put on a show

When the day came, Secretary Zhang came to pick Xing Pei up in person.Xing Pei didn't want to go at first, and didn't want to continue those meaningless quarrels, but Pei Qing still persuaded him to listen to what his father had to say.So when Secretary Zhang came to pick up Xing Pei, Xing Pei insisted that Pei Qing go with him.

Secretary Zhang was very embarrassed. He had heard more or less what happened in the hospital last time.While listening to the little nurse gossip about him, he gasped, he really didn't realize that Pei Qing, who is so gentle and gentle, was actually this kind of hero.

"Don't let Lao Pei come with me, you can go back and tell my dad that I have nothing to say to him."

Xing Pei's words made Secretary Zhang look like a bitter melon, and turned to call Xing Shangrong.Probably Xing Shangrong was furious on the phone, Secretary Zhang put the phone away a little bit, persuaded, and smiled along with a frowning face.After talking for a while, he finally turned around and said, "Let's go."

After getting into the car, Xing Peicai asked, "Where are you taking us?"

"Go to the boss's factory in the west of the city."

"What are you doing there?"

Secretary Zhang turned around and said with a smile, "It was too late to show the client yesterday, and Mr. Xing lives in the factory."

The car drove for more than two hours before arriving at the factory in the western suburbs of the city.From a distance, I saw a large factory building with white walls and blue roofs. Before I got to the place, I saw the erected brand name - Shangrong Auto Glass Co., Ltd.

Pei Qing also casually asked: "How much land does this factory occupy?"

"It's about two hundred acres. This factory is considered small. The land in the first-tier cities is tight, and the government does not approve industrial land. There are more than a dozen such factories in the country, all of which are larger than this one. The south is our main production base. Overseas ten Several countries also have factories invested by us.”

Secretary Zhang enthusiastically introduced, changed his usual submissiveness, and spoke with a very proud tone when he said these words.

His car was still some distance away from the gate. The sharp-eyed security guard at the gate recognized that it was the boss's car and hurriedly opened the gate.Enter through two iron gates, one of which is a spacious eight-lane lane.Secretary Zhang introduced himself: "Usually the goods are shipped from here, they are all pulled by big trucks, and the space is wide."

Not far after entering, I saw Xing Shangrong waiting at the gate of the factory building.He was a big, well-built man, wearing blue overalls from the factory and a hard hat on his head. He stood there like a foreman rather than a director of a group worth tens of billions.

When the three approached, he didn't say anything, and handed the hard hat he had prepared to Xing Pei.Xing Pei took a look at the hat, put it under his nose and smelled it.

Xing Shangrong said: "The new one, put it on and follow me."

Xing Pei put it on and followed behind his father.

Secretary Zhang hurried to find a new hard hat for Pei Qing, asked him to put it on, and led him to follow behind Xing Shangrong and his son.

Xing Shangrong led Xing Pei to visit each workshop and introduced to him the process of glass production, which ones are mechanized, which ones require pure manual processing, which ones are their company's patents, and which technologies have not reached the world-class level.Xing Pei followed beside him, listening with little interest.

I still remember the last time I visited his father's factory, and his mother brought him here when he was in elementary school.In my unclear memory, the factory building is very spacious, but it is dirty everywhere, and some roads across the factory area have not yet been paved with cement.What impressed me the most was that the truck pulling the goods drove by and threw the yellow sand on his face.The current factory area is clean and tidy, with rows of machines and assembly lines, as well as workers in uniform and orderly clothes.

Even if he wasn't interested, from this change, he could see the hard work his father had put into it. This kind of achievement alone was a little moving.Xing Pei probably also understood a little bit why his achievements seemed so insignificant in his father's eyes.

The workers thought it was the boss bringing the partners to visit the factory. Every time they passed a production line, the workers on the line greeted them warmly, but Xing Shangrong just waved them to shut up.There were also young female employees who recognized Xing Pei and made short and surprised sounds.Secretary Zhang, who followed behind, stared and accused the unruly people in a low voice.But as soon as a few people passed by, the girls began to discuss. It was said that the big star Xing Pei and their boss Xing Shangrong had the same surname, and the relationship between them was also guessed.

After turning around for almost an hour, Xing Pei thought that this factory area might have to turn to night, so he simply said, "I'm really not interested in your factory."

Xing Shangrong didn't say anything, nor was he angry, he stubbornly took him to see the last production line, the neatly stacked finished products were being sent to the warehouse by a conveyor belt, and then brought Xing Pei into his office.Pei Qing and Secretary Zhang followed here, and Secretary Zhang said, "Let's go, I'll treat you to a cup of coffee first."

"Is there a coffee shop in the factory area?"

Secretary Zhang laughed: "That's not true. There are many young people in our factory. Mr. Xing has considered their needs. There are chain coffee shops, fried chicken burgers, etc., here."

Pei Qing also smiled approvingly, thinking to himself, if Mr. Xing could consider Xing Pei so much, it wouldn't be like this now.

The office in the factory area is quite simple, with only a desk, a few chairs, a sofa, and a folded quilt on the sofa. This is probably where Secretary Zhang said his father slept last night.

There is a plaque hanging behind the desk, with the four characters "Heaven rewards those who work hard" written in flamboyant fashion.There are some documents, a teacup, and a small photo frame on the desk.The surface of the leather photo frame was worn out, and inside was a small yellowed photo of their family of three.Xing Shangrong sat on a chair in the living room of the old house, holding his mother in one hand and Xing Pei sitting on his lap in the other. Xing Pei was only three or four years old at that time.His mother looked unhappy as usual, but Xing Shangrong smiled happily, showing a full mouth of teeth. In Xing Pei's impression, he had never seen his father smile like this.

Having talked too much just now, Xing Shangrong took a big sip of the cold tea on the table, and then asked Xing Pei, "Would you like something to drink? There are mineral water and Coke."

"Coke."

Xing Shangrong opened a row of cabinets behind him, and there was a small refrigerator in one of them. He touched a can of coke at room temperature and handed it to Xing Pei: "It's cold, no electricity. Sit whatever you want."

Xing Pei casually found a chair and sat down, opened the Coke, and drank it in small sips.

When he first saw the photo on the desk, Xing Pei wondered if his father had put it on purpose when he knew he was coming, but after a closer look, it didn't look like there was dust that couldn't be wiped off at the joint between the cowhide frame and the plastic film. Just put it up.He thought about it carefully. When he came home last Spring Festival, the one-meter-wide wedding photo of his parents had been hanging there behind the sofa in the living room. The man behind the head.

Xing Pei drank the rest of the Coke in one gulp, crushed the can and threw it into the trash can, looking at his father: "Don't you want to tell me about you and my mother? Tell me."

Xing Shangrong picked up his teacup again, drank a cup of cold tea, coughed slowly twice, and finally said very reluctantly and with difficulty: "Xing Pei, your mother and I are not because I don't love her, but because she loves her." not love me."

When Xing Shangrong said this, the man in his 50s was as sad and wronged as a middle school student.

He said: "All these years, your mother has never, never loved me."

The hardest thing to say, once said, everything becomes a lot easier.

"Your mother and I are college classmates. She is very beautiful and is the class flower of our grade. She is also the monitor of our class. I was the party secretary at the time, and we often do things together in class activities. I was also good-looking when I was young. My classmate She coaxed us in private. I know she doesn't mean that to me, but I really like her."

"I chased her once, but she didn't agree at the time. She said she had congenital heart disease and was afraid of dragging me down. How could she care about these things when she was young, but she always disagreed. She was about to graduate at that time, and everyone didn't know about the job assignment after graduation. Where will it be assigned, I think she should also have scruples about these, so she had to give up."

"I was assigned to a glass-making state-owned enterprise as a salesman, and I became the deputy director in two years. Later, I saw your mother again at a dinner with the cooperative enterprise. I thought it was our fate. After contacting her for a while, I confessed to her again, and this time she agreed."

"Then I met my parents. We got engaged in half a year, and we got married at the end of the year. Everything went smoothly like a dream. At first, I felt that she was a little cold towards me. I thought she was a woman, and I didn't hear that she had made friends before. I thought She is shy, it will be better if it takes a long time."

"Her illness cost a lot of money. As a deputy director, the salary was not enough for her to recuperate, so I came out and worked on my own. Opening a factory was difficult and busy at the beginning. She was cold to me, and I I think it was because I was too busy to neglect her first. I tried my best to spend time with her, and let her quit her job to recuperate at home, and brought her to be with me. The factory is getting smoother and smoother, and she has always been like that , I talked to her twice, and she said that's just how she is."

"Later she was pregnant with you. Your grandparents and I advised her not to give birth to you because of her illness. It was too dangerous, but she disagreed and insisted on risking her life to give birth to you. I found out later that it was her who gave birth to you. My compensation...you are her compensation to me. "

When Xing Shangrong said this, he didn't know what he thought of, and his eye circles were a little red.He murmured: "I chose her myself, even if she doesn't love me, I don't need any compensation from her."

"After giving birth to you, her health became worse, but the company started to improve. I sent her to the best hospital and pulled her back from critical illness several times. I think since it is so painful, let's get a divorce. The company will give her half of it, which is enough for her to live and treat illnesses. But your mother disagrees. She said that she has you and doesn’t want to give you an incomplete family. She asked me to focus on my career, and she will take care of it. You, cultivate you well."

"Later, her health became worse and worse. She said that she wanted to go to the United States and send you to the United States to study, so that you can enter the top schools in the world. I think the medical level in the United States is better, and it may allow her to live well."

Xing Shangrong broke down in tears when he said this.It was the first time for such a tough man to reveal his deepest pain and regret in front of others, in front of his son.He was helpless and ashamed, but he was also in pain. When the abscess that had been pierced for years would still bring fresh pain.

"Xiao Pei, it's dad who's sorry for you, I'm afraid to face your mother, I'm afraid to go home, I'm a deserter, you haven't enjoyed father's love since childhood."