Fifty-seven Boiled duck

"Madam, today the lord came back as if he was enchanted, he laughed from time to time, for no reason, and said some inexplicable things------ and he didn't even do the first thing he usually came back to water the flowers and prune the branches, and stayed alone in the study, you go and see. The housekeeper Sister Song saw her hostess Song Yalin enter the house, and quickly ran to her side and reported softly.

When Song Yalin heard this, she handed her bag to the housekeeper Sister Song, and walked straight outside the study. Seeing his hostess return, a few young Filipino servants quickly dispersed. Song Yalin knocked on the door, then twisted the door lock and entered.

"Wife, come back, wait, wait, the last word. Liu Mingyuan heard the familiar knock on the door, and without looking up, he knew that it was his wife Song Yalin, who had been married for more than 30 years.

"Pick up the students, the fish that slipped through the net, old man, what are you talking nonsense? Walking straight to the desk, Song Yalin saw the calligraphy and painting on the desk that had not yet completely dried: determined to work hard, like a tree. The roots and buds of the square have not yet dried up, and they have stems, but there are no branches. Branches followed by leaves, leaves followed by flowers, fruits. When planting roots at the beginning, just cultivate and irrigate, don't think about branches, don't think about leaves, don't think about flowers, don't think about real things, what is the benefit of suspense?

"Obviously, Wang Yangming's "Biography", why does it have an irrelevant name Zheng Xuanqi, who is he?" Song Yalin asked.

Liu Mingyuan did not directly answer his wife's questions, or like the husband and wife playing an unfinished guessing game with each other before, I guess you, you guess me: "I still remember that in 1977, Ning Bo, a 13-year-old genius boy in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, who was approved by the then Vice Premier of the State Council, was only one year younger than our eldest son Liu Zhicheng. ”

"Well, what's wrong?" Seeing that her old man looked old, Song Yalin had no choice but to continue, "A few months later, the junior class of the mainland's University of Science and Technology was born. Who can forget that you didn't often compare that genius to our family's ambition. Well, you see, now our family Zhicheng was finally admitted to Yale University in the United States, and after graduation, he has also become one of the Chinese teachers of Yale University, but when will he return to Hong Kong? I'm afraid that among them, old man, you should reflect on it!" Song Yalin has always wanted her two sons to return to Hong Kong, but the eldest son was difficult to run in with the education method between his husband and wife when he was a child (her husband was advocating an oriental family indoctrination education at that time, hoping that his son would become a dragon; and because he studied Catholicism in Hong Kong, he graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, advocating the open and free trial education of the West. ), or leave some regrets.

"It's all over, it's not that I want to bring my daughter-in-law back this year, that daughter-in-law is not also teaching at a university, and it's rare that she is also a Chinese. If I hadn't whipped him, he would have become a teacher at Yale University? Besides, you see that Chigo is much more clever, after graduating from Columbia Business School, he immediately returned to Hong Kong to join Peregrine, the largest investment bank in Hong Kong, and now he has been promoted to Peregrine Singapore business director, and the "prince charming" of the financial world is only one rank apart. But age, or our Zhigao has the advantage, Zhigao has just reached 30, Li Shizhen is 35, and he is one year older than Zhicheng. ”

"You are really, you are a lot older, you are better than this, than that, if Zhigao didn't have an elder brother Zhicheng as an example in front of him, he could work so hard------- but among the three, it is still our little padded jacket who feels the most sorry for us, knowing that the two brothers are not by your side and me, I would rather not go to the UK for further study than leave us, you see, it is better to have a daughter, okay?" Song Yalin said and talked about her youngest daughter Liu Yueyao, " In fact, you and I don't understand anything, she is just afraid that she herself has gone abroad, and you and I have no children at home, and I am lonely and lonely! I thought we were really confused------- and it was really not in vain that I gave birth to her at the risk of advanced maternal age. ”

In fact, Song Yalin deeply understands her wife, and he has a kind of daughter plot in his bones.

"Aren't you afraid of danger, you were so old at the time!"

"Go, who is older, my bones are tougher than yours, I think I was afraid that you couldn't do it at that time, hehehe------" Song Yalin covered her mouth, and said with such a joke.

"Oh, speaking of our little padded jacket, something suddenly comes to mind?" Liu Mingyuan remembered a small request from the student he had just recognized when he said goodbye to him, and asked him what good music schools in Hong Kong were currently available, which could recruit students who graduated from junior high school in the mainland.

So, Liu Mingyuan really began to tell what happened in the library today, and what Zheng Xuanqi did in other libraries before this.

"According to what you say, old man, this Zheng Xuanqi really has the potential to become a piece of beautiful jade, so isn't you, a cheap teacher, making a lot of money. In the past, you always said that grapes were sour because you couldn't eat grapes, but now it's good, a fish that slipped through the net, or maybe the big carp that jumped over the dragon gate. The words you old fellows in the mainland are not over with you, the tiger's mouth, old man, the bones must be really tough. ”

"Then they have to be able to grab it, hehe, I don't like the cooked duck, who can blame if it flies, besides, this duck flew to Hong Kong by itself, hahaha. No, no, Xiao Qi is not a duck------"

"Unabashed, how can anyone say that their student is a boiled duck! But then again, the student Xiaoqi you are talking about, he basically lives in a hotel, and there are two bodyguards by his side, according to the style of doing things in the mainland, he should be an official for the second or third generation?" Song Yalin thought about it carefully and said.

Liu Mingyuan listened to his wife's words, carefully thought about many details of Zheng Xuanqi, shook his head, and said: "It's not like, there is a bit of a red background in China, and you can come to Hong Kong casually, there is no surname Zheng in Beijing, and there is no one in Shanghai or Guangzhou; besides, I can't see a little bit of the rules, stubbornness, and passion of the red family style from his words and deeds, but on the contrary, he is a little more tactful and witty; and if it is really a red generation, he also needs to ask us about the music school in Hong Kong, and the family has long been clear." ”

"Well------ that makes sense. Isn't that why don't your students ask you to ask them about the school? This is easy to do, isn't our little padded jacket ready-made, her original school ------ let your students come to our house------ besides, I'm a teacher, he hasn't done the teacher's ceremony yet, it just so happens that I, an old Cambridge student, are also preparing to test him, is it like an old man, what you said is so exaggerated!"

"That's no problem, it's just Yueyao? You also know her little temper, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and she can't make sense of it, otherwise the matter of the Royal Academy of Music of the University of London would not be so decisive; besides, she has had an indescribable distrust of any genius, geek, and prodigy since she was a child, to be precise, a sense of disgust, it may be influenced by his eldest brother, and it is still a deviation in my education method at that time------" Liu Mingyuan frowned when he thought of his daughter.

"Hehe, okay, okay, knowing the daughter Mo Ruomu, I don't know about Yueyao yet, as long as you don't say it, I won't mention it. At that time, when that mainland student of yours came to worship the door, let Xiao Yueyao be beside him, didn't you say that he was well-read, and musical movies were also involved, so okay, let him pass this threshold?" Song Yalin looked at his wife's frowning expression, smiled, and said.

"Good is good, that is, it's ------" Liu Mingyuan suddenly had a ridiculous idea: this feels like the three sessions in Peking Opera. No, to be precise------- Liu Mingyuan thought of the 93 version of the comedy star Zhou Xingchi, and his Tang Bohu ordered autumn fragrance.

Before Liu Mingyuan's words were finished, he was interrupted by his wife Song Yalin. "That's it, I'll make a phone call and ask Yuemi, if you still have classes in the evening, and if you can't come back for dinner. After Song Yalin finished speaking, she was about to leave, and suddenly thought of something------- old man's potted plants, and said, "Old man, have you forgotten your peonies and pines and cypresses?"

"Oh, look at my foolishness. Peony ------My baby!" said him, running past his wife and towards the garden.

"The legs and feet are quite neat!" Watching his wife run towards the garden in three steps and one step, he said with a smile, "Slow down, slow down, old man, be careful of knocking down ------ child!"