Adopt this koi

Lingwai Yinshu Duan,

Through winter and spring again,

Near nostalgia is more timid,

I dare not ask anyone.

More than 1000 years ago, Song Zhiwen didn't know what happened before he didn't return to his hometown for many years, but the "near-native feeling and timidity" he left behind has deeply affected generations after generations.Qin Heyi looked at the other side of the lake, his lips were tightly pressed, and his heart was beating like a drum. Because the lake was full of water vapor in the early morning, he could not see Baoyue Town, a thousand-year-old town at the foot of Daqing Mountain, but he could draw the picture of Baoyue Town in the early morning from his memory. The appearance of the town.There are already a few people walking around on Qingshiban Road in the quiet ancient town. The breakfast shop is the busiest place to get up early in the morning. Chubby fritters are rolling in the hot oil pan, and steam is rising from the steamer next to it. The thick aroma, crispy fried dough sticks, and juicy buns gradually aroused the gluttons of the neighbors, who all yawned and took their own pots and bowls to fill them.

When I was young, it was Qin Heyi who was in charge of buying breakfast. He pulled on his slippers, yawned, and didn’t even brush his teeth. First, he made a pot of soy milk, stuffed some steamed buns and fried dough sticks, and made it for his father when he got home. Pickles are a delicious breakfast.Then I took my father's big hand and came to the city by ferry. Dad went to work, he went to school, and then took the ferry home at the end of the day.

The ferry disappeared within two years of elementary school, and the road along the lake was built, so his father took him to and from the old city and Baoyue Town by bus every day.My mother always complained, why not buy a house in the city, it is convenient and clean to live in the building, he thought the same way when he was a child, sometimes it was really annoying to drive in the morning and evening.

Later, parents quarreled more and more, even if they bought a house in the city, there were not many smiles on my mother's face, and the smile on my father's face gradually disappeared.

"Xiao Qin is in the car."

Putting away his gaze from a distance, Qin Heyi turned around with a smile while holding the fish tank, and he went home.

There is a family surnamed Li in Baoyue Town, and the family surnamed Li has an ancestral hall surnamed Li. There is a family tree preserved for generations in the ancestral hall. The family tree can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. According to records, this family settled in Baoyue Town at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, based on this, Baoyue Town is called a thousand-year-old town.Qin Heyi's ancestors, his grandpa's grandpa's... Anyway, counting up, several grandpas made a living in business, and there were county officials in the family, and they bought an old house in Baoyue Town as a summer retreat. After a few more generations, the family was simply settled in Baoyue Town.

This courtyard also has a lot of background. Qin Heyi heard from his father that the courtyard was the other courtyard of an official surnamed Ye before it came into the hands of the Qin family. It was bought by the ancestors of the Qin family who were merchants. You must know that in ancient times, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants would be despised no matter how much money they had in their pockets, let alone buying a house that was considered illegal for the status of a merchant.

In the hands of the Qin family, the house was very cherished, and after many repairs, it had the appearance Qin Heyi had seen.At most, there were five generations living in the same house with more than 40 people, but now Qin Heyi is the only one left in the Qin family, and even the family tree of the Qin family was lost in the war.

The road along the lake to Baoyue Town was built more than ten years ago. Even when Qin Heyi left ten years ago, it was just an ordinary road with dim street lights at night and few traffic during the day.But it's different now, Qin Heyi is just like grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, lying on the car window and looking out all the way.

The outer part of the road along the lake near the lake has been built into a cycling track. The cycling track is divided into two parts, half of the cement road and half of the plastic track. You can see people riding or running inside every now and then.Beautiful low flowers and trees are planted in the isolation fence, and there are brand-new lampposts every 30 meters. The words "Welcome to Baoyue Town" are hung on the lampposts. It is simple and quiet, very beautiful.

There are quite a lot of cars coming and going on the road, private cars, buses, and buses abound, and not all of them go to Baoyue Town.Qin Heyi looked to the left, and there was a fleet of convoys driving towards the branch road, and the mountain wall beside the road said so-and-so villa.This kind of branch road is not just one, it is not a mountain villa, a resort, or a farmhouse. It seems that the development in the mountain is also very lively. When he left, the construction in the mountain had just started. It is estimated that it will be gone when he comes back ten years later. Small and large.

"Hey, I usually heard that the tourism in the old city is developing well, but I didn't expect it to be so good. I will come here to travel after my son finishes his college entrance examination."

"Come and eat at my restaurant then."

"Haha, definitely come."

When they arrived in the town, they still looked the same, but the details were different from what they remembered. Qin Heyi took a deep breath and continued to guide the driver.Baoyue Town is built along the foot of Daqing Mountain. When taking aerial photography, it looks like two connected Ws, and it also looks like a winding ribbon. It is a ray of humanism between the green mountains and blue waves.

Qin and IKEA are at the very edge of the second W, backed by mountains and lakes, and the environment is quiet and bright.Standing on the largest square in the town, you can see the old houses of Qin and IKEA. The closer to the foot of the mountain, the higher the terrain. From this point of view, their house is half a head higher than the most extended one, and you can see the courtyard wall at a glance. Gray and ruined, because there is no owner to live in, the whole house seems to be covered with a layer of gray gauze, lifeless.

They set off early enough that the town hadn't fully woken up yet, and the road was full of elderly people who were curiously watching the trucks driving into the town, probably guessing who was coming.

After driving into the town, Qin Heyi was no longer nervous, and his calm tone was filled with excitement. He introduced the scenery along the way to the driver brother, and arrived at the side of the house in less than 10 minutes. The road that had some potholes was replaced Slate, all the way open.

"Here, this is my old house." Qin He Yi said proudly.

"Oh, your ancestor is amazing, such a big house."

"Haha, right now I'm in the honor of my ancestors."

Hearing some movement, a family next to the old house opened the courtyard door, and a chubby, red-faced old man walked out. He looked like he was in his 60s, and he was still familiar in Qin Heyi's memory.

"Uncle Zhu." Qin Heyi waved hello.

The man squinted his eyes for a while, then grinned, "Ah, boy He Yi is back." Suddenly thinking of something, his face immediately became serious, "You boy still knows how to come back."

"Hehe." Qin Heyi rubbed his head in embarrassment, thinking about the kindness that Uncle Zhu came to visit him in the "dream", "It's my fault that I didn't come back often."

"Oh." Uncle Zhu patted Qin Heyi's shoulders twice with his big hand like a palm fan, "Uncle Zhu knows your suffering, just come back, just come back. Do you still want to go?"

"I'm not leaving. I'll stay in the town from now on. The gold nests and silver nests outside are not as good as my own straw nests. I'm still a green brick and big tile house."

"Haha." Uncle Zhu patted his big belly and laughed, "It's not easy to live in the green brick and tile house now, and it needs repairs. Let's stay at my house first, and try whether the food your aunt cooks is still to your liking."

Uncle Zhu is more than ten years older than his father. He grew up playing with his father and watched Qin Heyi grow up. He knows everything about the Qin family, not to mention everything.Knowing that Qin Heyi went away because of what happened back then, he probably let it go now that he came back.

Qin Heyi opened the door of the old house with a creak, as if opening the dusty past and opening the chapter of the future.The house is really messy, with dead branches and leaves, mud and moss, broken bricks and tiles...it will take a lot of work to repair.

The things he brought can only be placed at Uncle Zhu’s house first, and he also lives temporarily at Uncle Zhu’s house, but it’s not free. He just stuffed 2000 yuan for Uncle Zhu. It’s okay for a day or two, but repairing an old house can’t be done in a day or two. Well, it will inevitably make Uncle Zhu's children unhappy after living here for a long time.

Uncle Zhu and his wife treated Qin Heyi as if they were their own children. They sent him all kinds of good things, and they didn't feel any strangeness that they hadn't seen in ten years. They were very amiable.

On the first day back in Baoyue Town, Qin Heyi spent time under the warm care of Uncle Zhu and his aunt. For dinner, he ate pumpkin rice made by his aunt, accompanied by roasted salted fish, eggplant and stir-fried pickled cabbage. Edamame, simple but delicious, Qin and Yi ate two bowls in a row.

The next day, Uncle Zhu took Qin Heyi to find a house repairer. It was Master Zhang, a mason in the old town. He is the best at repairing old houses, and he has a lot of connections. He can get old blue bricks and top-quality wood, and several carpenters under him are also veteran craftsmen, inheriting ancient carving skills.

Master Zhang is most worried about Qin and IKEA's dilapidated old houses.Knowing that Qin Heyi came back to repair the old house, Master Zhang was even happier than Qin Heyi, and wished he could start recruiting people to start the work immediately.

On the third day after returning, Master Zhang brought his staff to the old house. After careful inspection, he told Qin Heyi the good news. It's complete, but needs a lot of attention to detail.Moreover, Qin Heyi wanted to carry out modern renovations without destroying the appearance of the old house. This required the cooperation of another engineering team, and the progress could not be met.

Qin Heyi also expressed his own ideas. He wanted to separate the wing room on the east side of the front yard to make a small restaurant. The overall layout should be transparent and bright, and several courtyard walls would be demolished and replaced with floor-to-ceiling windows.

"It's simple, just do a good job of partitioning the restaurant and the house. The east wing in the front yard of your house is originally for entertaining guests, so there is no need to drain the drains, just wait for the house to be done and set the scene directly."

"Yeah, you are an expert in this area, so I mainly listen to you."

In the next three months, Qin Heyi saw what it means to be an expert. They are full of respect for ancient houses. Every brick, tile, plant, and tree will not be easily moved or destroyed, just like archaeologists do to ancient objects. There is also piety in the expression holding a brick and tile.

Like rotten bricks, stones and wood, they will smash them up and mix them with concrete to refill the old house.The dead branches and leaves will also be dried and burned into plant ash and sprinkled on the ground to increase fertility. Qin Heyi admires all these behaviors.