Chapter 26 Twenty-Six: Su Li's Journey to the Countryside
At dinner in the evening, my mother said to Yuan Quan: "Son, do you know that we have a new neighbor in our house?
"yes? I thought their house was being renovated. Yuan Quan didn't pay attention to these, besides, his real identity is actually a house, except for things that must go out, he has to go out, and he can stay at home at other times, pet the dog to read books, play games, this kind of life is really not too comfortable.
My mother looked very envious that their family could be bought by a rich man: "I don't know where the big boss came from to build a villa in our countryside, and these old houses actually bid more than 2 million, if only our family was bought......
Dad coughed a few times dissatisfied, and it would be difficult for him to sell his house. Yuan Quan also said: "Sell it, where will you live? The air in the city is so poor and noisy, the air in the countryside is good, quiet, otherwise how can Sister Lin, who is frail and sickly like you, be so healthy, don't do it......"
Mom patted him on the head and stopped talking. Yuan Quan thought that it was just a change of neighbors, and besides, the two families were a little dissatisfied, so they left it aside and didn't care what to do.
However, this world is made up of countless coincidences, two days ago Su Li's grandfather planned to give Su Li a holiday villa, in the introduction of others happened to come to the Haitang Village where Yuan Circle is located, his old man liked the environment of this village very much, without saying a word, he bought a piece of land, and planned to build a better villa to please his granddaughter, but when it was time to decorate, he suddenly found that he didn't know what style of decoration his granddaughter liked, and he called and asked:" Ah Li, grandpa built a villa for you, the environment is very good, there are mountains and rivers, and it is clean. Now it's almost finished decorating and you can move in, you go over to see for yourself, and tell grandpa what you like to decorate, if you don't want it, you can give it to your mother. It's my grandfather who made amends for my unfilial son and your mother and daughter. β
"Thank you grandpa, I live in a good place now, I don't like to move around, it's too troublesome, but my mother said that she is ready to retire to retire, and I am looking for it recently, grandpa is busy with me! I will go and see it when I am resting with my mother, if she likes it." β
"Okay, good, it's good to help you, and it's not in vain that my old bones are running around to help you find a place......
After the grandfather and grandson hung up the phone, Su Li went to the phone with Su's mother and asked her when she was free to see the villa environment, Su's mother said: "I have nothing to do in the unit recently, I will be free tomorrow, if you are not busy at work tomorrow, you will go tomorrow, decorate it early and live in it early." Su Li flipped through the work arrangement, well, there will be a meeting tomorrow morning, and there will be a lunch invitation at noon. There is something to do in the afternoon, but it is not important, you can push it back.
In the afternoon of the next day, the driver took Su Li and Su's mother to drive on the country road, Su's mother also brought her dog, a white Samoyed, but the dogs in the city are very fat, and the dogs generally need to move around the space of about 200 square meters, and the pet dogs at home basically have no exercise, if you take a walk. Su Li asked the driver to lower the convertible and drive slowly, the air here is different from the city, it smells of fresh flowers and plants, and it feels cool to the lungs.
The scenery on the road is good, there is a bamboo forest on one side, and a clear stream on the other side, Su Li led the dog and took her mother to the stream to play for a while, watching the small fish in the creek shining with bright light, the stream was flowing loudly, listening to the sound of the bamboo forest in her ears. She hasn't been so relaxed for a long time, Su Li plans to come here more often when she is free, it seems that grandpa's vision is not bad.
On the road to the entrance of the village, someone was already waiting for her, and took her to the location of the villa, which was surrounded by a cement wall, and there was a yard in front of the house, and the back and right sides were covered with various plants, such as citron trees, camphor trees, begonias, and so on. There is another family on the right, Su Li plans to buy that family too, and then build a bigger house, they also have a bamboo forest and a very large camphor tree, much more than their own, the branches are lush like a giant umbrella, Su Li thought about moving a recliner to nap under the tree at night in the summer, looking at the starry sky at night in a daze, how comfortable it should be, but Su's mother feels that it is good to have neighbors around, the so-called distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, if there is anything, help each other, after all, her daughter cannot always be around.
"Pear, pear......" Su Li's Samoyed is called Pear, which was raised when Su Li went abroad a few years ago, and this dog has been with Su's mother for many years. Su Li once felt that her mother was better to the dog than to herself. Su's mother called the dog nervously, the dog that was lying at her feet suddenly disappeared, she was afraid that her dog would be bullied, after all, the combat effectiveness of pet dogs and earth dogs was completely disproportionate, although it looked very big......
Su Li pulled her mother to look for a dog around the house, and suddenly the mother and the mother saw a very magical scene, a big black dog bit a leash, the rope pulled by his own dog, the big black dog looked fierce, and looked strong, the mother and daughter stood on the road for a while and trembled, the big black dog was very humane and spit the rope at the feet of the mother and daughter, looked at the Samoyed next to him, his eyes showed a trace of contempt, and walked away with his head held high...... Samoyed wanted to follow the big black dog, Su's mother hurriedly stepped on the rope, hugged the dog and carefully checked it, worried that it would be bitten, and the dogs in the village basically did not go back to get the rabies vaccine. However, it didn't appear to be hurt other than the dirt on its claws.
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Then the mother and daughter wandered around the village all afternoon, but they were separated, and Su Li went to the mountains behind the village to see the bamboo forest, and she also walked up to the embankment of the reservoir and sat for a while. Go further up the mountain and find that there is a wild chestnut forest here, in October when the chestnuts are ripe, the chestnuts on the tree have fallen, and the shell is wrapped in thorns, Su Li watched the villagers wear gloves and hold a firewood knife, after picking up the chestnuts, step on the chestnut shell, and then use the back of the firewood knife to smash the shell open, the brown chestnuts jumped out, and there can be several chestnuts in one fruit. Su Li planned to ask the villagers to buy some chestnuts, but where had they seen the fairy, this was even better than the stars on TV, and the uncles and aunts who picked up chestnuts didn't dare to talk to her, and after understanding the words, they gave her a lot of chestnuts without asking her for money. Su Li asked them how to eat chestnuts, and some people said that it was delicious to eat them raw, and some said that they were delicious to roast with sugar in a pressure cooker......
When it was almost dark, Su Li returned home and squinted her eyes and ate the raw chestnuts that she had finally peeled out, crisp and sweet, with some moisture. She told Su's mother that she would never eat fried chestnuts with sugar in the future, and that chestnuts should be eaten raw. Su's mother saw that her daughter's mouth was full of fine chestnut hair......
Su's mother said that she went to the elderly activity room in the afternoon, downstairs is a place to exercise, upstairs is a chess and card room, are middle-aged and elderly people in the entertainment there, play a few dollars of small mahjong, Su's mother played for a while, and an old sister partner won dozens of dollars, she happily wanted to win hundreds of millions, and then when she came back, she was very magical to find that she was her neighbor, surnamed Wang, the new sister was very enthusiastic to invite her to her house to sit for a while, she saw the big black dog in the yard of the neighbor's house, and also saw her son, that is a very handsome young manγ The young man was reading in the yard, and Su's mother also chatted with him for a while, thinking that whether it was conversation, knowledge or appearance, it was very good, hey, it's a pity that his daughters are all old, otherwise how good would it be to let this young man be his son-in-law..... Su Li was very dissatisfied with her mother saying that she had no one to talk to, and the chestnuts in her mouth were obtained by her own charm.