Deep courtyard

When Huang Yuan got up in the morning, Huang's mother had already prepared breakfast, rice with pickled mustard and salted eggs. Huang Yuan observed carefully, her calm expression was no different from yesterday, but Lei Lei ate the rice without a mouthful. The little face was full of hesitation and sadness that could not go away.

"Mom, Lei Lei, let's go for an outing today."

Huang's mother's chopsticks only paused for a moment, and then she picked up vegetables and ate as usual, but Lei Lei raised her head and looked at Huang Yuan with bright eyes. He knew that this summer, Lei Lei was either at Chen's house or Huang's house, and she hardly went out. Going through the door, I guess they were all suffocated.

Huang Yuan didn't directly say that he was going to see Zhang Ma, he wanted to give them a surprise, especially Lei Lei, although the elder brother moved out after marriage, Lei Lei was also the little princess that Zhang Ma grew up watching.

"Really?" Lei Lei asked cautiously, but the corners of her mouth covered with rice grains almost reached her ears.

Huang Yuan's heart warmed up, and at the same time he was full of guilt, and replied softly: "Well, yesterday's uncle, he came to pick us up at ten o'clock. After you finish eating, pack up some things you need on the way, and sit down. It's a three hour drive to get there."

After finishing speaking, she turned to look at Huang's mother: "Mom, three hours' drive, can you? Two hours on the highway, one hour on the road around the mountain. I have always wanted to take you out for a walk. Today, I have a ride to... Dad's place I've also made arrangements, so you don't have to worry. This time I'm going to visit a sanatorium in the mountains, and you can see if it's suitable for you to take Dad there. "

Huang Yuan had already checked "Daigo Valley" on the Internet before going to bed. Both the homestay and the nursing home have just opened, but the online reviews are very high. Many tourists who have been there have uploaded reviews and pictures, especially the one-hour Huanshan Road. , along the way are emerald bamboo forests, which are like a breeze in summer, refreshing.

Huang Yuan looked at Huang's mother. He was actually not sure whether his mother's body and mood could accept traveling.

Mother Huang finished her last mouthful of porridge and nodded.

Leilei, who had been listening carefully, got a positive answer from her grandma, and finally couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly: "Wow! Is it in the mountains? Can I go camping?" Speaking of this, she stopped abruptly, and then herself Yuan Yuan came back: "We will be back that day, then I will prepare some snacks, mobile phone and power bank."

Huang Yuan knew that Lei Lei really wanted to participate in the summer camp last time, so she comforted: "This time I decided to go out to play temporarily, and check the environment by the way. If it is suitable, next time my uncle will be more prepared, and we will go camping again. "

"Yeah!" Leilei pursed her lips and nodded vigorously.

Huang Yuan also smiled gratifiedly, Leilei was much more sensible than him when he was a child, and it made people feel distressed.

"Well... why did Mr. Jiang help us?" Mother Huang asked, putting down the bowl and chopsticks after eating.

Huang Yuan heard that Huang's mother actually didn't believe that Pu Jiang was willing to help them because Huang's mother had sponsored him. After all, he was not the only one who had been helped by Huang's family, but now he didn't want Huang's mother to think too much and worry, so he had to be patient. explain:

"Actually Jiang... his surname is not Jiang, his full name is Pu Jiang, and he is now a major client of the firm, and I happen to be designing for his project. He... is really nice."

"You were together two days ago?" Mother Huang's doubts did not diminish by half, but she glanced at the two sets of home clothes hanging on the small balcony. The pure white and fluorescent green drawstrings were particularly eye-catching.

Huang Yuan was startled, home clothes didn't look like they were put on at work, and he didn't go home the day before yesterday.

Faced with Huang's mother's seemingly calm questioning and Lei Lei's innocent and curious eyes, Huang Yuan felt guilty for no reason, holding his job like sitting on pins and needles: "Well, I happened to help him with a project the day before yesterday, and he promised to help big brother, so the discussion was too late No, I rested at his house when I came back without a car. He has a lot of connections now, and he also opened the sanatorium in the mountains. I think I can try..."

Huang Yuan didn't understand it himself, and naturally he couldn't explain it clearly. The more he talked, the more guilty he became, and his voice became smaller and smaller. I thought Huang's mother would react when she heard that Pu Jiang could help Huang Zhen, but Huang's mother just sighed softly. : "You do what you can, don't wrong yourself. Your elder brother... depends on his own life."

This was the first time in the past two years that Huang's mother spoke to him so peacefully, no longer unwilling and complaining, nor blaming him for his lack of ability, and even with a little concern, Huang Yuan felt that his broken heart had healed a little.Huang's mother should have guessed that what Huang Yuan yelled to her in the hospital yesterday was just a white lie in desperation.

Overnight, Mother Huang seemed to look away suddenly, and the atmosphere at home became much more relaxed.

Lei Lei was arranging her backpack in the room, the kind of joy that she wanted to take with her and that was like a primary school student going on a spring outing. Huang Yuan walked in, handed her the rolled headphone cable, and asked softly: "Lei Lei Lei, if your father can't come back sooner, will you blame uncle?"

Lei Lei shook her head: "Uncle, I know you have tried your best. As long as we are all well and Dad is well, we will be reunited."

Huang Yuan patted Leilei's head lightly. The transformation of Mother Huang and Leilei made him feel mixed feelings. He knew that the stronger the disguise, the more completely he would collapse when disappointment or even despair came.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Pu Jiang was waiting downstairs on time, the same black car from yesterday.

Mother Huang and Leilei sat in the back row. Huang Yuan helped them fasten their seat belts, and then they got into the co-pilot. , Pu Jiang drove the beautiful flick of "Electric Light Blue", why does this person always have two states, and the switching is so natural.

There was soothing light music playing in the Pujiang car. Mother Huang closed her eyes to rest, and Lei Lei was playing with her mobile phone. There were four people in one car, and there was nothing to say all the way. When they exited the expressway toll gate, Pujiang drove the car into a rest stop: "Take a break .”

The four got out of the car and went to the bathroom respectively, and Pujiang and Huangyuan went to buy drinks and bread.

"Let's put some food on the stomach first. When we go to Guzhong, we can try the authentic farm food. Mama Zhang's cooking skills have improved." Pu Jiang handed Huang Yuan bread and coffee.

"Well, don't tell them yet, I want to leave a surprise."

- The coffee is too sweet.

When Mother Huang and Lei Lei came back, Huang Yuan shared the rest of the food with them: "Don't eat too much, the road around the mountain is full of curves, it's easy to feel uncomfortable."

Lei Lei took a sip of Coke, stared at Pujiang for a long time, and then asked, "Uncle, have I seen you before?"

Yesterday she heard her uncle say that he is Teacher Xiao Jiang, and that grandma once sponsored him. She felt that this name and the plot were familiar, but the scene was too chaotic at that time, so she didn’t have time to look closely and recall it. Today, she observed it closely for a while, and it became more and more I feel like I have the impression of this person deep in my memory.

Pu Jiang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled gently: "Yes, you used to call me Brother Xiao Jiang."

"Brother Xiaojiang?" Leilei tilted her head and thought for a while before she suddenly thought of something: "Ah! Is it Brother Xiaojiang who took me to plant strawberries in my grandma's garden when I was young? That's Brother Strawberry?"

When Pu Jiang was working as a tutor at Huang's house, Leilei was only four or five years old. When she came to play at Huang's house on weekends, she would sometimes run into Pu Jiang.When Pu Jiang helped Zhang's mother tidy the garden, Lei Lei would look around curiously.Later, Pujiang brought some strawberry seedlings and planted them in the garden with Leilei, and soon there were fruits.When the strawberries turned red, Leilei was very happy when squatting on the grass to pick strawberries, chasing Pujiang and calling her "Brother Strawberry".

Huang Yuan, who was at the side, heard Leilei calling out "Brother Strawberry", and couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of coffee—is there such a name? ? ?But I dare not say anything, because at that time, if Teacher Xiaojiang had time to take Lei Lei to plant strawberries, it meant that at that time, he either fell asleep listening to the class, slipped out to play, or lost his temper and locked himself in the Play game consoles in the room.

With a smile on his face, Pu Jiang glanced at Huang Yuan, then made a height comparison of about one meter in Leilei's direction with his hands: "Yes. You were only that big at that time."

Lei Lei's eyes lit up: "Is it really you?"

Originally, Lei Lei just regarded Pu Jiang as a rare friend of Huang Yuan, and she rescued her grandma and uncle at the same time yesterday, she was full of admiration and gratitude for him, but she never thought it was her big brother who played with her when she was young, Immediately a little closer.

The four of them continued on their journey. There was no longer only relaxing light music in the car. Lei Lei had been chatting with Pu Jiang excitedly since she got in the car. Lei Lei was lying behind the driver's seat. I only remember a few fragments and a few pictures, but Pujiang patiently completed their memories. Leilei's happy and lovely childhood anecdotes briefly dispelled the gloom accumulated in her heart in recent years, and the car began to be full of laughter.

Huang Yuan and Huang Mu listened to the childish and warm conversation between Leilei and Pu Jiang, the two friends who have never seen the year, and their moods relaxed. The two looked out of the window in tacit understanding. The mountain road sometimes goes up slowly and sometimes spirals down. On both sides of the standard two-lane road are lush bamboo forests, swaying gently with the wind in the mountains.

Mother Huang pressed the car window, and the outside breeze blows into the car, with the rustle of bamboo forest and the smell of earth and grass, refreshing and pleasant. Although it is not as cool as the air conditioner, it is enough to drive away the heat. , the temperature is obviously lower than that in the urban area and on the highway.

Lei Lei also pressed down the car window, and took a deep breath facing the window where she could already see the rolling hills, satisfied and relaxed.

Pujiang turned off the air conditioner, allowing everyone to enjoy the natural comfort of nature, and at the same time handed a bottle of mosquito repellent to Lei Lei: "Everyone spray it, it's made from the lemongrass grown by myself."

"Wow, this tastes like the one I used as a kid."

Huang Yuan also remembered that Zhang's mother made this kind of mosquito repellent and aromatherapy for Huang's family every summer. The eyes of Huang Yuan and Pu Jiang met in the rearview mirror, tacit understanding.

This one-hour mountain road passed very quickly, and when we turned around a mountainside, we could already see a valley surrounded by mountains below our line of sight, and dozens of quaint small buildings were divided into several clusters among them.

Pu Jiang drove the car to a small three-story building surrounded by a half-person-high bamboo fence. Although this small building is made of wood and stones like other houses, the structure is obviously modern. design.

From the small building to the gate of the fence, there is a ≫-shaped staircase two to three meters high. When a group of people got off the car, they saw three people coming out of the gate at the top of the staircase. He trotted towards them in small steps.

"Hey, you guys are here! Are you hungry on the way? Go up and have lunch."

The author has something to say:-

Hurry up, it's still past 0:[-], I'm really sorry, I must pay attention to the time when I go out in the future!