Now that it was getting brighter, Mr. Qiao discovered that the mansion was originally located on a peninsula. The peninsula was surrounded by water on three sides, where Qingshui River and Huanhua Creek met, and the scenery was extremely beautiful.

There are two entrances to the peninsula, one is the auto repair shop behind it, and the other is the stone bridge from outside Du Fu Thatched Cottage.

What you come in from the auto repair shop is actually the back door of the mansion. The large platform and corridors you see after entering should actually be a traditional stage. On the lotus pond in front of the stage, there are two small stone bridges in the shape of "and" connecting the two ponds.

The pavilion is actually a place for watching plays.

The whole forms the back garden of the mansion.

The peninsula-shaped small park in front of the mansion is the front.

In other words, the stone archway that must be passed from the thatched cottage to here after crossing the stone bridge is the real main entrance of the mansion.

From there, stone embankments and stone railings were built along the two rivers. Now is the flood season, and the clear river water is already very close to the stone railings.

In addition to the small riverside road surrounding the peninsula, there is also an uphill "mountain path" that leads to the lawn in front of the mansion.

The two of them had now crossed the lawn, walked down the path, passed a gabled moon gate, and walked into a "small park" composed of winter jasmine, hibiscus, gardenia, and willow trees.

Under a ginkgo tree beside the stone fence near the river, Zhou Zhi and Mr. Qiao followed the singing and found Guan Tingting who was practicing her voice here.

"Tingting, let's go, it's time to eat." Zhou Zhi shouted.

"Brother Jiuzi, will you buy all this land?"

"Not entirely." Zhou Zhi said: "From the drawings, the land within the ditch on the road near the river is the land attached to the mansion, while the ditch, road, and the dam and stone fence outside are managed by the river department."

"That's so big!" Guan Tingting said.

"It's okay. The foundation of the mansion is more than 200 square meters, the garden at the back is more than 300 square meters, and the front is more than 400 square meters. The total is about one and a half acres, which is actually not as big as the winery that Sister Xiaojuan'er bought."

“The winery is nowhere as beautiful as this one!”

"That's because you didn't come last year." Zhou Zhi looked around: "When the Spring Festival came, this area was dilapidated and gloomy. The lotus pond was almost full of mud, and the osmanthus trees were almost covered with wild vines. Now these

Everything has been repaired, as well as the stone steps, many of the stones have been replaced, and the surrounding gardenias, Milanese, and evergreens have all been trimmed... This place has undergone a major renovation."

"It means you have to be rich to live in such a house!" Guan Tingting is at the age where she doesn't understand anything, but she thinks she understands everything. She thinks she has given this matter a perfect definition.

"When you have time to talk, think more about how to pass the interview." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "But Tingting, you are in the right state, tight but not tight, loose but not straddling. People who have won awards are indeed different.

.”

"When did I win an award?" Guan Tingting wondered.

"You won the first place in national singing in the first karaoke competition in Jiachuan County. Do you think it's easy to win?"

"cut!"

Taking Guan Tingting back to the mansion, Guan's mother smiled and said: "It's annoying because the house is so big. We don't need to make a show and just have breakfast here, right?"

"That's right, Mama Guan's meat pie can't wait to be delivered to the living room. She always eats it by the pot!"

One sentence made Guan's mother laugh: "When I was a child, I was really not afraid of getting angry."

The preparation of meatloaf is very simple, just ferment the dough, season with dried tofu, wild onions, five-spice powder, soy sauce and sesame oil, wrap it up and fry it until done.

At least that's what Guan Ma said, but if you don't count the glutinous rice flour dumplings and pig cakes, the dough that needs to be fermented is Zhou Zhi's painstaking work. He has reproduced Guan Ma's meat pie several times, but the result... the result is...

not too good.

"Not bad!" Zhou Zhi was full of praise after eating: "It's been a long time since I've eaten Guan Ma's meatloaf, it's still so delicious!"

"The elbow is just an exaggeration. It's just a makeshift, and I didn't even have time to make the layers." Guan Ma was very happy to hear this.

"Speaking of which, the biggest trouble here is buying food." Zhou Zhi did consider this issue: "There is also throwing away garbage."

"I've been thinking about it this morning. If I want to live here, I have to go out on the weekends, prepare all the food for the week, and have a good relationship with the soldiers at the auto repair shop, and throw the garbage into their trash cans."

"Yes." Zhou Zhi pondered: "The other thing is to get a kitchen waste compost bin, raise earthworms, and try to make organic matter into flower fertilizer."

Just as they were chatting, they heard the car horn blaring outside the Moon Gate at the auto repair shop. Zhou Zhi stood up and said, "They should be looking for us."

When they came to the Moon Gate, they saw stationmaster Liu and Jiang Wu standing together, seeming to be reporting on their work. Jiang Shuyi was standing on the side wearing a thin dress. Her temperament and image were both excellent, which made several truck repairmen in the distance

The soldiers kept looking this way.

"Brother Wu! Shuyi!" Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Brother Wu doesn't have to go to work today?"

"I'm just at work." Jiang Wu looked at Zhou Zhi and said, "You can do it, but now you use your little sister to control me."

"How dare I?" Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Have you had breakfast? We've just started over there, let's have some together?"

"I wanted to eat before coming back, but someone rushed me..."

"Brother!" Jiang Shuyi blushed.

"Then hurry up and have breakfast first." Zhou Zhi said, "Mama Guan made the meatloaf, which is delicious. After eating, come back and talk about work with Stationmaster Liu."

"We've almost finished talking." Stationmaster Liu smiled and said, "There's no rush, you can talk more, you can talk more."

This was Jiang Shuyi's first time here. When she entered the Moon Gate, she stood on the edge of the stage corridor and saw the large clear pool: "It's so beautiful here!"

"This pond is the most satisfactory." Zhou Zhi said: "The project is also the largest, right? It's really troublesome for Brother Wu. There are also those flowers and trees on the peninsula. Transplanting and pruning are not small projects. How much decoration money will be spent soon?

Brother Wu, tell me the number."

"You're a good boy, and you know that this pond is the most expensive." Jiang Wu said with a smile: "Actually, I didn't even know there were such tricks. The previous nursing home was just a simple lotus pond, and it had to be filled with water every summer.

Pumping and changing the water will keep it green for a week."

"This time, the island country sent some large koi from the Showa era to Wuhou Temple, and it also came with a koi pond. The pond and equipment came as a set. Only then did we realize that the fish pond can still be played like that!"

"It just so happened that the unit that built that koi pond was originally one of our subordinate units. Now it has been separated and became Party B. I thought that I couldn't just forget it after learning it, so I asked them to practice here and at Beimen Sanatorium."

"Including the landscaping. It's newly renovated over there, and there are a lot of redundant flowers and trees. I think of that witticism you said before..."

"The new painting on the small tree wall is not old. This person must be from the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Chapter completed!