A Home for Veterans Chapter 17: The Hotel (I)

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Tan Xiaohong looked very excited, changed her clothes early, sat on the sofa and waited, while constantly urging Tan Sen to change his clothes quickly. Tan Sen stretched out his finger, pointed to the bathroom, and whispered to his daughter: "What's the use of you being in a hurry, your mother just went in to 'makeover', and she can't get out without twenty minutes, and besides, the car your mother wants hasn't come yet, you wait patiently for a while!" ā€

Tan Xiaohong pursed her lips and said, "Invite us to dinner, and don't let us feel happy, what kind of shelf!" How good is it for the family to go out to play, and they have to ask for a trolley from the unit to send us off. Now that she is not allowed to use the bus casually, she is not afraid of other people's opinions. Besides, we are talking together as a family, and it is inconvenient to have a familiar driver sitting next to us! ā€

Tamson also sat down on the sofa and persuaded his daughter: "Don't complain, your mother is usually very busy with work, and it's rare to go out to dinner with us today, if she hadn't taken 8,000 yuan in advertising commission this month, she was in a good mood, and she wouldn't have asked me to call you back from school and go out for a meal together." There are some things that you still don't quite understand, generally speaking, men like to express themselves, women like to dress up, especially older women, dressing up decently can increase self-confidence. You have also reached the age of talking about marriage, and it is time to find a boyfriend, but you are still a girl in the boudoir all day long, and you live a carefree life alone, and you only know how to study stupidly, and your mother and I are very anxious. ā€

"I know my own value, and I will 'sell' myself when the time is right, you and your mother don't worry, although I am not a 'sought-after commodity', but I will not become a 'backlog'!" Xiaohong listened to her father's words and said mischievously.

"Your mother and I are going to find time to talk to you about your affairs, so I won't talk about this matter today. If there's anything new in your school lately, tell your dad about it. ā€

"Okay, a good meal is not afraid of being late, let's wait patiently for a while." Xiaohong grimaced at Tamson Sen and then said, "There is a classmate in our class who is from a small county town in the north, who is very vain, and when he was just in graduate school, he told others that his father was the 'director' and his mother was the 'director'. It took us more than a year to learn that his father was a temporary worker cleaning public toilets, and his mother was an administrator of a public institution's bicycle storage area. If he had told us the truth at the beginning, not many of his classmates would have discriminated against him, because there are many students in the countryside in our school, and we who grew up in the city get along well, but he didn't have the courage to tell the true identity of his parents, and we looked down on him. I personally have a lot of respect for students from rural areas and small towns, and I always feel that they can go from small places to big cities for graduate school, and they have to put in more effort than those of us who grew up in big cities. But some students look down on themselves, and even look down on their parents, which makes people disgusted and looked down upon. There was also a student in the same grade as me, and at first he told people that his father was a farmer, and we all thought his father was a farmer, but later we learned that his father was the director of a provincial agriculture department. This student is usually relatively low-key, very frugal in life, and has a good relationship with other students, he belongs to the more cautious and unassuming kind of people, and we all admire him very much. ā€

"The life experience of suffering is the wealth of a person's life, and the children in the countryside should take it as their capital for their future survival and development in society, and they should cherish it even more, and they should not be ashamed of themselves. I appreciate a saying that someone once said: When you are above others, you must treat others as human beings; When you are under men, think of yourself as a man. Being overconfident when you are above others, or being too inferior when you are below others, is not only detrimental to your own development and growth, but also easy to promote a bad atmosphere in society. ā€

"Dad, what you said is very good, quite philosophical."

"Don't say that, your mother heard it, and she wants to say that our father and daughter are touting each other."

There was the sound of the car's engine downstairs, Xiaohong stood up, ran to the window and looked down, and saw that the Honda car of her mother's unit had been parked downstairs.

"In the past, when the eldest girl got into the sedan chair, was she like her mother?" Xiaohong saw that the door of the bathroom was still closed, and asked Tamson dissatisfied.

Tan Sen said with a smile: "The dress of the eldest girl before getting into the sedan chair is rather verbose, because a person only has one time in his life. However, it seems that your mother is not going to 'makeover' today, but to 'reincarnate', which shows that she attaches great importance to the fact that our family of three goes out to eat. ā€

As soon as Tamson finished speaking, the bathroom door opened.

"What are you two muttering again?" Yin Ling asked Tamson with a comb over her wet hair.

Xiaohong hurriedly replied: "We didn't mumble anything, it was a normal conversation." ā€

"You are a piece of meat that fell from my body, once a part of my body, I still don't know how many ghost eyes you have!" Yin Ling glanced at Xiaohong dissatisfiedly and said.

"You gave me the body before, but you don't know what I'm thinking now."

Yin Ling wanted to say something, but Tan Sen smelled the smell of gunpowder and knew that the "fire truck" should be dispatched, so he stopped his wife and said to his daughter: "The car has been waiting downstairs for a while, take your mother's windbreaker, let's go quickly!" ā€

The waterfall-style neon lights of Seafood City dazzled people, and Yin Ling, dressed in a windbreaker, skillfully walked up the steps, like a butterfly, and was the first to float into the revolving door. Xiaohong took Tamson Sen's arm and followed Yin Ling into the glittering hall, and couldn't help but shout softly: "Wow, it's gorgeous!" Tamson whispered to his daughter, "The last thing I want to eat in a richly decorated place is because the cost of ornate decoration is paid for by the diners." ā€

took the elevator up to the second floor, and the waiter brought the family of three into the single room that Yin Ling had booked.

"Why hasn't the driver come up yet?" Tan Sen asked Yin Ling.

"I gave him two hundred dollars to buy and eat downstairs."

"Is that appropriate?"

"What's inappropriate, do you think he's willing to sit next to us and listen to our family talk about housework?"

After the family of three took a seat, Yin Ling began to order, and after Tan Sen saw that she ordered a cup of shark fin soup of 188 yuan per person, and an abalone rice of 168 yuan per person, he couldn't sit still, and said in surprise: "Just eat some home-cooked meals for your family, why order such expensive dishes?" ā€

"Do you still need to come here to eat the usual meals? Haven't you understood, this place is cheap and lowly, the car is noble, if you get off the bus and order a meal for dozens of dollars, even the waiter will look down on you. Yin Ling didn't listen to Tan Sen's words, and just continued to order.

Tan Sen secretly calculated in his heart, the meals and drinks that Yin Ling ordered totaled nearly 2,500 yuan, and he couldn't help but say: "We ate almost half a square meter of affordable housing in our stomachs for this meal." ā€