The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 393: Grab it with both hands!
Various thoughts came and went in Lou Xiao'e's mind like the tides, and finally her eyes fixed on her father's face.

Fortunately, although his father's face didn't look good, it didn't look bad either. In other words, he should be satisfied with Dafei? ?
Lou Zhenhua ignored his daughter's scrutiny and just waved his hand, signaling everyone to go to the restaurant for dinner.

The situation has become increasingly tense in recent years, and the Lou family has already dismissed all the servants. Most of the time, the housework is done by Song Xiaofei and Tan Yali themselves.

But when it comes to important occasions or when we need to entertain guests, we will still invite a special chef to come and cook the food.

When the group arrived at the restaurant, they saw a chef about 1.7 meters tall with a traitor's hairstyle placing the last dish on the table.

"Master He, are the dishes ready? Thank you for your hard work." Tan Yali thanked politely.

"Well, you're too polite. Isn't this what a cook does? Auntie, have your distinguished guests arrived?" Sha Zhu often came to the Lou family to cook and was semi-acquaintance with Tan Yali and her husband.

He turned his head with a smile, and when he saw the people next to Lou Zhenhua, he was slightly stunned.

It’s actually Dafei? ? The distinguished guest that Lou’s family entertained today is actually Dafei? ? ?
In fact, although Zhang Shenfei has been in college for more than two years, he is a transferred student and his work relationship is still in the steel rolling mill.

As the deputy director of a steel rolling mill, it was understandable that he was invited to a banquet by Lou Zhenhua, the former shareholder of the mill.

But the problem is, the problem is that today when Lou Zhenhua was cutting vegetables in the kitchen, he "accidentally" overheard the quarrel between his son and daughter-in-law.

It seems, it seems that the Lou family is going to host a banquet for their future son-in-law today!!!

But, but Dafei has been married for a long time and even has a child! ! ! ! Can he still be someone’s prospective son-in-law after becoming a father? ?
This, this is too messy, too messy!! Do the superiors play so wildly? ? ?
Sha Zhu only felt his head buzzing, just like when he was punched on the head by Zhang Shenfei many years ago and was suffering from severe lack of oxygen.

For a moment, the faces of Tian Xiaozao, Zhang Weidong, Grandma Zhang, Tang Danniu, Zhang Shunsui, and even He Yushui flashed through his mind one after another.

Did Zao'er know about Da Fei and Lou Xiao'e's affair? If he didn't know, should he tell on them? If he did, he would be sorry for his brother, but if he didn't, he would be sorry for his neighbor Tian Xiaozao, who had grown up with him since childhood...

At this moment, Sha Zhu felt caught in a dilemma and regretted coming to the Lou's house to cook today.

Compared to the confused Sha Zhu, Zhang Shenfei seemed much calmer and even took the initiative to greet him.

"Silly Zhu, are you cooking today? I'm in for a treat. I've been busy lately and haven't eaten your cooking for a while. I really miss it."

"Ah, oh, yeah." Sha Zhu's thoughts were in a mess and he agreed randomly, but his eyes were always on Zhang Shenfei and Lou Xiao'e.

Seeing this, Song Xiaofei couldn't help but ask curiously: "Comrade Zhang Shenfei, do you know Master He?"

"More than just knowing each other, we grew up in the same yard and are real childhood friends..." Zhang Shenfei said with a smile.

"That's a coincidence. No one here is a stranger." Tan Yali also said with a smile, "Although Master He is young, he is an expert at cooking Tan's cuisine. I dare say that among all the chefs in the whole city who can cook Tan's cuisine, except for his father He Daqing, he is the best chef."

Lou Zhenhua no longer had the serious expression he had in the study on the second floor. Instead, he said briskly, "Your Aunt Tan is an expert in Tan's cuisine. She has tasted the dishes of all the Tan's chefs in the city. If she says it's good, then it's really good."

Zhang Shenfei was slightly surprised when he heard this. Unlike Shandong cuisine, which is the most popular and has the widest audience in the city, Tan cuisine is a genuine official cuisine.

Tan Family Cuisine is the family banquet of Tan Zongjun, a bureaucrat in the late Qing Dynasty. Because he was the second place in the imperial examination in the 13th year of the Tongzhi reign, it is also called "Bangyan Cuisine".

The cooking methods of Tan's cuisine mainly involve roasting, stewing, simmering, roasting and steaming. Tan's cuisine is "excellent at preserving dried goods" and "expert in cooking the eight delicacies of the sea with high heat in high broth", and the ingredients used are dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

Such dishes are destined to be heard of by many people but eaten by few people. Those who have eaten and tasted them are either rich or noble.

Although the Lou family is a big capitalist, they claim to have tasted all the works of the descendants of the Tan family. If this is not an exaggeration, then there must be other reasons.

After hearing what Lou Zhenhua said, and remembering that Tan Yali also happened to have the last name Tan, Zhang Shenfei couldn't help but look at Tan Yali a few more times.

But this was just a small episode and he didn't take it to heart. After Zhang Shenfei exchanged a few words with Sha Zhu, the group sat at the round table according to the rules at Lou Zhenhua's request.

Zhang Shenfei took a quick glance and saw all kinds of delicacies from land and sea on the table.

It must be said that although the Lou family does not have a high political status and usually behaves very timidly, when the door is closed, their living standard is ahead of 99% of the people of this era.

The business had been discussed before, and now it was just time to eat. Lou Zhenhua ate and occasionally asked Zhang Shenfei about his studies and work. Zhang Shenfei answered one by one and toasted him in the middle. The atmosphere between the two seemed very harmonious.

Lou Xiaofeng, who was standing by, couldn't help but wonder in his heart that Zhang Shenfei must have agreed to divorce his wife and was preparing to join the Lou family as a son-in-law.

What the hell? He was so proud at the beginning, but in the end he still succumbed to wealth? It seems that my sister's vision is not very good. She found such a man.

Before, Ezi looked down on her for finding a mistress. Wasn't the man she found herself also a traitor? ? After thinking about it this way, when she looked at Zhang Shenfei again, a hint of contempt flashed in her eyes.

When he looked at his younger sister Lou Xiao'e, he even had a kind of mocking expression on his face, saying "Your taste is just like this."

Zhang Shenfei noticed the other person's gaze, but he didn't care at all. He was just a clown, and it was a waste of time to bother with him.

A man who can't share the worries of his parents and can't protect his wife and children, is still driving around at such a late hour. He has no sense of crisis at all and doesn't even know how to be low-key.

Seeing his look, Zhang Shenfei understood why Lou Xiao'e became the leader of the Lou family after they moved to Gangcheng.

If such a waste were born in a peaceful era, even though he would ruin his family's fortune, he could still live a stable life.

But if I were born in troubled times, not only would I not be able to recover, but I might even bring disaster to my family...

Although the atmosphere was a bit weird, the meal was quite harmonious. After everyone put down their chopsticks and moved back to the living room, Song Xiaofei brought tea and snacks, arranged them one by one, and then sat down again.

The Lou family seems to have a rule that young people are not allowed to interrupt during meals.

Now that they had finally left the dining table, Lou Xiao'e felt relieved and looked at Lou Zhenhua eagerly. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes already expressed thousands of words.

Lou Zhenhua noticed her gaze, but this time he did not avoid it. Instead, he cleared his throat and asked Song Xiaofei to sit down. Then he spoke in a deep voice and said that he had agreed to Zhang Shenfei and Lou Xiaoe's relationship.

then,

Without waiting for Lou Xiao'e to show any joy, he immediately added, "Although Dad agrees that you two can date, you are still a student and still young. So Zhang Shenfei and I made an agreement that you two can only get married after at least five years."

Five years?? !!
Everyone present immediately had different expressions. Tan Yali knew that Zhang Shenfei was married and had children. After hearing this, she thought that Lou Zhenhua had given Zhang Shenfei some time to buffer his divorce.

Although I felt that five years was too long, I also thought that no matter what, this matter finally had a result, and as long as my daughter could have a good home, it would be good. As for the process in between, I could just ignore it.

As a man, sometimes it is inevitable to take a detour, as long as the final choice is correct, it's fine. You can't always hold on to people's little braids, right?
Lou Xiaofeng had no idea what his father was up to.

With a big tree behind him, he needs support, hoping to rely on Zhang Shenfei in the future, and he also needs to prepare a retreat to Hong Kong City. Is this a trick of having three burrows? He is wavering in three directions. Isn't this a complete fence-sitter? ?

It would be fine if you were just a fence-sitter.

But the problem is that Lou Xiao'e is not married to Zhang Shenfei now, does the Lou family still need to fully support Zhang Shenfei? Lou Xiaofeng couldn't make up his mind, and he didn't dare to ask questions now to offend his father, so he planned to go to the study in person to ask after Zhang Shenfei left.

Compared to the Lou family members who had different expressions, Song Xiaofei seemed much calmer.

Song Xiaofei kept her head down and didn't say a word. In her opinion, these things in the Lou family had nothing to do with her. She told herself that she should not listen, look or ask. As long as she could protect herself, everything else had nothing to do with her.

Although she warned herself like this in her heart, she thought about the fact that she had been married to the Lou family for many years and Lou Xiao'e had always been consistent in her attitude towards her. So after some thought, she couldn't bear it after all, so she looked at Lou Xiao'e and gave her an encouraging smile.

But Lou Xiao'e pouted: "Dad, Dafei is already 27 this year. If you ask us to get married in five years, wouldn't that force him to be 32 years old?? He will be laughed at!"

Nowadays, it’s rare to be unmarried at the age of 25, let alone 32.

If she really let Zhang Shenfei wait until he was over 30, wouldn't people laugh at him for being an old bachelor who couldn't find a wife? ? How could she bear to watch Zhang Shenfei suffer such humiliation?
Hearing that his daughter was only thinking about Zhang Shenfei and not considering herself at all, Lou Zhenhua felt extremely upset.

Are girls really extroverts? ? ! ! She hasn’t even gotten married yet, but she only has men in her heart… Is this still the little cotton-padded jacket that I have raised for twenty years? ? ?

He didn't want to be misunderstood by his daughter, but the matter was complicated and he couldn't really tell Lou Xiao'e all the reasons.

Helplessly, he could only exert his fatherly authority and tell Lou Xiao'e that if she wanted to be with Zhang Shenfei, there was no room for negotiation on this matter.

"Five years, not a day less!!"

"Dad, you are hegemonic! This is wrong! You are reversing history!!!" After Lou Xiao'e yelled angrily, she turned around and ran out. Seeing this, Zhang Shenfei immediately followed.

……

After finally coaxing Lou Xiao'e, Zhang Shenfei took her back to Lou's house. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

After saying goodbye to everyone in the Lou family, he pushed his bicycle out of the Lou family villa.

As soon as I turned the corner, I saw a person leaning against the wall, his hands on his sleeves, his head down, as if he was... taking a nap? ?
"Shazhu, why are you showing off here so late at night instead of going home?" Zhang Shenfei shouted, shocking Shazhu so much that he shivered.

"Brother Dafei, oh no, uncle, you finally come out. I've been waiting for you for a long time." He rubbed his sleepy eyes and muttered.

Zhang Shenfei seemed to have guessed that Sha Zhu would be waiting for him here, so he was not surprised at all by his words.

After hearing what he said, she pushed her bicycle forward and said, "It's so cold... Let's go and find a warm place to have a drink. We can talk about anything when we get there."

"Hey!!" Sha Zhu hurriedly caught up and took the initiative to help Zhang Shenfei push the bicycle.

Ten minutes later, the two sat in a pub near Lou's house.

Sijiucheng Tavern is similar to the bars of later times, and it is always open until 12 o'clock at night. But the economy has been bad in recent years, and few people go out to drink due to the planned economy.

It was just past nine o'clock and there were not many people in the pub. Only at a table in the corner, a man was drinking alone and seemed to be drunk.

Ignoring Sha Zhu, Zhang Shenfei sat down first and shouted to the waiter at the counter, "Give me 4 liang of Erguotou, one serving of rice noodle sausage, and one serving of pickled vegetables."

Because it had long been state-owned, the waiter's attitude was very casual. He gave them a look, yawned, took a small wine pot, poured two spoonfuls of wine from a large wine jar next to it, and slowly took two plates of side dishes from the glass counter, put them on a tray, and brought them over.

After the food and drinks were served, before they turned around and left, some murmurs floated out, and they didn't seem to care whether the guests would hear them. "Why are you drinking so late at night? You're showing off."

After saying that, he ran straight to the counter and dozed off.

Seeing this, Sha Zhu couldn't help but complain: "Hey, his attitude is even worse than when we were in the cafeteria. If it was in our steel mill cafeteria, the workers would have dragged him to the small warehouse and beat him up."

Zhang Shenfei smiled: "Oh, you are quite self-aware. I guess you also know that your canteen has a bad reputation among the workers."

"Well, tell us what we are doing, tell us about yourself, Brother Dafei. What happened today?" Sha Zhu said as he took the wine jug and poured a glass of wine for Zhang Shenfei first, and then poured a glass for himself.

Zhang Shenfei didn't touch the wine glass, but first pinched a piece of rice noodle into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, then said: "What's going on?"

Sha Zhu was anxious: "Yes, it's you and Lou Xiao'e, the two of you?"

He was too embarrassed to continue, so he simply stretched out his two index fingers and bent them together a few times.

"That's it!! Isn't it??"

Zhang Shenfei looked at him with a smile: "So what if it is? So what if it isn't? You, He Yuzhu, are going to go to the Security Department and report me for my bad behavior? Say I'm a slut? Are you going to take me to target practice???"

"How is that possible!" Sha Zhu seemed a little angry, his face flushed, "Brother Da Fei, how could you think of me like that? Am I, He Yuzhu, that kind of person?"

"Don't worry, I know you are not." Zhang Shenfei comforted him.

Sha Zhu asked again: "Do you really want to divorce Tian Xiaozao and marry Lou Xiao'e?"

Zhang Shenfei asked back: "Do you think I should do this?"

"Of course not! Men in our city can't do such a thing!" Sha Zhu became even more anxious, "If you really dare to abandon Director Tian, ​​I will, I will, I will look down on you."

(End of this chapter)