plum city

Chapter 19 Homestay
The girl stood up from behind the table and asked, "Mr. Fang, do you want to show you around our place first?"

Dialect says OK, thank you.

Going around the screen wall, there is a square patio behind, which is paved with cobblestones. Near the corner on the left side of the patio, there is a huge coiled dragon cylinder. In the cylinder, there is a rockery covered with moss.Behind the [-]-pound jar is a banana tree, with its broad leaves spread out. The upper part is full of sunshine, and the lower part is shady.

There are two lazy chairs under the banana tree. On one of them, a girl in her twenties is lying. She lifts her feet up and puts them into the chair. She uses her thighs as a table board and rests an iPad. She had headphones in her ears and was playing music. She was mesmerized by the music. She raised her left hand in the air and beat the beat. She held a capacitive pen in her right hand and was writing and drawing something on the iPad.

She didn't notice the girl and Fang Yan coming in at all, and didn't even raise her head.Fang Yan saw that under the shade of the banana tree, her long hair was very black, and her bare feet were very white, without blood, and could be said to be pale.In addition, she was wearing a pair of light gray loose casual pants and a white hooded pullover. The whole person looked very refreshing and a bit artistic.

Next to the lazy chair, there is an osmanthus tree. It looks like it is quite old, and its branches are already higher than the roof above.

Behind the patio is the main hall, which has now been transformed into a living room, with sofas, coffee tables, bookshelves, and a small bar. On the bar are electric teapots, coffee machines, and a blue and white porcelain tea set. Guests can Here we drink tea, coffee, chat, read books and surf the Internet.

There are two corridors on both sides of the patio, and there are two doors on each corridor, which are respectively two rooms.The house has two floors, with five rooms above, two rooms on each side, and one room above the main hall.

The girl led Fang Yan, walked in from the corridor opposite the girl, and walked into the main hall. The girl opened a door, and inside the door was another patio, and a house with the same layout as before.There are four small square tables in the main hall here, which serves as a restaurant.

Pushing open the door on the back wall of the main hall, there is a courtyard outside. In the courtyard, there is a large camphor tree that requires two people to hug each other. The crown of the tree blocks out the sky and the sun.

There is a pond made of stones in the yard, but what is kept in the pond is not red carp, but bighead carp, crucian carp and pout chain fish, also called pout fish.

The girl and Fang Yan said that if it rains or you don’t want to go out to eat, you can also eat at home.

Fang Yan chuckled: "Why is it raining?"

The girl smiled and said, "When it rains and the ground is covered with ziggurat, many people will not want to go out."

What she said was Nianzigeda in the local dialect, which means the road is muddy, but she said it in Mandarin. She continued to laugh in the dialect: "Yes, you are right."

The girl glanced at him: "Really, I'm not going to lie to you, my brother's spicy fish nuggets are very delicious. Many guests who have eaten there will stay in other places when they come to Meicheng again, even if we don't have any rooms here." People still come here to eat the fish he cooked."

Fang Yan nodded: "It's really amazing, I must try it."

The girl said: "If you want to eat, please tell me two hours in advance. I will ask him to prepare it at home and not go out. My brother is a playful person and I have to control him. If he goes out to play, you Even if you call him, he won't come back. If you call too many times, he won't answer the phone at all. It's very annoying."

Fang Yan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Chef, of course you have to be grand."

"Tch, what kind of style does he have? He just loves to play and doesn't care about anything when playing." The girl said.

The two of them were walking and chatting, and the girl took him out of the yard, then through the back into the house and to the front.This time, she led Fang Yan not to take the original route, but towards the corridor where the girl was sitting.The girl's waving left hand has been put down, and now she puts the index finger of her left hand into her mouth, as if sucking it, biting her nails, or thinking about something.

When Fang Yan passed by her, he saw that she was drawing aesthetic cartoons with bright colors. There were handsome men and beautiful women in the paintings. The handsome men and beautiful women all had pointed chins and long limbs.

Fang Yan also saw duckweed and goldfish swimming in the thousand-pound tank.When they came close, the girl finally felt them and subconsciously raised her head to glance at them. When Fang Yan met her eyes, both of them were startled.Fang Yan felt that this girl seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her before.

The girl lowered her head again.

There was a staircase at the end of the corridor. The girl went upstairs with Dialect, and his room was upstairs.There is a corridor upstairs that connects the five rooms. In the middle of the corridor is the patio below.

The room is large and very tidy. Although the walls and floor are all made of wood, when you step on it, there is no creaking sound like in ordinary old wooden buildings. The sound of someone talking from the next room is also muffled. The buzzing sound seemed far away.

After looking at it for a while, Fang Yan understood that the entire house was made by removing the original siding and floor slabs, then pouring reinforced concrete on the floor slabs and beams, and then building brick walls around it. The floor slabs were installed back as they were, making this room look like an old wooden room, but in fact it has been completely changed.

Fang Yan couldn't help but smile, thinking that just one family's renovation of an old house was more relevant than the entire town's renovation ideas. Only the owner of this B&B should take charge of the construction of the ancient town.

Fang Yan asked the girl: "Does this house belong to your family?"

The girl said: "The house belongs to three families. My eldest uncle and uncle, and my father is the second oldest. This B&B is also opened by our three families."

"Not bad, very beautiful." Fang Yan said, "Who designed it?"

"My cousin, he is not here. He is an art teacher in a middle school in Hangzhou. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts." The girl said.

Fang Yan nodded: "No wonder."

The girl told Fang Yan the WiFi password, watched him connect his phone, and exchanged WeChat messages with Fang Yan. Fang Yan found out that her name was Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu said to Fang Yan, "Then I'll go down. If anything happens, just call me." .”

The dialect is good.

Fang Yan walked into the bathroom and washed his face. He felt a little sleepy, walked out, fell on the bed, and fell asleep after a while.

When he woke up, he saw that the sky outside the window had turned black, and the layers of roofs were like black waves, rolling toward the distance layer by layer. The street lights were already on, and in these layers of waves, On the top, there is a warm edge.

Fang Yan looked at the time. It was almost seven o'clock. He sat up, without turning on the light or backpack. He opened the door and walked out with his mobile phone. He walked to the corridor outside and couldn't help but look at the two lazy people in the patio below. I looked at the chair, but I didn't see the girl, but another man and woman sitting there.

Fang Yan sighed softly and raised his head, but his heart trembled. He saw a person sitting across the patio and in the corridor opposite, with her arms leaning on the railing and her head lying on her arms. She was staring here. Look, the eyes are shining in the dark dusk.

Fang Yan glanced at her and quickly turned his head away, but with a silent smile on his lips, he quickened his pace and hurried towards the stairs.

The girl who was lying on the railing opposite and looking at him just now was the girl in the afternoon patio.

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