Under the gaze of his wife, Yan Bonian took a shallow sip of wine, put down the glass, slowly looked at Qi Tianxiang and Yan Yong and said: "Family gatherings, it is really rare to be able to get together, from the thoughts of our old couple, I hope you can come over often, but I can't bear to see you so busy." This is also a matter of no choice, not only to take care of work, but also to take care of the family, energy and time is really difficult to do, the so-called everything is difficult to do both! ”

"That's right!" Zhang Wanfen took Yan Bonian's words, looked at Yan Yong and Yan Li to Qi Tianxiang and said with heartfelt emotion: "Think about Xiaoyong and Xiaoli When they were young, your father and I had to go to work, and we were both in the enterprise at that time, overtime was a common thing, and I couldn't take care of them at all, so I had to send a key to Xiaoyong and explain that Xiaoyong was optimistic about Xiaoli, and it was time to eat that Xiaoyong took Xiaoli to the unit canteen to buy food, often when we came home at night, the two children were asleep, looking at the two dirty children like little mud monkeys, It's really not a taste in my heart. But this is not also here, so it is a serious matter for you to be busy with your career, come and see it when you have time, just make a phone call if you don't have time, don't worry about our old couple. ”

"It was the same when I was younger, my sister and brothers brought me up." Qi Tianxiang looked at Zhang Wanfen and said respectfully: "When is it still a little different from now, we have brothers and sisters to take care of us, and it's okay to take care of each other, and now that you are old, you are really inseparable from people, or you are really careless." ”

Seeing that this difficult topic was brought up again, Yan Yong hurriedly intercepted the conversation and interrupted: "Tianxiang and Xiaoli have already saluted the second elder with a glass of wine, and the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat, so they can't favor their son-in-law and daughter, and they have snubbed their sons and daughters-in-law, so they have to give me and Hongxia a chance." ”

Yan Yong said, stood up with Li Hongxia, respectfully picked up the wine glass, handed it to Yan Bonian and Zhang Wanfen, and said naughtily: "I wish the second elder happiness such as the East China Sea, longevity than Nanshan, eighty this year, eighteen next year." ”

Yan Yong's words caused a cheerful laugh from the whole family, and then Yan Xiaobei and Liu Peng also toasted the second elder with a glass of wine according to the gourd, and the restaurant returned to a cheerful atmosphere.

Soon Zhang Wanfen and several women finished eating, and left the restaurant early as usual, leaving the restaurant to a few men, and also giving them space and time to talk.

Yan Bonian picked up the wine glass, smiled slightly and said to Qi Tianxiang: "The old lady is gone, now you can drink some wine with your ears clean." ”

Seeing Qi Tianxiang's intention to stop it, Yan Bonian waved his hand and said with a smile: "You don't have to persuade me, I know how much I drink, now you just let me let go of drinking, it's only two taels, and I can't drink more if I want to!" ”

Listening to Yan Bonian's emotion, Qi Tianxiang no longer stopped it, but picked up his wine glass, lightly touched Yan Bonian's wine glass, expressed his support, and then looked at Yan Bonian and persuaded: "Drink as much as you can, as long as you feel comfortable, it's not a bad thing to drink a little appropriately." ”

"I know this truth, but the old woman can't be accommodating, the doctor's words are holy decrees, and she doesn't dare to violate them at all, so she doesn't think of the purpose and intention of the doctor's words, as well as the context and starting point of saying this, that is, to oppose them outright." Yan Bonian seemed to be still worried about Zhang Wanfen's interference just now, looked at Liu Peng and Qi Tianxiang and continued: "I know my own body, unlike Xiaopeng, I can drink and move, I am young and in good health, even if I drink too much occasionally, I will be fine if I just sleep, no matter how much I compare, this is not a natural law, I don't know yet?" ”

Qi Tianxiang listened to Yan Bonian's words, glanced at Yan Yong, glanced at Liu Peng with a slight smile and said, "You go and bring grandpa's teapot and replace it with a slightly lighter cup of black tea, let's drink, let grandpa drink some black tea to warm his stomach." ”

Liu Peng agreed and turned around and walked out of the restaurant, Qi Tianxiang glanced at Liu Peng's back, turned his face and said to Yan Yong with a smile: "I gave Liu Peng and Xiaobei a big lesson outside just now, how can you not be a father!" ”

"I was going to go out to drink tea with you, and I didn't bother you when I saw that you were criticizing their confused thoughts." Yan Yong intertwined his eyelids and said self-deprecatingly: "My words as a father don't work, she will deal with you if she says it lightly, and she says it seriously She said that you have a paternalistic style, don't pay attention to methods and family democracy, plus your sister-in-law is accommodating, what is the use of me just saying that you break your mouth?" ”

Yan Yong said, picked up the wine glass on the table and touched it lightly with Qi Tianxiang, took care of himself and drank the wine in the glass, and said with emotion: "You are all talents, my soldiers, I am not an opponent when it comes to reasoning, and I can't stare at it loudly, or you speak effectively, you are an expert and scholar in terms of academic qualifications, a member of the Standing Committee and a provincial governor in terms of qualifications, and an uncle and uncle in terms of identity, which is much more advantageous than me!" ”

"You are shirking responsibility, which is itself irresponsible." Yan Bonian was very dissatisfied with Yan Yong's understatement, stared at Yan Yong's face and reprimanded: "Children are sensible, you have to reason with them, you have to help them solve problems in understanding and life, this is what you should do as a father, what Tianxiang can do, you should do even more." ”

"You're always right, it's my responsibility, I should help them solve practical problems, but the problem now is that they don't need me to solve the problem, they all understand it clearly, and they still speak eloquently, do these problems need me to solve?" Yan Yong didn't dare to have a hard top with Yan Bonian, but he still quibbled unconvincedly: "This is a problem in the whole society, those who work can't see the future, those who work can't feel the joy of harvest, students don't know what to do except for exams, and even the designers of policies don't know how to settle down, and the whole social form is in a state of confusion and anxiety, and the impact on young people is fatal, which can be solved by one or two conversations?" ”

Yan Yong was talking, and when he saw Liu Peng coming in with a teapot, he pointed at Liu Peng and said slowly to Yan Bonian: "Xiaopeng happened to come over, you asked him to tell me, what are you going to do next, what is your goal?" Three years, five years, concise, can there be a clear direction? ”

"What the eldest brother said is right, the deviation of the orientation of the whole society, or the sense of letting go is lost." Qi Tianxiang couldn't help but smile when he saw his somewhat confused expression, and said to Yan Bonian tactfully: "At the beginning of reform and opening up, the goal of the country and the public was still clear, the country should develop the economy, strengthen the national strength, and improve the people's lives. The goal of the people is also simple, and the two wishes of earning money and living a good life are condensed together, forming a kind of vitality, that is, to go for a good life. ”

Qi Tianxiang seemed to fall into painful thoughts, his words became difficult, and he said slowly: "With the development of the economy, the society should enter an orderly track, the economy should be guided and restricted by law, and the social form should be the simultaneous development of civilization and spirit, but the reality is not like this." The whole society is like a wild horse, galloping with a group of blind people, the government's motivation to develop the economy is unabated, and even keeps accelerating, and the people's desire to make money is even hotter, even at all costs, but what to do with the money? But no one thought about it. As far as the government is concerned, to improve people's lives, the more problems are improved, the greater the contradictions, and the more it feels that the money is not enough, so it desperately works on projects and paves the way. As for the people, the life is improving, but the more they improve, the gap is bigger, the more they have no sense of satisfaction, the more they are anxious and confused, what we want and what the ultimate goal of social development is becoming more and more confused. ”

"Uncle is so right, it's just three points." After finally understanding the topic discussed by several elders, Liu Peng also joined in, and said while thinking about it: "In the past, what was visible was wealth, and I felt down-to-earth, but now it is better to grow food than to sell food, and it is better to sell food than to do trade, and it is better to do trade than to do concept hype." During this period of time, I followed Vice Governor Xu to do research in rural areas, and what I heard and saw in the rural areas was indeed not very optimistic. ”

As Liu Peng spoke, his eyes constantly observed the reactions of several elders, and when he saw that everyone was silently listening to his story, he had confidence, and then said: "It is an exaggeration to say that the countryside has now been hollowed out, or has become a village for the lonely elderly and a camp for left-behind children, but it is also an indisputable fact. In many villages, there are not many young and middle-aged people left, and even the village chief has gone out to work, and the income from farming a year is less than two months of part-time work, who wants to be busy in the farmland? ”

"But if you ask about the migrant workers now, 90 percent of them are at construction sites, and very few of them enter the factories, in addition to the lack of skills for farmers, the main reason is that there are not many physical enterprises that can accommodate so many migrant workers in the city." Liu Peng's words became cautious, and he cautiously continued: "The hollowing out of the countryside, the zombification of enterprises, the survival of commerce, and the struggling service industry seem to have become the norm in the cities." Doing business is the same as farming, it is better to work hard for a year, it is better to speculate on a house for half a year, or even to play the income of a few days of investment speculation. Honestly do business, to research and development, to produce, to establish sales channels, to after-sales service, but also to environmental assessment, safety assessment, tax payment, etc., it is better to do concept packaging hype, once listed, is several times, dozens of times the profit, even if it can not be listed, catch up with the Internet or high-tech concept, you can also take the opportunity to hype, and finally sell at a good price. What industry is the most lucrative right now? In addition to banks, it is the so-called virtual economy of speculation and speculation, and real estate. ”