Chapter 597 Birthday

As a gathering place for Chinese time-honored brands, the birthplace of early Beijing business, the birthplace of China's film and television industry, and the concentrated carrier of Beijing-style traditional culture, Dashilan is already very prosperous. Now that the spring breeze is blowing, the development is naturally more prosperous.

On the side of Qianmen Street, the three-story Chapiaoxiang Restaurant opened in 1981 and has been open for seven years. It was only in 1986 that it underwent a major renovation. The outer walls were painted, the layout inside was changed, the tables and chairs were all replaced with new ones, and a revolving glass door was built. In terms of style, it can still keep up with the times, but it also retains the characteristics of China, with some ancient meaning, which is not bad.

Because of its good taste, large amount of dishes, and excellent service, it has cultivated a good reputation in seven years, with many repeat customers, and has become the most prosperous restaurant in the vicinity. Every day when it comes to lunch, it is always crowded.

But at lunchtime today, there was a sign of closing, but there were still many people coming in. Someone didn't know why, so they went over to ask, and it turned out that an old man had reserved the place for his 80th birthday...

Su Meng drove the white Beetle skillfully and parked it sideways on the roadside. Wang Yan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, got out of the car and went to the trunk, took out a wrapped gift box, and took Wang Bin, who was already 12 years old, who got out from the back seat, and Su Meng, who turned off the engine and locked the car door, and the three of them walked towards the restaurant together.

Han Chunming stood at the door with the son and daughter-in-law of Lao Guantou to welcome the guests. When he saw Wang Yan's family coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet them: "The prince is here, Su Meng, you little brat is here too, hurry in, Han Yi is eating in the kitchen, he has been talking for a long time, after eating I will ask someone to send you two to school. Su Meng, haven't Teacher Su, Teacher Liu and Grandma Su come yet?"

Su Meng patted her son's head and motioned him to go in first: "They didn't come, you know they can't stand this noise, it's better to rest at home."

Seeing Wang Bin run in after greeting, the son of Lao Guantou, Guan Ziqing, politely stepped forward and shook hands with Wang Yan: "Mr. Wang, you just come, why do you need to bring anything."

"Come on, Mr. Wang, just give me this thing." His wife Liu Hongmei stretched out her hand very naturally, trying to take the box that Wang Yan was holding in one hand.

"It should be. My relationship with the admiral may be better than that with you, his own son. He has to bring something decent when he holds a banquet for his 80th birthday."

Wang Yan responded to Guan Ziqing's words with a smile. Regardless of his embarrassed expression, he naturally let go of his hand and brushed away Liu Hongmei's hand that wanted to take the thing. He looked at them with a smile: "Let Chunming take this thing. Find a place to put it at home. It's auspicious."

This couple is certainly not good. Whether they are doing it for money or not, whether they sell antiques abroad, and the disgusting face of Han Chunming asking for the inheritance of Lao Guantou in the later period, just the fact that they are not filial is already bad. There is nothing to say.

It's not that Wang Yan is flattering Lao Guantou, but he simply looks down on these two things.

Looking at Guan Ziqing and Liu Hongmei, the couple, who are embarrassed but can't get angry together, Han Chunming is secretly happy. As a filial son, he certainly has opinions about these two people, but he can't say it. Although the good brother was being polite, he was basically scolding them for being unfilial to their faces, and he was still very happy to see it happen.

He smiled very naturally, but that smile was directed at Wang Yan. He also blinked his eyes and reached out to take the box handed over by Wang Yan: "Prince, what did you send me?"

"It's not a good thing. It's just a Shoushan stone ornament from the Qing Dynasty. The material is a bit worse, but it is carved with pine and cypress. Otherwise, I asked you to put it up for the admiral later. This has a good meaning."

"Brother, you are here to welcome them now. I will take the prince and his wife in." Han Chunming said, turned around and led Wang Yan and the others to walk in: "Xiao Ma and Broken Hou are here, and they are also gifts. I think you three have discussed it, right?"

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "Isn't this what was said at the wine table last year? I guess they also listened to it and searched for it this year."

As they talked and laughed, several people walked into the restaurant through the open door next to the revolving door. Compared to the hustle and bustle outside, the noise inside is no less.

Lao Guantou, wearing a dark red embroidered Tang suit, sat at a table inside. All the people at the same table were elderly people with white hair and wrinkled faces.

These people were all friends of Lao Guantou, mostly old people of the same status as him. Except for that table, most of the people sitting scattered on the first floor, except for half of the neighbors, were people I had never seen before. They were probably friends of Lao Guantou, or the descendants of his brothers and sisters. From this point of view, Lao Guantou's side was also a big family.

Wang Yan and Su Meng came to Lao Guantou together, smiled and said a few auspicious words, and Han Chunming next to him took out the things and showed them to Lao Guantou.

Lao Guantou hummed: "You are still generous, the two people, Hou Polan and Xiao Ma, took far less than you."

Some Shoushan stones are valuable, and some are not. Even if this stone is from the Qing Dynasty, it is just like Wang Yan said, and its value is relatively average, not worth a few dollars. At this moment, it is almost equivalent to just over a thousand yuan. If you look at the courtesy alone, it must be a lot more casual. But Lao Guanjun is also a person with bad luck. Although this old boy always wants to take advantage of him, when he can exchange things, the value is actually a bit unequal. I got two famous calligraphy and paintings, but he still took advantage of Lao Guanjun. It's cheap.

The main thing is that it depends on your intentions. It’s meaningless to say how much it costs.

"As long as you like it." Wang Yan said with a smile, "I won't bother you. You are always busy."

After saying that, he turned around and took Su Meng away. Han Chunming took him and found Han Mu's table. Su Meng sat there with them, while he went to sit at another table where Poshahou and Ma Du were. Come on, these are all for drinking.

"Here you come, Your Majesty." Ma Du greeted with a smile, poured a cup of tea and pushed it over: "Drink some tea. I asked just now. Dinner will be ready in half an hour."

Bad Hou asked nonchalantly: "What did you give the old man?"

"A Qing Dynasty Shoushan stone sculpture of green pines and cypresses." Wang Yan picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea: "I heard Chunming said that the two of you presented it as an ornament?"

"There's nothing to give as a gift, but it's just a suitable ornament. Not only is it expensive, we won't be able to part with it, and the Admiral is also having a hard time with it. It would be nice to get a ornament to show your appreciation."

"What the Marquis said is right, as long as the decoration is appropriate."

Wang Yan smiled and asked, "How is that boy Wang Shuo doing lately? He hasn't moved for a few days."

Mentioning Wang Shuo, Ma Du couldn't help but smile: "Aren't you filming a movie? You are busy with the release. He called me a while ago and said that the filming was good and he might release it. I think When it’s released in Beijing, let’s go and see it if we have time.”

Wang Shuo's fate changed because he met Wang Yan. In the past, Wang Shuo, as a contemporary editor, must have had a high status. Again, if the literati at this time wanted to be published, those who were already famous would be ignored. After all, they would talk directly to the editor-in-chief, but most of them were those who had not yet made their mark. The editor decided their fate. When the status is high, the mood is good, the creative enthusiasm is surging, the quality of the output will be high.

It was also because of Wang Yan's instructions and the occasional drinking party together that Wang Shuo's cultural level improved somewhat, as did the spiritual level. The output is very high. The short stories and novellas mentioned earlier are published, and there are also some that are unpublished and those that are being conceived.

Perhaps it’s because we met relatively late and didn’t have many contacts. People’s writing style is actually fixed and it’s difficult to make major changes because it’s a habit of thinking, which is very difficult to change. Therefore, although Wang Yan had a significant impact on Wang Shuo's life, his writing style changed a little, but not significantly.

These changes were enough to make his works of higher quality and more famous than during the same period.

Also influenced by Wang Yan, his works changed. Except for one book, which is basically the same, the others may have similar contents, but the titles are all different. Because people's ideas are wild and unconstrained, the reason why Wang Shuo can write another film is because of the unruly nature of his character.

Wang Yan's influence is the above. Although it is very significant, it has very little impact on other things.

As Madu said, Wang Shuo's work was adapted into a movie. But instead of the original four, there are only three. But the quality of these three works is much higher than the original ones. It's just that it hasn't been released yet, it will take some time. The directors and actors are just those people, Mi Jiashan, Ye Ying, Ge You, etc. This is because Wang Shuo likes to play and make friends, and he knows a lot of people. All in all, it's pretty good...

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Okay, you can call me when the time comes. You have nothing to do anyway. Let's go and have a look together."

Instead of talking about this topic that the ragtag Hou couldn't interrupt, the three of them turned to talk about some antiques. Today is just the original get-together. Among them, Popohou, who has known each other for the shortest time, has been drinking together for seven years. Ma, who has known each other for the longest time, is basically the same as Han Chunming and Lao Guanjian. They have been together for thirteen years. They are serious drinkers. friend. It happened to be Lao Guan's 80th birthday, and everyone who hadn't seen each other for more than three months treated this as a gathering place.

They were at a separate table, and there were people assigned to sit wherever they should sit, so there was no one to disturb them. More than ten minutes passed while talking and laughing.

At this moment, the Bashahou Hou stared behind Ma Du. Wang Yan turned his head and saw Liu Jinyou and Hou Su'e talking to Laojun. Wang Yan looked at the Poshahou Hou with a smile: "You take care of yourself in old age. The money is in his hands."

"Hey, I get angry when I say this. I'm not blaming you. I can't stand the way my girl looks at men. The one before was the son of my enemy, and now I have found such a fat man who is older than me. Big. I really regret that I let Su'e do business with him in the first place."

Ma Du yelled: "Say, Mr. Hou, why don't you regret investing your pension money in the prince's uncle?"

"Nonsense, it's really profitable. If you look at it this way, I'll have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life." Baolan Hou shook his head and sighed: "Of course it's not because of money. Then my girl is attracted to me. What else can you two think I can do? In the past It’s not like you don’t know what’s going on. She has such a bad temper and doesn’t care whether I agree with her or not. I’m so old and I don’t care about who she sleeps with and I don’t want to look at her.”

"How about pity for the parents in the world." Ma Du laughed: "That's alright, Lord Marquis, at least you still have money."

"Bullshit. I said I'd give you the money, but you don't want it? Give it to Chunming, but Chunming doesn't want it? I've given up my face, but you are the only capable people, who can't make money with me?"

"Then it's the prince's fault. If you hadn't always brought uncle here, this wouldn't have happened."

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "The most wonderful thing about fate is that even if they don't do business together, we are in the same social circle. There is no guarantee that we will meet at any time. Who knows if we can see each other? Want me? He said, "You can't control it anyway, so don't think too much about it, just be comfortable."

The broken man glanced at Wang Yan, ignored him, and lowered his head to drink tea.

Wang Yan didn't mind and waved to Liu Jinyou who came over. This old fat boy knew only a few people, so he must have come to sit with them. But just as he was waving, out of the corner of his eye he saw Father Cheng, Mother Cheng and...Cheng Jianjun coming in from the door!

Father Cheng and Mother Cheng who were walking in front had smiles on their faces, very happy smiles, because they felt that the hard times were over and the good times had begun.

In the past year, Cheng Jianjun, who had just been released from prison, took off directly. Although there was no housing reform yet, he still spent money to buy a building. Cheng's father and Cheng's mother moved from the courtyard to the upstairs. All the neighbors, relatives and friends knew about this. Likewise, Cheng Jianjun's reputation quickly turned around, from being unpromising to being capable.

Cheng Jianjun said it himself, he opened a factory there and had hundreds of people under him. Every day when the machine was turned on, Huaxia coins came in loudly. Of course, his statement was much more low-key, but that was basically what he meant. The life in prison did not make him remember things for a long time. Now that he has achieved some results, he is shaking again.

Wang Yan saw Cheng Jianjun raising his head to greet him somewhat frivolously. Perhaps he thought that since he was already thirty-six and sitting in such a high position, he was already a mature social person and followed the principle of maintaining superficial relationships in society. , not the original gangster who should be caught like him, or even sentenced to a longer sentence.

The valuable quality that people should have is not to use their own ideas to trap others. It is absolutely impossible to succeed by imagining the development of some things in order to get the results you want. To put it another way, we need to learn to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and not ‘I think’. Because 'I feel' is just 'I feel'.

Ignoring Cheng Jianjun and looking at Liu Jinyou sitting down next to him, Wang Yan asked with a smile, "How are you doing lately? Everything goes well, is there no problem?"

Since the old fat boy moved out to live alone, relatively speaking, the interactions between the two parties have dropped sharply. Moreover, this old fat boy also runs a business. In the past two years, more and more chain stores have opened, and he has become busier. Although he is in the same city, he sometimes cannot be seen for two or three months. That is to say, Su's mother was thinking about this lonely old brother, and occasionally called to ask about his situation and take care of his health.

"Don't worry, everything is fine. If I have any questions, why don't I come to you?" Liu Jinyou laughed and waved his hands. He was now very proud, his business was getting better and better, he was receiving a lot of money every day, and his relationship was also rejuvenated. Chun also has a capable nephew and son-in-law, who guarantees that he will not be in trouble. In fact, of course he encountered a lot of troubles, but he didn't need to go to Wang Yan. He just mentioned Wang Yan's name to indicate his identity, which was useful most of the time. On the rare occasions when things didn't work, he didn't need to bother Wang Yan. Su Meng could basically solve the problem by calling him.

These are all good, but there is one thing that is not good about it. Looking at Bao Baohou, who was staring at him with an angry look on his face, his haha ​​smile turned into an embarrassed smile...

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