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Chapter 20: Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear

Zheng Dao put down Huai Mi. Huai Mi meowed at him dissatisfiedly, and wanted to be hugged by him. He didn't let him go and pushed his bicycle out: "The grudges of wealthy families? It's too vulgar. I love my daughter very much? It's too fake. I'm interested in my appearance and talent? I can barely say it, but it's too much. Since I can't figure it out after thinking about it, it's better not to think about it. Four words - wait for the rabbit!"

"Uncle, I'll go to Tengzhe's dumpling restaurant and I'll be back in a while."

He Buwu picked up Huai Mi who rubbed against his lap and asked for comfort, and was stunned: "You and your father are so big that they are so big that they are as small as needles, they are really not like father and son."

Why Buhuo muttered that Zheng Dao didn't hear it. He rode fast in the cool breeze of the night. After more than ten minutes, he arrived at the Yuejian Dumpling Restaurant on Gongnong Road.

Yuejian Dumpling House was originally named Teng Family Dumplings. Later, Teng Zhe's father Teng Xingguang insisted that Zheng Jian, who often came to eat, wrote the title of the Dumpling House. Zheng Dao really couldn't figure out where Teng Xingguang saw that his father could write. He had never seen his father have the talent for calligraphy when he was so old.

I don’t know if it was because of the difficulty of refusing it, or if my father, who had drunk a few taels of white wine, suddenly became interested, but he didn’t refuse. He held the pen in his hand and wrote the five big words “Yuejian Dumpling Restaurant” with a wave.

Many people don’t understand the meaning. What does “Yuejian” mean? Why is it not “Yuejian”? Zheng Dao knew that Yuejian is a Chinese herbal medicine that eliminates rheumatism and strengthens muscles and bones. As for why my father named a dumpling restaurant Yuejian, he didn’t ask, and my father didn’t explain.

The relationship between Zheng Dao and his father is not much different from that of an ordinary father-son relationship. The father and son always act more than words, and there is rarely in-depth heart-to-heart exchange. They always talk about things when they have something to do, but they are busy with each other when they have nothing to do.

It was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and the moon saw that the passenger flow of the dumpling restaurant was gradually decreasing. The two upper and lower floors of nearly 200 square meters are located in the middle of Gongnong Road, which runs through most of the Shimen in the east and west directions. As an old road, there are countless decades-old locust trees and poplar trees on both sides of Gongnong Road. Every summer and autumn, when branches and leaves are lush, Gongnong Road will become one of the few streets in Shimen with strong shade and strong atmosphere of life.

Gongnong Road has not been expanded since its establishment. Although it has been revised several times, it is only a small-scale repair. It is precisely because of this that the original big trees are preserved. The development of urban infrastructure is a good thing, but too much pursuit of wide roads and neat streets and neglecting greening will also lead to the city's illness.

Greening is the hair of the city and the lungs of the city. It plays the role of purifying the air and regulating microcirculation. As a whole, the city has similarities with the human body. There are too many tall buildings and too few bungalows. The wide road is as straight as a line, but the sides are bare, which is not coordinated and will also affect the environment. Over time, it will become a big problem.

Zheng Dao remembers that when he was a child, it often rained and snowed, and the weather was clear and fresh. In recent years, it often has no rain in summer and no snow in winter. The most recent heavy snow in my memory was also the winter when I first arrived in Shanliangzhuang 15 years ago. The half-meter-deep snow made him happy for a month.

Until now, there has been no snow for at least two or three years, no moderate snow for five or six years, and no heavy snow for more than ten years. In addition, smog weather has been coming from time to time, countless people speculate that the culprit of smog weather is industrial coal burning, automobile exhaust and straw burning. Later, an epidemic in the year of Gengzi made the experts' explanation pale and powerless.

At that time, the epidemic came suddenly, and people across the country stopped traveling and were closed at home. As a result, there was still smog weather. Some netizens joked that the factory had not started, the cars had not started, the straw was not burning, and there was still smog. Ask experts to go out and walk around and explain the reason.

If a city is compared to the human body, haze disease is a cough caused by excessive turbid air. To cure haze, you must start from the fundamental way, increase greening, reduce high-rise buildings in the center of the city, and ensure the air circulation of the city.

The amount of haze and the amount of rainfall decreases, which shows that there is an intrinsic connection between the two.

Zheng Dao likes Gongnong Road very much. Every time he walks under the green trees, he feels the freshness and gentleness in the air, and his mood will be much more relaxed.

After parking the car, Zheng Dao greeted Teng Xingguang and Shen Lan and went straight to the second floor.

Teng Xingguang and Shen Lan watched Zheng Dao grow up. In their eyes, Zheng Dao was no different from his son.

"Xiaodao is really not easy for this child. He just lost his father and picked up two children. He is still single. How can he get married in the future?" Chen Lan quickly pinched a dumpling, threw it aside, and picked up another dumpling skin. She flew up skillfully and quickly. In a blink of an eye, three or five dumplings were formed.

"Yes, or is it a man and a woman, and who would be a stepmother when he came up?" Teng Xingguang was responsible for stirring the filling. His hands were covered with blue veins and the vicissitudes of life were covered with the erosion traces left by often stirring the cold meat filling with his hands.

"Your distant niece Teng Yue has no partner yet. Although she is a little short...it seems to be only 1.55 meters tall, right? She is a little fat, how many pounds are there, right? But if you don't dislike Zheng Dao taking two children, you can match them together." Chen Lan made a plate of dumplings and handed them to the kitchen from the window, "A portion of mustard pork, and a portion of mutton carrot."

"No, Yueyue, although her conditions are average, the requirements are quite high. It must be more than 1.85 meters, and Xiaodao is only 1.8 meters. She also needs to have a house, a car, and a deposit of more than 7 digits. Her name must be added to the house. Xiaodao rents a house to ride a bicycle, and the deposit is estimated to be 3 digits. She is 5 years older than Xiaodao, and she is 30 years old this year. She still says she is not in a hurry and will definitely find a satisfactory one." Teng Xingguang's words did not affect his work, and he helped a customer serve a plate of cold dishes of peanuts, shredded tofu and cucumber.

"Wait, pick it, you'll have menopause in another 19 years." Chen Lan took a plate of cooked dumplings handed over and brought them to the table No. 2.

"What you said... is so ugly." Teng Xingguang smiled embarrassedly and rubbed his overworked wrist. "I remember to wait and take evening primrose oil capsules. I was so angry that I felt my blood lipids were high again and my arteries were hardened again."

"The medicine is here for me, dad, then." Teng Zhe poked his head out of the stairs, raised his hand and threw down a box of medicine. "I heard you arranged brother Dao, wait, and I have to talk to you carefully when I look back. It's too difficult to take care of the old people in your class. You are disobedient, have a lot of things to do, and are self-righteous."

Although the dumpling restaurant was noisy, the office on the second floor was opposite the location of Teng Xingguang and Shen Lan downstairs. The sound insulation was not good, so Zheng Dao could hear it clearly. He was nothing, but Teng Zhe was extremely embarrassed.

It is said to be an office, but it is actually the bedroom of the old couple. Usually, they will live in the store, one for convenience, two for viewing the store, and three for freeing up a house to give it to Teng Zhe for future marriage.

"Brother Dao, don't take it to their hearts. In their eyes, not getting married at the age is like an expired product that must be discounted before it can be sold. Their thoughts are too rigid and the ideas are too backward." Teng Zhe laughed, his eyes stayed away from the computer screen, and he wanted to take care of the online store business at any time.

"Why aren't you in your own store? Are you going to come here?" Zheng Dao asked Teng Zhe to meet, thinking that he would be in the dumpling restaurant he owned on Xinshizhong Road, but unexpectedly, he was in the Gongnong Road store.

Generally speaking, Teng Zhe would stay in his store and rarely come to help. In his own world, no one would chat with him. He looked at the store and made money online. He would kill the numbers in one fell swoop, so why not do it?

"I have been in Gongnong Road Store in the past week because... new situations have occurred." Teng Zhe winked and smiled, looking at the time, "At nine o'clock, there are still ten minutes left. If there is a good show, don't go away, come right away."

"By the way, Brother Dao, what are you asking for me?"

"It's not Xiao Yu's business..." Zheng Dao was a little sad. "I originally wanted to call Li Bei to join me. This guy went to practice shooting, so I'll talk to you first."

"Xiao Yu? What's wrong with her?" Teng Zhe turned around and turned out a bottle of beer, poured two glasses, "Only by drinking and chatting, you will have the inner taste."

"It's not that you dislike Li Bie and I, right? Don't, we are the spare tire at most, you are the main tire. As long as you don't have a tire blowout, we are all her brothers, responsible for protecting her and loving her."

Zheng Dao stood up and sorted out his blue T-shirt that he had been wearing for at least three years: "Better than you, humorous than Li Bie, you should tell me? I know my characteristics. Look at you who look like you are wise and Li Bie is also a magnanimous person who has been wearing fire. How can you compare to me as I am sure to have good fortune?"

He sighed deeply again, "I can tell you what I think... I used to think Xiaoyu was a sister, but after all, she was a few years younger. Now that she is growing up, she is increasingly unable to leave me, but you also know that uncle hopes that Xiaoyu will marry a rich man."

"Oh my go, Brother Dao, you're nothing. You've gotten your cards and touched yourself. You're not fooling around. Do you want others to ignite the fire before you fire it?" Teng Zhe slapped his thigh and stood up, clenching his teeth that were so angry that he couldn't be iron. "Li Bie and I have scolded you several times behind our backs. This matter has to go straight forward. Xiao Yu is getting better and better now. If you don't hold on, you'll really run away with others and have no place to cry."

Zheng Daoqi smiled: "What nonsense is that I have no house, no car, no deposit, no formal job now, and I have a pair of children. If she follows me..."

"Dog comes to wealth, cat comes to good fortune, and it is a happiness for children. What is a couple? It's not that they don't have their own child support, which is enough for you and Xiaoyu to have a lifetime of food and drink. Don't hesitate, hurry up and start. You are crying with me now, it's not authentic, Brother Dao." Teng Zhe looked at his watch and felt a little anxious, "It's time, why haven't you come yet?"

"Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are wise... People are more important to have self-knowledge, understand?" Zheng Dao laughed dryly. Teng Zhe didn't know how dangerous his situation was, and he also understood that he didn't want to implicate He Xiaoyu's thoughts, but he was not an institution after all, and he could not empathize with his inner worries.

"It's one thing to understand. It's one thing to understand. It's another thing to let go and do it! If you don't like Xiaoyu, pretend I didn't say it. If you like it, do you want to give up?" Teng Zhe's eyes suddenly straightened. He could see the door of the first floor from the stairs. "Here, come, she's here. Brother Dao, please help me see if she is my true destiny."

I'm not a matchmaker... Zheng Dao rolled his eyes in an extremely speechless and innocent way, looked down and saw a girl with long legs, thin, and dull eyes slowly coming into the door. He just took a look and held his breath...
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