Chapter 15: Daddy's Thoughts
Meng Yufei came home from the Internet café and went to the study to find a book to pass the boring time.
"Ordinary World", this is a book that Meng Yufei likes very much, there are three books in total, and it was created by the famous Chinese writer Lu Yao.
The book focuses on the two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and portrays the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life from the mid-70s to the mid-80s; Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, profoundly showing the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have walked in the historical process of the great era; It is a novel that expresses the social life of contemporary urban and rural China and is known as "the crown jewel of the Mao Dun Literature Award and an immortal classic that inspires millions of young people".
This book was bought by Meng Yufei's father, Meng Huadong, and the family of three liked this book, and they would discuss the characters in the book after reading the book.
Staring at the book, Meng Yufei's mind was the moment of the whole family's debate, with a warm smile on the corner of her mouth, thinking, it's good to be reborn, and she has an ordinary happiness again.
Yuan Xiumei didn't see her daughter when she went home, thinking that Meng Yufei hadn't come back from going out to play, so she pushed open the study and found that her daughter was reading.
Under the afterglow of the sunset, the girl sat quietly, holding the book in her hand and reading it seriously, the expression on her face changed with the story of the characters in the book, forming a beautiful picture, Yuan Xiumei quietly withdrew, found the point-and-shoot camera at home, and gave her daughter a snapshot.
The flash light turned on, and Meng Yufei looked up to find that her mother had returned: "Mom, why didn't you call me when you came back?" ”
"I didn't call you when you were fascinated by reading here, I just took a photo of you, and after a few days this film is finished, I will wash it out to ensure that it looks good." Yuan Xiumei shook the camera in her hand.
"Let's go, Mom, I'll help you cook, Brother Zizhen is here today, take me to our city for dinner......" Meng Yufei closed the book and put it on the shelf, walked over and took her mother's arm, and told her mother what she had seen and heard today while walking to the kitchen.
Of course, I also have to report to my mother that I want to learn taekwondo, but my mother agreed without saying a word, and when my father comes back in the evening, she can let her sign up the next day.
The family had a good dinner meal, and Meng Yufei made a shredded potato, which made the family full of praise.
Meng Huadong also asked her daughter when she learned to cook, Meng Yufei said that she would do it once when she watched others learn from her classmates, and Yuan Xiumei also praised her daughter for her talent as a chef.
How do they know that in her previous life, Meng Yufei was alone, and she couldn't get used to eating outside food, so she slowly learned to cook by herself, of course, she couldn't cook a chef, but she could still cook a few good dishes.
However, her father's words reminded Meng Yufei that she is only 16 years old now, and she tries not to move out what she has learned too early.
After eating, Meng Yufei and her mother cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then rushed to wash the dishes, and drove her mother and father to the study.
Meng Yufei cleaned up the kitchen and entered the study, and when she heard her mother telling her father that she wanted to learn taekwondo, Meng Huadong asked her daughter with some surprise: "Feifei, do you want to learn that?" Aren't you afraid of hardship? ”
"Don't be afraid, Dad, I want to use the summer vacation to learn a little, and then I will talk about whether I learn it in the future, how cool it is for girls to know kung fu!" What Meng Yufei thought about was that he would encounter some blind pervert in the future and kick it away.
"Well, I don't think it's cool, I think our Feifei is getting more and more watery, and it's good to learn some kung fu to defend herself." Yuan Xiumei said what she thought.
"Okay, as long as Fei Fei is not afraid of hardship, it is good to learn a little, at least she can strengthen herself!" Meng Huadong happily agreed, stood up and took out two hundred-yuan bills from the wallet of the briefcase and handed them to Meng Yufei.
"By the way, Dad, I still want to buy a guitar and practice it by myself, do you support it?" Meng Yufei remembered that she decided to participate in the selection of Huazhong Records, and there was no musical instrument to accompany her songs, so don't think about it if the piano is too expensive for the time being, let's replace it with a guitar first! Meng Yufei felt that playing the guitar and singing was very cool in her previous life, and she also enrolled in a training class after work and practiced hard for 2 years, her left hand was worn out in order to press and hyun, and the level of the guitar was not as high as that of the piano, but it was more than enough to accompany her songs.
"It's good to want to learn things, can you learn by practicing and playing by yourself? Why don't you sign up for a training course? Meng Huadong knows that his daughter loves music, but she is afraid that she will not be able to learn it if she practices by herself.
"No, Dad, I'll buy a guitar, there's that kind of teaching book, I'll just practice it myself first." Meng Yufei didn't want to spend money on training classes.
"Then you practice by yourself, and if you really want to learn, you can go to the training class. How much does a guitar cost? Meng Huadong didn't say anything more when he saw his daughter's insistence, maybe he thought that she was playing blindly when she bought a guitar.
"Maybe more than 200 points, just give me 200 is enough, and there is still money for the exam!" At the current consumption level, an ordinary red cotton guitar is only about 200 yuan, and Meng Yufei still knows this.
"Give you 300, find time for the rest to invite your classmates to dinner, I ate someone else's on the two days of the exam, I have to go back, please know?" Meng Huadong took out the money and put it in his daughter's hands.
"Dad, you're bleeding profusely today, aren't you distressed?" Meng Yufei teased her father, her heart was full of emotion, her father's monthly salary was about 1200, which was relatively high in this year, and she took out nearly half of her salary to herself tonight, but she didn't hesitate at all.
"Okay, you want to learn from our family and can afford it, can you do it yourself tomorrow? Why don't you wait for Saturday's mother to accompany you? Yuan Xiumei took over the conversation.
"No, I'll go by myself, Brother Zizhen will accompany me today, I know where it is, I can find a place, I'll let Yuexin accompany me tomorrow." Meng Yufei can't let her mother accompany her, isn't it revealing that she is going to teach guitar!
"Let her go by herself, the city is not far away, okay, Feifei, you go to sleep, I will discuss something with your mother." Meng Huadong saw that everything was finished, and drove Meng Yufei back to sleep.
"Dad, what's the matter? Shall I listen to it? How early I go to bed now, I can't sleep either! Meng Yufei said unhappily.
"It's not a big deal, so sit back and listen!" Meng Huadong thought about it and let his daughter stay, anyway, her daughter is also older, and she can know what she said sooner or later, and it is nothing to listen to.
Putting the wallet back in the briefcase, Meng Huadong sat down at the desk and said: "Xiumei, Lao Xu discussed to get a logistics company with me, the development prospects are very good, I have been thinking about it for a week, and I am ready to resign and work with him, but I have to invest 200,000 yuan in the early stage, I want to discuss it with you."
"Really, great, Dad, I've got your back." Before Yuan Xiumei could speak, Meng Yufei spoke.
The old Xu Meng Yufei in my father's mouth remembers, his full name is Xu Zhengfeng, he is my father's high school classmate, and he has come to her house to eat several times.
"It's not impossible for you to come out and do it, but although our family is not living a tight life, we can't come up with so much money?" Yuan Xiumei glanced at her daughter.
Meng Yufei stuck out her tongue and sat down obediently and stopped talking.
"Yes, the last time our family built a house, my mother's old book was taken out, or we couldn't build this house, we have only saved more than 10,000 yuan in recent years, plus I have made more than 10,000 yuan from stock speculation, a total of only 30,000 yuan, I want to borrow from relatives and friends of the two families to see if we can make up enough."
Meng Yufei's grandfather's family used to be a big family after all, although he experienced a raid, but he still had some family background, otherwise the uncle and the fourth uncle would not have the money to go out to build a house. The idea of starting a company is good, but when it comes to Qian Menghuadong, he is also a little worried.
"My relatives here are okay to say, it is estimated that the old family can borrow a small 20,000 yuan, the old family is a little tight, how much can you make up a few, our eldest brother and fourth brother over there do you want to ask?"
Yuan Xiumei has 3 brothers and sisters, the eldest Yuan Jiaqing, is Meng Yufei's uncle, who works in the town's boiler factory, and his aunt works as a cashier in a bookstore. Meng Yufei's mother is the second daughter, and the third daughter is the eldest Yuan Xiuzhen, who married in Z City, and the two opened a clothing store, and the business is very good.
Therefore, Yuan Xiumei said that the old family can borrow some, and as for the eldest brother and fourth brother, of course, they refer to Meng Yufei's uncle and fourth uncle.
"Alas, I don't have to open my mouth for the two of them, the last time I bought electricity, our money was in the stock market, and I didn't lend it if I wanted to borrow 500 first, or I borrowed it from Lao Xu, I was thinking about borrowing something from my friends, but there was too much money, and it was not good to open that mouth."
Meng Huadong learned to speculate in stocks from his colleagues in the unit, and followed the stock market to rise wildly in 98, and he made some money, but he didn't buy good stocks and didn't make much.
Meng Huadong and his family thought about which friend they wanted to borrow money from, and they fell silent for a while.