Chapter 222 Can You Say This?
Li Ye and others waited on the platform for several minutes. Everyone in the sleeper car had gotten off, but the man with the crutch was nowhere to be seen.
Li Ye asked Jin Peng: "Is he sitting in a hard sleeper or a soft sleeper?"
Jin Peng shook his head and said, "I don't know. If he is a first-class hero, he should be able to sit in the soft sleeper car! How about I go up and take a look?"
"No, wait a little longer."
Wen Leyu, who had been waiting for a long time and was bored, was stunned for a moment, squinting his eyes and said: "The first-class merit for being alive? Then I have to take a good look."
This time, Li Ye remembered that he had not explained it clearly to her. Just as he was about to tell her about Guo Donglun's situation, he saw the nanny Xiao Liang carrying the wheelchair in one hand and supporting Guo Donglun with the other hand as they got out of the soft sleeper car.
Wen Leyu's eyes fixed, and he suddenly realized something. The smile that had just appeared on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by a solemn and serious expression.
Li Ye walked over quickly and stretched out his hand after a few steps.
This is a sign of respect for a warrior and has nothing to do with status.
"Hello Comrade Guo, I am Li Ye."
Guo Donglun looked at Li Ye who came over first, and felt relieved. He also stretched out his hand and said lightly: "Guo Donglun, just call me by my name."
"Let's call Comrade Guo! The car is outside, I'll push you."
"No, thank you."
Guo Donglun coldly rejected Li Ye's kindness and let the nanny Xiao Liang push the wheelchair.
When passing by Wen Leyu, Guo Donglun made a close eye contact with the girl. The cold scrutiny made him breathe a sigh of relief again.
"Isn't that right? Otherwise, it would be embarrassing."
The car from Pengcheng No. 7 Factory is parked outside the train station. It is a Beijing license plate 130, both for passenger and freight use.
Jin Peng walked over quickly, opened the car door, and said with a smile, "The conditions are simple, Comrade Guo, please make do with it for a while, I will help you."
But the babysitter Xiao Liang said, "No need, we can just take a taxi."
Jin Peng was embarrassed for a moment and said, "Okay, we'll lead the way and we'll be there soon."
Guo Donglun and Xiao Liang hailed a Volga and followed Li Ye's Beijing 130.
The two cars drove towards Chaoyang District, turned several times and finally entered a small alley.
Nanny Xiao Liang couldn't help but ask, "Master, where is this? Is there an office of Pengcheng Seventh Factory or a restaurant here?"
The taxi driver was holding back his words and immediately said, "There is no office here, but there is a small restaurant.
If you are here to eat, you must ask in advance. There are no tables for ordinary people and they will not serve you."
"Ordinary people won't be served? Then who are the non-ordinary people?"
"You really asked the right question. I live not far away," the taxi driver's Kanye skills were finally fully activated, and he said, "If it's a neighbor in the nearby alley, then he must have a table, otherwise people will really curse in the street,
But if they were not neighbors, it would be difficult to deal with. You two don't look like ordinary people, but you don't know how low-ranking an official is until you go to Beijing. If you randomly pick a company on the street, the boss is a deputy minister.
If they don’t have some skills, how dare they chase customers away? The old man in the kitchen is a retired man from the Haizi. No matter what your rank is, you dare not show your teeth to him. "
Guo Donglun and Xiao Liang didn't say anything else. After arriving at the place, they paid and got off the car. It was indeed that small restaurant.
After arriving here, the two found that Jin Peng and the driver did not go in, so Li Ye and the girl went in.
After entering, the people in the restaurant started greeting us.
"Here comes the girl."
"Yes! Sorry to bother you again, Uncle Heng."
"What's the trouble? Come in and sit down. It's the same private room as last time!"
After greeting Wen Leyu, he asked Li Ye: "Brother, you should order the dishes!"
Li Ye smiled and said, "I won't order any dishes, Uncle Heng. There are only four of us, friends from the south. You can choose the taste."
"Okay, you go and greet your friends first, I'll go to the kitchen to prepare the dishes for you."
Guo Donglun started to feel suspicious again because the people in the restaurant greeted Wen Leyu first, and there was some difference in the tone and enthusiasm of their greetings.
Plus the taxi driver's amazing talk.
So Guo Donglun asked Li Ye: "Student Li, are you from Beijing?"
"No? Why do you ask that?" Li Ye led Guo Donglun into the box and said, "I am from Qingshui, and I am from the same hometown as Jin Peng and Hao Jian."
Guo Donglun said, "Just now in the taxi, the driver talked to me for a long time, saying that only people from Beijing can book a table at this restaurant. It turns out he was bragging."
Li Ye paused for a second and said with a smile: "You can't say I'm bragging."
Four people entered the box. Li Ye gave up his seat to the two guests, and Wen Leyu was not arrogant and even pulled out a chair for Guo Donglun who had difficulty moving.
After they sat down, Guo Donglun introduced: "This is Xiao Liang. I have difficulty moving around, so she stays by my side to take care of me."
Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye to see if Li Ye had heard the hidden meaning in Guo Donglun's words.
Since we are discussing business, please leave if you are outside.
Xiao Liang must stay by Guo Donglun’s side to be taken care of, so he naturally cannot go out. What about Wen Leyu?
Li Ye smiled faintly and said, "This is my classmate Xiaowen. I don't have the ability to book a table here, but since you two have come from afar, I can't neglect you, so I have to ask her to help."
Guo Donglun asked Wen Leyu curiously, "Is Wen from Beijing?"
Wen Leyu said calmly, "I guess so! I just moved here with my parents last year."
Guo Donglun: "Oh? Then where do Wen's parents work?"
Wen Leyu's cold eyes flashed: "It's not convenient to talk about this."
Guo Donglun immediately said, "I'm sorry, I was presumptuous."
He was finally sure that his feeling just now was correct. All the doubts he had from beginning to end were connected at once, and everything became clear.
The plot of a handsome young man from a small county town being admitted to university and being favored by female classmates automatically filled Guo Donglun's mind.
In that era, such things happened a lot, and it was not uncommon for an orderly to marry the daughter of a big boss.
No wonder Hao Jian and Jin Peng received so much help from me, but later they did so many things without even saying hello to me, it turns out that good things should be kept within the family!
Who are you going to talk to? What would you do if it were you?
The dishes were served very quickly and tasted very good. Even people from Guangdong Province, who are very particular about food, could not find any fault with it.
However, the atmosphere at the dinner table was not very good. The four of them just drank tea without talking. After the dishes were served, they ate their own food, trying to see who could hold back the most.
Seeing that he was in a bad condition, Li Ye had no choice but to ask, "Comrade Guo, can you drink?"
Guo Donglun said cheerfully, "You can drink a little."
【That’s easy.】
Both of them had the same thought in their minds.
"Comrade Guo has come from afar, I am sorry for not taking good care of you, let me drink first as a token of my respect."
"You're welcome. The food is good."
One cup for another.
"For more than a year, Comrade Guo has taken good care of us Qingshui people. I offer you a toast!"
"It's not really about taking care of me, haha."
One cup for another.
"I heard Jin Peng and Hao Jian talk about you. Although I don't know much, I'll drink this cup."
"Dry!"
"My grandfather and father were both soldiers. They were very concerned about the war in the south and always felt bad that they were born decades earlier. This cup is for all the soldiers who fought for their country."
【You are drinking water, right? 】
Anyone who has served in the army, as long as they are not deficient in acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, can "drink a little".
Therefore, Guo Donglun is very confident in his drinking capacity. After all, he has never lacked alcohol at home over the years.
But in these five minutes, each of you has a bottle that's almost empty. No one can stand this!
Seeing Li Ye opening another bottle and pouring it for himself and Guo Donglun, the nanny Xiao Liang poked Guo Donglun's back with her finger.
Guo Donglun didn't say a word. Whoever is cowardly at this time will regret it.
Seeing Li Ye reaching for another glass of wine, the nanny Xiao Liang took the lead and picked up Guo Donglun's glass, saying, "We have come from afar, and classmate Li has treated us so kindly. This glass of wine is to express our gratitude. I'll drink it first as a sign of respect."
Xiao Liang drank the wine, which surprised Li Ye.
But what was even more surprising was that Wen Leyu, who was sitting next to him, was actually eager to try.
Li Ye had extensive experience in fighting. As soon as someone's shoulder moved, he knew whether the other party was going to throw a straight punch or a hook. So as soon as Wen Leyu raised his hand, Li Ye rushed to drink the wine.
What a joke, Wen Leyu insisted on coming along today, and it was already outrageous enough that Li Ye didn't refuse.
If I let her block the wine for me, do you believe that she would give me seventeen or eighteen cold looks the next time I see Teacher Ke?
Xiao Liang finally felt relieved.
She knew Guo Donglun's drinking capacity and few people could match him. Now Li Ye had drunk five glasses in ten minutes, so it was time for him to calm down.
But Li Ye raised his glass again and said, "I heard from the people in the southwest of Pengcheng Seventh Factory that Comrade Guo went to several counties and donated 100,000 yuan in each county as an unknown soldier. Regardless of whether your approach is right or wrong, I want to toast you with this glass."
"Don't drink it yet, why am I doing something wrong?"
Guo Donglun finally asked a question before Li Ye drank it.
Li Ye put down his wine glass and said, "I didn't say it was wrong!"
Guo Donglun said persistently: "But you are not right either."
Li Ye pondered for a few seconds, then smiled and said, "Comrade Guo, your intention to donate money is good, but you are also a wise man. You should understand that these 100,000 yuan will not improve many families."
Guo Donglun said in a deep voice: "In a year of severe drought, a drop of water can save a life. How can you say it's wrong?"
Li Ye turned the wine glass in his hand and said calmly: "I heard that you followed Chen Donggou for half a month and went to many remote villages.
Then you should know why I asked him to take the difficult step of taking the easy way out and spend so much time and effort to recruit just a few workers."
Guo Donglun nodded and said, "You want to give job opportunities to those who are the poorest and need the most help, right?"
Guo Donglun saw this problem. If Ergou was allowed to recruit workers in the county town, the efficiency would be much higher. He might be able to recruit enough people by the next day, but those workers might not necessarily be the poorest people.
"Yes and no," Li Ye said, "Even if we recruit three people from each village, the job opportunities will most likely be taken by the children of the most powerful families in the village, so it's better not to talk about those small families."
"And your simple donations may breed more lazy people."
“.”
Guo Donglun was silent. He was not good at this.
There is a county town in Dongshan where the hat of poverty is taken off and put on again and again, which is a manifestation of this drawback.
Finally, Guo Donglun asked, "What do you think?"
Li Ye sighed and said, "There is only one way. When the country becomes stronger, poverty will disappear. When the big rivers are full, the small rivers will be full. Even if only a little leaks through, it can irrigate a piece of fertile land."
Guo Donglun laughed: "Student Li Ye, after all, you are just repeating the same old things. Someone said this decades ago!"
Li Ye also laughed: "Yes! So I am working towards this goal!"
Guo Donglun smiled and said, "Just use your Pengcheng Seventh Factory to do it?"
Li Ye looked at Guo Donglun's smiling face and said slowly: "Yes, you were once a soldier, so what kind of threat do you think our land is facing now?"
Guo Donglun lost his smile and said seriously: "Tell me what you have to say. Even if you are talking nonsense, I am all ears."
Li Ye nodded and said, "If you have studied economics, you will know that since World War II, the Lighthouse Country has shifted from military hegemony to economic hegemony. Now I think it has a tendency to develop towards cultural hegemony."
"The problems we face have also changed from military problems to complex problems. The first one we encounter is the problem of economic invasion."
"It won't be long before our companies come into contact with overseas economic groups that may appear peaceful on the surface but are actually cruel in nature.
If you don’t believe it, you can ask someone to find out how many small countries in the world have had their economies hijacked by big financial groups.”
"Those financial groups have experience, talent, and a lot of money that can be used flexibly. Only by defeating them can we realize the dream we had decades ago."
"Pengcheng No. 7 Factory is very weak, but we are willing to contribute to this land, and I hope that more wealthy people will be willing to contribute instead of just squandering their money on unimportant things."
“.”
Li Ye said a lot. At the beginning, Guo Donglun was very disdainful, because although the Pengcheng No. 7 Factory seemed to be prosperous, it was nothing compared with large enterprises.
But in the end, Guo Donglun felt a little ashamed.
Li Ye is younger than him and has a lower starting point, but it seems that he has done nothing over the years.
After Li Ye finished speaking, the small private room was silent for a long time. The three people looked at Li Ye, who was lowering his head and sighing, and they didn't know what to do.
At this time, Wen Leyu said: "How about, Li Ye, tell us more about cultural imperialism!"
"This is just my guess, it's hard to say,"
It is really hard for Li Ye to say, because he doesn’t know whether anyone had noticed the concept of cultural exchange in 1982.
But it has happened.
In 1981, the Lighthouse launched a cultural and ideological exchange against Su E. It took only ten years to defeat Su E, which had millions of troops and 20 million core members.
When the red flag was lowered on Red Square, those who still had the red star in their hearts could only cross the Dnieper River, climb over the Ural Mountains, and go to the end of the ice and snow to look for the continuation of the red star.
Can you say that?
It was very difficult to write the last few chapters. I had to delete, revise, and write very slowly. But when I looked back after finishing, I was really scared.
(End of this chapter)
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