We drank red wine in the evening, and the TV in the living room was turned on. Soon the Spring Festival Gala began. The TV was turned on a bit loudly, making it difficult to hear what we were saying. I hurriedly turned on the TV
It was turned off, but my mother immediately shouted to me: "Open it, open it! Just keep your voice down."
I had no choice but to smile bitterly and obey. After returning to my seat and sitting down, I said, "What else is there to see in the current Spring Festival Gala?"
Tong Yao's mother said: "During the Chinese New Year, the whole family has to have dinner together and then watch the Spring Festival Gala. Otherwise, is this still called the Chinese New Year?"
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, "In the past, during the New Year, the whole family would have dinner together and then go outside to set off firecrackers. The neighbors would also set off firecrackers together and be happy together. Now, we all stay at home, and the Spring Festival Gala has replaced everything."
My mother said: "Isn't it easy to cause fires when setting off firecrackers? But it is true now. This is the Chinese New Year. If you can't hear the sound of firecrackers, you always feel like something is wrong."
I said, "Yes. Everyone has worked hard for a year, and when the Spring Festival comes, they want to celebrate and be happy, but in the end they are all bored at home. Setting off firecrackers can easily cause fires, but as long as you pay attention to precautions, it will be fine. This
Just like a doctor operating on a patient, we can't give up surgery just because we are afraid of surgical accidents, right? The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in our country. If this continues, children in the future will not know what the Spring Festival is about. By then, children will know about the Spring Festival
The only thing I think about is the concept of red envelopes and money. This is a very scary thing for the future of a country."
Tong Yao looked at me, "Feng Xiao, you seem to have a lot of emotions today. Did something happen there?"
I immediately told them about the situation in our Shangjiang City, "I think this is not just our Shangjiang City. I don't know what the policy makers above are thinking about this matter."
, it’s just a mess. If this country continues to do this, sooner or later there will be problems.”
The mother said: "Since you have seen the problem, the people above will also see it, so I believe it will be changed in the future."
Tong Yao also smiled and said: "That's right. Feng Xiao, you are still the mayor, why are you so pessimistic about the problem?"
I smiled. In fact, I also found that sometimes I do look a little pessimistic when looking at problems.
Later, as my mother expected, the country revised the laws and allowed firecrackers to be set off even in cities. Then I thought to myself: My pessimism comes from the darkness in my heart.
Or I have lost a lot of confidence in this society and myself. And I also believe that there are many people like me in the officialdom, because we see more dark sides than ordinary people.
But Tong Yao should have seen more dark sides than me, but why doesn't she think like me? The reason is very simple, that is, her heart is always full of sunshine.
Therefore, when I summed up myself later, I understood one thing: a person's views and attitudes towards this society are actually the most fundamental factors that play a role in the positivity and negativity in his heart. People like me live a very tiring life.
, but this kind of tiredness of mine is self-inflicted.
Unfortunately, I understood it too late, and even after I understood it, it was still difficult for me to become sunny again.
After dinner, I asked to wash the dishes. I said that the two old people were too tired. In fact, I knew that what they wanted to do most now was watch TV, but I had long lost interest in that thing, and was even bored.
Already.
Tong Yao come and help me.
When I was washing dishes in the kitchen, Tong Yao said to me: "Shall we go for a walk later?"
I suddenly felt excited, but I tried my best to suppress my mood at this time, "It's not good for us to go out, okay?"
She looked at me, "Don't we even have time to be friends?"
I was at a loss for words, and after a while I said with a wry smile: "Tong Yao, I don't know what you think. Since you finally decided not to choose me, you should marry Fang Qiang earlier. Have you ever thought about your mother?
Are you in the mood? She is really worried about the two of you."
She said softly: "Let's not talk about this here. Okay?"
I immediately understood that she had something in her heart that she wanted to tell me. At this time, I felt warm and disappointed in my heart. But I still said to her: "We have to find a suitable reason later."
.Otherwise, the two old people will misunderstand."
She glanced at me and said, "Why make it so complicated? That's how you are. You make things that are originally very simple too complicated, and you can't understand some things that are too complicated. I really can't do anything with you."
I couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After cleaning up everything in the kitchen, Tong Yao and I went to the living room. Tong Yao said to the two elderly people: "Feng Xiao and I went out to do something."
The two old people came to look at us, and Tong Yao said: "Why are you looking at us like this? Let's go out to find a friend to do something. You can just watch TV slowly."
I had no choice but to follow her words and say, "We'll be back after a while."
But Tong Yao immediately said: "How can we do it later? We still have to go drink with our friends over there."
Tong Yao's mother waved to her daughter and said, "Go, go! This girl doesn't look like a girl at all!"
My mother immediately laughed next to her and said, "Go ahead, don't drink too much."
After going out, Tong Yao reached out to me and said, "Car keys!"
I obediently handed her the car key and said, "You can take this car and drive it. I told you before. Anyway, I am in Shangjiang City on weekdays and I have a special car."
After she got in the car, she said to me: "How can I, a small policeman, drive a car like yours all day long? If something happens, I can always drive the car in the unit."
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then asked her: "Where are we going?"
She looked at me and said with a smile: "Let's drink. Today is New Year's Eve, we should have a good drink, right?"
I looked at her in astonishment, "We were able to drink when we were at my house just now? I have all kinds of wine at my house."
She pursed her lips and said, "I don't want to drink at your house. If my mother is there, she will definitely nag me."
I thought so. But I still advised her: "The old man is nagging because she cares about you and is worried about you. You should understand her mood."
She smiled and said: "Yes, I understand it very well. That's why I called you out to drink."
I couldn't help but laugh, "You have a point anyway."
She asked me: "Do you have any good wine in the car?"
I smiled and said, "Yes. Both Wuliangye and Moutai are available. You can drink whatever you want."
She immediately became happy and said, "That's great."
I asked her: "Where are you going? By the way, I can't drink too much today. I have to rush back to Shangjiang to go to work tomorrow."
She said: "Who said you need to drink too much? Just be happy. Now the steering wheel is in my hands, you can just sit back and relax."
I had no choice but to stop asking.
She drove the car into an alley, where there was a hot pot restaurant. I didn't expect that it was still open on this New Year's Eve night.
"This place is open all night all year round." She saw my doubts and immediately said to me, "Sometimes when we are on duty until midnight, we come here to have something to eat. Especially in winter."
I looked at her, "Eating hot pot and drinking white wine?"
She smiled and said: "Why not?"
I smiled bitterly, "Yes, you can just say yes." (To be continued)