When Li Jianghe recognized Qin Ximing, Qin Ximing also recognized him.

Previously, Li Jianghe acted bravely when he saw justice, and the school's publicity efforts were not low. Of course, the school council's publicity director knew what the protagonist Li Jianghe looked like.

Qin Ximing was surprised on the one hand, but also a little curious on the other.

He knew that the person his grandfather brought him to visit was an old comrade in arms and a retired deputy director-level cadre, but he remembered clearly that Li Jianghe was a typical poor student.

Although I have not applied for poverty scholarships, those who work in the school cafeteria are basically poor students.

Those from well-off families will not work part-time, and the school will not allow them to work in the school cafeteria.

Although Qin Ximing looked decadent, his tutor was there and his eyesight was good. Through several previous contacts, he could tell that Li Jianghe was indeed from a lower-income family.

This is a bit strange.

Is there any benefit to pretending to be a poor student?

But if you think about it carefully, if Li Jianghe hadn't been a poor student, perhaps the school's publicity wouldn't have been so intense.

And with a reputation, at least it will be easier to go on the official road.

Thinking of this, Qin Ximing was a little unsure.

Two old comrades-in-arms were drinking tea and chatting there. Li Jun and Pang Shulan naturally stayed with the old man, while Li Jianghe and Qin Ximing were left staring at each other with big eyes.

Fortunately, the two of them had not interacted with each other before, and both of them had high emotional intelligence, so they chatted all the time.

As the topic deepened, Li Jianghe and Qin Ximing actually started talking about sex.

Literary youths started from the decline of pure literature and talked about poetry and those poets who created immortality.

In fact, the literary tastes of the two people are quite similar.

For example, when it comes to Haizi, their favorite song is "Al's Sun":

go to the south

go to the south

There is no lover or spring in your blood

no moon

Not even enough bread

fewer friends

...

When it comes to novels, the two people have somewhat similar tastes. They both like magical realism, but one admires Markus and the other admires Rushdie.

Of course, there is no need to go into details about "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by García Márquez. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie is also a peak of magical realism. This British-Indian writer uses Indian epic description techniques.

He wrote a thousand and one stories about children with special "magic" powers, namely the Midnight Children.

Li Jianghe admires "Midnight's Children" very much.

"I don't want to be anything else. So who am I and what do I do? My answer is: I am the sum of everything that has happened before me, the sum of everything I have seen and done, the sum of what others have said about me.

The sum of all that is done... I say it one last time, to understand me you must swallow the whole world."

Li Jianghe has read this paragraph by heart.

While chatting, Li Jianghe discovered that Qin Ximing's main interest was actually in documentaries, but when the two of them were talking about getting married, they saw that Qin Ximing's grandfather Qin Xiaoyong had already stood up to say goodbye.

On the way home, Qin Xiaoyong was curious about what his grandson, who had always been more discerning, was talking to Li Jianghe, so Qin Ximing told his grandfather about Li Jianghe's courageous actions.

Qin Xiaoyong nodded and said with emotion: "This really looks like Li Shan's grandson."

...

Spring Festival.

Since this morning, the sound of firecrackers has been ringing intermittently outside.

As soon as the window was opened, the smell of cooking fumes from the neighboring houses was mixed with the aroma of food.

On this day, the TV is basically on from morning to night, but before the Spring Festival Gala, there is actually nothing to watch. Basically, it is a collection of cross talk sketches from previous years.

Li Jun and Pang Shulan kept busy in the kitchen, while Li Jianghe was played chess by his grandfather Li Shan.

It seems that older men will automatically become associated with chess. Li Shan also fell in love with chess after he retired, especially in the years when he had a quarrel with Li Jun. He would not only go downstairs or find someone to play at the veteran cadre activity center

There is no other place to play chess.

When he was young, he played basketball, but now that he has been in office for so many years, he has no skills at all.

Especially when he was fighting before, he injured his leg. Although he will have no problem walking when he gets older, he will basically say goodbye to ball games that require a certain amount of activity.

After Li Jianghe's ninth general, Li Shan, who suffered repeated defeats and repeated defeats, finally gave up exchanging chess skills with his grandson.

Li Shan turned around and took out a can of new tea from under the coffee table, brewed a few cups and let Li Jianghe taste it.

The tea soup is clear and bright.

Li Shan also took a glass himself. After drinking a glass, he exhaled comfortably, "Jiang He, we shouldn't talk too much about false things as human beings, but we shouldn't be too straightforward either."

He put down the tea cup and said with emotion: "You can be strong in the soft and soft in the strong, so you can thrive in society. You have a high degree of education. Other grandpas don't worry about you. Grandpa is worried that you are too stubborn like your father and me."

"

...

In the afternoon, Li Jianghe and his father Li Jun posted Spring Festival couplets together.

First couplet: All things go well and good luck

Second line: Jiuzhou prosperous new weather

Hengbiao is a renewal of everything

In the evening, firecrackers and fireworks crackled with the opening remarks of the Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, the Spring Festival Gala was filled with the same old faces from the future.

The most classic one is the sketch "Hourly Worker" by Heitu and Baiyun:

"Big sister: I roughly divide the elderly into three types.

Big Brother: Tell me!

Big sister: emotional loss type, endocrine disorder type, Alzheimer's type.

Big Brother: So which type do I belong to?

Big girl: You don’t belong to any of these three categories, you are the depressed type in the room.”

When I read this paragraph now, the northern dialect still sounds in my mind unconsciously.

The New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal since the tide of 1992, when Li Jun and Pang Shulan resigned to start their own businesses and ultimately failed to start their own businesses.

As a custom in Yingtian, assorted vegetables are definitely indispensable.

This is a vegetarian dish. The main ingredient is winter pickled pickles, which are then fried in heavy oil with winter bamboo shoots, carrots, lotus roots, dried tofu and other side dishes with different flavors.

The oil is bright and bright, and the taste is outstanding.

Then there’s the braised silver carp, which has the same meaning everywhere, so it means there’s always more than enough every year.

Interestingly, when the older generation celebrates the Chinese New Year, this dish is only placed on the dinner table and is generally not eaten.

In addition, there are fried spring rolls, braised pork, salted duck and stir-fried dried mugwort.

Eating New Year’s Eve dinner is not only about eating the taste, but also eating the meaning.

For example, fried spring rolls are said to be "a thousand taels of gold" because they resemble gold bars.

Li Jun and Pang Shulan, who had already watched the Spring Festival Gala once, still watched it with gusto, and Li Jianghe and Li Shanye laughed even more happily.

Because he hadn't given Li Jianghe any new year's money for several years, Li Shan put a thousand yuan in the red envelope.

In 2000, one thousand yuan was considered a "huge sum" for students from ordinary families.

But for some reason, Li Jianghe didn't feel the attraction of this money.

He was only happy because it was given by his grandfather whom he had not celebrated New Year with for several years, not because of the amount of money.
Chapter completed!