Of course I couldn't object, "Okay, I'll drink with you."
Then we started drinking liquor and chatting about some things. While we were drinking heavily, I suddenly heard him asking me: "Feng Xiao, Zhong Feng called me this afternoon. She said Huang Province
I really like the environment of Nanyuan Restaurant, isn’t that right?
I didn't think about why he suddenly asked me such a question. I said: "It seems like this. That night after dinner, Governor Huang said to Zhong Feng: You can do more in this place."
OK."
He looked at me, "Oh? Governor Huang really said that?"
I nodded.
He asked me again: "Then what do you think Governor Huang's words mean?"
Only then did I react, "Uncle Lin, since Zhong Feng told you this, she should tell you the meaning of Governor Huang's words, right?"
He immediately laughed, "Feng Xiao, you are getting smarter and smarter."
I laughed "haha" and thought to myself: Isn't this obvious? I'm not a fool.
He immediately came to me and asked: "Feng Xiao, tell me the truth, what is the relationship between this Zhong Feng and you?"
I looked at him, "Didn't Zhong Feng tell you?"
He shook his head.
It seemed to me that he wasn't lying to me, and I also thought that Zhong Feng couldn't possibly tell him that much. She was just my patient, so what was there to say about such a relationship?
So I told him the whole process of my life with Zhong Yayan, and finally I said: "I'm still talking about her. Since I have experienced life and death, why am I still so confused?"
After hearing this, Lin Yi smiled and said: "Feng Xiao, that's what this person is like. It's easy to see others, but it's difficult to see yourself clearly. Take me as an example, many people must also find it difficult to understand someone like me.
People: With so much property, why do you continue to make money? You can’t use it all in a few lifetimes, right? Why bother? Including you, maybe you think so sometimes, right?”
I nodded, "Yes. I did think so. But then I understood, because I heard you say some things, and I know that it is no longer your purpose to continue to make money, but that you have turned your business into something
Doing big business is for your own career, and you feel that you must shoulder a sense of social responsibility."
He shook his head and said: "You only said one aspect, but you didn't say it completely."
I looked at him in surprise, "Oh? Are there other reasons?"
He nodded and said: "There is another most important and fundamental reason, and that is a person's dignity. I must continue my career, and I must make my career bigger and bigger. This is related to
The meaning of living in this world, because only when a person is recognized by society can he feel the meaning of his existence. Otherwise, what is the difference between me and other people? Therefore, the more difficult things are, the more I like to challenge them.
, once you succeed in the most difficult situation, the inner joy is difficult for ordinary people to feel. I think only in this way can you feel that you are truly alive. Feng
Laugh, maybe you don’t understand how I feel, but I believe that you will feel it when you reach a certain height. A person’s ambition always increases with the rise in status and wealth, and even
It can be said to be expansion. Because after a person reaches a certain height, he will become lonely and feel what it means to be cold at a high place. At that time, the only thing that can excite him is greater success. This is like
Like those who take drugs, only by continuously increasing the dose can people feel excited, because a person's excitement point is constantly increasing."
The more he talked, the more excited he became, and I noticed that there was something as strange as Dong Jie and Zhong Feng in his eyes. I couldn't help but feel horrified, so I hurriedly reminded him: "Uncle Lin, you have drunk too much."
The thing in his eyes flashed away, and then he said to me calmly: "Maybe."
I remember the ancient Greek tragedy writer Eudipides once said: If a god wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy. At this moment, Lin Yi's words made me feel a very bad premonition, but I didn't
Dare to remind him of anything, because I know that he definitely doesn’t want to hear other people’s opposite opinions now. You know, what he just said may be his truest inner world.
Maybe it was what I said just now that made him lose the passion to speak, or maybe he felt that he was really drunk with his opinions, so he quickly made a suggestion to end the dinner.
Then I drove home. When we parted, he gave me something, which was a large brown paper envelope. He told me that it contained the manuscript of Governor Huang's father.
One thing I didn't expect: my parents came to the provincial capital in advance. I picked them up in the afternoon.
"How much does such a beautiful house cost?" my mother asked me in amazement after seeing my villa.
My father looked at me suspiciously, "You're not going to accept a bribe, are you?"
I couldn't laugh or cry immediately, "The money I earned from the project in my hometown was enough to buy this villa. Why should I accept bribes?"
Only then did the father laugh.
Then I asked them: "Don't you want to go back this time? Just stay in the provincial capital from now on."
My mother looked at me, hesitantly, and then asked me after a while: "Where is our grandson? Still no news?"
I suddenly felt uneasy, shook my head and said, "I just talked about this matter with my father-in-law last night. But he said there was nothing he could do."
The father immediately became angry, "His wife took the child out, why can't he do anything?"
As a last resort, I had no choice but to tell the story about Lin Yi finding another woman to have a child. After hearing this, my father suddenly became silent. After a while, he shook his head and sighed: "This guy, no matter how rich he is, he will still be the same."
Yeah, it’s impossible to think about everything being perfect.”
The mother became even more anxious, "Then, what should we do with our grandson? Are we going to let him stay with his grandmother abroad? How is this allowed?"
I quickly comforted her and said, "Don't worry, I'll think of a solution slowly."
The father shook his head and sighed: "It's all our fault. If we had known, we should have come up to take care of our grandson earlier. Otherwise, how could such a thing happen? But Feng Xiao, you are already a grown man, and Chen Yuan has been away from you for so long.
,should you find another one as soon as possible?"
The mother also said: "Xiao'er, your father and I have already agreed that we won't go back this time. How good would it be for our family to live together?"
I was very happy, "Really? That's great!"
My father said: "Your father-in-law asked me to work in his company. After thinking about it, I still feel that it is not good. I am not familiar with the situation in the provincial capital, and your father-in-law's company can only give me a casual position, unlike in my hometown."
I can still play some role. I don't want to get paid for nothing."
I know my father quite well, and I know that he is a person who can never take any time off. I said: "Dad, or so. I still have some money on hand, so why don't we open a store ourselves and you can run it?"
.Do you think this is okay?”
My father suddenly looked very happy and said, "That's good. But what should I do?"
I suddenly thought of my own restaurant, but I immediately rejected the idea because Tongyue's mother was currently helping me take care of it, and she was doing a very good job. With my father's character, he must be the same as me.
That old lady is not good for us. And if I arrange it like that, nursery rhyme's mother will definitely misunderstand that I want to drive her away. After thinking about it, I said: "Dad, don't be anxious about this matter. I'll think about it slowly."
Let’s talk about it later, okay?”
My father smiled and said, "I'm not in a hurry. I just happened to have a good rest recently. Let's talk about it after the new year."
I looked at the time and said, "Dad, Mom, our work is having a dinner tonight and I have to host it."
Father nodded and said, "You go ahead. Your mother and I can just make some food at home."
I said: "I heard that you are coming, so I bought some vegetables and put them in the refrigerator. You can cook what you like. By the way, I want to ask a nanny to come back so that someone will clean the house in the future.
I'm cooking. Do you think it's okay?"
The father shook his head and said: "No need. It used to be because of Chen Yuan, but now there is no such situation, so there is no need to hire a nanny. Your mother and I are both in good health, and we can do all those things."
I think so, and my father has a one-size-fits-all character, so I had no choice but to leave it at that.
The dinner party in the evening was held in a hot pot restaurant. Manjiangnan booked the entire hall of a hot pot restaurant according to my instructions. This is of course a relatively large hot pot restaurant, after all, there are many people in our unit.
Most of the retired comrades came. The old director was very happy when he saw me. He came over and said to me: "Xiao Feng, thank you. I didn't expect you to be so meticulous in your work. My office is great, and it works with me."
It's exactly the same as before. Xiaoman said it was your order. Although you are young, you consider the problem so carefully, I really appreciate you."
I hurriedly said to him: "Old director, you promised to come back and help me, so I should express my gratitude to you."
Of course, I gave a speech before dinner, "Good evening, everyone, leaders and colleagues! I know everyone is waiting for me to finish this opening statement quickly, and then start drinking. But such an opening statement is necessary.
, because this is the custom. Otherwise, if we grab drinks and food from the beginning, wouldn’t we become a group of stragglers? (Everyone laughs) So, what needs to be said must be said. Okay then.
, I will try to say as few words as possible. By the way, where did I say it? (Everyone laughed again) Oh, I remembered, it seems that I just started. Leaders and colleagues, good evening!
We are about to bid farewell to this fruitful year and will soon usher in a new year. In the past year, the management level of our unit has continued to improve, and various undertakings have shown a new and vibrant situation. These
The achievements are inseparable from the leadership of the old director and other leaders, and are also the result of the hard work of all our employees. Here, on behalf of our leadership team, I would like to extend my cordial condolences to the employees who have made selfless contributions over the past year.
As the Spring Festival is approaching, let us raise a toast together and wish everyone here good health, family harmony, and all the best! I wish our common career will be brilliant! Finally, I wish you all have a wonderful night!"
Actually, I didn’t want to make this kind of dinner so serious, but the effect of my speech was pretty good, and the whole scene became lively at once. But I was the one who suffered after the excitement, because the employees soon became less restrained.
, so everyone came to toast us shortly after the dinner started. It was impossible for me to drink fake wine on such an occasion, so I was already drunk by the end of the dinner.
On the way back, I asked Sui to stop on the side of the road for a while because I couldn't help but want to vomit.
However, after vomiting, I immediately felt much better and became more awake.
Later, I asked Xiao Sui to take me outside my villa. When I got off the car, I told him: "Xiao Sui, you can pick me up here every day from now on."
I don't need to tell him why.
He wouldn't ask me, but he immediately said to me, "Director Feng, you are the most generous leader I have ever seen. Have you noticed? No other leader drinks like you."
I smiled and said, "It's nothing. It's only once a year."
When I got home, my mother had already cooked a sobering soup for me. My mother told me that this sobering soup contains vinegar, ginger slices and brown sugar. I immediately felt a warm feeling like returning to my childhood. But I
I felt a little strange, "Mom, where did you buy brown sugar?"
My mother told me: "Isn't there a large supermarket outside? I went there to buy it. It's really convenient here. Everything is sold in the supermarket."
My mother's words immediately reminded me of something, and I immediately said to my father: "Dad, you have a job!" (To be continued)