Yanjing seems to be more lively at night than during the day. The sadness and melancholy of the past seem to be hidden under the neon lights, allowing people to enjoy themselves. No one thinks about the story of Yanjing in the past amid this hustle and bustle.
The Old Tang Teahouse is a little-known one among the countless teahouses and theaters in Yanjing. It is an inconspicuous little teahouse on the roadside in Yuer Hutong.
However, when you enter the small teahouse, there is something special inside. Although it is not big, it is full of Beijing flavor. There are no performances on the stage that are full of ancient costumes.
On the contrary, it looked like a storyteller. A few middle-aged men wearing gossip clothes or women wearing cheongsam came on the stage and sang Peking Opera.
If the guests are interested, you can also perform on the stage. Whether you want to show off your voice, or you like the erhu or yueqin, Xianzi, gong and other instruments are all fine. No matter if you are having fun or not, sit down The audience below applauded after the performance.
There was a waiter in period clothes with a towel on his shoulders, a teapot with a glaze that could be seen even if it was worn on the surface, and several plates of meals that were rarely seen in old Yanjing, with melon seeds, pistachios and other odds and ends. The atmosphere of the whole teahouse was very good.
"Why do you think of making an appointment here?" The performer came off the stage to applaud Yang Dongxu and turned his head to look at Lai Tianqing.
It seems that just like people in Anhui Province can know a few lines of Huangmei Opera, it is very rare for a Yanjing person to know Peking Opera. Even if you can't sing, you have at least heard a few lines. The two people who took the stage just now obviously have some skills, so in addition to applause, there were also many cheers.
The performers clasped their fists and waved around to express their gratitude. Then a man from the teahouse dressed as an ancient front desk manager came up to the stage and asked the audience if anyone else could come off the stage and show their voice. If there is no one in the teahouse who can sing his own songs, the guests Send some flower baskets or other things to order music.
"As a Yanjing native, do you have a problem with listening to music?" Lai Tianqing took a sip of tea.
"Nen is not right. His ancestral home is Henan, right?" Yang Dongxu suddenly spoke in Henan dialect.
Tea drinker Lai Tianqing almost spit out the tea in his mouth. He choked and coughed violently and tears came out. Because there was too much movement, several people at the next table cast displeased looks. Lai Tianqing quickly handed over his hands to apologize, and then finally regained his composure and glared at Yang Dongxu fiercely.
"Can you stop being so boring?"
"It's still pretty cool now. You're just a miner pretending to be an educated person and you have something to say." Seeing Lai Tianqing getting angry, Yang Dongxu felt more at ease while happily eating melon seeds.
"Why don't mining workers have no education?" Lai Tianqing continued to wait for him.
"Then let's discuss the Four Books and Five Classics first? Or talk about the origin of drama? Or talk about the history of the development of these gongs, drums and suona?" Yang Dongxu looked at Lai Tianqing with a smile.
Lai Tianqing opened his mouth and finally could only wait for him, except for serious knowledge. Yang Dongxu and Old Man Xuan also learned a lot of miscellaneous subjects.
This miscellaneous knowledge is not only some heretical methods, but also a lot of knowledge with book theoretical knowledge. In the years before and after junior high school, because he needed to keep a low profile, Yang Dongxu liked to read all kinds of ancient books and unofficial history all day long. Lai Tianqing was really no match for him, not to mention that Lai Tianqing only graduated from junior high school. .
"I'm almost forty years old. I have a problem listening to music?" Lai Tianqing continued to glare at Yang Dongxu unconvinced.
"No problem, we must support the promotion of national culture." Yang Dongxu looked indifferent.
This made Lai Tianqing seem to be holding back his internal injuries. There was obviously no hope of winning against this guy who could speak both truthfully and dirty words.
Lai Tianqing originally wanted to show off as a cultured person and a classy person recuperating. He didn't want to show off at this time. Originally, he wanted to step off the stage and sing a few lines of the opera he had been practicing hard during this period. Let Yang Dongxu see that he is not just a son-in-law who walks the eagle and walks the dog, but he also has a certain inner self-cultivation, and he also cultivates his moral integrity from time to time.
Now he no longer had this thought, so he quickly finished his words and then left the guy far away: "The Du family is looking for someone to talk to. How can I let go?"
"Just give me the Jinyuan project." Yang Dongxu leaned on the chair and said calmly.
The nonchalant look seemed to be talking about a big project worth more than a billion, but it was as ordinary as an aunt buying vegetables casually asking for two coins from a hawker buying vegetables.
"Are you sure?" Lai Tianqing frowned.
"Very sure." Yang Dongxu said calmly, still calmly.
"Then get ready to be tough." Lai Tianqing shrugged and decided not to worry about anything anymore. He is a person who can't get rid of favors. As for whether Yang Dongxu and the Du family are torn to death, it doesn't matter whether he has the time to do it. It's better to study and talk about it.
"It's okay, I'm leaving." Yang Dongxu said.
If you are in the mood, you can listen to music, even go up and show off your singing voice, or pick up the yueqin and play a piece. He actually also likes these older and more charming things, but he is obviously not in the mood now.
"Isn't it too risky to put up a brand with the Du family?" Lai Tianqing turned his head and looked at Yang Dongxu. This sentence represents the mutual care between true friends.
"I don't have any intention of putting up a sign, but the Du family just happened to bump into each other and still take the initiative to find trouble. What can I do? Besides, things at Millennium Supermarket are making a big fuss now.
If there is another anticlimax here, there may be some unsighted people who think that my low profile means that I am weak and easy to bully. Then they swarmed around me like flies. Not only were they annoying, but they were also disgusting when swatted to death. "Yang Dongxu said.
Lai Tianqing nodded. The recent incident of Millennium Supermarket raising the banner of a national enterprise and Carrefour being tough can be said to be known to the whole country. As for this uproarous incident, from the beginning, Millennium Supermarket occupied the national interests, but now some people are starting to feel sour.
Some of these people have taken advantage of the foreigners. If they have breasts, they are mothers. As for the development of national enterprises, it has nothing to do with them. In short, there are all kinds of comments criticizing Millennium. Who asked foreigners to give money and you Millennium did not give it to them? Where's the money?
And some of them are naturally jealous and dislike Millennium, or they dislike Yang Dongxu. Anyway, I feel like this is an opportunity to step on him. As for whether this matter is related to the future of domestic enterprises and whether it is of great significance to the development of domestic enterprises, it is none of their business. In short, they are happy that Yang Dongxu is unlucky. Whether it is beneficial to the country is not important.
"Some people are really confused about things that require a meeting to study above, and they dare to jump out and talk nonsense. After this matter is settled, it is estimated that many people will be unlucky." Lai Tianqing sneered.
It doesn't matter what means you use to attack your competitors or teach someone you don't like, overtly or covertly. He came to Tianqing not to be a saint, and he had used many such methods.
However, on major issues related to the development of the national economy, even high-level officials are cautiously and continuously studying, and the leading idea is still to protect local national enterprises with capabilities and markets. These people look like traitors. Not only are they disgusting with Yang Dongxu, but they also say that they are going against the policy. How can such people end well?
"It's not that I can't understand it clearly, but it's bad at the root. I only know how to put money into my own pocket, and I don't have any sense of social responsibility. I don't even bother to do superficial projects. Everyone is thinking about various ways to make money in the country, and then emigrate. Go abroad and enjoy.
Right now, the higher-ups are taking charge of the general direction and don't bother to pay attention to these people. If it comes time to conduct a serious investigation, in fact, another monk can ring the bell every day, and it will be the same whether there are these people or not. Yang Dongxu sneered.
"Did you hear something?" Lai Tianqing looked at Yang Dongxu doubtfully.
These people are not only trying to make money at home and immigrate abroad to enjoy themselves, but if you really think about it, every one of them is labeled a traitor and none of them is unjust.
In short, they do what the law allows and they do what the law does not allow. They exploit the loopholes that the law has not yet had time to fill. They make a handful of money and walk away, leaving a mess for the government to clean up. butt. Such speculators are not just those currently targeting Yang Dongxu, but are numerous across the country.
"The boss is ready to further liberalize the domestic economy. Who doesn't watch the news broadcast every day?" Yang Dongxu asked.
"Bullshit, who doesn't know about this matter as long as they are a little concerned about the domestic economic situation?" Lai Tianqing rolled his eyes: "But what does this have to do with this matter?"
“The purpose of liberalizing the economic market is to develop the domestic economy. There are two ways to develop the economy. One is to actively introduce foreign investment, and the other is to actively support the development of local enterprises.
Otherwise, what is the difference between a liberalized economy and directly handing over the economic market to foreign companies? Now these people are kneeling and licking each other. When the economic policy is further liberalized, won't they all turn into house thieves and be difficult to prevent? Do you think a boss’s temper will be determined by killing a group of people first to draw a bottom line? "
"It's really possible." Lai Tianqing was surprised.
What the strong-armed boss hates most is prostitution and all kinds of opportunism, not to mention helping outsiders poach his own family members. Such people would definitely be caught and shot every one during the war.
"Will the Du family be used as an example?" Lai Tianqing was startled and then thought of the Du family, and then looked at Yang Dongxu uncertainly.
"Whether it is used as an example or not, it doesn't matter. Some things are only suitable to be done in the dark. Once exposed, no matter who is standing behind it. The higher authorities must come up with a regulation to deal with it, otherwise this hole will be opened. Others will see It turns out there’s no problem if you do it this way, do you think it won’t cause chaos?” Yang Dongxu asked with a smile.
"You will offend a lot of people by doing this?" Lai Tianqing looked a little solemn.
Not to mention that in addition to the Du family, there are many people behind Jinyuan who follow Fenrun. Just because the higher-ups want to set an example and handle this matter, and then handle similar matters in this way in the future, it will block many people's financial paths.
"It seems that if I don't do this, there will be less trouble." Yang Dongxu curled his lips with an expression as if he had too many lice and was not itching.
"You'd better change your aggressive nature. Some old people have strong objections to your independent work in recent years. They say you don't believe in the country." Lai Tianqing reminded.
"This is a big label. Don't you believe that I will invest like this on a large scale in the country? Isn't it just that I eat meat and don't give them soup?
Apart from the country’s share of the pot of meat I cook, it’s my business how I divide the rest. If you want to eat, you have to bring your own bowls and chopsticks, right? how? Do you still want me to feed them into their mouths with my own hands? I didn’t even plan to raise my son so delicately, so who are they? "Yang Dongxu looked disdainful.
"You'd better pay attention to yourself." Where there are entangled interests, you can see the worst faces of human beings, let alone where there are huge entangled interests. From the perspective of a friend, Tianqing can remind Yang Dongxu, but he will never overstep his authority and point fingers.
"I know." Yang Dongxu nodded. Although he had the confidence to face these people, he was not arrogant, nor would he be so arrogant that he was invincible. "If there is nothing to do, I will leave first. If nothing happens, I will We should be in Hangzhou, there are still a lot of things to be busy with over there."
"Are you going to hold off for a while?" Lai Tianqing pinched the non-existent beard on his chin.
"I'm not prepared to delay, just deal with it how you want. The matter of my cheap brother-in-law has been dealt with. As for the matter of Jinyuan, it doesn't seem to have much to do with me, right? I have no investment, and I have no desire to invest."
"Didn't you just say..." Lai Tianqing started to say, but stopped mid-sentence and did not say any more.
Yes, although Yang Dongxu was the one who brought up the Jinyuan incident, it would not be possible unless the Du family wanted to transfer Jinyuan to Yang Dongxu. Otherwise, Jinyuan's illegal operations are matters that need to be managed by the state, and they really have nothing to do with him, Yang Dongxu.
