travel starts with photography

Chapter 401 Vehicle Driving
After Chen Xing entered the house, he looked around at the layout of the house.

Like many rural houses, the big room you see after entering the house from the main entrance is the main room, which looks like a living room, but in traditional Chinese culture, the function of the main room is completely different from the living room, and it is more used to honor ancestors It is a place for worshiping gods, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and celebrating weddings, funerals and birthdays.

In ancient costume TV series, once the descendants make mistakes, the elders will enforce the family law in the main room.

Bai Yuzhu, who knew the purpose of Chen Xing's trip, came over and said, "Let me show you around."

Chen Xing heard a little alienation in her tone, and asked suspiciously: "Why are you so polite all of a sudden, I'm not used to it."

"How can..."

The strange atmosphere disappeared instantly.

There are quite a lot of rooms in this wooden house. In addition to a large number of bedrooms, there are two kitchens alone. One of them is a kitchen that burns firewood and a stove, which is very common in rural areas. The other kitchen is also where Bai Yuzhu's family usually eats. In the place near the center of the room, a pit was made with stones, and a triangular iron frame was placed on it. Now there is a clay pot hanging on it, and there is soup in it.

There is a dining table next to it, with a lot of dishes on it.

"Here we usually use it for barbecue or bacon. Now that it's winter, we will also keep warm here."

This room is not bad. It turns out that there were similar things like 'fireplaces' in ancient China.

Passing by a few rooms, the simple bedrooms are usually for the elders, and the other two are more neatly arranged. The furniture inside is relatively new, and it looks like they were all handcrafted by a carpenter. Things look antique in this kind of room.

There is another floor upstairs, but it is not where Bai Yuzhu and the others mainly live. It is mainly used to store food and some things that are not usually used.

"That's how it is in our house, and it's probably the same for other people's houses."

Returning to the room where you can enjoy the fire, the earthenware pot on the fire pond has been served on the table, four dishes and one soup, red chili stir-fried lean meat strips, quite Sichuan style, and zheer root fried bacon.

Zheergen is called in the southwest region, but it is actually Houttuynia cordata.

People in many places are not used to eating this, but Chen Xing thinks it doesn’t have any special strange smell. After eating it for so many years, I don’t feel any fishy smell. On the contrary, I think it’s delicious when served cold, it’s an appetizer .

After cooking, Houttuynia cordata becomes less crispy, and it tastes softer, absorbing the aroma of bacon.

During the meal, Bai Yuzhu's father said hesitantly: "Well, Xiao Chen, I heard that you gave Yuzhu 5000 yuan..."

"Oh, this, it's okay."

Chen Xing knew that they would ask this question a long time ago, otherwise they would be a little short of money like this, but families that are not too poor may not accept this kind of almost donated money.

People have self-esteem. If you give others thousands of dollars for no reason, others will think that you have something in mind.

Isn't there an old saying in China, there is no such thing as a white pie in the sky.

Chen Xing swallowed the food in his mouth, and explained: "I'm a well-known photographer, and I pay this price when I find someone to take pictures, and it's even less, uncles and aunts don't need to worry too much about this .”

"Do you get paid for taking pictures of people?"

Bai Yuzhu's younger sister was also shocked.

Since the scenic spot was built there, she has visited it many times, and was deeply impressed by the photo studios that attract tourists to take pictures.

"Yes." Chen Xing nodded and said, "So I am a professional. For a real photographer, if you can buy a satisfactory work with money, it may be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. It's all normal."

"Is this normal?"

The little sister felt that her three views had been greatly shocked.

Chen Xing shrugged his shoulders, with an expression of 'this is the world'.Uncles and aunts were dubious, and Chen Xing asked them to search his name on their mobile phones.

Then Chen Xing was treated like a superstar.

Xiao Chen stopped barking, called Mr. Chen, kept asking if the food was enough to eat, whether it suits his appetite, and the smile on his face never stopped, which made Chen Xing get goosebumps all over his body and was very uncomfortable.

It would be fine if there were a few young people, but Chen Xing really didn't know what to say to his parents.

But it was logical, Chen Xing was invited to stay.

There are not many other things in a country house, but there are definitely not many rooms.

Bai Yuzhu plus her sister and parents only used three rooms, and there were two other bedrooms, one of which was converted into a place to raise chickens, ducks, or rabbits.

The quilt was a bit damp, and it hadn't warmed up after being covered for a long time, so Chen Xing put on his clothes and looked at the countryside fields outside from the window.

The Buyi people can be regarded as a nation that has done a good job of sinicization. Although some of the older generation still can’t speak Mandarin, they have rules and regulations no matter from the perspective of architecture or the rice planted in the fields. At the same time, they also believe in ancestors and some God of mountains and water.

Looking out of the window, the concrete road and the new house opposite are the most conspicuous.

The concrete pavement was very bright in the moonlight, and even though it was one or two o'clock in the house opposite, there were still rooms with lights on.In winter, the fields are completely silent, and all the insects are hidden underground. Guizhou is a single-crop rice area. This year's rice was harvested in August and September, and now only some vegetables are grown in the fields.

Chen Xing looked out the window, thinking about what would happen tomorrow morning.

He hasn't heard a new prompt from the system for a long time, but it must still be there, at least those on the interface are still there.

What new rewards will there be?

………………

[You spent one night in the Buyi stilted house, you acquired the skill: vehicle driving]

[Why are you still unwilling to practice your driving skills? 】

He didn't know when the system's prompt appeared, because when he woke up, these two lines of subtitles appeared in his eyes. He always felt that the system was scolding him for being too lazy, so he frowned.

Is it because you don't practice?Where is the time?

I studied in France, then traveled to Northern Europe, came back to deal with the release of new books, and then planned to go back to the New Territories with Zhou Peng in southern Yunnan.

Isn't this year over, where is the time to buy a car and practice driving in the middle?

"cut!"

Chen Xing was speechless, rolled his eyes, got dressed and got up.

Then I realized with hindsight that this skill is still quite good.

Vehicle driving not only consolidates and improves his skills in driving manual and automatic cars, but also his skills in driving large cars and two-wheeled vehicles. In other words, in the future, Chen Xing can also buy a car that goes bang with just a squeeze of the accelerator. The car was so noisy that people couldn't sleep.

Forget it, why not get a bicycle and take a trip around the lake.

Pushing open the door, there was the Huotang House outside, where Bai Yuzhu was sitting and warming up by the fire, playing with her mobile phone, not even paying attention to Chen Xing coming over.Her own mobile phone is an old-age phone, and now she is holding her father's mobile phone, which shows some photos taken by Chen Xing in the past.

"Are you interested in taking pictures?"

(End of this chapter)