Gu Xueren, who was wearing an ironed black tuxedo and a white shirt, greeted Su Yuxi, and apologized to Cheng Xiaoyu first, "Xiaoyu, I was really embarrassed in Meifu last time, I heard that you were a little angry because Su Hongwen was not thoughtful, so you left first, and I didn't greet you well, don't be surprised." ”

After listening to Gu Xueren's words like a spring breeze, Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "You don't mind that I, a rough person, don't know how to be polite, so I'm very grateful." ”

"Xiaoyu, if you want to say this, I think you are laughing at us? I have read your song "Dream as a Horse", but my favorite is "The Farthest Distance". Gu Xueren said "The Furthest Distance" and glanced at Su Yuxi, who was about the same height as Cheng Xiaoyu and said, she lowered her head and followed Cheng Xiaoyu's steps cautiously, as if she was afraid of stepping on the corner of her blue and purple skirt, obviously she rarely wore evening dresses and high heels.

Cheng Xiaoyu was shocked in his heart, it seemed that Gu Xueren had done his homework, but he didn't know anything about Gu Xueren except that he knew that he was the grandson of the prime minister, and unconsciously put Gu Xueren on the opposite side, and could only return to "Modern poetry is just a small way, as long as you read a little book and have a little inspiration, you can piece together beautiful sentences, which is really worthy of praise." ”

At this time, Gu Xueren had already led the two into the interior of "Cha", which used natural materials and industrial coatings in the decoration to create a "delicate attic" design style. It is neither ostentatious and flamboyant aristocratic style, nor is it low-key and simple modern simplicity. Dark wood stone walls and pristine ceilings. Paired with bizarre modern artwork and furnishings, it is full of exquisite and beautiful avant-garde artistic sense. Sharp and atmospheric, beautiful but not over-exaggerated.

Gu Xueren summoned the waiter with champagne to come over, handed Cheng Xiaoyu and Su Yuxi a glass and said, "Let's have a toast for Brother Xiaoyu's modesty, and I also ask Xiaoxi to forgive me for my recklessness, and I took it upon myself to open this pie for you without your permission." ”

Su Yuxi showed a very standard polite smile and said, "I remember Senior Gu, you are very disgusted with the upper-class British aristocracy, and you have always been proud of Chinese civilization. Why do you want to hold such a very Westernized social duì?"

Faced with Su Yuxi's questions that were not friendly at all and were very sharp. Gu Xueren's face was calm, he raised his cup and thought for a moment, and said, "Xiaoxi, this question is very good, in fact, there is no 'aristocrat' in Huaxia now, even if it is a direct descendant of the founding father like me, it is not an aristocrat." In essence, they were just landlords and nouveau riche, or politely called gentry. No matter how much material wealth their families have, our essence remains the same. On the one hand, nobles must have titles. "The king's system is the lord of Lu, the prince and the prince, and the fifth class. "Even during the imperial period in our country. A nobleman without a title is also a 'clan'. Theoretically, in a republic without knighthoods, there is no such thing as nobility. 'Poly Female Grand Duke', 'Huayou Hou', 'Telecommunications Uncle', does this sound like words? Speaking of this, Gu Xueren had a little humor. unscrupulously ridiculed the Chinese state-owned enterprises under the management of his grandfather.

Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't help but laugh, Gu Xueren paused, and then said, "Second, the real bloodline nobles in the traditional sense have long since died. Of the mainstream civilizations on this earth, only the Chinese completely eliminated the trick of blood aristocracy more than 2,000 years ago. This is the greatness of Liu Bang, which has broken the routine that began since the period of copper and stone use, and the **** of the world also began from this. Unlike China, Europe and even the Middle East. The blood of its bloodline aristocracy is still unfading, and it is still repeating the rules of thousands of years. There is only one true bloodline nobleman in Huaxia now. Both in Taiwan's Yan Shenggong family. What were the royal families that ruled China in the past dynasties since then? Their essence was that they were 'gate valves'. Except for Han Gaozu and Zhu Hongwu, Huaxia has been ruled by them for two thousand years since it broke away from the aristocracy. It is not the 'aristocracy' who supports them behind them, they can only be called 'magnates'. Every time there is a change of dynasty, a family is killed, a family comes up, and several families who climb the dragon and attach the phoenix have become rich and noble. From the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the power to rule has been passed down among the huge gate valves. No matter who you sit on the dragon platform, they are all walking on the tightrope erected by the wealthy families. The same is true of this dynasty. It's just that after killing all the gate valves of the previous generation, I raised a batch of exactly the same ones with my own hands. What is the difference between the aristocracy and the gate valve? The gate valve can be turned over by the salted fish of the cold door, and the nobility can only inherit by blood. The gatekeeper who holds power by changing the dynasty loses his wealth and status once he loses his wealth and status. The Jueluo masters who starved to death at the end of the Qing Dynasty are proof. Their true faces are local tyrants. But the aristocracy is different, and the poor nobles are also nobles, even if they lose their status to ask for food, they still enjoy the natural inheritance of the legal principles of a piece of land. Otherwise, when Xiang Liang got into trouble, why did he want to pull a cowherd baby back to be the king of Chu? No matter how generous the gate valve is, he can't become a nobleman, and if he loses the wealth and interpersonal relationships at hand, he can no longer enjoy any privileges. And once the change of dynasty happens again, they are the first people to be purged. The aristocrat didn't care how stupid Jin Xiangong did, Chong'er was in exile for nineteen years, and in the end he was still Jin Wengong. As for quack, can you still be the governor of Jiangzhou?"

"The jurisprudence of the nobility is given by God, and it is the mandate of heaven. The bloodline aristocrats of China were all descendants of the Five Emperors of Yan and Huang, and the Five Emperors of Yan and Huang entered the world from mythology. Looking carefully at the rotation of Xia Shang and Zhou Qin, it is actually a replacement within a bloodline. The great Liu Bangs saw this routine and eliminated it without hesitation. In order to explain this technical problem to Li Min, who had not yet turned a corner, he pulled out the five virtues and said. As a result, the so-called 'aristocracy' of China no longer had a natural legal principle, but had to rely on force to maintain its status. Therefore, the dynasties have changed continuously, and everyone can be a prince and a son of heaven. No matter how many generations of the gate lords in their positions have been passed on, they are still not 'true' nobles. Not to mention what three generations have shaped the aristocracy. The 'expensiveness' of a red family like ours does not come from the 'sky' at all, it is a façade decorated by money and guns. Speaking of this, Gu Xueren sighed. A kind of temperament and spirit that those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want.

Cheng Xiaoyu looked at Gu Xueren and talked eloquently about the past and the present, a little ashamed of himself. In terms of knowledge, I'm afraid that I can't catch up with others.

Gu Xueren glanced at Su Yuxi, who was listening carefully, and continued: "A true nobleman will not indulge himself, let alone think that he has a chance to make a mistake. Because their personal deeds are closely related to the vitality of tens of millions of Li people in a land. The real aristocracy is both a gentleman, and what they pursue is "full virtue". Those who consume their lives in indulgence are the children of the scholar clan who have abandoned their sense of responsibility, and this kind of person is not a gentleman, nor is it a nobleman. The aristocracy has the ability to make a comeback. But there is no freedom of decadence and depravity.

Behind the depravity of an aristocracy. It is the price of the people of a land who do not have enough food to eat, and who do not have clothes to cover their bodies. Nor can an industry that controls the lifeblood of the country become an aristocracy. Oil, electricity, and rare earths are all in their hands, are they nobles? In the past, the gate lords also dominated the salt mining and even wine-making industries. In terms of the aristocratic spirit, China is much more backward than the West, and this is the reason why I have set up a Western-style school and advocated the aristocratic spirit of the West. The aristocracy will go after wealth. But simply having wealth does not make you an aristocrat. What should a nobleman look like? The benevolent are not worried, the wise are not confused, and the brave are not afraid. The destiny is not easy, and it is difficult to believe in those who are not virtuous. It is that he has lost the king's life, and he cannot endure for a long time, and he must not be careless. The last sentence of Gu Xueren's tone was frustrated, and a sense of mission that I am the pillar of the future country spontaneously emerged.

"That's why I'm holding this pie duì in the first place. It is hoped that Huaxia will have a true aristocratic tradition, rather than the gate valve faction in Huaxia since ancient times. I hope that your birthday will be a grand social celebration like the Louis XIV Gala Ball in Paris, where more powerful people will come together and everyone will influence each other to become aristocrats. Instead of thinking that riding a horse and playing golf, collecting chicken cups, and drinking Romanee-Conti are the so-called high society. In my eyes, my mentor was a true aristocrat, a native of London, England. My father runs a multinational company and just celebrated his 60th birthday last year. Living in a 2000W courtyard house in Shuijing Hutong in Beijing, he studied in an aristocratic school in England since he was a child, and was a classmate of the royal family. He studied English and Anthropology at Cambridge at university and graduate school, and PhD studied Anthropology at the University of London, where his father also graduated. My mother played the piano well, and the members of the family liked to change jobs and experience life from all over the world. However, I don't think he's an aristocrat because of this, I respect him because my mentor used to teach in Thailand, Scotland, Australia, Hong Kong, and now teaches anthropology at China Normal University in China. When he was in Hong Kong, he was a colleague of sociologist Fei Xiaotong. The most awesome thing about my tutor is that he is extremely handsome and temperamental, and his growth path adheres to the education of men in the British high society. But after graduating from university, in the 80s of the last century, he chose to teach in Thailand, where he sparked his interest in anthropological fieldwork and completed his most important and well-known research in anthropology. It is said that he lived in a country house in Thailand when he was still a young man, with no air conditioning, no modern equipment, and rats under the bed, and he stayed for a year and a half. As a result of this research, he became an internationally renowned anthropologist. This summer, I followed him to Guizhou to investigate, and I was ashamed to witness his words and deeds. He can put up with maggots-infested toilets, and he can be indifferent and generous in the face of the arrogant officials of some train stations. Most of the world's most famous anthropologists come from wealthy backgrounds and even come from prominent families. I hope that more such nobles will appear in China. ”

Gu Xueren's remarks couldn't help but say that he was forced to get a full score, Cheng Xiaoyu sighed in his heart, feeling that he was a girl and would like such a visionary, knowledgeable, and ambitious boy! No wonder the Su family was also very satisfied with Gu Xueren, even if Su Yuxi was only seventeen years old, he was willing to promote the two to be together.

Su Yuxi shook his head and said, "I think Senior Gu is too idealistic, high society and how to enter high society has always been a dazzling topic, this group has a bright appearance, elegant behavior, tens of millions of food, and gold and silver clothes." More importantly, they hold huge social wealth that is extremely disproportionate to their population, and even influence a country's economic trends, lead the most advanced business and political ideas, and lead the consumption trend of the masses. Its incomparably superior social status was the envy of the rest of the class. The aura of high society also tempts a large number of middle-class and white-collar workers to go out of their way to forge ahead in order to enter this class. They all know it. Entering this class means controlling a large amount of social resources and having a greater voice. There is a sense of pride in the identity. Meals should be elegant, balls should be lavish, donations should be generous, and TV cameras should be unfazed...... These have become a social consensus among the upper echelons. The essence of the upper class is that they are a group of symbioses bound by interests, and there can be no true elegance behind the motives dominated by interests. They are a more powerful, despicable, and realistic group of creatures. Behind the seemingly decent behavior is its incomparable worship of utilitarianism. Not aware of it. You can never really get to know the truth about the upper circles. ”

Gu Xuewei smiled and said, "Xiaoxi's views are too narrow, and it is true that they are the people in power who have more power and wealth in society. They will set the rules of the game, allocate social resources, and guide the atmosphere. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the aristocracy belonged to the upper class. In the Han and Tang dynasties, gate valves belonged to the upper class. In this dynasty, the elite belonged to the upper class. But not all the nobles and magnates are equal to the upper class. Beethoven's father was a destitute tenor, and his mother was a cook's daughter. At first glance, his name looks very high-end and high-grade, and the high-grade van is just the most simple middle name. It's not close to the aristocracy at all. Beethoven was born to be a scumbag. But who would dare to say that Beethoven did not belong to the upper class in Europeans after 1795? The definition of high society in this era should not be how much wealth you have. How big can you pretend, who is your grandfather.

It's what you bring to the world. You live a dignified life, you have elegant conversation and cultivation, and you have master-level artistic pursuits and tastes. Well, you're a particular person.

But I think that those things that can influence people's hearts, govern our spirits and souls. is the real high society. The old man Bai Fangli is a thin old man who pedals three wheels, but how many people's futures and souls have he changed? does not lose its original heart, and the sky and man, with this heart to the shrewd. Although it has changed more and Bing Yi's Yi has not lost less, Si can be described as a gentleman. This is the aristocracy, this is the upper class. “

Su Yuxi shook her head and did not agree with Gu Xuewei's point of view, she retorted, "I don't deny that there are great philanthropists like Chuck Feeney in this world, but here we have to return to the origin of the problem, what is the upper class? Spiritually, you can't make a strict distinction between different classes and groups of people. Great and noble people can appear in any class. However, the physiological sensitivities formed by enjoying material life can be strictly distinguished from different groups of people. The most affluent material life can be quite effective: the top level of education, the top cultural program, the noble spiritual pursuit, and so on the spiritual level. Not the other way around. No matter how noble the spiritual pursuit, it cannot effectively guide the material life of wealth and nobility. Since A and B together determine the upper class, and A can guide zhìB, and B cannot lead zhìA, I call A a more essential factor. So matter is fundamental, and this should be no problem. And this all-round physiological sensitivity derived from matter is impossible for ordinary people to have no matter how hard they try. If you don't own it, maybe you don't care about it. But everyone who really has it has a huge sense of psychological superiority, such as seniors. This sense of superiority is not easily perceived, because the behavior it leads to is not to look down on others, but to sympathize with them. Think about how it feels to be able-bodied when you see a person with a disability. It is often said that the real upper class will not look down on people, and the nouveau riche will look down on people. This is true, because they have a greater sense of superiority in their hearts than the nouveau riche who look down on others. ”

"Xiao Xi's words are sharper than I imagined! Regarding this issue, I think we can find a sofa to sit down and discuss it seriously......." Before Gu Xueren finished speaking, Cheng Xiaoyu saw an acquaintance come over again, it was Gu Xuewei, who had a relationship at Xu Qinning's birthday banquet, he didn't recognize Cheng Xiaoyu at all, whispered a few words beside Gu Xueren, and smiled slightly at Cheng Xiaoyu and Su Yuxi and said, "I'm sorry, I'm out of company." ”

Gu Xueren said to Gu Xuewei's back, "That's my cousin, wait a minute, I have a guest here, let's miss me first, wait a minute, we are discussing the unfinished topic just now." After speaking, Gu Xueren put the wine glass on the tray of the waiter who walked by, and left Su Yuxi and Cheng Xiaoyu with a bow.

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and teased, "Others are doing their best for you, and they want to give you your birthday."

Becoming the most influential faction in China, I am a man who can't help but be moved when I hear it. As for why he said this, Cheng Xiaoyu didn't dare to explore his mentality, maybe he just subconsciously wanted to care about Su Yuxi's emotional life, as an elder brother, there was nothing wrong with caring about it, but when he thought like this, it was already a little inappropriate.

But Su Yuxi belongs to the emotional insulator, even if Gu Xueren does a good job, it is difficult to impress her, at least the first point, do you do these things, have you asked if I like it or not? The biggest mistake Gu Xueren made was to think that Su Yuxi was a girl in the world, thinking that she, like all ordinary girls, would be moved by romantic surprises and infatuated persistence. In fact, she is a little tired of the hypocritical politeness of the socialists, she enjoys solitude, she likes to be alone, so that her spirit can be free.

And when she is with Cheng Xiaoyu, she is more comfortable, because the two of them will not deliberately look for topics, even if they don't say anything, they are very comfortable to get along with each other and read their own books.

Su Yuxi didn't hear a hint of vinegar in Cheng Xiaoyu's tone, and said casually: "Senior Gu is well-versed in the past, and his talent and knowledge are rare at this age. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu was not embarrassed to continue to ask Su Yuxi what his feelings were for Gu Xueren, in fact, in all fairness, such a boyfriend is really impeccable, Cheng Xiaoyu looked at his reflection in the silver tableware, and felt that he was really incomparable in any aspect.

At this time, Gu Xueren walked to the band performance of the restaurant in front of him, picked up the microphone and said, "Welcome ladies and gentlemen to this pai duì called Seventeen, and thank you for the strong support of the SH municipal government, now please move to the terrace on the 30th floor, there will be a grand fireworks show at eight o'clock, please watch." After speaking, Gu Xueren greeted the people around him again, and walked to the graceful Su Yuxi's side, and whispered, "This fireworks show is specially prepared for you." I haven't enjoyed the convenience of privilege once since I was a child, but for your sake, I do. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu stood beside Su Yuxi and heard Gu Xueren's direct and romantic confession clearly.

Cheng Xiaoyu turned his head and saw through the glass bay window that the light show had begun between the high-rise buildings opposite, and a line of words lit up on the other side of the beautiful and colorful Pujiang River, "I wish Su Yuxi a happy seventeenth birthday".

On the other side of the fairyland-like light, the huge line of colorful light fonts under the black background, passing between the buildings that pierced the sky, really shocked ordinary people. Bringing her sister to such a realm, even Cheng Xiaoyu had to admire it.

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