As soon as I went up the mountain, there was a cool mountain wind blowing, which became colder and colder. It rained for three days in one breath on the mountain, which made people feel refreshed and cool. Look at my apartment on this mountain. It is located on the hillside of South Street. In the green forest, there is a small house with a white net cover, and the blue eaves are like a bright sky. A cabin is not a villa. Although there are many foreign villas on the mountain that combine old and new foreign soil, they are not. It looks like two floors, one is the kitchen, the other is the living room, one room and one bathroom, lined up like a small seasoning box. It looks like a building, but there are no stairs. When you walk out of the living room door, you will keep your feet on the ground and the kitchen will "grow" along the hillside, and a stone step road will enter the kitchen door. The landlord casually gave a WiFi note with the domain name "There is a cabin". I can't help laughing, hehe, very thoughtful and stylish.
The weather is fine, and the leaves, grass and trees on the mountain are all dark green. There are two tall French buttonwood trees in front of the hut. Peony is planted under the trees, and flowers and magpies dressed in black and white are often singing on the branches, with sweet voices. On the stone steps leading to the kitchen, there is a small garden built by the landlord with stones, which is planted with hydrangea, impatiens, azaleas and Belamcanda, also called impatiens. When I first moved into the hut, hydrangeas were in full bloom with purple and blue flowers, like clouds. I pointed to the flat green leaves and said, I know this is Phalaenopsis. The landlord Gillian laughed at my mistake and said that it was an expensive Chinese herbal medicine. After entering August, the hydrangea-like flowers withered, but blossomed again after being shot dry. It is golden, and the bud is like an umbrella, which is very special. Impatiens are also in bloom, although there are only a few, but they are bright red. Fennel has the most green leaves in the small garden. I have never seen this kind of plant. I thought it was grass, so I wanted to help pull it out when I was free. Hearing this, Gillian quickly told me that it was fennel. When you cook fish and scrambled eggs, it's delicious. I feel that I really turn a blind eye to plants and nature, so I dare not talk nonsense when I see every grass and tree on the mountain.
In the morning, I am often awakened by silence, but I don't want to get up. I continue to stick to my habit of sleeping late. I lay down and listened to birds chirping, cicadas chirping, insects chirping and dogs barking, and the sound of the wind blowing through the Woods and blowing off leaves. It's too quiet, only the original sound of nature. Do you find it incredible and difficult to adapt? Yes, we have been oxidized by the noise and waste gas of the city, our eardrums have been cocooned, and our hearts and lungs are as hard as iron. When the gentle touch of nature touches our senses and nerves, we can't help shivering and marveling. Being too happy will wake people up.
Husband Lao Jia got up early, picked up the painting folder and bag, and went out to sketch happily. Every day, he is determined to finish 200 paintings in 50 days. I think this is due to congenital ADHD. At home, he was a "khanate" who slept for a hundred years, sweating all day and watching the people of China wake up.
Meditation in the morning is also pleasant, as Thoreau said, "Every morning is a happy invitation, which makes my life as simple and pure as nature."
When you have enough sleep and beds, you can get up. Take a comb at hand, stand in front of the hut like a village girl, comb your hair, smell the grass, and wear a hair band on your wrist. Comb your hair in a foggy morning and you will get wet. A breeze will help you and make you feel that you are enjoying the essence of natural hair care. Walking down the steps to the kitchen to cook and eat, ordinary fireworks have a sense of ceremony, as if to eat. What is more ceremonial is the ancient well jishan spring that goes down to the bottom of the slope. I often go to Well 79 because it is not far from the cabin. It is said that there are more than 0/00 drinking wells, large and small/kloc. The water quality of the well under the morning peak is the best, followed by the well next to the lotus pond in the World Square. The water is shallow and clear, and there are cups hanging by the well, which are within reach. Well 79 is very hidden. There is a stone house on the well, and the slate beside the well is covered with moss, wet and shiny. I bought a plastic bucket specially to fetch water. Every time I hang the bucket into the well, I shake it gently and ripple, and a bucket full of clear and bright water is lifted up.
I came back from pumping water on Shizishan Road, boiled a cup of green Maojian tea in the mountain spring, and sat in front of the hut, holding a book in my hand. The tea was sweet and refreshing, and I was already on cloud nine.
Occasionally I looked up, only to see yellow and green leaves falling lightly from the sky, like butterflies. Soon there were patches of fallen leaves on the ground in front of the hut, which made people feel the urge to sweep them. It turns out that trees will lose their leaves in midsummer, so it is better not to wait for autumn and let it grow freely. Leave if you don't want to stay in the tree, and the earth will accept it at any time.
The landlord Gillian sometimes comes to tell me that we can dry the sheets and clothes under the sand not far away, as well as the clothesline she tied. She also told me that she planted leeks on the small slope to cut, scramble eggs or steamed buns. On the first day up the mountain, Gillian took me to the vegetable shop in Nanjie to buy food. There are two vegetable shops on the mountain. Gillian told me which one is cheap and affordable. He took me to the grain and oil store to buy rice and oil. All the way down, the basic daily necessities are all together. Gillian cut her hair short, with a natural chestnut wave and two dimples on her smiling face. I told Lao Jia, do you think Gillian looks like a human being? Like who? Tao Yuling, the film actor of Six Fort Kings. Lao Jia said, I don't know Tao Yuling. It seems that he knows all the movie actors in the world.
Gillian is not young but definitely not old. When we came, her son drove us up the hill. My son majored in electronic maintenance. He went to work in the city at the foot of the mountain. He sent us up the mountain for our holiday and installed a TV cable for the hut. Gillian's mobile phone is not smooth, so ask her son to help adjust the settings. Gillian likes photography and is a member of the photographer's club. When we were in the mountains, we often saw scenic photos of Jigong Mountain in the circle of WeChat friends. Most of them are clouds, the sky and the sunset glow. The clouds are steaming and the clouds are magnificent. I praised her for her good shooting. Gillian said that they were all taken by mobile phones, and it was better to use a camera. When my son comes back, help me pound it on my mobile phone, and it will look good! You look very proud. Gillian's husband Agui also thinks his wife's photography skills are very good. Soon after we met, he told us that his wife was a member of the Photographers Association, and called up his wife's sea of clouds from his mobile phone and said, Look, her work! I can't envy it. Lao Jia never puts my composition on his mobile phone at any time, let alone shows it to others.
Gillian's voice is not high, showing the gentleness of middle-aged women. I made two phone calls with her and immediately decided to rent this cabin. Gillian's job is to be a cook in a company. I glared at her, and Gillian said, I like cooking, and I can cook.
Looking around the kitchen of my cabin downstairs, there are not many pots and pans, but everything is clean and practical, the chopping board is light and thin, the kitchen knife is sharp, and the range hood is brand-new, which shows the technical requirements and shrewd vision of a good chef. It's the first time I heard a woman with red face and bright eyes say: I like cooking, I can cook! Therefore, whenever I happen to meet Gillian when I am cooking, I will be so nervous that I will be at a loss, and the pots and pans will jingle. My wife is afraid of meeting someone superior!
Gui is honest, his face is covered with hair and beard, and people will remember him when they see him. The network TV signal in the engine room is not good, and I can't figure out this electrical knowledge, so I have to tell Gillian. Two days later, Gui brought a cable TV mechanic from the mountain to pull the cable TV line. He used a drilling rig to drill holes in the window frame. I'm a little nervous. I saw Gui give the mechanic hundreds of dollars. We only rented it for two months, but the cost is a whole year. I said, actually, I don't have to watch TV, just have WiFi. Gui said, nothing, just install cable. Before leaving, Pell handed me some tender cucumbers, saying that they had just been picked in his garden. Holding this prickly cucumber, I am getting more and more uneasy.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and there are more and more leaves in front of the hut, and the leaves begin to turn yellow. We will go down the mountain in two weeks. Today, Gillian asked us to see another new house in their house that is being renovated. Cross South Street and walk down a long ramp, which is a new building. Although it is a stone wall, it is a standard unit. Gillian is on the third floor, and workers are installing cabinets in the new house. It's still a small apartment, just fifty or sixty square meters. Soon it will be another new "small house with family". Small two rooms and one living room, Gillian only put a bed in one room, and the other small room was designed as a study with a new computer desk. Gillian showed me this study specially. Remembering that she sent me a video of a small house when renting a house, I asked if I could set up a writing desk in the living room so that I could send things when I wanted to write. Gillian readily promised. When we checked in, the cabin really had a desk with a vase with silk flower in it. ...
Gillian took us to the roof terrace again, saying that we could watch the sunset every day here. Sure enough, the vast sea of clouds immediately surged in front of us, filled with mist, the sky was gray and blue, and the light struggled in the clouds. Gillian suddenly said excitedly, look, look, red light and red clouds rose that day! I looked hard, and after a long time, I saw a thin thread of carmine floating in the sky, looming. Gillian has taken out her mobile phone and said, I want to shoot this sea of clouds, this red cloud and this light! After the continuous shooting sound, Gillian looked at the distant sky and said, there, on the other side of the sky, there will be a rainbow. ...
I looked at Gillian, who was bathed in the sunshine and looking forward to it, and I was moved inexplicably. I'm thinking that even ordinary people can live a life full of flavor and confidence. As long as you are kind, confident and discerning, everything will get better and better.