It's the Chinese New Year, and Chinatown is full of lights, crowds, lion dances, dragon dances, gongs and drums.

Li Jiaming, who had specially asked for leave, waved a small national flag and marched behind a large group of alumni with great interest, and waved his hand to the Taiwan compatriots on the opposite side from time to time. It is said that it is the Spring Festival that everyone will march together so together, even if the flags in the hands of both sides are different. If a state leader visits the United States, it will be everyone standing on the same street and on both sides, confronting each other and shouting at each other.

I heard that it has been much better in the past few years, and there are far fewer Taiwanese who are scolding and coaxing, and it is estimated that they have all returned to the mainland to invest and make a fortune. In fact, they are all the same ancestors, what does the struggle of the leaders have to do with the common people?

After everyone finished the tour, they had a dinner party in different regions and their alma mater. Then, then, Li Jiaming confessed to the alumni, followed several old alumni, and drove to the Consulate General to attend a group meeting. I don't feel it at home, but when I go overseas, I feel warm when I see the national flag on the roof of the Consulate General.

Handshakes, greetings, group worship, speeches, group photos, this set of boring etiquette, because of being in a foreign country, has a particularly cordial feeling, so that people from all walks of life participating in the group worship talk very happily.

Of course, people are divided into groups, and Li Jiaming has no intention of drilling into those so-called business leaders and overseas Chinese leaders, but follows his two seniors to drill into the academic circle. It was enough to be a businessman in the previous life, and I only wanted to do business in this life, and I couldn't ask for the opportunity to do academics. When attending the reception, Li Jiaming was also used by two cheerful and academically successful old alumni to ridicule old friends from the garden next door, saying that the other party's alma mater is a vocational and technical college, and they can only train engineers and politicians, but cannot cultivate real business leaders and academic elites.

This circle is full of academic elites who couldn't climb high in their previous lives, and Li Jiaming, who is a skilled person, is sweating greatly, and only they will open their mouths to say this kind of thing, don't you see that Consul Zhang, who was born in Tsinghua University, is not far away?

Of course, this is just a joke between friends, and the old alumni who can be Li Jiaming's grandfather take him to play, and he also thinks that this young man is good, has made great achievements, and is also courteous and polite to his elders, and behaves appropriately. However, there were many topics to talk about, and Li Jiaming, who positioned himself as a scholar-oriented entrepreneur, also felt the bitterness in the hearts of his predecessors, and it was not easy for Chinese people to work in the American scientific community, and applying for scientific research funds was like killing the blood of the US government and schools, and they were often treated discriminatory, and they could not even compete with those Indians.

After attending the reception, he drove the water boy who was waiting outside, picked up Li Jiaming, and rushed to the fourth brother's residence. The front ones are all social, and when they arrive at the fourth brother's house, they are called the New Year, fried rice crackers, fried tofu, bacon, and cured chicken...... , and the rice wine brewed by the fourth brother himself. Everyone gathered around the fireplace to eat New Year's dinner, drink, chat, watch domestic TV, and observe the New Year according to tradition.

In the early hours of the morning, everyone called their relatives, teachers, and friends on the other side of the ocean to pay New Year's greetings. The time difference is just right, early morning here and afternoon there. When he hit Liu Benqiu, as soon as Li Jiaming finished saying auspicious words, he heard Liu Shasha asking next to him: "Li Jiaming, I was admitted to Harvard, did you spend money to buy it?"

Alas, Li Jiaming, who was in a good mood, sighed secretly, took the cordless phone out of the warm living room, and went out under the cold moonlight outside, and said with a wry smile: "Liu Shasha, although the United States is a commercial country, it is also a country with a legal system. Spending money on academic qualifications and buying prestigious schools won't work here, otherwise Gui Mei would have come to Harvard to study medical school last year. ”

"What about my dad?"

The voice in the distance was so harsh, which made Li Jiaming angry, and said impatiently: "How do I know, you think I am from the Organization Department?"

Liu Shasha on the other side of the phone still wanted to ask, but the phone had been hung up.

"Dad?"

The helpless Liu Benqiu took the mobile phone, took his daughter's head into the study, and said with a wry smile: "Sasha, don't underestimate Dad and Li Jiaming, in fact, we are the same kind of people, and we are very clearly divided between public and private." ”

"That?"

If the events of that year were repeated again, Yanagimoto would still do it, because in front of him was his daughter and the continuation of his life. But if it were just for her pitiful self-esteem, Yanagimoto, who was already a career bureaucrat, would tell a white lie.

"Economy, maybe Minister Sun helped me speak, but it was mainly for economic reasons. Tonggu's economic take-off, the main credit is recorded in the heads of Secretary Zeng and County Magistrate Zhong, but the executor is actually me. Fenggao's GDP has doubled within four years, and it has actually doubled, but I have done it single-handedly; the two medium-sized state-owned enterprises have been successfully transformed, and I have also single-handedly managed them, otherwise I would have been promoted to secretary after only one year as a county magistrate?

The city's Yuanyang New District has been established for seven years, or the previous team was established, and it is still half-dead, and the Yuanzhou Construction Machinery Factory is also in dire condition, it is estimated that I want to gnaw hard bones. You don't know, if the tunnel hadn't been repaired back then, Secretary Cai would have transferred me to the Executive Office as the deputy secretary-general and director of Yuanyang New District. ”

Thinking of the mess in the new district of the city and the construction machinery factory where fights and brawls all day long, Liu Shasha, whose grandmother's house is in the Yuanzhou Construction Machinery Factory, couldn't help but feel nervous, and hesitated: "Then, will you ask him to help?"

To engage in politics is to involve more and more friends and fewer enemies, and to do work is to make use of all kinds of available resources. But in front of his most beloved daughter, Liu Benqiu was silent, and only said after a while: "Sasha, the eldest husband is a member of the world, meritorious service, virtue, and speech." I can't do it, and making contributions is my pursuit. Do you understand what I say?"

"Dad, I didn't mean that. ”

A woman is better than a father. His daughter is too good, and Li Jiaming's bastard is even better, but Liu Benqiu has no regrets about breaking her up with Li Jiaming in the first place. People live for a lifetime, plants and trees are autumn, Li Jiaming's kind of demon is like a magnet, which will turn everyone close to him into vassals, how can Sasha be someone else's vassal?

"Sasha, there are some things, if you miss it, you miss it, and you can't go back. ”

"I know, I'm worried about you. ”

Liu Benqiu's heart warmed, rubbed his daughter's head, and said confidently: "Don't worry, I have always been right about things and not people, others are not right about people, they do bad things, and only lonely ministers like me can do well." ”

"You are a capable person, not a minister!"

Yes, not ministers, this is very important. Because the corresponding word of the minister is Jun, and the world is the world of the people of the world, where does the king come from?

The two fathers and daughters laughed a few words, and Liu Shasha said disdainfully: "If you want to talk about Li Jiaming, he is good to his family, teachers, and friends, but he is too narrow-minded." You don't know, this time he donated a sum of money to Chongxiang, only to reward Chongxiang students, and only to reward teachers who taught Chongxiang students. It's not that he has no money, and if he wants to be rewarded, the whole county will be together, how can anyone only care about the people of Chongxiang?"

"Hehe, don't you remember? The first time he had dinner at our house before, he told him that when his brother and sister ate shredded potatoes and wore tattered clothes and pants, no one helped him except his family and relatives. Don't look at him as a very generous person, but he is actually very stingy. ”

After speaking, Liu Benqiu added in his heart: The grievances are clear. To say that that guy is indeed talented, 'the place where you can't go back is called your hometown, and the place you can't go to is called far away', sour is a little sour, but in a word. Under the pressure and deterrence of that bastard boy, the county finally decided to keep all the Soviet-style buildings such as the movie theater, the auditorium, and the Xinhua bookstore, and only modernize the interior. Maybe not ten years, when Sasha and the others understand the nostalgia, they will know the preciousness of those buildings.

Wrong, Liu Beiqiu's knowledge is still a little worse, that sentence is not Li Jiaming said, but a Japanese named Miyazaki Hayao said, the original words are: The world that can't be reached is called the distance, and the world that can't go back is called hometown, but what I have been yearning for is a distant place that is farther than the distance.

Of course, the fourth brother and Shui Zai didn't think so, and even Qiao Qiao and Yang Fenhua admired: "The original words are not refined by you, it is a line, too sour!"

"Yo, those who study science also know poetry?"

There are only liberal arts and science majors in college, who is making this joke? Qiao Qiao knew, opened his mouth and said: "You think you are a liberal arts student? Come, play mahjong, Jiaming will make tea!"

"Sister-in-law, there are family rules. ”

"You give a hundred per person, if you lose, you will be yours, and if you win, it will be ours, this is not gambling!"

In fact, it's right, a small gamble for entertainment, Li Jiaming happily took the tea set, and by the way, he gave one hundred dollars as gambling money.