Riding the wind of rebirth

Now that the sky is bright, Master Qiao discovered that the mansion was originally located on a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides, where Qingshui River and Huanhua River meet again, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.

There are two entrances to the peninsula, one is the auto repair shop behind it, and the other is the stone bridge outside Du Fu's Thatched Cottage.

The one who comes in from the auto repair shop is actually the back door of the mansion. The large platform and corridors you see after entering should actually be a traditional stage. On the lotus pond in front of the stage, there are two ponds connected by a small stone bridge in the shape of "" The pavilion is actually a place to watch a play.

The whole constitutes the back garden of the mansion.

The peninsula-shaped small park in front of the mansion is the front.

In other words, the stone archway that must be passed from the thatched cottage to the stone bridge here is the real main entrance of the mansion.

From there, stone embankments and stone fences were built along the two rivers. Now it is the wet season, and the clear river is very close to the stone fences.

In addition to the small riverside road surrounding the peninsula, there is also an uphill "mountain road" that can lead to the lawn in front of the mansion.

The two of them have now crossed the lawn, walked down the path, passed a gable moon gate, and walked into a "small park" composed of winter jasmine, hibiscus, gardenia, and willow.

Under a ginkgo tree beside the stone railing near the river, Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao followed the singing and found Guan Tingting, who was practicing her voice here.

"Tingting is leaving, it's time to eat." Zhou Zhi shouted.

"Brother Elbow, will you buy this piece of land?"

"Not all of them." Zhou Zhi said, "From the blueprint, the land attached to the mansion is within the ditch of Linhe Road, and the ditch, road, and dam stone railing outside are managed by the river department."

"That's so big!" Guan Tingting said.

"It's okay. The foundation of the mansion is more than 200 square meters, the garden at the back is more than 300 square meters, and the front is more than 400 square meters. The total is about one and a half acres. In fact, it is not as big as the winery that Xiaojuan'er took over."

"Where is the winery as beautiful as this place!"

"That's because you didn't come last year." Zhou Zhi looked around for a week: "When the Spring Festival came, this area was dilapidated and gloomy. The lotus pond was almost full of bottomless mud, and these sweet-scented osmanthus trees were almost covered with wild vines. Now these It has been repaired, as well as the stone steps, many stone materials have been replaced, and the surrounding gardenias, Milan, and evergreens have all been trimmed... This place has undergone a major renovation."

"That means you have to be rich to live in a house like this!" Guan Tingting doesn't understand anything now, but at an age where she thinks she knows everything, she thinks that she has given this matter a perfect definition.

"If you have time to talk, think about how to pass the interview." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "But Tingting, your state is right, tight but not tense, loose but not straddled, it is indeed different for those who have won awards. .”

"When did I win the award?" Guan Tingting wondered.

"The No. 1 National Singing Method of the First Jiachuan County Karaoke Competition, do you think it is easy to get it?"

"cut!"

Taking Guan Tingting back to the mansion, Guan's mother smiled and said, "I'm annoyed when the house is too big, so we don't need to put on a show, and we'll have breakfast here, shall we?"

"That's, Mama Guan's meatloaf, but it can't wait to be sent to the living room, and I always eat it by the side of the pot!"

One sentence made Guan's mother laugh: "It was true when I was a child, and I was not afraid of getting angry."

The method of the meatloaf is very simple, that is, the dough is fermented, seasoned with dried tofu, wild onion, five-spice powder, soy sauce and sesame oil, wrapped in a bag and fried until cooked.

At least that's what Guan Ma said, but if the glutinous rice balls and pig cakes are not counted, the pastry that needs to be fermented is Zhou Zhi's painstaking work. not too good.

"Not bad!" Zhou Zhi was full of praise: "It's been a long time since I ate Guan Ma's meatloaf, and it's still as delicious!"

"The elbow is just boasting. It's just a make of it. It didn't have time to make a crisp." Mama Guan was happy to hear that.

"Speaking of it, the biggest trouble here is grocery shopping." Zhou Zhi really only considered this problem: "And throwing away trash."

"I've thought about it this morning. If I want to live here, I have to go out on weekends, prepare all the food for the week, and have a good relationship with the soldiers in the auto repair shop, and throw the garbage in their trash bins."

"That's right." Zhou Zhi pondered, "The other thing is to get a food waste compost bin, raise earthworms by the way, and try to make organic matter into flower fertilizer."

Just talking here, I heard the car horn honking outside the moon gate at the auto repair shop, Zhou Zhi got up: "It should be looking for us."

When I came to the Moon Gate, I saw Station Master Liu and Jiang Wu standing together, as if they were reporting work. Jiang Shuyi was standing beside him in a thin dress, and her temperament and image were excellent, which made a few truck repairers in the distance The soldiers kept looking this way.

"Brother Wu! Shuyi!" Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Brother Wu doesn't have to go to work today?"

"I'm just at work." Jiang Wu looked at Zhou Zhi and was not angry: "You can do it, now you use my little sister to support me."

"How dare I?" Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Have you had breakfast? We're just starting over there, let's have some together?"

"I wanted to eat it and come back again, but someone urged me..."

"Brother!" Jiang Shuyi blushed.

"Then hurry up and have breakfast first." Zhou Zhi said, "Mama Guan made meat pies, they are delicious. Come talk to Station Manager Liu after eating."

"It's almost done." Stationmaster Liu said with a smile: "There's no rush, you guys talk more, talk more."

It was the first time for Jiang Shuyi to come here. After entering the Moon Gate, she stood on the edge of the stage corridor and saw a large clear pool: "This place is so beautiful!"

"This pool is the most satisfying." Zhou Zhi said, "The project is also the largest, right? It's too much trouble for Brother Wu, and those flowers and trees on the peninsula, transplanting and pruning are not small projects. How much decoration will be needed soon? Brother Wu, tell me the number."

"You know what you're doing, kid. You know that this pool is the most expensive." Jiang Wu said with a smile: "Actually, I didn't even know there were such tricks. The sanatorium before was just a simple lotus pond, and it had to be kept in the summer. Pump and change the water, and it will still be green for a week."

"This time, the island country sent a few Showa koi from Wuhou Temple, and a koi pond was also installed. We even realized that the fish pond can still be used like that!"

"It just happened that the unit that undertook the construction of the koi pond was also our subordinate unit at the beginning, and now it has been separated to become Party B. I thought that if I can't learn it, I will forget it, so I asked them to practice here and at the Beimen Sanatorium."

"Including landscaping, too. It's newly renovated over there, and a lot of extra flowers and trees have been moved out. Thinking of that witty sentence you said before..."

"The new painting on the tree wall is not old, this person must be the Ministry of Internal Affairs."