"Sister Tang, I'm going to turn off my phone immediately, my phone and my mother are out of battery, I'm with you. She has saved your number, and if she calls you, please make up a seamless reason in advance to fool your mother. Tonight, we will open a hotel, and we will fulfill me, and I will fulfill me! Kneel down and thank you, please! ”

In the middle of the evening, Bao Xiaotang, who was taking online classes, received Mi's message and was stunned. I watched it several times before I was sure it was real. The young Rao world is so crazy, she can't be jealous if she wants to, she can only envy the blessings sent out. After replying to the message, Xiaotang couldn't pull Shensi back to online classes for a long time.

When it comes to the future of love, most people have a longing and cautious vision for it; When love comes, few people have the courage to open themselves up and be crazy about love.

Life is really hard, in this shrewd, vigilant, indifferent crowd of people without direction, how pure, what an ideal luck to meet a selfless love. Do you still need to spend your mind thinking or calculating the outcome of this perfect love? You don't have to. Enjoy the process, every month, every second, delicate, romantic, tender, smiling, hugging...... It's the enjoyment process that counts. After a few years, a few years, no one will be entangled or regret why it turned out like that, the ending was like this, the white-haired old man and the old woman sat alone under the tree, looking at the south, must be missing the short-lived beauty - love and being loved in the beauty, the other party and themselves in the beauty.

How long does it take for a girl to have a relationship with a guy? For Mi, there is no answer to this question because she doesn't need an answer; For himself, Xiaotang hesitated and sighed. All his karma seems to be doomed, and it is still the same story, the same ending, the same unbearable and deceived.

The crowd gave the young heart a lot of misdirection, and the young man quietly painted confusion after failure, and the crowd came to laugh at his confusion at this time, and even continued to pull him into the next greater confusion Zheng is kind, brave, open-minded, insightful, passionate and yearning...... If everyone is like rice, then how many less misguided mortals in the turbid world should take. Like a shooting star, Momi is free to find his way, run freely to his goal, and enjoy his life freely among the stereotyped stars.

The contract was signed in the afternoon, and Ma Guiying took the contract back to the company. When she was eating fast food in the evening, she suddenly received seven or eight photos from Long Shisheng - some singing indoors, some barbeculating on the beach, and some playing ball in the sports hall...... In the photo, a group of middle-aged people wearing rest hooks on their shoulders and facing the camera, Gui Ying enlarged the photo and observed it in detail, all with squinted eyes, curled corners of their mouths, and smiling brightly. The colleagues of the exhibition department are all working overtime without exception, the old business of the exhibition business department is all running customers outside, and the middle and senior executives of the company are rushing to participate in Joden's banquet, Gui Ying is speechless.

All civil strife, corruption, and death all begin from within. There is a life cycle of products, and of course, there are times when the life cycle of an enterprise is not as long as the life cycle of the products produced by the enterprise. Such cases are not non-existent in the ever-changing and turbulent contemporary China.

This night, Lao Ma only waited for Gui Ying to come back and explain the 3,000 yuan of reasons and grievances, and in the process of rubbing and suffering, Lao Ma himself helplessly dissipated his grievances and released the fire. A bowl of gluten and can open your face is dozens of good, a lump of durian lotus flowers is nearly a hundred, a toy is often hundreds, and a pair of shoes is a little better is a thousand...... If this is already the case, let alone the treatment in a big hospital!

In this life, in Tunli, everyone's house in the city is expensive, food and clothing are expensive, and the cost is expensive, and it is true. This dozens, that hundreds, and a turn is thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps, it is not that the city is not good or the city is too expensive, but that rural people are not suitable for the city to spend their lives for a few dollars and a few cents, and to find a proper or moisturizing in the chicken and dog pieces all their lives, and to fight and settle down in places where they do not spend money all their lives. It's coming, and the veteran will put him in this realm where every inch of land is valuable, and he should be unaccustomed to the water and soil. Tsai Tsai just returned it, and his classmates went to Hong Kong to take a look at their eyes and spent tens of thousands of dollars in one go! In the final analysis, Lao Ma still feels sorry for money, and he feels sorry for money because he has no money.

The old village chief curled up in a rocking chair, looking at the neon-lit night sky all over the city, and remembered Majiatun. There is a piece of aloe vera and cactus that grows into a monster like a monster on the west slope of Tun, there are so many acres of land, yellow flowers bloom every year, and red fruits are produced, and women can pick them at will when they want to use them, and they don't spend money. The east side of the road on the south head of the chicken frame road is the cliff, the cliff edge is full of hollyhocks, the flower branches that grow so tall as adults, when they bloom, they are like a fire all the way to the fire, the dolls pick flowers, the girls take pictures, and the old women collect seeds, which do not cost money. There is a depression three miles away from the north of the village, two acres of land is so big, it is full of sour jujube trees, and there are also sour jujube trees with thick bowl mouths, and the children are scrambling to beat the sour jujube in season, and the people who earn broken money in the winter are scrambling to go to the tree to talk about the sour jujube kernel, and it does not cost money.

Take pity on the peasants, let them want, and change their ways to relieve their wants.

Ma Guiying sat in front of the computer at night, busy for most of the time, and when she got up to drink water, she found that her eyes were stiff and her waist was sore, and it was eleven o'clock when she got home that night. Pushing the door back without saying a word, she really didn't have the strength to shout, Gui Ying went straight to the house to change clothes. The old horse, who was sitting on the balcony, saw that she was walking slowly and swaying, and he knew that he was tired when he saw her. But as soon as I saw that there was finally someone who could talk, the little thing in my heart immediately came to me.

Gui Ying changed into pajamas and came out to drink water, and was summoned by the old man. Lao Ma described the three and two sentences of the three thousand yuan in the daytime. Gui Ying sat on the rippling pink bench next to the rocking chair, holding a glass of water in her hand and sipping her mouth while listening, recalling that when she went back to the room to change clothes, Zhiyuan looked indifferent and cold, and her heart was skewered. She also felt sorry for money, but she couldn't do it.

"Are you losing your temper today?" Gui Ying raised her eyes and asked the old man.

"Three thousand dollars for nothing! Three thousand dollars! Can you buy an old sturdy tricycle, can you not be angry! The old horse patted the armrest of the rocking chair, but he was actually not so angry in his heart, and he couldn't get over that hurdle on his lips.

"So, who are you angry at - Yangyang, Tsai Tsai, or his dad?" Gui Ying asked coldly.

"What about you?" As soon as the old horse raised his head, his nostrils were facing and he never showed weakness.

"Tsk! Hey—"

Gui Ying sighed sadly, looked down at the calm pure water in the cup, and was silent for five or six minutes, and suddenly her nose was sour.

After a few minutes, she finally spoke: "Big, I've been very tired lately, can you please not give it to me...... Trouble? ”

Lao Ma listened to her voice trembling, low, and pleading, turned his head to look, and saw her looking up at herself, tears dripping down in two lines, and Lao Rao's heart was suddenly pinched.

"I'm angry because of you." The old horse was so anxious that he slapped the handrail again.

"If you sprinkle my 3,000 yuan French perfume as toilet water, who am I angry at?" Gui Ying asked with tears in her eyes.

"Aren't you angry at me!"

Silence, another few minutes of silence.

"Great, it's in town! China's largest city, the first line of China's special zone, the fastest growing place on the planet in this era, who hasn't wow? It's normal to buy a car and be cheated for tens of thousands, but it's impossible to buy a house and be slaughtered for hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands! If you find someone to break every loss clearly, there is no way to live that day! Abducted and deceived, abducted and deceived - this is real life! ”

"Humph!" Didn't the old horse know, but he didn't want to believe it at the moment.

"There is no bad guy in this world for no reason, it must be the doctor who has been assigned a quota, which is also mandated by the hospital, what can she do! If it weren't for the hospital's hard and fast rules, that is, this female doctor especially needs that little commission, and she will get it! Don't keep saying that you want to sue others, complain about others, and post big-character posters to others! A person with a bad heart has become like that before he cheated you, I don't know how many people have been hurt before he became like that, why should we? ”

The old horse sighed, looked back at his girl and asked, "It's your money that has been cheated, what are you doing?" ”

"What's the matter? I still have to go to work, sleep and eat well and have the energy to go to work, this is the answer. Tsai Tsai Ming wants to enter the remedial class, and after Yangyang, he wants to enter the kindergarten, and studying hard is the answer. You're old, don't scold. Let me ask you, you are angry today, did Zhiyuan talk back? How can he get angry when he gets angry? People are different from others, if everyone is as shrewd as you and don't suffer a loss, the world will not be peaceful. ”

The old horse gasped for breath outside the balcony and said nothing.

After a few minutes, Gui Ying begged with two lines of tears: "Great, don't embarrass him in the future, okay?" ”

Gui Ying finished, wiped her tears and left. Everything is back to normal.

After being busy, she didn't want to worry about family affairs anymore, didn't want to comfort Zhiyuan anymore, didn't want to talk anymore, went to bed and moved to her seat, covered the list and fell asleep. Zhiyuan also said no, a warm greeting was not mentioned by Ying Zaizai's eyes, Zhang Rao was angry and didn't say anything, why his wife came back so late didn't ask, Guan Healed, and lay on his side and slept with a pillow.

The couple were back to back, with the width of a galaxy in between.

Gui Ying felt sorry for him and resented him even more. To this day, he still can't find a way to get along with the old man, and he is still wronged without saying a word. If he wants to endure it like this, why should she feel distressed. Where can Zhiyuan sleep, he lives a life he doesn't want to live, eats meals he hates, does things he won't do, and after calculating the three thousand yuan account with the old man, he has been thinking about a question - is He Zhiyuan still called He Zhiyuan now.

Lao Ma listened to Gui Ying's pleading, and felt very uncomfortable. is dedicated to her good, and in turn is resented by her. The old man felt uncomfortable, sat on the recliner, and smoked one pot after another until one o'clock in the morning.

How much China has changed in just a few decades! Everyone eats seafood feasts, wears designer clothes, buys a house in the city, drives imported cars, and ...... Forty years ago, the situation of Chinese people who did not have enough food and clothing, and a large family crammed on a kang has passed, the days of extravagant hope for more years in the field, the whole family is not hungry, and the era of dreaming of having a girder bicycle and sewing machine has also passed. In the past 40 years, the material conditions and infrastructure have developed so rapidly, and people's concepts and beliefs have not yet experienced enough flexibility to balance this unprecedented great change, conflict and contrast in history.

After the rise of the Internet, the massive amount of information and knowledge exceeded the upper limit of what people could receive, people's pursuit of primary happiness exceeded the speed of political or civilized openness, and the rising awakeners, the impermanent proletarians, and the peasants living in the villages generally had huge conflicts that they could not keep up with the environment - the society was progressing too fast, so fast that people could not adapt for a while, and it was as fast as if the Chinese people were facing a special "adolescence" that permeated the times.

Before starting the road of life, people must first learn to recognize, examine, and adapt to the reality of their existence; Many people who can't adapt fall into confusion at the beginning of their lives – a lifetime of confusion. In the past 70 years, all the things that Lao Ma has understood, examined and adapted to are all rural areas, farmers and agriculture. Jumping out of these three, his proud experience and wisdom will no longer be called useful experience or convincing wisdom.

It is undeniable that the old village chief carries a strong sense of agriculture, agriculture and rural values, and the values of the old era. He was confident and successful in the past, and he used the past era to resist the current era. endure the broken, get used to the old things; endure slamming and get used to frugality; Endure redundancy, habit accumulation. a battle of wits and hardship between a generous earth and a miserly climate; He and the peasants and old people like him not only have to survive with their families, but also live a nourishing and free life. The large sum of money saved by one pen, five cents and three yuan, is the bargaining chip for them to ask for nourishment from life and talk freely with fate.

The hookah in your hand suits you well, whether it was fifty years ago or fifty years later, but it doesn't fit into this era, it's long out of the times.

In line with the times, or, in line with the mind, in contemporary values, it is often contradictory and opposite.

It is somewhat difficult to endure the ideas of the old school and to live in peace and friendship with the virtues of the old school in contemporary times.

The character of Majiatun, Lao Ma's favorite, is like a girl, a person with many faces, soft, vast, natural, tolerant, pragmatic, simple, quiet, cute, delicate, majestic, and old-fashioned...... Each village has its own characteristics, and each village is unique. No city is absolutely just and flawless, and Lao Ma looked down at the big city at his feet from a tall building, racking his brains and not thinking of what kind of character it was.

What kind of city will make almost everyone suffer dozens of times in a short life and one or two injustices that affect their lives or lives? If it's really different from the city, the details and habits in all aspects are different. At this moment, the old horse in the city should follow the local customs. He should strive to know the character of the city, to discover its goodness, to offset its imperfections with goodness, and then to discover its full soul and the good that nourishes its soul.

On Sunday morning, Gui Yingjiu went out at 10 o'clock to arrive at the company, Wu Minglan arrived early, and the two chatted all morning about the VIP reception, media invitations, and publicity manuscripts required before and after the launch.

Momi and Zhang Ke left the hotel at ten o'clock, and went to buy love tokens together, if it weren't for Zhang Ke having to work overtime on weekends and the driver Master Li came to pick them up, the two of them would be sticky and greasy for half a month.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yubing rushed back from Shenyang, and went directly to the company when he returned to Shenzhen. The three women gathered in the conference room, you and I said a word, writing notes, making phone calls, finding people, and making plans...... It was busy until twelve o'clock in the morning.

He Zhiyuan bought a lot of eye health care drugs for his son on the Internet in the afternoon - blueberry, lutein, fish oil and the like. For safety, he chose to buy it from overseas, and the next order was eight or nine hundred, considering that his son's current heavy studies were really bad, he couldn't hesitate. This Sunday, the children and the elderly are eating at home, and in the afternoon they want to make a good meal, Zhiyuan has been brewing for a long time, and has set up sauerkraut fish, fried pulled noodles, and loofah soup, so that the three things are rich, thrifty and full.

At four o'clock, I went to the opposite shopping mall to buy fish, and along the way, Zhiyuan thought that eating fish was good for the eyes, and I imagined that tonight I would let the boy eat more fish to supplement vitamins and moisten his eyes, so he didn't hesitate to pick a big fish of two and a half catties, and spent more than ninety yuan.

When he returned home, he washed the scales, washed the meat, sliced the fish, prepared the ingredients, and pickled the fish, and in between the pickling of the fish, he was busy preparing the dishes needed to make the fish, fried noodles and soup. Time flew by in the kitchen, and after an hour and a half, he started to cook. Make loofah soup first, ten minutes later, pour it into a basin and cover it to keep warm; Then make the sauerkraut fish, stir-fry the sauce and sauerkraut, add the fish fillet, pour water, boil, and after twenty minutes, the fragrant sauerkraut fish is also ready, he pours it into a large basin and hangs; Finally, the noodles and fried noodles are lower.

By the time the meal was ready, it was already half past seven. He Zhiyuan, who smelled of onions and garlic and was sweating all over his shirt, pushed open the kitchen door and shouted to eat. The man quickly put four plates of noodles, a pot of sauerkraut fish, and a pot of loofah soup on the table, and the boy helped to take the chopsticks and serve the bowl. After a few people sat down, Zhiyuan first served the old man a light and delicious loofah soup.

"Eat more fish, it's good for your eyes! Dad got it for you. Zhiyuan stirred the sauerkraut fish with a spoon and found that there was still half a basin of meat inside, so he sandwiched five or six pieces of white fish meat for his son.

"You meat...... Buy too much! The old horse was a waste and held back for a long time before he said this.

"Dad, you eat more, don't waste it."

The old horse was very satisfied with the fried noodles, one person ate two large plates, and he didn't have such a big appetite for the sauerkraut fish, and the people in the northwest actually didn't like to eat fish so much, and the old man couldn't eat a few large pieces. Tsai Tsai drank a few bowls of soup first, and then ate a plate and a half of fried noodles, and when he arrived at the fish, he was full without eating much. Zhiyuan himself ate a lot, but he couldn't eat it. The rest of the slow and loving fish Yangyang, very popular, but unfortunately four or five pieces of fish meat have not been eaten for half an hour. In the end, there was really a lot of sauerkraut fish left.

After dinner, the boy went to the room to do his homework, and the old horse went to the balcony to cool off and eat, and Yangyang was still swaying his legs to eat fish. Zhiyuan saw that she was hungry and loved to eat, so he took the other precedes away, leaving only the pot of sauerkraut fish for her.

Ten minutes later, the dishes were put into the dishwasher, and the woks were cleaned. Holding a clean rag, He Zhiyuan came out to wipe the table. He pulls the sauerkraut fish to the table, holds it on his belly, and then bends down to wipe the entire table. The table top is getting brighter and brighter, his arms are stretched farther and farther, and he raises his feet and bends down vigorously where he can't reach, what a coincidence! When his feet hit the ground and his arms were withdrawn, the fat on his abdomen dragged the whole pot of sauerkraut fish out of the table like a hook, along his clothes and pants, and rushed under the table under the traction of gravity. A pot of sauerkraut soup poured under the table as if it had been spilled.

Bang dang...... An aluminum basin with a diameter of twenty centimeters quickly circles around the ground.

It's a 180-degree gorgeous flip, and a room full of rich and unique fish and meat aroma and sneking sauerkraut!

Zhiyuan looked down and saw that his clothes, pants, shoes and socks were all hung with minced meat, sauerkraut leaves, and garlic slices...... Within two square meters under the table, the yellow sour soup of sauerkraut fish, minced fish, red pepper, green pepper, white garlic slices, and green onions are evenly distributed......

Lao Ma looked at it from a distance, thought about a few words, and talked about Yingying's tears last night, and swallowed the words that came to his mouth. Hearing the sound, Tsai rushed over, and when he saw this, he hurried to get the mop. Yangyang sat on the chair and didn't dare to come down, because the ground under her feet was full of yellow and bright soup, the child was dumbfounded, staring at a large piece of meat stains on his father's body that were still dripping and falling off, and a piece of meat was in his mouth for most of the time and he couldn't swallow it.

"Don't delay! Don't let the mop be next to the vegetable soup! You hurry up and get the trash can and get another rag! "Tsai Tsai was about to mop the floor, but his father forcibly stopped him.

"Bring the dish soap too!" As soon as Tsai Tsai turned around, Zhiyuan shouted again.

After the things were ready, Zhiyuan squatted on the greasy and smooth ground, quickly sucking up the flowing soup with a rag, and at the same time picking up the pieces of meat on the ground with his hands. Tsai Tsai thought it would be faster to use the mop to mop in a pile first, but he was stopped as soon as he lifted the mop.

"Don't-drag! The minced meat of the nail cover can't be dragged off, and it attracts bugs! You take your sister away first, under the soles of your hearts, don't slip! Zhiyuan didn't want his daughter to see him so embarrassed.

When Tsai Tsai heard his father's tone was different from usual, the frightened, frightened, and anxious young man obeyed the command, walked over with one foot at a time, and then went to hug his sister. The young man's big feet came and went, and the whole room was full of fishy, sour, and greasy footprints.

Zhiyuan was afraid that he squatted and slipped to it, but he couldn't do it, he knelt on Lin. In the middle of his busy work, his hand was stabbed by a fish bone a few times, scratched by something, and red blood was dotted on the white porcelain tiles. When Tsai saw this, he felt uncomfortable, he wanted to help but couldn't help, so he was so anxious that he went around in circles outside the crime scene.

"Go get a basin and pour some water, put more dish soap in the water, and I'll wipe it with the dish soap. Don't slip your heart! ”

Zhiyuan knelt on the ground and picked up minced meat everywhere - on the table legs, on the side of the cabinet, on the paper box of the express delivery...... The father and son cooperated with each other, one mopping the floor, the other changing the water, back and forth, no less than ten times. Twenty minutes later, the floor was clean, leaving only a thick, smooth layer of dish soap. At this time, Zhiyuan slowly stood up on the table, and looked down to see that there was warm and oily vegetable soup below his stomach, minced meat was hidden in his shoes, soles, and shoes, and there were boiled red peppers sticking to his socks. When the father and son saw this, they were a little embarrassed.

"You go back to your room and do your homework, you don't need to help me!"

Zhiyuan put his son away, took off his shoes, went back to the room to change clothes with socks, and then went to the mop, and after the mop was cleaned, he dragged the house again. It's more than nine o'clock in one bite. He Zhiyuan collapsed on the bed, carefully recalling everything that had just happened, as if he was in a dream, as if it had not happened to him.

Lao Ma silently witnessed all this, without saying a word, he was extremely disappointed, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh frequently, sighing that this son-in-law was useless.

When he went to bed, He Yiyang started to play crazy before going to bed once a day. I went to my father's room a few times, and when I saw that my father didn't pay attention to her at all, I went to my brother again, but I was driven out by my brother's repeated glares and disgust, and the uninteresting child could only come over to harass the uninteresting old man. Pulling the beard, tickling, poking the face...... The old horse was annoyed, shook his arm and said, "Don't be annoying, I'm annoyed!" ”

"You dare! I told my dad to hit you! The drowsy child tilted his head and looked really unsold.

"Humph! Look at your dad like that! Hit me back! The old horse was not pleased to hear this, and snorted and sighed from his nose.

"Not you, my father!" The boy stepped forward and hit the old man.

"Which dad Ren is, it's better than your dad! Hey—"

"Not allowed!"

"It's hard for your mother! But if you find another person, you will be better off than now! One person has two children and raises a family, why is it so unlucky! The old horse muttered to himself, thinking that the four-year-old baby could not understand.

After listening with his nails buttoned, he frowned and asked, "What are you?" ”

"Your dad doesn't ...... It's not as good as someone's father who has the ability to be in charge! Your mom is looking for your dad - huh...... You will fight for your father in the future, find a good man, don't look for your father like this! The depressed old horse poked the tobacco leaf and continued to smoke.

Yangyang sounded a little windy, she didn't understand and stood dryly thinking, and then asked her grandfather seriously: "When will my mother come back?" ”

"Hell knows!"

"Is my mom not coming back?"

The old horse snorted from his nose and did not answer.

"Does my mom want me and my dad anymore, and my brother ......"

"The best! How easy is that! If you keep going like this, your mother will die of exhaustion sooner or later! "The old horse is not angry and not in a good mood.

Yangyang sounded wrong, a person tilted his head and moved his brain for a long time, asked important people, and cried.

"I'm looking for my mom! I want my dad! I want my mom ......."

Yangyang, who hadn't seen her mother for several days, thought that her mother was not coming home and didn't want her anymore, and her grandfather repeatedly mentioned "new father" and "other father", the child thought that her father was going to be replaced, and thought that she was going to lose her father and mother at the same time, and the grief was indescribable, and her mouth was full of parents and parents.

Seeing that she was crying for no reason, the old monk Ma Zhanger couldn't understand it, sat up straight, frowned and quickly took stock, not knowing what she had just done, which sentence offended her, and which sentence made her cry again...... I thought about how such a baby could understand him, if he really understood, then he could also hear his tone...... The old man froze.

Listening to the rippling crying, the boy casually touched the soundproof earplugs and continued to write his homework. Yangyang doesn't cry seven times a week, and the week can't be finished, and the boy has long been used to it, or numb.

Yang Yang cried and went to find his father, pushed open the door of his father's room and howled his sword

"I'm looking for my mom, won't my mom come back? Mom doesn't want us anymore...... I don't want other dads, I don't want new dads, I just want my dad, I want my mom ......"

He Zhiyuan, who was upset, was confused for a while when he heard his daughter like this. He picked up his daughter and went to the bathroom, closed the door, and his daughter cried in front of the door, and he cried in front of the wall. Crying to the point of sadness, he put down his daughter, squatted on the ground, covered his eyes and whimpered, sobbing.

His life, like that pot of sauerkraut fish, was completely overturned little by little, and the appearance after the overturning was unbearable. The clothes in the bathroom that still smelled sour were very similar to his current sour and smelly life.

The sensible man quickly adjusted his mood, collected his tears and returned to calm, comforting his daughter who couldn't stop crying.

"Mom is at work, she's been busy lately, and you fall asleep every night when she comes back, but Mom goes to see you before she goes to work in the morning...... Don't cry, good! Don't cry, Mommy kisses you every morning......"

After being comforted for about ten minutes, Yangyang cried a lot. Zhiyuan took her back to the room and coaxed her to sleep. Crying and talking about the child's dry lips and hoarse throat, Zhiyuan gave her water a few times, and then patted her head to coax her, crying until the weak child soon fell asleep.

Days of anxiety, fire, sadness, apprehension, exhaustion, despair...... Finally, when the daughter kept shouting "new father", all kinds of emotions stirred into a pot, frozen into a pot of ice lumps, and smashed on his head, smashing his tense dignity and smashing his patience. He Zhiyuan's heart was like a needle prick, and he gritted his teeth in his mouth.

At ten o'clock, he went out with the key and went to the surrounding area to find a house.