Chapter 2666: Something Is Missing
On the morning of New Year's Eve, Yang Dongxu went to the reservoir and Zhou Yiren took him to celebrate the New Year.
He went early after breakfast because he had to come back early to paste the couplets. Not only his family had to paste, but also Zhou Yiren's house had to paste.
So Yang Dongxu took Yang Wenchen with him. The two set out early and came to the reservoir. Seeing Zhou Yiren, Yang Wenchen smiled and ran out of the car to call grandpa.
Seeing Yang Wenchen almost felt like an ancient Confucian scholar, Zhou Yiren smiled. At this moment, he was not a national intelligence group, nor was he a Confucian scholar who was well-read and had practical applications and achieved certain achievements. He was just an ordinary and kind grandfather.
Facing Yang Wenchen with a kind smile, a simple nod to Yang Dongxu was considered a greeting.
Seeing Yang Wenchen take out the couplets and prepare to paste them, Zhou Yiren hurried to the kitchen to make paste. In fact, it is not popular to paste Spring Festival couplets in the past two years. Basically, they are glued with transparent tape.
Although the paste is more firmly applied, it is because it is too firm that the Spring Festival couplets will not fall off when they are dried on the door. It is very troublesome to clean them up next year with a small shovel, so the younger generation does not use it to save trouble. However, Zhou Yiren obviously keeps the tradition by not using it.
Yang Dongxu is not surprised by such things, so when Zhou Yiren went to apply the paste, he took Yang Wenchen with a small shovel to clean the door and windows, and also cleaned Zhou Yiren's house.
It is also a traditional program to do a thorough cleaning at home before pasting Spring Festival couplets, but in general, the thorough cleaning is completed two days before New Year's Eve, so things don't have to be done on New Year's Eve.
Zhou Ya had already cleaned the house two days ago, so it was very simple for the two of them to clean up the mess Zhou Yiren had made in the past two days.
Pasting paste is very fast, so after the paste is applied, Zhou Yiren also helped to clean up. It took more than an hour to paste the Spring Festival couplets on Zhou Yiren's side, lock the door, and the three of them got in the car and went home.
But before leaving, Zhou Yiren called out to Wen Chen, "There are some Russian learning materials I organized in the first drawer on the left side of the desk in the study. Take them back and study by yourself. If you don't understand, you can call me or ask your dad to hire a Russian teacher for you. There is no harm in learning one more language."
As he said this, he couldn't help but glance at Yang Dongxu, obviously very dissatisfied with Yang Dongxu's laissez-faire attitude towards his children. Yang Dongxu had to touch his nose and laughed dryly without daring to speak.
He was indeed a little indulgent towards his son. He would take them out to play whenever he had time. Wen Chen's current academic performance was basically supervised by Zhou Ya and completed by himself.
To be honest, he didn't have too harsh requirements for his son. As long as he was healthy, happy and not a spendthrift, it would be fine. As for whether he had super high wisdom to take over the huge family business.
Yang Dongxu has always adhered to the concept of freedom and happiness for his children and grandchildren. He will leave a large amount of relatively hidden money so that his descendants, even if they are useless, can have food and clothing without worries.
As for if he really doesn't have enough wisdom to take over the huge family business, then the family business will be scattered. After all, if you don't have enough skills and wisdom, owning such a huge family business is like a child carrying gold bricks in a busy city. If that's the case, you won't just lose the gold bricks, but your life will be wasted.
However, from the current point of view, his son is much smarter than himself. He is only a teenager, but he has a steadiness that doesn't belong to this age, and he also looks at things in a mature way that doesn't seem to be this age.
He may not be as intelligent as those specially recruited geniuses, but he is definitely qualified as an heir, and even a little bit beyond Yang Dongxu's expectations, at least he is much stronger than he was in his previous life.
Zhou Yiren even has the idea of letting Wenchen pursue a career in politics and letting other children inherit Yang Dongxu's business empire.
Neither Yang Dongxu nor Zhou Ya responded to this proposal immediately, but just said that when Wenchen comes of age, he will let him choose for himself.
Although he didn't make a decision for his child, Yang Dongxu hoped that Wenchen could pursue a career in politics. It's not that he didn't become an official in this life and let his son make up for his regrets.
Rather, in terms of the domestic ecosystem, the most stable family development model is to have a family with a trend chart and several people who take the business route.
Yang Dongxu himself is a relatively special existence, so he can currently do whatever he wants, but the more he uses favors, the thinner they become, not to mention that when Wenchen is older. Yang Dongxu's connections have all died.
Although with his help, Yang Wenchen can also weave his own network of contacts in advance, but this network of contacts is definitely lower than Yang Dongxu's.
In addition, if there is no resource for a career in politics, the inheritance of such a network of contacts will only be weaker from generation to generation. Therefore, instead of spending favors to help Wenchen weave connections, it is better to let Yang Wenchen himself become the core of the network of contacts.
However, it is too early to say these things at present. After all, Yang Wenchen is still young now. However, he and Zhou Ya have also discussed this plan. The two decided to ask his opinion two years earlier when Wenchen is in high school, when the child is about the same age.
If Yang Wenchen wants to take the career route, then they, as parents, need to pave the way for their children in advance.
When they got home, everything had already been cleaned up. After the three of them came back to put up the Spring Festival couplets, the rest was eating and drinking.
Because of the meeting yesterday, after putting up the couplets, the dumplings for the next two days were prepared and there was nothing to do. The villagers did not gather in groups to play cards.
There is no such thing as walking around the village in the evening to worship the ancestors, inviting each other to go to someone's house after the New Year's Eve dinner, playing cards in the first half of the night until the early morning and going home to welcome the New Year.
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After welcoming the New Year, we will come back and continue to work all night, until the morning of the first day of the New Year to continue to worship the ancestors. At that time, those who are sleepy will go home to sleep, and those who are not sleepy will continue to play cards.
So when there is nothing to do in the afternoon, a group of people can only sit together and brag and chat while grabbing melon seeds.
"It's because of this. When I agreed to it at the meeting yesterday, I didn't feel anything. Now I have nothing to do, so I always feel something is missing if I don't play cards." Xiaowu complained while eating melon seeds, twisting his body as if he was uncomfortable sitting like this without playing cards.
"Who said it wasn't? This year is not as comfortable as usual." Dalianghe followed and echoed.
"How about we find a place and close the door to prevent anyone from entering?" Xiao Tao suggested with a raised eyebrow.
Then several people turned their heads to look at Yang Dongxu next to them.
Seeing that several people were looking at him to let him make a decision, Yang Dongxu spat out the melon seed shells in his mouth and said, "Forget it. We agreed to it yesterday, but we changed our minds today. Isn't this an eye drop for the village chief? Be careful that the second uncle and his men find out and beat people up."