Lishumen is a township mainly based on cultivated land and supplemented by forestry.
Shen Dapeng's mother and her family all came from this half of the ravine. Although the distance from the county is only more than fifty kilometers, it is difficult because more than half of the road is dirt and a small part is winding mountain road.
Go, if you take a coach, it will probably take about an hour and a half.
But today was fast. Under the guidance of Gao Tianci Land Patrol, my uncle's Poussin and Sun Dapaozi's van also ran at the fastest speed ever. Although the car was about to fall apart, there were at least three cars in front and behind it.
The arrival time was within 10 minutes.
Around 2000, even in Qingshu County, if anyone had a car, it was something worth showing off. Ordinary families would not even dare to think about it.
Nowadays, in Lishumen, a small rural town, ordinary people rarely see cars, especially big ones like the Land Cruiser LC100, which is particularly shocking.
When Gao Tianci's car stopped at the intersection in the countryside, people had already stopped to watch. When all three cars appeared, everyone immediately gathered to watch.
Obviously the three cars were traveling together, and I don’t know whose home they were going to, but no matter whose home it was, it would definitely prove that the younger generation of the family was well-off.
On both sides of the narrow road that can only accommodate one car, there are bungalows with gray tiles and mud walls. Although they don't look very beautiful, every house is a home, unlike a busy big city with dozens of high-rise buildings.
The streets are crowded, but the houses are empty. Where can there be any semblance of a home?
Each mud bungalow has its own small yard in front and back, some of which grow vegetables.
Some plant some fruits, such as plum trees, apricot trees, and mountain reds. There are all kinds of fruits. Even the plum trees are divided into dry and wet cores, red plums and yellow plums.
Under the wooden fences of each house grew short strawberry seedlings. At that time, they were not called strawberries, and they were not as big as they are now. They were only about the size of a thumb, and they were also called strawberries.
Looking at the fruits on the plum tree and the golden apricots on the apricot tree that were ripe to the point of rotting, Shen Dapeng really had the urge to climb up the tree, pick a bunch, and then have a hearty meal.
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Purely natural fruits without pesticides like this can only be found in the countryside, but the locals don't treat them well and let them rot on the trees.
The uncle, brother-in-law, and father returned to grandma's house first, while Shen Dapeng, the man in the car, was looking for a hotel in the countryside where he could spend the night.
It's a pity that there are no hotels in the countryside at all, only small hotels with poor conditions, and only one!
After all, this is a rural area with almost no floating population. Except for some grain sellers and drivers who work in hotels every year when selling grain, no one comes to remote places in the countryside at other times.
"Here, what are these? Square-checked blue sheets? Bright red and green floral quilt covers? Oh my, look, this is still a cement floor. There are no tiles, let alone carpets. How can this be possible in a place like this?
Are you sleeping? Besides, why does this house smell so weird? Is there mold? Why isn’t there even a bathroom?"
Li Wenting, dressed like a big flower chicken, stood at the door of the room, covering her nose with disgust on her face.
"Isn't this nice? Although it's a little worn out, it's still very clean and tidy, which shows that the boss is also a neat person."
Gao Tianci acted very calmly, but his indifferent face was full of confusion.
Wang Xueying, on the other hand, didn't talk at all, didn't care about anything, didn't say anything, she just caressed the lazy kitten by the wall with interest, scratched its chin, and received the kitten's purring sound.
Voice.
"Sorry, you have no choice. There is only this small hotel in the countryside. If you don't want to live here, I'm afraid you will have to sleep in the car."
Shen Dapeng also had a headache when he saw his cousin in trouble. He didn't know what Li Wenting was doing. Wasn't she just looking for a place to hang out with her boyfriend? Why did she care so much about the environment?
"Then let's stay. It's much more comfortable than staying in the car."
Zhao Yu nodded and agreed to stay.
"It's okay to live here, but you have to hug people at night, otherwise they will be scared."
Li Wenting hugged Zhao Yu's arm coquettishly, but no matter how Shen Dapeng looked at her, she looked like a big flower chicken 'begging for food'.
"well."
Zhao Yu had no choice but to respond, and while dodging backwards, he accidentally kicked a metal can, making a clanging sound.
"Zhao Yu, be careful, don't spill that spittoon."
Gao Tianci raised his foot to step on the metal can and kicked it aside gently, but accidentally kicked it down. The liquid inside spilled on his trousers, and he muttered: "It's a spittoon, what are you doing with so much water?"
,Really..."
"Young Master Gao, let me solemnly introduce to you that this is not a spittoon, but a chamber pot. We live in a bungalow and it is inconvenient to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, so we put a chamber pot in the house to relieve ourselves."
As soon as Shen Dapeng said this, Gao Tianci immediately grinned in disgust and stamped his feet vigorously, hoping to get rid of it quickly.
And Li Wenting finally figured it out. She was afraid that the strange smell in the room was the smell of urine in the chamber pot. She probably forgot to empty it out when cleaning the room.
Shen Dapeng found it funny that a young man in the city didn't know the difference between a chamber pot and a spittoon. Whose spittoon would be as big as a bucket? You would have to cough your lungs out to fill it up.
At the foot of a low mountain not far away, a small river was flowing. Shen Dapeng looked a little excited.
Lishumen was his favorite place when he was a child. He would come to his grandma’s house to stay for a while every winter and summer vacation.
In summer, I run around shirtless with a group of friends, fish in troubled waters, and pick fruits from trees. In winter, my little face turns red from the cold, but I still pile a big snowman outside and hit the sledge on the ice.
Memories of my childhood in my previous life passed through my mind. Looking at the creek that had no changes from my memory, I smiled slightly and said, "Shall I take you for a walk by the river? It will be cooler!"
At noon, the scorching sun was shining brightly. Even though it was early autumn in September, it was still very hot. Shen Dapeng had just made a suggestion, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Hey, look, there's a grasshopper here, why doesn't it move?"
Gao Tianci seemed to have discovered a new world, pointing to a bush and staring excitedly.
"I guess I was scared by you."
Liu Yuwei was in a good mood and started joking, but when she looked over, she couldn't help laughing: "Please, that's not a grasshopper, that's a grasshopper!"
"Grasshopper? Isn't this a green grasshopper?"
Gao Tianci wanted to reach out and grab it, but looking at the green hard shell, he finally held back for fear of getting hurt.