Chapter 31: Confession & Rejection

The next day, the village chief went to Zhao Dahu, mysteriously took out the

name that Qu Qing had written from his pocket, and showed it to Zhao Dahu, so

that he could judge how it was.

Zhao Dahu glanced at it and said, "Village chief, I don't know how to read.

Why do you show me this? Let's be honest. Was this written by the gentleman

you asked for? Why, they really agreed?"

"Of course, it doesn't matter who is going out, he agrees as soon as I say it,

so I'll come over to discuss it with you now, but he also said it in advance,

at most it is to teach children to read You can read, but if you want to take

the imperial examinations, you can’t say it.”

Zhao Dahu said with a smile on his face: "It's good to be able to read and

write. He really agrees to one or two silver a month? Isn't it too little?"

"Not too little."

"Who is that person, I'm very curious now, village chief, please tell me

quickly, don't give a shit." Zhao Dahu was completely excited at this time,

and he seemed to have seen in his mind that his school was established and his

son was studying in it. Scenes.

The village chief smiled and said: "You actually know that person, it's Qu

Qing, hey hey, don't roll your eyes in a hurry, although Qu Qing is a

prodigal, but his ancestors were rich and rich, before he came, I heard that

his family specially hired a teacher for him. He not only learned to read and

read, but also learned calligraphy. Do you think that based on these, he is

not enough to be a teacher?"

At first, Dahu Zhao felt that the village chief was fooling him, but after

listening carefully to what the village chief said, he hesitated again.

Obviously, he was not willing to believe that a person who was famous for his

prodigal family could have any real talents and practical knowledge, but The

village chief said it again and again.

Seeing his appearance, the village chief put all the notes he brought in front

of Zhao Dahu and showed him: "Look at these words, if they are well written,

they are just written with charcoal and Spring Festival couplet paper. Yes,

they can write so beautifully, you said that if you get him a real pen, ink,

paper and inkstone for writing, his writing will definitely look a thousand

times better than this!"

Dahu Zhao also stared at the papers carefully. Although he was illiterate, he

could tell how well people wrote. After reading it, he said, "It's alright."

The village chief felt a bit of disgust in his tone, and pouted, "Then do you

want this gentleman or not? After this village, there will be no such shop."

Reading is about to become Zhao Dahu's inner demon, and he immediately said:

"Yes, but I have to test him first to see if he really has real talents and

real learning."

Qu Qing looked at the village chief and the strange middle-aged man next to

him.

The other party is also looking at Qu Qing, especially his weird hair.

After introducing each other, Qu Qing, who understood the situation, invited

them to sit down and asked, "Then, I don't know what aspects of Uncle Zhao you

want to assess me?"

Dahu Zhao glanced at the village chief, then stretched out his hand and took

out a book from his jacket.

Qu Qing took a closer look, isn't it a coincidence, the other party took out a

book that even he was very familiar with \- "Three Character Classic".

"If you can read the above, I will hire you as a gentleman." Zhao Dahu said.

This was not difficult for Qu Qing. He took the book, glanced at the two, and

began to read it from the beginning.

Zhao Dahu is actually illiterate. He specially bought this book to make

decorations in his home, but even so, he has heard the first few sentences of

this book and memorized a few sentences, so he wanted to try it out. When he

looked at Qu Qing, he didn't expect that Qu Qing was not afraid at all, and

read it fluently when he picked it up. Originally, he still had some

dissatisfaction with Qu Qing in his heart, but soon only full admiration

remained.

Qu Qing hadn't finished reading it yet, but he didn't know what the next thing

was, so he said, "Alright, alright, I know brother Qu Qing, you are really

knowledgeable. It's settled."

Zhao Dahu seems to be very satisfied with this meeting. Before leaving, he

said to Qu Qing that there is nothing to worry about Qu Qing, he will prepare

everything, just trouble him, and he needs to go to the town bookstore in

person Let's see what books are needed for teaching. Zhao Dahu said that he

has covered all of them. Now he just needs to wait for the school to be built

and recruit students to start recording teaching. As for what to teach and how

to teach, these are all Qu Qing himself. responsible things.

From this day on, the school in Huajia Village began to work vigorously, and

Qu Qing also became a figure of concern in the village because he was hired as

a husband.

However, Qu Qing still lived a quiet life, planted various fields, helped

Jiang Hunter build a house, mined a vegetable field next to the house,

sprinkled vegetable seeds, took care of his own yard, and lived a secluded

life. life.

The two new little milk dogs in the family also got their names, one named Da

Huang and the other named Er Hei, and officially became part of the family,

and the hens in the family began to lay eggs after adapting to the

environment.

Everything was in order, and the house was very lively and looked alive.

It's just that Qu Qing discovered that since that day he realized that he

would leave one day, he began to deliberately avoid getting along with Hua

Zizhou alone, and at the same time began to think about how to deal with his

relationship with him.

It's definitely not acceptable to let Hua Zizhou leave. He knows that Hua

Zizhou has nowhere to go, and his family probably won't accept him back. As

for sleeping in separate beds, it is more realistic, but the bed can be made,

but there is no extra quilt at home. , but when the school is built and he

receives his own salary, it will be realistic for many to sleep in separate

beds.

Anyway, I can't stay in the same bed for such a long time. Qu Qing is very

firm on this point, not because he dislikes Hua Zizhou, but because he finds

that Hua Zizhou seems to like him.

In fact, he didn't think about this direction at all at first, but Qu Qing

knew what it was like to fall in love. In the past, there were too many people

around him who were in love, and even many little girls came to him to

confess. He remembered what they were like, their performance and Hanako boat

can match too much.

He didn't want Hana Zizhou to like him, just like he didn't want the girls who

came to confess to him to like him.

Once he knew that he was GAY, so he would not give any girl even the slightest

hope. He also knew that it was impossible for him and Hua Zizhou, so he would

never give Hua Zizhou any hope, and of course he did not dare to cheat.

Now getting along with Hua Zizhou, he pursues a few principles, not to be

alone with him, not to call his name intimately, and rarely to smile at him,

in short, to prevent everything that may make Hua Zizhou continue to have him

Fantasy things happen.

Since he didn't do it very deliberately, it wasn't until several days passed

that Hua Zizhou suddenly realized that Qu Qing seemed to have some subtleties

about him that he couldn't tell.

Qu Qing would call Jiang Orion a brother, and would drag Jiang Zhu to play

with the cat intimately. Usually, getting along with him was the same as

before, but it seemed to be different.

Hua Zizhou began to observe carefully, until one time, he took the cat and

Jiang Zhu back from the bamboo forest, and the two children jumped and greeted

him, while Qu Qing just lowered his eyes slightly and pursed his lips, as if

he didn't see it. He is the same.

A guess suddenly flashed in Hua Zizhou's mind, whether Qu Qing was ignoring

him.

He didn't believe it at first, until after two full days of observation, he

finally determined that he was indeed being ignored.

The first thing that appeared in his heart was panic. He didn't know if he had

done something wrong, or what made him unhappy, but Qu Qing behaved as usual

to the outside world, except to avoid everything and his alone time.

Sometimes, seeing Mao'er and Qu Qing get along so closely, Hua Zizhou even

felt the uncomfortable feeling of being isolated.

Early this morning, before dawn, Qu Qing got up to dig up bamboo shoots.

Bamboo shoots were negotiated yesterday. Qu Qing said that he would go by

himself. The others were responsible for firewood and hot water.

Qu Qing heard the footsteps behind him, and turned around to see Hua Zizhou, a

little surprised: "Why don't you sleep for a while?"

"I have something I want to ask you, so I can't sleep, the boss..."

Before he finished speaking, Qu Qing frowned and interrupted him: "Don't call

me that, it sounds weird, you can call me by my name in the future, Qu Qing

Ji, you know."

The word "head of the family" is too similar to a husband and wife, so Qu Qing

naturally won't let him call it that again.

Don't even let him call this?

Hua Zizhou took another two steps, and Qu Qing stood there with a cold

expression, as if revealing a bit of impatience with him.

"Did I do something wrong?" His voice revealed a few cautious looks on his

face, and finally his footsteps stopped three meters away.

Qu Qing's indifferent expression is like a moat, he can't walk, and he doesn't

dare to walk.

"Why do you ask?"

"You seem to be ignoring me and avoiding me, but you are as good to cats as

ever."

Qu Qing did not speak, but for Hua Zizhou, this was tantamount to

acquiescence. He enlarged his eyes, became emotional, looked at Qu Qing in

confusion, and asked in a low voice, "Why?"

Qu Qing was silent for two seconds, the morning dew was white on the bamboo

leaves, and the crisp birdsong echoed in the bamboo forest.

"Hua Zizhou," Qu Qing called to him, and suddenly walked towards him, Hua

Zizhou subconsciously stepped back, and was finally blocked by a bamboo, "Do

you like me?"

The tone of the statement.

With a bang, Hua Zizhou's brain exploded: "I didn't!"

He subconsciously retorted.

"Dare you look at me and say it again you haven't?"

Hua Zizhou only felt that Qu Qing's voice had never been so cold.

He wanted to raise his head, but he forced himself to raise his head too.

"I..." His chest heaved violently, desperately suppressing the eyes that he

wanted to avoid, and his breathing became rapid. The denial that had come to

his mouth changed immediately when he saw Qu Qing's eyes without a trace of

turbulence. "Yes, I like you. I'm your brother. I sleep in the same bed with

you. Can I still like others if I don't like you?"

Qu Qing's eyes seemed to be saying, you can't like me.

He was not reconciled.

Qu Qing said: "You are not my brother, you are just yourself, Hua Zizhou, if

you like others, I will not stop you, you are welcome to remarry, but the only

thing is, you can't like me, otherwise we will even be friends You don't have

to do it, you know?"

"Why?" Hua Zizhou felt extremely aggrieved, he choked and said, "Is it because

I'm not good-looking, so I'm not qualified to like you? I just like you, and I

didn't ask you to like me, neither would I Affect you, it won't hurt you, so I

like you, what's wrong with you?"

Qu Qing tugged at the collar, ignoring the unreasonable irritability in his

heart and said to him: "I'm not discussing with you, Hua Zizhou, you can't

like me in the future, this is an order, I want you to make a promise with

me."

Hua Zizhou's lower lip trembled a little, he shook his head, wanting to fight

against the prisoner who was reluctant to die, hugged his arms tightly, and

let out a weak and weak resistance from his throat: "I don't... I want to like

you, You can't stop me."

"From then on, I won't say a word to you anymore. You can like me, but I will

completely ignore your existence."

Qu Qing is not a resolute style of doing things, and it can even be said that

he is indecisive, but when facing emotions, he can be decisive and decisive,

because he understands how hurtful things can be, so he will do it so

absolutely.

Stop the loss in time, he doesn't want Hua Zizhou to suffer for a lifetime

because of him. Since there is no hope, then cut off all possibilities from

the beginning, which is a good thing for both parties.

Hua Zizhou looked at Qu Qing, his heart aching like a tear, but the expression

on his face became strangely quiet.

Qu Qing stopped talking and looked at him with scrutiny eyes, waiting for his

response.

For a long time, the sun began to rise in the sky, and the dazzling light

shone into his eyes.

Hua Zizhou finally spoke.

"Okay, I promise...I don't like you."

His voice was as dry as a sun-dried fish lying in the desert.