Chapter 12 Section 11

Another two years passed.Wang Qiming's business is booming.With the money they earned, they bought two houses and rented them out. This matter is very profitable.The monthly rent can not only repay the bank loan for Wang Qiming on time, but also have a surplus. "I can see it," Wang Qiming said with deep understanding, "raising a house is more cost-effective than raising children. In the United States, even the best children can't teach you $80,000 a year!" In early 1986, they moved into a new home.This house is also one of the best in Queens, New York. The small red brick building stands among the lawn and seasonal flowers.

No matter how busy and tired he is, as long as he takes a look at his small building, Wang Qiming's heart will feel at ease and calm down.Home, what is home?How tired I am in the world, how tired I am, how tired I am, how tired I am, how tired I am in my heart, once I hide in this small building, these worries and fatigue will disappear immediately.Yes——this is called home. Now, Wang Qiming is already a proud young businessman. He became majestic and energetic, dealing with all kinds of people from all directions: merchants, lawyers, workers, accountants, tenants, tax officials, bank staff, community leaders, members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and all kinds of rich people.Among many important or unimportant people, he is handy and capable.He is sociable, good at speaking humorously, and does not look at people's orders, so he is very popular.

It certainly helped him in business. His business is getting better and better, bigger and bigger, and his ambition is getting bigger and bigger.But in the United States, no one accused him of this, and no one criticized him for being greedy. On the contrary, people here respected him more and liked him more because of this.This kind of respect and liking is not hypocrisy, but a sincere compliment.Not only in the Chinese circle in New York, he is the center of people's attention, even those out-and-out old beauties who have made a lot of progress in business also look at his back with envy and say: "This kid is from mainland China. , very successful; at the age of forty, he has everything. The American dream has come true in him!"

Americans worship three kinds of people: one is sports stars, two is movie stars, and three is successful businessmen. With so many people, why do they only worship these three kinds of people? To put it simply, because these three kinds of people have a common object behind them: money.These three kinds of people all have astronomical amounts of money behind them. By the way, to put it bluntly, what Americans worship is money. This is called American culture, naked money worship culture. Looking around at these achievements, Guo Yan asked Wang Qiming: "Qiming, tell me, we have everything, houses, cars, property—money, what else do we lack?"

Wang Qiming thought for a while and said, "Lack, lack is the same." "what?" "daughter." In the hall of JFK International Airport in New York, passengers passed through the customs inspection one by one and walked out one after another. Wang Qiming and Guo Yan hurried into the hall from the entrance, lest they be late. They especially remember the fear and bewilderment they felt when no one came to pick them up when they first arrived.They are afraid that their precious daughter will be neglected like when they first arrived here. They squeezed into the first row of receiving guests, looking around, searching, and looking for a girl from China, their own flesh and blood that they longed for day and night, their Ningning.

"Did you see it?" Guo Yan asked her husband. "No." Wang Qiming stretched his neck and looked in. "It's time to arrive." "Yeah, it's time to arrive." Their hearts were beating violently. Suddenly, Wang Qiming shouted loudly: "Coming! There!" Yes, it is their daughter Ningning.She has grown taller, and she is quite different from when they left Beijing.She wore a ponytail, a red sweater, and tight jeans wrapped around her legs.She has really changed, and she has become a beautiful and radiant girl. "Scream, scream," Guo Yan urged her husband.

"Ningning—! Ningning—!" Wang Qiming was calling his daughter. "Ning Ning—!" Guo Yan also shouted, "Mom is here! Mom and Dad are here!" Both of their voices trembled.They all shed tears.They all waved their hands vigorously, hoping that their daughter could see themselves soon. Saw! The daughter saw them. Ning Ning looked at his parents, smiled, and waved. "Ning Ning!" Wang Qiming was still screaming, but Guo Yan had already leaned on her husband's shoulder, sobbing.Only a few steps away, Wang Qiming stepped over the railing, rushed up, hugged his daughter, and kissed her forehead.

Guo Yan also rushed up and hugged her daughter's head. "Dad! Mom!" Ning Ning called out like this. An ordinary call from a daughter made Wang Qiming and Guo Yan burst into tears! On the way out of the airport hall, Wang Qiming and Guo Yan had one question after another: "How are you?" "Did you recognize us immediately?" "Did you have lunch on the plane?" "Do you miss Mom and Dad?" Ning Ning answered her parents' continuous questions, and looked curiously at the world's largest airport and all kinds of people. After Wang Qiming and Guo Yan had a small gap in their questions, the daughter asked the only question:

"Is this America?" "Yes, this is America," Wang Qiming replied without hesitation, "This is New York!" It is too easy to answer this question.But after answering this question, Wang Qiming stopped in his tracks.He remembered asking the same question when he got here. After leaving the airport, the three of them got into the car. Ning Ning insisted on rushing to sit in the front seat. "Dad! Is this car your own?" she asked. "Yes, it belongs to our family." "Pie enough!" "What, Ningning?" Wang Qiming asked his daughter.

"I said it's cool enough, it's really cool!" Ningning said, "If you drive this car in Beijing like this, it will knock down a lot of people, won't you, Dad?" Wang Qiming was amused by his daughter's words: "That's right, that's right!" "With a car as impressive as yours, I don't need to take a taxi anymore." "Beating?" Guo Yan asked in the back seat, "What do you mean by beating?" "Mom! You've been in New York for so many years, why don't you know what a beating is? It's just taking a taxi! "

"You are in Beijing, don't you ride a bicycle?" Wang Qiming asked her. "Riding a bicycle? What a shame!" "This kid speaks a Beijing accent!" Wang Qiming laughed again. It's not that the daughter's words are so pleasant, on a day like this, no matter what the daughter says, Wang Qiming thinks it's pleasing to the ear, and he can't help but let the smile show. Guo Yan didn't interrupt much, just sitting in the back seat, stroking her daughter's fluffy tail and hair, as if she couldn't get enough of it. Ning Ning finds everything fresh and fun. Her eyes are not enough. On the road, I am very interested in the traffic flow and high-rise buildings, and I keep asking this and that. When she got home, she went upstairs and downstairs again. She couldn't see enough in the living room and bedroom, so she touched it with her hands. Guo Yan took her upstairs, pointed to her furnished bedroom and said, "Ningning! This is your room." Who would have thought that Ning Ning pouted and said, "No, Mom, I don't want to live in this small room, I want to live in the big room downstairs." "Silly shopkeeper, that's the living room, no one can sleep." "Why can't people sleep in the living room? Why are there so many rules in the United States? I just sleep in a big room. Didn't you say that America is free? Sleep where you like, and sleep as you like!" "Okay, okay, it's my own home anyway, you can sleep wherever you like!" Wang Qiming calmed down. "Come on, tell Dad to take a good look!" He pulled his daughter to his side and looked at it carefully. Ning Ning is sixteen years old, almost as tall as Guo Yan, and slim. There was no blemish on her fair face, it was delicate and delicate.The big watery eyes are more beautiful than Guo Yan's eyes.Her breasts are already high, which adds a bit of maturity to her. "Grow up!" Wang Qiming said with emotion. The daughter looked at her father and thought it was very funny. "Let the child sleep for a while, to overcome the jet lag," Guo Yan said, "Ningning, sleep for a while." Ke Ningning didn't feel jet lag at all, nor was she tired at all. She ran out of the house alone, and inspected her new home on the lawn and among the flowers. In front of the window, Wang Qiming and Guo Yan were looking at their daughter. "Ningning, I've grown up." Wang Qiming said. "Ok." "Her personality is a bit different than before." "Why is it different?" "I also say that, anyway, she is not as docile as you." "That's like you, Ning and pouted!" Wang Qiming smiled. He loves to hear this.He felt that his daughter's personality was like his own, with strong receptivity, quick response, and disobedience. This satisfies him. "But," he said, "she will never know what we have been suffering in America these years." "certainly." "I need to talk to her." "Fuck you! Don't come back to the set of remembering bitterness and thinking sweetness," Guo Yan said, "I feel that I owe her a lot for not being by her side these few years." "Pay as much as you owe!" Wang Qiming said seriously. In order to make up for their love for Ningning, Wang Qiming and his wife can do everything they can. They are responsive to Ning Ning. For food, what is given is the most nutritious, the tastiest, and the most expensive. What to wear is the most fashionable, the best texture, and of course the most expensive. Sometimes, Wang Qiming would say something like this: "Swallow, see if you dote on Ningning too much?" Guo Yan always answers like this: "We have suffered so much, isn't it just for her happiness?" As long as she answers like this, he always has nothing to say. Wang Qiming said that he should not spoil Ning Ning too much, but in fact, he wants to spoil his daughter more than anyone else. Since Ning Ning arrived in New York, he has accompanied Ning Ning to play all weekends. Both father and son went to the amusement parks, parks and restaurants in New York. At this time, he was more generous than ever, and it could almost be said that he spent a lot of money. He felt that all this was normal and should be done. Yes, isn't it all for her that we suffer? He always thought so. Not to mention throwing away some money and time, but spending all the resources on Ning Ning, shouldn't it be due? Play undisputedly, spend money undisputedly, for nothing but a satisfied smile for my daughter. As for Ning Ning herself, she didn't think there was anything special about it, and there was nothing wrong with it. Ever since this 16-year-old girl set foot on the American territory, she has lived in a state of pampering. All material needs can be met as long as she opens her mouth. She didn't even dare to think about these in Beijing, but in the United States, she came to such a realization: the United States should be like this.All of this is natural, you don't need to use your brain to judge what should and should not be, just reach out and take it, close your eyes and enjoy it. She believes that in the United States, everyone lives like this, and everyone lives like this, which is really great!She didn't try to understand how her parents had fought and died to get this. She doesn't think about all that, so she asks for it with peace of mind, and keeps asking for it. One day, when she was having breakfast, she looked directly at Wang Qiming and said loudly, "Dad! Are you well off now?" "What to buy, tell me!" "I want to buy a sports car!" Wang Qiming was taken aback, put down the cup of milk, and asked in surprise, "What do you want to buy?" "Sports car!" "But, you don't have a driver's license yet, why buy a car?" "I can get a driver's license soon." "But why does such a big kid have his own car?" "Is this a question worth asking too? We have quite a few kids in our school who own cars!" "There are many problems in American middle schools. You have to learn the good ones, not the bad ones." "What's good and what's bad," the daughter pouted, "Don't you always say America is good? When it comes to spending money on me, why is there a problem with good and bad? " "We're not talking about the merits of a country, we're talking about buying a car, for a high school girl like you." "Yes, I just want to buy a car." "You're not old enough." "I'll be 18 soon. I'll buy the car first, and I'll drive it when I'm old!" "Wait until you're 18 to buy." "It's only a few days, let's buy it first!" Wang Qiming looked at his wife. The wife also looked at her husband with no idea. "Let's discuss and discuss." Wang Qiming said so.Of course Ning Ning understood the meaning of "discussing and discussing". She excitedly ran to her father and kissed Wang Qiming. "Father! You are so kind!" One weekend, the three of them happily went to the city to look at the car. Since it was the weekend, there was a traffic jam on the Gaohuan Highway, so they took the subway instead. Since Wang Qiming started his business, it has been more than four years and almost five years since he walked into this cold, dirty subway tunnel. They had just walked into the corner of the subway tunnel when suddenly, a Beethoven concerto for violin reached Wang Qiming's ears.How is it so kind, how is it so familiar. He pulled Ning Ning and Guo Yan along for a few steps, turned the corner, and saw the young man with long hair five years ago, still playing the piano meticulously. Wang Qiming stopped, and he recalled the past in the restaurant five years ago. "What's so interesting about this, I see him moaning here every day when I go to school, and no one pays attention to him." Ning Ning said, holding Wang Qiming's hand. There were still only a few coins in the piano case, and the performer smiled at him while pulling it, as if he recognized Wang Qiming, but also as if he didn’t know him at all, and he only smiled to beg for something. Unhurriedly, Wang Qiming took out a fifty-yuan bill from his wallet and put it in the piano case. No one could guess what his motives were. Guo Yan opened his eyes wide and watched his every move. move. Ning Ningjue scolded behind him with a small mouth: "Psychopathy!" Wang Qiming put down the money and walked away quickly with the two of them. The sound of the piano behind him stopped.And there was an exclamation: "MyGod, today is my lucky day (My God, today is my lucky day)!" At a Chevrolet dealership, they selected a black 1986 sports car. "Why did you choose black?" Wang Qiming asked, frowning. "Black is good," Ning Ning argued, "Black has style!" "I really don't know what kindness is!" Wang Qiming walked to the manager's office of the car shop talking to himself, paid the money, completed the formalities, and picked up the car 20 days later. Walking out of the car shop, Ning Ning said she was hungry, so they walked into a famous seafood shop. The restaurant was almost bare and dimly lit, and the customers and waiters came and went furtively.The dining table and chairs are nailed together with logs. It was uncomfortable to sit on.There is no decoration on the walls, red bricks and blue bricks are exposed, just a few wooden boards with wood grain showing, and a few fish and shrimps on the boards that seem to be drawn by children. "Why did you come to such a place?" Guo Yan couldn't help but said, "It's a dark place." "Mom! Do you know? It's called sentimentality. This is the most popular and fashionable thing right now!" Ning Ning knows very well what's in fashion in America today and what's not. "What kind of mood is this?" Wang Qiming asked his daughter shamelessly. "Raw, Rough, Wild!" "Oh!" In order not to disappoint his daughter, he replied calmly. "Yo, Dad! How come you don't understand that, you're a fashion designer?" Ning Ning said, "If you also embody primitiveness, roughness and wildness in your clothing design, you must be popular!" Wang Qiming laughed: "The primitive people don't wear clothes, what should I design?" "Wow, Dad! You mean to hurt me." Wang Qiming patted his daughter's face. The daughter twisted her upper body coquettishly. "Ning Ning," Guo Yan couldn't help asking, "Where did you learn your tricks?" "Where? America!" "America? I have been here with your father for so many years, and I haven't learned so much from you!" "You are old and dull." The speaker of Ning Ning had no intention of speaking, Wang Qiming and Guo Yan looked at each other after hearing this.See if it's really old. Is it old? Wang Qiming secretly asked himself in his heart. Maybe, it's not that I'm old, but my daughter is too young? Under the dim light, he looked at his daughter.It was strange, although the light was dim, but he seemed to see his daughter more clearly and clearly, even more clearly than he could see under the sunlight. Ning Ning is too smart, if she is not guided well, something may happen. She has only been in the United States for a few days, but she has adapted quickly, especially the language. In just half a year, Ning Ning has completely passed the English test. She also likes to watch TV, so her pronunciation is accurate and pleasant, and she has a New York accent.What gave Wang Qiming a headache was that she also accumulated a lot of swear words without a teacher. The waiter stepped forward, and Ning Ning ordered three lobsters, two oysters, two dozen green oysters, and champagne before the meal. Wang Qiming said to his daughter: "Ning Ning, you are really quick to learn. However, in the United States, it depends on your ability. You have to go to college next month. How are you preparing for G.E.D. ?" "Don't mention this tonight." Ningning took a sip of champagne, and interrupted her father bluntly. "Why can't it be mentioned tonight?" Guo Yan asked. "Tonight is the weekend!" "I see you are a weekend every day!" Wang Qiming said to his daughter. "Stop talking, Qiming," Guo Yan said, "Today is indeed the weekend!" When the lobster came up, Ning Ning was very good at shaving. "Mom, no, it has to be like this!" Ningning ate by herself while being her mother's coach. Wang Qiming took a sip of his wine and wanted to stop talking about the standard exams before college, but seeing his daughter Americanized so quickly, he was always very disturbed. He couldn't help but say: "Ningning, when you come to the United States, the days are still young. You have to know that when we Chinese come to the United States, we can't learn everything. We still have to maintain our good traditions..." What he said was so dull and flat that even Wang Qiming felt that what he said was like a branch secretary. "Hey, hey," Ning Ning couldn't help laughing while peeling the lobster, "I really didn't know, but you can also hear the presentation in the United States!" "Okay, it's the big weekend," Guo Yan advised Wang Qiming, "don't keep telling your kids these big things." "It's not a big truth or a small truth," Wang Qiming said, "but there is such a truth. We Chinese, even if we want to become Americans, we cannot change.Do you believe it or not? " Ningning put down the knife and fork, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and put her arms on the table. "Dad, I really don't understand. When I first arrived in the United States, you thought I was stupid and ignorant, so let me follow up and adapt to the United States quickly. You let me watch more TV, answer the phone more, and pay more to the United States. friend. right?" "Yes. There is." "But now, you want me again, don't learn this, don't learn that, keep the Chinese character. Keep the Chinese character, can I just stay in Beijing honestly? What are you doing in New York? I don't understand , What kind of person do you want me to be? American? Chinese? Chinese-style American? American-style Chinese?” Wang Qiming couldn't answer this question.To be honest, he himself didn't understand what kind of person he should be.For his daughter, even he himself is contradictory. When the child didn't come, he hoped that she would come soon.When she came, I was afraid that she would not adapt, and rewarded her to enter American society as soon as possible.But when she really entered American society, he was afraid again, afraid that she would imitate the bad, and wanted to pull her out. How to tell the child? "That's right," he swallowed his wine, "I think family values, ethics and morals are better in China. What I mean is that you should have your own opinions and stick to what you should stick to." "Of course I have my own ideas." "I'm afraid of you...afraid of you..." "What are you afraid of me?" "Losing!" "What's wrong with you?" "Eat the girl's loss." "Hmph," Ning Ning sneered, "your concerns are too Chinese." "What does Americanization look like?" Wang Qiming asked closely. "You're an old bastard!" "Ning Ning!" Guo Yan stopped Ning Ning's words, "You can't talk to Dad like that!" At this time, the singing of "Happy Birthday to You" came from the other end of the restaurant. I don't know which guest's birthday it was, the band in the restaurant played this tune.All the customers sang the song. The three of them also clapped their hands and sang together with everyone. The singing interrupted a discussion that had threatened to turn into an argument.As soon as the singing stopped, Ning Ning put both hands on the back of Guo Yan's. "Mom! Next week, my birthday." "I can't forget." "What gift for me?" "what would you like?" "I need to……" "what?" "...a dog." "No!" Guo Yan insisted on her refusal. "Absolutely not!" "I want a dog!" "I can stay away from you." "I want a dog!" Ning Ning insisted loudly, "I'm the only one at home when you go to work, I'm so bored!" "Keeping a dog is a hassle, food and drink, sick and have to see a doctor, who cares?" "I'm in charge! I'm in charge!" Wang Qiming watched the quarrel between the mother and daughter, and suddenly a thought arose, and he continued: "Ningning! I'll buy you a dog!" "Get up!" Guo Yan stared at him. "I'll buy it for Ningning, she really needs it." "Dad! You're such a good dad!" Saying that, Ning Ning kissed him on the cheek. After returning home, Guo Yan complained that Wang Qiming was too spoiled for her daughter.Wang Qiming said to his wife: "There is a dog at home, so she has to run home after school, so she doesn't run around all the time." "That's right." Guo Yan said.