Li Rui drove along Xiao Wang and drove through Qingshanquan Town along a narrow asphalt road into the mountains. It took him nearly two hours to reach this small mountain village called Hongshan.

Chen Weidong's house is on a small hill behind the village. A concrete road winds up, and the car can drive all the way to the yard. The yard is really big, covering an area of ​​more than two acres, and a small European-style villa.

After getting off the car, Xiao Wang took out a basket from the trunk of his car, which contained various frozen foods and some fresh vegetables. Chen Weidong was quite thoughtful.

Xiao Wang moved the basket into the house, and Li Rui and Yu Meixia followed him in. The living room was spacious, with all the furniture, sofas and electrical appliances, and they were cleaned very clean. Yu Meixia looked around and kept stuttering, "I really didn't expect there was such a good house here. In your words, the landlord Laocai's home is not so good."

"Why are landlords so luxurious? The landlords lived a life that was not as good as ordinary people today." Li Rui said with a smile.

"Of course, the landlord couldn't watch TV at that time, nor did he use tap water, let alone phone calls." Yu Meixia smiled happily, bright and beautiful.

Xiao Wang walked in from behind the house, "Director Li, I put the food in the refrigerator. The boiler behind it has been burned and it will be warmed up in an hour at most. If nothing is wrong, I will go back first."

"It's okay, it's okay, please trouble you Xiao Wang." Although he was a driver, he asked him to run away for the New Year. Li Rui was also a little disgusted and sent him out. He also took out a Hongta Mountain from the car and stuffed it to him.

It takes a certain amount of time to get the temperature of the household boiler. The room is cold. Fortunately, there is a glass greenhouse on the platform on the second floor, which is full of green inside. It is just a little tasteful, and it is all about making money trees. There is a small round table in the middle, and there are a few rattan chairs next to it. The sun is very bright and it is very warm to sit inside.

Yu Meixia quickly cooked a pot of water, brewed two cups of tea, sat down and said with regret: "If I had known that the conditions here were so good, I would take your coffee machine with me, sit here and bask in the sun, and drink coffee."

Li Rui picked up the cup and blew the tea leaves and smiled and said, "Drinking tea is not bad! This is a top-notch Longjing, which is much more expensive than coffee."

There is only this house on the hillside. Sitting in the greenhouse on the second floor, you can see the view through the glass. You can see the road at the foot of the mountain from afar. Behind is a valley with a large area of ​​several hundred acres, planted with peach trees, and a large pond was dug in the middle. If the peach blossoms bloom in spring, the pond is rippling green, which is really a paradise. Unfortunately, it is the middle of winter. The peach trees stand barely in the cold wind, and the pond has already formed a thick layer of ice. However, the surrounding ridges are lush bamboo forests, full of greenery, which feels very comfortable. There are several pavilions made of logs in the mountains, covered with thatch, and neatly trimmed on all sides, which are obviously carefully cared for by artificially.

Yu Meixia covered the teacup with her hands, looked at everything in front of her, and sighed sincerely: "It's so beautiful! No wonder Mr. Chen said how good his hometown is. But he said that he doesn't come to live often, just in summer to avoid the heat."

"Is that so? You can enjoy it." Li Rui lay on the rattan chair and sighed immediately after hearing this.

"It sounds so ugly! I kindly borrowed a house for you to live in, but you still curse me." After coming to Pengcheng for a long time, Yu Meixia also knew what the meaning of dog days was. Her face turned slightly red and she said coquettishly.

"Sorry! Alas, I have been working at the grassroots level for a long time and I have learned a lot. I think I am a graduate of Yanjing University, so why would I say such vulgar words?" Li Rui deliberately pretended to be upset.

"So shameless, don't be so shameless!" Yu Meixia smiled and beat Li Rui's arm.

After hitting her, it was very light and there was no feeling. When she hit her second time, Li Rui reached out to grab her hand and pulled it with the flow. "Ah!" Yu Meixia rushed forward unsteadily. Li Rui's other hand subconsciously reached out to block it, but Yu Meixia still crashed into his arms. The hand that stretched in front of her chest grabbed a large ball of softness, and pinched it, with extremely amazing elasticity.

"Ah!" The temperature in the greenhouse was quite high. Yu Meixia opened the zipper of the down sweater. Li Rui grabbed the wool sweater on her chest. When the penalty area was attacked, she immediately exclaimed.

The feel is so good! Li Rui couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Hearing Yu Meixia's exclamation, he immediately let go of his hand without showing any expression and held her other arm, "Be careful, don't fall!"

Yu Meixia's pretty face was flushed, and her breasts, which had been scratched by Li Rui just now, were slightly swollen. At this time, she lost the sharpness of the past and just whispered: "What are you doing, you!"

"Sorry, I'm afraid you will fall."

Looking at Li Rui's calm look, Yu Meixia couldn't help feeling a little angry and pretended to be quite eloquent! But she was embarrassed to say such a shameful thing, stood firm and got rid of the Lushan claws. She stroked her scattered hair. In order to avoid embarrassment, she deliberately changed the topic and said: "It's getting late, what should we eat tonight?"

In fact, Li Rui felt a little embarrassed. Looking at the green bamboo forest on the surrounding ridges, he had an idea and said, "Why don't we go to the mountain to dig some winter bamboo shoots and have hot pot tonight."

Hearing digging winter bamboo shoots really aroused Yu Meixia's interest, "Winter bamboo shoots? Are there winter bamboo shoots here?"

"Of course, let's go up the mountain." Li Rui said with a smile.

Li Rui went to the small house where the miscellaneous items were placed behind and found a small hoe. Anyone with bamboo forest next to him usually had this kind of hoe that specializes in digging bamboo shoots. He walked along the path behind the house and went up the mountain. In the bamboo forest that covered the sky and the sun, especially in winter, there were few other plants. The ground was covered with thick yellow bamboo leaves, and it made a rustling sound when walking on it.

Yu Meixia, who was excited, couldn't wait to search, but after searching around, she couldn't find a winter bamboo shoot. "Where did the winter bamboo shoots come from? Why can't I find them?"

Li Rui looked at her with a smile and said, "The winter bamboo shoots are all underground now and have not emerged yet. Of course you can't find them when you look at them like this."

"It hasn't grown, so how can I dig it?"

Li Rui has a lot of experience in digging winter bamboo shoots. The Tuanshan behind Pengcheng Institute of Technology is densely filled with bamboo forests. Li Rui has followed his uncle Li Wenjun to the mountain to dig bamboo shoots since he was a child. Especially the delicious winter bamboo shoots in winter are the best food to satisfy his cravings.

"Bamboo shoots are all grown on bamboo whips, you have to look for them along the bamboo whips." Li Rui guided Yu Meixia, "Look, there are a little bulge here. When the bamboo leaves are broken open, there are cracks in the soil below, as if everything is about to be pushed out below, right? Then we dig the soil next to it." Li Rui said while digging the soil with a small hoe, and indeed a pointed bamboo shoot tip was exposed below.

"Really, there are really bamboo shoots underneath!" Yu Meixia clapped her hands like a little girl and said.

Li Rui continued to dig down with a small hoe, and it seemed that a very small tip of bamboo shoots was exposed, but when he digged all the soil and found that it was still a big guy, more than one pound. Li Rui broke the bamboo shoots, put them in the bag, and handed the small hoe in his hand to Yu Meixia and said, "I saw it clearly just now? If you go find another one, then we will eat it tonight."

"Okay, let me try." Yu Meixia said excitedly.

Li Rui walked to the pavilion next to him with bamboo shoots, sat down on the log stool inside, lit a cigarette, and carefully looked at the pavilion. The foundation below was concrete, the columns and top were all made of wooden, and there was a thick thatch on it, which had a bit of ancient flavor. It would be very cool and comfortable to sit here in summer.

Yu Meixia was spinning like a headless fly on the hillside below, and seemed to be muttering something in her mouth. She squatted down from time to time and flipped over the bamboo leaves on the ground and scattered it with a small hoe, but she stood up disappointed every time.

After a while, she seemed to have lost confidence and shouted loudly in the direction of the pavilion: "Li Rui, why can't I find it? There are either stones or nothing under it."

"No matter how patient you look for it, you can find it as long as you follow the method I just said." Li Rui shouted loudly with a smile.

Yu Meixia had no choice but to look for her again. After a while, she heard her shout happily: "I found it, I found one."

"Then you dig it out." Li Rui sat in the pavilion like an old man and shouted at her.

"Yeah!" But Yu Meixia was also very novel. She responded and picked up the hoe and started digging.

She had never done such a thing. It took a lot of effort to throw the winter bamboo shoots out of the soil. Her delicate palms had already reached a scorching pain. Only then did Li Rui walk over with the bag.

"Look!" Yu Meixia picked up the trophy and showed off to Li Rui. After working for a long time, her face was flushed and her nose was covered with small beads of sweat, which looked very beautiful. Although the winter bamboo shoot she dug was not as good as the one just now, it was seven or eight taels. After putting the winter bamboo shoots in her pocket, she quickly blew the painful palms.

"Have your palms been worn? Let me see." Li Rui quickly said with concern, and at the same time stretched out his hand to take her hand and take a closer look.

"It's okay, it's okay! I'm not bad, I've never done such a thing before, so I'm a little uncomfortable." With the lesson I taught in the greenhouse before, Yu Meixia was still vigilant against Li Rui, so she dared not let him touch him again, so she hid her hand behind her.

Li Rui held the air and had to say embarrassedly: "Two are enough to eat, it's almost dark, let's go back."

It was early in winter, and it was already dark when they came back. Yu Meixia's hands hurt, and Li Rui took the initiative to take on the task of peeling bamboo shoots and washing vegetables.
Chapter completed!