Chapter 31: The Ancient Pool

Then he silently walked to Gu Xiaoxiao's side and stretched out his hand, "I'll help you get it." ”

"Ah, no, no, I can take it myself, thank you, Brother Yan. Gu Xiaoxiao's face turned red. It's really embarrassing to be polite to boys who are much younger than me.

She's an old aunt.

"Xiaoxiao, let my cousin take it. Then he took the bag in Xiaoxiao's hand and put it in Zhan Yan's hand.

"Eh......" Seeing that she couldn't get it back, Gu Xiaoxiao had no choice but to say helplessly, "Then it's troublesome Brother Yan." ”

"It's fine. Zhan Yan got Gu Xiaoxiao's handbag, and slowly walked backwards and walked with Zhao Xiaokun.

Zhao Xiaokun is a very sunny and cheerful person, and it won't take long for him to have an interesting chat with Zhan Yan. Both of them are top students and have a lot in common in their studies.

And Gu Xiaoxiao and Su Luoxing walked in front arm in arm.

Originally, Su's father and Su's mother wanted to send a driver to send them directly, but Su Luoxing said that he wanted to go by himself and wanted to take a bus.

Then Zhan Yan and Gu Xiaoxiao followed aside, although they were still worried, they also let them go.

There is only one, you have to listen to Zhan Yan's words, and you are not allowed to run around.

The sun hasn't completely risen yet, and the wind is still a little cool. When I arrived at the passenger station, there were quite a lot of people, but there were not many people going to Guchi, so the queue to buy tickets was fast, and it was only a matter of one or two minutes.

"The train to Guchi is rolling, you can go to platform 8 and wait, and you can get on when the bus comes. The ticket sales aunt reminded while handing over the ticket.

"Okay, thank you, Auntie. Zhao Xiaokun bought a ticket and went to the waiting hall to find Gu Xiaoxiao and them.

"Tiny, the ticket was bought. Let's go, Platform 8. He picked up his luggage on the bench and walked over to platform eight.

There are really not many people who go to Guchi, and the driver waited for half an hour to see that half of the people in the car were already on the car and drove away.

Guchi is a small township near Hong City, and it is still a mud road, so the car is a little bumpy. At the beginning, Su Luoxing was still chatting with everyone with the enthusiasm of taking the bus for the first time.

After half an hour, it didn't work, and I couldn't be sleepy by the dustpan, so I fell asleep on Gu Xiaoxiao's shoulder.

Then they didn't speak, they all closed their eyes and rested. It's an hour and a half by car.

When he was about to arrive, Zhao Xiaokun woke everyone up, he had gone to the ancient pond to play. Last summer. The family came together, so the farmhouse for this stay was also booked by him, and it was a distant relative of his family, who had lived in it, and he was very relieved.

got out of the car and carried his luggage, Su Luoxing was still a little unconscious, lazy on Gu Xiaoxiao's body.

"It's almost there. Zhao Xiaokun walked in the front to lead the way, Gu Xiaoxiao and Su Luoxing walked in the middle, and Zhan Yan walked at the end.

The farmhouse where the overnight stay is still in the town, not far from the ancient pond, a ten-minute walk away.

The family's surname is Liu, and there is only one grandmother, who is a distant relative of the Zhao family. The son and daughter-in-law took their grandson to live in the city, and the wife had already gone. She was left alone to guard the house and refused to leave.

So she was also very happy to have guests coming, Zhao Xiaokun's mother came to talk last week, and after knowing it, Grandma Liu had already sorted out the two empty rooms. One is her son's daughter-in-law's, and the other is her grandson's room, which has not been lived in for a long time, but Grandma Liu often cleans it and does not accumulate dust.

There is also a peach tree planted in the yard, all of which are ripe, and they smell the fragrance of peaches. She used to be an old man who loved to eat, so she planted one. She has bad teeth now, and she doesn't like to eat this crispy peach.

There are still peaches from the small half tree that have not been picked. She picked them all today, washed seven or eight of them, and put them in a bamboo basket.

The door was opened, and he sat on a recliner under the peach tree and waited for Zhao Xiaokun and his party by the way.

Zhao Xiaokun: They arrived near noon. I walked half an hour from the bus station to Grandma Liu's house.

Stepping through the door, "Grandma Liu, we are here and have brought you a gift." "When he entered the yard, he put the nutritional products he bought at the train station on the stone table, he wouldn't buy them, they were all written down on paper by Lin Ling and asked him to buy them.

"Eh, it's good to come, it's good to come, and what else to bring. Hungry, aren't you? Grandma Liu got up from the recliner, beckoned them to sit, and then slowly entered the kitchen.

As soon as Gu Xiaoxiao and the others put their things in the house, Grandma Liu came with vegetables, and there was a stone table under the peach tree, which was used for playing chess and drinking, but now no one plays chess and drinks anymore.

"Come and eat here, cool down. "Three dishes, and a pot of porridge.

Very homely stir-fry. It's not a chef's skill, but the dishes are fresh, and they have a fight with the dishes in Gu Xiaoxiao's space. It's worth eating.

Mung beans were added to the porridge, and when it was cooled, everyone ate several bowls in a row. There is nothing left.

After the meal, Grandma Liu beckoned them to eat peaches, all of which were freshly picked, and chattered a lot, usually she was quite lonely, so she could only chatter with her old neighbors.

Said about the nearby attractions and said that some of the views are good, but no one goes to the place.

A place not far from the ancient pond, there is a lawn, knee-high, there will be a lot of fireflies at night, especially beautiful, the children in the neighborhood often twist the adults at night to catch fireflies, quite lively.

Gu Xiaoxiao, who listened, was very moved.

I haven't seen fireflies in the city yet.

You can still see the stars now, but in a few years, the pollution will be great, and I am afraid that you will not be able to see the stars, and the blue sky is estimated to be rare.

After eating, I chatted with Grandma Liu for a while, and after taking a break by the way, I planned to go out to see the lotus flowers in the ancient pool, so I had to cherish the two-day holiday.

At this time, there was no camera phone, so Su Luoxing brought a camera. Take some money and go out.

Walking along the bluestone pavement, the cicadas chirp, and it was a little stuffy, but it was quite cool compared to the less densely populated city. It's already three o'clock in the afternoon.

I also bought four bowls of herbal tea along the way.

It is especially cool to drink it in one sip, and it is bought from tea shops along the way. This area is very fond of tea.

After walking for a while, I saw a piece of powder in the distance. The fragrance of lotus flowers is not much. The high and low lotus leaves are lined with fully bloomed lotus flowers, which is particularly beautiful. There are already lotus pods.

When Gu Xiaoxiao and the others approached, a small boat happened to be on the shore, and he was a very honest old man.

When I looked up, I smiled at them and asked, "Little girl, you are here to play, there are many people who come here to see the lotus, and the lotus flowers are blooming well this year." ”

"Well, this lotus pond is beautiful. Are you picking lotus pods?" Gu Xiaoxiao answered his question and saw that his boat was full of pinched lotus pods.

"Yes, come, you can taste it, it's delicious, take a few and go back to make porridge more comfortably. Then he bent down and hugged a handful of lotus pods to Gu Xiaoxiao, Gu Xiaoxiao was embarrassed to take it, and hurriedly pushed it and said that it was not needed.

But the old man is a little persistent, "Little girl, just get a few of you, eat while walking, it's rare to come to the ancient pond to play a ha." Have fun. "I didn't give a chance to push the evidence, Gu Xiaoxiao and Su Luoxing were embarrassed to take it, so they stuffed it directly into Zhao Xiaokun's arms.

Zhao Xiaokun held a bunch of lotus pods with an innocent face and said, "Uncle, I'm really embarrassed to do this." ”

"I shouted that you can get it when you get it, anyway, you eat it yourself, and you can't eat it all after picking so much. You're going to be here for a long time? My house is over there, you can come and play when you have time. ”

The old man took out a snakeskin bag from the stern of the boat and put it on the shore, picked up the lotus canopy inside, and Gu Xiaoxiao and the others came to help pull the pocket when they saw it.

"We live at Grandma Liu's, let's play for two days, and we have classes on Monday, these lotus seeds are so tender. "Zhao Xiaokun is already picking lotus seeds and eating them.

"Grandma Liu, Liu Xiufang? Oh, our house is not far from her house, just one street, just turn a corner, let's go there at night, my grandson is about the same age as you." The old man quickly picked up the lotus pod in his pocket with his hands and feet.

"Yes, what's the uncle's surname. "I remember going to see fireflies at night and having someone lead the way. I just don't know if the grandchildren of the uncle's family are willing to take them.

"My surname is Luo, you can call me Uncle Luo. Most of the boat's lotus canopy was full, and the snakeskin pockets were full, and then a small pocket was full, and there were many that were not filled, "Oh, look, I said that I picked too much, and you all took it and ate it, and I couldn't fit it." Then he took the pole and hooked the two pockets one after the other.

picked it up and planned to go home, "Then I'll go back, you guys play slowly, come to my house at night to play." ”

Gu Xiaoxiao and his entourage said goodbye to Uncle Luo with a smile. Then they picked up the lotus canopy left by Uncle Luo for them, and there were several of them.

Then I ate lotus seeds while walking to see the scenery.

Originally, he was looking at the scenery, but later it became Zhao Xiaokun accompanying Su Luoxing to take photos everywhere, Gu Xiaoxiao and Zhan Yan talking, all the way from modern literature to ancient literature. Endless.

At first, it was just about Gu Xiaoxiao's book to Zhan Yan, and then it was Gu Xiaoxiao and Zhan Yan's books, and then they thought which one was very good-looking and very well written, and then they went all the way down this topic, becoming more and more in love.

When Su Luoxing and the others took a photo, they found that they couldn't fit into the topic circle of Gu Zhan and the others at all, and they couldn't understand what they were discussing at all.

Then the group walked, the first two talked about literature while looking at the scenery, and the two in the back chatted about interesting things and laughed and took pictures.

Soon the afternoon passed.

They went back at six o'clock, because when they went out, Grandma Liu told them that the meal would start at half past six.

Dinner was better than lunch, and the five dishes were all grown by Grandma Liu herself.

After eating, it was not dark yet. Just rest in the yard and pick up the watermelons that have been frozen from the well, which Grandma Liu put into the well in the afternoon and put them in the net. Pull it up directly, cut it into a large piece, and eat it with one piece, which is particularly good.

Quench your thirst and cool off.

After eating the watermelon, Grandma Liu heard that they were going to Lao Luo's house, and asked them to go to the field in the backyard to pick a big watermelon and bring it over.

It's a heart.

Then Gu Xiaoxiao and the others took a big watermelon.

Uncle Luo's grandson is in the third year of junior high school this year, and he didn't want to continue studying, and his grades are average. I want to go to the city to work, but I am still young, so Luo's father and Luo's mother are not allowed.

Seeing them coming, Uncle Luo's family was very enthusiastic.

Listening to them again, they wanted to see the fireflies, so they didn't say a word, so they let their grandson take them with them.