Picking mulberries

"What's the matter? It's so serious, it makes me a little uneasy." Qiu Jingping was secretly happy, guessing that his son must have confessed to his girlfriend.

"That... Dr. Cui, do you still remember, the one who gave me the pendant when I was young, and the pendant saved my life."

"Nonsense, of course I remember, where is your benefactor." Qiu Jingping's thoughts suddenly returned to more than ten years ago.

"To you, it is a great benefactor, but to me, it is not only a benefactor, but also a pawn in my hand." Qiu Yang laughed.

"Nonsense, is there anyone who talks like that?" Qiu Jingping scolded.

"Don't be in a hurry to scold me, you will understand when I finish telling you." Qiu Yang said patiently.

"Then you'd better give me a reasonable explanation."

"Dr. Cui is a great professor in my college. My pathology is taught by him. When I first came to the class, I felt a little..."

"Wait," Qiu Jingping interrupted his son, "Does that mean you have known Dr. Cui for a long time?"

"Well, there were two or three years." Qiu Yang said shyly.

"Then why haven't you told us all this time? What's your intention?" Qiu Jingping said angrily, "It's not like you don't know that your family has always wanted to find him and express your gratitude to him."

"I've been looking for a suitable opportunity, haven't I?" Qiu Yang murmured.

"It's strange, what kind of suitable opportunity does this need?"

"Then let me ask you, if I had told you earlier, what intentions would you have?" Qiu Yang asked rhetorically.

"Hey, you kid, why are you so ignorant," Qiu Jingping said impatiently, "The family has always wanted to ask him to thank him for saving you back then, so we should say thank you face to face."

"Hey, it's useless to say thank you face to face, at least you have to invite someone to come, it's justified to treat them well." Qiu Yang said disdainfully.

"If you had told the family earlier, we would have invited him here." Qiu Jingping's voice was an octave higher.

"He is a great professor, very famous and very busy. How can he come as soon as he says it? Let's treat him as a benefactor. He has never thought of him as a benefactor. How can he accept your hospitality? You have to find him slowly. Opportunity, let him have a reason to come."

"Let's be honest with us now, does that mean you found a chance?" Qiu Jingping snorted.

"Of course, if I'm not [-]% sure, it's not easy for me to tell Mr. Xiucai." Qiu Yang laughed.

"Since you said it's nothing to thank someone face to face, when can you invite Dr. Cui to your home?"

"Let's not talk about this for now, I want to ask a question, how do you thank him for inviting him to his home?" Qiu Yang said honestly, with a tone that you couldn't figure out how to thank him without my help.

"Scholars are not talented, I hope you, a talented student, will not hesitate to teach you." Qiu Jingping kicked the ball back.

"He is a properly rich second generation, and he is also a famous teacher in a famous school. The money given by our poor family can't open his eyes at all."

"Lu Qiusi can always do it." Qiu Jingping said angrily.

"Scarcity is the most precious thing. Of course, Luqiu silk will have face when it is sent out, but haven't all the finished products at home have been handed over to the county sericulture office, so we can't weave a new silk in a year or so."

"The whole family goes into battle, work overtime."

"It's not necessary, and it's not a one-off deal. This kind of life-saving grace has to be repaid by the spring, and Lu Qiusi can send it later." Qiu Yang said in a sophisticated tone, "Invite the benefactor to come to the door for the first time. , I see, we just need to show great sincerity."

"Speaking simply, how to show great sincerity?" Qiu Jingping murmured in his heart, feeling like this kid was playing some kind of trick, waiting for his own father to get into it.

"In our countryside, don't we have to hold a big banquet every time we have a happy event, or let's hold a banquet to entertain, make the scene more grand, and make the sense of ceremony stronger." Qiu Yang suggested.

"What you said makes sense, okay, I'll listen to you." Qiu Jingping thought for a while, although he felt a little weird from Qiu Yang's tone, but his suggestion was indeed a good solution.

"Okay, when the time is right, I'll take Dr. Cui home, and you all just wait for my notification." Qiu Yang said happily.

"Don't hang up," Qiu Jingping hurriedly asked, "Please explain again, why is Dr. Cui becoming a pawn in your hand again?"

"Do you still remember that I told you once that the boss of the company I work for is the father of one of my teachers."

"Well, I did." Qiu Jingping really remembered it clearly.

"As you said just now, when you saw my boss on TV, you think you've seen it somewhere, right?"

"That's right, I do have a bit of an impression, maybe I've seen it on TV before."

"No, he hasn't been on any TV before. Why do you feel familiar, because the boss of my company is Dr. Cui's real father." Qiu Yang laughed.

"Ah?! It means that the boss of your company is Dr. Cui's father." Qiu Jingping emphasized again.

"That's right. After I became acquainted with Professor Cui, I joined the current company through him as an intermediary. Without Professor Cui as a pawn, how could I have joined such a good company without graduation."

"No wonder, no wonder, I said a young boy who has not finished his studies, who would believe you, it turned out that Dr. Cui helped you again." Qiu Jingping suddenly realized, "Okay, you boy, you can wait until now to tell me The truth."

"There is one more thing I want to tell you, so that you can rest assured." Qiu Yang said in a tone that wanted to expose the big news.

"What's the matter?" Qiu Jingping thought, this should be about his girlfriend.

"I was recommended to graduate school." Qiu Yang said casually.

"Really?" Qiu Jingping was so pleasantly surprised that he couldn't believe it. After all, it is difficult for someone to get into the exam if he concentrates on studying, but his son is working and studying at the same time. No one would have expected that he would be recommended for graduate school.

"This can still deceive you," Qiu Yang said with a smile, "Qiu Xiucai, do you think your son is amazing?"

"Well, I feel a bit like that. Shall I compose a poem on the spot to praise you?" Qiu Jingping said happily.

"Come on, it's okay to use your method on my mother. It's accurate to coax her, but I don't want to eat your sour and fake vinegar. Hey... let's have some practical things."

"I am happy today, let me speak as you like." Qiu Jingping said openly.

"Really? That's so embarrassing, you just need to make up your mind." Qiu Yang said hypocritically.

"Twenty thousand lines?"

"Hey, Mr. Xiucai, this is really a great favor from the emperor. I have made a lot of money with this money," Qiu Yang said happily, not afraid of big things, "Can you make up your mind? Do you want to discuss it with Queen Mother first?" ?”

"Don't provoke my relationship with your mother, you can receive as much as I say, and I will go to the bank to transfer it to you tomorrow."

"Qiu Xiucai, do you know who my supervisor is?" Qiu Yang continued to play tricks.

"Is it the most famous Gong Yaping in your school?"

"Huh, you even know Gong Yaping?" Qiu Yang was a little surprised, "It wasn't him, he left his job and went to the United States. However, he should be regarded as my patriarch, and my mentor is his disciple, that is, The pawn in my hand."

"Who?"

"Dr. Cui."

"I said your boy's language was taught by the doorman. If you don't know how to use words, don't use them indiscriminately. You can't tell the difference between praise and derogation. Can you call your great benefactor a chess piece?" Qiu Jingping scolded

"Oh, you don't understand," Qiu Yang said stubbornly, "A lot of my things are smooth sailing because he is in the middle. He is my chess piece, and the chess piece is with me, which is a great compliment. Who defines a chess piece? The word is derogatory. Isn’t it a good word to revitalize a game of chess and determine the world with one piece. Dr. Cui is too important to me. Without him, I am nothing. Relying on his chess piece, my life is a dead end, he is the key point of my whole life, how do you describe it without a chess piece?"

"Just say it, why are you so excited?"

"I don't care what you call Dr. Cui, anyway, he is just a pawn in my eyes, and please remember, he is my pawn of Qiu Yang." Qiu Yang emphasized again and again.

"You are handsome, you can say anything." Qiu Jingping didn't bother to argue, and hung up the phone.

"What did you say to A Yang? You rolled your eyes for a while, and your eyes widened for a while, and you laughed and thought for a while. The expression on your face was like that of Uncle Benshan performing a sketch. Seeing that I have seen so many changes in your expression, I don't care about you wasting so much money on my calls." Qiu Jingdong took the mobile phone from Qiu Jingping.

"A Yang was recommended by the school to study in graduate school." Qiu Jingping picked the most important one first and said.

"That's it?" Qiu Jingdong was a little disbelieving, "Looking at your expression, I thought he broke up with his girlfriend, and then found a better one."

"What are you talking about, we've never met each other, so why did we break up?"

"This is really fresh, A Yang's girlfriend has to let us meet before we can break up or get together?"

"He didn't mention anything about his girlfriend at all." Qiu Jingping said a little disappointed.

"The matter of the postgraduate entrance examination can be talked for so long?"

"The Dr. Cui who gave him the pendant when he was a child, you remember, A Yang got along with him very well. The boss of the company he works for now is Dr. Cui's father, and Dr. Cui introduced him. A Yang's master's supervisor is also Cui. PhD."

"Oh, what a wonderful fate."

"That's right," Qiu Jingping smiled, "I have to go home and talk to Huaying and the others. It's finally time to untangle this knot in my heart."

"Last time, Ayang asked me to help him find a Fengshui master. He said that he was helping his boss's parents move the grave, which is Cui's house in Jiepai Mountain in Xianliu Township. It's not far from us. I didn't expect that Ayang's noble person in his life is here. nearby."

"It's all because of that kid's tight mouth. He didn't tell me until now. If he had known earlier, he would have felt more at ease."

"Jingping, when it comes to moving the cemetery, I do remember something." Qiu Jingdong was a little excited as if he suddenly thought of something.

"what's up?"

"The Feng Shui master I invited was Song Huiliang from the former Hulu. The last time I met him, he praised us A Yang one by one."

"Did A Yang ask his boss to give him more money?" Qiu Jingping joked.

"Hey, how did you know? Song Huiliang told you too?"

"It's not that I don't know my nature, how can I associate with that kind of god stick who doesn't have a serious mouth. Why, I really guessed it right?"

"That's right," Qiu Jingdong nodded and said, "Originally, the boss of A Yang gave more. Oh, yes, it was Dr. Cui's father who gave Song Huiliang [-] yuan at once. Song Huiliang was so happy that he was exhausted. He has learned all his life and carefully selected a good land. After choosing the land, Dr. Cui’s father went to the town to entertain Song Huiliang with good wine and food. At the wine table, A Yang said that Song Huiliang chose the land. It is a very rare piece of land surrounded by green dragons and white tigers. I suggest that his boss express his gratitude again. Dr. Cui’s father is really a generous person, and he is extremely filial to his parents at first glance. He gave Song Huiliang [-]. Song Huiliang said that he had earned a few years of business money this trip, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. But, Jingping, that President Cui really trusted A Yang, and he listened to everything he said. This is not my guess, that's what Song Huiliang said."

"It seems that he trusts him quite a bit. Otherwise, why would he distribute a car to A Yang and send so many high-end food to our family after the New Year?"

"that's true."

"A Yang's actions are too dishonest, serving others' bowls and serving others' management, why did he help Song Huiliang cheat money and drink." Qiu Jingping was a little unhappy.

"You can't say that, and we can't believe it just because you don't believe it. All walks of life have their reasons for their existence. It feels quite mysterious, but Feng Shui also has a scientific basis."

"When did I interfere with your beliefs, I was just talking about the facts."

"Don't look down on Song Huiliang," Qiu Jingdong said with a smile, "he specifically mentioned to me that A Yang has unique roots of wisdom, and if he spends some energy in Feng Shui, he will definitely be better at Feng Shui than him. A Yang is an apprentice, and he imparts all his abilities to others."

"Tch, thank goodness he figured it out." Qiu Jingping said disdainfully.

"What's wrong with this, A Yang won't suffer, isn't there more ways out to learn more skills?" Qiu Jingdong became excited, "I will tell him when A Yang comes back from summer vacation, listen to his own opinion, if it works , how good it is to learn during the summer vacation."

"Brother, you're a bit out of shape." Qiu Jingping said dissatisfiedly.

"Why don't I have a good figure, and learning Fengshui will disgrace you, a famous scholar?" Qiu Jingdong said unhappily, "It's also A Yang who has that talent, and others still refuse to accept him if they want to learn from him."

"You can water these trees and flowers yourself, I don't care." Qiu Jingping didn't want to argue with his brother, turned around and went home.

On this day, the sun suddenly hid in the afternoon, and the south wind was blowing, which was quite comfortable.Cui Dongxu was reading a book on the balcony on the second floor, when he heard a ping-pong sound outside the yard, he looked up and saw Qiu Yang and Gao Minhong carrying a bunch of things in.

"What are you doing?" Cui Dongxu got up and walked to the railing, and asked down.