Chapter 41: First Smell of Crusoe
The family of four was finally reunited. The moment he saw his son, Li Weihua, who claimed to be a strong woman, burst into tears in his eyes. Although Zhang Guangyao tried to calm down, his gradually red eyes still exposed his uncontrollable longing.
"I'm taller and stronger. Mom doesn't know how many times she wants to go to Jingnan to see you, but your grandfather, your grandfather, alas..." Li Weihua seemed to have thousands of words to say when he hugged his son, but even when his father-in-law had countless complaints, due to the traditional Chinese etiquette, she still couldn't complain. In the end, she was full of dissatisfaction and could only turn into a sigh.
Don’t look at the prosperity of civilization in the interstellar society, and think that traditional things will be abandoned.
In fact, the development of civilization must be supported by a profound cultural heritage, so that the beliefs in people’s hearts will not collapse. Therefore, the more developed a civilized society is, the more important it is to pay attention to traditional culture.
Since Li Weihua, a professional elite woman, dared not criticize his father's in private in front of his son and said that he was indifferent to his father's all kinds of inhumane behaviors, Zhang Guangyao, as his son, was naturally even more inconvenient to blame his father, so he could only sigh and said, "Stop talking, stop talking in front of his son."
Alas, in short, I'm sorry for you, mother and son.
Sometimes, I really want to quit my job and go back to Jingnan to inherit the Family Temple and come out in the ninth day of the lunar month. But, we have already taken root in Jiaoao, so we can't let you and Muzi go back to their hometown as well..."
"Okay, Dad, what you told me about is so sad in Jingnan." Zhang Chujiu interrupted with a smile: "I have said it many times, but in fact, I have lived a good life with my grandfather.
Nowadays, children in big cities are under such pressure. They have enrolled in many extracurricular classes since elementary school, and they are learning and learning that. Isn’t it just to grow up and have a good career and a good future?
As for me, because my grandfather was a Taoist priest who was officially granted by the Religious Administration Bureau, the family temple left behind was small, but it was also a "descendants temple" registered in the country. I don't need to have a university diploma. I can recite "The Rhyme Praise Before the Sutra", "Eight Great Mantras", and "The Sutra of the Supreme Lord's Sayings of the Constant Psalm of the Morning Altar" and other mythical doors and daily recitations of the morning altar work scriptures;
"The Sutra of the Sutra of the Xuanling Bao Tianzun of the Taishang Cave to Save Suffer and Relieve Sins", "The Sutra of the Sutra of the Yuanshi Tianzun of the Heavenly Heaven to Attain the Way", and "The Sutra of the Sutra of the Taishang Taoist to Explain the Injury and Relieve Sins" several volumes of Xuanmen's Day recited the evening altar work sutras directly to obtain the Taoist priest's talismans.
How much advantage does this take? What else is there to be dissatisfied with it?"
Li Weihua burst into tears when he heard this and said, "That's right, but now although the social status and income of professional religious people are generally high, Taoist priests are different from Taoist priests.
Even if you become a Taoist priest who is granted by the state, you can have a good future if you preside over a small temple with a commander in a small county town.
Mom is unwilling to let you requiem yourself by chanting scriptures and sending corpses to eat for the rest of your life!
No, no, when you go to high school, your dad and I will discuss with your grandfather no matter what, and pick you up to Jiaoao.
It’s not too late to inherit the family’s ancestral property when you have a colorful life in the future. Anyway, the ‘Scholar Temple’ will not run away even if it is placed there.
No matter what, I can't let my son stay in a small county town for the rest of his life. He has never opened his horizons or seen any beautiful experiences, so he can live his life in a simple way."
Zhang Chujiu smiled and shook his head and said, "Mom, don't worry, grandpa is not the kind of old antique you think, and I won't let me stay in Jingnan all my life."
Li Weihua wiped his tears and said unbelievably: "You can say such things, and I will broaden my mother's heart.
Oh, forget it, the time has not come yet, and it’s useless to say that when you go to high school, your dad and I will definitely bring you to Jiaoao, go to the best private high school, and then get into a good university.”
Seeing his mother insisting, Zhang Chujiu smiled, stopped talking, turned his head to look at his father, and staggered the topic: "Dad, what cocktail party did you hold today in college?
It’s not like we’ve gathered a large number of entrepreneurs to let you professors brag and strive for donations to scientific research.”
"What nonsense is talking about, what is bragging about," Zhang Guangyao temporarily forgot his sadness when he heard this, corrected his son: "That is to let us, knowledgeable professors, introduce to those entrepreneurs with poor thoughts how much convenience will the development of science and technology bring to mankind.
Let them save money from their money, donate it to us to purchase scientific research instruments, contribute to the progress of mankind, and leave it in history.
Is this a win-win situation? It's a win-win situation."
"Okay, it's a win-win." Zhang Chujiu curled his lips and said, "Then were you taking your mother to "win-win" today?"
"No." Zhang Guangyao shook his head and said: "It's the US-China University of Los Angeles, and it has a cooperative project with our university, which just happens to involve the field of marine bioengineering.
The school chose me as the Chinese leader of the project, so I have to take your mother to a welcome party with her foreign colleagues.
Those Americans are just happy with this, and they have to have a cocktail party before they can show their official performance.”
Zhang Chujiu asked casually when he heard this, "Yeah, I've become the project leader. This is a heavy use. Dad, congratulations, congratulations, what kind of project is it?"
"You don't understand the topics on the research of marine variant organisms in the 'Crusu' mythological system." Zhang Guangyao also answered casually.
When Zhang Chujiu heard the name "Crusu", for some reason, suddenly felt dark in front of him. He seemed to have a murmur sound in his ears, but he couldn't hear the exact sound.
Seeing that his son was suddenly stunned, his head was inexplicably tilted and he made a gesture of listening attentively, Li Weihua asked strangely: "Why are your son?"
Zhang Chujiu suddenly came to his senses, blinked his eyes, and found that there was no sound in his ears when he heard it. Everything just now seemed like an illusion. In order to avoid his mother's worry, he forced a smile and said, "It's nothing, I just took a car for nearly 10 hours and was a little tired."
"If you are tired, hurry up and take a break. Tomorrow afternoon, my mother will cook for you your favorite seafood hotpot," Li Weihua said hurriedly.
Zhang Chujiu nodded with a smile, and was about to continue asking his father about the mythological system of 'Crusoe', but his sister smiled dryly and said, "Then I won't go to cram school tomorrow, and I will go home to have dinner with my brother."
This was obviously a good thing for brothers and sisters to get close to each other, but Li Weihua's face darkened after hearing this, "If you really go home to have dinner with your brother, your mother can help you ask the teacher in the cram school for a day off.
But I’m afraid it’s fake to take leave and go home to have dinner with my brother, but it’s real to go to the “Idol” concert.
Your mother is the editor-in-chief of fashion magazines and has a good understanding of the dynamics of Korean pop stars. Isn’t your most ‘super’ ‘Sun Boy’ coming to Jiaoao to hold a concert tomorrow?
Can you guarantee that you will be honest with your family for dinner tomorrow and not go out to watch the Sun Boy's concert?"
Chapter completed!