Chapter 43: Presenting the Gift

  "You've come all the way from Beijing just to see me, and you've even brought so many gifts. Xiu Ping is indeed a good comrade!" After entering the house, Ye Bingyi sighed again.

  You Zhībīng explained with a smile, and Yè Bǐngyì finally sighed: "You are really good children of the ordinary people!"

  You Zhībīng and Féng Xīyáo were laughing there, Yè Píngyǔ heard it and said on the side: "Grandfather, how did you get to know Mr. Yì Bóbo in the first place?"

  Ye Bingyi heard him ask this, stroked his beard, looked at You Zhibing and Feng Xiyao, thought for a moment, and said: "In those years, that little Yi, who is your father, came to our village to join the team. At first, he didn't know how to do any farm work. In rural areas, if you don't know how to do anything, others will definitely look down on you. Xiu Ping was a young man who joined the team and had to perform well, but he didn't know how to do anything, so he couldn't perform at all. The production team leader at that time, Yang Leyi's father, saw that Xiu Ping didn't know how to do anything and scolded him severely. I couldn't bear it, so I helped Xiu Ping with some farm work and taught him a bit, letting him get by. Xiu Ping wasn't a person who could do farm work, he was obviously material for being an official. If you let someone who can't do farm work do farm work, that's a kind of torture. Fortunately, Xiu Ping was very smart, and after a long time, he learned how to do all the farm work. That's when I became familiar with Xiu Ping, until he left here."

  "Grandpa Ye, I heard that you even saved my dad's life!" Feng Xiuyao asked with great interest.

  Ye Bingyi laughed and said, "It's not that I saved your dad's life. At the time, a few of us from our village finished our farm work in the afternoon and went to the Tuhe River to take a bath. Your dad isn't very good at swimming, and he accidentally ran into the deep water area. I happened to be next to him and suddenly saw that he was thrashing about in the water, going under and coming back up. I thought it wasn't looking good, so I quickly swam over and pulled him over. My swimming skills are a bit better, and with the help of others, we managed to get him to shallow water. Your dad was scared to death at the time, and if we had discovered it later, who knows what would have happened? Afterwards, I forgot about this matter, and I didn't expect your dad still remembered it. Actually, no matter who saw him at the time, they would have run over to pull him over. It's nothing!"

  Ye Bingyi said lightly, not taking it to heart, but You Zhongbing said: "My father said that you have always been willing to help others, if it weren't for you, he would have suffered a lot here. This kindness my father will never forget in his lifetime. This time we came to visit you and invite you to come to Beijing when you have time. My father will make time to accompany you!"

  Ye Bingyi laughed and said, "I'm old, I don't want to go anywhere, seeing you all come to see me makes me very happy, it means your dad doesn't forget the old friendship, thank you all! This is my grandson, you are all young, can chat more!"

  "You and I have been chatting all along, we're of the same age, with a common language!"

  Ye Bingyi asked in surprise: "Did you come with Ping Yu all the way?"

  "You're right, after we arrived here, we didn't know your situation, so we specifically went to the Qingyun area to ask around and coincidentally got in touch with Ye Pingyu, who then brought us here. It's really a coincidence!"

  As soon as he heard that it was this kind of situation, Ye Bingyi laughed and said: "I thought so, you haven't seen me before, the village cadres didn't bring you here, how could you find me? It turned out to be like this!"

  "Haha!" Several people burst out laughing together.

  "Ping Yu, if you have time in the future, please go to Beijing on my behalf to visit Uncle Yi. I don't have any gifts for him, but I have an ancient bronze sword here that you can give to him as a representative of me!" Ye Bingyi instructed Ye Pingyu with a smile.

  Grandpa's bronze ancient sword, Ye Pingyu rarely saw it, and heard that it was a family heirloom. Now it's going to be given away, isn't it too precious? Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't represent Grandpa's attitude, so he hurriedly said: "Grandpa, I'll make time to go see Uncle Yi!"

  Feng Xi Yao heard this and smiled: "Master Ye, I heard Ping Yu say that you are a martial arts master, is that true?"

  Ye Bingyi smiled and said: "Not a martial arts master, just a hobby!"

  "Feng Xi Yao listened with interest and said: 'Grandfather Ye, can you teach us a few self-defense moves?'"

  After taking a look at the lovely Feng Xiyao, Ye Bingyi also became interested and said "good", then stood up and walked outside. Everyone took a look and followed him out as well.

  The driver Lao Ge was also a practitioner of Jiazi, so he watched Ye Bingyi come to the courtyard with great interest and started practicing.

  Others were even more enthusiastic, surrounding Ye Bingyi and watching him punch, although Ye Bingyi was older, but when he started punching, he was still vigorous and powerful. Feng Xiyao couldn't help but cheer, and even imitated Ye Bingyi's movements, learning a few moves. However, this only made Ye Pingyu want to laugh, as she didn't look like someone who practiced martial arts at all, with her loose and sloppy posture, lacking the typical stance of a martial artist.

  You Zhībīng stood there and couldn't help but laugh, feeling that the old man in front of him was quite interesting. No wonder his father got along so well with him; if he had the chance, he really should arrange for them to meet again.

  After finishing the punch, Ye Bingyi's face didn't change and his heart didn't jump, then he taught Feng Xiyao to practice a move. Feng Xiyao followed along, but after a while she lost patience and laughed, unable to continue practicing. Ye Pingyu watched with a big smile, no patience or perseverance at all, what's the point of practicing martial arts?!

  Seeing him laughing at himself, Feng Xiyao said with a pout: "Ye Pingyu, don't laugh at me, you come and practice for me to see!"

  Ye Pingyu waved his hand repeatedly, unwilling to do so, but Ye Bingyi wanted his grandson to show off in front of outsiders, so he said to him: "Pingyu, just demonstrate what I taught you for this young lady to see."

  Seeing his grandfather insist that he perform for Yu Zhibing and the others, Ye Pingyu had no choice but to obey his grandfather's command. He stood up straight and began to practice with vigor.

  Ye Pingyu was young and powerful, with a solid foundation in the basics. The set of skills his grandfather had taught him had already been practiced to perfection, so when he started fighting, it was dazzling to watch, and people couldn't help but cheer. You Zhongbing took one look and thought, "Good guy, hiding his true abilities, who knew he had such skills?" It seemed like he had finally met a worthy opponent, which was interesting.

  The driver Lao Ge was also amazed, didn't expect Ye Pingyu's skills to be so good, he's a real talent!

  Feng Xi Yao was shocked, during breakfast when she kicked the bandit with one foot, she didn't see clearly and didn't think Ye Ping Yu had such good kung fu. If she knew he had such good kung fu, she wouldn't have been afraid of the bandit in the morning either. And Ye Ping Yu only didn't resist at first just to protect her.

  The atmosphere suddenly became lively, and You Zhongbing smiled and asked Ye Pingyu when he had learned this skill. If he joined the army, he would be a special soldier material. Ye Pingyu smiled and said it was nothing, not worth mentioning, just showing off.

  You Zhībīng also enjoyed martial arts, so he didn't say anything when Yè Bǐngyì was practicing earlier. Now that Yè Píngyǔ understood these things too, You had something to talk about and went over to engage in a direct exchange with him.

  Ye Pingyu had no choice but to chat with him about some martial arts stuff, actually all of which were taught by his grandfather, and now he basically practices Ba Duan Jin, and only occasionally reviews martial arts.

  Stood at Ye Bingyi's home and chatted for two hours, Guo Wenxiu ran to the door of Ye Bingyi's house, took a look without going in, found that her son's friend had brought so many gifts to Ye Bingyi, and was even more surprised in her heart. After the gifts were put into the room, she returned home.

  Time passed unconsciously, and Ye Bingyi invited You Zhongbing to have dinner at home. However, there was really nothing good to eat at home. Ye Pingyu knew that they couldn't possibly have dinner at home either, the conditions were just too poor. If they were willing to eat here, he could invite them to the countryside, and they could go to Dongsheng Wine House.

  Ye Bingyi finished speaking and invited them to dinner, Yu Zhibing indeed said that they would not eat here anymore. They now want to hurry back, welcoming him to come to the capital as a guest. Ye Pingyu stood beside him and did not persuade them either. Anyway, he had to follow them back to the countryside, and then invite them to dinner in the countryside.

  Ye Bingyi saw that they insisted on not eating here, so he could only sigh and watch them leave. Ye Pingyu then took them home and had the rice his mother had prepared packed up. Just as they were packing the rice, Ye Cunli returned and, seeing the rice being loaded onto the cart, came over to ask what was going on.

  Guo Wenxiu was too lazy to bother with him, Ye Pingyu didn't say a word either, and You Zhongbing and the others didn't even know who he was. After loading the rice, they simply said goodbye and drove away.

  After Ye Pingyu left, Ye Cunli rushed to Guo Wenxiu and shouted: "This little rabbit, he didn't say a word when he saw me, what is he doing pulling wheat from home again?"

  "Mind your own business," said Guo Wenxiu with a glance at him. "Hurry up and go see your dad, there are many gifts, if you're late, you won't get any!"

  Ye Cunli was even more bewildered and said with wide eyes: "Who would give gifts to my father? Ping Yu is now an official, if they want to give gifts, they should send them to me!"

  Guo Wenxiu couldn't help but glance at him and said, "You're always thinking about getting people to give gifts to your son. If something happens, I'll see how you handle it. The gifts your father received were the ones those few people brought over, and they were all brought back by your son. Do you understand now? I saw everything earlier, and they're all in your father's room right now. Why don't you go take a look?"

  As soon as they heard it was true, Ye Cunli and others were flustered and hurried to Ye Bingyi's home. Along the way, they were still puzzled, wondering why their son had brought people to send gifts, but instead of putting them in his own home, he put them at his grandfather's place. This kid is filial to his grandfather but not to himself, and will be scolded by him later.