One big and one small are practicing love

After walking along the path for five or six minutes, they came to a wide cement road. Looking along the road, they saw a dozen houses scattered on the hilltop.

"There are still people living here?" Bian Chang asked in surprise.

"This is Wen Village. It is built on the mountain. There are many people living at the foot of the mountain and few people living on the mountain. When I was a child, my grandfather and I climbed to the top of the mountain. It was already noon, and we could eat at the farmers here." Then, Zuo Kunmin took out a hand, pointed to a smoky farmhouse not far away, and said, "No, that's the house."

Bian Chang said: "On New Year's Day, why don't we disturb others?"

"I asked someone to find out. They are now opening a B&B, and I made a reservation in advance." Zuo Kunmin said, speeding up his pace.

Everyone soon arrived at the farmhouse together. A round red lantern hung at the door, with red couplets written in calligraphy on it, and the iron door was ajar.

Bian Chang walked in front, pushed open the iron door and said, "Is there anyone here?"

Soon, a smiling woman with half-white hair, dark skin, and an apron tied around her waist said, "Are they Mr. Zuo's family? Please come in quickly, the food has just been prepared." With that, he led them into the main room. .

The woman led them to sit down at the Eight Immortals Table on the east side of the main room, and asked them to hang their coats on the wooden hangers in the corner, and put their bags, water glasses and other sundries on a small cabinet. And make them tea and pull out chairs.

While they were busy with this, a thin and silent old man brought the meals one by one.

Five dishes and one soup, fungus and egg, cold shredded white fungus and cucumber, braised yuba, braised fish, a big pot of cabbage, pork, tofu and vermicelli, and thick white whitebait and radish soup. Under the sunlight, the translucent rice has distinct grains.

After climbing the mountain all morning, everyone was already hungry. After exercise, my appetite improves and farm food tastes good. Everyone ate faster than usual and everyone praised it.

"This fish is delicious." Zuo Xu praised the fish several times.

Liu Xiaochen said urgently: "Eat the fish slowly, be careful of the spines." As he said that, he carefully picked out a piece of tender white fish meat and gave it to Zuo Xu.

"Xiaoxiao, eat quickly and leave him alone. This is a wild black fish caught in the river. It has no spines and he can eat it by himself." Zuo Kunmin said, holding a piece of fungus with chopsticks and giving it to Zuo Yan, saying: "Yanyan , eat more fungus." Although Zuo Yan didn't speak, she ate more than usual.

Bian Chang was drinking soup and asked, "Are these ingredients from their own home? I want to buy some and send them to the UK."

Zuo Kunmin looked at Bian Chang and said: "They grow and make fungus, white fungus, yuba, dried whitebait, and vermicelli themselves. When I ordered the meal, I asked them to pack some. It's no problem to send it to you, but Can you cook?"

"Hmph! Who are you looking down on?" Bian Chang snorted coldly and said: "If you don't know how to cook in the UK, you will starve to death. My sense of taste tells me that the food there is the most delicious in the world, bar none. .”

"Didn't you say that Bian Lingyue's cooking is the worst in the world?" Zuo Kunmin said.

Bian Chang lowered his head to take a sip of the soup and said in a deep voice: "Sprinkle more sugar on the dishes she cooks, so they can be eaten at least."

Chatting, eating vegetables and soup, and eating all the dishes. Feeling full, comfortable and slightly sleepy after a meal.

The woman came over to clear away the dishes and said, "You can go upstairs and have a rest. The room has been prepared for you."

"Are you going to stay here tonight?" Liu Xiaochen asked.

Zuo Kunmin replied: "Just take a nap, wake up and go back."

There is a wooden sliding door in the north corner of the main room, which opens up to the stairs. They went up together and came to the second floor.

As soon as you come up, there is the living room, half of the wall is made of glass, and the sun shines all over the room, making it bright and warm.

There are two guest rooms on the left and right sides of the living room. The woman pushed open one guest room and said: "This is the guest room on the south side. It can get sunshine all afternoon, so it is warm. There is also one on the south side, and the two rooms on the north side are a bit shady. , Mr. Zuo has booked it today, how do you think we’ll stay here?”

Zuo Kunmin said: "Go and do your work, we will make arrangements ourselves."

As soon as the woman left, Zuo continued: "I don't want to sleep with dad, he..."

"You sleep with aunt." Zuo Kunmin interrupted Zuo Xu and pointed to the spacious kang: "Aunt wants to be with you all the time. The three of you can sleep on this kang."

Bian Chang glared at Zuo Kunmin and said, "Remember that you usually have delicious food, please send me some in England." He said with a look of disgust, "You guys go out quickly, the children and I are going to bed." .”

As soon as Bian Chang closed the door, Zuo Kunmin took Liu Xiaochen's hand and walked to another south guest room. Liu Xiaochen said nothing and followed silently.

After entering the house, Zuo Kunmin turned to Liu Xiaochen and asked, "Are you sleepy?"

Liu Xiaochen shook his head and said, "It's okay."

"Come chat with me for a while, I feel a little sad right now." Zuo Kunmin said calmly and naturally.

Hearing the word 'sad', Liu Xiaochen was a little surprised, nodded heavily and said, "Okay."

There is a small round table next to the window of this room. On the table are two bottles of mineral water, two bottles of herbal tea, a plate of melon seeds, peanuts, candies, a handful of bananas, and a few oranges. There were two single fabric sofas on both sides of the table, and Liu Xiaochen and Zuo Kunmin sat face to face.

After sitting down, Zuo Kunmin pointed to the food on the table and asked, "What do you want to drink?"

Liu Xiaochen picked up a can of herbal tea and opened it with a bang.

Zuo Kunmin unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, took two sips, and said slowly: "Grandpa was already sixty-eight at that time. Just because of my words, grandpa rode for more than three hours to take me to the bottom of the mountain. My feet After twisting it, he carried me for more than three hours to climb to the top of the mountain. After I saw the Wa Palace, I said to my grandfather in disgust that this ruined temple is not fun at all, and there is no way it can compare with the Shanghai City God Temple."

At this point, Zuo Kunmin's eyes flashed with tears and he choked up: "I can still clearly remember that after I said that sentence, grandpa's wrinkled eyes turned red. He didn't say anything, He took out the cigarette rod from his pocket, stuffed it with tobacco, lit it, and smoked, his hands were shaking all the time."

"You were still young at the time. Grandpa knew you were childish and would not take it seriously."

"No, children's words are the most hurtful." Zuo Kunmin said firmly, and then said: "Grandpa is very good to me, very good, and truly proud of me. When he meets someone, he says he is my eldest grandson. He is always talented. Any request I made is fulfilled. I wanted to take out bird eggs, but grandpa was afraid that I would fall, so he climbed to a tree trunk four or five meters high to get them for me. The ice cream I often eat in Shanghai is near my grandpa’s house. No, he rode his bicycle all over the city to look for her, and fainted on the road due to heat stroke. Grandpa..." Zuo Kunmin said, choking again, and raised his head to stop crying.

Liu Xiaochen took out a tissue from his bag and handed it to Zuo Kunmin.

"Thank you." Zuo Kunmin took the tissue, wiped his tears, and then looked out the window in a daze.

Seeing that Zuo Kunmin was silent, Liu Xiaochen was silent and sat quietly beside him. Drink herbal tea and look out the window with him.

The sky is very blue, and the thick clouds are floating and rolling in the mountains.