When Jiang He and Song Hui brought their children back, the three men had returned to their bored appearance leaning against the railing.
Although it's okay to let them know, it's very refreshing to be sneaky and not tell them.
Probably the bad taste of middle-aged men.
It is a very lucky thing to be able to do some second-beep things with my friends at the age of 30, just like back then.
Seeing the three people smiling mysteriously, Jiang He and Song Hui were a little suspicious, but looking left and right, they didn't know what the three of them were doing. They could only blame it on the man's inexplicable happiness.
The music of the circus sounded not far away, and a group of people took the children to watch it.
We had lunch at the zoo at noon and played until the afternoon. The dolls were already tired, but they still had more to say.
The lights are on.
The streets are full of traffic and bustling.
"I may have special abilities."
When Wang Zijun said this, his expression was very solemn, "Or, it is a useless superpower."
"Didn't an expert say that most people have supernormal abilities, but they are rarely discovered by themselves. For example, you have the ability to remember the music scores, but you have never read the music scores. You are a civil engineer. Then This talent may never be discovered in a lifetime, and some people's talents are discovered, and they become experts in their fields."
Wang Zijun's words are very familiar. Xu Qing seems to have seen them somewhere. Thinking about it carefully, it is possible. Also stronger than those who exercise regularly.
Qin Hao frowned, thought for a moment, and asked, "Then... your superpower is wheelchair?"
"No, sometimes my left knee hurts for no reason." Wang Zijun shook his head, pointed to the sky, and said, "Then it will definitely rain the next day."
"You call it rheumatism, it's a disease." Xu Qing said.
"Oh, that's all right."
Xu Shi'an's wish to let Jiang He stew the big goose was not fulfilled, so they went shopping outside twice, and a few of them chose a barbecue restaurant and went in to eat.
"It's hard to find even a decent Chinese restaurant now."
Wang Zijun complained that at some point, the whole street was occupied by all kinds of franchised hot pot, grilled fish and barbecue. If he didn't drive to look for it specially, there were not many Chinese restaurants to be found. .
"Times are always changing."
Xu Qing sat down and looked out the window. The small shops in the past are gone now, and the streets are full of all kinds of gorgeous big signs.
Jiangcheng is developing quite fast.
"You have to accept it, or you will be abandoned by the times," he joked.
"So what if you throw it away?" Wang Zijun handed the menu to the two women.
"Not much, just..."
Xu Qing paused, looked at the signboard of the grilled fish shop outside, and continued: "... I won't get used to it."
Looking at the development of Jiangcheng subtly, there is not much discomfort. It is only when I think about the past occasionally that I realize that this city is gradually becoming strange.
"I open one myself, will it be popular?" Wang Zijun is still missing his twice-cooked pork.
"Are you crazy?"
"Why am I so dizzy?"
"It has become less, which shows that the market is like this. It's like buying stocks. Seeing that you are wearing a hat, you rush to buy bottoms. If you don't have a head, who is head?"
"I think it's just lazy." Wang Zijun didn't care.
"The market chooses, you have to know how to cook when you open a shop. From playing lotus, to helping the master, to frying vegetables on the stove, it usually takes five or eight years to become a master chef. Here, only half a month of training is required. , the machine will cook the food and bring it up at regular intervals, which one do you choose?" Xu Qing turned around and said.
"I invite someone."
"This kind of hot pot and fragrant pot restaurant, whoever leaves, you recruit someone who knows nothing to train for half a month, immediately start it, the taste is the same, open a branch, just set up a template and move it to quickly copy it. You recruit from the outside A master chef, I can do it without you, I can’t do it without the master chef, he is more core than you, and I have to worry about him picking up the pick, changing the chef to change the taste, affecting regular customers, which one do you choose?"
"Is it so serious?" Wang Zijun rubbed his chin and pondered.
"To put it another way, if you have no education or background, and you want to learn a craft, is it comfortable to go to the kitchen to be a grandson of a master chef for five or six years, or is it comfortable to train for half a month and get a salary of four to five thousand directly and have promotion channels? "
"Mature business template and old model." Qin Hao understood, and looked at the shop outside in admiration.
"Otherwise, why do you think so many celebrities like to open hot pot restaurants, throwing ready-made base ingredients in, one person can do it, and the food is served quickly." Xu Qing fiddled with the chopsticks, "This is what the capital has always pursued. You don't have to be restrained by the chef. A fast, standard, unified, and stable business model." He glanced at Wang Zijun, "Shame on the capitalists."
"You are a capitalist! You are a capitalist!" Wang Zijun didn't want to be hung on the street lamp at all.
If you want to say a capitalist, his brother is.
"According to what you say, Chinese food should be gone."
"There will always be occasions, such as formal gatherings and business dinners. A group of leaders can't use chopsticks to scoop up hot pots. They still have to cook vegetables. The market has become smaller, but it has become more upscale."
Xu Qing cast a glance at Xu Jin, sister and brother who were holding cups drinking water, shook his head and said, "Like when we went to school, we went to the school next to a plate of twice-cooked pork and peanuts, and just two bottles of wine for a good meal. It must be difficult for them to enjoy it." .”
Qin Hao agreed, and said: "I passed by our school that day, and most of the snacks on the street over there turned into spicy hot skewers, or fast food like braised chicken, fish-flavored shredded pork is not freshly fried, directly from There's a scoop in the big box for you."
Occasionally, I quarreled with Yu Li, turned on the phone and ordered a takeaway, all kinds of semi-finished fast food, and then went to lick my face to find Yu Li Furuan.
In a way, it is beneficial to their relationship...
"Yes, semi-finished product processing, duck leg rice and chicken leg rice, fast food delivery, standardized ingredients, unified production process, stable taste, this is the general trend." Xu Qing took a sip of tea, a bit nostalgic for the fly restaurant back then, and hadn't eaten in a long time Fried cakes, you have to go to the corner of the old street to find them.
"Society is progressing. In fact, our generation is still taking advantage. Our classmate used to wonder why we didn't form a fast food culture like the beautiful country. Instead, there are advertisements for New Oriental chefs everywhere. Now it has changed, and it has been delayed. for many years."
Speaking of advertisements, Wang Zijun also felt that it was almost imprinted in his bones. He could immediately follow the second half of the sentence, and the same is true for learning an excavator.
Look at now, all kinds of second-hand car platforms for bringing goods, joining, and finding jobs.
"I'm not used to it..."
"Are you planning to open a restaurant?" Song Hui said casually, it was strange, women gathered together to talk about children's clothes and cosmetics, but the men were amazing, they could talk about everything with interest, even if it had nothing to do with them.
"Let's chat casually." Wang Zijun shook his head, took a look at the menu she handed back, added a soup and two bottles of wine, and called the waiter to hand it over.
"Not only eating, but all other handicraft industries, as long as they can standardize production, have this trend."
Xu Qing patted Xu Shi'an's head, looked at his ignorant eyes, and said with a smile: "We have to let them study hard. In the past, we could learn a craft and eat it all over the world. It is also good to be a master. Now the craft is getting worse and worse. The more difficult it is, most of them can only be used as screws.”
"Grass... Is this progress or regress?" Thinking of that kind of future, Qin Hao couldn't figure out why the world was becoming more and more strange.
"The progress of society is to continuously improve efficiency."
The efficiency is very high. The ingredients in this store are all semi-processed and prepared. When they are directly placed in the oven, they can be served after a ding.
Now that the child has grown up, it's okay to drink a little wine once in a while. It's Chinese New Year, and even Qin Hao made an exception and drank a little.
"Your oily skin..."
"That's called up." Xu Qing corrected Qin Hao, this guy hasn't changed after so many years.
"Anyway, it's about that thing. Now that the regulations are officially issued, it will have a big impact on you, right?"
Qin Hao was talking about film and television editing, which had been rumored a long time ago, but it has been dragged on, and now the restrictions have been formally imposed.
"The impact... definitely has some." He paused, and said with a smile: "But the main targets are those who infringe and repost, watch xxx in three minutes, and repost those specially edited highlights. I do this kind of okay."
Xu Qing's fiddling with the cup was actually not as easy as he said, but had a great impact.
Restricting video clips, although on the surface it means restricting copyright infringement, has no effect on normal editing and creation, and is even encouraged, because this is a win-win situation, and the movie earns popularity and helps spread.
But the creative freedom is gone.
The right to speak is in other people's hands. It's okay now, but they don't want to have anything to do. If you make complaints about videos, if the complaints are too harsh and have a greater impact, they can justifiably mess you up.
This is the secondary shackles.
"Look at the situation first, anyway, it will be fine for a while." Xu Qing said.
"If not, let's build a wheelchair together." Wang Zijun joked.
"You make it, I won't make it."
A few people drank a glass, and Jiang He next to him held a spoon and performed magic tricks for a few children.
"Look, just rub the handle of the spoon like this, give it a few touches, and..."
Under the surprised eyes of several children and Song Hui, Jiang He easily bent the spoon with two fingers, and then snapped it back.
"Amazing!"
"How did you do it?!"
"It should be..." Song Hui had seen this magic trick before. She first took a spoon without a handle, strictly speaking, it was half a spoon, and hid it with her hands. She frowned again halfway through the speech.
Can't Jiang He carry the same half spoon as this store
Jiang He smiled mysteriously, her long hair falling down her shoulders.
"Magic is magic, of course I can't tell you."
"Tch..."
Xu Qing snorted secretly, he is a magician, but she is a fart magician.
It was bent by others purely by strength.
Fortunately, the spoons in this store are strong, otherwise they might have to pay for the bill.
It is relatively rare for the three families to have a family dinner together. Everyone has their own work to be busy, except for Wang Zijun, who does not have a weekend job, so it is generally difficult to find time at the same time.
Lacking a daughter-in-law of Qin Hao, it was quite enjoyable, and the children did not have any conflicts with each other, and they played well.
In the end, Jiang He took out her bag and went to pay the bill. She is also a boss now, a big family.
"Look at this bag." Seeing Song Huiduo glance at Jiang He's bag, Wang Zijun whispered and took out his phone to show her.
Song Hui glanced uninterested, "It's so ugly."
"Twenty-six thousand."
"..."
Song Hui took the phone and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "Don't say it, the more you look at it, the better it looks."
"I'll send it to you if you like it, take your time."
"..."
Seeing Wang Zijun grinning and rubbing the soft flesh on his waist, Xu Qing couldn't help but laugh out loud.
A group of people went out, and the night outside was dark.
The cold wind blew by, bending over, squatting down, and covering the children with scarves and hats.
"Why aren't you in a wheelchair?"
Xu Qing and Wang Zijun walked in front, seeing that several people stopped to take care of their children, they stood still and waited for them.
"I don't sit often, just play once in a while to have fun." Wang Zijun exhaled, touched the cigarette from his body, but didn't get it out, and remembered that this was the first day he quit smoking.
If you successfully quit smoking for a whole day, you will reward yourself for smoking one when you go back.
Several men drank, and Wang Zijun, who ordered wine from the menu, sat in the co-pilot to say hello, and Song Hui drove away in the driver's seat.
Xu Qing and Qin Hao were left standing in the cold wind and looked at each other, and they both gave the car a middle finger.
Qin Hao bought a second-hand scooter. He usually rides a scooter when he goes out by himself, and only drives it when he has children. Now he has no choice but to call a scooter with Xu Qing.
Jiang He looked at Wang Zijun and his car as they drove away thoughtfully.
"Should I also learn to drive?"
On the way back, Jiang He wrapped the exhausted siblings in his arms and asked Xu Qing.
"If you want to learn, you can learn. I'll help you find a driving school. It's very convenient."
Xu Qing said so, but he didn't think Jiang He would learn it. When she learned that there was a whole small book to memorize, she might mutter something, "Actually, learning to drive depends on fate, I'm not the one." Material...' and so on, and then let it go.
After drinking some wine, Xu Qing closed his eyes and rested in the car. When the car got downstairs, he realized that he had just taken a nap.
The siblings slept like little pigs, they were carried up by Xu Qing without waking up, they wiped their faces with a towel and tidied up their bodies, the siblings rubbed their eyes in whispers, and then stuffed them into their respective quilts Turn off the light and continue to sleep.
When Jiang He came out of the living room, he saw Xu Qing sitting in front of the computer and looking at the web page about boycotting video clips. His face after drinking was no longer as tired as on the road just now, his eyes were bright, and he was concentrating on reading each item one by one.
Even though he has seen it many times, he is still so serious.
"Shouldn't you take a shower and go to bed?" Jiang He leaned over, and gently pressed his shoulders with both hands.
She knew that Xu Qing had been worrying about this matter since years ago, otherwise he wouldn't be drinking tonight.
"You go first, I'll sleep later."
"..."
Jiang He didn't leave, but silently squeezed his shoulder for a while, and lowered his hand more and more.
"Woman..." Xu Qing was helpless.
"It's time to rest." Jiang He rubbed his nose against his ear, "Be obedient."