"Is it too late?"

"Just in time. ”

"Did you all play in Shanghai during the May Day holiday, and where did you go?" asked Li Xin's mother.

"I just walked around the city, and I was so busy with the house that I didn't have time to go anywhere else. ”

"What house, in Shanghai?" Li Xin's mother was surprised.

"I didn't have time to tell you on the phone, I bought a villa in Shanghai, and I was busy buying furniture over there for the past two days, so I came back late. ”

Li Xin's mother asked strangely: "What are you buying a villa in Shanghai for? Is your company going to send you to live in Shanghai permanently?"

"No, I just like it. ”

"You work in Jiangcheng but go to Shanghai to buy a villa, isn't that empty for many months?"

"No, you can go there on holidays and weekends. Besides, you can go there after you retire in two years. ”

Li Xin's mother was a little unhappy: "You don't tell us about such a big thing!"

"I also decided on the spot, just buy it, anyway, it will be useful in the future. ”

"How much did you spend on a villa?"

"About 60 million. ”

Li Xin's mother asked in surprise, "Where did you get so much money?"

"I made it in the stock and futures markets. Oh, Mom, you don't care about that. ”

Li Xin's mother said to Li Xin's father helplessly: "Look at it, he had a big idea when he was a child, and now he can't control it!"

Li Xin's father asked with a calm face, "What do you think about buying a villa in Shanghai, do you plan to work there?"

Li Xin replied: "Maybe, I haven't thought about it now, anyway, this villa will definitely be useful if I buy it." ”

"I'm not talking about villas, I'm talking about work. I told you before that you want to work with peace of mind, and I think you just can't calm down now!"

"Dad, I know, but there are many kinds of jobs, and you don't have to be called a job in a sugar company or a southern group. ”

"But what are you going to do in the future? Do you have an idea?"

"It should still be a securities and futures investment. ”

"You went out like this, and it won't be a long-term thing to have no unit!"

"Dad, it's different now than before, I can't go hungry even if I leave the unit, you don't have to worry about it. ”

"You say it simply, can we not worry about it?" Li Xin's father has worked diligently in the unit all his life, and he also hopes that Li Xin will be like himself. But in his eyes, Li Xin's mind was not on work. My son has been working for so many years after graduating from college, and he is still just a small clerk. He didn't expect Li Xin to take a half-official position to glorify his ancestors, but this state at least showed that his son's work performance was very bad, which was something that worried him very much.

Now Li Xin not only does not feel at ease working in the unit, but also wants to resign and do his own stock and futures investment, which makes him even more worried.

Although as a father, he also knows that his son has made a lot of money from stocks and futures over the years, but after working in the financial industry for so many years, he also knows that the risks in the capital market are very high.

As the saying goes, I often walk by the river, and there is no one who does not get his shoes wet, and maybe one day Li Xin will lose all the money he earned. At that time, Li Xin will not have a work unit, and life will be a problem.

He had talked to Li Xin several times about this concern before, but Li Xin not only didn't listen to it, but now he has intensified it, and his thoughts are becoming more and more boundless, which makes him want to get angry.

But my son's girlfriend came to the house for the first time today, and now she is at the dinner table again, so he tried his best to control his emotions and did not get angry.

Although Li Xin's father usually doesn't talk much, he is a very delicate person. At this point, Li Xin inherited this advantage of his father.

Li Xin was beaten by her mother for being naughty when she was a child, and she was scolded and cried several times by her mother at the dinner table. At such times, Li Xin's father would privately say to his wife: "Don't scold the child at the dinner table in the future, this is not good for the child, it will affect his digestion, if you have anything to say, you will talk about it after eating." ”

So the reason why Li Xin is not called aside by her father to talk now is because of this point in time, and secondly, because of Xia Xiaona's light.

Li Xin saw that the atmosphere on the table was a little nervous, and quickly changed the topic and said: "Dad, I'll explain this matter to you slowly in the future, anyway, I'm still working in the unit, right? I came back this time to see you, and I want you to help me write four words." ”

"Write four words, what words?" Li Xin's father was very strange.

Li Xin said to Xia Xiaona: "You go and bring the digital camera." ”

"Oh, okay. When Li Xin's parents interrogated Li Xin just now, Xia Xiaona listened quietly on the side, and she didn't dare to come out. Now hearing Li Xin say this, he quickly agreed, got up and went to the suitcase in the living room to get the camera.

After Xia Xiaona brought the camera, Li Xin pulled up the photos of the villa he bought and said to his parents: "Dad, Mom, look, this is the Chinese villa I bought, beautiful, right?"

"Well, it's not bad. Li Xin's father said.

"Dad, you see, this is the gate of the villa, this is the pool in the courtyard. The four words I want you to write for me are Xinyuan and Lotus Pond. The words Xinyuan are engraved on the door of the villa gate, and the word lotus pond is engraved on the rockery of the pool in the courtyard of the villa, what do you think?"

"Sounds good, Xinyuan should mean a warm home, right? But what does this lotus pond mean? Just because the pond is planted with lotus flowers?"

Li Xin said: "It's still my dad who understands me. Xinyuan is what you mean, as for the word lotus pond, it literally means that there are lotus flowers in the pool, and the other layer means that the small lotus shows sharp corners. ”

"Well, these four words mean good!" Li Xin's father nodded and said.

Li Xin saw that his father's attitude had improved, and said happily: "Dad, then you can help me write these 4 words after eating." ”

"Writing is writing, and I haven't finished talking about it yet. ”

"Dad, didn't I tell you? I'll explain to you slowly later, I haven't even figured it out yet. ”

Li Xin's mother said to Xia Xiaona: "Don't look at his usual quietness, this kid has a lot of ideas, and I scolded him a lot for this when I was a child." ”

"I think he has a lot of ideas, too. Xia Xiaona replied sympathetically.

Since Li Xin entered the house, Li Xin's mother was happily busy cooking for her son, and she didn't have time to ask about her son's girlfriend. Just after chatting a few words at the dinner table just now, the topic was opened because of Li Xin's purchase of a villa in Shanghai, so it was only now that she remembered to ask the girl in front of her about the situation: "By the way, Nana, which unit do you work in?"

"Li Xin and I are colleagues, I used to be in the same office with him when I was in the sugar company, and now I also work in the same company. ”

"Oh, yes? You've known each other for a long time. ”

"Yes, Auntie. ”

"What exactly do you do?"

"I'm in the HR department of the company. ”

"Oh, that's good. What year are you from?"

"I was in the same year as Li Xin, and he was a few months older than me. ”

"Your family is from Jiangcheng?"

"Yes. ”

Li Xin said on the side at this time: "Mom, you are a bit like checking your household registration." ”

"You kid, Nana came to our house for the first time, let me ask what's wrong?" Li Xin's mother glanced at her son, then turned her head to Xia Xiaona and said, "In the future, I will often go home with Li Xin to play." ”

"Okay, Auntie. Hearing Li Xin's mother's words, Xia Xiaona's heart, which had been hanging since she entered the door, slowly fell.

After eating, the family watched TV in the living room for a while, Li Xin's mother went upstairs to prepare a room for Xia Xiaona, Li Xin saw that it was almost time, and said to his father: "Dad, I'll prepare pen and ink, can you help me write?"

"Hmm. ”

So Li Xin got up and went to his father's study to prepare pen, ink and rice paper.

After a while, Li Xin came out of the study and said, "Dad, the pen and ink are ready, come and help me write." ”

Li Xin's father put down the teacup in his hand, got up and walked to the study.

Li Xin beckoned to Xia Xiaona behind her father and said, "Hurry up and come and see my dad write." ”

Xia Xiaona listened, happily ran over to hold Li Xin's hand, and the two followed Li Xin's father into the study.

After Li Xin's father sat down in front of the writing desk, he sorted out the rice paper on the table, and was about to reach for the brush on the inkstone, but suddenly stopped. He turned around and taught Li Xin a lesson: "When I was a child, you didn't listen to you to practice calligraphy, but now you look at it, and you don't even understand the basic rules." ”

"What's wrong?" asked Li Xin inexplicably.

Li Xin's father pointed to the Chinese calligraphy pen on the inkstone and said, "Can you use this pen to write big characters?" ”

At this time, Li Xin and Xia Xiaona stood behind Li Xin's father left and right, Li Xin listened to his father's reprimand, made a grimace at Xia Xiaona, and quickly took off the largest brush on the pen stand and handed it to his father.

Li Xin's father took the pen, dipped it in ink in the inkstone and thought for a moment, and then wrote it on rice paper.

As soon as the last stroke of the first word "Xin" was written, Xia Xiaona couldn't help but admire: "Wow, uncle, your handwriting is so beautiful!"

Li Xin hurriedly put her finger to her mouth and motioned for Xia Xiaona not to make a sound.

Li Xin's father wrote the four big characters "Xinyuan" and "Lotus Pond" on two pieces of rice paper in one go. After writing, he looked at it carefully, and then asked Li Xin, "Is this okay?"

Li Xin said with satisfaction: "It's too good, that's what I want, this calligraphy is still good written by my father!"

"When I was a child, you just didn't listen to you when you were asked to practice calligraphy, and during the winter and summer vacations, you were required to write 5 words a day, but you always cut corners, wrote one or two articles a day and ran out to play. Otherwise, you can do it yourself. ”