After thousands of people wake up

clue

You want to treat me to a lifetime meal

The owner of the homestay quickly brought out the prepared lunch.

A basket of steaming hot handmade buns. The skin of the buns is not as white and fluffy as the ones bought, but has the natural color of wheat, and it is firm to the bite.

It is stuffed with old tofu, mountain mushrooms, and fungus. There is not much seasoning, only salt and a little pepper are added.Therefore, it is a kind of simple delicacy to be able to taste the fragrance of the ingredients themselves.

It also came with a stack of leek sauce with crushed peppers, a plate of fried golden and crispy fish, a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, and two bowls of cornmeal soup.

There are no delicate dishes, knives and forks, and no decorative vase cloths.It is a farm meal with natural color and taste.

Tang Luofan took a bite of the big bun and couldn't help being surprised: "It's delicious, it's a taste I haven't tasted before. He Huai, please try it."

It was a farm aunt who brought them meals.

Auntie seemed a little reserved in front of two young and handsome men.

She introduced in unproficient Mandarin: "The flour for steamed buns is ground from the wheat grown by myself, and it is ground by Grandma Liu's house at the foot of the tofu hillside."

"There are also mushrooms and fungus in it, which my children picked in the mountains after school."

"No wonder it's so delicious. It turns out that it's all natural and wild ingredients. It's nice to live in the mountains."

Tang Luofan couldn't stop biting the buns, squinting his eyes and smiling at the deliciousness, and said, "The main reason is that you make delicious ones, Auntie."

My aunt blushed a little from his praise, and said, "Try it with leek sauce, it will taste even better."

Tang Luofan listened to him, picked up a bit of leek sauce with crushed red chili peppers with his chopsticks, and took another bite.

The already delicious big buns, coupled with the unique fragrance of leek sauce and the stimulation of chili, let Tang Luofan taste a different delicacy again.

He couldn't help being happy: "It's really delicious, He Huai, you should try it too."

He Huai was not as happy as a boy, he sat and ate elegantly and calmly, just like eating a formal banquet.But they all listened to Tang Luofan's suggestion, biting into the steamed stuffed bun and eating it with leek sauce.

The aunt continued to introduce, saying: "We also make the leek sauce at home. There are wild leeks all over the mountain. If you want to eat it, you can go anywhere and cut a handful for home cooking."

"There is also this little black fish. It doesn't grow big. It was born in the stream in the mountain. When you want to eat it, you can go to salvage a net and take it home. Wrap it in flour and fry it directly. It's very tender."

"These are all the blessings of Dashan."

Tang Luofan listened to her introduction to eat small fried fish and scrambled eggs with leeks.

The small fish is only as big as a little finger, and you can eat one in one bite. The meat is tender and delicious.There are also scrambled eggs with leeks. Tang Luofan never thought that a simple scrambled eggs with leeks could be so delicious.

It is even more delicious than the nutritionally balanced dishes prepared by the chef invited from his family.

Also, the most naturally grown taste in the world is the most primitive taste that human beings come into contact with.There are also scrambled eggs, which are small bugs in the mountains since childhood, and hens that have never been fed any artificial feed, and they only lay hot eggs in the morning.

Tang Luofan couldn't stop eating scrambled eggs with leeks, and said, "It's nice to live here. The wild leeks you pick are so delicious."

The aunt pursed her lips and smiled and persuaded: "You young men, eat more leeks, it's good for your health."

"it is good!"

Tang Luofan didn't know why leeks were so good to men, they just thought they were delicious.

He kept persuading He Huai, "You should eat more too, it's really delicious!"

He Huai raised his eyes to look at him, and seeing the boy eating like a delicious meal, his appetite also increased greatly.

A simple farm meal can be eaten so happily, it seems that the delicate young master is quite easy to support.

After a while, several dishes on the table were drained, and two bowls of fragrant corn soup were also drunk.

Tang Luofan clutched his round stomach, looked at the quiet and vast mountains in the distance with satisfaction, and sighed again: "Living here is so good. I really want to live here every day."

He Huai persuaded him calmly: "It's okay to come on vacation occasionally, but it will still be inconvenient if you live regularly."

"Yeah, a big president like you has to go back to work."

Tang Luofan stood up: "Let's go, it's time to get down to business. I'll treat you to this meal, Auntie, how much is it?"

Auntie came out of the kitchen and said shyly, "Just ten yuan."

Tang Luofan:?

"That... there is a payment code on the table, just scan this and give it to me."

Tang Luofan scanned the code, saw a few buns left in the bamboo basket, and asked, "Auntie, can you sell the remaining buns to me too, and I'll take them home for my friends to eat."

"Okay."

"I'll give you the steamed stuffed bun money."

"Row."

In the end, Tang Luofan scanned 100 quickly, and followed He Huai and the two out of this clean and simple courtyard.

He walked briskly, and said with a smile: "Mr. He, it's only ten yuan for me to treat you to a meal. The presidential suite you booked for me is enough for me to treat you to a whole year's homestay food."

He Huai: "You mean, you will invite me in the future?"

Tang Luofan: "If I can really find my mother here, I will treat you to dinner for a lifetime."

He Huai laughed softly.

The two walked to the car, and when they were about to get in and drive away, suddenly a little girl about ten years old ran out of the yard and shouted to them: "Brother, wait!"

The little girl rushed to their car, held up a woven bag, and said, "My mother said, you paid too much money, let me give you a portion of wild mushrooms, which are all dried in the sun."

As she spoke, the little girl took the bag and stuffed it into Tang Luofan's hand.

Tang Luofan picked it up and asked her, "You picked these for your family after school?"

"Ah."

The little girl looked up at her handsome brother, and said with gratitude in her big clear eyes, "Brother, my mother also said, thank you."

After speaking, the little girl turned and ran away.

Holding a bag of dried mushrooms, Tang Luofan was a little at a loss, but also a little unspeakably moved.

100 yuan, a meal.

In his opinion, it wasn't enough for his aunt to light a fire in the kitchen and make a meal and lunch for them.

He originally wanted to keep more, but he was afraid that his so-called compassion would trample on other people's real diligence and hard work, and become cheap charity.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the city, the intrigue in the company and the pursuit of fame and fortune in the circle.

It seems like a pure and unpretentious land here.

He Huai opened the car door for him, and said softly: "For them, the money earned by their own hard work is the most clear conscience and the most at ease."

Yes, the equivalent can be reassuring.

Tang Luofan opened the woven bag and took a closer look at the dried mushrooms inside.Suddenly, he saw a concentric knot made of red rope hanging from the handle of the braided belt.

His eyes suddenly widened, the dark pupils in his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he grabbed the concentric knot.

"What's wrong?" He Huai asked.

"this.."

Tang Luofan's voice trembled slightly, and his breathing became short due to nervousness, "My mother can make up such a concentric knot."

He Huai looked slightly startled, looking at the red concentric knot in the boy's hand that can be seen everywhere, he wanted to say: Many people can make such knots.

But seeing the boy's urgent expression again, he whispered, "Why don't you go and ask?"

After he finished speaking, Tang Luofan turned around and ran towards the small courtyard of the hotel.

The little girl had just arrived home and was helping her mother clean up the dishes on the table in the yard.

Seeing Tang Luofan return, she asked in surprise, "Brother, what's wrong?"

Tang Luofan walked straight in front of her, suppressing the tension in his heart, and asked in a low voice: "Did you make up this concentric knot?"

he knows.

He can't hope for much.

After all, such concentric knots are everywhere.

But he still couldn't help it, even if there was a slight turning point...

"I made it up. But it was taught to me by a pretty aunt."

Tang Luofan's heart jumped violently: "Yes, what auntie?"

The little girl's voice was crisp and clear: "An aunt who came to the mountains to paint."

The boy's thin body swayed, and his eyes suddenly widened with unbelievable shock and confusion, as if he didn't understand or fully digest what the little girl said.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

He Huai walked up to the boy.

He stretched out his long arm, wrapped his strong arm around the boy's swaying shoulder, and patted the boy's arm lightly with his broad palm: "Tang Luofan, it's okay."

He asked for Tang Luofan: "Can you tell us, who is that aunt?"

He Huai was tall and stern, with the awe-inspiring aura of someone in a superior position.

The little girl was a little afraid of him, but also a little wary.

She didn't know why these people asked about the aunt's news.Although they gave more food money, what if they are bad people?

She pursed her lips and looked at the two men questioningly with her big clear eyes.

Tang Luofan leaned against He Huai's warm and firm arms, and his nervous and agitated mood gradually calmed down.

He squatted in front of the girl, took out his mobile phone and searched for a photo: "The beautiful aunt who taught you to make concentric knots, doesn't she look like this?"

The girl looked at the photo, then at Tang Luofan, and gradually began to show a look of surprise.

That photo was a group photo of Tang Luofan and his mother.Although it was a group photo taken in junior high school, the little girl could tell at a glance that the aunt in the photo was the beautiful aunt who taught her to make concentric knots.

The boy next to the aunt is the elder brother in front of him.

Tang Luofan smiled at her and said, "She is my mother. Look, don't we look alike?"

The little girl looked Tang Luofan carefully, and nodded hesitantly.

Tang Luofan did look like his mother - Su Man.

He was also the only child among the Tang family brothers who inherited Su Man's talent for painting.

"Are you looking for your mother?"

Children's thoughts are always simple and direct, but they are also the wisest.

She immediately hit Tang Luofan's question.

Tang Luofan nodded, and said softly to her: "My parents divorced a few years ago, and my mother lived outside alone. Before, I had been in touch with her. But since last year, I suddenly couldn't contact her."

"I'm worried about her and wondering how she's doing? So can you tell me a little more about her?"

The little girl already had a crush on this sunny, handsome and smiling brother, but after hearing what he said, she slowly let go of her vigilance and started talking to Tang Luofan.

"I met my aunt when I was growing mushrooms in the mountains last year. My aunt was lost and didn't know how to go down the mountain. I took my aunt and the others to find the way down the mountain. At that time, my aunt gave me a lot of delicious food."

"Later, I often saw my aunt and the others draw pictures in the mountains, and the paintings were beautiful. My aunt also taught me some drawing methods, but I couldn't learn them, and I always couldn't draw well. My aunt taught me to weave rope."

"I know how to weave rope, I'm learning fast."

"Last year?"

Tang Luofan thought for a while and asked her, "Then have you seen her again recently?"

The little girl shook her head: "Not anymore. But I heard from other mountain dwellers that the beautiful auntie Huahua lives in this mountain, and the house she lives in is big and beautiful."

My mother lives somewhere in this mountainous area.

These were the words Tang Luofan heard that surprised him the most and also reassured him the most.

"Thank you."

Tang Luofan looked at the girl with a smile: "When I find her, I will definitely come and tell you. Thank you for helping her who was lost and found the way down the mountain."

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Back in the car.

Tang Luofan leaned back on the car seat thinly, his face was calm, his eyes were full of disappointment, and he looked at the scenery outside the window without focusing.

He Huai sat in the driver's seat, started the accelerator, and said, "It's confirmed that my aunt bought a piece of land here and built a house of her own. Now we know how to find all the sold homesteads in this mountain area, and then look for them one by one. , you will definitely be able to find your aunt."

The boy said "hmm".

"Now we can go to the hotel first and wait for the assistant's findings."

"Ah."

"Buckle your seat belt, let's go."

The boy looked sideways out of the car window without moving.

"Tang Luofan."

He Huai gently called his name.

He unbuttoned his seat belt, and his strong body approached the thin and confused boy.

One stretched over the boy's body, touched his shoulder lightly and at the same time pulled the seat belt buckle on the left side of his car seat. With a little force, the seat belt wrapped around the boy's body and was fastened tightly to the boy's slender and warm body. waist.

"Let's go." He Huai said.

"Ah."

Only then did Tang Luofan look back at him.

In those beautiful almond eyes, there was a pool of transparent tears at the moment.The thick eyelashes fluttered slightly, and the tears flowed. Crystal clear teardrops rolled down from the boy's flushed eye sockets, slid across his face, and landed on his pointed jaw.

He Huai was startled, and before the tears fell, he reached out and stroked the boy's cheek to catch the tears.

"Don't cry."

He Huai's fingertips caressed the boy's soft chin, and he wiped away the boy's tears with the lightest force, and said softly, "Don't you already have a clue? Don't cry."

Tang Luofan sobbed, then turned to look out the window.

When he turned back to He Huai, his eyes that had been washed clean by tears became clearer and brighter. With a smile in his mouth, he said softly, "Thank you, He Huai."

If He Huai hadn't found Lizhiwan, and if He Huai hadn't found the homestay just now, he didn't know how long it would have taken him, and how many detours he had to make, to contact his mother.

Sure enough, it's the halo of the hero.

Follow him, everything goes smoothly.

The boy cried in front of him, his eyes were always red with a sly smile, and the tears had not completely wiped away on his soft and fair face.

Mingming is always so cheerful and free and easy, looking fearless and fearless.

It turned out that those were his fragility and loneliness in disguise.

"Tang Luofan."

After He Huai realized that he had been attracted by the boy, he immediately turned his head, started the car, and said, "Don't forget your promise just now. If you find Auntie, you will treat me to dinner for the rest of your life."

"Okay."

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