Chapter 235: Walkers Without Borders 45
In the morning, I went to two families to pay New Year's greetings, and those who went were old with the Wang family before retirement, not only from the godgrandpa's side, but also from the godgrandma's side. With Xiao Chen Rui, a cute little guy, it is obvious that this New Year's greeting has made the other party very satisfied, adding a lot of excitement to the festival.
Lunch was eaten at an old sister's house in my grandmother's original unit, and the couple of this family are now retired at home, but their careers are established, and their level before retirement is not too high, but the pension is relatively good, not to mention medical insurance. There is a son and a daughter, a grandson who is sixteen years old, and a granddaughter who is also fourteen years old.
Today, Chen Yufeng brought his family to come to pay New Year's greetings, but he greeted the family in advance, so the family gathered early last night, and no one fell, waiting for Chen Yufeng, the current deputy lady of the king, to come to the door today. But they obviously didn't expect Chen Feng to come over with his son. So much so that their whole family was even more shocked than seeing Deputy Wang directly.
After the shock of this family, the surprise was naturally inexplicable, especially the two children who were only teenagers, who were even more excited to come over and hug Chen Feng.
Chen Yufeng's old sister's surname is Liu, the two met when they were young, and later became colleagues for more than ten years, and the relationship is very good.
Originally, Chen Yufeng didn't mean to ask Chen Feng and Xiao Chen Rui to come over together, but they all came out together, and they continued to come out in the afternoon to greet people, of course, Chen Feng didn't want to go back temporarily. Therefore, even though he didn't know this family before, and they were all relatively ordinary people, Chen Feng still brought his son over.
Grandma Liu's home usually lives with their two wives. There are only two bedrooms and one living room. The living room is not very big. With so many people standing at once, the living room was packed. However, during the Chinese New Year, when there are so many people, this festive and lively feeling will immediately appear.
More than a dozen people sat down and talked around the sofa and stools together, and the atmosphere was quite good. After that, two tables of meals were set, both of which were home-cooked dishes. The atmosphere is also very harmonious, and everyone is very happy.
After that, the two families sat down and talked. Grandma Liu's eldest son is now considered a person in the system, but he is only a small section chief in the district, although he also knows that Chen Yufeng, the aunt he has known since childhood, has a special identity, but he does not deliberately please and stammer. However, most of his daughter-in-law and sister focused most of their attention on Chen Yufeng from the beginning, and they tried their best to curry favor.
Chen Feng could see that although his godmother was smiling on the surface, she was still a little helpless in her eyes. These two women are like this, but it makes her feel a little out of touch and uncomfortable.
Grandma Liu's son-in-law is a businessman, but he didn't mean to curry favor with Chen Yufeng too much, but was very enthusiastic about Chen Feng. It's not his gossip, though, it's about business. For example, now I dream of mobile phones, and I also euphemistically said that I have opened a mobile phone store before, and I am familiar with the mobile phone industry. He also handed Chen Feng his business card, but the title on it was the general manager of the aquatic product wholesale store, which made Chen Feng a little speechless. However, Chen Feng politely exchanged his business card with him, so that Grandma Liu's son-in-law could take it away.
Fortunately, there were two teenage children who kept asking questions around Chen Feng, and the general manager of the aquatic product wholesale department also had too many opportunities to talk to Chen Feng and make friends.
On the whole, the feeling of coming to this house for New Year's greetings is good and bad, first of all, the atmosphere is generally good, and secondly, at least Chen Yufeng and Grandma Liu have relived their sisterhood.
But when he came out of this house almost two hours later, Chen Yufeng couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
And Sun Qian's daughter-in-law was even more dissatisfied with her face, she didn't want to come here to pay New Year's greetings at the beginning, but her mother-in-law insisted that she had no choice, so she had to follow. It's not that she doesn't hate the poor and loves the rich, but she thinks that except for Grandma Liu, the rest of the family are a little too inflammatory.
Especially Grandma Liu's wife, Grandpa Cai, talks a lot, and some like to talk big, and he pulled Sun Qian to talk about his revolutionary history when he was young, in short, how great he was when he was young. Sun Qian was embarrassed to interrupt here, but interrupted in time, and this old revolutionary is still very talkative. Before they left, the old man Cai also said that in two days, their family planned to return to the New Year, that is, to turn around to pay New Year's greetings to the Wang family, and hoped that they would be able to have a few drinks with Brother Wang (Wang Zhaoxiang) and learn calligraphy.
Old man Cai and Wang Zhaoxiang also knew each other before because of their relationship with each other's wives, but they really didn't have any friendship, so they just knew each other. This is drinking and learning calligraphy, and it is obviously a suspicion of relying on the old and selling the old, deliberately climbing friendships and climbing themselves.
What's more, if they were a family, or rather three families, came to pay New Year's greetings together, it would be a bit too much. Chen Yufeng took the initiative to come over for New Year's greetings this time, which was also the first time in recent years. It's completely out of sisterhood with Grandma Liu, not the relationship between the two families.
Therefore, Sun Qian couldn't help but say that their family did not accept New Year's greetings other than relatives for the New Year. At that time, Old Man Cai's face was a little ugly, and then he didn't speak much. This is also the reason why they have to leave early. It is also one of the reasons why Chen Yufeng sighed after coming out.
This is not the reason why Sun Qian feels the most uncomfortable. The most uncomfortable thing is that after they knew that Wang Meixue was still single and had no boyfriend, they took the initiative to introduce her baby daughter to someone. And the introduction is either the son of the unit leader and business partner, or simply the child of his relatives and friends, which makes Sun Qian's nest very hot, her baby daughter's appearance is powerful, is it really said that no one wants it? This makes Sun Qian's heart extremely dissatisfied with this family. Because of the friendship between her mother-in-law and that Grandma Liu, she had to endure it.
"Mom, I think I'll be exempt from this kind of New Year's greeting next time, right? Although our family doesn't like that set of big families, but now some self-surrendering people take the initiative to come over to give them New Year's greetings, and they still kick their noses in the face. Do you really think that our family is a small family, and everyone can climb the friendship and pull the generations?"
After getting into the car. Sun Qian was the first to express her dissatisfaction.
Wang Meixue was also dissatisfied because the previous family was competing to introduce her to the object. Then he complained: "That's it." This family is really annoying. The two children and Grandma Liu looked pleasing to the eye, and the others either either tended to be inflammatory, or had no beads, and introduced me to the objects one by one, this one said that there was a leading son, who graduated from a famous university with a promising future, and the one who said that he opened a company at home and had hundreds of millions of assets. I seem to be as snobbish as those worldly women. Choosing a boyfriend only depends on whether the other party has money and whether the family has money. ”
Chen Yufeng shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Okay, you two." This time it was my poor thinking. I didn't expect to see them for years, and now I would see them like this again. If I really want to come here to pay New Year's greetings in the future, I will just come alone. The main thing is to look at my old sister, I have known her for decades, and I used to be really close to each other like sisters. ”
Sun Qian's face was still a little ugly, and said: "I think Mom, you should not come to visit the New Year in the future, you really want to miss Mother Liu, and usually take the time to call or ask her out for a cup of tea." Just chat. ”
Cheng Yuhan waved his hand and said, "Okay, I know this matter in my own heart." Anyway. I won't take you to an ordinary family like them anymore. ”
When Sun Qian heard this, she hurriedly defended herself: "I don't look down on ordinary people, I just ...... I really can't stand them like this. I'm not alone, and the same goes for Miyuki and Xiaofeng. ”
Chen Feng also felt a little emotion in his heart, the huge gap in identity and status, it is almost impossible for the two families to really intersect like gentlemen. The first is psychological, and the second is real. People in high positions are not busy with their usual lives, and they can even be said not to bend their waists for five buckets of rice, but ordinary people are not careful about budgeting, thinking of ways to make more friends.
Now there is a huge disparity between the status of my godmother and that old sister Grandma Liu, even if there are decades of old friendship, but I definitely can't go back to the time when the status of the two families was about the same. This can be seen from the fact that they knew that the godmother came to pay New Year's greetings today, and the three families gathered together last night to prepare.
If it was a change from the time when the gentleman was as plain as water in the past, their family would not have to be so solemn at all. It's what it should be.
Maybe the godmother also knew this, so she sighed. But the old sister of these decades, it is impossible for her to let go completely.
The group first went back to their homes, and after a lunch break for an hour, they all prepared to go out to pay New Year's greetings. The objects of their New Year's greetings are not still on the job, but some old-timers who have retired or have been suspended and semi-retired. It's mainly an old colleague, an old boss, an old friend and the like on Grandpa's side. They are all people in the system.
The New Year's gifts are also very simple, not very valuable. And so many of them came over, and each family only brought one gift.
Because he brought his juniors over, and it was Chen Feng's father and son, the effect of this trick was indeed very good. Especially the smart and very likable Xiao Chen Rui, who can hold the big scene, and he is not stage frightened at all when he sees strangers. Therefore, it often makes these old people laugh from ear to ear, and the red envelopes are big.
And after Xiao Chen Rui took the red envelope, he was also smiling, and sensibly gave it to Chen Feng, the old man. At the end of the day, although they only went to five homes to pay New Year's greetings, Xiao Chen Rui got more than 30 red envelopes. The smallest one has a thousand, and the largest one has eighteen thousand, which was given by an old man who retired from the civil and political system, and the writing is very good, because the novels he wrote before are still sold, and the royalties are a lot, and he often writes for newspapers and magazines, and the income from manuscript fees is also a lot, not to mention the state allowance pension and the like. Although there are juniors under him, the youngest is now in his twenties, and he is only a granddaughter. Therefore, Xiao Chen Rui, a little boy, was brought over to pay New Year's greetings, and this old man liked it very much.
What's more, because he is a literati, Xiao Chen Rui memorized Tang poems and Song lyrics as much as he liked, and also passed the test of several questions of this old man, which made the old man even more fond of Xiao Chen Rui. I just hugged it. Xiao Chen Rui is also very face-saving, and his grandfather is called this old literati with great relief. even moved the idea of accepting him as a disciple.
Chen Feng really couldn't refuse directly, so he could only use the excuse that he was still young and had been living in Xiuzhou, and he would talk about it when he was older in the future. What made this old literati a little dissatisfied was also very helpless.
Because it was too rare and liked little Chen Rui, Chen Feng and his party were kept by this old man for dinner at home. After that, the night was dark, and the old man really didn't want to stay long, so he could only reluctantly send them out in person, mainly Xiao Chen Rui.
Before getting into the car, Chen Feng took his son from him, and he was still a little reluctant to let go, which made Chen Feng speechless for a while. Knowing that Chen Feng and his son sat in the car, Xiao Chen Rui waved goodbye to the old man through the car window, and the old man actually shed tears, and his voice choked and shouted for Xiao Chen Rui to take the time to come and see him in the future, completely looking like life and death.
Afterwards, Chen Feng learned that although this old man was a literati, he had a very serious patriarchal mentality, and he had a smart and very lovely grandson before, but unfortunately died at the age of four or five.
may be because of this, after seeing the equally smart and clever Xiao Chen Rui this time, he transferred all the feelings he used to have for his grandson to Xiao Chen Rui.
Because this old man used to be an old colleague of his godfather, but he was a little older than his godfather, but he used to have more consistent political views and a good friendship. Therefore, Chen Yufeng hoped that Chen Feng would remember to let Xiao Chen Rui contact this old man from time to time in the future, and he should sympathize with this old man who lost his beloved grandson back then.
Of course, Chen Feng is not easy to refuse this, and it seems that his precious son is also more compatible with this old literati, so let them contact him from time to time in the future, but there is nothing.
And Sun Qian also added that the son-in-law of this old man is now in his early fifties, and he is already the third-in-command of a certain province, and his future is limitless.
Sun Qian's point was a bit of a supplement, which made Chen Yufeng glare at her with some dissatisfaction. And Chen Feng was a little awkward in his heart. Originally, it was just a pure "grandson" and a relationship, and it felt a little bad when he brought his son-in-law. (To be continued.) )
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