Seventy-five-year-old science and engineering man, ten years of grinding a sword, completed a long novel of 500,000 words, "For the old is not respected", or "Never say old". I hope you will pay attention to it and put forward valuable comments.
The next day, Liu Zhigang went to the street and bought a bicycle for eight thousand yuan for his father to ride. He was ready to ride dad's old bike.
I bought some fruit candy, chocolate, compressed biscuits, some commonly used medicines and an oxygen bag.
When he pushed the bicycle home, Liu Yan's eyes lit up. Carbon frame, 24-speed shift, front and rear hydraulic shock absorbers, the latest butterfly brakes.
Grabbing it with both hands, it effortlessly lifted it to his chest, flipped his wrist over, and easily lifted the bike over his head.
Liu Yan thought in his heart, "Mom, how much does this car cost?"
Zhi Gang obviously bought it for eight thousand yuan, but told him, "Six thousand." ”
Liu Yan sat on the couch and angrily asked Liu Zhigang again: "Six thousand?"
Then he twisted his neck outward and said, "I'm not going to Lhasa, you go by yourself!" ”
Liu Zhigang, just now Dad was still smiling like a flower, how to say that he turned his face?
Fortunately, the price of bicycle accessories has not yet been announced. The domestic code table is fifteen yuan, and he bought it imported from Germany and sold for one hundred and fifty yuan. The pack bag in the rear luggage rack, the cheapest thirty yuan, he bought was three hundred yuan. Other miscellaneous things, such as pumps, taillights, flashlights, etc., add up to almost a thousand dollars.
Liu Zhigang knew that his father thought that the bicycle was too expensive to buy, beyond the bottom line in his mind.
Deliberately asked, "Dad, what's wrong?" Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. How do you say you won't go if you don't go?"
Liu Yan asked, "My bicycle is two thousand yuan, and the bicycle you bought is six thousand." You say, are we going to ride Tibet or show off our wealth?"
Liu Zhigang defended: "A penny for a penny, this bicycle is expensive and expensive." Your two-thousand-piece bike is an entry-level road bike. Aluminum alloy frame, bicycle weight fourteen kilograms. The bike is carbon fiber and weighs only nine kilograms. Your car is fourteen shifts, and this car has twenty-four. You say, how much effort can you save along the way?"
Liu Yan said: "From Nanjing to Beijing, buyers do not have sellers. They have blinded you, but they have not been able to deceive me.
I have heard that a bicycle of two thousand dollars and a bicycle of six thousand dollars have been compared. Athletes differ by only 5 to 13 seconds on a five-kilometer ride.
If you count, fifty kilometers is fifty seconds, and one hundred kilometers is one hundred seconds. You spend four thousand dollars more to save a hundred seconds for riding a hundred kilometers? We are not a competition, take gold and silver, a hundred seconds earlier and a hundred seconds later, what is the difference?
Have you counted the accounts? Isn't that purely a big fool? ”
Liu Zhigang did not show weakness and said: "Dad, you can't think like this." Your two-thousand-dollar bike is a line brake, and my car is the latest butterfly brake. The performance of the wire brake system is far inferior to that of the butterfly brake. If on the long downhill slope of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the line brake fails, what do you say the consequences are? Is four thousand dollars important, and is it important to pay for human life?"
Liu Yan did not approve of Liu Zhigang's defense, he said: "The ones you said are all rookies, I rode over Qinling, how can I be okay?"
Liu Zhigang grabbed his father's handle and continued to fight back: "Technology is constantly improving, equipment is being updated, your old mobile phone is still fine, why throw it away?" This is called technological progress.
The kind of two-eight bar heavy bike you rode back then, so good, why don't you ride it? How did you get it out? How do you know how to buy a bike for two thousand bucks?"
Liu Yan thought about it, and his son's words seemed to make some sense. The weighted bicycles of that year have become antiques. Maybe in a few years, it will be sent to the museum as an exhibit! ”
Liu Zhigang's mother was cooking in the kitchen, when she heard the two of them arguing again, she came out of the kitchen and said to Liu Yan: "My son bought you such a good bicycle, why don't you know good villains?"
Liu Yan saw the debate, but had no choice but to say: "The only child of your generation is the generation of the losers and the generation of the Beat!" You see the suit you're wearing, at least three or four thousand, right? The wine you drink is Maotai and Wuliangye. How can it be reassuring for your generation to take over?"
Liu Zhigang frowned and listened to his father's nagging. Ask Liu Yan: "Dad, according to your idea, or according to your bottom line, how much should I buy a bicycle?"
Liu Yan saw that his son's attitude had eased, and he wanted to say, four thousand pieces. A thousand pieces were added before exiting. He said, "It's not more than five thousand pieces!" ”
Liu Zhigang said casually: "The bicycle I bought is six thousand yuan, which is one thousand yuan beyond your bottom line." I don't drink alcohol for a year, how much do you think you can save?"
Liu Yan is a must have wine every day, sometimes even two times a day. And Liu Zhigang never drank. He deliberately used not drinking to allude to dad's waste.
Liu Yan knew that his son was criticizing himself for drinking. In order to discourage himself from drinking, his son did not give up every opportunity to knock on his side.
Liu Yan couldn't remember how to respond to his son. He kept a calm face and hummed angrily without saying a word.
Liu Zhigang lowered his voice and said as calmly as possible: "My salary bonus is now more than 10,000 per month on average. Six thousand dollars, only half of my monthly income, right?"
Then he turned to his mother and asked, "Mom, I heard that when my father was young, his monthly salary was only more than forty yuan, and he spent six and a half months of salary, and two hundred and sixty yuan bought you a Swiss Indag watch.
Willow leaf was a little happy, and a little proudly replied: "Of course it's true?"
Liu Zhigang immediately said loudly to Liu Yan: "You spent more than half a year's salary to buy a watch for your mother.
At that time, there were only one hundred and twenty domestic Shanghai brand watches. You say, what is your behavior? Are you part of the loser's generation? Does it belong to the Beat generation?"
Liu Yan looked as if this question was difficult to answer, so he said forcefully: "This is bought for your mother, no matter how expensive, I am willing." It's hard to buy money I'm willing. ”
Liu Zhigang went on to say: "I only spent half of my monthly income to buy a bicycle. I heard that the permanent bicycle you bought that year cost one hundred and eighty yuan and spent four and a half months of salary, how do you explain?
Do you know what you call this behavior? This is to sell the old according to the old, to take the flashlight to illuminate others and not to take care of themselves. ”
In a word, Liu Yan was speechless for a while, and he was speechless.
Willow took the opportunity to say, "Don't argue, eat!" ”
At the dinner table, Liu Zhigang took out Moutai wine again and took out his mother's favorite Daoxiangcun pastry.
Liu Yan smiled and said, "Didn't you say you were going to buy me a Farmer Spring?" How is it still Moutai wine?"
Liu Zhigang deliberately said: "As soon as you reminded me, I remembered." Tomorrow I'll sell Moutai wine and go out on the street to buy you a box of Farmer Mountain Spring?"
Liu Yan drank wine and looked at Zhigang with a smile and squinting, not speaking.
Early the next morning, Liu Yan and Liu Zhigang took all their luggage to Tibet and went to Fuxi Mountain to practice. As soon as I went out, I saw Wu Jiayi, the secretary of the Light Industry Bureau, running on the road.
Wu Jiayi was wearing a short-sleeved sportswear, running in sweat, and saw Liu Yan's father and son wearing cycling clothes, helmets, and bicycles on the other side, and did not recognize them.
Liu Yan greeted him loudly: "Secretary Wu, hello! ”
Wu Jiayi was surprised to see Liu Yan, full of sunshine, full of self-confidence smile, and was immediately moved by him.
Before Liu Yan retired, Wu Jiayi was dissatisfied with him, and it was inevitable that he would show something on his face.
He thought that after retirement, if he met him on the street, Liu Yan would definitely treat him coldly and ignore it. Who knew he was so polite.
He also smiled and asked Liu Yan where he was going. I learned that Liu Yan's father and son went out to warm up today, and set off at 7:00 a.m. on August 1 to ride a bicycle to Lhasa, Tibet.
He clasped Liu Yan's hand with both hands and wished their father and son a smooth journey.
When he was about to break up, Secretary Wu suddenly turned back to Liu Yan and said, "Director Liu, I have time to play table tennis in the bureau!" I don't have a rival in the innings now, and I want to play against you, the champion of the year. ”
Liu Yan truthfully said to Wu Jiayi: "You can find the driver Lao Huang, he plays better than me." ”
Wu Jiayi laughed and waved goodbye to Liu Yan's father and son.
After wu Jiayi went to work, he went straight to the director's office. He said to the director, "Let's cancel the proxy for the office director!" ”
The director asked incomprehensibly, "You don't want to transfer your dry son?"
Wu Jiayi also did not answer. When he first came to the Light Industry Bureau, his son was okay with him, but recently he has become more and more indifferent. Last week when he was asked to change the gas canister, he actually pushed back and said that there was no time.
He knew that the Light Industry Bureau, which had been very popular in the past, was now yesterday's yellow flower. Who would want to come to this ClearWater Gate?
He couldn't tell the director any of this.
He said to the bureau chief, "I now know why Liu Yan is a tumbler of the Six Dynasties Elders." ”
"Why?" The Director asked.
Wu Jiayi said: "This person does not have a little bit of a heart. After I took office, he was not humble to me. Didn't please me because I was secretary. Nor did I get by because I was cold to him, and it affected the work.
When I met him on the road today, of all the subordinate cadres I have ever met, including retired and non-retired, he is the one who smiles the brightest, most naturally, and most confidently. ”
The director also laughed: "You know that Lu Yao knows the horsepower, and he has seen people's hearts for a long time, right?"
Liu Yan is a person who does not feel good when he first deals with him, and the more he deals, the more reassuring he is.
It seems that those who have been soldiers have a bit of a taste of not bending and spoiling. ”
Wu Jiayi nodded, "Liu Yan set off on August 1 and rode his bicycle to Tibet. I was ready to go with the president of the union to send him off. Go if you have time! After all, he retired from the second line, or a member of our Light Industry Bureau. ”
I heard that Liu Yan set off on August 1, Qi Le wanted to find several companies to sponsor, but none of the companies believed that the nearly sixty-year-old man could ride a bicycle to Tibet, thinking that he was a karate liar.
He finally reported to Xu Fang, a reporter for the Zhongzhou Evening News, about the cycling activities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
At seven o'clock in the morning of August 1, Liu Yan's father and son came to May Fourth Square. Liu Ye, Wu Qiong, Ma Jingmin, Niu Zhenwu, Chen Jing, Zhu Caixia, Yang Tiesheng, Wang Youcai, Qi Le, and Lu Yutian all came to see them off.
What Liu Yan did not expect was that Wu Jiayi, secretary of the Light Industry Bureau, Lu Dongfang, director of the bureau, the chairman of the trade union and more than a dozen employees also came to send them off.
They opened the banner they had brought, which read: "The old have fun, the old have something to do, I wish Liu Yan a smooth ride in Tibet!" ”
Xu Fang first interviewed Liu Yan himself. When asked why he was nearly sixty years old, he still had to ride a bicycle to Lhasa.
He said: "Of the 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in the country, only Tibet I have not been to. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is mysterious and has always been a place that haunts my soul.
The Qinghai-Tibet Highway is one of the most difficult roads in the country to ride on steep slopes, thin air, and changing wind and snow.
I'm old, but I'm going to challenge myself. I will ride an ordinary bicycle and measure every inch of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway.
Sixty, I'm not too old yet, but if I'm not crazy, I'm really old. ”
Wu Jiayi wears sportswear every morning during morning exercise. Today, he wanted to make the ceremony of sending liu Yan more formal and solemn, so he wore a suit and leather shoes. There happened to be a TV station coming to interview.
When Xu Fang interviewed him, he took the microphone and said affectionately: "Comrade Liu Yan of our Light Industry Bureau, who worked hard before retiring to the second line, is a model worker of our Light Industry Bureau. He is an example and role model for all the staff of our Light Industry Bureau.
Today, he wants to set out to ride Tibet, challenge the limits of life, and appreciate the great scenery of the roof of the world.
His actions declare to the world what is physical and mental health, what is low-carbon life, what is doing something for the elderly, what is enjoying the old, what is selfless dedication, and what is singing all the way!
We wish Comrade Liu Yan a smooth journey and an early triumphant return! ”
After the farewell ceremony, Wu Qiong, Ma Jingmin, Niu Zhenwu, Yang Tiesheng, Wang Youcai, Qi Le, and Lu Yutian rode bicycles for eighteen kilometers, out of the city boundary, and only then did they reluctantly bid farewell.
The next day, the Zhongzhou Evening News and the Zhongzhou Television Station reported on the grand situation of Liu Yan's father and son's Trip to Qinghai-Tibet. Liu Yan and Liu Zhigang, father and son, became heroes of street talk for a while.