"Let's go, what shall we eat?" After having several meals at home, Ji Wanqing still wanted to try the roast duck and copper pot mutton hotpot of Jing 뎀녊 Sect.
"What do you want to eat?"
Ji Wanqing smiled and said, "I can eat anything I want."
Jiang Che leaned closer to her and said, "This is your first time bringing your family with you, shouldn't you allow me some privileges?"
"Then let's have roast duck." For hotpot like mutton, I don't want to rinse my chopsticks in the same pot with strangers.
However, Ji Wanqing was a little curious, "Aren't private hotels prohibited from operating now? The roast duck in state-owned hotels isn't authentic?" Otherwise, let's wait until the reform and opening up before going to eat it.
The night wind blew, Jiang Che protected the man a little more tightly, and whispered: "The upper policy has its own countermeasures, and those restrictions only apply to the general public. Do you think my dad went out for social events and dinners in a state-owned hotel?"
Cough cough.
She really thought so.
"Then... will the Revolutionary Committee not care about Dad's behavior?"
"They are the minions, used by the tiger to exclude dissidents." Jiang Che's voice lowered a few degrees. "My family has worshipped many people on the mountain, and the relationship network is complicated. In addition, after my grandfather retired, my uncles and my father suppressed us and did not move up. We are one of the old-fashioned ones, so they are too lazy to care."
That group of minions are just showing off their power in front of ordinary people and moving up the ladder. They are nothing.
Ji Wanqing was not a contemporary person, nor was he a super rich second generation before the end of the world, so how could he understand the living rules of these compound cadre families.
It seems that no matter what era it is, no matter how strict the social atmosphere is, there will always be this class of high-ranking officials who are different from ordinary people.
"Then let's eat roast duck!" Ji Wanqing emphasized, "The best!"
"No problem, I'll reserve a seat tomorrow morning."
Perhaps Yu Weian did not expect that the Jiang family, a soldier who was busy marching and fighting a few decades ago, would be able to lead their granddaughter to cross the class when society slowly recovered and developed!
It has been a truth since ancient times that the military and politics are inseparable.
The next morning, when Jiang Che came back from booking a seat, Ji Wanqing was still asleep.
Letting her sleep for a while, Jiang Che shoveled the waste soil in the yard of his home, and it finally looked smoother and pleasing to the eye.
"Well, what time is it?"
"It's half past eight, no rush." Jiang Che went to fetch the hot water from the stove and poured it for his wife to wash her face.
After getting up, Ji Wanqing picked up the sandalwood comb and combed her hair to wake herself up.
Yesterday, after listening to Jiang Che's talk about the unspoken rules hidden from the public eye, I thought of the secrets of wealthy families that I had dug up online before.
Although the Jiang family, a cadre family, has nothing to do with business tycoons, the underlying logic of selecting an heir is definitely the same.
In order to ensure the stability and sustainability of the family's prosperity, one of the most common methods used by the families of cadres in the compound is to select an outstanding heir and use all their connections to bring him to a high position. The next generation will continue the cycle to ensure that the family's social status does not decline.
In this generation of his parents, Jiang Che's father is undoubtedly the one with the greatest potential.
The leaders of the main regiments in the main military regions are given the latest weapons developed by military factories every year, and other basic regiments can only use the ones that are eliminated by them.
But Jiang Che said that some of his cousins were doing well, and there were also some heirs from the next generation.
I just don’t know who Mr. Jiang will choose to inherit his network of contacts.
께 and his wife came to Jiang's house to gather on time, and the second brother and his wife had already arrived.
"Third brother, this is your wife!" The second brother Jiang Tao's temperament was obviously much more cheerful, and he was more talkative with his younger brother who was also a soldier.
He slapped his brother and complained in a low voice in his brother's ear, "I said that the old man is biased. He arranged such a beautiful wife for you. I heard that she is a senior researcher? How lucky did you get? You look like Pan An, and the wife you married is also so beautiful!"
Jiang Che's eyes were filled with pride and he shook off the iron arm on his shoulders, "Qingqing, this is my second brother and his wife."
Ji Wanqing smiled gently, "Hello, second brother and second sister-in-law."
As he spoke, he handed over the gift he had prepared, which was different from the one given to his elder brother and sister-in-law.
The second sister-in-law Song Qingping took it with a smile and returned a beautifully wrapped Suzhou embroidery handkerchief, a total of four pieces with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum patterns.
"Sister-in-law is so pretty. Seeing you smile more often makes me feel so happy!" Song Qingping pulled the two children over, "Come on, say hello to your third sister-in-law!"
"Hello, Third Sister-in-law!"
"Good boy!" Two more cute little kids. Ji Wanqing also gave the children a meeting gift.
Song Qingping was surprised, "Sister-in-law, you've thought it through so well that you've even prepared for a child! Oh, you're such a thoughtful person! The third child is so lucky!"
"They are all my own children, how could I forget them!" Ji Wanqing gave each of the two children a handful of candy, "Can you tell Auntie what your name is?"
The older boy spoke up, "My name is Jiang Song, and I'm five years old!"
The girl in the middle was more gentle and said in a baby voice, "My name is Jiang Xuan, and I'm three years old."
The Jiang family's generation took characters starting with "宀", and Song Qingping's character "Song" happened to have "宀", so the couple named their first child Jiang Song.
"Be good." Ji Wanqing grabbed each of them and let them play.
After the greetings, it was almost time to go to Mr. Jiang's place.
The second branch of the Jiang family has a group of eight adults and six children. It is really a prosperous family!
From Desheng Lane to Zhenguan Lane, the houses here are obviously larger.
Captain Jiang and his men stopped in front of a pair of lions. The faded red door was not tightly closed, so the group walked in without hesitation.
"Dad! We are here to wish you a happy new year!"
My uncle's family lives nearby, so they arrived early.
As usual, only the youngest daughter of Uncle San was with him this year; the rest of the family did not come back.
"Here they are! Xiao Liu, go and welcome them in!"
Mr. Jiang had a voice like a dragon and was vigorous. He said he retired due to illness, which was indeed the case, but the reason he retired was to protect himself and to prepare for the future for his descendants.
The second family walked into the main room, and the crowd of people made the spacious room seem narrow in an instant.
Among so many people, the first person Mr. Jiang noticed was his beautiful and smart granddaughter-in-law.
"This is Wanqing, right? Come, come, come to Grandpa!"
Ji Wanqing smiled slightly, "Hello, Grandpa. I'm Ji Wanqing. You look really energetic. I was worried about the ginseng wine I made for you. I told you to drink it slowly."
"Oh?" Mr. Jiang became interested, "You also know how to make wine?"
"Yeah." Ji Wanqing asked Jiang Che to bring up the wine jar. "I brewed it myself. Would you like to have a taste, Grandpa?"
She lifted the lid, and the refreshing aroma of wine with a hint of sweet ginseng scent was in her smell. She knew it was a top-notch wine!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" As an old smoker who has quit smoking, drinking is now his only hobby!
Although her Lingquan wine was beneficial to the body, in order to avoid being criticized, she only gave the old man a sip.
"We're going to eat soon. Drinking on an empty stomach is not good for your health. Grandpa, just take a sip first to test the taste."