After arranging the holiday, the work of the consulate came to an end, Mu Yang returned to the villa, could have a good reunion with his family, and the next day, the family drove to a Chinese supermarket in Munich, the main reason for coming here is that they can buy what they need for the New Year.

Flour, vegetables, meat, fish (but sea fish), glutinous rice balls, red dates, fruits, sugar, red paper, window flowers, lanterns, brushes, drinks, beer, some condiments, as for wine and liquor, Muyang has better ones in the space, so they are no longer bought here.

Muyang also prepared some Western dishes, such as beef, salad dressing, Germany's most famous pork knuckle, sausages, cheese and so on.

Unfortunately, according to German law, firecrackers can only be set off on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the periphery of churches, hospitals, homes for the elderly and children's homes is prohibited. It is a pity that the Chinese New Year is not within the time frame in which firecrackers are allowed.

The family cooks together, teases the children together, and has a great time, what could be happier than this moment.

Muyang took out the cut red paper, prepared to write couplets, and after preparing the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, he said to his father: "Dad, you can show a hand, write a Spring Festival couplet, and we will stick it outside the door when the time comes." ”

Mu Shouli was not polite, walked over and rolled up his sleeves, took the pen and thought for a while, then dipped himself in ink, and wrote on the red paper, 'The five lakes and the four seas are full of spring, and the thousands of rivers and mountains are full of glory. 'Horizontal batch, 'auspicious wishes'.

Mu Yang looked at it, feeling really good, and then looked at Xu Youshan again, "Shanshan." You write one too. ”

Xu Youshan handed the child to her mother-in-law, thought about it and wrote: "Agoodyearandaniceviewfollowthespring.,Happinessandhealtharriveasyouwish." Side-by-side 'Everythinggoeswell.'.

"It's still Shanshan who is smart. Directly in English, this for foreigners to see, Chinese is broad and profound, they are afraid that they can't understand ah. Mu Yang said with a smile.

"Brother, what does this mean, I don't understand it." Mu Chen is still a junior high school student, and this kind of sentence is really awkward.

"If I'm not translating it wrong. The upper link is a good year with the arrival of spring, and the lower link is the happiness and health of the well-being. All the best, right, Shanshan. Muyang asked.

Xu Youshan smiled. Knowing this, it is difficult for Mu Yang to be at all, Mu Yang's foreign language level is now higher than her.

"English couplet, what a lofty feeling, yes. This is Germany. What if someone doesn't know English, or my sister-in-law writes a couplet in German. Mu Chen said.

"I'm not good at German, I'm not majoring in German, it's up to your brother, he's studying for a doctorate in German right now." Xu Youshan hurriedly said.

"German couplets, I want to think about it" Mu Yang thought for a moment, and then wrote "Heiistdie Liebe, Kaltistder Schnee." ”

"What do you mean, brother." Don't talk about Mu Chen. In fact, people here can't understand it.

"Say goodbye to the old years and study hard. Welcome the New Year and climb the peak. ”

"Dad, on Chinese New Year's Eve, several people in our unit stayed on duty at the consulate, and I am going to call them over for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and everyone will celebrate the Spring Festival together, what do you think." Muyang asked.

"Okay, everyone is so lively, when the time comes, ask your aunt to cook a few more dishes, and it will be interesting for the New Year when there are more people."

Throughout the Spring Festival, Muyang was on duty as a leader on duty, the so-called on-the-job position, as long as he was in Munich, after all, the consulate during this period except for the consular service center that deals with urgent matters, other business departments are not working.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Mu Yang invited several people who stayed on duty at the consulate to his home, and then everyone had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, watched the Spring Festival Gala, and it was not until 11 o'clock that colleagues returned to the consulate to rest.

enjoyed a rare holiday, after the Spring Festival, the Mu family returned to China, Muyang reluctantly said goodbye to his family, hugged his daughter and kissed him fiercely, until the plane took off and disappeared into the sky, Muyang did not go back.

The consulate works normally, and some normal economic work needs to be arranged after the Chinese New Year, but Muyang is already familiar with it, and some small things are dealt with quickly, but a fax on the table let Muyang take it and read it for a long time.

This is sent by Zhou Hongxiang, three months ago, Zhou Hongxiang sent a fax to Muyang, it is the domestic want Muyang through the hands of the businessman named 'Luca', in the purchase of a batch of foreign embargoed machine tools urgently needed by China, and there are also large machine tools.

At that time, Muyang dragged it down because he needed to see the opportunity, and this delay was three months, no, Muyang returned to work in the consulate, and Zhou Hongxiang sent another fax, urging Muyang to find an opportunity to contact the businessman named Luca, and wanted to buy a batch of machine tools, and the number actually increased.

For this kind of high-end processing machinery, the country will never be satisfied, in the field of low-end machine tools, China has never been lacking, and the production capacity is not low, and can even rank among the top few in the world, but in the high-end this piece, there is indeed a big gap with Germany and Japan.

Muyang has also studied that if you want to improve the overall strength of China's machine tool processing industry, you need to improve from many aspects such as basic industry, material industry, processing technology, CNC programming, etc., which is a comprehensive problem.

In fact, what China lacks is not just a few machine tools.

Muyang's grandfather once told Muyang that as a diplomat, you need to master a lot of knowledge, diplomats are generalists, they are miscellaneous, and they need to have a wide range of knowledge to engage in diplomacy, and they must learn and master all aspects of law, economy, culture, etc., especially economic knowledge, diplomatic work is also for the economy in a sense, and economic diplomacy is inseparable from the support of politics and diplomacy. At the same time, we should also vigorously develop foreign trade, expand overseas markets, strengthen scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges with foreign countries, and promote China's modernization.

After he became Economic Counsellor in Munich, he read a lot of books in his spare time, including many economic works, as well as many books and reports on the analysis of China's economy and the economic situation of various countries in the world.

Because he is in Germany, in Bavaria, a big manufacturing state, Muyang is also more concerned about Germany and the situation of the machine tool manufacturing industry, in the process of learning, Muyang also gradually realized that in fact, his original views are indeed a bit one-sided.

China is relatively backward in the manufacturing industry, but China is now the first to solve the problem of whether there is a problem, and Germany after decades of precipitation, in the manufacturing industry has made great progress, but Germany is not anything stronger than China, perhaps it can be said that Germany is stronger than China in the machinery manufacturing industry, in communications, mobile phones, and even aircraft engines, Germany's level is not as good as China.

Although Germany has the world's most advanced machine tools, but can not produce the best aircraft engine, why, this is also a problem of technology accumulation, Germany failed after World War II, was not allowed to develop turbofan engines, so although China's aircraft engine manufacturing level is not good, but Germany's aircraft engine manufacturing level, is not as good as China.

Therefore, the Chinese people do not need to be ashamed of themselves.

We can't always compare ourselves with the most advanced aspects of other countries in the world, China is not a country of immortals, it is impossible to be the first in everything, it is not as good as others, just learn. (To be continued.) )