Chapter 726: Those Who Are Sober Are the Most Hurt

Watching Wang Yan directing the children to pose for photos in the courtyard, several women standing together show auntie smiles; this is humanity's most authentic feedback to truth, goodness, and beauty.

Staying up late, scrolling through short videos on the phone, watching the cuteness of cute children, the affection of loving couples, the fun of interesting young couples, always unconsciously raising the corners of the mouth, smiling foolishly by oneself.

Of course, it's very sleazy, but it is always mixed with expectations for beauty.

Xu Hongdou praises: "These children are all brought up very well, especially Little Hulu, healthy and lively, smart and generous. In the future, she will definitely have a future."

Parents certainly like others to praise their children. Xie Xiaochun laughs with her big mouth open: "This little thing, she's just pretending to be a person in front of you. At home, she's a living ancestor, hard to serve. But Guobao and the others are indeed not bad. This group of little things are together all day, tearing down the house every day, hated by people and dogs, except for not studying well, they eat well, play well, and have good bodies. There's no need to have any great future, just be happy and cheerful, and be able to support themselves in the future. The society is so difficult now, putting so much pressure on children is useless, it's better to have a good body."

Nana pouts: "Look at how nicely you say it, I don't know who it is that transforms into a lioness roaring when tutoring Little Hulu with homework."

"You'll know when you have children one day." Seeming to think of that scene, Xie Xiaochun waves her hand with a look of despair. "This is like driving, no matter how good your personality is, once you sit in the driver's seat, you become irritable. Tutoring children with homework is the same, no matter how clearly you think, watching her pick her fingers, the blood pressure rises, the little rabbit cub really makes you smoke with anger."

While several people are chatting, Hu Youyu jumps out, clapping his hands and saying: "Comrades, comrades, the dishes are all ready, hurry, hurry, lend a hand, bring the dishes out, Little Hulu, you guys hurry and wash your hands."

Wang Yan smiles, very kindly: "Alright, hurry and wash your hands, we can take photos again when we have time."

"Uncle Wang, when can we see the photos?"

"Didn't I say before taking photos, I'll send them to your mom tonight, don't worry, Uncle keeps his word. Hurry and wash your hands, children need to eat more to grow their bodies, so they will look good in photos later."

Fooling the little ones, a group of people chatting and laughing, setting up tables, taking stools, carrying plates, getting drinks, a group of adults sitting at one table, and four children sitting at a separate table, looking quite like a thing.

Ma Qiushan, who is hosting, raises his glass and speaks: "Coming here for a year, knowing you friends is my luck. Thank you for your tolerance, care, and concern for me over the past year. Of course, I also want to thank Wang Laoshi for his trust; it is his investment that gives me the hope and strength to make a comeback. I also want to thank Boss Xie, who has been troubled a lot over the past year, and this time spent effort to help me plan and strategize.

I am leaving, but not leaving forever. When there is time and opportunity, I will definitely come back to visit everyone. Maybe, on the day I become big and strong, I will open a shop here, even if I lose money, I will open it. I deeply remember everyone's friendship in my heart. If there is anything I can help with in the future, just speak up, don't be polite at all.

Thousands of words cannot be said, I won't be long-winded, it's all in the wine, come, bottoms up."

The old boy is very straightforward, tilts his head and drinks a cup of white wine. Wang Yan and the others, those drinking wine, those drinking drinks, also follow and drink one. Even several children are clinking glasses like a thing.

Xie Zhiyao says: "You, you have finally recovered, you have the high spirits I knew when I first met you."

"Hehe..." Ma Qiushan tosses his small head, reaching out to stroke his hair in his signature way, "It's not working either, I'm old now, I have to admit it. I have some heart, but not much. If I fail again this time, my life will be over."

Wang Yan smiles and waves his hand: "You can't say that. Anyway, I am a shareholder. You are saying 'the teacher has not yet succeeded and the army has died,' I feel troubled listening to it. Work hard, if I didn't think highly of you, I wouldn't have invested money in you. Didn't Boss Xie also contact an investment bank for you? After the first two stores are done, maybe it will take off."

"Haha, I'm just saying that, otherwise I'm almost enough for retirement now, it's just that my heart is not dead, this is 'the old man chats about youthful madness,' it's just struggle."

Ma Qiushan laughs, "Alright, alright, don't talk about these. You and Hongdou are both what we think highly of, your fate is too great, so many people, why did you meet on the big road? This is a great fate, you must cherish it. You must notify me when you get married, I must attend."

Xu Hongdou is a bit embarrassed: "Ma Ye, you are talking too far, it's only been a few days, it hasn't reached that step yet. But don't worry, if I don't notify anyone, I can't not notify you, even if you don't come, the gift must arrive."

"A generous gift, it must be a generous gift." Ma Qiushan eats a bite of food, sighs inexplicably, "Oh, I was the first to come, Nana was the second. When I first saw her, you don't know, she didn't have a smiling face all day, I was meditating there, she was sitting there hugging her legs and daydreaming. Later, she went to work at the restaurant, working hard for three thousand yuan a month, and there was a smile on her face."

Nana smiles somewhat reluctantly: "At that time, I was just in a bad mood, staying there was boring, thinking wildly all day, the more I thought, the more uncomfortable I felt. It was Xiaochun who saw I was bored and pulled me to the restaurant to work. Money or not didn't matter, it was just much more fulfilling. I didn't expect Ma Ye to pay such close attention, I thought you didn't know anything."

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Ma Qiushan smiles like a master, pretending to be an expert: "Don't look at me meditating there all day, in fact, I see everything. You, you have to be happy. A pretty girl, you can't see her beauty with a face of sorrow, you have to smile more."

Nana smiles at Ma Qiushan, this time it is sincere. Even her eyes are a bit wet, unable to bear others' kindness and concern.

Next, Ma Qiushan looks at Hu Youyu, who is eating food in big mouthfuls: "Old Hu was the third to come to the courtyard, actually similar to Nana, also having things on his mind. But this kid, he can hide, with a dangling look as if he doesn't care about anything, in fact, in our courtyard, this kid is the most profound. He..."

Hu Youyu waves his hand, interrupting his words: "I say Old Ma, hurry and drink, look at what you are saying, are you explaining your funeral? Come, come, come, everyone drink, today, we won't return until we are drunk."

Except for the four little brats eating and drinking at another table, the atmosphere of the adults at this table is not very good. Parting is sad, plus Ma Qiushan started to use emotional knives, naturally, it is even more unhappy.

Hu Youyu can't stand this atmosphere the most, and at the same time, Ma Qiushan did hit him, the shyness of a big man went to his head, and his face was a bit red.

However, since he said so, everyone gave him face, all smiling and raising their glasses, drinking one together.

But Ma Qiushan doesn't intend to let him go. He puts down his glass, picks up a bite of food to drink with, and continues to pour wine into his glass while speaking: "Look, Old Hu is embarrassed, it's just that he has things on his mind, but he just doesn't say it, hides it himself, and is uncomfortable himself. Plus the songs he wrote are not satisfactory, and he is getting worse day by day, just living in a muddle. But it has been better recently, like a different person.

I see, it's just that Wang Laoshi came, helped him with live streaming, made videos, if someone watches, there is encouragement, if there is encouragement, there is motivation. This person, with motivation, has spirit, with spirit, the world in his eyes has changed.

If there is something, you can't always hold it in your heart. However, everyone has secrets, and many times, other people's comfort is useless. Everyone says you should look at it openly, you should be strong, it's all standing and talking without back pain, that's all not hurting on oneself. However, life must be lived, you live it sadly, and you live it happily, it's all living day by day. Old Hu, you are very good now, you must maintain it, you must move forward bravely. Don't be dangling in front of people all day, and be profound and depressed behind people, I'm afraid you will have a mental breakdown."

"Go away, you have a mental breakdown, I won't even break down." Hu Youyu smiles, "I'm really quite good, you guys, don't worry about me. You say this Old Ma is also, leaving is leaving, must be sentimental here. I see, you just didn't drink well, come Old Ma, let's have a single one, practice drinking capacity in advance, bottoms up."

Ma Qiushan is also straightforward, without a word, tilts his head and drinks.

After finishing the first two, he followed the order and talked about Da Mai: "Da Mai, you have been here for a short time, we don't have much communication. But your recent state is really good, completely different from when you came, simply one in the sky, one in the ground. Writing, I heard Wang Laoshi tell you, he is more professional than me, but I still want to say, no matter if you are writing or not, you can't close yourself off, you have to contact more people. The colorfulness of the world is not because of the strange scenery, but because of different people. You, you just lack this point.

Of course, I don't want to teach you anything, it's just a suggestion, after all, everyone has a way of living. You have been very good recently, not only coming out of the room, but also talking a lot more, and willing to communicate with people, the whole person has changed from the inside out. This is right, the flower path of life is under your feet, just walk it, persist in what you persist in, love what you love, and sooner or later you will succeed."

"Ma Ye, thank you, you are right, I just want to change myself, I just want to walk my own flower path. I toast you a glass, um, I'm done." Da Mai is a dull one, saying do it and do it. However, she is drinking beer, but the glass is a bit bigger, 'dun dun dun' and she drank a big glass.

Ma Qiushan naturally also drank one, he smiles: "You are also a pretty one, you just have to smile more."

Da Mai smiles foolishly: "Ma Ye, do you have to cut your hair when you go out of the mountains this time?"

"That's for sure, I'm starting a business again, I have to start from the beginning. Besides, a person has to be packaged, must be dressed up so that people can see at a glance that I am a business elite."

"Then you must post a selfie in the group, I really want to see what you look like with short hair."

Xie Zhiyao laughs: "Don't say, Da Mai says it like this, I can't remember what you looked like before. But it's not wrong, you were indeed an elite before. Back hair, wearing a suit, the suit is not ordinary, handmade custom, still with a vest, double-breasted, big leather shoes shiny, very stylish. This time, tidy up well, let me find the feeling of the year."

"That's it, you know how big my industry was at that time. I tell you, at that time, the best office building in Beijing, I had a floor, you just think about it."

Ma Qiushan tosses his hair again, "But you are also, you are not young anymore, and you have such a big industry, you should find a wife and have a child, right? How can you always be single?"

"Hey, I didn't talk about you, you talked about me. Everyone here, you judge, I am only over thirty, in the prime of life, handsome, loved by everyone, flowers see flowers bloom, do I need you to worry? Old Ma, you should worry about yourself. You are forty, not a young man, you should consider the descendants, your parents at home don't necessarily worry about how, still heartless."

"Get get get, neither of us talk about each other. Come come come, drink drink."

Ma Qiushan no longer talks about those sentimental things, instead talks about some things he had with Xie Zhiyao before, recalling the past, looking for the feeling of the year. Also talking about the interesting things that happened with the people in the courtyard, everyone laughing and laughing, the atmosphere became hot.

Perhaps there is some reluctance, but more is the longing for the uncertain future. Tonight's Ma Qiushan is very heroic, drinking wine very fiercely, completely not seeing the appearance of pretending to be an expert before, purely a big vulgar person.

Hu Youyu was perhaps saddened by Ma Qiushan, or perhaps he was really reluctant to part with Ma Qiushan, drinking wine not less at all, hugging Ma Qiushan and talking about brotherly friendship, a mess of nonsense.

Da Mai might be infected by the atmosphere, or perhaps she has been suppressed for too long, and is also drinking wine. It's just that her drinking capacity is not very good, two bottles of beer and she starts talking nonsense.

Nana is a good friend of Da Mai, Da Mai drinks and she also accompanies her, her drinking capacity is much larger, but there is not only one Da Mai, Ma Qiushan and Hu Youyu two are always greeting to drink, so she is also a bit too much.

Xie Zhiyao joins in, he is still very restrained, but perhaps looking at Ma Qiushan's appearance, thinking of his own past and present, actually he didn't drink much less. However, his drinking quality is not bad, and he didn't talk nonsense.

Xie Xiaochun also drank some wine, but she has children to take care of, so she withdrew halfway with the children.

The sober ones are only Wang Yan and Xu Hongdou. The two of them basically didn't talk much, only occasionally mentioned a few sentences, always smiling and listening to their stories, eating food, drinking wine, and talking small words.

Drinking until midnight, taking care of everyone returning to their rooms, the two of them consciously cleaned up the mess.

"It's not easy for everyone." Xu Hongdou sighs, "They are all quite difficult, Ma Ye's pressure is even greater, I see he is deliberately getting himself drunk."

Wang Yan smiles: "He has been brilliant after all, the taste of falling from the clouds is not good, psychologically fragile, if not handled well, they will jump off the building and seek death. But don't be affected, in this world, who doesn't have a story, who doesn't have a difficult thing? The words he said tonight, I just like that one."

"The flower path of life is under your feet, just walk it?"

"Look, this is 'heart-to-heart.' Hurry and work, this mess, it will take a while to do, sure enough, those who are sober are the most hurt..."

The next day, Ma Ye, who drank the most wine and was the drunkest, got up the earliest. This is his rare early rising, even Xu Hongdou, who had adjusted her schedule, had not woken up yet.

He didn't disturb anyone, just walked two laps in the courtyard, stood with his eyes closed for a few minutes, and then he dragged his big suitcase alone and left the Youfeng Xiaoyuan without looking back.

The pitted road paved with bluestone slabs in Yunmiao Village is the road he walked... ===== CHAPTER 727 =====