Picking mulberries

"I haven't seen Dad for more than two months," Cui Dongxu pretended to be casual, "When did he find me?"

"No," Shen Xiuping sighed involuntarily, "Didn't you want to build a small experimental site? I mentioned it to your father, but he didn't object much. It seems that he wants to support you."

"Let's forget about it. Didn't Dad always object to me doing those flowers and plants? In his eyes, they are all worthless businesses. Anyway, the school also has a practice farm, and there are many opportunities to practice in the country's crop fields." Cui Dongxu had no hope for the things he had casually mentioned.

"Your father has a lot of friends, and he can get vegetable plots in the suburbs. If he wants to, don't shirk it. Having your own experimental field is also convenient for doing research and improving your professional level. Our family lives well. To get rich, but rely on your father's profit-seeking business to come, this should be put aside in the past, the status is very low, no profiteering and no business. Fortunately, you are different, you are studying agricultural technology, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people , to me, having a son like you is quite honorable, and he will have a great future. Don't care about your father and second aunt's eyes. Great, I am so proud of you."

"Oh..., really, I'm so embarrassed to say it, is it so noble?" Cui Dongxu couldn't help laughing, "Dad doesn't like to see my major the most. Didn't I say in high school that if I fail the exam? In his eyes, if I can’t do business, at least I have to be a star or something to look good.”

"Why is it not noble? If there are more talents like my son, the country will not be rich and powerful. Those stars, showing their heads and grandstanding are beautiful, like your father, those rich masters who have two money. They are very ostentatious, but people like them are also the most empty and boring. One type is the master who entertains people after dinner, and the other type is the slave who is kidnapped by money. The value of life is not as high as that of you who benefit the people. Although your mother is studying Not much, but there are still many things to see, the journey they have taken is not as fulfilling and meaningful as yours now." Shen Xiuping praised her son one by one.

"Hedgehogs think their sons are docile and well-behaved, and tortoises think their children are as beautiful as angels. Mom is protecting their weaknesses." Cui Dongxu said with a chuckle.

"Smelly boy, I'm going to kill your mother," Shen Xiuping patted her son's back with a smile, "Didn't you say that the school has an experimental farm, why do you want to go to the countryside to practice?"

"Well, there will be an event next month."

"Where should I go? Is it far? How many days?" My son rarely left his side since he was a child. Even when he was in college, he often went home to stay every weekend. When he heard that he was going to practice in the countryside, Shen Xiuping couldn't bear it. I couldn't help asking a few more questions.

"Go there on the same day and return on the same day. It's not far away. It's within the jurisdiction of our Qingyuan City, Longgong Township in Shuangqiao County. Mom should have heard of it. It's a famous silkworm and mulberry town, and it's a big producing area of ​​silk raw materials."

"Oh, I know, the production area of ​​Luqiu silk is not far away. How many people are going?"

"That's a lot. Several instructors brought their students along."

"Do you see other people raising silkworms?" Shen Xiuping smiled.

"No, the main research is on the control of mulberry tree diseases and insect pests, on-site observation and observation, and then bring some samples back."

Cui Dongxu's spare time is quite monotonous. Except for chatting with his mother downstairs, the rest of the time is either digging soil in the yard and planting this or that, or reading books in the study upstairs.The work and rest time is also very regular. I usually read at night until eleven o’clock in the evening. I think I will pick up someone in the dark tomorrow, so I go to bed early. Uncle Cui Dongxu takes a red-eye flight when he returns to China. The time to arrive in Qingyuan is morning.

Cui Dongxu was afraid that getting up early would disturb his mother's sleep, so he told his mother the night before that he would drive back to school directly after taking his uncle home. The tutor assigned several tasks, and he might not have time to go home recently. His mother must call his cell phone if he has anything to do, and insists on her to take care of her health.Shen Xiuping said that she was an old problem and nothing serious, and said that a few aunts would come to bother her from time to time to let him relax at school.

Cui Dongxu is well aware of Shen Xiuping's condition. Her father, Cui Shicheng, said that it was because of the business in the factory that he seldom came home. In fact, he had other interests outside the golden house. Her mother's illness was caused by her heart disease and long-term depression. Not medicine stone can cure.

It was still early to leave the airport, so Cui Dongxu drove his uncle to find a place for breakfast.

"It's been a long time since I visited grandma, the old man must miss you." Shen Hejia said to his nephew while eating breakfast.

"I haven't been there for a while... No," Cui Dongxu suddenly remembered, "Huh? You haven't seen grandma for a long time. I went at the end of last month. You have been abroad for almost two months. You If you are unfilial first, you can blame me." Shen He is only nine years older than Cui Dongxu, and both of them are high-achieving students. They usually have a lot of common language and speak more casually. The two uncles and nephews are more like friends.

"The old man is still in good health during this time." Shen He said with a smile.

"It's okay, but he likes to chatter. Last time I went to see him, he insisted on dragging me to chatter for a long time." Cui Dongxu rolled his eyes at his uncle, "It's so hypocritical to care about your old lady's body, why do you let her live alone? Wouldn't it be better to live with you in the past?"

"What is hypocrisy, brat, you are getting more and more indifferent," Shen He thumped Cui Dongxu on the head, "It's not that I don't like living with her, it's that her old man insists on being single Life, your mother and a few aunts can't help it, what can I do."

"It's not because I'm afraid that you, a son, will lose face. I'm going to take my grandma to my house." Cui Dongxu continued to hit his uncle.

"Don't, don't save face for me. If you can, I will take the old lady to your house. Your aunt and I just feel relaxed." Shen He put on a face.

"Hey, if grandma hears what you say, she probably has the heart to hit the wall," Cui Dongxu asked impatiently, "Did you find the books I wanted for me?" Before Shen He went abroad, Cui Dongxu had Ask him to buy some illustrated books on plants.

"Can I forget what you told me? It's in the suitcase. I thought the kind of book you want is hard to find, but I didn't expect it to be easy to find there. It's not expensive, but it's too heavy. Look at it." My slender hands are exhausting." Shen He asked for credit and reward.

"Pull it down, the luggage is checked in, and I will pick it up after getting off the car, so you will have to work hard."

"Yeah, you brat really has no conscience," Shen He said dissatisfiedly, "It's not a good thing to bring you such a large pile of books from thousands of miles away."

"Okay, okay, you've worked so hard, why don't you have some breakfast?" Cui Dongxu quickly laughed along with him.

"Hey, your uncle is really easy to pass." Shen He stretched his eyelids, "But, boy, the original English version is not difficult for you?"

"Isn't there an uncle here? Just ask you for ambiguous words." Although Cui Dongxu has passed the eighth level of English, it is still nothing compared to Shen He's English level.

"It's easy to talk about. If you want to ask, of course I will not hesitate to teach you, but the labor reward at that time can't be an early meal."

"No problem, except for changing my aunt, I just want what you want, and I will satisfy you if you want to change anything in the house." Cui Dongxu joked.

"Hey, brat's skin is itchy." Shen He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You are a farmer who studies crops, you have a big tone. Have you produced scientific research results, and you can extract gold from grains?"

"That's not capable. Isn't the old man in the family rich and powerful? It's a pity that he doesn't spend it in the bank." Cui Dongxu felt a little self-deprecating.

"It makes sense," Shen He thought about what his elder brother-in-law had done, and he had a good understanding of Cui Dongxu's thoughts, so he couldn't joke anymore, so he changed the subject, "You are already 21, and you haven't got a friend around yet. Girlfriend? Among so many classmates, you can always find one or two outstanding ones to pair with you."

"You always thought you were looking for livestock, to put it simply." Cui Dongxu chuckled.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, if you don't find a girlfriend for four years in college to talk about what a waste of resources, will you be willing to waste your money?" Shen He laughed.

"Isn't our father and father very similar to each other? Could it be that you got a lot of romantic debts when you were studying in college? Be careful, I will report it to my aunt." The nephew is often passed on to the uncle. Except for the eyes, Cui Dongxu and Shen He have a high degree of resemblance , both nephew and uncle can be said to be handsome guys.

"Oh, the past is lingering. To write down the emotional life of the university, it must be as thick as the Oxford English-Chinese Dictionary." Shen He pretended to be authentic.

"I believe it. The eyebrows are thin and the lips are thin. It looks like a fickle and ungrateful face. Four years in college must have hurt a lot of young girls who are in love. They are burdened with a heavy love debt. Now they must not sleep well at night."

"I'm not bragging, even if I have a love debt, thinking about it now, it's the best memory in my life. It's mellow and sweet, with endless aftertaste." Shen He is a bit like a wolf with a big tail who tricked Little Red Riding Hood.

"How many books can I read with the time spent before and after the moon?" Cui Dongxu was unmoved.

"Boy, uh, do you have a mental illness?"

"Why are you yelling at me, uncle?"

"As a normal and promising young man, how come you don't have a friend? Even if you don't take the initiative to attract bees and butterflies, with your face, I believe there will be many mad bees and butterflies bombarding you one after another. After studying in a university, you are still alone, and you have lost your way." Shen He seemed very puzzled.

"Who said I don't have any friends? If I have too many, there are several in a dormitory."

"What kind of concept is a secret? I'm talking about girlfriend," Shen He approached his nephew and said, "If you really want to go to the hospital for consultation, you must be seriously ill."

"You are seriously ill. You are sentimental, selfish, indulgent, immoral, immoral, and shameless. You should be the one going to the hospital." Cui Dongxu showed no mercy in front of his uncle.

"Heh..." Shen He laughed out of anger, "This boy is quite eloquent in front of me. Since you are not sick, then tell me a reason for your abnormal situation."

"I'm worried." Cui Dongxu paused for a moment, and then popped out these three words.

"What are you worried about?" Shen He was curious.

"I don't know if my uncle has noticed, but many rich upstarts now like to go to colleges to find lovers. They are young, beautiful and knowledgeable, which satisfies their arty tastes and can somewhat cover up their vulgarity and ignorance. " Cui Dongxu pursed his lips and smiled.

"There are such a small group of people." Shen He thought in his heart, my eldest brother-in-law and your own father should belong to that kind.

"My uncle should be very clear in his heart that my dad belongs to that kind of person." Unexpectedly, Cui Dongxu said bluntly.

"Is the eldest brother-in-law that kind of person? Probably not." Shen He pretended to be confused with understanding.

"Of course, no one will make a big statement about that matter," Cui Dongxu sighed, "I'm worried, if I finally find one among the female classmates around, what if she is raised by someone else? What about my little lover?"

"What kind of bad reasoning, is your fate so bad that you can encounter such a small probability event all at once?" Shen He said with white eyes.

"Then if it happened, wouldn't it be against ethics." Cui Dongxu said seriously.

"What does this mean?"

"I share a lover with my father and son."

"Fuck you, spew shit out of your mouth, bullshit logic." Shen He almost choked to death.

I took a book and chatted for a while at my uncle's house. When Cui Dongxu returned to school, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning. Unexpectedly, there were two slackers lying in the same dormitory.Cui Dongxu lived in a postgraduate dormitory with four people. One was Zhang Xianghai from the Art Department of a university in Hunan, the other was Jia Pingcan from the Department of Applied Biology of a university in Shandong, and the other was Yi Xin from the Department of Agronomy of a university in Beijing. The sun is shining It was Zhang Xianghai and Jia Pingcan who were still lying on the bed to cheat the corpse.

"Lie on the bed as if you were blind. If you can't sleep, get up. Brother, I brought delicious food." Cui Dongxu said to the two guys who were entangled with the sheets.

"I'm not interested in giving me abalone now. If the young master is kind, can you invite Zhou Gong for me? I want to see him here, but I can't see him." Zhang Xianghai closed his eyes and sighed.

"What kind of virtue is this? Have you been abandoned by your girlfriend?" Cui Dongxu said with a smile, "Where can I find Duke Zhou for you in broad daylight?"

"I helped Yuan Datou work all night yesterday, and I'm so excited that I can't sleep now." Jia Pingcan said with a bitter face on the bed.Although Jia Pingcan, Zhang Xianghai, Yixin and Cui Dongxu live in the same dormitory in the research building, they are not under the same mentor. The mentor of Jia Pingcan and Zhang Xianghai is called Yuan Dajin, who is called Boss Yuan by his disciples in front of them, and Datou Yuan by his disciples behind his back.

"What exciting things did you do, so excited so far?"

"Organize paper materials."

"Just looking for information, I thought Yuan Datou gave you a stimulant." Cui Dongxu threw the snacks he brought from home on Zhang Xianghai's bed.

"You put it lightly, but it is full of a dozen or so disks, and it is troublesome to retrieve," Zhang Xianghai said to Cui Dongxu enviously, "How can I compare with you? You can do everything calmly and calmly. If you can We wouldn't be in such a mess if we were under the father-in-law's school." The father-in-law actually refers to the father-in-law, Cui Dongxu and Yi Xin's tutor Gong Yaping, the most famous professor in the school, the reason why Yi Xin came to the south from his alma mater in Beijing The reason why the school came to graduate school was because of Gong Yaping's reputation, and he was still active through his family connections under his father-in-law's family.

"Even if Master Confucius is resurrected, it's useless for you to change to him. You can compare with our young master Cui who studies hard day and night. You go to pick up girls in normal time. Of course you have to pay back your debts." Yi Xin who had just entered the door just heard Zhang Xianghai complained.

"Come back from the library so early?" Cui Dongxu asked, seeing Yi Xin holding a few books.

"No, I borrowed a few books from my juniors." Yi Xin put down the books and joked when he saw Cui Dongxu carrying a bag on his shoulders. For a while, my husband, I was sleepless."

"Death, be careful I will kick you downstairs." Cui Dongxu swayed his foot.

"Gong Gong has a task, right?" Because Cui Dongxu has a mobile phone, it is easy to contact. Generally, Gong Yaping will call Cui Dongxu when there is something wrong. Cui Dongxu is equivalent to the real father-in-law.

"Well, the task is not light," Cui Dongxu nodded and said with a smile, "Don't laugh at the crows, hurry up and calm down, and tighten up the time with your girlfriend. If you can't complete the task, be careful that the palace will deduct your credits. "

"It's bitter..." Yi Xin said in a Beijing opera line, and was discouraged, "You ascetic monk, you are just like a little father-in-law, my life is overwhelmed by a big father-in-law, and a little father-in-law is watching beside me, so depressed , melancholy."

"Arrears must always be paid." Zhang Xianghai retorted.

"Oh, by the way," Yi Xin suddenly remembered something, "Young Master Cui, I have a letter for you, and I've been letting you go for a few days."

"Letter? What letter?" Cui Dongxu was very surprised. The girls who touched him were almost offended by him, but there were still letters. It was really rare.

"Love letter," Yi Xin said with a smile, "a girl confessed to you late."