Two years later, it was Wang Xiaofeng's father's 70th birthday, and his parents were the same age, so it was also his mother's 70th birthday. Wang Xiaofeng discussed with Sister Yun and decided to make a big birthday for his parents on his father's birthday.

Sister Yun said, this is easy to do, when the time comes, set up a few tables in the hotel, invite relatives and friends, everyone get together, have a good time, and make the two old people happy.

Xiaofeng said, I plan to go back to my hometown to do it, do a bigger thing, invite the whole village, and the whole factory workers to get together and talk. Our family has not had a happy event for many years, so we can also let the whole family and everyone have a good time.

Sister Yun was a little embarrassed, and said, the house in her hometown has not been lived in for many years, and it has been dilapidated, besides, the place at home is also narrow, how can it accommodate so many guests?

Xiaofeng said, I have considered all of this. The birthday feast is not placed at home, but in the open space outside the courtyard. When the time comes, dozens of tents, tables, and benches will be pulled from the factory, and how many guests will not be able to entertain them? As for the home, you take a few workers with you, clean and clean, scrub and scrub, and then paste and paste, as long as it is clean and tidy.

Sister Yun said, how to make the meal? Also call the hotel to do a good job of pulling over?

Xiaofeng said that it was not necessary. The meal is done in the town restaurant and pulled over, so far away, bumpy and bumpy, either spilled, or cold, how to ask the guests to eat? Clean up the kitchen at home, and pull all the kitchen utensils, cooking utensils, and tableware from the factory canteen, so that you can do it at home. Chefs, please invite the master chef of the restaurant in the town, invite a few more, and make any dishes, each with its own responsibility. The chef will make a list of the required ingredients according to his needs, and ask Yunxing to bring a few workers to buy them according to the list.

Sister Yun said, this is fine, but it is more troublesome. You can concentrate on the work in the factory, and leave this matter to me. She thought about it and said, let's make a birthday for our parents, and the guests come to congratulate, and we must give a birthday gift. With so many people and such a big momentum, I'm afraid that it won't have a good impact. I don't think we'll accept congratulatory gifts.

Xiaofeng said that this is the best. At that time, no matter who it is, relatives and friends, or neighbors, or workers, they will not accept congratulatory gifts. We just want to take advantage of the birthday of our parents, greet everyone, talk about our hearts, talk about our hearts, get close to each other, and be affectionate; Who cares about this gift money.

Sister Yun said, since this has been decided, then no one's gift money will be accepted, otherwise, if people say that we are far and near, there will be opinions. Wang Xiaofeng nodded in agreement.

The plan for Wang Xiaofeng's parents to celebrate their birthday has been decided, and Sister Yun began to prepare, tidying up the houses and venues in her hometown, moving things from the town and the factory, finding restaurants to hire chefs, and inviting guests to the village and factory.

Sister Yun called me in time to explain how important and important this matter was, and invited my husband and wife and my parents to attend together. I was very touched by what I heard, and immediately agreed, and said that on that day, no matter how big things were, I would put down and promise to attend on time.

Sister Yun repeatedly emphasized that she would not accept congratulatory gifts. I said, what is our relationship? Don't even accept my congratulatory gifts? Sister Yun said that she and Wang Xiaofeng did not accept all the congratulatory gifts from relatives and friends, so it is not easy to accept you, otherwise it will offend relatives and friends. I have nothing to say. It can be said that this makes me feel very embarrassed: because when my parents were on their birthday, Sister Yun and Xiaofeng both gave a lot of congratulatory gifts, and we all accepted them as they were. But they insisted on not doing so. He also explained that they had done a big deal this time, from the village to the factory, they invited thousands of guests, and if they accepted a congratulatory gift from me, they would not be able to refuse the others. Everyone accepts it, and it doesn't make them make a mistake to receive so much gift money at once?

Speaking of this, I can't say anything more, making it difficult for Sister Yun and Xiaofeng; But he was always unwilling, so he discussed this matter with his lover. The lover thought about it and said, do not accept congratulatory gifts, there is a way to make up for it, let's buy two birthday cakes, to be refined, extra-large, and buy two baskets of big birthday peaches, in addition, I asked our county calligrapher, write a pair of longevity couplets, ask someone to frame it, and send it over together to express our hearts. I said, "That's all there is to it." So we went our separate ways.

On Wang Xiaofeng's father's birthday, my wife and parents and I had breakfast early, and then drove to Wang Xiaofeng's house with gifts. Along the way, everyone kept talking about the story of Sister Yun and Wang Xiaofeng, and my father said with great emotion: "It is said that Wang Xiaofeng is afraid of hardship and tiredness, and is restless, but I didn't expect that he was the first young man in our village to start a successful business." There are so many hard-working and safe young people in the village, who are still farming and collecting firewood in the countryside, feeding pigs and sheep, although they have no worries about food and clothing, but they have not made great achievements, which is regrettable. It's really different times, and the standards for looking at people are also different. ”

I explained: "Now the country's policy is reform and opening up, entrepreneurship, and innovation, and we need people like Wang Xiaofeng who dare to think and do. If people had remained as peaceful as before, only knowing how to farm, chop wood, catch fish and shrimp, feed pigs and sheep, and be content with the small life of their families, there would be no innovation and reform today. The lover said: "In the final analysis, Wang Xiaofeng has caught up with today's good times and good policies, otherwise, with him as a smuggling criminal, he is not qualified to be a good member, how can he have today's achievements?" The father said, "You have all the point, and I agree." However, I think there is another reason, which is to die and come back to life. If Xiaofeng didn't have to go home to farm because his father broke his leg, but was admitted to university and assigned a job, now he is just like you, being a civil servant, or a primary and secondary school teacher, how can he start his own business and become the general manager of the factory, a famous farmer entrepreneur? "My wife and I agreed.

The family talked all the way to Wang Xiaofeng's hometown. I saw dozens of canvas tents set up on the field in front of the courtyard, and the workers were busy setting up tables and benches. When Sister Yun and Wang Xiaofeng saw us, they immediately dropped the work in their hands, greeted them with a smile, shook hands and said hello, took the gifts, thanked us repeatedly, and then introduced us into the house to drink tea and rest.

The courtyard is still the same, the house is still the same, but it has been cleaned and renovated. On the wall of the opposite door of the hall hangs an enlarged, glittering golden word "Shou", and on both sides are hanging the Shoulian sent by various units and departments of the county, township and village, or relatives and friends.

This yard, this house, I am too familiar with it, for the love and marriage of Sister Yun and Wang Xiaofeng, I have been here many times, talked with Xiaofeng and his parents, made friends, and once ate here. When I come here today, I can't help but recall these past events, but the situation has been very different, and the mood has also been very different.

Sister Yun put the cake and longevity peach sent by our family on the table of the eight immortals in front of the family hall, and saw that there was a pair of longevity couplets, and when she opened it, she saw that the upper couplet was: Seven ranks of hard work and cultivation of the jade garden; The next link is: a lifetime of diligence and thrift to teach children and grandchildren. After reading it, it was handed to Xiao Feng and told him to hang it up. Wang Xiaofeng looked at it and said that this pair of longevity not only has a good meaning, but also good calligraphy and framed, so he asked the workers to bring ladders and hang them on both sides of the word "longevity".

At about ten o'clock, the birthday greeting begins. Huzi and Mei Ying helped their grandparents out of the room and let them sit down on the two Taishi chairs side by side in front of the house. I saw two old men with silver hair and red faces, dressed in red brocade Tang costumes, smiling, and their eyes were kind and bright.

Xiao Feng put two round sponge mattresses wrapped in red cloth in front of his parents, pulled Sister Yun to kneel down on the mattress together, and said in unison: "I wish my parents a happy and healthy life, and I wish the second elder a happy body and mind forever, good health, and all the best!" Then he solemnly bowed to his parents three times. Then Huzi and Mei Ying gave their grandparents birthday greetings, wishing their grandparents "blessings like the East China Sea, longevity than Nanshan". Next, the closest relatives and friends of the Wang family gave birthday greetings to the two old people. Round after round, it lasted for an hour. My lover and I, as Wang Xiaofeng's classmates, also paid birthday greetings to the two old people and offered our blessings.

At more than eleven o'clock, the villagers of Liushulin Village and the workers of Fengyun Electronics Factory gathered together. Inside and outside the courtyard, men, women and children, bustling, crowded, noisy, about thousands of guests. Sister Yun and Wang Xiaofeng arranged for them to sit down in the tent outside the courtyard, drink tea, and play cards. After a while, the chef announced the opening of the banquet, and Wang Xiaofeng loudly announced the start of the birthday banquet. Hundreds of tables are piled up with delicacies from the mountains and seas, meat and vegetarian dishes, and fine wines and drinks. Everyone laughed and toasted each other, and they were allowed to eat and drink. My lover and parents arranged to share the table with Wang Xiaofeng's parents and Sister Yun's parents, we were originally neighbors in the same village, familiar with each other, and had deep feelings, plus my relationship with Sister Yun and Xiaofeng, so it was even more intimate.

After three rounds of wine, Wang Xiaofeng stood up and toasted to the guests. He said: "Those who are here today are my neighbors from the same village and my comrades from the same factory, all of whom are close relatives and friends of me and my lover Zhang Yun. First of all, on behalf of my parents, on behalf of me and Sister Yun, I would like to toast you with three glasses of wine and thank you for coming to the banquet for my parents' 70th birthday. In addition, I would like to take this rare opportunity to talk to you again and talk about what I have been thinking about for so many years. For so many years, I have been holding it in my heart, and today I take this opportunity to vomit as fast as possible! Everyone applauded.

After three glasses of wine, Wang Xiaofeng began to talk to everyone and explain what he had done.

He said, let me first explain why I came to the village to hold the 70th birthday banquet for my parents, not in the restaurant on the street. It's not that I'm afraid of spending money, but I really want to take this opportunity to come and see my hometown, hometown, old house, and the villagers who have depended on each other for generations. This will always be my home, my roots, and they will never be separated from each other. In addition, it is also to take care of the elderly and children in the village. Just imagine, if the birthday banquet is held in a restaurant on the street, such a long way, so many old people and children in the village, can they all be there? There was a round of applause in the tent.

Wang Xiaofeng said again, let me explain again, this time my parents celebrated their 70th birthday together, why did they only invite everyone to the birthday banquet and did not accept everyone's gift money? Many people, including the closest relatives and friends, today I solemnly declare that your gift money has already been paid, and I have already accepted it. Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and they didn't know where to start.

Komine then explained. I'll start with the folks. My family is in the village, sparsely populated, single-family, who has not helped take care of my family, my parents? Isn't this more important and valuable than a few tens of dollars in gifts? Besides, the comrades in the factory, when you were in the most difficult time for the Fengyun Electronics Factory, you invested in shares to help the factory tide over the difficulties; In the transformation and upgrading of the factory, the research and development of new products and the upgrading of products, we voluntarily take less bonuses, shares, and even less wages to support the successful transformation of the factory, so that we have today's prosperous situation. How precious is your spirit, a thousand times more precious than a gift of tens of yuan! I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all of you today for the 70th birthday banquet of my parents. I see. Everyone listened to another round of applause.

I'll tell you more about myself. I'm a restless and stubborn person. I have studied, farmed, gone through business, worked, broken the law, and been in prison, and now I have returned to my hometown to start a business, and have opened Fengyun Electronics Factory, Fengyun Electric Appliance Factory, and today's Fengyun brand washing machine manufacturing factory, and have become a big boss, a rich man, and a star entrepreneur in the minds of the villagers. Why am I having so many experiences? Will there be current achievements? First, thanks to the country's reform and opening up policy, I can freely choose my career and give full play to my knowledge and talents. Of course, breaking the law and going to jail is because I have chosen the wrong direction and taken the wrong path, and it has nothing to do with national policies; However, I have also come to understand a truth from this, that is, reform and opening up must also follow the right path, operate legally, and not violate laws and disciplines and act arbitrarily.

The second is because of my personality of not admitting defeat. Since I was a child, my father taught me that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", "there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book". He also taught me, "First-class people, loyal ministers and filial sons, two things, reading and plowing the fields." Although these words are not entirely correct, they have left a deep imprint in my heart, believing that only by studying well and being admitted to university can I glorify my ancestors and change the fate of myself and my family. When I was studying, I worked hard and was determined to get better grades than others. Here are my classmates from elementary, middle, and high school who can testify. If it weren't for being hospitalized due to illness and delaying my studies, and later, because my father broke his leg while working, and there was no one to work at home, I think I might have been admitted to university.

After I dropped out of school and came home, I thought about it repeatedly, thinking that the fundamental reason why I didn't get the university dream was the word "poor". If it weren't for my poverty, I wouldn't have dropped out of school, and I could have continued to study and get into university. My father would not be disabled by work, and I hated poverty to death, so I tried every possible way to do everything possible to cure the poor and become rich. Doing business, working part-time, illegally selling smuggling, and returning to the hometown to start a business, in the final analysis, are all to realize the dream of getting rich by treating the poor.

Now, I've finally made it happen! I have my own factory and tens of millions of assets, and I often go to the township, county, and even the provincial capital to hold meetings in a well-dressed manner, report to the leaders, exchange experiences with peers, analyze the situation, and be received and commended by important leaders. Today, I returned to my hometown in a beautiful way to hold a banquet for my parents' 70th birthday, inviting thousands of relatives and friends to drink to their heart's content, and we did not accept any congratulatory gifts for everyone. I can have today's achievements, first of all, I should be grateful to the country's policy of reform and opening up, without the country's policy of enriching the people, my career and future are unimaginable. Secondly, I should thank my lover Zhang Yun, without her support and encouragement, help and promotion, her hard work, personal practice, and leading example, I would never have achieved today's results. So, today, I also want to toast my lover with a glass of wine. As he spoke, he poured a glass of wine and held it to Sister Yun with both hands. Sister Yun took it shyly, and then drank it all. There was another round of applause.

Wang Xiaofeng finally said that he did not forget the fundamentals of getting rich, did not forget the villagers, and did not forget the comrades who worked hard with me and Sister Yun to start a business. Today, I solemnly promise to you that in the future, all relatives and friends in the same village and factory, no matter who has difficulties in life, production, children's education, or family treatment, even if they come to me to borrow money, I guarantee that I will lend as much as you need, and I will not charge any interest. At the same time, I also solemnly declare that those who gamble money, those who are idle and do not seek progress, those who borrow money and do not repay it, and those who do not keep their promises, will not lend a penny. Do you all agree? Everyone applauded enthusiastically and shouted "agree" in unison.

"Alright, I'm done. Please eat and drink well, and return satisfied. With Wang Xiaofeng's order, the guests at each table immediately ate and drank, delicious wine and food, guessed the order, toasted each other, and laughed and laughed until the red sun sank.

My lover and my parents had to return to the county seat before dark, so we didn't wait for the birthday banquet to end and said goodbye to Xiaofeng's parents, Xiaofeng, and Sister Yun. Xiaofeng's mother took my hand and said, "Good girl, thanks to your many persuasions, Xiaofeng and Sister Yun will reconcile and remarry, and Xiaofeng will return to his hometown to set up a factory." Otherwise, how could they be today? Your uncle and I wouldn't have had so many people come to congratulate us on our birthday. I said: "It's because you and your uncle teach your children well, so Xiaofeng will not forget his hometown and parents, and return to his hometown to set up a factory; Now, their careers are so prosperous, you two elders are waiting to enjoy the blessings! The old man thanked him repeatedly. Xiaofeng's father also walked over on crutches, took my father's hand and said, "You taught a good girl, Yingzi is like you, she likes to help people." Our family is thanks to her help, persuading Xiaofeng here and Sister Yun there, and the two will be reconciled; Otherwise, Xiaofeng will not come back, where will our family have today's prosperity? The father said, "We are all from Willow Grove Village, a good neighbor of the village. Villages help villages, neighbors help neighbors, and help hometown people is what it should be. ”

Bidding farewell to the Wang family and fellow villagers, we got in the car, telling the story of Xiaofeng and Sister Yun along the way, looking back on the past, and feeling infinitely emotional. I said to my parents: "You see, now Sister Xiaofengyun is so rich, the whole village, the whole factory, thousands of people come to celebrate the birthday banquet, but they don't charge a penny!" This time, they will lose at least tens of thousands of yuan! The lover said: "Tens of thousands of yuan, now for them, is it not a piece of cake?" Such a big factory, it won't take half a day to make money. I said, "Well, I'll quit my job and start a business." This little staff, I've done enough, sitting in the office every day, what will be the rewards! is also said to be a 'gnawing old clan', it is because of his father that he has this job, this job, it seems that he can't live without his parents. The father said, "Don't just look at how rich people are, think about how much they have suffered." Can you endure the hardships of others? I said, "Happiness is for man, and suffering is for man, so why can't we?" I've thought about it, I won't suffer as much as Sister Yun and Xiaofeng; The two of us work, one quits, and the other gets money, even if I fail to start a business, I won't go hungry. The father said, "I am old, and you are all grown up, and you are in charge of your own affairs." However, I said ugly things ahead, there is no turning back from the bow, you have to think about it carefully, and don't regret it in the future! The mother said: "The junior clerk, who is also a state cadre, takes the state's money, and guarantees the harvest in drought and flood." Not everyone can succeed in entrepreneurship. I said, "If it doesn't work, how do you know if you don't give it a try?" I still want to give it a try. ”