Chapter 107: Huang Laoxie and Peach Blossom Demon
Finally stayed up until the weekend, Ling Wei dragged on and on, and finally took the card to the Zhao family manor in the suburbs on Sunday afternoon.
She took a taxi according to the address given by Nan Jingren, and after the taxi driver heard the address she said, he sighed: "That place is really a good place, with a mountain at its back, and a living water flowing through it, and the scenery inside must be good, but the security is very strong, and you are not allowed to approach it from a distance." ”
Then along the way, the driver kept glancing at Ling Wei in the back seat, and guessed what a little girl like Ling Wei was doing there with a gossip spirit.
Ling Wei naturally saw what the driver meant, and she said helplessly: "Master, don't guess, I'm just a work-study student, and I took over the cleaning job there." ”
The place where the car stopped was a fork in the road, and Ling Wei couldn't see any manor at all.
But the taxi driver said, "You go up this road, and you come to the end, and I can't cross that road." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a sign on the side of the road.
It reads: "Private road, please do not enter." ”
Oh, so domineering!
Ling Wei saw that the driver resolutely did not drive in, so she had no choice but to pay to get out of the car, she looked at the road on both sides of the towering trees, and she couldn't see the end of the road clearly, and asked, "Isn't it far?"
"Not far, not far. The driver waved his hand and drove away.
Ling Wei had no choice but to walk along the road by herself, but fortunately she was wearing a pair of shoes suitable for walking today.
It was not far away, and she walked for twenty minutes to see the big wooden door of the manor, so tired that she sat directly on the road in front of the manor gate to rest.
Later, I will discuss with the person in charge here, and let the taxi drive to the door in the future, every time she has to walk for so long, her strength is wasted on the road, where can she sweep the ground.
Looking at the simple wooden door, the lush trees in the wall, and the faint camera, Ling Wei sighed: Rich!
When the rest was over, Ling Wei stepped forward to ring the doorbell on the wall.
Soon a small door next to the gate creaked open, and a man who looked like a security guard came out.
This response was really fast enough, Ling Wei felt that this security guard must be hiding behind the door just now to guard against her.
"What's the matter?" the security guard looked at her with a cold and wary expression.
Ling Wei told him about coming to sweep the back garden, and after hearing this, the security guard raised his eyebrows, and his vigilance dissipated, it seemed that he had been ordered early in the morning.
"The back garden is at the back, please go through the back door. ”
Ling Wei was stunned and asked, "Where is the back door?"
"Walking along the fence all the way to the back, the first iron gate I saw was. With that, the security guard closed the door.
Even a janitor is so cold!
Ling Wei sighed twice, looked at the closed door, and could only go to the back.
This time she walked for half an hour, and she had to doubt her life when she left, and then she finally saw a carved iron door.
This time, a charity-looking old man came out of the carved iron door, and the old man smiled and said, "You are just the little girl who came to sweep the garden, right?"
Ling Wei was so tired that she couldn't speak, and nodded her head a few times.
"Come in with me. As he spoke, the old man led the way in front and said, "If you are tired, rest your feet first, and then clean up after resting." ”
This old man was so amiable, in stark contrast to the indifferent janitor in front of him.
Ling Wei took the opportunity to ask the old man if he could let the taxi take her directly to the back door in the future, and the old man shook his head with a smile:
"Those taxis are messy, and they're going to disturb the cleanliness of the place. Euphemistically rejected Ling Wei.
Just as Ling Wei was wailing in his heart, the old man said again: "But if it's your own car, you can drive over directly." ”
At this moment, Ling Wei immediately became energetic again, and he would buy a car when he went back!
She is in the mood to enjoy the surrounding scenery, this back garden covers an area of not small, Ling Wei estimates that there is a 500 square meters, all kinds of flowers and trees in the garden compete with each other, lively and beautiful, between the flowers and trees is a one-meter-wide cobblestone path.
The garden is very quiet, through the shadows of the treetops you can see a large glass flower house in the distance, and in the other corner of the garden there is a small three-story villa-like building.
The old man took Ling Wei to a gazebo in the garden to rest, perhaps because there was no one else here, the old man finally saw a person, and he actually chattered at Ling Wei.
This garden is really this old man on weekdays, this whole manor belongs to the Zhao family has a history of hundreds of years, a few decades ago, it was supposed to be taken back to the country, but then somehow it was gone, the old man said that it may be that the country dislikes this manor is too far from the capital, and in addition to flowers and trees in the manor, there are flowers and trees, and the houses and buildings are pitiful.
Ling Weiting's eyes sparkled, hundreds of years of history!
Isn't that the Zhao family very powerful in the Ming and Qing dynasties? Such a Zhao family is the legendary family, no wonder Zhao Xin's temperament is so different, this is the family rhyme.
The old man said that Ling Wei's job was to sweep the fallen leaves on the lawn and path, and he suggested that Ling Wei come every Saturday morning in the future, so that the light was good and it was not hot, and delicious snacks and flower tea would be brought in front of him in the morning.
Ling Wei: "...... All right. "Where does she look like a foodie?
Okay, then she will taste the difference between the dim sum inherited by the Zhao family for hundreds of years and the time-honored brand in the capital.
"What do I call you?" Ling Wei asked with a smile, she thought this old man was quite interesting.
The old man was stunned, as if he was thinking about his name, and only after a while did he raise his eyebrows and say, "Why don't you call me Huang Laoxie?"
Ling Wei almost squirted out a mouthful of water, she coughed twice, and couldn't suppress her laughter: "This is a good title, then you can call me 'Peach Blossom Fairy' in the future." ”
Huang Laoxie thought for a while and said, "It's not good, it's not good, you should still call it 'Peach Blossom Demon'." ”
Ling Wei couldn't help laughing anymore, she felt that the word 'little demon' was better, and she would live again, wouldn't she be a monster.
After resting for a while, Ling Wei was worried about rushing to the night, so he got up and asked Huang Laoxie for tools to sweep the fallen leaves and go to work.
She swept in front, and Huang Laoxie followed behind and nagged uneasily.
"This is a hundred-year-old locust with the most fallen leaves. ”
"This is a plum tree, don't look at it bare now, it will look good in two months, that plum blossom can not be seen anywhere else, my grandfather spent a lifetime planting it. ”
"This is a begonia flower planted by an old lady of the Zhao family in the past, you should be careful when you sweep it, don't touch it. ”
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Ling Wei swept and said, "Huang Laoxi, don't you have no one to talk on weekdays, that's why you caught me talking hard?"
Huang Laoxie smiled: "I was seen by your peach blossom demon." ”
Ling Wei immediately stopped what he was doing, turned around and said, "That's not good, you have to give me the cost of accompanying the chat." ”
Huang Laoxie was very happy, and immediately said: "Okay, no problem, then you have to chat with me." With that, he hurriedly ran away to get the fee for Ling Wei.
Ling Wei was dumbfounded, how did she feel like she had jumped into a pit.