Chapter 42 The humble young master
Xianglili Factory is in full swing.
In addition to online consumers, they have recently received orders from many hotels and restaurants across the country.
Business is getting better and better, and there are more and more people in the factory. Su Qingyu has been busy leading people these past two days. Thinking that Xi Qinghe has been helping him in the factory these days, he wonders how his project is progressing.
During lunch, Su Qingyu asked him: "How about I visit Xiangli County with you again?"
Xiangli County is not big, so they actually did a lot of shopping in the past two days. Over the past month or so, they have also learned a lot about the social ecology here while running Xiangli. Su Qingyu felt that maybe Xi Qinghe needed a more detailed and in-depth understanding.
Xi Qinghe: "Can you leave today?"
Su Qingyu: "It's not like I can't survive without Xianglili."
After Xianglili got better and better, many people who were outside came back, including college students and people doing business outside.
Su Qingyu deliberately led them, laid a good foundation, and after his "death", let them lead Xianglili to continue to develop.
Xi Qinghe smiled and said, "Okay, I have a gift for you."
"A gift?" Su Qingyu was curious, "What gift?"
Xi Qinghe: "Just go and take a look and you will know."
Xi Qinghe drove Su Qingyu out of the factory. After the car drove on the road for a while, Su Qingyu saw that he was driving towards the mountainous area.
There are four mountains in Xiangli County, with different heights and close together.
The car stopped at the foot of the highest mountain on the far left, and Xi Qinghe took Su Qingyu to climb up the mountain.
Su Qingyu followed him, interested but lazily, "Senior Xi, your gift to me is to take me to an outdoor fitness session when I am tired from work?"
Xi Qinghe actually answered seriously, "No."
He turned to look at Su Qingyu, with his hands behind his back, "I can give you the gift now."
Su Qingyu looked at Xi Qinghe's hand behind his back, stretched out his hand to him, and said with a smile: "Here, give it to me."
Xi Qinghe put a palm-shaped heart-shaped green leaf into his hand.
Su Qingyu: "..."
Su Qingyu: [Is this a straight man giving gifts? 】
527: [What's wrong, doesn't giving a luxury watch and diamonds make you a straight man? This gift is so fresh and heart-shaped. 】
Su Qingyu: [……]
He still smiled while looking at it, "Senior Xi, is this your gift? Have you ever had a boyfriend? Even sending flowers is better than sending green leaves."
Xi Qinghe was silent for a few seconds, then stretched out his other hand from behind and placed a small purple flower in his hand.
Su Qingyu: "..."
527: [……]
527 coughed, [I predicted your prediction and prepared flowers. 】
The little purple flower must have been in Xi Qinghe's hand for some time. It was still covered with the warmth of his palm, and it was lined up with the green leaves on the left and right of his hand.
Su Qingyu looked at them in silence for a long time. This was really the most refreshing gift he had ever received in his life.
Is this a gift from the God of Human Resources and Environmental Studies?
He didn't know how to evaluate it. If a child gave him such a gift, he would still feel childlike, fresh and cute, but this was Xi Qinghe, who was about to get a doctorate.
Xi Qinghe pointed to the green leaf in his palm and said, "This is the leaf of the mountain dragon."
"What?" Su Qingyu didn't respond, and then laughed again, "You still know its name."
It's like a gift from an old scholar of biology.
"Yeah." Xi Qinghe picked another such leaf casually, "It's called Pangolin. It's a kind of medicinal material. In recent years, there are fewer and fewer wild ones, and artificial cultivation has begun."
Su Qingyu was stunned and looked up at him, as if she knew what he meant.
Xi Qinghe said: "The cultivation technology of pangolins is not difficult, mainly due to the land and climate. There are wild pangolins in Xiangli County, which shows that large-scale artificial cultivation can be done here."
"It is not a precious medicinal material, but the market demand is huge. Planting pangolins should result in higher income than planting soybeans."
Su Qingyu lowered his head and looked at this unattractive leaf.
The most cultivated soybeans in Xiangli County are soybeans. Based on this feature, he created Xianglili to make stinky tofu and other soy products. However, this depends on the brand and quality. After he left, more and more imitated brands began. Lili doesn't know if she can still be as enthusiastic as she is now. There are many uncertainties.
But Pangolin is stable, the land, climate, and planting methods cannot be taken away by others.
Don't ask for great wealth, it is enough to feed and clothe your family.
Su Qingyu asked again: "Where is this little purple flower?"
Xi Qinghe said: "This is Platycodon grandiflorum."
"Platycodon?" Su Qingyu was a little confused, "The platycodon I received is not like this."
As a star, Su Qingyu is accustomed to receiving flowers. The common flowers in bouquets are those. Platycodon is one kind. Su Qingyu has seen a lot of platycodon in different colors and forms, but never seen anything like this.
The purple flower in his hand had a single petal, five corners, and was small. It looked completely different from the platycodon he knew.
Is it because the flowers are different in different worlds?
Xi Qinghe said: "What you received is the ornamental fresh-cut flower Lisianthus, which is mainly used for medicinal and edible purposes."
Su Qingyu understood that this could also be grown on a large scale in Xiangli County.
Xi Qinghe said: "I have done research and found that the market demand for Platycodon is also very large. It can be sown in autumn, with a short cycle and quick returns. It can mainly be used as a supplement to Pangolin. The roots of Pangolin are used as medicine, so the planting time is relatively long and the quality is good. It will take two or three years to harvest.”
"At the same time, although this kind of platycodon is mainly used for medicinal and edible purposes, it can also be used as an ornamental flower, which can be cut fresh and kept in vases. If planted on a large scale, it can be used to develop special tourist farmhouses and bring in other income."
Su Qingyu: "There are these things here, but farmers do not plant them in large quantities. It may be due to technology, or they may not think they are very good. We must first persuade them to use their land for planting, especially for pangolins, which take two or three years to grow." If there is a harvest, it may not be that easy.”
Xi Qinghe shook his head, "Don't persuade me. We will open a pangolin planting demonstration base ourselves at the beginning. We will first learn the technology to grow on a large scale. The base requires many people to work, and this is also an employment opportunity."
"They learn to plant at work and see the profits at the same time, so they will naturally want to plant. We can let workers who want to plant seedlings take the seedlings home and plant them themselves."
Su Qingyu looked at him with bright eyes, "Good idea."
Xi Qinghe chuckled, slightly moved his eyes to look at the pangolin next to him, and said, "It's my first time to give a gift, it's a bit sloppy."
He paused for a moment, then turned his head to look at Su Qingyu, and asked seriously: "Do you like it?"
Su Qingyu lowered his head and glanced at the palm-shaped heart-shaped leaves and the small five-pointed purple flowers. He looked up at him and said, "I like it."
I really like it, I feel very good and my heart is full.
It seemed like he had felt this way before, as if he had received such a gift before. It didn't seem expensive and rare, but it was filled with a person's thoughts.
527: [Heh. 】
Su Qingyu: [……]
527: [Do you still feel straight? 】
Su Qingyu: [There are still some straight men, and straight men can also give good gifts. 】
527: [……]
The two walked around the mountain again and found a few more pangolins. These wild pangolins had been growing on the mountain for who knows how many years. The two pulled out a few trees and dug out thick rhizomes, which looked a bit like dragons. Su Qingyu Know the origin of its name.
He became interested, and he and Xi Qinghe went all over the mountains and fields to look for the mountain dragon and Platycodon grandiflorum, from the mountains to the fields.
They found that someone was also picking up platycodon, a very old man.
Su Qingyu chatted with her and found that she knew that the roots of platycodon could be dried and used to make porridge, but she had never thought of planting them. They had reserved precious land for soybeans, which could stably produce beans and sell them for money. How could they grow this kind of beans? What about wildflowers?
The two of them didn't go back until it was time for dinner.
I returned home with a full load, a bag of pangolins and a handful of platycodon for Jin Wanwan.
Jin Wanwan was about to undergo a heart transplant, and Su Qingyu wouldn't let her stay in the factory for longer. She had been at home most of the time these two days. When they returned, she had already prepared dinner and was waiting for them.
As soon as she saw the flower in Su Qingyu's hand, she said, "Gou Bao? Chu Chu, have you picked the Gou Bao flower and come back?"
"Gou Baohua?" Su Qingyu raised the purple flower in her hand and asked, "Mom, is this a Gou Baohua?"
Jin Wanwan nodded, "Yes, you picked it when you were a child, have you forgotten?"
Su Qingyu couldn't help but laugh. He probably wanted to stop, but the more he held it in, the more he wanted to laugh, and his shoulders trembled with laughter.
Xi Qinghe: "..."
527: [……]
Did our dog offend you, or did our baby offend you?
Platycodon has a very affectionate name called Goubao in Xiangli County. According to Jin Wanwan, people here also know that the roots of Goubao are edible, but the taste is not very good. Generally, it is not that they cannot eat it, but they will not eat it.
The same goes for the Pangolin. The Pangolin also has a name in Xiangli County, called Tushanshu. Locals who have back pain will find some on the mountain and use it to brew wine.
Jin Wanwan was surprised when she heard that Su Qingyu and Xi Qinghe said they wanted to plant it on a large scale, "Can this thing be grown on a large scale like a crop?"
Xi Qinghe said: "Many places have begun to cultivate Pangolin. It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and there are pharmaceutical factories that harvest it regularly."
The main thing they want to plant on a large scale is Pangolin, and platycodon is just a supplement.
Su Qingyu pushed the vase with Platycodon in front of Jin Wanwan, "Mom, it also has a beautiful name called Platycodon. It looks beautiful too, right?"
This kind of lisianthus is not as delicate as the cut flower lisianthus, but the small purple five-cornered flowers are also beautiful in bloom.
"Mom, I will plant one when the time comes. After your transplanted heart is stable, we will buy a white dress and go take pictures in the sea of platycodon flowers."
Jin Wanwan's eyes suddenly lit up. She looked at the purple five-cornered flowers in front of her and thought about how they would bloom into a sea of purple flowers.
She was wandering in it wearing a white dress...
Jin Wanwan blushed a little and waved her hands in embarrassment, "I'm still wearing a dress. I'm still wearing a dress no matter how old I am."
She hadn't worn a skirt in almost twenty years.
She almost forgot the last time she wore a skirt.
Su Qingyu: "My mother has a good figure and is beautiful, why can't she wear a dress?"
Jin Wanwan was even more embarrassed, and couldn't help but laugh. The crow's feet were obvious, and the thin red on her cheeks was like a girl's.
They chatted happily while eating dinner, and the atmosphere was relaxed and happy.
The atmosphere didn't last long, and was suddenly interrupted by a hoarse voice that sounded more like crying than crying, "Jiang Chu! Jiang Chu! I had such a hard time looking for you!"
Su Qingyu turned around and saw the helpless Hua Shuming at the door, the silent Xia Hongyu, the stiff Sheng Xun, and the nervous Gu Mengchen.
"..."
Jin Wanwan saw a few people who looked like they were from big cities and stood up quickly, "Chu Chu, who are they?"
Before Su Qingyu could answer, Hua Shuming pulled his suitcase in and said, "Auntie, we are Jiang Chu's good friends in City B. We are here to eat... and see him."
He looked at Xi Qinghe, who had a cold face, and said, "I'm still his eldest nephew."
"Oh oh oh." Jin Wanwan said hurriedly: "Come in quickly, please come in. Are you hungry? I'll cook for you."
"Hey! Thank you, auntie, can you have some stinky tofu?" Hua Shuming said eagerly.
Because of his words, Jin Wanwan became less restrained. It might also be because he was Xi Qinghe's nephew and she was particularly enthusiastic about him. "Don't worry, I don't dare to say anything else. Stinky tofu is enough."
"Great! Thank you, auntie!"
"..."
After Jin Wanwan entered the kitchen, the atmosphere was very silent for a moment.
The smile that finally rose on Hua Shuming's face froze little by little.
When he first waited for the train, he thought the atmosphere was the most awkward at that time. Fortunately, they only waited for a few minutes before they lined up to board the train, and they were not in the same carriage. He did not expect that after getting off the train, they would have to board the same bus. Xiangli County.
Because they got off the train in the afternoon, there were only three buses a day from the train station to Xiangli County, and that was the last bus, which happened to have only the last four seats left.
The seats in the last row of the old-fashioned bus are five connected, with a fellow by the window and the four of them sitting there...
Hua Shuming still gets goosebumps when he thinks back to the scene at that time.
At that time, Shengxun pulled his collar and stood up. He probably wanted to stand in the aisle, but the driver with a loud voice scolded him, "If you don't sit down if there is a seat available, what are you doing? You can do that, right?"
"..."
After Shengxun sat back down, Hua Shuming's toes had already begun digging into the bottom of the car.
He was tortured both physically and mentally along the way, and he always wanted someone to say something, but Xia Hongyu was a boring gourd. If those two people spoke...
"?"
If it doesn't work out, they should stop talking and don't dare to think about it.
When he didn't want them to speak, the two of them spoke.
Sheng Xun said to Gu Mengchen, "Long time no see. Have you returned to China?"
Gu Mengchen said "hmm".
About a century later.
Sheng Xun asked again: "What are you doing in Xiangli County?"
Gu Mengchen asked: "What about you?"
"..."
Hua Shuming grabbed his hair hard.
Finally arrived in Xiangli County.
Hua Shuming breathed a sigh of relief. He thought he was finally liberated, but he didn't expect that the worst was yet to come.
With a glimmer of hope, Hua Shuming said to Gu Mengchen, "Senior, um, let's go first."
Gu Mengchen asked: "Who are you going to find?"
Hua Shuming: "Jiang Chu."
Gu Mengchen: "What a coincidence, I'm going to his house too."
"..."
Hua Shuming wanted to give Jiang Chu a surprise, so he didn't tell Jiang Chu, so they actually didn't know where Jiang Chu lived. They originally wanted to take a taxi directly to the Xiangli Factory, but who knew that there were no regular taxis in this small county town at night? Several cars.
Fortunately, they were not far from the night market. Thinking that Jiang Chu had sold stinky tofu there, they went there to inquire and happened to see Uncle Li selling watermelons.
"Are you looking for Jiang Chu? Are you Chu Wa's friend?"
When Uncle Li shouted, everyone around them looked at them. They didn't know Jiang Chu was so famous here.
A young man walked up to them and said enthusiastically: "Let's go, I will take you to Brother Jiang's house."
The four of them sat in the young man's truck again, enjoying the cool night breeze together.
"..."
When he finally saw Jiang Chu, he almost cried, but he forgot that meeting Jiang Chu was the most embarrassing moment.
Two people who looked so similar were in the yard.
No one spoke.
527 asked: [Host, how do you feel? 】
Su Qingyu: [Not as good-looking as me. 】
527: [……]
527: [That’s what you think? Don’t you have any other feelings about Bai Yueguang? 】
Su Qingyu: [I don’t hate him anyway, and I don’t mean to curse him to death. It’s just that after being bound to your system, it’s hard for me to hate people who look like me. I always feel that they are all my possible parties and give me merit. the client. 】
527: [……]
Yes, very dedicated.
Several people at the table were embarrassed or silent, but he, the central figure, was the most relaxed.
The first person to break the silence was Xi Qinghe. He lifted the kettle on the table to get hot water.
Hua Shuming, who was originally quite frightened of him, was no longer frightened at all now. This was a relative, and he was busy keeping up.
Under the cover of the sound of chili sauce stir-frying in the kitchen, Hua Shuming, who was in urgent need of relief, grabbed his uncle and whispered: "Uncle, are you feeling strange now? I think I have to tell you the situation."
Hua Shuming: "You can see it, right? Gu Mengchen and Jiang Chu look very similar."
Xi Qinghe: "It doesn't look like that."
Hua Shuming: "Ah? Ah! It was Shengxun who thought they were very similar. That's right. Gu Mengchen was Shengxun's first love, Bai Yueguang. When he couldn't pursue Gu Mengchen, Shengxun found Jiang Chu as a substitute. They dated for three years. broke up."
"That's the thing. I don't know why Sheng Xun followed me to see Jiang Chu. What's even weirder is that Gu Mengchen came too for some reason."
"Uncle, tell me, does Shengxun feel uncomfortable seeing his ex? As for Gu Mengchen, he probably knows that Jiang Chu is his substitute and wants to come and see him? What do you mean by coming to see his stand-in? Could it be that he actually likes Shengxun? Yes, do you mind a little bit?"
I don't know why, Xi Qinghe didn't speak the whole time. The more he listened, the more silent he became, and his expression became colder.
They walked into the kitchen, and Jin Wanwan smiled when she saw them, "I didn't expect you to be nephews. You look about the same age, and you don't look alike."
Hua Shuming touched his head and said, "I look more like my dad."
Jin Wanwan smiled again and looked out again, "It's not my mother's eyes. I feel that the man in the white shirt looks very similar to my Chu Chu."
"..."
Hua Shuming could already imagine how he would spend his time in Xiangli County.
Stinky tofu is on the table.
Su Qingyu first brought a box and placed it in front of Gu Mengchen, "Try my mother's craftsmanship."
Then he brought a bowl and placed it in front of Sheng Xun, smiling and saying, "Eat more."
"..."
Shengxun's face turned dark.
With a table full of stinky tofu, he felt stiff and almost suffocated.
He really hates stinky tofu, especially hates Jiang Chu eating stinky tofu, and also hates Jiang Chu letting him and Gu Mengchen eat stinky tofu.
How could they eat it.
He also deliberately gave it to them to eat.
Hua Shuming and Xia Hongyu took the stinky tofu and couldn't wait to eat it. Su Qingyu, who had eaten about the same amount, also picked up a box to eat, and Xi Qinghe also picked up a piece of stinky tofu.
Gu Mengchen sat there with his spine straight, hesitating with his chopsticks. Seeing Xi Qinghe eating, he clenched his chopsticks and put a piece into his mouth.
Shengxun watched in disbelief as his artistic muse ate a piece of stinky tofu, as if his worldview had been violently impacted.
Then, he immediately looked at Jiang Chu and saw Jiang Chu looking at him in a good mood.
He smiled happily and asked Gu Mengchen: "How does it taste?"
Gu Mengchen said in surprise: "It's actually delicious!"
Su Qingyu smiled even more happily. He looked at Shengxun who was so shocked that he was in a daze. "Shengxun, why don't you eat it? You don't hate stinky tofu, do you? Why do you come to Xiangli County if you hate stinky tofu?"
Everyone at the table looked at him.
I don’t know why, but I felt that both Xi Qinghe and Jiang Chu were unhappy. Gu Mengchen said to Shengxun, “Auntie made it specially. Try it. It’s really delicious.”
"..."
527 covered the cow's head, feeling that Sheng Xun's face was unbearable.
Shengxun liked Gu Mengchen and regarded Jiang Chu as his substitute. He asked Jiang Chu to use the perfume he used to ensure that he smelled of him. He hated the smell of stinky tofu on Jiang Chu because his white moonlight was impossible. Eat things like stinky tofu.
But now, his Bai Yueguang not only ate it in front of him and his substitute ex-boyfriend, but also persuaded him to eat it.
The key is that he also ate it in front of Bai Yueguang and his substitute ex-boyfriend.
【……】
527 complexly sighed and said to Su Qingyu: [Host, the repentance value has increased by 5 points. It seems that even the Fengdu Master system thinks that Sheng Xun eating stinky tofu is a very big change. 】
Su Qingyu: [……]
Jin Wanwan saw Su Qingyu beaming and said to them, "Eat more. My son is so happy that you are here. You must be very good friends, right?"
"..."
Hua Shuming eats stinky tofu soullessly.
Auntie, is Jiang Chu really happy?
No, you don't.
That's a smile hiding a knife, and it's very dangerous now.
Jin Wanwan really saw that her son was very happy. She said, "You guys eat, I will clean up the guest room. There are two other rooms. You can stay at home."
Su Qingyu: "..."
Can the guest room be tidied up now?
Yes, now that Jin Wanwan is making stinky tofu in the factory, there is no need to keep those raw materials and big vats at home, and the room can naturally be tidied up.
But, they all seemed to have forgotten about it.
Su Qingyu: "Mom, just rest. They have to take care of themselves."
"You kid, what are you talking about?" Jin Wanwan scolded him, "Your friends come all the way to see you, and this is how you treat your guests?"
Su Qingyu: "You have an operation in two days, so it's time to rest."
Upon hearing what he said, Hua Shuming said: "Auntie, go and have a rest. We can just stay in the hotel."
Jin Wanwan cried and laughed, "There's no hotel nearby."
Hua Shuming was confused, "Then we can clean up ourselves. Go and have a rest. Don't let us sleep uneasily."
Xia Hongyu and Gu Mengchen also persuaded her to rest. After some persuasion, Jin Wanwan finally went back to her room to sleep.
As soon as she left, the remaining people fell into silence again.
Su Qingyu suggested: "Why don't you start cleaning up the house now?"
His proposal was unanimously agreed upon, and in such circumstances it was always good to have something done.
As expected, the brine tanks and raw material shelves in the two rooms are no longer there, and it is not troublesome to put them away.
The problem is that one room was originally used as a guest room, so it had a bed, and the other room was a storage room without a bed.
Standing at the door of the storage room, Su Qingyu said: "The two people who live here are going to make bunks on the floor."
He asked with great interest: "Who lives in this room?"
When he asked, Hua Shuming discovered another problem. They wanted to sleep in one room, so how to divide them?
He wanted to sleep in the same room with Xia Hongyu, but there were only two left, Sheng Xun and Gu Mengchen sleeping in the same room - so why not explode?
He hurriedly said: "Shengxun and I will sleep in this room! It doesn't matter if it's on the floor! Look at how soft this mattress is!"
Shengxun: "..."
Su Qingyu seemed very happy. He smiled and said, "Okay, then you can tidy up a little more and then go to bed. We'll go to bed too."
Hua Shuming breathed a sigh of relief. He thought the embarrassment was finally over, but he didn't hear what "we" meant until he saw Jiang Chu and his uncle walking towards the same room together.
"...?"
Something seems wrong?
Do they sleep together?
Isn’t there an empty room?
He turned his head blankly and saw the faces of the three people behind him, each one more terrifying than the last.
"???"