I introduced Carl to my father, who smiled and said, "Son, since you're a friend, you don't have to send me to Bryden." I'll just go with Anne. ”

Karl asked, "Uncle, are you going to Bryden, that's easy." So saying, he called the driver and told him, "Send this gentleman and lady to Bryden, and then you won't have to come back to pick me up, I'm going to stay here for a while." ”

The driver was puzzled: "Young master, the governor's wife asked you to go back tonight." ”

Carl was not happy, "I finally came out, how can I go back so quickly, you go back and tell my uncle and my mother that I have to stay here enough before I go back." ”

My father secretly asked me, "This Carl's boy is the son of the Governor?" ”

I nodded, "We met in the barracks, and this guy is quite funny." ”

My father was very pleased, "It's good that you can make such a friend." ”

Here Piyu said: "Worm, I'll go to see Uncle and Anne, and I'm going to Bryden to do some business, you can just accompany Carl." ”

Although the driver was embarrassed, he could not resist Carl, and helped his father and Anne to carry their luggage into the car, and drove the three of them away.

Looking at my father and Anne in the distance, I was a little stunned.

Carl didn't care about any of this, "Brother Bug, what about Grandpa?" ”

I took him up the mountain, in front of the mountain is the vegetable garden, behind the mountain is the mine cave, Uncle Shi asked the craftsmen to mine the rough stone from the mine every day, there is a machine, can cut the rough stone, and then go to the jade, the rest of the smooth turquoise will be transported to the front mountain, Uncle Shi will take a few skilled craftsmen to carve carefully, the process of carving is a test of the craftsmen's skills. In the Book of Songs, it is said that "there is a Fei gentleman, such as cutting, such as learning, such as grinding", which is to compare the gentleman to jade, which is actually the four steps of processing jade.

When Carl saw Uncle Shi, he was carving on a piece of turquoise with a carving knife, and he didn't notice the arrival of Carl and me at all.

Carl stood behind Uncle Shi, did not speak, quietly looked at Uncle Shi's carving, for a while, Uncle Shi was about tired, he put down the carving knife, and stretched a long waist. Carl hurriedly stepped forward and helped Uncle Shi pinch his shoulders and beat his back.

Uncle Shi looked back and saw Carl, his face was full of joy, "Child, why are you here?" ”

"Grandpa, you're tired, I'll help you rub your shoulders!" Carl said happily.

"No, I'll just move my muscles and bones on my own."

"Grandpa, what are you going to carve?"

"Oh, it's a jade bracelet."

Looking at this old and young, I have some emotion, the feelings between people are really indescribable, such as Uncle Shi and Carl, one is from the bottom of China, the other is the son of the Governor of Australia, no one would have thought that these two could come together, and so only one side, they remember each other.

I remembered again that Uncle Shi had stopped the evil idea of slashing Carl in the first place, and gave Carl his ancestral jade carving, and Carl responded with a heart-to-heart concern, and when I was in the Governor's Palace, he often asked about Uncle Shi.

watched the two of them chatting affectionately and quietly withdrew.

"Piyu, Piyu, are you there?"

I heard Xiaobu's voice, and when I walked out of the garden to look, I saw Xiaobu standing at the gate of the garden, and behind him was his panting steam locomotive. Seeing me come out, Xiaobu ran over: "Where's Piyu?" ”

"Piyu went to Brydon, do you have something to do with her?"

Xiaobu said, "I'm going to pick her up!" ”

I didn't understand what he meant, "Where to take her?" ”

"Of course she is going to live in our villa, do you want her to live in your house? Look, where is your house suitable for her to live? ”

In fact, whether it is Brown or Xiaobu, we will have a natural sense of superiority when we speak, and it is no wonder that among all the residents of the town, they have a big business. I said in disgust, "Xiaobu, you don't show off your family's superiority here, Piyu won't go to your house, you see," I said, pointing to the cabin on the top of the mountain, "Piyu wants to live there!" Of course, if she wants to go with you, I won't stop her, and I'll tell him when she comes back. ”

At this moment, another car drove up, and I knew it was the car Brown usually sat in, and when he saw the gate of the vegetable garden, he stopped, "Son, what are you doing here?" ”

Boo ignored Brown and asked me, "When will Piyu come back?"

"I don't know, maybe I'll come back today, maybe I'll come back tomorrow, who knows?"

"Then I'll pick up Piyu tomorrow."

I smiled, "Whatever!" ”

Brown asked, "Son, who are you going to pick up?" Xiaobu glanced at Brown, "You want to care?" ”

Brown scolded: "You little bastard, I don't care who cares about you." ”

Xiaobu suddenly lost his temper, "It's not because of you, you didn't let me save Pi You, now Pi You lives here with bugs." ”

Brown struck a match, lit his pipe, took a deep breath, and spit out a smoke ring: "Haha, I know, you still have to be angry with me about what happened a few days ago, don't worry, son, Piyu is the princess of Ottoman, she has been pampered since she was a child, how can she get used to living here?" Don't worry, when Piyou comes back, Dad and you will come with you to invite Princess Piyou to our house, she can still live here when she sees our family's big villa? ”

Boo seemed to be persuaded by Brown, and after one look at him, he went straight into the car, and the steam locomotive went off with white smoke.

Brown took his pipe in his mouth and looked me up and down, "Billy, I heard that your garden has mined turquoise, what about your father, is he interested in selling it to me?" Make an offer, I can give you money that you can't spend for the rest of your life. ”

I smiled, "Mr. Brown, it's not up to me to decide on this matter, you can talk to my father when he comes back." But I don't think my father would have agreed. ”

Brown sneered, "That's because you haven't seen the money yet!" So saying, he walked away.

Looking at Brown in the distance, I smiled disdainfully, who said I hadn't seen the money, yesterday I saw it, tens of thousands of pounds full of a bag.

Thinking of this, but also moved and ashamed, Brown seemed to be right, because the money I saw yesterday was indeed the most money I had seen when I was so old, and at that time Piyu laughed at me that my eyes were about to fly out.

Carl was very interested in every part of the garden, and when I took him to the top of the hill, he stood in front of the cabin, very excited. "Brother Bug, who lives in this cabin?"

"Oh, the garden needs to be guarded at night, so it was my turn to do the job, and my father built me this little cabin."

After listening to this, Carl was full of longing, "Every night I live in a hilltop hut, count the stars, look at the moon, unrestrained, free. Vegetable garden caretaker, my God, this is simply the happiest job in the world. ”

"Actually, guarding the vegetable garden is not a happy job, it is monotonous and boring, but this vegetable garden is related to the livelihood of our family, and I dare not be careless, and at night in the vegetable garden, not every day you can see the stars and moon, sometimes there will be storms, the more this time, the more careful I need to be, often at this time there are those thieves who steal vegetables take advantage of the dark moon and high wind to run into the garden to steal vegetables."

"Is anyone really stealing vegetables?"

"Of course, I lived in the garden for two days, and at night I found out that a thief had sneaked into the garden to steal vegetables. I was furious, so I tried my slingshot at the thief's head, and ran away crying and crying. The next day, I triumphantly dragged my father to the town to look for him, and the person with the bag on his head must have been a thief stealing vegetables. Finally, we found the thief with his head full of bags in the slums of the town. He was a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, skinny, with four or five big red envelopes on his head, all oozing blood, and he lived in a low shack, which was ventilated everywhere, and the shack was covered with firewood and grass, and there was only a quilt on the firewood and grass that leaked cotton wool, and in the quilt was wrapped a sister of eight or nine years old, whose hair was unkempt, and looked at us with helpless eyes. There was also a pot on the ground, not so much a pot, but actually a crockpot picked up from nowhere, in which a few vegetables were stolen yesterday, and there was not a drop of oil on the surface of the vegetable soup. When the brother and sister saw my father and I break in, they hugged each other in fright, like frightened koalas, and they didn't know what to do. ”

I paused and then said, "At that time, I asked the boy why you were stealing vegetables, and after asking, I felt that I was asking a little redundant, and the two brothers and sisters were naturally hungry. The father frowned and asked the girl, why was she still wrapped in a quilt in broad daylight? The girl hesitated for a long time before saying no...... No clothes. ”

At that time, my father didn't say anything more, but took me back to the garden, picked out some vegetables that didn't look good, and sent them to my brother and sister, and asked Anne to make a girl's dress. When I sent the food and clothes, the brother and sister were very happy, and I said to the boy, don't go and steal the vegetables at night in the future, if there is nothing to eat, you go to me, and I will pick some vegetables for you to eat. ”

Carl had been listening to me recount the past, and he sighed, "Why didn't the boy get a job?" ”

I looked at this young master who was born with a golden key, and I didn't know what to say. It is often said that the summer worm cannot speak of ice, and this is probably the case, he has not experienced hunger and suffering, and naturally cannot understand the hardships of the poor.

Carl is an innocent big boy who doesn't believe that Xiaoman is actually human, and takes it for granted that a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy can support a family.

I sighed, not wanting to talk to this guy about these things anymore, "Carl, let's go down the mountain." ”

Carl didn't move, but pointed to the newly built house and said, "Brother Bug, whose new wooden house is it?" ”

"It's for Pi You, and she likes to live under the mountain."

Carl's eyes lit up as he walked to the newly built wooden house, full of envy. "Brother Bug, I want to have a cabin like this too."

"What are you building a log cabin for?"

"Of course it's living, think about it, living in a small cabin every day, watching the stars and the moon at night, picking vegetables during the day, carving jade, isn't it the happiest life?"

"Happy fart, I don't have time to build you another wooden house."

Carl said stubbornly: "You don't cover it for me, I'll cover it myself, stingy ghost." ”

"Of course I'm stingy, I'm not like you, the eldest young master, a house is actually built when it is said to be built, even the small cabin of Pi You, it will delay everyone for three or four days."

"Then how much do you say, I will pay someone to build it."

"If you're willing to spend money, a decent cabin will cost at least four thousand pounds."

I quoted a very high price to scare Carl away, and Carl shouted, "Four thousand pounds!" ”

"What, you know it's expensive?"

Carl shook his head, "This price is too cheap!" ”

I was speechless for a while, it seemed that I, a country boy, really couldn't communicate with rich people.

Here, Piyu takes Tomoko up the mountain, followed by the little mushroom. Tomoko saw me running over, "Brother Bug, is this your vegetable garden?" It's beautiful! ”

"Hey, why are you here?"

"Oh, your father and Anne went to the martial arts hall to find my brother and ask him about the Qing Empire, and my brother said that he also saw it from the newspaper and didn't know much more about it. After Uncle Shen heard this, he planned to return to China, and it happened that my brother also planned to go back, so we could be companions. My brother asked me if I could go back, but I hadn't stayed enough and didn't want to go back, so they had to go on their own. And I'll follow Piyo to you. ”

Tomoko said as she looked at the cabin, "Wow, what a beautiful cabin, Brother Bug, is this your cabin?" ”

"Well, this is mine, and the new one is Piyu's."

"Wow", Tomoko looked longing, "I live in a cabin on the top of the mountain, and I look at the stars and the moon every day, so happy." ”

I was speechless for a while, how could I want to come here to see the stars and the moon today.

Tomoko pulled me and said, "Brother Bug, I also want a small cabin." ”