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Literary works of the last century once said: "Women are the cultural representatives of their husbands. Husbands are scarred from fighting in the mall", but wives are eager to participate in concerts, watch art exhibitions, and listen to speeches, immersing themselves in the cultural atmosphere. among."

Even if the affirmative movement has developed to this day, the dregs of the upper class are still everywhere. The hostesses of the chaebol have nothing but their social ambitions, and they are busy every day just to have a seat in the front row of the show. Serious books and movies, talking about some unknown topics, interacting with artists, museum curators, actors, and the sense of superiority of the upper class is beyond words.

But Xia Chuncao is different. She is talented, and she can fight with people in the mall without losing to any man.

She is also culturally talented herself, appreciating art with the eyes of a philosopher, rather than those arty people who just wait for their appreciation.

In his sixties, Xia Chuncao's skin is still firm, full of vitality, and radiant. When getting along with others, he is amazingly open-minded, tolerant and friendly.

Just like she wouldn't go to clear the venue when she saw the exhibition, she helped Ling Yan put on the mask in a low-key way, and said mockingly, "Emperors, old men and ordinary people have the need to appreciate beauty. What's so special about me, a Cinderella?"

When someone recognized her in the progress hall and asked her to sign a group photo, she also tried her best to cooperate and gestured for Ling Yan and Qi Siming to leave first.

On the express train, Xia Chuncao looked up at him, and simply told him that he did not support him in ending his current job.

She frowned, and then Chunhua smiled brightly, "You said you want to return to your family, I'm surprised you have this idea."

Ling Yan also smiled, "I shouldn't be surprised if you say you don't support me."

This woman is truly remarkable.

Until this moment, he suddenly felt grateful to her, grateful that no matter how dissatisfied she was with him, she never gave him the slightest bit of neglect or neglect.

"Come here, look below."

Xia Chuncao called him and asked him to look out the window.

Ling Yan leaned over, and saw the elevated high-speed railway tracks overlooking the ground, the scenery on the ground was as far as ten thousand feet away, and the huge city was like a rare city park, like a bright pearl.Among the mountains and mountains, the outlines of the traffic lines on the ground and the slow-moving vehicles can be seen vaguely.

"I know you have always traveled by bus, have you never taken such a cheap means of transportation? - Oh! Here we go! See that section of the old red carriage?"

The speed of the express train is very fast, but the red old express train carriage is still very eye-catching, like a heart lifted up in the green.

Xia Chuncao smiled naturally and explained, "That track was built more than 30 years ago. It was part of the original cheap transportation system of this smart city. Because it was the first section, it is now preserved as a ruins—we take The 'Three Generations' are still built according to the plan of more than 30 years, but it is faster and more stable than that."

Ling Yan nodded.

Xia Chuncao asked, "Do you know who built this?"

Ling Yan shook his head blankly.

Xia Chuncao smiled, as if looking at her own flesh and blood, "Silly boy, it was built by your father."

Ling Yan was stunned.

Seeing his surprised eyes, Xia Chuncao said, "You don't know that your father was the chief minister of District XXI, right? Oh, that's right, you were young, and he was already a cabinet minister when you were born. Now people mention him The achievements are all major national reforms—” She pointed outside, “This line directly connects the municipal administration, the Twin Towers, the new district, and the Blue Bay, and it also connects the water supply, power supply and smart facilities in the entire district—in fact, this This public facility lost money in the early years, the highest research and development technology, the cheapest fees, those municipal accountants think that ordinary people are not worth the tens of billions invested by the government to rebuild a new transportation system for us - your father resisted The pressure—fortunately, none of the nine chief ministers later abandoned his efforts."

Ling Yan had never heard someone mention his father in such a grateful tone.

He always heard people talking about his mother and grandfather, but few people talked about Ling Yuanshan, maybe politicians are always disliked.He didn't expect that ten years after his death, he could hear his name mentioned in such a precious and precious way, as if he was talking about a hero.

Ling Yan didn't know how to react, so he subconsciously said, "I know he promoted the construction of smart city 1.0."

Xia Chuncao: "Yes, but that's not what he did when he was a cabinet minister. It's what he did when he was the chief executive of this district. He paved roads and bridges, built complex and reliable infrastructure, and built a giant smart city-I was particularly impressed. , When I was in college, the chief, that is, your father, forced our middle and low-income families to subscribe for houses and land, and let us buy even with loans—you see, the development of our district is so balanced now, not as good as other districts. The frightening gap between the rich and the poor shows how far-sighted your father was.”

"People in this district must have scolded him when he bought the house."

"Hahaha, yes, the people who directly contacted each family were the employees of the government department. We still didn't believe it. My family went to protest outside your father's house early in the morning. Later, we found out that it was really his order that made us Everyone thought that the price of the house was going to drop, and the government was going to pour dirty water, and they almost scolded him to death."

"Can ordinary people see him directly?"

"Yes, he disclosed his address to this district on the first day of his tenure. As long as he is in District XXI, he can take half an hour to receive us every morning. Often half of the people come to him to complain, and half of them give him flowers .”

"This district has the most first-class educational resources in the whole country. Anywhere in our country, it can be said that 'capable people do practical things, and incompetent people become teachers', but in XXI district, no one dares to say that. When your father was in power, Sanli was not an elite school, and many children entered this school based on their test results, not their birth—it was really a six-year selection period, you know? Even the poor and lower class Those who come out, once successfully promoted, have a good civic spirit that is not lost to the upper class people-and it is the people who have benefited from these policies that now constitute the skeleton and soul of this region."

Ling Yan looked at her, "So you are also the beneficiary of that six years?"

"Yes, me too."

"The domestic media said that I was a slum girl who turned into the head of the US investment, but I want to say that many people of my generation in District XXI are like this-Aeneas established 'Lavigne', your father established Today's XXI District——XXI District can rank [-] years ago, and now ranks first in the country's cultural economy, doesn't that explain the problem?"

Xia Chuncao looked out the window, "It's just that when your father became famous, I was just a poor student. Although I gave him flowers, I guess he forgot about it. Later, he had a career. He went higher and higher, and I I really can’t get in touch—well, yes, your mother, we also respected her very much at the time, but at that time she was not yet a major director of the management committee, she was just a budding beauty pioneer writer.”

Ling Yan smiled, he can understand the beauty writer, but.

"Pioneering writer?—I'm sorry I don't read many of her books..."

Xia Chuncao glanced at him, as if he was a little dissatisfied with his disrespectful attitude, and said, "Everyone has no experience with children, and many concepts are of course common to you from the perspective of 30 years later, but 30 years ago they were very common. It's really deafening - let's talk about the in vitro cultivation of you two today, I know it's a cliché, even 30 years ago, this technology was available for your 'upper class' to produce a child, but it would never be a public service - A nurturing center, it is not only liberating women from the absolute reproductive role, its establishment also needs to transform the entire mechanism of child rearing, women's paid work mechanism, and rebuild the physiological mechanism of fertility with technology - say your mother is a "pioneer" , In fact, it’s not just that she came up with a systematic idea, and it’s down to the smallest details, but that she really did it.”

I don't know if it's because heroes are common and mortals are common, but Ling Yan actually doesn't care about his parents' work just like all adult children in the world treat their parents.He has always felt that children are people who will live for a long time after the death of their parents. He does not want to carry out their thoughts, imitate their lives, and continue to live with their rigid posture in this era of great changes in the world.

He has always thought that all the choices he made in this life, including the in vivo gestation he chose when he just registered, are a kind of resistance to his parents in his bones. Although he is not that boring, he resists for the sake of resistance-but this at least shows that he has a strong sense of life. Understanding, itself is different from them.

But unexpectedly, Xia Chuncao showed him another side of his parents.

She said, "Of course your mother doesn't care about the label of a pioneer, but the public gave her such an evaluation, at least it shows that she was different from the tradition at the time-people respected her for no reason-as a politician's wife, there is no Living behind the scenes as usual, she has her own career, which is even more dazzling than her husband. She is the idol of women in that era.

"My husband and I both read your mother's book, and we all acquiesce in her saying that 'the status of women is the best measure of a nation's civilization', and that 'women should also have independent economic and social contributions', so I Even if I'm a strong woman outside, my husband doesn't care that I'm "occupying the magpie's nest" and covering up his brilliance—Qi Siming may not have inherited me and his father, but the concept of gender has been deeply influenced by him for so many years. He definitely inherited it. You said it was surprising that I didn't support it just now. Actually, why should I support it?

"The idea of ​​sacrificing one's career by saying 'protect the family' has been out of business since your mother's second book—and I'm at this point myself, and I can't think of any reason why You make career sacrifices for our family - you said in an interview the other day that the cycle of life is the cycle of family, I really don't think so, the cycle of life is not just the cycle of family, your parents It gives us the possibility of a greater reincarnation."

On the side of the sinking boat, there are also thousands of sails passing by.

In front of the diseased tree is the spring of Wanmu.