National Tide 1980.

Chapter 432 Family Dinner
In order to fulfill their daughter's wish, the three members of the Huo family took Huo Yanping's "Jim" car and went to the eastern suburbs together.

Since it was the weekend, there were few cars and people outside the city, and the spacious Capital Airport Road was empty for a long time.

Occasionally there is a carriage or a car passing by, and bicycles and pedestrians are almost extinct.

Huo Xin practiced very happily and felt quite good.

In her words, although they are all old cars.

But no matter what, the car is much better than the "Great Liberation" coach car that can only be started by hand.

It seems that Tuomen is not as good at learning to drive as his own father.

Not to mention the car, the "coach" in the auxiliary seat gave pointers, and was careful and patient.

Of course, she couldn't help complaining again, saying that the 600 yuan tuition fee was too bad.

On the other hand, for Huo Yanping and his wife, they were quite relieved to see their daughter's driving skills were still as good as they were.

After all, this is a very practical skill, even if you go abroad in the future, it will be useful.

Although I have to retake the driver's license test, it is really different to have a foundation.

So Huo Yanping came to tease his daughter happily.

"You, just be content. How can ordinary people have the opportunity to learn to drive? It depends on the unit to issue a certificate. If the unit does not train you, it is useless to try to learn."

"The fare of 600 yuan is quite a lot, which is almost a year's wages for ordinary people. But you earn a lot, and you still care about that?"

"You have to think this way, knowledge is priceless. Judging from our national conditions, there are not many car drivers, and girls with driving skills like you are even rarer."

"In my opinion, as long as you can pass the test and get the driving book, the money is not worth the money."

Huo Xin was delighted when he heard this.

"Oh, Dad, it's not easy to hear your approval with my own ears. What day is it today? Could it be that I met a magpie when I went out?"

Huo Yanping couldn't help laughing when he saw his daughter's complacent and hypocritical expression.

"Seeking truth from facts, seeing is believing today, I have already been convinced from the bottom of my heart by the driving skills of our number one female driver in Beijing."

Now even Huang Jingping couldn't help laughing.

"Yanping, why are you talking nonsense like a child? Ouch! Don't tease her any more and distract her. Are you afraid that she will boast and drive the car into a roadside ditch?"

The rare joyful coexistence made the emotions of the family of three a lot more harmonious.

So when he came back in the evening, Huo Xin was very excited to treat guests, and insisted on taking his parents to the French restaurant in Jianguo Hotel.

This is the only authentic French restaurant that belongs to the Republic. Its magnificent, calm and elegant decoration surprised Huo Yanping and his wife.

None of them expected that there would already be such a level of hotel and such a high-end western restaurant in China.

Huo Yanping said, "Seeing is worse than hearing. I really didn't expect the overall level of the first joint venture hotel in Beijing to surpass that of the Beijing Hotel. It seems that the method of introducing foreign capital is indeed effective. It is because the foreign monks can chant scriptures."

Huang Jingping also said, "Well, maybe we will rely on foreigners for many things in the future. I don't think there will be any problems in the company where our daughter works for a while."

But Huo Xin disagreed.

She claimed that Peel Carton was not only rich and powerful, but also had a close relationship with the Ministry of Textiles and the Ministry of Economics and Trade. It was originally very reliable and stable.

So soon the French restaurant of this Jianguo Hotel will not be ranked.

This year, their company's Maxim's restaurant will push down the throne of the No. [-] French restaurant in Beijing.

The Maxim Restaurant, which she participated in supervising, will replicate the Paris main store at a cost of 150 million US dollars.

All the construction is done by Japanese personnel, not to mention the prisms and stained glass ceiling, those silverware and chandeliers, even the French court murals will be copied.

That's called resplendent, that's called romantic and gorgeous.

On the contrary, Jianguo Hotel is a restaurant that is too standard.

The so-called French style is just the curtains on the roof and a harp at the door, nothing new at all.

In her opinion, in terms of atmosphere, this place is not as interesting as the newly opened underground western restaurant in Xidan in the first two years.

That restaurant called "Earth", very cleverly used the underground air defense system to open a unique western restaurant.

There is no decoration on the walls at all, just exposed concrete walls.

The point is that the lighting is pretty dim.

Although there are chandeliers and wall lamps, they still have to be illuminated by candlelight...

"Hey, your company's restaurant is nothing more than that. After spending so much money, it must be good. But what is the underground restaurant? It sounds terrible." Huang Jingping couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, "I can't think of anyone who will come Eating in a place like this is a mess.”

"Mom! You don't understand. The most popular and fashionable thing right now is this maverick style! Don't underestimate them, this restaurant, although nicknamed 'Jingcheng Xiaolaomo' , but in fact the limelight has overshadowed the real 'Old Mo'. You have to wait for a seat when it's time for lunch, and you can't close the door when it's lunch break, and you line up in a big queue every day..."

Undoubtedly, as a member of the fashion industry, Huo Xin has obviously lived up to her profession and knows very well what is fashionable and what is not in Beijing today.

But Huo Yanping obviously didn't think so.

Facing his daughter, he actually made a joke.

"What kind of mood is this called?! Could it be that mood is going to fight tunnels in the dark?"

"Dad, you really don't understand, don't you pretend? This is called primitive, rough, wild! There should be quite a lot of underground bars in Europe..."

"Oh, right..."

Seeing that Huo Xin was a little dissatisfied, in order not to disappoint her daughter, Huo Yanping reluctantly responded with a gesture of understanding.

But Huo Xin still saw his insincere perfunctory.

"Dad, Mom, I'm getting more and more confused about you now. You obviously came back from abroad, why do you seem to have never seen anything? Your ideology seems to have nothing to do with those people in China. The difference. No, perhaps even more staid."

"Okay, I understand, you are deliberately hurting us."

Huo Yanping first patted his daughter's face, and then explained sincerely.

"That's right, we came back from abroad, but we haven't seen what you said."

"Don't forget, we are officials, representing the image of our government, and we can't go to some random places. It can be said that except for places of interest, concert halls, museums, and parks, we almost stay in the embassy."

"Of course, we will also go to some banquets, and even visit some foreigners' homes. But who are those people? They are officials, scholars, businessmen, reporters, and artists. So..."

There is no need to say the following words, Huo Xin already understood, she twisted her body coquettishly.

"Oh, I see. You are really not free. Even if you stay abroad, you must always be serious. It's so boring. Poor parents..."

However, her attitude of understatement could not prevent Huang Jinghua, who is a mother, from asking her the bottom line.

"Xinxin, I'm surprised, but you've been staying in China all the time. You're doing it abroad, and you're doing it abroad. Where did you learn it?"

"Where are you going? You are so funny, there are foreigners in China. There are many foreign students in our school! White, black, and brown, they can be found anywhere."

"But your dad and I have been abroad for so long, and we haven't learned so much from you!"

"That's because you are old and dull."

What Huo Xin said was purely inadvertent.

But Huo Yanping and Huang Jinghua still looked at each other after listening.

Want to see if they themselves are really old.

Is it old?
Both of them asked themselves secretly in their hearts.

Perhaps, it's not that they are old, but that their daughter is too young...

Finally it was time to order.

But when the waiter stepped forward, Huo Xin didn't let his parents speak at all.

I directly ordered three rib eye steaks, snail soup, Caesar salad, as well as champagne before the meal and fig dessert after the meal.

This meal is at least 200 more.

However, Huo Yanping couldn't accept her daughter's way of spending money without looking at the price at all.

"Xinxin, you are really quick to learn this way. I know that you are spending the money you earn, and you want to make us happy. But I also want to remind you that it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. You should cherish what you earn and use your money wisely."

"Let's not talk about spoilers tonight, okay?"

Huo Xin took a sip of champagne and interrupted Huo Yanping directly.

"Why can't it be mentioned tonight?" Huo Yanping asked strangely.

"But tonight is the weekend!"

"I see that every day is a weekend for you!"

Facing his daughter's contempt and dismissiveness, Huo Yanping really wanted to get angry.

But fortunately, Huang Jinghua came to stop him at the right time, so the atmosphere of the meal was not spoiled.

"Stop talking, Yanping, today is the weekend! It's also rare for our family to get together. We should thank our daughter."

The dishes were served one by one, and Huo Xin's way of dining was very expert.

"Mom, no, it has to be like this! Real French people use their forks like this..." She even corrected her mother's tricks while eating.

After taking a sip of wine, Huo Yanping, who originally wanted to say nothing, was always very disturbed seeing his daughter's behavior like this.

So he couldn't help but said again, "Xinxin, you are still young, you have to know that society is very complicated, and people are also very complicated. Now our country is open, but because the changes are too fast, okay The bad ones swarm in. We have to distinguish right from wrong, but we can’t learn everything, we still have to maintain our good traditions..."

"Hey hey hey..."

How did he know that Huo Xin couldn't help laughing, and the more he laughed, the more he couldn't restrain himself, he even stopped eating.

He just wiped his mouth with the tablecloth. "Dad, I'm convinced that you are giving a report while eating! Who asked you to do foreign affairs work? You are so old-fashioned. He should let you stay in the country as a secretary..."

Even Huang Jinghua felt that these words were meaningless and dry.

"Okay, it's a big weekend, don't keep telling your children these big truths."

"What's the big deal?"

Huo Yanping resolutely refuted.

"What I'm talking about is truth. Don't listen to it. This matter is very important. People are affected by the environment. If I want to let my daughter go, it will harm her. I am concerned about what happened to her? I also want to ask her What kind of friends are there around you?"

Huo Xin became serious now.

She put down her knife and fork completely, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and leaned her arms on the table.

"Dad, I don't understand. Since I was a child, you have allowed me to broaden my horizons, increase my knowledge, don't close up, and don't cherish my broom. You let me watch more TV, read more newspapers, and make more active-minded friends. , Get in touch with capable people more. You even need to get in touch with foreigners more and learn more about foreign affairs, right?"

"Yeah. Don't you think that's bad?"

"It's not bad, it's you who made me feel at a loss. Look at it now, you actually want me not to learn this, don't learn that, and keep some good traditions. You also said that the society is complicated, and you wish the world would become dangerous all of a sudden." I don't understand, what kind of person do you want me to be? Fashionable and avant-garde, or traditional and conservative? Do you want to make more friends and be a master of communication? Or be independent and keep yourself. Don't care about others at all, and do what you want? And for foreigners, do you want all the people I contact with to be people of your age, status and status?"

This question made Huo Yanping speechless.

Because to be honest, even he himself is conflicted about his daughter.

When the child didn't grow up, he hoped that his daughter would grow up quickly, be independent and self-reliant.

But now seeing her growing up, I can't adapt to it.

I am afraid that she will be influenced by bad friends and live with a willful attitude.

How to tell the child?
"That's right," Huo Yanping swallowed a sip of wine, "I think it's better for us to stick to family values, ethics and morals. This means that in these areas, you should have your own opinions and insist on what you should insist on." .Aside from these, I don't want to interfere with anything else..."

"Of course I have my own persistence. But I think you will never trust me and will take care of yourself."

"You can't say that, I'm afraid of you...afraid of you..."

"What are you afraid of me?"

"Losing!"

"What's wrong with you?"

"Eat the girl's loss."

"Hmph," Huo Xin sneered, "you are such a feudal brain. So that's what you're worried about. Does that mean you can rest assured only if I don't make friends with the opposite sex? Let me be frank, your concerns, It really makes me sick..."

"Xinxin!" Huang Jinghua sternly stopped Huo Xin, "You can't talk to Dad like this!"

At this time, there was a melodious sound of a violin from the other end of the restaurant.

It turned out that it was the birthday of one of the guests at the banquet over there, and the musician in the restaurant played the piece on the violin.

The guests at that table immediately became excited, not only applauded together, but also sang along with the music.

Then there was a chef with a tall white hat pushing a dining car to deliver a cake.

This virtually eased the language conflict of the Huo Xin family.

Huo Xin took the opportunity to leave and went to the bathroom, leaving only his parents in their seats.

"My daughter has grown up." Huo Yanping looked at Huo Xin's back and sighed.

"Ah."

"Her personality is very different from before."

"Why is it different?"

"She has become too stubborn, not even a little docile, and she is too smart and capable. If she is not guided well, maybe something will happen."

"This kid is not like you, when you were young. You have strong acceptance, quick response, drive, and disobedience. You are anxious and stubborn!"

This made Huo Yanping laugh, and he also liked to hear this.

As a father, of course he would be satisfied because his daughter's personality is close to his own.

"But," he said, "haven't I changed now? Except for my daughter's affairs, I can't help being anxious. When do you see me being impatient? There's no need to treat family members. Of course, I am also concerned about chaos."

"What's in your heart, you have to talk to her carefully. I believe that as long as you have patience, your daughter will understand us..."

"I don't think so." Huo Yanping said, "I think that after living apart for so many years, my daughter's trust in us is far less than she has in those friends around her. I have to find out who her friends are? Only then will it be possible to prescribe the right medicine and bring her back on the right track of life..."

(End of this chapter)