On the weekend, Zhou Hao took Chen Xin to buy an SUV. The trunk has two hidden seats that can be released as temporary seats if necessary.

I bought an imported car, the European version, although the appearance is not particularly good-looking, but the biggest advantage is collision resistance, a typical straight male aesthetic.

Chen Xin is still very confident in her driving skills, but at the same time, she also agrees with Zhou Hao's idea that for the sake of the elderly and children at home, safety is the most important thing.

The first thing I did when I bought a car was to pull my family out and have a good time. They chose the old town near the new campus.

The area of the ancient town is not large, only the street near the river still maintains the architectural style of a hundred years ago, and some buildings in the future have gradually increased in the past few decades.

This ancient town is called Da'an Town, and it was also called Erdaoyan in the early years. The town's river channel runs from an upstream canal and is mainly used to irrigate the farmland. But now that the development of the city is accelerating, the farmland near Erdaoyan is no longer visible, and most of it has become a high-tech long area, and some of it has been allocated to the university town.

The villagers who were previously scattered in the fields have been relocated together, and new streets and residential quarters have been built using the pattern and architectural style of the old streets of Da'an Town.

The 300-year-old street was built and packaged by the government and became a pedestrian street.

The overall length of the old street is less than one kilometer, but because of the topography, there are two floors along the river, the upper floor is mostly occupied by residents, and the lower floor is occupied by merchants. From the entrance of the pedestrian street, there is a fork in the road from more than ten meters, a winding straight line, on both sides are clothing stores, small commodity stores and antique inns. Another fork in the road slopes downward, to a height of four or five meters from the river embankment, and a walkway along the river is made of blue-striped stones, and the shops on the left-hand side are basically teahouses and restaurants.

In the past two years, there have been many elderly people from outside Da'an Town, including 30 yuan a day for food and lodging, 851 month, if it is more than 3 months, the lowest price can be bargained to 61 months. Many elderly people live here all summer, walking and exercising along the river in the morning, playing cards in the afternoon, and dancing and playing chess in the square of the town in the evening. It's a much better day than being alone at home and guarding an empty house.

Grandpa Liu, they also came to stay, and from June to August last year, they stayed here for three months at a homestay called "Big Banyan Tree".

This B&B is opened by a small couple in the Northeast, the boss is a painter, and the proprietress heard that it is engaged in market planning. Usually the boss takes care of the house, and hires two young people to do the front desk shift, two aunts in their forties are responsible for cleaning the room and cleaning the bed, and the boss lady will come back to help when there are many people on weekends.

They planned to stay here for one night, so they asked for two rooms, both in the courtyard, and out of the door was an osmanthus tree, under which there was a carved tea table and tea stool.

The owner likes to drink tea, and the craftsmanship of making tea is average. Although Grandpa Liu is not an expert, he is enough to deal with a hobbyist of the boss's level. The two of them got together because of tea last year, and this year Grandpa Liu didn't come, and the boss was very sorry. This time, the boss took out the best tea he bought from the south, and he had to taste it with Grandpa Liu.

Grandpa Liu had a good conversation with the boss last year, and when he heard that there was new tea this year, he suddenly didn't want to go out for a walk, so he sat down and watched the boss make tea.

But seriously, as far as Chen Xin's tea art skills are concerned, it can be seen that the boss's so-called tea art is in vain. Tea is good tea, but the person who made the tea spoiled the tea.

"Boss, huh? You put it down, you put it down!"

Seeing that the two of them had finished ruining one and were going to go to the second, Chen Xin couldn't help it, and sat down directly and asked the boss to stop.

The boss knew that Chen Xin came with Grandpa Liu, but he hadn't seen her before, so he didn't know that Chen Xin could also make tea. In fact, Grandpa Liu didn't know, but he could hold it, and he planned to ask again when he went back.

In fact, Chen Xin's tea art was learned by a Chaoshan master in Chinatown when she was studying abroad.

It is said that the old master was the owner of the big tea plantation, and then the family fell apart for various reasons, and he went abroad with his parents at the age of thirteen, first went to Nanyang, and then moved to live in this country, and never left after that.

The children of their family must learn to taste tea from the beginning of drinking water, and they must learn to make tea when they can hold a pot, and those teachings have not been interrupted even when they are in exile abroad.

The master's tea art can already be called an art. Many of the older generation of Chinese in Chinatown like to come to him for tea, and occasionally when the interest comes, the master will perform in person, and he can get a cup of tea, all thanks to the word "yuan". And Chen Xin just voted for his fate, the eye edge!

After going abroad for two and a half years, she learned tea art for a year and a half, but unfortunately, the master said that Chen Xin's heart was not pure, so her tea art skills could only be maintained at the current level, unless she could give up other concentrations. But obviously, Chen Xin couldn't do it, and when she learned tea art from the master, she took the initiative to make it clear that she just liked it, not for a living.

Water is good water, tea is good tea, and coupled with Chen Xin's flowing movements, it is not only full of eyes but also good for the mouth.

The proprietress who was still busy inside was attracted by the fragrance of tea, sat down around the tea table with them, took a sip of a small cup, chatted for a while, and felt as if the whole person was washed by the fragrance of tea.

There is good tea, but there is no good snack, and I always feel that something is missing. After Chen Xin asked what ingredients were in the kitchen, she simply got up and went to the kitchen to get busy.

The owner is from the Northeast and likes to eat pasta, so they have a complete set of kneading and rolling boards and utensils at home.

Chen Xin didn't want to squeeze and toss with the chef in the kitchen, so she asked Zhou Hao for help and asked him to take out the table and put it in the yard with the boss.

This season, the lotus flowers are almost gone, but a few late-blooming flowers can still be seen in the pool on the edge of the second weir, so Chen Xin plans to make a lotus cake and a hibiscus cake in response to the occasion.

assigned to Zhou Hao to pick the potatoes, and asked the boss to peel the chestnuts and steam them in the pressure cooker and then crush them into a puree. On her side, she began to mix the puff pastry.

Because both dim sum dishes use puff pastry, it makes a little too much at one time, which makes people feel a little greasy when they smell it.

"You smell tired of it at this time, because the smell of lard is strong, and it will be good to knead it into the noodles later. When Chen Xin was kneading the puff pastry, she asked Grandpa Liu to help her juice the selected colored vegetables with a food processor.

The green is made of spinach leaves, the pink is juiced with carrots, and the shade is just how much water is mixed with.

A group of people on their side were in full swing, and other guests who lived here also came around, asked the boss to make tea, each moved the table out, found a place to sit down, and chatted while watching what the boss was busy with.