Chapter 68: Father and Son
"Friendship between men is like the sun, you know it exists, but you don't look directly at its dazzling light. ”
This is a sentence from the "Godfather", known as the bible of men, this book has always been regarded as a classic by Li Ran, and the author of the book, Mario Puzo, uses this sentence to describe and summarize men's friendship.
When men intersect, it is important to know each other. It's not about wealth or status, it's just about emotional resonance. Just like Li Ran and Cao Bo, the two of them will feel like confidants because of a sentence, and they will shorten the distance between each other in an instant.
Li Ran and Cao Bo chatted happily, but it didn't last long. The fight between the two children of Cao Bo's family also caused Pingping and An An not to sleep until they woke up naturally as usual at home, and were woken up by their two bear children halfway. After all, they are all fathers, and if the children make trouble, they have to coax their own children to go, and they can't talk.
This is the trouble for a family of two children, because two children can fight with one toy. The second sister's eldest daughter Sissi and youngest son Rui Rui Rui were like this, and the sound of the two children crying was earth-shattering, not only waking up Pingping and An An, but even Li Zhengfeng in the study couldn't stay, and came out to ask what was wrong.
It also feels quite interesting to say, in order to have a second child, Li Xiu and Cao Bo really had a lot of trouble. First of all, he separately transferred the hukou of the two of them from the urban hukou to the rural hukou, and then transferred back to the tens of thousands of hukou after the birth of the child. Although it is not difficult to do this with the background of the two families, it still has a lot of favors.
This is actually the best way to avoid it, after all, both of them are state employees, so in order not to leave hidden dangers for the future future, they can only be so troublesome. But now it seems that after trying their best to have a child, the two of them are estimated to be troublesome both in work and life.
When chatting with Cao Bo, he spit out his bitterness to Li Ran. On the one hand, although his mother watches the two children, he is also noisy at home, and he usually has to help watch the children when he comes home from work. There is no personal time or space at all. On the other hand, the relationship between the second sister Li Xiu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is extremely tense, he is sandwiched in the middle, and the two ends are not people. There is some envy for Li Ran's life of hiring a nanny and driving a luxury car.
Every family has its own troubles, and every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. Although Li Ran doesn't feel how enviable his life is, in comparison, he feels that his two children are much more worry-free now, and he hopes to be obedient in the future.
After eating in the afternoon, the second sister Li Xiu and brother-in-law Cao Bo went back with the children. The Cao family lives in Dongcheng District, and although the two of them do not live with Cao's father and Cao's mother, the children usually follow their grandparents. And because it's New Year's Day, the two have to go back at night to celebrate the festival together.
The second sister Li Xiu is only a non-real power cadre at the deputy department level, so she is not equipped with a car. In the morning, Cao Bo's father's driver drove them back, so his father Li Zhengfeng asked his driver to take them away.
After the family left, the house was not very deserted. There are fruit melon seeds on the coffee table in the living room, and the family sits together and talks. There are three children here, and some of them talk and laugh and they still look like a holiday.
After watching the news in the living room, without waiting to watch CCTV's New Year's Day party, Li Zhengfeng got up and said to Li Ran in a deep voice: "Little four, follow me upstairs." ”
Hearing his father call him, Li Ran's heart instantly tightened, and then he was a little relieved. He had been worrying about how to tell the old man from time to time throughout the day, but now he didn't feel so nervous anymore. Sure enough, what didn't happen was the most terrifying.
Letting An An let her sister-in-law Zeng Jing hug her, Li Ran said to her mother who was a little worried next to her: "Mom, don't worry. ”
"Go up and talk to your father, don't quarrel anymore, do you hear?" the old lady was still not at ease, and specially admonished again.
Li Ran said "um", turned around and went up to the second floor.
The study is in the first room on the right hand side of the atrium on the second floor, and when he arrived at the door, Li Ran knocked softly, and then pushed the door in.
Li Zhengfeng's study is very simple, with a large bookshelf against the wall, a desk and a wooden chair in front of the bookshelf. In addition, there is a single bed by the window, where he occasionally takes a nap.
When Li Ran entered, he was standing in front of the bookshelf with his hands in his hands, and when he heard the voice, he turned around and glanced at him with a little surprise and said, "Your mother said that you have matured a lot during this time, and I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that at least when you enter my study, you know that you have knocked on the door." ”
Li Ran "......"
said something meaningless, teased Li Ran, and he didn't speak again. After that, there was a silence between the two, and a pin drop could be heard in the study.
In all fairness, talking to his father Li Zhengfeng, Li Ran was under a lot of pressure. For him, Li Zhengfeng is not only a father, but also a lieutenant general of the Republic and the commander of the Yanjing Garrison. And the biggest official he had contact with in his previous life was only when he shook hands with the dean of the main department in the student union when he was in college. Therefore, in the face of such a character, his pressure is really not small.
However, he did not like this passive situation, which made him very uncomfortable. He is a gentle person in his usual life and work, but it does not affect his strength in his bones, so after passively resigning and enduring nearly five minutes of silence, he decided to break this situation.
However, it is not known whether it was intentional or unintentional. Just when he was about to strike first, Li Zhengfeng spoke.
He raised his head and looked at Li Ran and said, "The girl of the Shu family has gone abroad to study. ”
"Go abroad?" Li Ran said suddenly, his voice full of surprise. However, before he could be happy, his father's next sentence knocked him from the clouds to the bottom.
He said, "I didn't mention to you Uncle Shu about getting married. ”
"But I ......" Li Ran still wanted to argue, but before he could say it, his father waved his hand at him and said, "Listen to me finish speaking." ”
Then he continued: "The matter of divorce should not be mentioned by our family, aside from other factors, this matter is that we are sorry for others, even if we retreat, it should be the Shu family who retreats to us." ”
"Then what if the Shu family doesn't retreat?" his heart rose and fell like a roller coaster, shaking him a little insane, and then his brain twitched and asked a question to find scolding.
"Then you will marry" Sure enough, his father's eyes widened, and he picked up the book on the table with a "whoosh" and flew over his head and fell to the floor.
However, dropping the book is not the end. Li Ran's words obviously detonated his father's powder keg, and he roared, "What do you think you are a good thing, people are going to marry you in a hurry." The whole Yanjing City knows that you bastard has done a good thing, and you still have the face to ask people if they don't retreat to do this? What do you want to do?"
Li Ran knew that he was at a loss, so he lowered his head and didn't dare to speak again. After being scolded for a long time, he stopped, and he was finished venting.