Chapter 608: Hundred Herbs and Ten Flowers Bloom in One Night
Sanshui Town, a remote town near the Hengduan Mountains, is so remote that express delivery is not delivered here.
After moving here, Zhou Qin finally realized the benefits of postal and EMS, because as an online shopping chopping family, after coming here, the once extremely familiar Shentong, Zhongtong, Yuantong, Guotong, including SF Express, etc., are all gone.
Only the state-run postal service, stubbornly penetrated here.
When I went shopping for the first time, Zhou Qin, who didn't know the situation, placed an order as before, and the store sent Shentong. Three days later, when the courier was about to arrive here, there was no movement that day.
The next day, there was still no movement.
On the third day, Zhou Qin inquired and saw the information: because the buyer could not be contacted, the phone was not answered, and the next time he contacted the delivery.
Got a phone?
No, Zhou Qin flipped through it, but there was no phone call.
On the fourth day, there were no phone calls, let alone deliveries.
Day 5.
Day 6.
On the seventh day, Zhou Qin had to take the initiative to call over, still check the number, and then get the news: I'm sorry, we don't deliver in your area, please come to the county to pick up the goods.
Isn't there a delivery collection point? Zhou Qin asked.
No. The other party said lightly.
Zhou Qin collapsed, because from here to the county seat, there are more than eighty miles, nearly a hundred miles!
This is not the same as the usual downstairs to pick up the goods, ...... It's too far away, isn't it?
After learning about express delivery, when he went shopping, every time he placed an order, he had to focus on remarks: please send postal or EMS, other couriers can not receive!
The postal service is also highlighted with a large black frame.
Remote, it was in such a way that he first entered Zhou Qin's life.
And the reason why he came here, and he doesn't even rule out settling here in the future, is because Zhou Qin is tired of working and living in big cities, he has stayed in first-tier cities in China, second-tier cities, and many places.
In the end, he chose a Nepalese-style domestic town.
Here, there is very little hustle and bustle, there are few cars coming and going in the town, and the air is no longer filled with smoke and exhaust, but the smell of grass and trees outside the town.
In fact, it is not accurate to say that it is outside the town.
Because of the largest road in the town, there is not a lot of grass growing sporadically on the side of the road, and it is not far along this "avenue", about three or five minutes' foot, and the "avenue" is gone, and wherever you turn will turn into the real trail.
There is grass on the side of the road.
One of the trails leads directly to the countryside outside, with mountains and water, and grass and trees everywhere.
Not long after coming here, Zhou Qin became familiar with this trail and the suburbs outside the trail.
Every morning, after sleeping until he wakes up naturally, then washes and waits, and drinks a large glass of cold boiled water, Zhou Qin will cross the trail from the avenue, walk for five minutes, enter the suburbs, run along a small river, run zigzag, run for seven or eight kilometers, and then run and walk, from the foot of the mountain to the top of a small hill.
Sitting or lying down to rest, watching the sunrise, or just lying down.
After coming back, he went to the town to eat a bowl of bean curd, which was very cheap, a big bowl for one dollar, and then added a dollar of blanched side dishes, Zhou Qin couldn't say his name, and asked people, but he couldn't understand the name they said.
Forget it, it's delicious anyway.
Cheap and affordable, two dollars in total, that's his breakfast.
The place where Zhou Qin rented was a very wide single courtyard, if you really want to count the area, not to mention thousands of pings, there are always seven or eight hundred pings.
In addition to the courtyard, he lived in a long attic divided into three rooms, and in front of the attic was a rain (rain) corridor, which was very rough and two meters wide.
Originally, this corridor was empty and empty, but after Zhou Qin moved here, soon, there were a lot of flower pots lined up here, in fact, they were large basins, as well as black clay pots, etc., authentic flower pots, which could not be bought in the town.
Of course, there are no flower sellers.
The grass, flowers, small trees and other trees in the flower pot were all dug up by Zhou Qin himself from the mountains in the suburbs.
Transplanting one plant at a time, the corridor and courtyard slowly turned into an exquisite garden.
After breakfast, when he returned to his residence, Zhou Qin would slowly inspect these potted plants, the watering that should be watered, the pruning that should be pruned, these should be regarded as the consumption after the meal.
After the digestion was completed, Zhou Qin officially began to work.
He is a carver, specifically, a wood carver, carving things, large pieces, small pieces, and mostly small pieces, such as chopsticks, spoons, pen holders, portraits, and so on.
Ordinary chopsticks, if the one that is not used is a little more special, can be a pair of orchid chopsticks, and of course the spoon is the same.
And the decoration of the pen holder is more, all kinds of strange shapes can be had, Zhou Qin has been engaged in carving work for seven or eight years, and has not carved two identical pen holders.
Portraits are customized.
The buyer sent a photo over, Zhou Qin carved according to the photo, carved out a lifelike pendant of different sizes, etc., these pendants are not expensive, a piece is generally only one or two hundred yuan, so it is quite popular among young people, especially young couples.
Whether it's a man to a woman or a woman to a man, it's a pretty good little gift.
Many customers will become repeat customers or regular customers after getting one, and then ask for a lot, for themselves, for their lovers, for their parents, and for their children.
This alone accounts for almost half of Zhou Qin's income.
In fact, if he specializes in this, not only will he save worry and trouble, but his income will increase a lot, but for Zhou Qin, having an income of tens of thousands of dollars a month casually has fully met his psychological expectations.
His pursuit did not focus on higher and better income, but threw himself into the world of wood carving.
Wood carving, combined with miniature carving, fascinated him.
The world is so strange, under his study, the wood carving skills are becoming more and more sophisticated, and the income is also unintentionally chasing, rising day by day.
In this way, Zhou Qin doesn't care whether the income is more or less, he has been almost a year old, and he hasn't looked at how much money is in the bank card, even if he can see it as long as he opens the APP of his mobile phone.
Freed from the shackles of money, Zhou Qin slowly moved closer to the "beauty" he was chasing in wood carving skills, and his own life was also slowly moving closer to simplicity and purity.
Everything is calm and fulfilling.
If you have to say regrets, there are also regrets, that is, until now, Zhou Qin has not found a suitable partner, well, this is a small regret.
Carving generally starts in the morning and finishes around 4 p.m.
After finishing work, Zhou Qin will go out for a walk, the small town has already been visited by him, and he also turned the group portrait of the town into wood carving, which is considered to be practice, but it is not combined with miniature carving, otherwise, it will be too labor-intensive.
Outside the town, there is a small pier.
Actually, it's not a wharf, but some townspeople will go to the wild river to catch fish and sell it at this small wharf, and some will be sold in the town, but that is usually the next day, and the rest is sold.
After seeing this small wharf during a roaming in the suburbs, Zhou Qin would often come here after finishing work in the afternoon to buy some fish and shrimp to go back.
There are big fish, but they are generally not big, even if half a catty is very big, and more, it is still about one or two taels.
Small fish are often, as small as the size of a little finger, because they are purely wild, and the water and soil here may be quite good, the small fish and flour stewed, very fragrant.
There are also some fresh shrimp and loaches, etc., Zhou Qin has bought.
Loach, tofu, and loofah are Zhou Qin's favorite pairings, even if his cooking skills can only be said to be average, making this soup is also fresh and fragrant, and if you don't drink two or three bowls every time, you can't stop it.
On this day, after doing it himself again, after eating and having a full meal, Zhou Qin ate and read the books, there are professional books on wood carving and miniature carving, as well as general books on art and culture, and then, after wandering around some frequently visited websites and forums, he fell asleep on time at ten o'clock.
After coming here, Zhou Qin slept soundly every night.
It seems that this piece of water and soil is particularly suitable for him, and it seems that this piece of water and soil is inherently nurturing, every morning when he wakes up, Zhou Qin feels that he is full of energy, and his body and mind are extremely quiet and passionate.
Every day is a time to wake up naturally.
But there are hardly any more than six o'clock, the normal one is in the early five o'clock, and sometimes I wake up after four o'clock.
On this day, when Zhou Qin woke up, it was still early five o'clock, because of the summer, the sky was actually already bright, and when he came to the courtyard with hazy eyes, Zhou Qin was stunned all of a sudden.
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