Mid-Levels Farm

Since the roast suckling pig was successfully roasted in the fireplace oven, the manor has quickly entered the era of barbecue, maple syrup roast chicken, lemongrass grilled fish, roast duck stuffed with figs, beer roast whole lamb, garlic roast goose, roast turkey... …Xuan Xiaodong tirelessly took the cooks to try all the meat that looked like it could be grilled.

In short, after eating for a week, everyone's face became rosy and bright. Even Shi Jiqing, who occasionally came to report work, also ate a lot, and was a little nervous: "I think my pants are tight." She looked at Xuan Xiaodong , very envious: "Mr. Xuan! Why are you still so thin!"

Xuan Xiaodong said: "Yeah, run five kilometers with weights + one hour rock climbing + swim [-] meters."

Shi Jiqing's face turned green: "Every day?"

Xuan Xiaodong said, "Every day."

Later, Xiaoyan started giggling when she heard it, and even Yan Ruifeng couldn't help laughing: "This is a very basic amount of training."

Sheng Wuyu said with a smile: "I haven't counted the amount of exercise he does every day to grow vegetables and replant the land. He replanted the vegetable field in our backyard by himself."

He glanced at Xuan Xiaodong and wanted to laugh again, including the amount of exercise he carried up and down with his 1.8-meter-high adult man, accompanying him in the gym for equipment rehabilitation exercises and swimming with him in the swimming pool, all these were very important to Xuan Xiaodong. For Dong, it wasn't considered a serious amount of exercise at all, it was purely to accompany him.

Shi Jiqing said: "Forget it... I'll go on a diet..." She looked at the golden and crispy roast goose on the table in front of her, and the fried duck liver as soft as chocolate, and she wanted to cry without tears: " I will lose weight when I return home."

Xuan Xiaodong smiled and put a winter melon cup in front of her. The sapphire-like winter melon is filled with delicious shrimp paste, crab meat, scallops, dried bamboo shoots, lotus seeds, and shredded ham. Melting and sweet, delicious and glutinous, Shi Jiqing sighed: "It's too difficult to lose weight."

Xuan Xiaodong finely shredded cabbage, mixed it with sweet and sour and a little mustard: "Small vegetables."

Shi Jiqing quickly picked up two chopsticks of shredded cabbage and stuffed it into her mouth. After eating buttered foie gras just now, she also ate the special cold cabbage shredded with these few chopsticks. Sigh: "As long as it tastes good, there is sugar in it, the evil sugar."

Everyone laughed.

After the meal, Shi Jiqing went to the conference room with Li Kai and several project managers, and reported the project situation with Sheng Wuyu.

Xuan Xiaodong went to the flower field alone, and he slowly shuttled among the flower seedlings to check the blooming situation.

"Spring is not suitable for transplanting roses. Why do you have to plant this type of rose? Is there any special significance?"

Xuan Xiaodong looked up and saw Yan Ruifeng, but he wasn't too surprised. During this period of time, he was used to being followed by his team members wherever he went, and occasionally Yan Ruifeng would follow him.

He said: "Well... Peach Snow Mountain, Sheng Wuyu used this kind of flower when he confessed his love. I thought it was a rose before, but I realized later that it was actually a specially bred champagne-colored rose. Most of the roses sold in the market are roses."

Yan Ruifeng nodded: "That's right, it's very commemorative. But when the matter of the Jialan Kingdom is over, won't these flowers be taken care of again?"

Xuan Xiaodong pointed to the sprinkler next to it: "No, the automatic sprinkler machine is installed, and the whole process can be remotely operated and set through the terminal, and someone will take care of the manor together when the time comes."

He touched the few apricot-colored flower bones with some pity: "Originally, it is true that roses should not be transplanted in spring, but after transplanting, some flowers are still scattered. According to the horticulturist's instructions, all buds should be cut off, so that They have more time to accumulate energy, and they will bloom better and more abundantly next year. However, Sheng Wuyu said that after transplanting, they were not acclimatized to the soil and water, but these flowers still bloomed with all their strength. It’s not easy, why cut it off, let’s keep the flowers for viewing, we don’t want to sell flowers for profit next year, so let them all bloom and take good care of them.”

Yan Ruifeng said: "It's such a pity, so why bother to transplant it? Originally, if it is well pruned, it will bloom bigger and more flowers next year, but because I want to see flowers, it limits its development."

Xuan Xiaodong was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't want to have a pointless argument with Yan Ruifeng, so he just smiled: "But it wants to bloom this year, and it's not this one that will bloom next year."

Yan Ruifeng said: "Sheng Wuyu spends so much money to keep these flowers in captivity, but hasn't he planned your future with him? What about you? You are energetic and healthy now. You take care of him. One day in the future, he will recover." Walking, do you no longer need your care and company? You have completely given up on self-improvement in such a leisurely day, and the training these days is just to protect him, so one day he no longer needs your protection? "

Xuan Xiaodong's face darkened, but he still suppressed his temper: "Captain, do you know how many small fish can be hatched once the swallow fish lays eggs?"

Yan Ruifeng was taken aback: "What?" Why do I need to know how many eggs the swallowfish lay?

Xuan Xiaodong continued to ask him: "Do you know the difference between spring leeks and summer leeks? Do you know whether seven-star ladybugs are herbivorous or carnivorous? Do you know the difference between roses and rose fruits? Do you know that fish How did the soup become milky white?"

He took a step forward, with a smile in his eyes: "Do you know the best translated version of Yeats's "The Wedding Dress of Heaven"?"

Yan Ruifeng was at a loss for words: "What a mess..." How did spring leeks jump to Yeats' poems?

Xuan Xiaodong said: "The knowledge that is useless to you, do you think it is not an improvement? Captain, you are narrow-minded."

Yan Ruifeng: ...

Xuan Xiaodong pinched a freshly pruned flower, the flower was as big as a bowl, and the petals were as soft as silk. He waved it in front of Yan Ruifeng's eyes: "Is it beautiful? This flower is useless to you, but it is still beautiful, and it is not It needs your approval to be beautiful, and it is beautiful because it is beautiful."

Xuan Xiaodong stood up with a playful face: "I didn't exist because I was useful to anyone. It took me many years to realize this truth and break free from endless pleasing others, captain... I am very grateful to you for teaching I taught me, but now it seems that you don't understand."

"Xuan Xiaodong doesn't exist for anyone, and she doesn't have to prove the meaning of her existence in the needs of others, so there is no Sheng Wuyu who doesn't need me, and I will be very miserable and leave in a dark place. I lost my future, wealth, love, etc. Waiting for something so precious in your eyes, so I am so miserable? Must be old without end? Must be a waste of talent and time..."

Xuan Xiaodong felt a little sad: "I am alone, and I have a good life. Of course, I am very happy with Sheng Wuyu now. Because I really saw different scenery and saw different things because of him. The same knowledge. More importantly, he has always respected my world."

He looked at Yan Ruifeng: "The captain also opened my horizons back then, learned a lot, and performed many tasks. I was very happy in the days of the cold wolf, and I am also very grateful."

"But after leaving the cold wolf, I had a good life. I went to see a wider world by myself, and returned to the barren hills left by my ancestors to try to cultivate and sow seeds. I am very fulfilled every day, so you don't have to worry about it. I feel regretful and sad because you use your values ​​to judge my life condescendingly, thinking that I have lost my future, dignity, glory and other external things, and self-righteously think that this is a life without value and meaning. Arrogance is also unnecessary, I don't need other people's life guidance."

"I totally understand what I'm doing now."

Xuan Xiaodong looked at Yan Ruifeng, he didn't respond, but he was always serious, showing neither emotion nor anger.So he nodded slightly, turned and walked out of the flower field.

He went around the gardens again, and when he returned to the main villa, he found that Shi Jiqing had left and Sheng Wuyu was swimming in the pool by himself.

The water in the swimming pool on the roof is clear. Sheng Wuyu's upper body is still wearing a swimming ring. He is lying on his back with his eyes closed and trying to beat the water with his legs. His slender body is shining white in the transparent water. Xuan Xiaodong is standing by the pool Kneeling down, there was some disapproval on his face: "Why didn't you call me? It's so dangerous."

Sheng Wuyu opened his eyes and smiled slightly: "I saw you talking with Captain Yan upstairs in the flower field. I thought you would be back soon, so I didn't call you."

Xuan Xiaodong felt a little uncomfortable: "I'll come down."

He turned around and went to the room to change his swimming trunks. Sheng Wuyu stared at his back, his eyes darkened.

It's true that he couldn't hear what they said at such a distance, but there happened to be Li Kai next to him, who could read lips.

Li Kai asked him if he wanted to know what they were talking about, he said no, Li Kai looked at it for a while and then smiled: "I really envy you, Wuyu, how come you are so lucky."

Li Kai looked at him enviously for a few times before leaving. He still couldn't hold back, and adjusted the monitoring system. The flower fields, greenhouses, and fruit forests were all equipped with monitoring systems. The accuracy was quite high, and it was convenient for remote operation. He could easily Just listened to the audience.

Now he doesn't know what it's like in his heart. He not only likes such an independent and transparent Xuan Xiaodong, but also regrets that he is not attached to himself or dependent on himself.The unique experience in the past gave birth to the unique, independent and sober Xuan Xiaodong now.

After Xuan Xiaodong left, he clearly saw the expression on Yan Ruifeng's face.

It's love to the depths, it's what you can't ask for, it's the regret of knowing that you can't control and own a person, he understands it too well.

With the soft sound of water, Xuan Xiaodong did a few warm-up moves on the shore, then got into the water, swam to his side, checked the condition of his limbs, and then said with some relief: "Next time, someone must be by the side. You can only go into the water with protection."

He smiled slightly: "Understood, you swim a few laps first to warm up your body, otherwise it's not good."

Xuan Xiaodong nodded, turned over and swam quickly in the pool, like a vigorous white shark, or like an eagle flapping in the blue sky.

Beauty, full of vigor and wildness, is more desirable because it cannot be controlled.