Chapter 75: Picking Chrysanthemums

Carl wants a wooden house, Tomoko also wants a wooden house, plus the wooden house that he promised Little Mushroom before, Piyu's wooden house has not yet been built, and in a blink of an eye, it has changed to four.

I don't understand when this small mountain has become a treasure of feng shui.

"I think it's better to forget it, Tomoko, you just think about the stars and the moon, but there are thunder and lightning here, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is very uncomfortable. Even if you don't have that, you have to be careful, if one day a coyote comes in and takes you away. The Australian coyote is so powerful that it doesn't even vomit when it eats people. ”

When Tomoko heard this, she was very unhappy, "Then why do you want to build a room for Piyu?" ”

Karl also followed: "That's right! ”

I was speechless.

Pi You laughed, "Worm, it doesn't matter if you say it now, I'm in charge here now." ”

Carl and Tomoko were puzzled, "Isn't this the vegetable garden of Brother Bug's house?" ”

Pi You said triumphantly: "It's their family's good, but Uncle Shen handed it over to me to take care of when he left." ”

I glared at her, thinking to myself that this eldest sister should not promise the two of them. Piyu glanced at me, "Bug, you still dare to stare at me, don't forget, even you are mine now." ”

I didn't dare to say anything more, for fear that she would shake out the fact that my father had sold me to her.

Pi You patted his chest and said, "If you want to build a log cabin, wrap it around me, and build as many as you want." ”

Carl jumped up, and Tomoko took Piyu's hand and said, "Piyu, thank you, you're so nice!" ”

Pi You smiled: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me first, I will provide you with the land for the vegetable garden, but the money for building a wooden house, you have to pay for it yourself." ”

Zhizi snorted: "Pi You, have you also lost your money?" You just got £40,000 from me two days ago. ”

"One yard is one yard, that is the deposit collected by Kyushu Mining, and now the money is taken away by Uncle Shen. I'm penniless now, and even if I had, it wouldn't be my money! ”

Although Tomoko was not satisfied, she had nothing to say.

Piyu continued: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's discuss the price, I have estimated a wooden house, and even the work and materials are at least more than 20,000 pounds, so let's charge you a friendly price, a wooden house 20,000 pounds!" ”

This time Carl shouted, "Sister Piyu, you are really a profiteer, Brother Bug only said two thousand pounds just now!" ”

was exposed by others, Pi You's face was not red and his heart was not beating.

"What do the insects know, there is a problem with the material here, I want to use good wood for everyone, if you only want a reed mat to build a shack, I don't want a big one. Also, don't you have money for the furniture in the room? The bug's cabin still has no electric light, but I was able to electrify the first cabin. Each wooden house should have a small yard and plant flowers and plants. Tomoko, don't you like swinging, I'll put another swing on you. ”

Karl said, "I want one too." ”

"Of course you can, when the time comes, you will do it on the swing, drink a little wine, enjoy the breeze and the bright moon, maybe you can learn from Li Bai Su Shi to chant a few poems, don't you like that poem, what is it called picking chrysanthemums under the east wall, leisurely see Nanshan?"

Zhizi was amused by Pi You, "What is the east wall, it is the east fence, that is the poem of Tao Yuanming in China." After my teacher taught me, I really liked it. ”

"That's easy to say, isn't it just a fence, don't talk about the east fence, I'll even get you a piece of the west fence."

Carl was overjoyed, "Okay, I'll ask my uncle to get some money tomorrow." I'm going to build a log cabin and look at the vegetable garden. ”

Piyu patted Karl and said, "No problem, don't say it first, you will build it yourself, but I didn't force you to ask your uncle the governor for money to build you a wooden house." ”

Pi You was talking nonsense, and Tomoko walked up to her, "Pi You, I found that you have changed, not only have you become like Qian Yan, your mind is full of money, but you are also like Brother Bug, you like to talk nonsense." ”

Pi You finally showed some timidity, she said with a smile: "Zhizi, you also know, Uncle Shen and Anne are gone, and they will hand over the entire garden to me, to feed so many people, and to add new equipment, repairs, and electricity, oh, there is less water in the well, and if you want to grow these vegetables, you have to dig a pond to store them, and you have to use money everywhere, and I don't have a golden finger, so I can turn money out, hehe, I can only eat you, a big household." Others don't know, but I know that you are in charge of the account books of your Tanaka family, and your old man can buy half of Australia with a stroke of his pen, and he still cares about this little money. ”

Tomoko was no longer embarrassed by Pi You, "Okay, don't worry about you, I'm going to build a small cabin here, next to Brother Bug." It's okay to be idle, I can still go to Brother Bug's house. ”

As she spoke, Tomoko and Carl pulled Piyu around the front and back of the house, pointing and discussing how to build a cabin.

Little Mushroom walked up to me here, "Brother Bug, I'm ...... I don't have that much money, so I'd better go home and live, and I'll show you the house. ”

I touched the little mushroom's head, "You live at home alone, which makes people feel so uneasy, and when Dad and Anne left, they specially asked me to take care of you." Don't worry, I'll build you a cabin too. ”

Little Mushroom had a look of joy on her face, and it was clear that she loved having her own hilltop hut too.

At dinner, I called Nemo over, roasted a whole kangaroo for everyone, and ran to the house to bring out a jar of Chinese baijiu from my father's treasure.

Uncle Shi and the others were very happy to see the wine, and they were all very happy that they could finally drink Chinese liquor after leaving China for several months.

In the evening, Piyu and Tomoko and Mushroom stayed in my cabin, and Carl and I ran to the new house where the main body had been set up for temporary accommodation.

The next day, the driver drove the governor's wife to the vegetable garden.

The governor's wife is graceful and magnificent, and her demeanor is kind, but her every move seems to have the aura of a natural superior.

Karl took the Doge's wife to the hill and described in a striking voice the blueprints for the wooden house he was going to build here.

The Governor's wife nodded with a smile while listening, her eyes showed her doting on her son, and finally with a big wave of her hand, she told Carl that she would send Carl 30,000 pounds to build his little house beautifully, I couldn't help but smack my tongue a little when I heard it, this rich man is different, this is 30,000 pounds, I just hunt all my life, and I can't earn 30,000 pounds.

As we were about to leave, the Doge's wife walked up to me and Piyu and said, "Hello, thank you for taking care of Carl. ”

I smiled and said, "Madam Governor, you are gracious. ”

"Carl, he is not deeply involved in the world, and he doesn't like to stay in the governor's palace, it's rare that he likes it here, I am willing to let him live here, but please make sure you ensure Carl's safety."

"We're friends with Carl and we'll take care of him."

Over the next few days, Pieu managed the entire garden, especially instructing the artisans in making the jewels booked by the Ottoman Jewelry and Yamato Jewelry Stores.

Because the craftsmen were making jewelry, I brought in some workers from the town to supervise the construction of the cabin throughout the day, and the cabin where I lived was repaired and decorated.

During this time, Brown and Boo come to invite Piyou to live at their villa in the town, but Piyou politely declines.

This was the result I expected, and the look of disappointment on Xiaobu's face was also expected.

Sasaki would come to the vegetable garden every two days, and here Tomoko would call him aside to ask questions, and sometimes sign papers.

Carl stayed with Uncle Shi every day, and actually learned carving with Uncle Shi, like a little stonemason, I think if the governor and his wife knew that the young master of the Governor's Mansion was a stonemason with me, I don't know how to feel.

Only the small mushrooms, mixed in the vegetable fields, and those vegetable farmers are busy with fruits and vegetables. I sometimes think that I have made this a vegetable garden, Piyu has made this a factory, Tomoko has made this an office, Carl has made this a school, and only Little Mushroom has made this home!

And Nemo, who also came to me and asked me when I would hunt in the moors again, and I used to call myself a hunter, only to find that I hadn't been to the moors for a long time. Every time I think about this, my heart is itching.

After a week, the hilltop cabin was built. Piyu had the workers repair and decorate the houses where the craftsmen lived, adding some simple furniture, and wearing the jeans that were custom-made for the craftsmen. Uncle Shi was dressed in jeans, with white hair and white beard, standing there and making people laugh.

On this day, all the people in the garden were happy, the accommodation of the craftsmen was improved, and our hilltop cabin was ready to stay. Piu offered to prepare a bonfire to celebrate our stay.

When the blazing bonfire was lit and everyone's emotions were touched, we ate roast lamb together, sang songs, danced until late at night.

The craftsmen rested, and of the five of us, only Little Mushroom didn't drink, she took Piyu by her arms, and Carl and I helped Tomoko to the newly completed cabin.

Five houses with wooden walls and wooden tiles are lined up along the mountain. The wood is pine sylvestris, and under the guidance of Uncle Shi, it is bitten together with a mortise and tenon structure, which is strong and solid. As I approached the wooden house, I felt the smell of rosin in my nose. The most important thing is that Uncle Shi has designed different styles according to the characteristics of each of us.

Piyou's wooden house is spacious and bright, the roof is a heavy eaves on the top of the mountain, Uncle Shi said, Piyou is a princess, to use the royal etiquette of the top of the mountain, I can't help but be a little funny, Piyou is not a Chinese princess, tell her to rest on the top of the mountain, she doesn't understand. Piyu liked the roof. Inside, the room was furnished exactly as she wanted, with a pink sofa, a dark blue bedroom, stylish furniture and colorful textiles. The atmosphere became very bright, even cheerful and welcoming, which fits well with Pieu's character of advocating freedom.

Tomoko is a Japanese-style log cabin, called a machiya, with a courtyard in the middle, and retains the Japanese bamboo sliding doors, which are thin and hollowed out, so that the wind can blow into the room in the summer, and at the same time ensure privacy. The bedroom retains the tatami mat character, and there are Japanese-style sliding doors, and the closet next to it is filled with futon bedding, which is taken out and spread out before going to bed at night. The most distinctive feature of Tomoko's cabin is the tsubo, a small open-air courtyard in the center of the house, so that light can enter the house.

Carl's wooden house is in the Swiss style, I heard Carl say that he had visited Switzerland and liked very much a kind of wooden house called Charlai, the so-called "Charlai", which was originally a small wooden house built by Swiss farmers and herdsmen in the mountains. In the early years, farmers and herders in the Alps lived in the mountains half of their time. According to local conditions, they used wood from the mountains to build simple dwellings, with stones or wooden piles as foundations, and wooden roofs in the shape of a herringbone roof, mainly to disperse the pressure of snow on the roof in winter.

Little Mushroom didn't have much idea about his wooden house, but wanted to have a spacious yard, so the workers fenced the yard, and Little Mushroom sprinkled the seeds of loofah and carob gourd under the wall early, and now the seeds of these plants have also sprouted, and they are eager to climb to the top of the fence wall to see the scenery around.

I was delighted to have the finishing touches to my cabin with no major modifications, just to replace the broken wood, and then Piyu and Tomoko hung a cow's head in front of my cabin, which looked like a hunter's dwelling from a distance.

Piyu drunkenly said, "Tomoko, Karl, let's give our cabin a nice name!" ”

Karl was the first to agree, "Yes, I must have a poetic name, my cabin will be called Windsor!" ”

Tomoko laughed when she heard this, "Carl, you drank too much, do you still think you are the prince of England!" ”

Carl also laughed, "This is Australia, I can call him whatever I want, maybe one day, I will call him Buckingham Palace when I am angry." Tomoko, what's your cabin called? If you want me to say, you can call Katsura Ligong! ”

Tomoko said angrily: "you, I'm not the emperor of our great Japan, I think about it, my hut will be called Yaxinju." ”

"Reverie, what a strange name, is there anything special about that?"

Tomoko said, "The white horse is in the valley of the sky. A bunch of raw people, its people are like jade. There is no golden jade sound, but a reverie. This is a verse from the Book of Songs, and I like it very much. ”

Carl couldn't help but admire, "Tomoko, you are very powerful, a hut can come up with such a good name." ”

It's no wonder that Piyu and I are very knowledgeable, and she has a very good memory, and she can memorize a few poems, which is too simple.

Tomoko asks Piyu, "Piyu, what's the name of your cabin?" ”

Pi You looked at his cabin and blurted out: "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan, Zhizi said that this is Tao Yuanming's poem, he does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, resigned and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, he is very interested in my appetite, and my hut is called picking chrysanthemums." When I turned around, I planted chrysanthemums in the front and back of the yard, and when these chrysanthemums bloomed, I picked them off to make tea and drink. Bugs, do you think it's good? ”

"If you like it!" I replied.

Zhizi frowned and savored carefully: "Picking chrysanthemums, picking chrysanthemums, although chrysanthemums are four gentlemen, there are images of being content with poverty, not admiring glory, and having backbone in Tao poems, and there are poems in the Huangchao at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor. In his poems with obvious allegories and tendencies, the poet's unyielding fighting spirit and firm belief are expressed, and the poet's mind and ambition are shown, and the chrysanthemum has become a brave and strong fighter who has experienced vicissitudes. and then to Li Qingzhao in the Song Dynasty, someone wrote a poem that was thinner than Huang Hua, and that poem was written by her missing her husband. ”

"That's all good, it looks like I've got the right name." Piyu said.

Tomoko said, "Piyu, you better change your name!" ”

The mountain wind blew, Piyou's wine was stronger, and her body shook a little, but she said persistently: "Don't change it, I like this name." ”

Tomoko shook his head and said, "You must change one, this name is not good!" ”

Piyu smiled and said, "Tomoko, are you jealous that my hut has a good name!" Bugs, little mushrooms, what's your hut called? ”

I smiled and said, "I dreamed yesterday that my father and Anne had returned, and my cottage was called Homecoming!" ”

Tomoko shook his head again: "It's not good, it's not good!" Bug, what did you and Piyu achieve! ”

Piyu shook Tomoko and said, "Tomoko, are you jealous!" ”

"It doesn't matter if my cottage is named or not, I love it because it's my home from now on," said Little Mushroom. ”

Karl laughed: "Then call it the home of the little mushroom!" Everyone laughed in unison, and then went back to rest.

The night was peaceful, the moonlight was like mercury, and the milky light gently covered our cabin.

The next day, it was dawn and we got up. I set up a pot in the yard to cook for them, but I saw two people running up the hill, but it was Mr. Wood and Brown.

When Wood saw me, he shouted, "Billy, Billy, I've got you in a hurry!" ”

"Mr. Wood, what do you want me to do?"

Even though it was early in the morning, Wood was still sweating profusely, and he gasped and said, "Billy, Luna is gone!" ”