After Chen Xing entered the house, he took a look around the layout of the house.
Like many rural houses, the large room you see after entering the house from the front door is the main room, which seems to be a living room. However, in traditional Chinese culture, the function of the main room is completely different from that of the living room. It is mostly used to honor ancestors.
A place for worshiping gods, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and celebrating weddings, funerals and birthdays.
In costume TV dramas, once the descendants make mistakes, the elders will implement family laws in the main room.
Bai Yuzhu, who knew the purpose of Chen Xing's trip, came over and said, "Let me show you around."
Chen Xing heard that her tone was a little distant again, and asked in confusion: "Why are you so polite all of a sudden? I'm not used to it."
"How can there be..."
The unfamiliar atmosphere disappeared instantly.
This wooden house has a lot of rooms. In addition to a large number of bedrooms, there are two kitchens. One of them is a kitchen with firewood and a stove, which is very common in the countryside. The other kitchen is where Bai Yuzhu's family usually eats.
In this place, a pit was made with stones near the center of the room, and a triangular iron frame was placed on it. Now there is a clay pot hanging on it, with soup in it.
A dining table was set up next to it, with a lot of dishes on it.
"We usually use this place to barbecue or smoke meat. Now that it's winter, we will also stay here to keep warm."
This room is nice. It turns out that ancient China also had similar things like "fireplaces".
Passing by a few rooms, the simple ones at first glance usually belong to the elders. The other two rooms are more neatly decorated. The furniture inside is relatively new and looks like it was handmade by carpenters.
Things look antique when placed in a room like this.
There is another floor upstairs, but it is not the main place where Bai Yuzhu and the others live. It is mainly used to store food and some things that are not usually used.
"Our house is like this, and other people's houses are probably the same."
Returning to the room where you can warm yourself up by the fire, the earthenware pot on the fire pit has been brought to the table, with four dishes and one soup, fried lean pork strips with hot red peppers, which is quite Sichuan cuisine, and fried bacon with folded ear root. Zheergen is the name of the southwest region, which is actually Houttuynia cordata.
People in many places are not used to eating this, but Chen Xing feels that there is no special smell. After eating it for so many years, he has not noticed any fishy smell. Instead, he thinks it is quite delicious when eaten cold, and it is an appetizer.
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After cooking, Houttuynia cordata became less crispy, tasted a little softer, and absorbed the aroma of bacon.
During the meal, Bai Yuzhu's father hesitated and said: "Well, Xiao Chen, I heard that you gave Yuzhu five thousand yuan..."
"Oh, this, it's okay."
Chen Xing had long known that they would ask this question, otherwise a family like this that is slightly short of money but not too poor might not accept such a near donation.
Everyone has self-respect. If you give someone thousands of dollars for no reason, others will think you have some agenda.
Isn’t there an old saying in China: There is no free pie in the sky.
Chen Xing swallowed what he ate in his mouth and explained: "I am a well-known photographer. I always pay this price for people to take pictures, and even this is less. Uncles and aunts don't have to worry too much about this."
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"Do you give me money for taking pictures?"
Bai Yuzhu's sister also looked shocked.
Since the scenic spot there was built, she has visited it many times and was deeply impressed by the photo studios that attract tourists to take photos.
"Yes." Chen Xing nodded and said, "So I am a professional. For real photographers, if they can buy satisfactory works with money, then maybe tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands will be paid.
This is all normal."
"Is this normal?"
The little sister felt that her outlook on life had been greatly shocked.
Chen Xing shrugged his shoulders, with an expression on his face that said, "This is how the world is."
Uncle and aunt were doubtful, so Chen Xing asked them to search his name on their mobile phones.
Then Chen Xing was treated like a superstar.
Xiao Chen stopped shouting and called Mr. Chen. He kept asking if the food was enough and if it was to his liking. The smile on his face never stopped, which made Chen Xing get goosebumps all over his body and he felt very uncomfortable. p>
It would be fine if these were just a few young people, but Chen Xing really didn’t know what to say when facing people from his parents’ generation.
But naturally, Chen Xing was invited to stay.
A country house with not much else but definitely a lot of rooms.
Bai Yuzhu, her sister and parents only had three rooms, and there were two other bedrooms, one of which was even converted into a place to raise chickens, ducks, or rabbits.
The quilt was a little damp and it didn't warm up after being covered for a long time, so Chen Xing put on his clothes and looked out the window at the countryside fields.
The Buyi people are a nation that has done a good job in Chineseization. Although some of the older generation still cannot speak Mandarin, they have rules and regulations in terms of architecture and the rice they grow in the fields. They also believe in their ancestors and some
Mountain God and Water God.
Looking out from the window, the cement road and the new houses opposite are the most conspicuous.
The concrete pavement is very bright under the moonlight, and in the house opposite, even though it is one or two o'clock, there are still rooms with lights on. The fields are completely silent in winter, and all the insects are hidden underground. Guizhou is a single-crop rice area, and this year's rice has already been harvested
The harvest was done in August and September, and now there are only some vegetables growing in the fields.
Chen Xing looked out the window, thinking about what would happen tomorrow morning.
He hasn't heard a new prompt from the system for a long time, but it must still be there, at least the interface is still there.
What new rewards will there be?
………………
[You spent one night in the Buyi stilt house, and you acquired the skill: vehicle driving]
【Why are you never willing to practice your driving skills?】
He didn't know when the system prompt appeared, because when he woke up, these two lines of subtitles appeared in his eyes. He always felt that the system was scolding him for being too lazy, so he frowned.
Don’t you practice yourself? Where do you have time?
I studied abroad in France, then traveled to Northern Europe, came back to deal with the sale of new books, and then prepared to go to southern Yunnan to find Zhou Peng and return to the New Territories.
Isn’t this year already over? Where did you find the time to buy a car and practice driving?
"Cut!"
Chen Xing was speechless, rolled his eyes, got dressed and got up.
Then I realized later that this skill was quite good.
Vehicle driving not only consolidates and improves his skills in driving manual and automatic cars, but also his skills in driving large cars and two-wheeled vehicles. In other words, in the future, Chen Xing can also buy a car that goes bang with just a squeeze of the accelerator.
The car is so noisy that people can’t sleep.
Forget it, I might as well get a bicycle and take a trip around the lake.
Opening the door, there was a fire pit room outside. Bai Yuzhu was sitting here warming herself by the fire and playing with her mobile phone. She didn't even notice that Chen Xing came over. Her own mobile phone was an elderly phone, and the one she was holding now was her father's.
