Mid-Levels Farm

In the early morning of New Year's Eve, Xuan Xiaodong got up and made some breakfast, and then started to pack things. All kinds of cured ribs and bacon, large intestines smoked yesterday, various dried vegetables, and dried radishes were all taken out of the storage room , carefully checked and repacked.

Sheng Wuyu watched him busy, but didn't say anything.Xuan Xiaodong has always been a very diligent person. It is rare to see him sitting quietly and doing nothing. As long as he is awake, he always has something to do at hand. Cooking is like rest and enjoyment for him. My favorite leisure and entertainment is either reading books or playing games. I am full of energy and vitality without any bad habits. Compared with many modern people in the city, my living habits are much healthier.

During the two days that Xuan Xiaodong came, because the house was cleaned by someone, he had more leisure time except cooking three meals, and this aggravated his nervousness, so he simply went to the upstairs terrace to swim.

Tidying up things can indeed relieve the mood... Including yesterday's father asked Xuan Xiaodong to help make smoked intestines, a specific and specific thing can make him temporarily forget the tension of having to face a large family of strangers the next day.

Xuan Xiaodong packed everything up, and then sat back in front of Sheng Wuyu and started to eat breakfast: "Is your stomach still not feeling well? Why did you only eat a little?" He glanced at the breakfast in front of Sheng Wuyu, he had a bad stomach yesterday , so in the morning he made a light and easy-to-digest yam fish noodle soup, but Sheng Wuyu only ate a small bowl of the big fish noodle soup.

Sheng Wuyu said: "Well, after eating a little bit, I felt uncomfortable in my stomach, so I didn't eat."

Xuan Xiaodong ate the rest of the noodles, looked at Sheng Wuyu, and suddenly said, "You're taking medicine again." The stomach is the most obvious organ affected by emotions, and it is always very direct. He remembered that Sheng Wuyu When Wuyu first arrived at Banshan Farm, he was often depressed after taking the medicine, and he hardly had any appetite. He just ate for the sake of eating. He couldn't see his preferences, and he didn't have the concept of enjoying food.

After a period of time, he changed his medicine, and he seemed to be much better, and his food intake and appetite recovered.

Sheng Wuyu couldn't hide it from him, so he smiled helplessly.

Xuan Xiaodong reached out and touched Sheng Wuyu's pale lips, and said in a low voice, "Did I put pressure on you?"

Sheng Wuyu said: "It's not because of you, it's because of my old problem, I hope to be a perfect lover. Yesterday... I called and chatted with the psychiatrist, what he meant was that I was forcing I insist on playing a perfect lover in front of you, instead of trying to be a true self, so that when you feel like leaving, I also set too high demands on myself... There are uncontrollable factors, such as my family, such as your past..."

Xuan Xiaodong had completely forgotten his nervousness, he walked up to Sheng Wuyu, leaned over and kissed his forehead: "Don't be nervous, I love you, I believe that there must be a lovely person like you Family, I will try my best to accept it."

Sheng Wuyu reached out to hold his hand: "I regret it... I'm more afraid of seeing my family than you are now. To be honest, after my accident, I pretended to be unwell every time I celebrated the festival, and they never forced me to The party, and the fact that taking you home with me this year was the riskiest decision I've ever made in my life, and I feel like I'm going to regret it every moment."

"Until just now, I was thinking of taking out my phone, booking two tickets to Jinhuasha Island, and then flying over with you, escaping from all this, and going on vacation to the island, just the two of us, and no one can bother us. We Go there and stay at the Seaview Hotel, eat oysters, mussels, crayfish sashimi, bursting cheese balls, foie gras...it's midsummer..."

Xuan Xiaodong was startled, and Sheng Wuyu suddenly stretched out his hand to hold him: "I think I should face my own heart, or else, let's run away!"

Sheng Wuyu's eyes looked at him, warm and full of expectations, and Xuan Xiaodong was not surprised that as long as he nodded, Sheng Wuyu could really do it and immediately bought two air tickets to leave the city, waiting for him with a big family. Back for the holidays the concerned family left behind.

One of the two elders flew back from abroad, and the other rushed over from Huanjing.

The golden beaches are full of temptations.

Xuan Xiaodong took a deep breath, held his hand and said, "Actually, you haven't been in Jinghai for long, have you? I heard from you before that you came to Jinghai to start a business after resigning. You used to be in Huanjing, studying When he was young, he was abroad all the year round." You can tell from the fact that most of his food is Western food.

Sheng Wuyu nodded, and Xuan Xiaodong said: "There is still some time in the afternoon, I will take you to a place to play."

Sheng Wuyu thought that Xuan Xiaodong might actually be more familiar with Jinghai City than him, and spent his entire youth in Jinghai City. No wonder Chu Ruozhuo said that he knew Jinghai City better than himself, especially because he had delivered couriers.

He took a deep look at Xuan Xiaodong: "Okay."

Xuan Xiaodong got down to drive, and it didn't take long to turn into the mountain road on the outskirts of the city. Sheng Wuyu recognized it: "This is Hailin Temple."

Xuan Xiaodong said: "Let's climb the mountain behind." He parked the car, took the woolen coat and put it on for Sheng Wuyu first, and put on a windbreaker himself, and the two got out of the car and climbed the mountain.

Sheng Wuyu's wheelchair is actually inconvenient for climbing the mountain, but the mountain road here is fairly flat, and it's New Year's Eve, the mountain road is quiet and no one is there, so the two of them went up slowly, and it was quite comfortable.

Xuan Xiaodong pushed him to climb to the top of the mountain for about half an hour. He took Sheng Wuyu up to the viewing platform on the top side of the mountain and said, "Look."

The place where the Zen monastery is located usually has beautiful scenery and deep Zen.

The winter is cool and the sky is gray and blue. From the viewing platform, you can see the side of the Hailin Temple in front. There are monks coming in and out of the monk's room, some are carrying water, some are sweeping the floor, and some are giving back The vegetable fields in the mountains are watered, and some are drying clothes.

Sheng Wuyu looked at it for a while, puzzled, then turned to look at him: "The scenery is pretty good?"

Xuan Xiaodong smiled a little: "Look at them growing vegetables."

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Sheng Wuyu looked carefully, and sure enough, he saw that many monks were watering, digging, and fertilizing the vegetable fields in the back mountain.

Sheng Wuyu was thoughtful, Xuan Xiaodong looked at it for a while, and said to Sheng Wuyu: "I used to be bored, and I liked to watch these monks plant vegetables every day, how much they dug today, how many vegetables they picked tomorrow, and how much vegetables they picked tomorrow." What kind of vegetables are planted, after so many years, they are still like this."

Sheng Wuyu said: "Do you want me to see them live in seclusion and be at ease?"

Xuan Xiaodong smiled: "That's right, but I didn't think so much. I just looked at them, and my heart was quite peaceful. When I was a child, I studied in a private school near here." He pointed to the back mountain, and he looked at the tree behind It seems that there is a playground and a teaching building. It should be a holiday now, and it is very quiet.

Xuan Xiaodong said with a smile: "At that time, I couldn't keep up with my homework, and I loved to play. I often skipped class and came here to watch the monks plant vegetables every day. At that time, I thought, how fun is it to grow vegetables? They don't even want their families. When a monk grows vegetables every day."

Sheng Wuyu chuckled, and Xuan Xiaodong said, "I actually secretly asked the master in the temple if they would accept young monks. As long as I don't have to study, I can grow vegetables and cook."

Sheng Wuyu smiled slightly, and Xuan Xiaodong said: "As a result, the master said that minors are not accepted now. If I grow up and become an adult, I still want to be a monk, but I can't do it. I have to go to university first! I have to take the exam." What about the Buddhist Academy?"

"I just found out that if I don't get into college, I won't be able to go anywhere... I have to study hard."

Sheng Wuyu stretched out his hand and pulled his hand over, interlocking his fingers. Xuan Xiaodong looked down at him and smiled and said, "I was very impressed by the words my master said to me at the time. He said that you should find a way to know what you like." Only when I don’t like having a family can I know whether I want to become a monk or not, so I have to wait until I grow up, go to university and understand things before I know whether I really want to become a monk or not.”

Xuan Xiaodong squeezed Sheng Wuyu's hand slightly: "Although I don't know what a warm home is like, but I see how Sheng Leilei protects you, and Mr. Sheng's frank and reasonable way, I miss you." The other family members must also be very good people, and your family must be a warm family, so we should cherish their friendship."

Xuan Xiaodong looked at the monastery: "They still live like this after so many years, cleaning, reading scriptures, eating vegetarian food, and growing vegetables. I often visit them and think that I am one of them. Here is like a It's like my other home."

Sheng Wuyu listened to him gossip and talk about such a big reason to comfort him, but he only felt sorry for the child who was so young back then, he had already thought of becoming a monk to escape such a thing, his heart was warm, and he held Xuan Xiaodong's hand Hand: "Okay, then let's go to the Buddhist monastery for a vegetarian meal at noon."

Xuan Xiaodong shook her head, "It's New Year's Eve today, and the restaurant in the temple is closed. However, I know they will give away some food today to pray for blessings. Wait a minute."

He walked all the way down the mountain path, with a flexible body, and soon arrived at the gate of the temple, and came back with two boiled corns after a while, and handed them to Sheng Wuyu: "Try it, it's boiled with osmanthus honey. If you have an upset stomach, just try it."

Sheng Wuyu smiled: "If it's free, wouldn't there be a lot of people queuing up? How come you came back so quickly."

Xuan Xiaodong took out a peace talisman from the bag and said: "If you have a sick person, you can donate a lamp, and then a peace talisman will be sent, as well as the food offered by the Buddha. If you eat it, you will be safe for a year. No disease, no disaster. There are not many people now, and there will be many people who will grab the first incense early in the morning, those who seek wealth, those who seek safety, those who seek health, and those who believe in this will all grab the first incense."

It turned out that it was a privilege only given away the money, Sheng Wuyu couldn't help laughing: "Why don't you give me the peace talisman."

Xuan Xiaodong said, "I'm afraid you won't believe this."

Sheng Wuyu took it over, flipped it in his hand, looked at it, put it in his coat pocket properly, nodded and smiled: "Put it away, and take it with you when you have surgery."

Xuan Xiaodong laughed, and Sheng Wuyu slowly broke off the corn and ate it. Sure enough, the corn smelled like sweet-scented osmanthus candy. It will be roasted later, and it will be beautiful and sweet when brushed with honey."

Sheng Wuyu said: "Okay, I'll go back to your farm after the operation."

Xuan Xiaodong saw that he had eaten some and stopped eating, so she took a wet tissue to wipe his hands, and the two got off the mountain together again, and Xuan Xiaodong started the car, drove out of the mountain road, and asked, "Go directly to your house Right?" Everything is loaded on the car, and if we continue to dawdle, I'm afraid that Mr. Sheng will come up with other ideas, after all, he himself is not a firm-willed person... abduct this high-ranking Mr. Sheng from someone else's house It's so tempting to go, to a place that no one knows.

Sheng Wuyu glanced out of the car window and saw the school gate passing by. Xuan Xiaodong didn't give the school a look at all, so he knew that he had no affection or nostalgia for the school he had studied for ten years. He said by the way : "Okay, then go home."

The Linyuan mansion was lively today. When Xuan Xiaodong and Sheng Wuyu entered, there was a card game in the lobby.

As soon as Xuan Xiaodong and Sheng Wuyu entered, they received a warm welcome. Sheng Fuyun was standing on top, holding a thick handful of cards in his hand like a fan. He saw Xuan Xiaodong holding a card in his hand. With two bags full of things, a salivating smile appeared: "The smoked sausage is here! Leilei, take it to the kitchen and ask your mother to cut it."

Xuan Xiaodong: "..." He hadn't recovered from the shock of seeing a big bustling card table as soon as he entered the door, but Sheng Leilei had already stood up and picked up the things in his hand, and put the He pressed his seat: "Brother Xiaodong, you play cards, and I will help in the kitchen."

A handful of cards was stuffed in Xuan Xiaodong's hand, he was a little dazed: "I'll help in the kitchen...I don't know how to play cards..."

The old lady above has already said: "Sitting and sitting, how can you let the guests do it, the sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law in Wuyu are busy in the kitchen, you can't teach you how to play cards."

Xuan Xiaodong looked at the old lady: "Hello, Auntie..."

The old lady had fair skin, and wore dark green translucent emeralds on her chest and wrists. She spoke gracefully as if smiling: "Good boy, you and I are on the side. Hurry up, it's your turn to play the card. The heart is played in front of you. That's Leilei's cousin Sheng Shasha."

A girl with short hair turned her head and smiled sweetly at him: "Brother Xiaodong, let's play cards."

Xuan Xiaodong hastily smiled back, picked up the cards in his hand, and opened them clumsily. He could hardly hold the thick stack of cards. Fortunately, his hand was quite big... The hand of Sheng Sasha next to him was so small, how could he be so flexible? Holding so many cards?How many decks is this?He peeked at a pile of card boxes that had just been unpacked next to him, and roughly counted at least a dozen of them... The card table is huge, so he counted... ten people...

Sheng Wuyu was already beside him, pointing to the card in his hand with his slender fingers: "Play this one."

Xuan Xiaodong threw out the seven of hearts numbly, and Sheng Wuyu smiled and whispered in his ear: "It's easy, I'll teach you, every round the higher card plays, you play whatever suit he plays. What kind of suit, how many cards are played by the opponent, and you also have to play a few cards. Without this suit, you can use the main card to kill him, or you can put the same number of secondary cards to let him pass. The distance is the teammate, you and My mother, and my second brother, and this is Sheng Lele, the son of the second brother... This is Sheng Xixi, Lele's younger sister, and you are in the first team. My father, eldest brother, and Sasha, Zhong Yuan Xiu, this is Lele's wife, and this is Li Kai, a child adopted by the eldest brother, they are in the first team."

Li Kai nodded to Xuan Xiaodong: "I'm older than you, you have to call me brother."

Xuan Xiaodong: "...Brother Li Kai."

Sheng Wuyu smiled meaningfully at Li Kai: "You won't be able to be proud for many days."

Li Kai chuckled: "One more day is fun, isn't it? Brother Xiaodong."

Xuan Xiaodong: ...

Sheng Wuyu ignored him, and continued to talk to Xuan Xiaodong: "Look, this is my elder brother. He put a deck of cards, which means that he has no good cards in his hand and doesn't want to play any cards."

The middle-aged man wearing glasses raised his eyes and glanced at Sheng Wuyu with a half-smile: "I don't have a good card in my hand? You wait."

Sheng Wuyu was not afraid: "Come here."

He stretched out his hand to support Xuan Xiaodong's hand to complete the cards for him, and continued to tell him the rules in a low voice: "Same suit, the one with the higher number of points, can draw three for two, four for one, or a pair of pairs." ... This is the main card. You can use the main card to shoot him without a second card, but it must be in the same form. If the opponent is a pair, you have to use a pair to shoot him. If you are three and two, you have to find three of the same card. The Gaga couple came and shot him."

Xuan Xiaodong's ears were hot, and he was spinning his head to memorize the rules. Sheng Shasha smiled and said: "It's over, brother Xiaodong has my uncle to help, and my uncle is very good at counting cards."

Sheng Fuyun laughed and played out a card: "What's wrong with card counting, Wuyu's luck is always bad, and the cards are bad."

Sheng Xixi has long hair with a daisy hairpin pinned to one side, wears glasses, and speaks softly: "Grandpa, but brother Xiaodong is drawing cards now, I think the next hand must be good."

The old lady nodded and smiled: "That's right, I think Xiaodong is lucky, and Leilei is also unlucky, so it can be regarded as replacing him. Just now, I played cards blindly one by one, and my good cards were taken away. It all fell apart."

Sheng Fuyun said: "You are also a good card? Even if you don't get dismantled by Leilei, you will be killed if you really come out."

The old lady said angrily: "How is that possible? You didn't finish the cubes just now, how did you kill me? There are still one cube three and one cube five, hehe, do you think I'm confused?"

The two elders started bickering, but the players below continued to play cards non-stop, as if it was commonplace, and Sheng Shasha was still adding to the flames: "Oh, there are no husbands and wives in the card game."

Brother Sheng said indifferently: "Do you still want to say that there are no fathers and daughters in the card game?"

Sheng Shasha laughed: "Dad, if the red envelope is bigger, I'll give you some water. You've got spades in your hand."

Brother Sheng said: "You can try it."

Xuan Xiaodong played this round under the guidance of Sheng Wuyu, and finally figured out the rules, seeing everyone shuffled the cards and continued to the next game, he was not used to it, so he turned his head and asked Sheng Wuyu quietly: "Are you coming? "

Sheng Wuyu said: "No need, you draw cards, my hands stink."

On the side, Sheng Shasha started giggling: "Brother Xiaodong, you really don't know, my uncle is really unlucky, he's extremely black, and he always draws the worst cards when he plays games."

Xuan Xiaodong fumbled for the card, Sheng Wuyu squeezed a pistachio, peeled it and handed it to him, and he opened his mouth to eat too, the old lady asked Xuan Xiaodong on it: "Did you go to Hailin Temple in the morning? "

Xuan Xiaodong was taken aback: "How do you know?" He couldn't help but look at himself, could it be the smell of incense?

The old lady smiled mysteriously: "I have a clever plan."

Xuan Xiaodong believed it to be true, and stood in awe, Sheng Xi smiled happily: "Brother Xiaodong is so honest, it was my uncle who took the safe talisman and sent it to our family group, and there are corn cobs, right?"

Xuan Xiaodong: ...he turned his head and glanced at Sheng Wuyu, Sheng Wuyu had a serious face: "It was boring to shoot in the car."

Li Kai insulted him: "It's just to show off."

Sheng Wuyu said indifferently: "Bachelor Li, you have lost love again this year."

Li Kai said awe-inspiringly: "It's fate that hasn't come—quickly play the cards."

Everyone was chatting with each other, Xuan Xiaodong gradually became familiar with the people at the poker table, Sheng Wuyu's eldest brother was taciturn and basically didn't talk much, Sheng's second brother was a little more lively, talking from time to time, The eldest brother only lives with Sheng Shasha and the adopted Li Kai, the second brother has two sons and a daughter, Sheng Lele is married, and his daughter-in-law Zhong Yuanxiu is a teacher, she seems to be pregnant.

He played a circle, saw Sheng Leilei came out with food, and said: "Leilei, come and fight." Then he said to the two elders above: "Uncle and aunt, Wuyu and I will go for a walk."

Sheng Fuyun was concentrating on looking at the cards, and waved: "Go." Then he looked at the time: "Is the smoked sausage cut up? Let's have dinner."

The old lady Sheng said with a smile: "You can go to the Wuyu room to rest for a while, and I will call you for dinner."

Xuan Xiaodong withdrew, Sheng Lele said with great regret: "Hey, it's Sheng Leilei who is unlucky again, Xiaodong is really lucky, they all won."

Sheng Leilei said angrily: "Nonsense, I'm obviously lucky, but you won't cooperate with me."

Sheng Lele said: "People are addicted to vegetables."

Sheng Leilei chuckled: "Are you talking about yourself? Who was the one who asked me to play the game last time and the plane always crashed?" The two brothers fought, and Xuan Xiaodong only thought it was funny, and pushed Sheng Wu Yu walked to the back porch, where he was still dressed and dressed last time, and everyone who came in and out was a dignitary, unattainable, but now there is a big table full of melon seed shells, and Lao Sheng is still waiting Eating bacon sausage instantly catches the breath of the earth.

The poker tables inside are still lively, and Sheng Lele is still complaining about Sheng Leilei: "As soon as you come back, we will lose, why don't we let Xiaodong continue to play, it is said that new players are lucky, Xiaodong really Feeling much better."

Sheng Xixi pursed her lips and smiled: "Brother, don't blame the second brother. Brother Xiaodong is considerate of my uncle. My uncle has been sitting beside him for so long. It is obvious that Brother Xiaodong wants to go out with my uncle to relax. Take a break, you are a straight man."

The old lady smiled on top and said, "Isn't it? Your daughter-in-law has been sitting pregnant for so long, you don't know how to pour water for your daughter-in-law and ask if she is tired, or Xixi knows that taking care of her sister-in-law will help your daughter-in-law I've poured water twice, you're so addicted to this card that your relatives don't recognize it, you should take a break and let Xiao Zhong also rest."

Sheng Lele turned her head in a daze: "Ah, Yuan Xiu, are you tired? Usually we play games much longer than this, so what's so tiring sitting around?"

Zhong Yuanxiu hurriedly smiled and said: "I'm not tired." In fact, she didn't play a few times. She is still young and not heavy, and she doesn't sit all the time. She moves her body from time to time. Get addicted and play all night.But she knew that the old lady was worried that she had thoughts in her heart, so she comforted her, and she also felt it.

Sheng Wuyu's legs and feet were inconvenient, and he couldn't move by himself. Xuan Xiaodong really took Sheng Wuyu to heart.The elder who met her spouse for the first time is still a nobleman. In fact, she and Xuan Xiaodong are in a similar situation. It is reasonable to keep the old man happy and have fun with the old man, but the other party obviously puts Sheng Wuyu first. , the old lady was very happy.

Sheng Fuyun smiled and put down the cards: "Okay, okay, I think it's time to eat, let's relax for a while, you are all good boys, you are all good boys." His eyes had already seen the smoked food on the table. Intestine, smiling all over his face.

Sheng Xixi got up and smiled, "I'll go to the kitchen and help."

Sheng Shasha said, "I'm going too." She got up and went out hand in hand with Xixi, whispering and laughing all the way.

Sheng Lele was a little embarrassed, and walked to Zhong Yuanxiu's side: "Are you tired? Let's go back to the room to rest for a while?"

Zhong Yuanxiu laughed: "Okay." Then he whispered: "Look, I only enjoyed your tenderness and consideration because of my uncle's blessing. It seems that the old man and the old lady are very satisfied with Brother Xiaodong. "

Sheng Lele rubbed the back of her head: "Aren't grandparents always very kind? We used to go to Huanjing to celebrate the New Year, and this year is the first time to celebrate the New Year in Jinghai. This is also the first time you see our family to celebrate the New Year. We celebrate the New Year every year. As for the card players, the two elders are very friendly, they also like to play cards! Don't be nervous, just say if you feel uncomfortable, they won't care about the juniors."

Zhong Yuanxiu let out a heck and didn't bother to talk to this straight man. The whole family started to set up the poker table in the afternoon. The old lady didn't take a nap when she usually took a nap, and the old man didn't watch the news if he usually wanted to. They all played poker together with the whole family. , He Ze, this idiot of my own, thought that the two old brands were addicted to it?