Chapter 166 Arriving at the Deep Mountain Tea Village
Chapter 166 Arrival at Deep Mountain Tea Village
The sky turned white and the air was filled with mist. Yuan Xudong led Luo Qian out of the hospital emergency room and reminded softly:
"Rosie, please slow down. There are steps in front of you. You are in good shape, so I'll carry you."
"No, I can do it myself. Brother Xudong, you haven't slept all night. Let's get back to the car and rest for a while."
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
After walking out of the hospital, Sun Jianhong and Xia Weijun waited at the exit of the hospital leaning on their off-road vehicles. Seeing Yuan Xudong walking towards them holding Luo Qian, Sun Jianhong quickly opened the door and said with concern:
"Mr. Yuan, are Miss Luo okay?"
"It's okay. Have you bought breakfast?"
"I have bought them and they are all in the car. The blue insulated box is for fried buns and the red one is for glutinous rice porridge. They were all bought at the breakfast shop you mentioned. They are freshly baked and are still hot."
"Well, have you and Lao Xia eaten?"
"I've eaten, thank you Mr. Yuan for your concern!"
Nodding slightly, he helped Luo Qian into the car and sat down. Yuan Xudong sat next to her, looked at Sun Jianhong and Xia Weijun and ordered:
"Drive slowly and go to the Crystal Hotel. Lao Xia will accompany me into the mountains. You stay here to complete the follow-up transaction with the Lu family, and then go to the second-hand housing market to inquire about Liu Shuhua. It is best to find her. We will return to Shanghai in three days.
"
"I understand, Mr. Yuan."
Hearing that Yuan Xudong arranged for his subordinates to find Liu Shuhua for him, Luo Qian looked at him and said softly:
"Brother Xudong, I've caused you trouble again, I"
Without waiting for Luo Qian to finish speaking, Yuan Xudong scooped up a spoonful of glutinous rice porridge, blew it, put it into her mouth and said with a smile:
"Don't say anything that makes me unhappy. You are my sister and you have to listen to me from now on. Remember?"
"Yeah, remember!"
Seeing that Luo Qian was obedient, Yuan Xudong rewarded her with a fried bun and said:
"These are pan-fried buns, be careful not to burn them, and make your mouth grow bigger, ah~~"
"Ah~~"
Opening her mouth slightly, she ate the fried buns handed over by Yuan Xudong. A familiar taste filled her tongue. Rosie looked at Yuan Xudong and smiled:
"These are fried buns I bought at a breakfast shop near my home. How did you know I like their fried buns?"
“Eat more if you like it!”
He gave Luo Qian another pan-fried bun. Yuan Xudong watched her eat it and said with a smile:
"Last night, you were talking in your sleep. When I heard that you wanted to eat fried steamed buns, I asked Jianhong to search around your house. Fortunately, there was only one breakfast shop."
Hearing Yuan Xudong say that she was talking in her sleep, Luo Qian quickly ate the fried buns, then looked at him and said anxiously:
"Brother Xudong, did I say anything else?"
"No, you're just clamoring for fried buns, come on, open your mouth, ah~~"
"Ah~~"
After eating another fried bun, Luo Qian looked at Yuan Xudong and smiled happily:
"Brother Xudong, why don't you eat too? Their fried buns are delicious. Come and try them. How do you like them?"
"Okay, let me try it."
Taking out the napkin, he wiped the oil stains from the corners of Rosie's mouth. Yuan Xudong picked up a fried bun and tasted it. The taste was just average, and it felt no different from the fried buns from other places. Thinking this in his heart, Yuan Xudong looked at the invisible things.
Rosie said truthfully:
"I think the taste is similar. There seems to be no difference. Maybe it's because I don't have the potential to be a gourmet."
Hearing what Yuan Xudong said, Luo Qian burst into laughter, covered her face and looked at him and said happily:
"Brother Xudong, I like their fried buns because there is no ginger in the filling. As for the taste, it is not much different from the fried buns from other places. I thought you would say it is delicious."
Seeing Luo Qian smiling so happily, Yuan Xudong pretended to be embarrassed and said:
"Okay, if you dare to joke with me, see how I deal with you and let you know how powerful my brother is!"
After that, he directly tickled Rosie, causing Rosie to giggle non-stop, curled up on her seat and begged for mercy:
"Brother Xudong, I don't dare to do it anymore, just let me go, haha~~"
"You call me brother and I will spare you."
"Brother~~"
Looking at Yuan Xudong and Luo Qian fighting in the rearview mirror, Sun Jianhong nudged Xia Weijun with his elbow and winked and whispered:
"Lao Xia, do you feel that Mr. Yuan seems a little abnormal?"
Glancing at Yuan Xudong who was taking advantage of Luo Qian through the rearview mirror, Xia Weijun shrugged his shoulders and said softly:
"I think it's normal. Maybe you're not normal? When did you become so nosy?"
"Forget it, there is a generation gap between us, and you are already behind the times."
After giving Xia Weijun a blank look, Sun Jianhong leaned into his ear and whispered mysteriously:
"I think Mr. Yuan is in love!"
After giving Sun Jianhong a strange look, Xia Weijun said inexplicably:
"When will Mr. Yuan not fall in love?"
Looking at Xia Weijun who was slow to react, Sun Jianhong couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said:
"This time is different. Didn't you notice that Mr. Yuan looks at Miss Luo differently than before?"
Before Xia Weijun could respond, Yuan Xudong's voice sounded behind him:
"Jianhong, I thought about it. Three days may not be enough. You can stay in XX and go back when you find Liu Shuhua. I wish you good luck!"
"I know, Mr. Yuan!"
After taking a look at Sun Jianhong who was about to cry without tears, Xia Weijun on the side laughed in a low voice:
"You deserve it. I let you gossip. Now Mr. Yuan is putting your foot down, right?"
"I am willing, but do you care? Besides, the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, so just be envious and jealous!"
"Get away from me, idiot!"
Hearing the bickering between Sun Jianhong and Xia Weijun, Luo Qian looked at Yuan Xudong and smiled:
"Brother Xudong, you are so kind. Is this why you have many friends?"
"On the one hand, the most important thing is for people to have money. Money is not everything, but it is absolutely impossible to be without money. Money cannot buy friendship, but it can buy gifts. Money cannot buy health, but it can buy it.
Medicines and money can’t buy love, but they can buy romance.”
Holding Luo Qian's hands, Yuan Xudong said in a sincere voice:
"In the same way, money can't buy light, but it can buy eyes that can see light. After you return to SH, I will arrange for someone to find your corneas. Don't worry, I guarantee that you will see the light again!
"
Hearing what Yuan Xudong said, Luo Qian quickly grabbed his hands and said anxiously:
"Brother Xudong, let's follow the formal procedures. I know you are a big shot in SH, but I don't want to jump in line or take up the opportunity that others have waited for. This is so unfair!"
"If you follow the formal procedure, you may have to wait three to five years, or even a lifetime. Are you sure you want to do this?"
"I am sure!"
Nodding slightly, Luo Xi grabbed Yuan Xudong's hands and said firmly:
"I am a blind person. I can feel the pain of the whole world being a dark night. If I have to deprive others of the opportunity to see the light again, I would rather never see. In that case, at least my heart is still bright, Xudong
Brother, can you understand me?"
"I understand, of course I understand!"
Holding Luo Qian's shoulders, Yuan Xudong stroked her long hair and comforted:
"The night gave you black eyes, but you use them to find the light. Rosie, don't worry, I won't take up other people's opportunities. Believe me, you will definitely see the light again!"
"Hmm~~"
Nodding slightly and hesitating for a moment, Rosie snuggled into Yuan Xudong's arms, closed her eyes and murmured softly:
"Brother Xudong, if I can't see you for the rest of my life, you will."
Before Luo Qian could finish speaking, Yuan Xudong directly pressed her lips and joked:
"I told God that she has promised me to help you heal your eyes. Don't worry. When the dark night passes, you can embrace the light!"
Hearing what Yuan Xudong said, Luo Qian couldn't help but hug him and said with a smile:
"Brother Xudong, is God also your friend?"
"No, God is my boss. I work for her on earth, and she pays her wages in heaven. I told her that I wanted my sister to see the light again, and I had to go through the normal procedures. She said it was very difficult and asked me if I could take a shortcut.
, I said no, but she said she could help, but she had to ask my sister to kiss me, otherwise my salary would be deducted. Of course I couldn't agree to it, but she got furious and wanted me."
Before Yuan Xudong could finish speaking, Luo Qian pecked him on the cheek, then buried her head in his arms and whispered:
"Brother Xudong, thank you!"
Arriving at the Crystal Hotel, Gu Jia and others who had already prepared were waiting in front of the hotel. Sun Jianhong got off the car and left to do the things Yuan Xudong asked. The director and accountant of the tea factory took another off-road vehicle. Gu Jia and Yuan Xudong also
Rosie took an off-road vehicle, and the two vehicles left the hotel and headed to a deep mountain tea plantation a hundred miles away.
Yuan Xudong planned to conduct an on-site inspection so that when Gu Jia couldn't hold on any longer, he could take over. Purely handmade natural pollution-free organic tea, package it and sell it to his own company. He would make tens of millions of pocket money every year.
By the way, if the villagers in the mountain village are living in difficulty, they can donate some money to promote the company's image, and at the same time improve the humanistic care background of tea. Shouldn't such good and caring tea be sold more expensively?
The mountain road was rugged. Starting in the morning, when the sun was up three poles, Yuan Xudong and others finally saw the tea village located deep in the mountains. There was no reinforced concrete and no busy traffic. A bumpy gravel road led to the village, with undulating blue bricks on both sides.
A few chickens and a dog ran past the black tiles from time to time, adding some sounds of crowing and barking to the quiet mountain village, making it even more distant and pleasant.
Seeing two off-road vehicles driving into the village, some bold children ran after the car, while the timid ones stood not far away and watched. When the car stopped, Gu Jia took the snacks she bought at the foot of the mountain and said hello.
Children of all sizes gathered around her and called her aunt, begging for their favorite snacks. Looking at Gu Jia with a happy face, Yuan Xudong helped Luo Qian out of the car and smiled:
"Gu Jia, it's rare that you are so happy. Is this why you are unwilling to close the tea factory?"
Handing the snacks in her hand to the eldest child and asking her to distribute them to everyone, Gu Jia looked at Yuan Xudong and smiled:
"Mr. Yuan, when you see these children, don't you think we adults should do something?"
"You want to help them get out of the mountains?"
Seeing Gu Jia nodded slightly, Yuan Xudong glanced at the children playing and sharing snacks and smiled:
"They are very happy. I don't think we should do anything. The reason why people are unhappy is because they can't get what they want. You think the children staying in the mountains are pitiful, but in fact they don't feel pitiful themselves. Even
I still feel very happy.
Only when they go out of the mountains and see the prosperity outside, and want to integrate into it but find that they are unable to do so, will they feel unhappy. On the contrary, if they never go out of the mountains for the rest of their lives, they will live a paradise-like life in such a mountain village.
In life, there is no pressure to go to school, no desire to make money, work at sunrise and rest at sundown, don't you think this is also a kind of happiness? "
Hearing Yuan Xudong's fallacies, Gu Jia couldn't help but rolled her eyes and said:
"The ability to resist risks in this kind of life is too low. What if someone in the family gets sick and there is no money for treatment?"
Shrugging his shoulders, Yuan Xudong said truthfully:
"Now that we have medical insurance, we can afford treatment for minor illnesses. For serious illnesses, we should wait until death. How many people dare to say that they are not afraid of going to the hospital, not to mention in such a poor mountain village, even outside?
The most you can do is support them with a little tuition and living expenses, and it’s not a good thing to help them too much. Unless you have the ability and are willing to keep helping, people will ultimately have to rely on themselves!"
Looking at Yuan Xudong who was standing and talking without pain in his back, Gu Jia glanced at Luo Qian who was holding his hand and smiled:
"Mr. Yuan, what you did is different from what you said?"
Rolling his eyes at Gu Jia, Yuan Xudong patted Luo Qian's hands and said proudly:
"Gu Jia, I forgot to tell you. This is my sister Rosie. She will go back to SH with me to treat her eyes. I plan to teach her singing and piano and train her to become a big star. Isn't she beautiful?"
"Your sister?"
Hearing what Yuan Xudong said, Gu Jia was quite surprised and said:
"Really just a sister?"
"if not?"
Looking at Gu Jia who was full of distrust, before Yuan Xudong could say anything more, the director of the tea factory not far away, who was also the head of this mountain village, came over and said with a smile:
"Boss Gu, Mr. Yuan, how about I take you to the village to rest for a while, have lunch, and then go to the tea garden in the afternoon?"
"Okay, guests are welcome to do whatever they want, just look at the arrangements."
"Mr. Yuan is joking. I am the director of the tea factory and the mayor of this village. You lent money to Boss Gu to save the tea factory, which means you saved the jobs of our whole village. You and Boss Gu are the masters. I
They are your employees. Come on, I will take you to the company's office. It has the best conditions in the entire mountain village and has two bedrooms. You can rest there tonight."
Following the village chief into the office of the tea factory, looking at the brick and wood structure that leaked air everywhere, Yuan Xudong took Luo Qian and joked:
"Village chief, your office is quite quaint. It's just like the inn on TV. It can't be hundreds of years old, right?"
"It won't happen in hundreds of years, but it will still exist in more than a hundred years. I heard my great-grandfather said that this building he built when he was a child is at least more than 130 years old, and it has been repaired several times in the meantime.
, but it’s still basically the same as before.”
After bringing Yuan Xudong and others into the office, the village chief made them a pot of hot tea and said with a smile:
"I'm sorry, we are a bit remote here. There is nothing but tea. You guys sit down for a while and drink some of our home-produced tea. I will go make arrangements for lunch and I will be back soon!"
Taking the teapot, Gu Jia looked at the village chief and smiled:
"Village chief, you go make arrangements. I'll make tea and something light. We've been wandering around all morning and we don't have much appetite."
"Okay, I get it!"
After the village chief left, Gu Jia poured a cup of hot tea for each of Yuan Xudong and Luo Qian and said with a smile:
"There is nothing in the mountains, but the tea is very good. Try it. It is definitely no worse than the tea on the market."
Passing the tea to Luo Xi's hand and telling her not to burn herself, Yuan Xudong picked up another cup and took a sip and said with a smile:
“Great tea!”
Hearing what Yuan Xudong said, Gu Jia looked slightly happy, looking forward to his evaluation. After waiting for a while, seeing that he had no intention of continuing, Gu Jia couldn't help but say:
"Gone?"
"What's missing?"
"You said good tea, but then, what's so good about it?"
After continuing to drink a sip of tea, Yuan Xudong looked at Gu Jia, smacked his lips and said:
"How do I know what's good? Didn't you say that? The tea here is all good tea?"
Gu Jia rolled her eyes at the messy Yuan Xudong, looked at Luo Qian and said expectantly:
"Rosie, what do you think?"
Hearing Gu Jia ask for her opinion, Luo Qian's face turned red and she said:
"Sister Jia, I rarely drink tea, so I don't know if the tea is good or not, but you and Brother Xudong both said it is good tea, so it must be good tea!"
It was in vain to say it. Gu Jia couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said:
"Forget it, I just thought it was wrong. You two are still so young. It's normal for you not to understand tea."
"Who said I don't understand tea?"
Rolling his eyes at Gu Jia, Yuan Xudong picked up the tea cup and shook it slightly, then took a sip and commented:
“The taste is good, the fragrance is very refreshing, and the aftertaste is also good. It is truly a good tea!”
Gu Jia looked at Yuan Xudong who was pretending and looked at Luo Xi with a smile:
"Rosie, I see you don't look well. Are you motion sickness?"
"No, I don't get motion sickness. I'm just a little tired. I'll be fine after sitting for a while."
Seeing that Luo Xi's face was slightly pale, Yuan Xudong touched her forehead. Fortunately, she didn't have a fever. She was probably just a little tired after a bumpy morning. Thinking of this, he looked at Gu Jia and said with a smile:
"Gu Jia, take Luo Qian to rest for a while. I'll call you when it's dinner time."
Nodding slightly, Gu Jia walked to Luo Qian and helped her up, smiling:
"Come on, Rosie, I'll take you to rest for a while. Tonight, the two of us will sleep in the same room."
"Well, thank you Sister Jia, Brother Xudong, I'm going to rest first!"