Chapter 14: Lao Chen's Home
After leaving the clinic, Xiao Yun followed the old man Chen all the way to his house.
It was an old-style courtyard house, with low houses and gray walls, and it looked very old.
On the top of the house, there were also a lot of green creepers, which looked green in the midday sun.
"Young man, you see I don't have anything to entertain you here, let's eat at noon. ”
Old Chen Tou glanced back at Xiao Yun, knowing that most of the people who went to that clinic to see a doctor were also poor people next to him, and they wouldn't have too many belongings on them.
And since he took the initiative to get to know him and brought him home, Lao Chen felt that he was obliged to invite others to a meal no matter what.
"Uncle, just whatever. ”
Xiao Yun nodded while looking at the surrounding environment.
This courtyard house is still relatively new to him, not that the architectural institutions of this courtyard are new, but Xiao Yun has really never seen such an old and age-rich place.
In the past, when he was in the Lin family, he went out to the holiday villa, and some of them were such architectural styles.
However, the courtyard houses have been luxuriously renovated, and the outside is quaint and quiet, but the inside is magnificent, and it looks no different from a modern house.
And when Xiao Yun lifted the curtain of one of the rooms and walked in, a small square table made of peach wood and a kang covered with straw mats came into his eyes.
"Uncle, you live here alone?"
Xiao Yun walked over and saw a teapot and a teacup on the table, and said thoughtfully.
"Hey, I'm getting older, and my children are also working outside, and I don't want to come back, so I live by myself. ”
Xiao Yun nodded, and walked to the rest of the house.
Although the sun is quite strong outside and the temperature is quite high, this room is made of bricks and stones, so it feels very cool inside, and you don't even need to turn on the fan.
"Uncle, you must have been in this house for a while. ”
Xiao Yun said casually.
"Well, it's been fifty or sixty years. ”
Old Chen Tou sat there, nodded and answered, a little absent-minded, and didn't know what he was thinking.
"Then such a house should be the object of protection, maybe you can make a style street or something in the future." ”
Xiao Yun joked.
At this time, the old Chen Tou sighed lightly and said: "Don't say anything about the style street, our location is relatively remote, and there is a cemetery behind it, and even the developer is too lazy to take a look." In the past, I still thought that I could demolish and get some compensation or something, even if it was not much, but it was also a little bit of heart that could be left to the children, but now it seems that I will not be able to wait for that day when I die. ”
Xiao Yun was trying to persuade him, but the old Chen suddenly stood up, smiled lightly, patted his mouth and said: "Look, what am I talking to you kid about this, no matter what, today you are also a guest of my old Chen family, you wait here first, I'll go out and get some lo-mei for you to eat." ”
With that, Lao Chen Tou got up and walked out of the house, Xiao Yun wanted to call, but when he saw Lao Chen Tou carefully taking out the money from a red cloth bag, he couldn't call it out again for some reason.
"I'll help my uncle cure the disease later, this is what I can do. ”
Xiao Yun said silently in his heart.
When Lao Chen Tou left, Xiao Yun looked east and west in this courtyard by himself.
He had been on the mountain for a long time, and he lived in thatched huts, so even such a simple courtyard house made him feel very warm at this time.
It's more like a sense of home, where no one will calculate him with a smile on his face, and he doesn't have to be so tired to guard against others.
At this time, the sky was blue and blue, with white clouds of various shapes, and Xiao Yun was sitting on a small stone bench in the courtyard, looking up at the sky.
How long he watched it, he also forgot. only knew that it was Lao Chen who interrupted him with a word.
"Haha, although my yard is a little simpler, you can sit in the shade and be in a daze, which is still pretty good. ”
I don't know when, Lao Chentou came back from grocery shopping, and Xiao Yun saw that it was a bag of lo-mei.
There were chicken feet and duck feet in it, and half a roast duck.
"Uncle Chen, I'm sorry to let you break the bank. ”
Xiao Yun said.
When the old Chen heard this, he laughed and said: "Where is the cost, it's not enough for me to pay for medicine for two days, you are here to treat me, if it is cured, I don't know how much chicken feet and duck feet I can be saved." ”
Xiao Yun also laughed when he heard it.
In the tone of Lao Chen just now, he understood that the current Lao Chen still had some people who didn't believe in him.
So when Lao Chen Tou spoke just now, he also smiled and opened his face, looking half-joking.
'Then Uncle Chen, don't worry, I will definitely live up to your expectations. Later, after dinner, I'll call my doctor friend and ask him to see you. ’
When the old Chen heard this, he didn't say anything, just smiled and waved his hand to let Xiao Yun enter the house together.
Subsequently, after putting all the lo-mei on the plate and putting it on the table, Lao Chen Tou went to his vegetable field to pull a few vegetables and then cooked a few plates, which were steaming and smelled very fragrant.
In the end, he didn't know that he took out a small bottle of liquor from there and poured it for Xiao Yun.
"Boy, can you have a drink?"
Old Chen asked while leaning down.
If Xiao Yun said he couldn't drink it, he wouldn't pour him that much.
Xiao Yun could see that Lao Chen Tou was very interested now, and he didn't shirk it, and said directly: "When I was a child, I drank a lot, and I will accompany you as much as you drink." ”
When Lao Chen heard this, he glanced at Xiao Yun in surprise, and his hand was full for Xiao Yun with a move.
Of course, this is also a half-truth, Xiao Yun's family was not very rich when he was a child, how could he still have wine for him to drink.
However, since he was rescued by the old man and became his apprentice, Xiao Yun not only had to read all the books, but the most important thing was to taste the herbs like Shennong, and he had to drink a little medicine himself.
This includes all kinds of liquor, because liquor is made from grain, and it is also one of the grains, and in order to understand the various diseases of the world, you must first understand the various liquors of other people.
"I can't see it, young man, I see that you are white, and you don't look like one of those who can drink. ”
Xiao Yun laughed and said, "In ancient times, those scholars and poets liked to drink, but they should be whiter than me." ”
When Lao Chen heard him say this, he patted his brain and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this, but I was lonely." ”