preface:
In "Drinking with the Ghost in the Mountains", there is a "I was drunk and wanted to sleep and went, and the Ming Dynasty intended to hold the piano." "Throughout the ages, there have been many celebrities and strangers who like to drink, especially the generals who gallop on the battlefield, and they especially like to drink wine and eat meat in large pieces. At the same time, most of the generals who threw their heads and spilled their blood for the new China also liked to drink a few sips of wine in their leisure time and review their magnificent lives. Among these generals who like to drink, General Xu Shiyou is a signature figure.
After paying the salary every month, what is the salary used for?
At least half of the money will be used to buy Moutai wine.
First, General You who "cut the door"
At that time, the country's economy was still very weak, and even generals at the level of generals did not get much salary every month. General Xu Shiyou is very willing to spend money on drinking, while General You Taizhong is a relatively "choppy" general in comparison. Although General You also likes to drink, he has always drunk some cheap wine, and once he drank a few glasses of Moutai wine, and the waiter charged him three yuan, which made him feel very sad.
In the 1970s, General You was appointed first secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. General You did not like to sit in the administrative building and work, he liked to go down and personally investigate the situation. Whenever General You came to a region, the local government would arrange several tables of good banquets to pick up the wind for him.
General Koyou never went to these banquets, believing that they were meaningless.
Always pay for the local canteen to eat, do not engage in any specialization.
Second, old comrades-in-arms reunite
Once, when General You was at a meeting in Beijing, he discovered such a thing. At that time, General You was eating in the canteen when he suddenly saw a familiar face, and this face was Li Xiannian. The relationship between Li Xiannian and You Taizhong was not ordinary, and the two of them had deep revolutionary feelings. Later, the two worked in Inner Mongolia and one in Beijing, and they did not see each other for a long time. This meeting in Beijing can be described as a long-term reunion.
Li Xiannian worked in Beijing, and as the host, he dragged General You to drink. The two chatted for a while at the wine table about what had happened in the past, and they both lamented that time passed so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, both of them were old. At that time, Li Xiannian was the mainland's finance minister, so General You smiled and said:
"I've only been to Beijing once in a while, and doesn't the god of wealth invite me to drink a few cups of Maotai?"
Minister Li smiled and said, "That's for sure," and then beckoned the waiter to go to Maotai.
After the wine was served on the table, General You took a big sip in a hurry.
Three or three dollars for wine
After the two of them had been drinking for a while, Minister Li suddenly received a message, said sorry to General You, and then hurried away. General You didn't care too much, work was important, and it was the same when he ate alone. Soon the meal was finished, and General You was preparing to leave when the waiter suddenly stepped forward and said that he would have to pay another three dollars. General You asked incomprehensibly, "Didn't the money for the meal be given to you, and why did you charge me three yuan?" The waiter replied, "The money for the meal is given, and these three dollars are the money for Moutai wine." ”
General You, a man who had been frugal all his life, asked him to pay three dollars for wine, but it hurt him badly. Although three dollars is not a big deal now, in the old days, three dollars could buy a lot of things. Although at this time General You can say: "This is Minister Li's invitation, you are looking for him to go." But if you do this, it will be a bit of a face loss, and you will have to give the waiter three dollars in the end. After the meeting was over, General You left Beijing and returned to his area.
Coincidentally, three months later, General You came to Beijing again for a meeting, and even more coincidentally, this time Minister Li dragged him to drink. However, when drinking this time, General You only ordered food and did not mention drinking at all. Minister Li was very strange and asked, "Why don't you order wine?" Didn't you quit drinking? General You replied, "The Moutai here is too expensive for me to afford to drink." ”
Then General You told Minister Lee about the last time.
Minister Li only then understood that when he suddenly left, he actually made such a oolong.
epilogue:
Minister Li then said: "This time you don't have to pay for it, you can drink as much as you want." "Forget it, the next time you go to your house to drink, don't drink outside, this will also save you money, but also save you money." 」 General You replied with a smile. Minister Li did not insist, and then talked about the past of that year. Soon, the two people laughed boldly from the wine table.
Resources:
"Drinking with the Ghost in the Mountains"