XXVIII. Dinner

"Listen, it's my two sons. Zheng Chengxian heard the sound of the door closing downstairs and said to the guest Wang Jieren.

Zheng Xuanqi heard his father's unique voice from a long distance outside the door, and judged that there should be a guest at home!

"It's Brother Wang, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, my brother and I just came back from the Xinhua Bookstore in the city. Zheng Xuanqi saw Wang Jieren in the house, and guessed that maybe the matter of his novel publication should be eyebrows, and hurriedly said enthusiastically.

"Brother Wang, good evening!" Zheng Xuanchen, who was following behind Zheng Xuanqi, also greeted politely.

"Not long after, I just entered the door and sat down, and my ass was not hot yet!" Wang Jieren smiled and waved his hand, "It's a holiday, and I'm still so serious, go to the bookstore to study." ”

"The bookstore has a good atmosphere, people like books, and there is nothing to do at home, and there is nothing to do, so it is better to enrich yourself more and accumulate a little knowledge. ”

"What do you call Xuan Qi and Xiao Chen? You should call them uncle, Xiao Wang is about the same age as your father, how can you call him eldest brother, it's a mess of seniority!" Father Zheng Chengxian scolded him dissatisfiedly when he heard the brothers call Wang Jieren the eldest brother.

"It's okay, it's okay! everyone has their own friends, as long as they are in love, what uncle is not uncle, Brother Zheng!" Wang Jieren turned back to Zheng Chengxian and said.

"Xiaochen, hello!" Wang Jieren took out the toy beside him and said to Zheng Xiaochen with a smile, "Look, the eldest brother brought you the boy's favorite toy, Transformers!" ”

Holding the transformers handed over by Wang Jieren, Zheng Xuanchen was overjoyed, this was the latest version of Qi Tianzhu's autobot, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Brother Wang, thank you!" After speaking, he hugged the toy and ran into the bedroom, lest his father reprimand him again.

Looking at his younger brother Zheng Xuanqi's happy appearance, Zheng Xuanqi suddenly realized that he seemed to have neglected something!

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In daily life, everything we do is inseparable from eating, and we can't do without that round dining table.

These meals contain all kinds of emotions that we have in life, because these feelings: eating at the same table with different people makes our lives full of love and fun.

Taiwanese writer Lin Qingxuan wrote in an essay about food, "People always choose their own preferences, and this preference is often very close to their own character and essence, so a person's personality can be seen from his food." ”

This kind of personality is upbringing.

Wang Jieren didn't know that there was a Taiwanese writer named Lin Qingxuan, perhaps his younger brother Wang Jieyi knew; but he was self-made and had been in business for many years, but he knew the essence of Chinese dinners.

Zheng Xuanqi's father, Zheng Chengxian, is a straight-hearted, bold and talkative, informal, or related to the "sincerity" in his name, and there is no cunning in his eyes; his mother Qiao Huafang is a traditional good wife and mother, but because of selling clothes, she has the kind of little shrewdness of businessmen; Zheng Xuanchen is still young, but his habits are very good, what does the table look like before the meal, what does the table look like after the meal, never wastes food, and eats a bowl of rice cleanly; as for Zheng Xuanqi, the sitting posture, Form, dining habits, natural and elegant, no artificiality------ this is an ordinary well-off home, a warm home advocating simplicity and thrift, a civilized home that attaches importance to traditional education, Wang Jieren judged that perhaps it is such a family that can give birth to excellent children!

Father Zheng Chengxian and mother Qiao Huafang also looked at this friend whose son called Brother Wang. After intermittent exchanges, intentionally or unintentionally, Zheng Xuanqi's family knew that Wang Jieren had two brothers who were living in Guangzhou; they also knew that Wang Jieren's actual age this year was only 32 years old, unmarried, and compared with his appearance, his actual age was much younger, which may be because of his career and many reasons; and he also knew the tragic past of Wang Jieren's three brothers when they were in Wenzhou, but this also resonated with Zheng Xuanqi's father, Zheng Chengxian. And Zheng Xuanqi actually knew about these for a long time.

"Brother Zheng, sister-in-law Qiao, I salute you, I really envy you for having such an excellent son!" Wang Jieren put down the chopsticks in his hand, blushed slightly at Zheng Xuanqi's father and mother, and raised his glass with both hands into the wine and said.

"That's so polite! Thank you, drink slowly. Mother Qiao Huafang showed twelve white teeth, obviously liking this sentence of praise for her son, which immediately brought the relationship between the two closer.

"Polite words, don't talk about it, let's sit down to eat and drink together, that's fate, cheers!" Father Zheng Chengxian still had a full stomach.

"Brother Zheng, sister-in-law Qiao, this is not my deliberate compliment, it is my sincerity! The three of us brothers were forced to go to Guangzhou to start a business in order to make a living, and it has been almost 10 years before and after, and we can be regarded as having a bit of a family business. This time, I went back to Wenzhou alone, mainly to repay the neighbors who had helped me. Because I was in a hurry, on the way to my hometown, I fell asleep on the bus, if it wasn't for Xuanqi shouting that there was a thief at that time and helping to catch the thief, the 100,000 yuan in my bag would have flown away. Wang Jieren said slowly.

"Catch the thief? Xuanqi catch the thief, is it true------

The son is always the mother's heart, hearing that the son who was only 14 years old caught the thief, Qiao Huafang's first reaction was not to be happy and proud of it, but to hold his son's arm tightly, check whether he was injured up and down, and said with concern: "Was there any injury at that time, why didn't the other people in the carriage help?"

"Mom, it's okay, it's all over!" Zheng Xuanqi struggled lightly and said with a smile.

Zheng Xuanchen saw that his mother was so nervous, while touching his brother's left arm, he looked at his right leg, and shouted: "At that time, my brother was so powerful, he poked that bald villain with a throw of the umbrella, and then scared the tall man away with a throw of the dictionary." ”

"Then why don't you come back and tell your parents!" asked her mother Qiao Huafang seriously.

"It's my brother who won't let me say. Zheng Xuanchen looked at Zheng Xuanqi and muttered softly.

In front of Wang Jieren, her mother Qiao Huafang is not very easy to lose her temper and educate her children. After groping up and down Zheng Xuanqi's arm, he didn't find any scars, so he let go of his heart a little.

"Brother Zheng, sister-in-law, why don't you know?" Wang Jieren was stunned for a moment, stared at Zheng Chengxian and Qiao Huafang, and found that it was indeed the first time that the two of them had heard of it! In his heart, he couldn't help but raise his evaluation of Zheng Xuanqidi! It is understandable to do good deeds without leaving a name, but even the relatives at home hide it----- at a young age, he knows that people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and keeping a low profile is the king! He thought: "They may not know about the novel." Ask, "You must not know about the novel?"

Looking at the puzzled eyes of Zheng Chengxian and Qiao Huafang looking at each other, Wang Jieren knew that this Zheng Xuanqi had his own ideas about doing things and didn't like to make noise.

When Zheng Xuanqi heard the novel, he interjected: "Brother Wang, does the publisher have eyebrows?"

"Yes, the eldest brother knows that you are very unusual, but I didn't expect you to be so talented, what is the sentence------- people can't be good-looking, and the sea can't fight. My brother who didn't make it out is about to become your book lover now, and I'm anxious to wait for the second half. Wang Jieren sorted out his thoughts and said, "The publisher estimates that the sales volume may reach hundreds of thousands of copies. Well, two or three hundred thousand copies! Do you know the meaning of this number! And it is the least estimate!" Wang Jieren himself became excited as he spoke, his eyes stared at Zheng Xuanqi, wanting to see if this Xuanqi would be as excited as he was when he heard the news, and whether he could still maintain that composure, "My brothers and I have worked hard in Guangzhou for all these years, and we have saved only 2-3 million yuan in family business. ”

Zheng Xuanqi was also very happy, happy that he had chosen the right one. Although he knew that the sales of these two books in the future would be very good, but that was after 2000. Among them, the single "Sun and Moon in the Sky" has sold more than 200,000 copies, and now there is an additional copy of "Heavenly Demon God Tan".

Today, 1997, the Internet was just appearing in the news newspapers. Piracy, while possible, is far less rampant than it was 10 years later!

Compared with Zheng Xuanqi's calmness, his parents did not have this calmness: Zheng Chengxian, whose eyes widened, seemed to wake up all of a sudden, and his mother Qiao Huafang was holding chopsticks ready to pick up vegetables.