Chapter 46: Memories of the Old House
It's noon.
Ye Chen looked at the porcini mushrooms in the car and followed him to Bishui Garden.
Today's harvest was quite fruitful, and the porcini mushrooms picked were plump and fat. I brought seven of them, enough for three people to have a good meal.
Zhao Jiyang and Zhang Xi, both girls are masters who have no time when they play games. Uncle Zhao lives here at night and is with the workers during the day. With no one to take care of, they probably lose track of time to eat.
went downstairs and parked the car, Ye Chen didn't go upstairs and came to the house where Uncle Zhao lived.
It was past twelve o'clock, and there was no cooking in the kitchen. Ye Chen first washed rice and cooked rice, then cleaned porcini mushrooms, and brought fresh meat in the refrigerator......
Stir-fried porcini mushrooms with fresh meat, the aroma can float out dozens of meters away, and Zhao Jiyang, who was playing games upstairs to earn gold coins, also smelled it.
"Uncle came back for dinner at noon? Zhang Xi asked.
"It looks like some kind of fungus, I'll go down and see. ”
Ye Chen focused on stir-frying.
Zhao Jiyang came in with his own hands and feet, saw Ye Chen, stood on his heels, and hugged him from behind: "When did you come over?"
"Just arrived. Ye Chen knew her when Jiyang opened the door, and smiled and put the mushroom fried meat on the plate: "I picked up a lot of mushrooms in the mountains in the morning, and brought them over for you to taste." Is the game studio going well?"
"It's ok. I have already brought seven waves of regiments, and I can leave work early today. What kind of mushroom is this, I smelled it upstairs. ”
"See hand green, a type of porcini mushroom. I'm making a soup dish, you go upstairs and ask Zhang Xi to come down for dinner. ”
"Let's go up and eat, I'm running a group, organizing a team. ”
"There's nothing I can do with you. Ye Chen turned his head, held Jiyang's face with both hands, and looked at it carefully: "It's okay, there are no dark circles under your eyes." Go up, I'll make a meal and bring it up. ”
"Hmm. Zhao Jiyang pursed his lips, with a strong sense of happiness: "Thank you." ”
"What?"
"Nothing, I went up. ”
Ye Chen made another soup dish and served it upstairs, the two girls were already 'working', and they were charging to take the player across the map.
Professional gamers are far from being as free and comfortable as they seem, and it's hard work. If Ye Chen is allowed to come, he will definitely not be able to stand it. Infinite loops, no relaxation and freedom when you really play games, a very boring thing. But the two girls were full of interest...... I really don't understand.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Geeyang and the others brought the team, and Ye Chen brought the food over: "You two still take the game as an interest." ”
"It's just fun, we love the game. Zhao Jiyang said, and Zhang Xi looked at each other and smiled.
"Well, when I didn't say it. ”
After eating, Ye Chen still had something to do, so after staying here for a while, he went back to the village, changed into an SUV, and came to the Qingshuigou Reservoir.
"Third brother. "Li Laosan, a contractor in Qingshan Town, has contracted many rural roads to be repaired for him, and villagers can also find him to build houses.
"Boss Ye, you came just in time, determine the planned path. Li Laosan was discussing things with an excavator master, Ye Chen came over and hurriedly handed over a cigarette.
"The road to the top of Chashan Mountain, I want to go around from the back. Try not to have too much slope on this road, so that you can build a house on the top of the hill later. ”
"Go around there and form a C-shape, okay?" Li Laosan gestured the general route.
"Okay. ”
Two other excavators have already started work, digging a dozen meters of road.
As long as the roadbed is leveled, the reinforcement frame is laid and the concrete is watered, this is a very fast thing.
Will come over, Ye Chen and Li Laosan discussed building a small factory on the top of Chashan Mountain to make tea. Large villas, limited to the issue of funds will be discussed later.
A factory building of three to five hundred square meters does not cost a few dollars. Li Laosan agreed, and immediately contacted the manpower.
After watching here for a while, Ye Chen went back to the village and asked the fourth father to get the key to the old man's house. The man is gone, leaving behind an empty four-room tiled house and countless memories......
The house has a complete set of green tea making tools, very traditional and old.
Freshly picked tea leaves can only enter the cup in front of these traditional and ancient tools, and then through the craftsmanship of craftsmen.
Ye Chen's master, strictly speaking, has a strange personality. In his case, the craft is also passed on to men but not to women, and to be big but not small.
Ye Chen and Ye Chen's father are both the master's personal apprentices. However, both father and son disappointed the master.
In this house, Ye Chen has always been afraid to come in. The master's favorite grandchild is Ye Chen, who wants to teach Ye Chen the most traditional skills, but unfortunately later went to the United States. Because of this, the old man was seriously ill, but he also knew Ye Chen's helplessness and chose to forgive.
Ye Chen's former boss Connor, the tea that was full of praise was the old camellia collected by Ye Chen himself in the mountains, and then concocted it by himself, every year when he went home, his grandfather would prepare a lot of different good teas for Ye Chen, and let him take them to the United States.
In fact, a long time ago, Grandpa Ye Chen told him alone that the tea mountain left behind after his death belonged to his name. This was said separately, Ye Chen didn't know if his grandfather had talked to his father and a few uncles. It is estimated that no, after the death of the master, several uncles began to compete for the tea mountain.
Six years ago, that tea mountain was not very eye-catching. The Qingshan Town Tea Factory was not established, and the tea produced by Qingshuigou Tea Mountain was picked and made by itself, and then sold to several teahouses in Qingshan Town.
It was only in recent years that the tea mountain was really worth its money. Qingshan Town developed, and tea factories were established...... Several tea factories in Qingshan Town took the tea to participate in the tea fair, and Ye Chen knew that at least two of them were tea from his own tea mountain.
The old man had an accident when he went to the mountains to pick camellia, and he left suddenly, leaving no will. Several uncles competed for Chashan, mainly the second father and the third father, as well as an aunt who was 'messing around'.
Ye Chen hit a lot of luck overnight and chose to return to China, in addition to not being able to let go of his parents, but also the guilt of his master who couldn't let go.
The day before his grandfather's accident, he also called himself, saying that the autumn camellia could be picked, and he had to prepare more, and joked that he would bring a daughter-in-law who knew tea back for the New Year to taste his old man's craftsmanship.
Looking at the tea-making tools piled under the eaves, Ye Chen pushed open the door of the hall, and the portraits of his grandfather and grandmother hung on the wall in front of him. Ye Chen couldn't hold back, his eyes were sour......
The grandfather who loves him the most, his love is comparable to his parents' love for him, or even surpasses. So much so that the second father, the third father, and even the fourth father are saying that the old man is partial......
Indeed, what the master loves most is himself.
Ye Chen rubbed his eyes, went back to the house and brought a broom over to clean the cobwebs in the hall. Then he knelt down in front of the portrait of his grandparents......
Grandma's portrait is still a little young.
Ye Chen doesn't have much memory of his grandmother, but he often hears that 'you look like grandma'...... truth'. But everyone else said they looked like a gentleman...... The character is also like.
Ye Chen knelt in front of the statue of his grandparents for a few minutes.
I wanted to say something, but I didn't say it after all, closed the door of the hall, continued to look at the tea-making tools under the eaves, and recalled the tea-making skills taught by the old man.
It's ten years ago, but there are some things that you won't forget after learning, tea picking, finishing, rolling, drying, and sealing......