In Yizhou City, the restaurant is holding a grand dinner.
The entire restaurant was closed to the public. The old men who came from the nursing home sat around the three tables, drinking and communicating, from time to time there was cheerful laughter and yelling.
The other tables were filled with people of different ages, all the children and grandchildren brought by the old men.
The old guys who came here would naturally not work in vain. Not only did they come by themselves, but also brought juniors who were not in important positions in the court here. The purpose was self-evident.
"Little treasure, it doesn't seem that you personally look at the dishes. I tasted it. Sure enough, there is a taste of home missing. You said, are you worthy of the people we drove over? We have stepped into the coffin with one foot. , Half of your body is buried in the soil, and you still don't let us experience the feeling of home, how can you bear it?"
At the dinner table, Bi Gou gobbled up a piece of lamb chop into his mouth, squinted his eyes, and drank another sip of wine, questioning Zhang Xiaobao who was accompanying him.
Zhang Xiaobao looked at Bi Gou with a different look, then glanced at the other old men who were eating hard around him, wrinkling his nose and said nothing.
Wang Juan held back his laugh, and added a piece of soft fried tenderloin to Bi Gou, and said sweetly: "Grandpa Bi, we usually eat the food made in the restaurant. I think the taste is okay. The chefs in the restaurant will see that we need to eat. Specially adjusted the materials, I did not find the feeling of lack of home.
Xiaobao, you can explain a few words, do you think you have misunderstood the grandfathers, don't you sit stupidly, a toast is also good, how can grandpas be arrogant. "
Zhang Xiaobao held up the wine glass and toasted in a circle without saying anything to toast. He raised his head, a glass of wine poured into his belly, and then clicked his lips, saying, "It's a pity that the wines I took out today are all good vintages. The siblings have been thinking about it for a long time, but they have never had a full drink."
"Xiaobao, don't be sloppy. Xiaobei and the others occasionally drank a small cup of wine. Are you willing to let them drink?" Seeing Zhang Xiaobao talk about other topics, Bi Go immediately stopped him.
Zhang Xiaobao took the wine that Wang Juan poured again, smiled, and said, “The dishes prepared by the chefs in the restaurant are not bad today. The dishes are called popular dishes, with the word “exquisite” in front of them at most.
Believe that you can taste today’s dishes, they are authentic Beijing East City flavors. In the past, when you waited as an official in Beijing, what you ate the most was Beijing cuisine. Later, I went to Sanshui County to take care of the elderly. The taste changed slightly. Today I asked someone to make the flavor of Beijing.
And the main problem is that I am a conservator, not a professional cook, even a cook, I can’t make a restaurant full of dishes by myself. "
"So you admit that you didn't cook, right?" Bi Gou grasped the key to the problem.
"Well, Grandpa Bi, what other requirements do you have, just say, I will never shirk what I can do, what do you think?" Zhang Xiaobao didn't go around the circle at all.
Bi Gouzhen picked up the dishes on the plate with his chopsticks and chewed it in his mouth. After a while, he smiled and said to Yao Chong next to him: "Yuanzhi, try this fried pork belly, it really has the taste of Chang'an East City. I remember whether it came ten years ago or eight years ago. It became popular in Beijing to eat the offal of animals. I didn’t eat it before, because I didn’t eat it. Later it was... "
"Remember, I remembered when Long Ze said that it was Xiaobao and his family who released many recipes for making viscera, so everyone didn't waste it. Later, they started eating it everywhere.
Don't underestimate the internal organs of animals. You don't know what you throw away every day. There are people who can't eat meat. After eating intestines and liver, there is more oil and water in their stomachs, and the health is better, and the food consumption is also small. It is a great achievement for Zhang Wang and his family to offer this method. "
Yao Chong agreed, and after finishing his words, he raised his cup to Zhang Xiaobao to show his praise.
So a table of old men praised Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan looked at each other, and suddenly realized that something was not good. They were courteous and must have a plan. The old men pressed and pulled them, not knowing what they wanted to do with them.
"Grandpa Bi, in fact, we haven't done enough. Datang is the Datang of Datang people. Everyone is doing what they can. That's why we have the prosperous scene of my Datang. We dare not take credit for it."
Wang Juan immediately became humble. If possible, she even wanted to pull Zhang Xiaobao out of here quickly. It's not how bad a bunch of sophisticated guys are, but they must have something to bother themselves with, otherwise why do they need to do this
The old fairies have already practiced to the extent that they can communicate smoothly without using their eyes. Wang Juan’s voice fell, and Yao Chong immediately said, “Whose credit cannot be denied, uh... We asked Xiaobei and the others the first few days, you guys. In Wenshan County, why don’t they come back now? I think they did a lot of good things in Wenshan, and they should show their deeds when they meet."
"Yuan Zhi is right, it's time to help them show their merits. I haven't seen him for many days. I wonder." An old man who was next to Bi Gou gave a voice.
Zhang Xiaobao glanced at each other, and said that you saw Xiaobei at the same time. Would you think of them? You can remember what they look like even if you are great.
With slander in his heart, Zhang Xiaobao said: "When they came back, they detoured and planned to help check the cement market elsewhere. However, when they went to Tonghua County, Maozhou, they were delayed due to some incidents. They needed to investigate the local situation before they could return. It’s a pity that when I went to sit on the board of directors in other state capitals, I couldn't see it in a short day."
When they were talking, the people on the other tables, whether they were the old man or the younger generation they brought, stopped all their movements and started paying attention. Those who were not on the same floor didn't know the matter and continued to eat and drink.
Of course, since they were not arranged on the same floor, or went to a box elsewhere instead of gathering in the hall for dinner, their status in the home is not very high. The most valued people are all around Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
The younger generations in the hall are not very old right now. The younger ones are fifteen or six years old, and the older ones are just over thirty. If you want to be too old in the coming year, you will either be in an important position or not suitable for training at home. If they are too young, they are not sensible. .
When a group of younger generations ate, they didn't put their minds on the food and drink at all. One by one they concentrated all the functions of their ears on the table of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
The table where two people in their thirties are sitting belongs to the table closest to the main table by the juniors. Hearing the old man and Zhang Xiaobao talking, they looked at each other in surprise and were deeply shocked.
They are from the same family. The elders in the family have repeated countless times before they came here, telling them to be humble, then humble, respectful and respectful, no matter what they see, no matter what they hear, they are not allowed to interject at will, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan Er You don't laugh at any actions or words that people make, because you don't have the qualifications yet.
And even if what Xiaobao and the cuckoo say are naive to you, there must be a reason. Not only can you not underestimate them, but you must carefully consider why they do it like that. How can a person who command thousands of armies and horses fight with the enemy, a person who calculates the foundation of man, can he be naive
The two of them recalled what the elders said when they came back, but now they can't understand them. The words on the table are obviously ordinary household words. Why do they feel a kind of tension when facing the collision of the stormy sea
The other juniors also noticed the different atmosphere in the soft-spoken situation, watching and listening carefully, thinking endlessly.
The people at the main table never felt the violent collision right now, and the old men were still praising Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, as well as the nine Xiaobei. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan kept being humble, even telling interesting stories to make the old men laugh.
"Xiaobao, the county magistrate Wang Chang you said earlier that Xiaobei and the others met in Wenshan is really a funny person. Eat well. Filial piety, filial piety, and dereliction of duty. With the small righteousness of a family of filial piety, thousands of people are burdened with righteousness.
Just now Zhang Xiaobao talked about his younger siblings in Wenshan, which made the old men sigh with emotion, and Bi Gou summed it up.
Zhang Xiaobao's eyes rolled, and he first scanned the faces of the old men before him, then looked at the younger men of the other old men at the table, took a deep breath, and then sighed heavily.
Those juniors are out of curiosity, what's wrong? Why does Zhang Xiaobao look helpless
Wang Juan pursed his mouth and smiled, and said to Bi Gou: "Grandpa Bi, don't care about the righteousness and the small righteousness, and it will be done. You wait for this afternoon to leave for various places, we happen to be going to Yizhou Mansion. It's just a companion who goes in the way, what do you think?"
"Is it just a way to become a companion?" Bi Gou asked, apparently not satisfied with Wang Juan's selective compromise.
Yao Chong followed: "The cuckoo said that it was handled properly, and it was due to Xiaobei and the others, but the old man couldn’t bear it in my heart. Xiaobei and the others are still young. They were born at the age of playfulness, but they were born in your home and had to It's really embarrassing for them to come out early to do things."
"Yes, ah no." Zhang Xiaobao just agreed to Yao Chong's words, and immediately changed his words: "In fact, it doesn't matter. They do it if they want to do it, and we don't care if they don't.
As a elder brother, my attitude towards them is not to encourage, disagree, support, or hinder them, and I will not arrange anything specifically for them. They have money themselves, and if they do something wrong, as long as they don’t hurt others’ bodies, they can use money to make up for it. good. What do you think? "
"I didn't think it was right." When Bi Go saw Xiaobao in front of him, he evaded more than the cuckoo just now, and his eyes were rounded. The cuckoo gave a little compromise. Your little BMW rejected it. How could it work
Then he continued: "Xiaobao, let's open up the conversation today. Are you ashamed to say that you didn't help your younger siblings? Look at the story you made up of the knowledge you learned from school. It has now been published and distributed in various places in Datang.
Look at what you usually tell them? Tell them the tips and points of administration and economy as fun things. Once they are not around, you send the most powerful assistants around you and the cuckoo to follow. Do you dare to say that you don't support them? "
Zhang Xiaobao nodded embarrassedly: "Okay, okay, how many people, I and Juanjuan will have an assessment, and then we will arrange positions for exercise and guidance according to different personalities and abilities. But let's say okay first, we will not be responsible for continuing after the battle. No matter what."
Bi Gou raised his arm and drew a circle: "Just our juniors in this hall, and we will do it ourselves in other rooms and halls."
"Okay, I'm going to fight it out." Zhang Xiaobao toasted.
"For dinner, I have to talk about today’s wine and vegetables. It’s really comfortable to eat. It doesn’t matter whether the dishes are good or bad. It’s mainly because I see Xiaobao and the cuckoo, and my mood improves inexplicably. Oops, this elbow made It's fat but not greasy, taste it, taste it all."
Bi Gou clinked a glass with Zhang Xiaobao, drank a drink, and ate happily. The other old men also began to taste the delicacies attentively.
The younger generations in the hall opened their eyes and opened their mouths slightly, all in surprise, feeling the joyful atmosphere in the hall now, with excitement in their hearts.
At this moment they finally understand why they felt nervous before. It turns out that the old men were really fighting Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. The two men looked respectful but refused to leak until the old men were forced to do nothing. Straightforward words.
Sure enough, it was the university asking. If they didn't say the blunt words, the two of them didn't follow along. If they said the blunt words, they immediately agreed, and they gave me a lot of face. However, the favors of my fathers are also considered to be owed. If you go around in a circle, even if the favors will be paid back in the future, it is the day when Zhang Xiaobao and the two of them need their fathers to pay back the favors. They directly speak and want to refuse. Will not work.
After thinking about this one by one, they began to wonder what kind of work Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan would arrange for themselves and the others. It is probably not bad. They can just exercise themselves and the others. The old men can't deal with it casually.
Zhang Xiaobao ate a few mouthfuls of food, and Wang Juan next to him touched him. As soon as he turned his head and squeezed his eyes at Wang Juan, the two smiled knowingly, and everything was silent.
The communication between the two people was accidentally discovered by Bi Gou and Yao Chong. The two of them also looked at each other and suddenly felt that things seemed to be bad. The previous sense of accomplishment disappeared instantly. A pair of calculating the success of others suddenly realized that they were calculated. Look like.