The man looked at Liu Qingshan dumbfounded.

He could see at a glance that Liu Qingshan's clothes were very cheap and ordinary, and he didn't have any expensive accessories on his body, even the sneakers on his feet didn't seem to exceed a hundred yuan.

But such a person, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was shocked.

He sneered, "Do you mean that these arrangements are too fake?"

"That's right. Liu Qingshan looked at the stunned man and said with a smile, "Don't you think it's fake? I think that the truly fresh flowers and plants should be like the heroes in martial arts, such as Shen Lang in the history of martial arts, heroic, magnificent, and informal, rather than being as well-behaved as a robot." ”

"But do you know how difficult it is?" said the man, looking at the man-made landscaping not far away, "Do you know how difficult it is to find the kind of flowers and trees that you are talking about? Ninety-nine percent of the flowers and trees circulating on the market today are artificially planted, and it is basically difficult for such flowers and trees to be heroic." Because renting land requires money, labor requires money, and operation requires money, and the growth of flowers and trees is a very long process, if you want to maintain profitability without losing money, you must use chemical fertilizers and hormones to give birth to flowers and trees, so that at least 90% of the flowers and trees on the market can not do what you say. ”

The man frowned and continued, "Although wild flowers and trees can do this, the cost of transplanting wild flowers and trees is much greater than planting. For example, after transplanting a wild rhododendron in the mountain, it is still difficult to ensure that the transplanted rhododendron can survive after a series of procedures such as searching, digging, transplanting, planting, slowing down the seedlings, maintaining, curing, etc. ”

Liu Qingshan nodded: "Indeed, wild rhododendrons are too delicate, and once they leave the original soil, it will be difficult to grow them alive, so if you want to transplant wild azaleas, you must dig up the soil balls together." ”

"How is that possible?" said the man, "it's hard to just dig up a slightly larger azalea, and it's impossible to dig up the earth balls along with it." ”

He looked at Liu Qingshan, and suddenly stopped smiling: "Last time, I saw a few big azaleas on your carriage, and I also gave you a business card to contact me, why didn't you contact me?"

Liu Qingshan thought of this stubble at this time, so he smiled very embarrassedly: "Oh, that, that, I forgot if you didn't say it, I'm really sorry, there are too many things in my family, so I forgot about it." I'm really sorry. ”

Liu Qingshan really forgot.

The last time this man gave him his business card, he happened to encounter a traffic jam on the road, and the car behind kept honking his horn to urge, which made him upset, so he forgot about it.

He apologized one after another: "I really forgot, I didn't mean not to contact you, you think, you said that you fell in love with my flowers, I can't get along with money, don't you say?"

The man nodded, sighed, and said regretfully: "Indeed, no one will have trouble with money. However, it's a pity, if you had contacted me at that time, maybe your azaleas would have been able to enter this flower fair. ”

"Huh, what do you mean?" Liu Qingshan was puzzled.

The man explained: "Didn't I just tell you that this flower fair is fully represented by our company, although this is the government's plan, but this flower fair is as small as a grass, as big as a house, all of which are fully arranged by our company." At the same time, the flower fair also held a special triennial flower show competition, all horticultural flower companies in the city can participate. As the largest flower and tree company and the organizer of this event, we must also participate in the competition, and we must not only participate in the competition, but also have the determination to win the gold award, so as not to make our peers laugh. ”

"Why do you have to win the gold award, just do your best. ”

"Hehe, you don't understand, think about it, our company won such a big project from the government this time, and the whole authority to purchase all the flowers and trees on the site, if we fail to win the gold medal in the flower show competition, it will definitely be smeared by peers that we are not relying on strength to win this year's flower fair project, but by taking the relationship. ”

Liu Qingshan raised his eyebrows, he didn't know much about these things.

He was just curious: "Then did you get the gold medal in the end?"

The man shook his head in frustration: "No, we won a bronze award." Because of the disagreement within the company, the opinions of various departments were not consistent, and the entries were finally selected according to the voting method. However, the entry was really indescribable, and in the end, it only barely won a bronze award. I feel that people still give the bronze award because we are a big company, otherwise we won't be able to win the award at all. ”

"Huh?" This result surprised Liu Qingshan, "Didn't you say that your company is the largest local flower and tree company, why is it so bad, there are not even better flowers and trees." ”

"It's not that there isn't, it's that the internal struggle is too strong. The man explained, "Each of our departments has to choose a work out, my department selected a very strong wild red-backed cinnabar root, if it is this cinnabar root to participate in the competition, you can definitely win the gold medal, because it has the heroic posture you said, it is really a very rare cinnabar root, and it is also red-backed, the body size is also very rare and tall, and the spirit is incomparable to the fullness and freedom of artificial flowers and trees." However, because of me, it didn't stand out from the crowd and in the end, it didn't represent our company in the competition. ”

The man felt a little strange.

He didn't know why he complained about it.

It stands to reason that he is not familiar with Liu Qingshan, and he shouldn't pour bitter water with Liu Qingshan, but Liu Qingshan gives people a very warm feeling, just like a mountain, like a blue sky, like a white cloud, which makes people feel comfortable.

Therefore, he couldn't help but say the depression suppressed in his heart: "Don't laugh at me, I'm just too depressed, that's why I'm telling you so much, I don't think people in other departments are too much, but I think that since everyone is in the same company, we should work together, and there is really no need to engage in internal struggles for the so-called false name." ”

Liu Qingshan smiled.

I heard that the people in the city have a deeper mind, but seeing this lost man at this moment has changed his opinion of the people in the city.

It can only be said that there are people who are scheming and deep-minded, but the same is true for simple people, everywhere.

The man continued: "At that time, I was very angry when my cinnabar root was rejected by them on the grounds that the flowers were not beautiful, and I thought, I am going to find the azaleas that bloom beautifully. So, I went into the mountains that day, and then on the way back there was a problem with the car, but thankfully you helped me. At that time, so many people watched, and you helped me, it was really fate. ”

Liu Qingshan smiled embarrassedly: "It's just a gesture, don't take it to heart." ”

The man said regretfully: "Although I dug up the azaleas that day, I knew that the wild azaleas I dug up were too ordinary, and there was no way to win the competition, and then, I happened to see your azaleas again, I thought, if your azaleas can participate, they will definitely win the gold medal, but I didn't expect that you didn't contact me at all." ”

This made Liu Qingshan more and more embarrassed: "That, I didn't expect you to value my azaleas so much, I thought you were just like those rich people, just trying to be fresh, but I didn't expect you to give them so much hope." ”

"Alas, forget it, it's too late to say anything now. The man said, "Our company has now become a laughing stock in the industry, and everyone says that our company is a company that only relies on relationships." The minister relied on the relationship from the flower farmer who served the flowers and plants to the boss of the department, and the broken company without strength also won such a large public project by relying on the relationship, and our company is a complete relationship company. Now they all say so. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man's cell phone rang. After answering the phone, he said to Liu Qingshan: "I still have something, I want to go first, we met by accident twice, just add a WeChat now." ”

"Ahh ”

"What?" the man discretes.

Liu Qingshan took out his mobile phone and said while joining the man's WeChat: "Do you remember that once you bought a lot of winter bamboo shoots on the side of the road in Ziyu Town?"

The man's eyes widened, he looked Liu Qingshan up and down, and said in surprise: "You are the young man who sells winter bamboo shoots?"

Liu Qingshan nodded.

"I said how can it be a little familiar, the last time you helped me push the cart, I felt a little familiar. The man was pleasantly surprised, "It seems that we are really fated." ”

"It's more than that. Liu Qingshan said, "The business card you gave me said, your surname is He, you are from the flower and tree company, and you have a big red-backed cinnabar root, which is still wild, if I guess correctly, the person who bought tens of thousands of cinnabar roots from me is probably also you." ”

The man was completely stunned.

He nodded indifferently and muttered in disbelief: "This must be the fate of several lifetimes." ”

"Hahaha. Liu Qingshan smiled, "I didn't expect that these people are actually you, I can only say that the world is really small." ”

The man nodded vigorously: "My name is He Feng, let's chat on WeChat when I have time, I'm going back first now, I'm afraid there is no way to invite you to dinner today, haha, but next time I will definitely invite you to dinner." ”

"It's okay, you go get busy first. ”

Liu Qingshan looked at the distant back of the man named He Feng, and couldn't help but smile.

If it weren't for He Feng's personal confirmation, it would be hard to imagine that the person who bought winter bamboo shoots, the person who bought cinnabar roots, and the person who met on the road last time were actually the same person.

This fate is really not shallow.

After leaving the Garden Expo Park, Liu Qingshan returned to the square to find his parents.

When they found the two, they were standing in front of a powder shop in a shopping mall.

The noodle shop in this mall is no worse than the noodle shop outside. Although this noodle shop is only a novice shop, it has a bright decoration and looks very hygienic and tidy, and you can tell that a bowl of noodles here is much more expensive than a bowl of noodles from a small shop outside.

Wu Cuimei frowned and looked at the heat of the rice noodles in the bowls of the diners inside, and said, "Well, let's go outside and buy a few steamed buns and eat them." ”

"Oh, I'm here, why are you saving this money?" Liu Yuanhe was wrong, "My son gave us so much money, and it doesn't cost much to eat powder." ”

"What doesn't cost much. Wu Cuimei said unhappily, "You also said just now, the cheapest bowl of noodles here costs more than 20 yuan, the expensive one costs forty or fifty yuan a bowl, and the stall on the side of the road outside costs only six or seven yuan a bowl, why should we waste this money." ”

"A few dozen dollars is not a few hundred dollars. We've all been suffering all our lives, and it's okay to break the bank once or twice once in a while. Although Liu Yuanhe said it very easily, he was actually very reluctant in his heart.

However, thinking that the old woman has suffered all her life with her, and now that her ancestors have accumulated virtue, her son has great skills, made a lot of money, and finally came to the big city, then we will spend money and let the old woman enjoy it.

Thinking of this, I don't feel so sorry for money.

However, Wu Cuimei is used to it and insists on disagreeing.

When the two of them were at a stalemate, Liu Qingshan came over and said with a smile: "Oh, as for you." ”

Seeing that her son was coming, Wu Cuimei sued first: "Qingshan, look at your father, he just took the thousands of yuan you gave him and regarded himself as a rich man, so he had to pull me to eat these dozens of yuan a bowl of rice noodles." ”

"Hey, it's really kind and not reciprocated, I really want to treat you to something delicious, and you still say that about me. ”

"Oh, come on, Dad, don't be angry. Mom, you too, it's hard to come to the city for a trip, what are you doing with that money?" Liu Qingshan took his mother's arm and said affectionately, "Let's go, Mom, I'll take you to eat something delicious." ”

"Oh, don't eat it, now that you're back, let's just go home and eat again, you can buy a pound of pork for more than 20 yuan and go back to eat, why waste it outside." ”

"Mom, don't be verbose, just follow me to eat, and I don't want you to spend money. Liu Qingshan grabbed his mother's arm and walked forward.

Seeing that his son didn't enter the noodle shop, Liu Yuanhe was puzzled: "Don't you eat noodle?"

"What kind of powder to eat, I invite you to a big meal. ”

The so-called feast is naturally not an extremely luxurious delicacies from the mountains and seas.

For Liu Qingshan's family, a restaurant that looks good is the location of the big meal.

Sitting at the window table in the Hunan restaurant, the eyes of the two people didn't know where to go.

Looking out the window, the traffic is crowded, so it's not lively. Looking at the house, the food is fragrant and the diners are bustling, so it is not tempting.

It wasn't until the eyes of the two fell on the menu in their son's hands and saw that the names of the dishes were marked with double- or three-digit prices next to them, that their eyes had a foothold.