often laughed at this kind of thing. Although he had experienced it a lot, he still felt embarrassed.
Out of the corner of his eye, Chu Xuan saw his grandfather pouring wine and glanced at him, for which he showed respect.
After experiencing the family dinner at his grandma's house yesterday, he felt it was inappropriate to let the elders toast first.
"Grandpa, I respect you for your good health and smooth family business," Chu Xuan said.
Grandpa originally wanted to have a drink with Chu Xuan, but when he saw Chu Xuan coming over to propose a toast first, he poured the wine and then picked up the glass and said, "Grandpa, I wish you a bright future."
"Thank you, grandpa." Chu Xuan and his grandpa finished the drink in one gulp.
Putting down the wine glass, Chu Xuan reached out to pick up the vegetables. The disc on the round table could be rotated, but he was a little embarrassed to turn it, so he just picked a small portion of the peas and Mapo Tofu in front of him.
Liu Yifei was not so polite. She reached out and twisted the disc hard. When she saw a plate of spicy chicken, she reached out and gave Chu Xuan a chicken leg. If it was not enough, she gave Chu Xuan a chicken wing.
When the elders saw this scene, they didn't say much.
"Xiao..." Ankang suddenly said a word. He originally wanted to call him "Xiao Feng", but thinking about his daughter's current real name, he changed his words: "Qian Qian, you and Xiao Xuan are going to be actors forever?"
Chu Xuan, who was lowering his head to eat the food, looked startled. This family was really different from his grandma's family. There was some prelude before the grandma's family asked, but this family just spoke frankly.
Liu Yifei took a bite and said, "Yes, not only am I an actor, I also studied production and directing with Chu Xuan, and I will also study film and television industrialization in the future."
Ankang was silent, taking a bite of food to eat. The other elders did not speak, obviously preparing to listen to Ankang's next words.
Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows and glanced at her father. Seeing that her father was silent for the time being, she lowered her head to eat the food again.
"Actually, I think..." Ankang said while eating. When he finished the cabbage, he looked up at his daughter and said, "Xiaoxuan is very capable, and the company's development is also very good. You don't need to work so hard."
Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows, paused with the chopsticks in her hand, and looked at her father and said, "Dad, don't you support me?"
Chu Xuan was still eating the food with his head down. Compared to the gentle treatment at his grandma's house yesterday, today he got straight to the point.
What is also different is that yesterday the person being questioned was him, but today it is Sissi.
Perhaps this is also the difference between the woman's family and the man's family.
Or maybe, as Sissi said, his file has been thoroughly investigated by Uncle An and his family, and there is nothing to ask, so they focused the questioning on their own daughter.
"It's not that Dad doesn't support you." Ankang said, then paused and said, "It's just that Dad thinks that you don't need to experience the rights and wrongs of the entertainment industry. It might be better to live the life you want in peace and stability.
."
"But what you are talking about is not the life I want." Liu Yifei put her chopsticks on the bowl and said seriously: "My dream before was just to become a superstar like Audrey Hepburn. Now my dream is to
Together with Chu Xuan, we will build our film and television career."
Grandpa and grandma listened and picked up vegetables to eat.
The elders also listened and raised their eyebrows to look at Chu Xuan and then at Qian Qian.
The concept of their family is that men are the master of the house and women are the master of the house.
They have investigated Chu Xuan, who has been clean and capable all his life, and now has a good career.
So, in their opinion, would it be better for Sissi to just enjoy it?
"Chu Xuan planned micro-entertainment when he was 19 years old, started micro-entertainment when he was 20 years old, and is now worth nearly one billion at the age of 21. Under such circumstances, it is commendable that you can have such a relationship, but from what I understand, if Chu Xuan uses his company
If he continues his studies with more resources, he will develop better," the uncle said.
Although he didn't finish his words, Liu Yifei understood what her uncle meant. Was she holding back Chu Xuan? With her current strength, she was not worthy of Chu Xuan?
"Uncle, I am willing to give up my career temporarily, because I think love can accompany me for a lifetime, but career cannot." Chu Xuan said suddenly.
Although he only said a few words, he found that the male chauvinism in Uncle An's family was very strong, and it was necessary for him to say a few words for Liu Yifei.
They themselves knew about his relationship with Liu Yifei, and comments from outsiders were just hearsay, and he didn't take it seriously.
Ankang and his uncle looked at Chu Xuan, slightly surprised, but said nothing.
The grandparents and other elders listened and remained silent.
Liu Yifei originally felt a little depressed because of what her father and uncle said, but because of Chu Xuan's words, she felt moved and sweet again.
However, her father's uncle's words aroused the injustice in her heart.
Liu Yifei looked at her father and said, "Dad, do you want me to stay at home every day like my mother?"
Ankang opened his mouth but said nothing, looking at his daughter waiting for her next words.
"I won't mention the matter between you and your mother. Back then, I watched you quarreling and getting divorced, and I watched my mother put a knife on her neck. I can still remember it vividly." Liu Yifei was very calm.
Ankang and his uncle were startled. My sister-in-law and uncle were silent. Grandpa and grandma were also silent. The brothers and sisters ate in small bites for fear of making any noise.
Upon hearing this topic, the family chose to remain silent collectively.
Chu Xuan glanced at Liu Yifei and found that Liu Yifei's mood seemed a little unstable.
Liu Yifei had never moved her chopsticks since her father spoke. Now she was a little emotionally unstable and said directly to her father: "Dad, do you know what mother said to me?"
Ankang chewed the vegetables and looked up at his daughter.
"Mom said, if she agrees to your request to be a housewife, then she will be useless, then she will have no status at all in this family, then she will be completely reduced to a vase, then she will become a person who can only be used for
A tool for falling in love." Liu Yifei said every word authentically, saying what her mother had instilled in her.
Ankang looked stunned, and the other elders were slightly stunned, as if they were touched by these words.
Under Chu Xuan's stunned gaze, Liu Yifei's face showed a stubborn look that she had never seen before: "Is she Liu Xiaoli just for falling in love?! Is Liu Yifei just for falling in love?! You men
We appear when there is demand? We disappear when there is no need for you men? Who would like to treat such a vase! This kind of thing will never happen to me!!"
Ankang's expression suddenly changed, his uncle and sisters-in-law were shocked, and his grandparents were also moved by Liu Yifei's words.
Liu Yifei was very aggrieved, tears could not stop flowing from the corners of her eyes, and they fell again.
She knew that her father and uncle might be doing it for her own good, but their different views not only aroused her resentment, but also aroused her resentment for her mother.
She couldn't help saying what she was thinking. She didn't know how her family would feel if she said this, and she didn't know if her family would be unhappy, but she felt that it was necessary for her to speak up for herself, and she also needed to let her father
This family knows its own pursuits and ideas.
This was the first time she spoke so boldly. Perhaps because she was worried about her family's disapproval, her hands could not help but tremble slightly after speaking.
Suddenly, a warm big hand wrapped around her hand that was leaning on the stool, and her heart suddenly felt warm.
Liu Yifei turned her head to look at Chu Xuan and shook her pear-shaped face, as if to tell Chu Xuan that she was fine and that Chu Xuan didn't have to worry.
Chu Xuan breathed out inaudibly. Even though he knew Liu Yifei very well, it was the first time he heard Liu Yifei's voice just now. Such a girl with personality, pursuits and ideas made a sudden feeling rise in his heart.
With a strong desire to protect, he couldn't help but open his hand and clasp her fingers tightly, and tighten his fingers to give her warmth.
At this moment, whether it was the grandparents, Ankang or the uncle, who said such words to Sissi, they were deeply touched by Sissi who was only 18 years old but had such a concept, and their hearts were shaken, and they were shaken for a moment.
It's hard to calm down.
What did Liu Xiaoli teach Sissi? That made Sissi so strong? They didn't comment, but at this moment they looked at Sissi differently.
"Why are you crying? Dad made a mistake." Ankang couldn't stand his daughter's crying and hurriedly took out a tissue and handed it to her.
"Sissi, your father is doing this for your own good. If you don't like what he hears, don't take it to heart. Look at the child crying." Grandma said distressedly and glared at Ankang.
"Uncle, are you an educator or a professor? Have you ever heard of Maslow's pyramid theory?"
Chu Xuan suddenly said something, which made Ankang slightly startled.
"But I want to know the details," he said.
Chu Xuan held Liu Yifei's hand tightly and said: "In the 1940s, American psychologist Abraham proposed this theory. He said that the first level of human needs are physiological needs and safety needs, and the second level of needs is a sense of belonging.
needs and a sense of existence, the third level of needs is the need for mutual respect and mutual tolerance, and the fourth level of needs is the need for personal value expression and social value expression.”
Grandpa nodded thoughtfully, and the uncle looked at Chu Xuan thoughtfully. Ankang was stunned for a moment and then went back to picking up the food.
"I think this theory is good. Sissi and I have been maintaining this state and moving towards our established development path." Chu Xuan said.
Liu Yifei's left hand was held by Chu Xuan, and she could only wipe her tears with her right hand.
Hearing Chu Xuan's words, Liu Yifei smiled slightly and shook her hand held by Chu Xuan, indicating that she was fine.
Chu Xuan glanced at her and saw the affirmation in Liu Yifei's eyes. Chu Xuan let go of his hand and continued eating with Liu Yifei.
"Xiaoxuan." Ankang shouted.
"Hey, uncle." Chu Xuan responded, hurriedly finished the food in his mouth, and then looked up at Ankang.
"I have a question, why are you thinking of charting a path for you and Sissi to advance together so early?" Ankang asked.
Chu Xuan put down his chopsticks and said: "There are some reasons, but the selfish reason is that Sissi is an American nationality. According to the Chinese marriage law, the biological father and biological mother must bring the household registration book to the consulate and sign for confirmation. If I
If we don’t arrange for Sissi well and satisfy Aunt Liu and Uncle An, Sissi and I won’t be able to get married."
Liu Yifei lowered her head and looked at Chu Xuan with a smile.
"Little slippery man." Grandma pointed at Chu Xuan with her chopsticks.
Grandpa, Ankang, and uncle all raised the corners of their mouths slightly.
Although he said this, Chu Xuan's frankness still made the family feel comfortable and satisfied.
"There is another reason." Chu Xuan said: "If Sissi and I were messing around like other couples in the entertainment industry, I would probably be banned if grandpa gave the order."
Hearing this, everyone was happy.
"No, we have to do business first. My students are disciplined and law-abiding, and they can't mess around." Grandpa said cheerfully.
"Qian Qian, are you really ready to go down this road with Chu Xuan?" Ankang asked again. His daughter's stubborn words and Chu Xuan's explanations, including Maslow's theory and so on, slightly shook his mind.
Heart.
Watching his daughter and Chu Xuan singing and harmonizing, based on what he learned about the archives, the two of them were indeed helping each other succeed.
Chu Xuan's respect for his daughter actually satisfied him.
The concepts that have been cultivated since childhood cannot be broken by Chu Xuan and his daughter in just a few words.
But seeing the firm attitudes of Chu Xuan and his daughter, he couldn't help but ask.
Liu Yifei took a bite of the dumplings, put down her chopsticks, and nodded firmly: "A woman's independence makes the world wider. I want to improve my own entertainment career and abilities in all aspects. I can do what a man can do, and a man can do it."
Even if I can’t do it, I will do it. This is what I want to pursue.”
"Okay!!" Grandpa shouted and raised his wine glass.
"Grandpa, I respect you." Liu Yifei said happily after being recognized by her grandfather.
"I'll accompany you." Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei raised their wine glasses together.
After finishing the drink, grandpa put down the glass, looked at grandma and Ankang and said, "You were wrong in handling Xiaoli's affairs back then. You actually put all the pressure on Xiaoli and messed around."
Grandpa looked at grandma again and said: "Especially you, you are so strong, but you let your wife give up her career? What do you think?"
After being scolded by grandpa, grandma retorted: "When you were teaching in the military area, you were there for a year. I didn't worry about anything at home. You called me and gave me full authority to handle it. As soon as Xiaokang and Xiaoli started to get busy with their careers.
If I don’t go home for half a month, it’s for Sissi’s own good. I have to have someone go home to take care of the child, right? Do you blame me?”
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei lowered their heads to eat, listening to their grandparents bickering with each other made them look like they were watching a show.
Maybe they saw their granddaughter crying just now, or maybe they were moved by the words of Chu Xuan and his granddaughter. I don't know if the grandparents told them these words on purpose to reassure them.
"Sissi, daddy wants to have a drink with you. Just now, daddy said something wrong. Don't take it to heart. Dad will always do it for your own good." Ankang revealed his heart and raised a glass to toast his daughter.
Liu Yifei arched her eyebrows, picked up the wine glass and said, "Dad, I love you."
The father and daughter had some arguments because of their different ideas, but after looking back, blood dissolves in water.
A glass of wine, a word, reconciliation is reached, and the relationship remains as before.
Chu Xuan looked at this scene gently. He felt warm and very happy to see Liu Yifei be in harmony with her family.
He has always believed that even though times have changed and society has changed, family love is eternal.
"Thinking from uncle's point of view, it must be for the good of Sissi and for Sissi to grow up happily in the future. It's just a temporary difference in ideas, which caused a little argument. Just now Sissi's tone of voice was a little more serious, uncle.
, I apologize to you on her behalf." Chu Xuan said, picking up the wine glass.
The whole family looked at Chu Xuan's actions and smiled.
Ankang poured a glass of wine from the wine dispenser and raised the glass.
Chu Xuan and Ankang touched it and drank it all in one gulp.
He put down his glass and said: "There is no debate about right and wrong in this world, there is no debate about right and wrong, there is only a debate between right and right."
"Uncle, you say you are right, and we say we are right. Based on the argument that men and women get along, there is no truth in the world to prove who is right and wrong."
"But Sissi and I are the parties involved. We can only be happy if we continue to walk unswervingly on the route we have set, because our hearts are here."
"Even if this path is wrong, we can still be happy. As for other people's ridicule or disdain, who cares? As long as we are happy."
"Well said!!" The uncle applauded Chu Xuan's words. Grandpa, grandma, Ankang and others were also stunned for a moment by Chu Xuan's words and then gave them high praise.
The uncle picked up the wine glass and said: "Xiao Xuan, I am very impressed with you. With your high level of thinking, you can take the civil service examination and enter politics. You will get high scores in terms of ideological moral character and psychological construction."
When Liu Yifei heard her uncle's praise for Chu Xuan, she felt extremely happy, so she raised her wine glass with Chu Xuan and said, "I'll accompany you."
The whole family looked at Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and their uncle drinking, and felt quite emotional in their hearts.
After just less than an hour of communication, they found that their daughter Sissi was growing up at such a rapid rate that they could not have imagined but were pleased with it.
Chu Xuan, who came to visit him for the first time, impressed them with his behavior and conversation, and his ideological concepts and career integration path based on the theoretical system of socialism with New China characteristics finally won their recognition.
Everyone smiled at Chu Xuan and Qian Qian and sighed in their hearts: These are two young people with great personalities.