Picking mulberries

Several colleges and universities in the province jointly organized the "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" social honor concept study seminar, which was held in a famous scenic spot far from Qingyuan City in the province.Because of participating in this seminar, Cui Dongxu didn't go home to see his grandmother for a few days, so he specially bought a novel crutch in the scenic spot and came back.Cui Dongxu went downstairs to chat with his grandmother when he got home to tidy up a little. Qiao Yuxin, who loves to chatter, caught her grandson and started nagging again, scolding a few aunts.

"Second Aunt and Third Aunt, haven't you been here these days?" Ever since Qiao Yuxin moved to Cui's house, although Shen Aiping had a lot of opinions on her brother-in-law, she had no choice but to come to see her. When I came to sit at Cui's house, what I saw and heard was Cui Shicheng's kindness to my mother, and gradually I lost my resentment towards Cui Shicheng. Occasionally, I would chat a few words when we met each other, it was nothing more than about Cui Dongxu's lifelong event Category.

"Who can't tell, they come here very frequently, and they are annoying to death. Every time I come, I don't worry about it." Qiao Yuxin complained.Knowing that Cui Dongxu was away on a long trip, Shen Aiping and Shen Jinping came here every day as if she had made an appointment.

"It's not that I'm talking about you, it's too difficult to take care of your old man, and you will be accused if you don't come if you are not satisfied. How difficult it is for aunts and others." Cui Dongxu joked.But I said in my heart, my aunt doesn't come here a few times throughout the year, and you are full of promises to her, but you are always around and filial, but you still haven't been able to please her.

"Do you dislike me as an old lady? Then I will move back today." Qiao Yuxin pretended to be unhappy and said.

"How can I, I can't live without grandma."

"Don't be so clever," Qiao Yuxin said when she saw her grandson coming down to drink tea and holding a book in her hand, "Aren't you a professor now, and you still have to read books every day?"

"My professor is the deputy. Isn't there a real one in front of him? There is still another mountain after one mountain." Cui Dongxu laughed.

"How long is a person's life, don't be too obsessed with those fame and fortune, the most important thing is to live a comfortable life, don't deliberately get tired of fame. A person's life is a journey, and you have to enjoy the scenery on both sides while walking. I just kept my head down and ran forward, and when I reached the end, I only remembered the tiredness of the journey. Look at your aunts and uncles, they are highly educated and intelligent, but they don’t understand the fun of life at all, and now there are no children.”

"Wow, what grandma said is so philosophical," Cui Dongxu said sternly, "Don't you usually say that my aunt is very powerful?"

"What's the matter? I just looked at her pitifully. I didn't use good words to coax her. My heart was stabbed. After reading so many books, I think it was a waste of time. I went to a dead end," Qiao Yuxin went back to On Cui Dongxu, "Look at you, although you have achieved success at work and been recognized in school, you still have flaws in your private life. You are already [-] this year, and you are still alone. Can you be called successful?"

"Under consideration, under consideration." Cui Dongxu responded.

"I've received a lot of confession letters again." Qiao Yuxin said with a smile.

"No, I confiscated one of them."

"That's not possible. Aren't piles of love letters piled up in your office at this time in previous years? Could it be that this year hasn't arrived yet?" Qiao Yuxin said incredulously.

"Yeah, look at what grandma said, she thinks I'm a monster. But then again, I'm also wondering, maybe it's because of my old age." Cui Dongxu laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Don't be sloppy with me, bully my old lady for not understanding fashion, right?" Qiao Yuxin glared at her grandson, "There can't be too many dramas that are staged every year, show me your phone, it must be a text message to confess .”

"Hey, grandma Mingjian, I can't hide this from you. Yes, I have received a lot of harassing text messages." Cui Dongxu said hehe.

"How do you say it's a harassing text message? How can you ignore someone's innocence as shit? Here, show me, the text is like a person, I will help you filter and filter, maybe there is one that suits you."

"Please, everyone is my student, okay?" Cui Dongxu said speechlessly.

"What's wrong with the students, teacher-student love is popular now."

"Ouch, grandma, you are evil when you say this to our students." Cui Dongxu joked.

"No matter how evil you are, I'm afraid you will be single until you grow old," Qiao Yuxin snorted, "Your father doesn't stay at home for three days, so I don't think this house is empty."

"Isn't there a pistachio like grandma and Mama Su?"

"What's the use of our two old ladies? In such a big house, I feel lonely and miserable when you're not here."

"No way, grandma is too exaggerated."

Although grandma spoke in a hurry, Cui Dongxu also felt that the family was a little too deserted. Since he was busy with research and teaching, he mostly buried his head in the study when he went home, and spent more time with the old man than the second and third aunts. .

Since then, Cui Dongxu has been able to go home as early as possible. When he gets home, he will talk to the elderly first. After dinner, they will go for a walk in the yard together. When Cui Shicheng is at home, they will go out for consumption together.

On this day, Qiao Yuxin, who was reading the newspaper, said indignantly when she saw her grandson coming down the stairs: "Nowadays, when there is a problem in the local government, we often have to rely on other places to expose the scandal, hide diseases and avoid medical treatment. Why is the dignified government not responsible at all? When something happens, just tuck it in and cover it, there is no impenetrable wall in the world, the more you cover it, the uglier it will be."

"What's the matter with you, you look like an angry youth." Cui Dongxu laughed.

"An accident happened in Shuangqiao County of our city. Not to mention the Qingyuan Daily, even the Provincial Daily didn't hear a single word of the relevant report. Look, it was introduced by a newspaper in Guangdong." Qiao Yuxin shook her hand at her grandson Put the newspaper in the middle, put it on the coffee table and get up to eat.

"Oh, is that so? What is it that makes our local government ashamed to say it?" Cui Dongxu washed his hands and took the soup handed over by Su Ma.

"A major event happened in Longgong Township below Shuangqiao County," the old lady Qiao Yuxin suddenly wentssip, "Have you heard of Longgong? The place where sericulture was famous before... look at my memory, you are a farmer Why don’t you know, I remember that you went to practice there a few years ago.”

As soon as he heard that something happened in Longgong Township, Cui Dongxu became concerned: "What happened?"

"Because the Longgong Township government did not act indiscriminately, and ignored the sericulture industry that traditionally supported the local people's lives, and carried out large-scale construction and construction projects, the local people had great opinions. Several old people in their [-]s and [-]s went to the government to complain. The township head ordered the people from the police station to beat up the villagers. After beating the villagers out of the flood outlet, they gathered tens of thousands of people to besiege the township government. Get away."

"It's unreasonable, the old man can bear to beat him." Cui Dongxu was also very angry.

"That's not all," Qiao Yuxin said indignantly, "There is a local called Qiu Xiucai, who wrote an article to criticize this matter and posted it on the Internet to expose it. Unexpectedly, the Shuangqiao County Public Security Bureau immediately gave Qiu Xiucai He was arrested, but he is still locked up and has not been released.”

"Qiu Xiucai?... There is such a thing!" Cui Dongxu stopped eating when he heard this, "Mama Su, show me the newspaper."

Cui Dongxu took the newspaper, read it carefully, and was very upset after reading it: "It's not a day's cold to freeze three feet. When I went there a few years ago, people inside the township government themselves complained. I didn't expect the government to follow suit. The relationship between the common people has become so stiff. If you practice deceit and deceit, you only care about your own official status, and don't bother about the livelihood of the common people, so how can you not provoke confrontation?"

Cui Dongxu thought for a while and asked Su's mother, "Did my dad say when he would be back?"

"Boss Cui didn't explain it, but he called yesterday to ask if there is any shortage of fish at home." Su's mother didn't know why she suddenly asked the big boss.

"Oh, then I'll call his cell phone later." Cui Dongxu handed the newspaper back to Mama Su.

"What does it have to do with your father?" Qiao Yuxin also asked puzzled.

"I want to ask Dad if there is any way to save people." Cui Dongxu said depressedly.

"Save who?" Qiao Yuxin and Su Ma asked in unison.

"Save Qiu Xiucai," Cui Dongxu took the sterilized towel handed over by Su's mother and wiped his hands, "He has been locked up for more than a month, and he hasn't violated any law or discipline, isn't he just telling the truth. "

"You know him very well?" Qiao Yuxin asked curiously.

"Familiar is not very familiar. I met once a long time ago. He is quite talented in the local area." Cui Dongxu said to his grandmother as if suddenly remembering, "Remember, I went to Longgong in 03 and came back. Didn’t someone give me chickens, eggs, peanuts and sesame seeds at that time, they were all given to me by Qiu Xiucai’s mother and wife.”

"So I really have to take care of it," Qiao Yuxin nodded, "But, your dad is a businessman, can he help?"

"There is a leader of the Municipal Party Committee who is a comrade-in-arms with Dad, and they usually come and go frequently, so I think it should be fine."

When he heard his son's request, Cui Shicheng asked the ins and outs of the matter, and agreed without saying much.Cui Dongxu asked his father if he was troublesome. Cui Shicheng boasted that it was a trivial matter, not to mention that he did not commit any crimes, and the local government was at fault first.

Although Cui Shicheng was full of promises, Cui Dongxu was still a little worried. After all, his father was not in the officialdom.To Cui Dongxu's surprise, within a few days, Cui Shicheng told him that he had been released and he was fine.Hearing the result, Cui Dongxu was relieved, and wanted to call Qiu Shangzhi to inquire about the situation, but he was afraid that it would be revealed that he was helping behind, so he had to give up.

The microscope at home was broken. Cui Dongxu went to the instrument market on the weekend and ordered a piece of the most advanced imported equipment. When passing by Binjiang Garden on the way home, he suddenly had the idea of ​​going for a walk by the river to see the scenery. , then parked the car and got out of the car.

Because it is the weekend, there are many people who come to Binjiang Park to relax. Most of them are young couples with their children, and there are also many couples.Blowing the leisurely river breeze, looking at the red flowers and green trees, and the leisurely tourists coming and going, Cui Dongxu was in a good mood, and sat down and rested in a small pavilion in a secluded place where he could see the river. .

Looking at the surrounding scenery, Cui Dongxu suffered another occupational disease. When he was staring at the short-leaved morning glory beside the gazebo and wondering if it was over-fertilized, there was a young couple laughing and coming from the riverside along the embankment. The two chatted and laughed a lot, discussing the plot in the movie, the girl was petite and dainty, snuggled up to the man like a bird and chatted while walking.The man helped the girl carry the bag with one hand, put his arm around her waist with the other, and echoed the girl's words with a smile.

Cui Dongxu watched the couple pass by, full of envy, and felt how beautiful love is, looking at them is like a painting.

Thinking of love, Cui Dongxu couldn't help but think of his aunt, grandmother, father, colleagues, mentors and other people's concern for his marriage, hey, yes, love should be possible for me, why did I survive to thirty by myself without knowing it?Why don't you have any intention of finding a girlfriend?Yes, it's time to find a girlfriend, and there is no longer any delay.

As soon as he thought of making a girlfriend, Cui Dongxu immediately had a large number of candidates like a movie playing in his mind.How is Mr. Cao?She and I are colleagues, from the same college, and they are decent-looking people. They always like to walk around me in a casual way. She must have thoughts about me. What if her wishes are not fulfilled?The best friend my cousin Geng Ziyi introduced to me last time is not bad, she is very beautiful, although she is four or five years older than me, she deserves it... However, it seems that the girl likes to make up very much, if she wants to kiss, she must be Kissed the powder.The female student from the Department of Applied Biological Sciences who sneaked into my dormitory is also okay. She looks very pure. She has been secretly in love with us for two or three years, and it's hard to hold back. Why don't you hook up with her?Hook up?Yes, she is a student and I am a teacher. If you fall in love at school, it will definitely attract criticism.A few months ago, I went to a dinner with my dad. The female owner of the car dealership seemed to want to eat me up. She still makes a few harassing calls from time to time to ask me to see the car, saying that she wants to give me a big discount. , although I am four or five years older than me, but I don't look that old, and I am more fashionable than my cousin Geng Qitong.No, it seems that Dad is very unhappy when she shows affection to me, and looks a bit disgusted with her. Dad was refined in the flowers. Could it be that Dad had a past with her?Chaos, chaos, death, this is evil.What's more, at the last high school reunion, the younger sister of the former best friend was a young girl, slim and graceful, and the best friend wanted to take advantage of me, always thinking that I would be his brother-in-law, met several times, girl The personality is not bad, it has a classic taste...

One by one came up, and one by one was rejected, Cui Dongxu finally sighed, it’s over, what am I thinking, why don’t I feel anxious about the relationship between men and women? , Just like my aunt, reading too many books has damaged her mind, she doesn't want children and I don't want a wife?No, no, it must be that my puberty came too late, and it hasn't arrived yet.Cui Dongxu touched his cheek comfortingly. Fortunately, the skin is still tender, and there is still a lot of capital. It is not too late to wait.

When I went to work on Monday, I didn't expect that there was a mess in the school and something happened.When Cui Dongxu asked, he was taken aback. A student from the Department of Plant Protection committed suicide by jumping into the lake.

"How old are you? What's your name?" Cui Dongxu asked the lecturer who was usually the most gossip.

"A senior, Jiang Zhaoyun from the Department of Plant Protection."

"Jiang Zhaoyun?" Cui Dongxu's heart skipped a beat. He's seen that kid before, and he often comes over to ask some questions. Although he feels a bit weird, he's generally good, and he's happy with everyone. "Isn't this about to graduate soon, because of something?"

"I heard it's about feelings."

"Dumped by your girlfriend?" Cui Dongxu sighed secretly, a child is a child, and if the relationship goes wrong, life is worthless.

"About that," the lecturer said strangely, "However, it's not a girl who fell in love with him, but a male student."

"A man and a man fall in love, no...you will..." Cui Dongxu suddenly petrified, this is the first time he heard this extraterrestrial words.