Chapter 18: Reunion for the New Year
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I was woken up in the morning by a crackling firecracker, I woke up from a sweet dream with a hara, Li Xin was already busy making breakfast in the kitchen, after the last scald, I persuaded her to stop stir-frying, but she didn't do what I said, still stir-frying in the kitchen.
After I got up and washed, I felt in a good mood, and I felt a lot more comfortable doing stretching exercises in the living room.
Although I wasn't a member of the varsity basketball team in college, I was definitely the main power forward in my class, and at that time I was able to catch the basket when I jumped, and I rarely touched the basketball because of work and laziness in the past few years. As the old saying goes, if people don't exercise, they will rust, and the ancients didn't deceive me.
Seeing that breakfast was not ready, I played handstand in the living room again, which is my specialty, and I can even hold up my body with one arm when I am in good condition.
I was getting carried away in the living room and standing upside down, ready to stabilize my body and call Li Xin to come out and cheer me on.
At this time, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a middle-aged man with gray temples and a solemn and old-fashioned man flashed in through the door.
I hurriedly ended the handstand and became a normal person, and asked, "Are you looking for it?" ”
Li Xin also seemed to hear the sound of the door opening at this time, she came out of the kitchen, and called out to Dad after seeing the middle-aged man who came in.
The man, who looked to be in his fifties, just nodded and said hello to Li Xin, and then put all his attention on me. The middle-aged man I saw last time in the company conference room appeared in front of me again at this moment, which made me more or less overwhelmed, until I heard Li Xin call me like this, I didn't know what to call the middle-aged man in front of me.
"Hello uncle and happy new year!" I hurriedly and politely asked Li Xin's father to sit down, he smiled at me and nodded, sat on the sofa, and picked up "One Piece" on the coffee table and looked at it with interest.
Li Xin and I are not in the habit of drinking tea, so there is no tea in this house.
"Uncle, will I give you some coffee?" I asked.
"Plain water is fine!"
I hurriedly took a glass of water from the water dispenser and handed it to him with both hands, and he smiled and nodded at me again.
The last time I had dinner with He Peng, I heard that Li Xin's father was the CEO of Chenguang Real Estate, and in the thinking of a small person like me, I always thought that the **OSS at the level of chairman and CEO) should be glamorous and difficult to approach. is as kind as Li Xin's father, without any posture, which really eases my nervous mood a lot.
Li Xin brought out breakfast from the kitchen, she rolled the fried shredded potatoes in the pancakes, the yellowish pancakes looked appetizing, I hurriedly went to the kitchen to take out the hot soy milk from the microwave.
"Uncle Li, you haven't eaten breakfast yet, Li Xin has been good at craftsmanship recently, you must always try it!" As I spoke, I pushed a burrito in front of him and handed over the soy milk that had just been served.
Uncle Li put down the One Piece in his hand, he motioned for me and Li Xin, who were standing in the middle of the living room at a loss, to sit down, and moved their bodies very casually.
I knew that it was a little inappropriate for me to sit on the same sofa with Uncle Li, so I motioned for Li Xin to go over and sit down.
After Li Xin sat down, he pointed to me and introduced: "This is Feng Tang, who used to work in the company's sales department, and the very constructive plan last time was put forward by Feng Tang, you know this father." Li Xin said and looked at me again, and then said: "I rented the second bedroom of this house to him, which can be regarded as a care!" ”
This sentence is extremely informative, Uncle Li obviously doesn't understand it, I don't need to raise my head to know that Uncle Li must have a lot of questions in his heart, but Li Xin and I will not have the consciousness to answer them one by one.
Li Xin didn't seem to have too much to talk about with his father, and there was no sound in the house for a while, and the three of them ate breakfast quietly. I was thinking of finding a topic to break the silence, but when I look back, I don't know much about Uncle Li, so I don't know why I may lose my words if I talk too much, so it's better not to say it.
As I put the last bite of the burrito in my mouth, the doorbell rang again. I was closer to the door, so I naturally got up first and planned to open the door, but when I got up, I saw Uncle Li move his body unnaturally.
When I opened the door, a middle-aged woman with a very well-maintained temperament stood at the door, I wondered why there were so many guests during the New Year, and I was about to ask what it meant, Li Xin seemed to have seen the person, she hurriedly jumped up from the sofa, ran to the door and said loudly: "Mom, when did you come back, and you don't say hello to others!" ”
"I only came back last night, I didn't call for fear of disturbing your rest, and I wanted to surprise my daughter when I came over so early!" The middle-aged woman smiled decently and talked to Li Xin, she touched Li Xin's cheeks with both hands and spoke softly, her kind expression could not be more realistic.
Li Xin said that she was so excited, she threw herself into the arms of the middle-aged woman and shed tears like a little girl.
I have been with Li Xin for so long, I have never seen her shed a single tear, she is strong in my eyes, the sudden appearance of her mother made her so excited, it seems that the relationship between mother and daughter is extraordinary and has been separated for a long time.
"Good boy, don't cry for the New Year!" The middle-aged woman lovingly wiped away her tears for Li Xin, and softly comforted Li Xin, who was deeply in love.
Uncle Li, who was sitting on the sofa before, stood up on the sofa at this time, he looked at the intimate posture of the mother and daughter, and turned his head away unnaturally.
Li Xin quickly stopped crying after hearing her mother's comfort, she pulled her mother to sit on the sofa opposite, and the two chatted about the situation again.
I became an outsider at this time, went to the water dispenser to pick up the water and brought it to Li Xin's mother, I said, "Auntie, it's cold outside, you can drink some hot water to warm up!" ”
Li Xin's mother seemed to notice me at this time, but she didn't ask Li Xin about my identity, just politely said thank you, and then returned to the endless topic of conversation with Li Xin.
Uncle Li was also cold to the side at this time, he opened the sliding door between the living room and the balcony, and gently closed it after going out.
I was also bored, so I brought the cup of water that Uncle Li hadn't finished to the balcony and handed it to Uncle Li.
Uncle Li smiled very casually this time, he took out a point of Zhongnanhai and handed it to me, and politely helped me order it.
I always thought that most of the CEOs in the real estate industry were local tyrants, and smoking and drinking were all exclusively for them, but I didn't think that Uncle Li smoked Zhongnanhai for seven or eight yuan.
"I've always been used to Zhongnanhai, but you young people don't like it very much!" Uncle Li said.
"I don't have a specific brand for smoking, what I smoke, I really can't feel good or bad!" I don't pick most of the tobacco, alcohol, tea, meat and vegetables, and I can catch anything.
"How long have you been living here?" Uncle Li suddenly asked me.
"I moved here in the middle of winter!" I say.
"Li Xin occasionally has a bad temper and is a little stubborn, you have to take care of it!"
"It's good, we get along!" Before I said this, I didn't think that Uncle Li might misunderstand, but the words have already been spoken, and I can only make mistakes.
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Uncle Li and I chatted without a word, and the urchins also ran out of their houses at this time, and they sandwiched the firecrackers in their hands between the branches of the holly, lit them, and ran away with their ears covered.
I think of the scene of the New Year when I was young, not to mention a small firecracker, but the thunder king with thick arms, I dare to light it in my hand and throw it into the air like a grenade, today's children have a lot of stronger safety awareness, and the standard of living has also improved a lot, but the once lively and extraordinary New Year's flavor has long been gone.
"Li Xin said that you worked in the company before, and now what?"
"I quit for personal reasons!" I knew that it was really inappropriate to talk about the internal struggle in front of Uncle Li, so I just said it simply.
Uncle Li didn't ask any more, he stood on the balcony and looked into the distance with deep eyes, the snow on the South Lake had not yet melted, the South Lake on the New Year's morning was quiet without a sound, and the old man who returned from morning exercise walked quietly on the lakeside. The New Year may be a little different from ordinary days in the eyes of young people, but it is not much different from before in the eyes of old people who exercise in the morning.
Uncle Li and I stood on the balcony for a long time, and after he finished smoking, he looked at me and turned his head to ask me if I could cook, and I said that I had learned a lot about simple meals.
"Then let's go cook, let the two of them continue to chat, I haven't seen each other for several years, and there will naturally be a lot to say!"
I nodded in agreement, and Uncle Li and I left the balcony and went to the kitchen again.
I didn't dare to be too flamboyant in front of Uncle Li, so I had to help him.
Yesterday, I asked Uncle Li about the ingredients he needed and took them out one by one to clean and prepare, Uncle Li chopped the chicken legs the board, and his movements were not unfamiliar at all.
"Feng Tang, how is your relationship with Xiao Xin?"
"Very good, we can help each other!"
"Even if you are a good friend who has a good relationship, you must have protective measures when you do that, and men must know how to take responsibility."
I was completely shocked by Uncle Li's domineering words, and I never thought that an elder would say such a thing in front of me.
I thought so, but I tried not to show a trace of embarrassment as much as possible. Uncle Li dares to say this kind of thing, one is because of his enlightenment, and the other is his care for young people, if I am more pretentious, it will be a little out of place, even if Li Xin and I are innocent, but I still nodded very seriously.
We worked in the kitchen for an hour, Uncle Li made four hot dishes, and I tossed two cold dishes when I was free.
After looking at the time, it was almost lunchtime, and I went out of the kitchen to tell Li Xin that the mother and daughter were ready for lunch, and the mother and daughter came back to their senses from the chatter after a long absence.
Putting Uncle Li's prepared dishes on the table, looking at the mouth-watering delicious meals on the table, I admired the back who was still busy in the kitchen. Standing at the height of the chairman of the real estate company, Uncle Li can have such a calm heart is indeed worth learning from future generations.
Uncle Li came back from the kitchen after the cold dishes were served, and he said that the soup should be cooked slowly to absorb the flavor, so that everyone should not be anxious.
To paraphrase the lines of a very hot program nowadays, behind the strong New Year's flavor is the ups and downs of a family for dozens or even hundreds of years, and the reunion dinner of the Spring Festival intentionally or unintentionally reflects the prosperity of the whole family, and the reunion dinner contains the warm feelings of relatives getting together......
I don't know what Li Xin and my mother talked about in the few hours after the reunion, but when Li Xin's mother asked me again what my name was, where I worked, and how old I was this year, I realized that the mother and daughter had never talked about me and Li Xin at all.
After telling her general situation again, a smile finally appeared on Li Xin's mother's face, which I was not familiar with.
Li Xin never talked much to my father, and I only occasionally reminded him to eat more meat and drink less alcohol. I have a real estate company at the helm next to me, but I don't have any untimely questions about the property market.
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