Picking mulberries

"Are you so busy recently? Why don't you see your ghost all the time? My mother tried to ask you to go to dinner several times but couldn't find you." Qi Zhuoran said very dissatisfied when he caught Qiu Yang on the basketball court once.

"Please, you're busy, okay? I wasn't at school one day, so why can't I be found if you look for me. But you, who accompany your girlfriend Shenlong every day, have skipped several classes. Sometimes you cry." Qiu Yang said contemptuously.

"Is it, is it my fault?" Qi Zhuoran pretended to be confused with understanding.

"Didn't you say that you finally found Yao Zhe's clothes with such a body that you don't want to take them off after you put them on? I don't care about you because you value sex and despise friends." Qiu Yang was very angry. Open-minded and authentic.

"Don't laugh at these fifty steps, you won't be much better. It is harder to find you to make a team for foreign games than to find a star to sign. You are almost becoming Xiao Cui Cui's little follower. Another classmate who played together joked.

"That's right, don't make crows laugh at pigs." Qi Zhuoran said with a smile.

"Hey, boy, you are taught Chinese by the master of the reception room, right? I'm a crow and you a pig?" Qiu Yang rolled his eyes at Qi Zhuoran, "Who is little Cui Cui?"

"Hey, why are you pretending to be confused, don't you follow him every day?" Qi Zhuoran snorted with that classmate.

"Professor Cui Dongxu," Qiu Yang said amusedly, "Who, who picked up little Cui Cui?"

"No way, you follow him every day, and you don't even know the nickname of our lovely, amiable and respectable handsome Professor Cui." Qi Zhuoran was very surprised, "It was called by those beauties."

"This... this title seems to be too much, why is he still our teacher." Qiu Yang thought to himself, okay, you goblins are so bold, dare to tease my Xuxu.

"This is a nickname, what's wrong?" Qi Zhuoran said with blank eyes.

"Calling you fat is also a pet name." Qiu Yang snorted.

"The one with the surname Qiu, you can call him another name if you have the guts."

"What's the matter with calling again, fat man, fat man..." Qiu Yang was not afraid.

"Okay, let's testify, I, Qi Zhuoran, and Qiu Yang will cut off the righteousness from now on, and the brotherhood will be broken." Qi Zhuoran looked awe-inspiring.

"Okay, I agree." Qiu Yang smiled and prepared to take a shower.

"Ai ai ai, wait a minute." Seeing that Qiu Yang was about to leave, Qi Zhuoran quickly chased after him.

"Didn't the two of us cut off our righteousness?"

"Cut it later, answer my question first." Qi Zhuoran said slyly.

"what's up?"

Qi Zhuoran asked: "My girlfriend asked me to ask you something, where did you buy the clothes you wore when we went to dinner last time? She wants to buy one for her boyfriend as well."

"What about your girlfriend and her boyfriend? Are you an NP?" Qiu Yang snorted.

"Oh, to put it bluntly, even I want to buy a suit." Qi Zhuoran said angrily.

"Which party did you wear it to?"

"It was the most recent time," Qi Zhuoran thought for a while, "the one that was very flattering and figure-defining, with a blue base and a white skirt."

"Oh..., that body, I don't know where I bought it. It was sent by my parents. It's been a long time. I probably can't remember it if I ask them." Qiu Yang thought, even if I gave it to you to wear , your figure is too spoiled that clothes.In fact, the clothes were not sent by his parents, but the last time he went to the instrument market with Cui Dongxu, he stopped by a cabinet, and Cui Dongxu specially bought them for him.

"Hey, don't talk about pulling it down, I'll go shopping by myself, I don't believe I can't find it."

In a blink of an eye, it was almost time for the summer vacation. Qiu Yang had a sudden whim and called his father.

"Lack of money, how much do you want?" Qiu Jingping asked directly after connecting the phone.

"Hey, look at what Dad asked. When did I ask you for money on the phone? I think your son is too realistic and philistine." Qiu Yang said dissatisfied.

"Well, that's true," Qiu Jingping said with a smile, "I'm flattered, I usually keep in touch with your mother."

"Mom isn't here?"

"No, I'm buying rakes at Grandpa Guigen's shop on the street," Qiu Jingping realized, "Come on, you're still looking for your mother. Why, your mother's phone didn't answer?"

"No, it's just looking for you."

"Tell me what's going on, I'm coming out." Qiu Jingping got out from Song Guigen's blacksmith shop.

"It's nothing specific, but I'm a little annoyed. I suddenly want to chat with my dad." Qiu Yang said lazily.

"Annoying?" Qiu Jingping asked hurriedly, "Is it difficult to study?"

"Study is okay. I follow the professor every day, and there is nothing I can't cope with. I don't know what is bothering me, but I feel a little stuck in my heart, so I thought of calling you... Hey, Qiu Xiucai, if you want to listen, just listen to me." Listen, don't make fun of me in your heart." Qiu Yang said in the same way.

"Stinky boy, you are not annoying, you clearly want to make your father happy." Qiu Jingping laughed.

"Forget it, forget it, go do your work, I'll just tell you, and let you know that my son is unhappy during this time." Qiu Yang didn't know where to start.

"Since this is the case, don't work outside during the summer vacation. Come home and help your mother and me go to the mulberry garden to do something." Qiu Jingping is well aware of his son's personality. Although he rarely worries about him, he He would confide in himself when he really had something on his mind, but now he took the initiative to say that he was annoyed, it must be because something went wrong, "Sometimes when my inspiration is blocked and I can't write something, when I go to the field for activities, eh , it has it again, quick thinking.”

"Really?" Qiu Yang asked with a smile.

"I can still lie to you. If you don't believe me, ask your mother. Go home quickly after the holiday."

"The summer vacation schedule has already been arranged. If you are going to work in a glass company, you should talk to your mother."

"Then what's bothering you, emotional matters?" Qiu Jingping asked.Brat, the schedule has already been arranged. You really think of yourself as a star. If you really want to do that, hire your father as an agent.

"I guess so," Qiu Yang lazily said, "Don't ask any more, I'll talk to Dad then."

"Okay, any time." Qiu Jingping was a little worried in his heart, wondering what troubled his usually sunny and cheerful son.

Qiu Jingping got on the electric bike and was about to go home when he realized that he hadn't picked up the rake yet, so he went into Song Guigen's blacksmith's shop again.

"Is Qiu Yang coming back from vacation soon?" Song Guigen asked casually.Song Guigen and Qiu Jingping's grandma, Song Fenghuang, are from the same village, and she is also Song Fenghuang's nephew, so they are somewhat related.

"I won't go back again. I said I'm going to work part-time. I can't help it." Qiu Jingping sighed and shook his head.

"Has he found a girlfriend at school?"

"Why does my cousin care about this?" Qiu Jingping said with a smile.

"Song Jiping in my village who works in the city's Development and Reform Commission has a daughter who is also studying in a university in the city. If it's suitable, I want to match them up." Song Guigen said with a smile.

"Young people today don't need adults to match up with each other," Qiu Jingping was a little curious, "How did you think of this?"

"Didn't Song Jiping go back to his hometown during Chinese New Year last year. He met Qiu Yang of your family. Later, he asked me a lot about your family's situation one after another. I figured he meant that."

"Hey, he really is. Isn't my daughter still studying? Why worry?" Qiu Jingping said with a smile.He said in his heart, what a song Jiping, the ghost is still there, how could it be you again.

"I must have taken a fancy to Qiu Yang," Song Guigen said with a big laugh, "I'm not putting gold on your face, your family Qiu Yang needs to be good-looking, tall and tall, and he's a student of a famous university with such a good personality. Who doesn't want to snatch him as a son-in-law. Besides, marriage is allowed in college now, Song Jiping is called preemptive."

"Thank you for your kind words, but if he asks again next time, you'd better block it for me. Young people have young people's ideas, and my mother and I don't want to interfere in the relationship. If Qiu Yang knows us Is he helping him on a blind date, and he is appointed to scold us. But, let me give you his mobile phone number, how about letting them young people get in touch with themselves, don’t they all study in Qingyuan.”

"That's fine." Song Guigen nodded, and then said again, "I've seen Song Jiping's daughter too, she's pretty good, not to mention pretty, she's also quite polite, and she behaves well in dealing with others. Hey, your family Qiu Yang really didn't find it, did he?"

"I really don't know if I looked for it or not. Didn't I say that my mother and I don't care about this now. He's so old, he can't compare to when he was in high school."

"Okay, I'm just a messenger in the middle, whether it will succeed or not depends on their fate as young people."

"It's been a long time since I've been resting, my uncle's craftsmanship hasn't been lost yet, this rake is durable." Qiu Jingping touched the smooth teeth of the rake with his hands and praised.In the past, due to the decline of the sericulture industry in the village, Song Guigen followed the trend and went to work in coastal cities. The iron stove at home has been idle there, full of rust.In recent years, the policy of benefiting farmers has been improved, and the subsidies for planting mulberry and sericulture have made a lot of money. Song Guigen has returned to his old business in his spare time, and with his son helping him, he simply moved the blacksmith shop to the street.

"It's better to have Secretary Kang and the others, we all remember his kindness," Song Guigen said with deep emotion, "Jingping, you are a well-known scholar in our township, and you write praises to our township government every year and festival. If so."

"This is not due to Secretary Kang alone. Our province attaches great importance to silk textiles from top to bottom. It has given us such a large subsidy to our mulberry farmers, especially the support of our old Qiu family brand 'Luqiu Silk'. It’s not Secretary Kang who can make a good shot,” Qiu Jingping also said with empathy, “When we drink water, we should be grateful to the government. The County Writers’ Association has asked me to write some literary works that reflect the changes in the countryside. Conceive a novel, and want to write about the changes in our township."

"Ah, right, good, you must write well," Song Guigen was very excited. "What kind of board for our villagers to provide, even if you say, Pu Songling wrote a fasting fast. Does he listen?"

"That's a good thing, maybe I'll come to listen to your story at any time." Qiu Jingping laughed.

When Qiu Jingping returned home, Zhuang Huaying was spraying pesticides and bacteria outside the silkworm house. When he saw him coming back, he took off his mask and said, "Brother just came to see you and asked you to come back to him. He said that there is a debt in the village and I don't know how to deal with it." , let you go and see."

"Don't worry, let's go after dinner. He will definitely be drinking at this point. It may be that he is getting older now. When he reaches the age of good wine, he will have a drink in the morning. I really can't stand him." Qiu Jingping muttered road.

"Don't my grandpa like to sip a few sips of grain wine all the time? Eldest brother may have been addicted to alcohol by accompanying him," Zhuang Huaying stood up and smiled, "You should drink it too. Anyway, some grain wine at home will ensure that you can drink it. It's okay, isn't it?" What about Li Bai Doujiu Poetry, maybe drinking some can inspire your creative inspiration."

"Pull it down," Qiu Jingping curled his lips, "Don't be drunk and lose inspiration, what should you do if you get drunk and beat your wife every day?"

"Oh my God, husband, do you still have this wicked hobby?" Zhuang Huaying pretended to be terrified.

"Aiyo, aiyo, look at this loving couple, I'm too embarrassed to step into the yard." Qiu Jingping and his wife were laughing, and Zhuang Haixia walked in with a bamboo basket and smiled.Zhuang Haixia and Zhuang Huaying's parents are from the same village, and they both married into Jiuqiu Village.

"Oh, I brought the basket here." Zhuang Huaying took the basket happily when she saw Zhuang Haixia's hand.

"My daughter came back to see me this time and brought her along. Liu's baskets are selling very well. It just so happens that there are ready-made goods this time."

"What a good basket, Yuexiu must bring it from her husband's house." Qiu Shangzhi asked with a smile.Qiu Yuexiu is Zhuang Haixia's daughter, and she married Xingtun Town, which is two towns away from Longgong Township, so it is quite far away.

"Brother Xiucai, look, the workmanship is really good, and the bamboo material is also good." Zhuang Haixia pointed to the basket and said.

"Really, better than Zhuang Xingdong's craftsmanship?" Qiu Shangzhi came over and took the basket from his wife and looked at it carefully.

"Zhuang Xingdong's craftsmanship is good, but it's still incomparable with the weaving skills of the Xingtun Liu family." Zhuang Huaying said.

"It's not bad, it's very delicate, and the style is also very novel," Qiu Jingping raised his eyes and said to Zhuang Huaying, "Why do you buy such a basket, Mr. Fei? Why do you have to carry it to the street to buy vegetables with such a fine workmanship?"

"I usually carry things when I walk around the house. Women in the city are very particular about the bags they carry. One style a day, I have the right to treat it as my bag."

"It's good to take things to visit relatives, very good," Qiu Jingping handed the basket back to his wife, "give the money to Haixia, this basket is equivalent to a handicraft, and it's not cheap."

"Tsk tsk... Brother Xiucai's words are too outrageous. No matter how expensive it is, it's still a basket. What kind of money do you give? Just treat it as a gift for Huaying. You gave my grandson such a good name, and we all return it." I didn't thank you." Zhuang Haixia was afraid that the couple would force money on her, so she turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

"Hey, sister, it's time to eat before leaving." Zhuang Huaying called from behind.

"No, no, there's still a little annoying person at home." Zhuang Haixia said and walked out of the courtyard.

As soon as he heard the annoying spirit, Qiu Jingping thought of his son, and said to Zhuang Huaying: "Your son said he won't go home during the summer vacation."

"It's better not to come, out of sight and out of mind." Zhuang Huaying said indifferently.

"Why don't you take the time to see him."

"It's not a baby who needs to be nursed, why go to see him."

"He provoked you again, like a stepmother," Qiu Jingping said with white eyes, "I heard from him that he is annoying recently, go and find out why."