Four days passed quickly, and what made Li Yang very depressed was that Zhang Ying actually took three consecutive days off, which completely made Li Yang's idea of going to check out the house disappear.
In the past four days, in addition to receiving customers and sorting out the company's sales accounts after get off work, Li Yang has been reading the antique books he bought. After understanding the contents of these books, Li Yang deeply understood why Wu Xiaoli and Zheng Kaida both He was told over and over again that the industry of antiques is too deep. It can be said that counterfeiting has been integrated into the antiques industry and is a culture in the bones of antiques.
No matter which antique book there is, it will always mention how to detect fakes. Li Yang has special abilities to help. After getting off work, he went to Mingyang Antique Street and walked around. In the past few days, he actually recognized a lot of fakes.
Characteristics of things. Of course, these are all achieved with the help of special abilities. With special abilities, at least in terms of time, nothing can be hidden from Li Yang.
For an old man, his seventieth birthday is an extremely important day. For the old man’s children, this day is also the most important day. Grandpa Wu Xiaoli’s family has been preparing for this birthday banquet for more than a month in advance. It must be
Guaranteed nothing goes wrong.
Wu Xiaoli's grandfather is Liu Xuesong. As mentioned in the previous article, he is the chief professor of Mingyang Museum and the Taishan Beidou of Mingyang antiques. The most suitable gift for a person like this on his birthday is antiques.
If you are a longevity old man, you will call your birthday every ten, such as 'fifty birthday', 'sixty birthday', 'seventy birthday', etc. However, this kind of birthday does not really happen on ten, but refers to forty-nine, fifty-nine, sixty.
The age of nine equals nine. Because nine has the largest value among the ten numbers, people want to seek good luck, so this custom of "celebrating nine but not ten" has been formed.
Among these birthdays, the seventieth birthday is the most important one. In ancient times, the sixtieth birthday would have been more grand, but now people's living standards have improved, and the retirement age has been extended, which is the most important for the elderly.
My birthday has become my seventieth birthday.
There is a saying that "life spans seventy years." For Liu Xuesong's children, it can be said that it is very hard for Liu Xuesong's children to raise their two sons and four daughters through hardships and ups and downs in their family over the past seventy years.
His wife passed away early, and his children respected the old man even more. Liu Xuesong just mentioned his wish to live a long life, and the children got busy, making sure to satisfy the old man without any regrets.
Liu Xuesong is sixty-nine this year, and he is celebrating Qingjiu’s seventieth birthday. According to the custom of Mingyang, this kind of seventieth birthday is also called longevity. The birthday gifts include longevity curtains, shrouds, longevity people, and longevity peaches.
Etc., people who are particular about longevity will also add longevity opera, longevity and other popular customs.
Most of Liu Xuesong's children currently hold relatively important leadership positions, and he himself is an authoritative scholar. There must be many people coming to celebrate such an important birthday. Liu Xuesong's children discussed it and, after the old man's advice,
After agreeing, we decided to hold the birthday banquet in a hotel, otherwise the family would not be able to accommodate so many people.
However, putting it in a hotel will definitely conflict with some traditional customs. Fortunately, the elderly are more open-minded and don't care about these.
Early on Sunday morning, the Liu family went to the hotel to decorate the hotel. Liu Xuesong is also a relatively famous figure in Mingyang. Many retired cadres will come to congratulate him on his birthday. The standards and grades cannot be low.
In the apartment, Li Yang was combing his hair in front of the mirror with a comb. He always felt that today's hair style was not very good. Going to an old man's birthday party with a messy hair style was disrespectful to the old man.
After fiddling with the mirror for more than ten minutes, Li Yang finally nodded with satisfaction. Looking at the crisp suit on his body, Li Yang picked up the gift box on the table and walked out.
As soon as he opened the door, Li Yang was startled. Someone was trying to break down the door. If Li Yang hadn't taken an urgent step back and the hand in front of him stopped there, the fist would have hit his head.
superior.
"You, what are you doing?"
Li Yang looked at Wu Xiaoli in front of him in surprise. Wu Xiaoli was dressed very beautifully today, but beautiful girls cannot raise their fists to hit people. This action made Wu Xiaoli's ladylike temperament disappear.
"Am I not here to pick you up?" Wu Xiaoli also stared with big eyes, looking very innocent.
Li Yang smiled bitterly and said, "You don't have to look like this to pick me up, right?"
Wu Xiaoli's hand was still raised at this time, but she immediately put it down when Li Yang reminded her. Her face turned slightly red, but her eyes were still staring at Li Yang.
"I was about to knock on the door, but who knew you came out from inside!"
"Knock on the door?" Li Yang touched his nose: "I remember there is a doorbell here, why do you still knock on the door?"
"I forgot, okay, let's go!" Wu Xiaoli suddenly paused, glared at Li Yang fiercely, and then pulled Li Yang and ran out. Li Yang hurriedly let go of his hand, went back and closed the door before following Wu Xiaoli.
go out.
The place where Liu Xuesong held his birthday banquet was at the Tianyu Hotel, the best in Mingyang. The entire second floor was occupied by Liu Xuesong's children. As a retired cadre at the deputy department level, Liu Xuesong still has many city leaders today.
I will personally come to congratulate you. This is also a manifestation of the city leaders' concern for retired veteran cadres.
Li Yang's Volvo didn't start, so Wu Xiaoli put it directly into her car. As a direct family member like her granddaughter, Wu Xiaoli had to go to the hotel early to make preparations, so she was so anxious to find Li Yang. As for why Li Yang didn't show up so early
Following him, both of them ignored him.
At the door of the hotel, a cousin and uncle of Wu Xiaoli were already standing at the door. They were stunned when they saw Li Yang getting out of Wu Xiaoli's car.
"Uncle, this is my colleague Li Yang. He came here specially to wish my grandpa a birthday today!"
Wu Xiaoli took Li Yang and walked directly to the older people. When Li Yang's name was mentioned, Wu Xiaoli's uncle suddenly looked stunned, and then stepped forward to shake hands warmly, but Li Yang always felt that his eyes were a little strange.
, not only Wu Xiaoli’s uncle, but also Wu Xiaoli’s cousin.
"Welcome, welcome, Xiao Ming, take Xiaoli and her colleagues inside first!"
After Wu Xiaoli's uncle looked Li Yang up and down carefully, he finally smiled with satisfaction. Wu Xiaoli's cousin also had a weird smile on his face and pulled Li Yang inside.
The second floor of the hotel was completely in the atmosphere of a birthday banquet. There was a chair in the center of the banquet hall on the second floor, and there was a big Chinese character "Shou" behind the chair. Wu Xiaoli's grandfather was not here, but after a while the birthday celebrations started.
You will sit here to receive birthday wishes from your children and younger generations. This is also an important step in celebrating your 70th birthday.
There is also a special reception desk at the stairway on the second floor, which is mainly used to receive birthday gifts from visitors. Generally speaking, only close relatives or people with good relationships will send real birthday gifts. Others are more distant or just come because of favors.
Most people bring gifts, and Liu Xuesong has already given instructions for these gifts. Any gifts exceeding two hundred will not be accepted. Don't let people misunderstand that he is using his birthday to make money.
Li Yang handed over the gift box casually, and the receptionist glanced at Li Yang in surprise. The person who could give the gift must be someone close to him, but they had obviously never seen the Li Yang in front of them.
The two receptionists saw Wu Xiaoli and her cousin who were following them, and finally nodded together, with a strange smile on their faces. The two receptionists were also from the Liu family.
"Li Yang, please sit here for a while. I'll come find you when I'm done!"
Wu Xiaoli took Li Yang to a large table where no one was sitting, and said with concern that there were many guests coming today, and she also had to go out to receive them.
"Okay, you go and do your work first!"
Li Yang nodded and looked around the hall. Since Li Yang came earlier, there were not many people in the hall, and no one else came alone like him. Most of them were sitting there in twos and threes, eating melon seeds and chatting.
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There was another room deep in the hall. When people came in and out, Li Yang happened to see a few old people sitting in it. Wu Xiaoli's grandfather must be in there now, waiting for the birthday ceremony to begin.
