The car turned into the side road from Taoyuan Road and drove into a green bamboo forest path. After driving about 200 meters, you can see the courtyard of the Li family after bypassing a small pond. The courtyard is built on a high mud slope, and the area enclosed by the courtyard wall is more than 200 square meters, which is a courtyard wall built with blue bricks mixed with yellow mud.

Because the mud ramp is more rugged than the bamboo forest, after all, it is a road for my family to walk, so I dug small pits to prevent you from accidentally sliding uphill in wet weather. The pothole passage leading to the gate of the courtyard is not suitable for cars, and there are a few green bamboos on both sides of the ramp, which are likely to scratch the car, so Li Xiuli parked the car in the open space between the mud slope and the fish pond.

Qingdong Village is a real village, the villagers live on this side of the bamboo forest, and the other side of the road is the real vegetable field. On the other side of the road, there is a large lake that is wider than the Green River in terms of length and width, and it is named Qinghu because of its blue water due to microorganisms, minerals, and aquatic plants.

Qinghu supports the villagers of Qingdong Village.

Unlike Pingnan Village, which is engaged in "non-duty" work such as rent collection, part-time work, and opening shops, the villagers of Qingdong Village are villagers who really rely on Tianshui to farm the land.

You don't need to carry water to water the vegetable patch here, and the canal has already been dug in the village when it was planned. At 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., the canal is filled with the microbe-rich water of the lake. All the villagers have to do is to stand on the ridges of the fields, scoop up the lake water in the canal with a water scoop lengthened with wood, and splash it on the rape fields in sections.

The source of the canal is naturally not a waterwheel, and Nanhua is also the capital city of the province, so it will not lag behind the era of the waterwheel.

The source of the canal is a high-altitude reservoir, and the pumping machine is placed in the machine room, and when the point comes, the person in charge will use the key to open the machine room, and open the machine to store the river water in advance. When the reservoir is full, the sluice gates are opened, and the water will rush in the canals.

The main canal is more than half a meter high, and in the summer, children who are not allowed to swim in the lake will swarm into the canal to play, and the canal will be full just above their chests. After that, the main aqueduct will be separated along the water distribution channel of each family and flow under the ridges of each family's vegetable fields.

Covering an area of 450 acres, Qinghu Lake covers half of the area of Qingxiu District, and only one rain can store enough water supply for the entire Qingdong Village for a long time. Moreover, the water supply in the south is sufficient, so there is no need to worry about the water of Qinghu Lake running out.

It is worth mentioning that Qinghu is a dead lake that is not connected to the outside world, and a three-meter-long huge fish was salvaged during a dredging a few years later. In the past, there were rumors of people fishing and being dragged into the lake while holding on to their rods.

The fish pond under my grandmother's yard is also a natural small lake, but now there is tilapia raised by a certain family, and it is not clear which fish pond it is, anyway, there will be no two or three meters long big fish eater.

A very old guava tree was planted in the grandmother's yard, located on the right side of the middle and back of the yard at the back of the entrance, and the branches and leaves shaded the sky, blocking about a quarter of the sky in the yard.

When you enter the courtyard from the entrance, you can see that there are two rows of longhouses on the left and right sides of the courtyard, and except for the kitchen, which is made of red bricks, the rest of the longhouses are all wooden buildings. The four houses on the right are a firewood house, a kitchen, a utility room, and a chicken coop. I don't know if it's because it's blocked by tree branches, but the house on this side is only built on one floor.

The longhouse on the left is a bit like a palace, and the lobby is about the size of three houses. The main gate is two wooden planks two meters wide and three meters long, which have been pasted with New Year's pictures at this time. On the left and right sides of the hall are two-story small rooms used to store sundries such as kettles, tables and chairs, and the second floor is the attic for residents.

Except for the mud brick wall that was gradually enclosed, the courtyard is actually full of quaint wooden buildings, and there is only a peach tree in the middle of the open space, and there are no stone tables and chairs for people to relax under the tree.

At this time, Riki had already greeted his grandparents and came to assemble the easel outside the courtyard gate with Da Shengnan.

"Ah Nan, do you think my grandmother's family is poor?"

"Poor."

Because she heard the terrible answer, Riki did not hesitate to correct her mistake - "Nan, you are too honest, if you don't want to lie at this time, you can answer ambiguously and say 'almost',"

"Why?"

Why? This is the sentence that Da Shengnan said the most after following Riki.

As for why it is said "almost", the word carries an ambiguous special surname...... It's as if you know the answer in the questioner's head and slightly agree with what the questioner has already prepared.

…… However, after many rounds of "why" questions, Riki said that he would never explain the why to her on a topic that he was not interested in.

"What, it's so boring to talk to Ah Nan."

"Yes......" Katsuo was also obedient, she was also familiar with Riki, and knew that she shouldn't ask at this time.

Limu got a regular task today to paint an ink painting with the theme of "bamboo forest", which was recognized by more than ten people. As usual, there are tips under the task, describing the history and principles of ink painting [Ink painting is a form of painting, and more often, ink painting is regarded as a representative ...... traditional Chinese painting, that is, Chinese painting] and precautions and tips for painting bamboo.

Undoubtedly, this is another nurturing task of the "ultimate painter" system. Since the mother had returned early, the other sisters had not yet arrived. Limu hopes to complete the "Bamboo Forest" task as soon as possible, otherwise it will look very unpleasant for others to be busy with New Year's greetings, but he is painting on the side. If it's in another family, forget it, but this is my mother's mother's house, and it's enough for each of the three aunts and six mothers-in-law to come over and care about themselves.

"It's a bit shabby on the surface, but my grandparents are rich."

Riki said as he waited for Katsuo to open the shelf, and he was holding the fixing screw to judge the angle. The angle required for an ink drawing board is 0 degrees, that is, parallel to the ground. Usually ink painting is done on a long table, but Riki has a long drawing board, and the current painter is enough to do the job.

"Why?" Katsuo Mu Ran asked.

"Because they are rich, they lack nothing materially, and they are very happy spiritually." Thinking of what happened to Da Shengnan's family, Riki sighed:

"My grandmother gave birth to seven children, and her material life couldn't keep up with the times, but none of the children were left behind, all of them grew up and were Chengren, and now they are married and have started a business.

"You see, after the most difficult period before, now there are groups of children and granddaughters, and they usually go to water the vegetables in the morning and afternoon, and come back to feed the chickens and raise cats. It's not like Pingnan who is just chatting or chatting, talking about the gossip of that family and bragging about his own family. If you don't talk about it, you go to play chess, play chess and add some color, and then go to play cards, and go to drugs when you are idle, this kind of saying is not wealth, but emptiness. ”

Compared with Pingnan, the courtyard of the Li family is empty but not empty. There are local chickens running all over the ground outside the courtyard and inside the courtyard, pecking on the ground vigorously, and I don't know if they are eating insects or stones. In front of the threshold of the lobby, there was a dog lying on the ground, named Liangliang, who was watching the preserved fish on the door beam. Squatting on the fence at the entrance of the yard to observe the flower cat of Limu, it is the old female cat that my grandmother picked up and is older than Limu's grade.

At this time, my mother accompanied my grandmother to cross the bamboo forest road to pick vegetables on the other side of the road. My grandfather was reading the newspaper in the hall and waiting for lunch to start. But even if there is no one inside and outside the courtyard for a while, there will be no sense of emptiness here.

"Why the emptiness?" Da Shengnan asked.

"They don't have ideals, so they don't have souls, and then they're empty."

- Why did I have such a conversation with Dashengnan......

Riki estimated that he wouldn't understand what he said, so he suddenly thought of a question and asked, "I said, Nan, what are your ideals?" ”

"Huh? I? I want meat for my family's meals, I want to build my house up to the seventh floor, I want to buy new clothes for my son and Han, I want to-"

"Stop, stop! That's a wish, not an ideal. Before Da Shengnan continued, Limu suddenly interjected, and then complained: "And it's illegal for you to build seven floors, Nan." ”

"Huh!? That's one less floor. ”

"It's not ideal to build one less floor, unless you want to build a 100-story commercial building of your own, that's probably ideal."

"What wish? What is Ideal? "Da Shengnan was confused.

What is Wish? What is ideal? Riki himself was stunned by the question. Reflecting on the past, I found that there was actually a draft, and explained with a slight smile: "Actually, others haven't defined it, so let's take it as my point of view-

"A wish is what you want to do, and others can also help you achieve it. For example, if I give you two or three hundred thousand, then your wishes of eating meat, building a house, and buying new clothes will come true.

"The ideal is something you want to do, but you have to do it yourself. For example, I want to be a cartoonist, but what I draw is worse than graffiti, and even if the president of the country wants to make me a cartoonist, no one will approve of it. ”

The ideal is to rely on one's own hands to strive for, in line with reality, and can be realized.

"I see." Da Shengnan showed a sudden expression.

"Got it?" Pear wood curled eyebrows.

"Got it."

"Tell me about your ideals."

"I want to be a big man when I grow up."

"What—"

Click.

Riki pushed her elongated jaw back into her upper jaw with her hands, her teeth clattering together with a crisp click.

…… It is true that it can be achieved through surgery, but such an ideal, no, it should be said that it is a wish.

"Didn't you get it grafted from your dad?"

"It's so profound, I don't understand."

"That's it—it's your father's wish to make you a man, he just wants a son......"

Just halfway through Riki's words.

"Hey, you're ——?"

The two chatted and fiddled with their easels. As soon as the easel was successfully placed, two women each carried two large bags of New Year's goods in big red plastic bags, and slowly went up from the slope of Zhuyin Dao. When they saw the behemoth of Da Shengnan at first glance, they immediately asked the two of them in surprise.

"The tiger goes to the rabbit, the toad is everywhere, and the three phoenixes have returned to the nest - three mothers, four mothers, happy new year." The child stood beside the easel, clasped his hands together, bowed slightly, and bowed a New Year's salute.

Although the Heita Mountain is fierce and vicious, in the Li family's one-third of an acre, he actually dares to block the door and be scary?

When I saw that the childish boy had an outstanding appearance, wearing a red dress and black pants embroidered with auspicious clouds, his manners and demeanor were extraordinary, and he was a unique person in the world. The two of them were frightened before they suddenly retreated.

After settling down and looking closely, he noticed the name he used for the two of them, and then thought back to the car under the ramp. The two women were astonished and looked at each other:

"This fairy-like golden boy descended from the sky, is the son of my sister-Limu?!"