Tao Guangming sighed: "That's right, otherwise, how could that servant earn so much money?"
He pushed the door open and walked in. Inside was a small courtyard, with laurel planted in the center and trees full of small golden flower clusters emitting a sweet fragrance.
Flowers and grass were planted on all ground that was not hardened.
There are deck chairs and a small swing set up under the corridor, and climbing roses are planted on the wall.
Tao Ran and Tao Qiu were already running crazy in the yard.
There are two bedrooms inside, one with a double bed and one with a standard room.
A tea room in the middle connects the two rooms.
Most suitable for a family like them with two children.
The furniture inside is all Chinese style furniture made of rosewood.
In both rooms, there is a double couch with comfortable pillows placed by the window. The small table in the middle is lit with soothing incense, making people sit on the couch and not want to move as soon as they enter.
Tao Guangming and Ji Rushi lay on the deck chairs outside for a while, watching Tao Ran and the others play, then came in and lay down on the couch.
A tit, fat as a pom-pom, flew outside and chirped on the branch.
Tao Ran and Tao Qiu took the melon seeds and laughed, making them fly down to eat.
The titmouse was brave enough to actually jump down, and then a few more flew over, more and more.
Tao Ran and Tao Qiu scattered melon seeds all over the yard.
Then there were little pom-poms dancing all over the yard.
A flash of yellow light flashed by, and then the chickadees fled in fright and landed on the treetops.
It turned out that the yellow raccoon flower followed him at some point.
While feeding, Tao Ran ran in and asked Tao Guangming: "Dad, what should we eat for lunch?"
Tao Qiu: "Mom, I'm hungry too."
Tao Guangming looked at his watch and found that he lay down until lunch time, as if he had done nothing.
Tao Guangming said: "Let's eat here."
Ji Rushi asked, "Would you like to go to the Taoist priest's place for a vegetarian meal?"
Tao Guangming: "What's delicious about vegetarian food? It's green vegetables and tofu."
Ji Rushi smiled and said, "Li Wenjun often came here to eat, so he must have something special about him. And I heard that he also paid a high salary to hire a vegetarian chef."
Tao Guangming sat up: "Yes, the salary of this vegetarian chef is ridiculously high. I always think that bastard is crazy. I must go and try this chef's craftsmanship today to see if it is worth it."
Compared with the exquisiteness and elegance of the "Buddhist Hall and Clean House" next to it, the Zhaitang here in the Taoist Temple is much simpler and plainer.
The tables and chairs were replaced with the simplest log Chinese furniture, and even the chairs were long benches.
The roof, walls and floors were repainted.
The original style has been maintained as much as possible, but compared to the original dilapidated and old place with a musty smell everywhere, it is now brighter and more comfortable, filled with rosin and sandalwood.
Although they were all vegetarian dishes, Tao Ran ate very happily because there were "chicken", "braised pork" and "shredded eel".
Although Tao Guangming knew that they were all made from soy products or imitated with eggs and other vegetarian dishes.
But the taste is indeed very real, so if you don’t tell me in advance, you won’t be able to eat it at all.
Tao Ran has already started to comment: "Well, this Shanghai green is very crisp and sweet, green and oily, and lifeless. The heat is well controlled. If the soy sauce is too sweet, it is not necessary. This dish is already sweet."
"The tofu is so smooth and tender. It must be ground with mountain spring water. It's really good to pour some ginger soy sauce to remove the beany smell."
"Ah, I like the scent of pine nuts the most. Only the pine nuts of red pine can be so fragrant."
"Hey, there are even cold gardenias. The chef is really good at using local ingredients. It's just that the color doesn't look so good after being cold, which is a pity."
"Vegetarian braised pork is more delicious than real braised pork, not greasy, not greasy, and bright red in color."
She talked endlessly and spoke eloquently.
Even the chef came out to see which gourmet was coming.
It turned out that it was a child, and he couldn't laugh or cry.
Ji Rushi said: "It would be good for us to come and eat vegetarian food from time to time."
Tao Guangming looked at the bill: a full two hundred and eighty yuan.
Tsk tsk tsk, these vegetarian dishes are not cheaper than meat dishes. A meat dish in the cafeteria only costs two yuan.
Tao Guangming went hiking in the afternoon.
Tao Ran and Ji Rushi picked a large handful of gardenias and came back.
After dinner in the evening, we wandered around Taoist temples and Buddhist halls, listened to music, read books, played chess and drank tea, wandered around admiring flowers and petting cats.
Nothing comes to mind.
Although their villa community is also very quiet, you can still hear some noise in the distance.
The silence here is the true silence, and it is also truly dark after dark, so dark that you can't even see your fingers.
Lying down and listening to the chirping of night birds in the mountains and the gentle sound of the wind, I fell into a sweet sleep before I had time to think about anything.
Tao Guangming was woken up by the chirping of birds by the window in the morning.
Ji Rushi said: "I haven't slept so well for a long time. I haven't been so peaceful for a long time."
Tao Guangming said in a daze: "Yeah."
Ji Rushi came over and snuggled into his arms, and said lazily: "How about we stay one more night. It's the weekend anyway. It doesn't matter if you spend your own money. After all, you make money to enjoy it."
Tao Guangming suddenly woke up: "Hey, my face suddenly hurts."
A few days ago, I confidently told that bastard that I would never spend my own money to live there...
I want to say something bad, but I don’t want to be slapped in the face by Li Wenjun.
But Ji Rushi had already spoken, and I really couldn't bear to refuse.
The point is this is not a big deal.
He hesitated and said, "I only brought one day's worth of clothes."
Ji Rushi: "The list of free services given to me by the front desk yesterday when I checked in yesterday included cleaning and drying clothes. Take it here now and you can get clean clothes in the afternoon, which will not prevent you from changing clothes and taking a shower. If you really can't, ask your aunt to send them to you for a few days. Bring up the clothes."
Tao Guangming didn't dare to make any more excuses and could only say with difficulty: "Okay."
After breakfast and a new room, the family of four sat drinking tea in the teahouse on the edge of the cliff.
The hotel sent some exquisite Chinese snacks, including green moxa leaf cake, pink peach blossom jelly, and bright yellow mung bean cake.
Ji Rushi smiled: "This snack is so beautiful, it makes me, a woman who is almost forty, have a girlish heart."
Tao Ran poked his head over and said, "Dad, let's stay one more night. Just go back to school tomorrow morning. It only takes ten minutes to go down the mountain anyway."
Tao Guangming couldn't laugh or cry: "Okay."
Anyway, he was mentally prepared to go back and be washed away by Li Wenjun.
Staying one more night is also a stay, staying two more nights is also a stay.
After staying for three nights, Tao Ran still wanted to stay here because it was the only place where Ji Rushi wouldn't talk about her studies.
But Ji Rushi said it was time to go back to work and class.
The family reluctantly went down the mountain.
Tao Guangming was restless all day and finally decided to "surrender".
Seeing that there was no one in Li Wenjun's office, he went in, sat down, and said to Li Wenjun: "Come on, laugh at me as much as you like."
Li Wenjun raised his head from a pile of documents, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Huh?! Were you punished by President Ji to kneel on the washboard again?"
Tao Guangming's face turned red and he forced out two words: "No."
