Chapter 364 Under the Vineyard

  Liu Ming smiled and opened the door of the pickup. Where did this shop get such an old pickup truck, Li Han wondered, where did this guy find it, but the wooden carriage and the environment blended just right. "Auntie, you can sit in the car." The small truck was originally not big, so only one person could sit.

   Zhang Xiuying wanted the two little guys to sit, but Dudu and the baby were very interested in sitting in the car, and shouted that Dad would take them in the car. "Mom, it's alright, I'm looking at the two little guys." Li Han smiled and put his luggage in the carriage, and glanced at Liu Ming angrily. This guy did it on purpose.

Sitting in the wooden carriage, the peculiar sense of the times and the rattling noise of the truck is not unacceptable. Along the winding path through the vineyard and up the gentle slope, the terrain of Napa is a bit peculiar, like a plain and quite ups and downs. , like a mountain without a peak.

  The pickup truck didn't go very fast, there was a slight breeze blowing, and there was some fragrance of flowers. The typical Mediterranean climate here is mild. Sunny good weather, sunshine, blue sky and white clouds, vineyards, undulating roads, small trucks, and little flowers on the roadside.

  Dudu and the baby were lying on the side of the carriage and took a photo of the roadside scenery with a Polaroid. Compared with the dry yellow and red soil of Montana, it is much more beautiful here. Following the path, he came to the gentle place in the middle of the hillside, where Liu Ming stopped his pickup.

  Li Han jumped out of the car and got off the car with the two little princesses in his arms. Li Han and his mother Zhang Xiuying were a little stunned to see the buildings in front of them. "Han, why not?" Liu Ming was quite proud, and Li Han was a little speechless. "Isn't this a courtyard house?"

   "Yeah, Auntie, go in for a break."

Liu Ming took the luggage with a smile, and invited Zhang Xiuying into the room to rest. Li Han and the baby, Dudu, and big bags and small bags followed them in. It turned out to be a complete quadrangle with three courtyards. The narrow courtyard where the main house resides, the second courtyard is composed of a wing room, a main room, and a veranda, and a side room can be added beside the main room and the wing room. A door connects the second and third courtyards.

  Li Han was a little speechless, this guy is really willing to do it. "This yard cost a lot of money." "Han, you don't understand this. It's rare to have a good place to build a yard that you like. How much does it cost you?"

   Liu Ming said and touched Li Han. "Let me tell you, I made a special trip to transport the materials here from China, and it took a lot of effort." It took more than three years to build the yard, and he was really patient. Liu Ming said that he planned to find a place and had nothing to do on vacation.

  This is not finished this year, and I bought several vineyards around it and rebuilt a larger winery, which is not bad now. "Auntie, you live in the north room, Han, you live in the west room, Dudu and Baobao, tell uncle where you want to live.

  The whole yard is quite big. According to the traditional Chinese saying, Dudu and Baobao belong to the daughter and need to live in the backyard, but the two little guys are worried about living in the backyard. "Let's live with me." As soon as my mother said, it was settled. It was quite big to go to the house.

   It was the first time for the two little guys to see a house like a courtyard house. They ran around along the porch. After choosing the room here, they dragged a small box to see the room. My mother takes care of the two little guys. Li Han and Liu Ming are in the living room. The teapots, tables and chairs here are completely based on the furnishings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. "Is this set of tables and chairs good? I spent more than one million?" "USD?" "Of course." Liu Ming nodded as a matter of course.

  Li Han rolled his eyes, this person really knows how to spend money. "Han, you are wrong. I tell you that the rich are not talking about how much you can earn, but how much you will spend. If you spend the money tastefully, that is what the rich should do, otherwise it will be a local tyrant. already."

   "I'd better be a nouveau riche first."

  Li Han took the teacup and turned it over. "Don't tell me this is Kang Gan's blue and white." "You dare to think that this thing was copied in the late Qing Dynasty, but the old man has a few sets, but unfortunately I don't have the ability to get it."

  Liu Ming still has some regrets, it's quite a face to be a real guy.

  It was imitated in the late Qing Dynasty. It was also a royal thing, and the price was not cheap. "Tea is good tea, and the cup is a good cup, but the water is a little worse." "Don't say, the tea from your farm spring water is really different. I will bring some over next time."

   "Don't, that stuff will taste bad the next day."

  Li Han's space spring water, which has been out of space for a day, has no special effects. Of course, it is not difficult to use this strange effect to preserve it. Chinese medicine beer, orchid, and medicinal soup are ready-made examples. Even if the void space spring water, it is six molecules of water, which is 13 points higher than ordinary water, and it is a high-end product.

   Liu Ming said with regret. "That's fine, if you have time, I can go to your place and drink it myself." "But I don't have much tea left." Li Han took a sip of tea and looked at Liu Ming with a smile. "You are peeling your skin this week, and you have to give away the reason for tea."

   "I don't want it yet, you think I'm as idle as you are."

   Li Han put down the teacup, boiled water, and made tea. This work really took some work. There are few bad things. If the temperature is not in place, the taste of this tea will be different. "Okay, I'm wrong." Li Han was about to speak, when Dudu and Bao Bao ran in. The two little guys had Polaroids and ran out of photo paper, so they came to their father to replace them. "Okay, don't run, let's go, let's let uncle show us around."

  Three times into the yard, it is considered a quadrangle with a real radius. In the past, it was impossible to live in it. If you see it abroad, you have to take a good look around. "Okay, uncle will show you around."

  Liu Ming greeted the tea set to be cleaned, packed it up, got up and took Li Han, the baby, and tooted out of the living room.

   From the living room, there are bedrooms and a study room on the left and right, as well as two small wing rooms, east and west wing rooms on the left and right, with corridors beside the wing rooms leading to the backyard. Relatively speaking, Liu Ming’s backyard is designed differently from the ancients.

  Liu Ming was quite proud and said with a smile. "I am four improvements and three improvements. The garden and the yard are combined. Although the construction specifications of the courtyard house have been changed, the architectural style is not much different from the ancients. The three-into-yard yard is nearly 3,500 square meters, with a total of zero and zero rooms. Add up to more than forty.

   Strolling all the way, Li Han had to sigh, this guy is the place where the rich should live. Back in the front yard, the two little people were about to rub their legs. It was really not easy to visit one room at a time. "Han, are you interested in building one too?"

   "I still forget it."

  Li Han didn't have so much money to spoil. After visiting, such a large yard, the cost is absolutely indispensable. "Han, you don't understand this. It's not difficult to earn back the money spent in this yard. In recent years, domestic tourism has been hot, and Napa's climate, scenery, food, and wine are top-notch in the world. Millions of tourists."

   "What do you mean, you are planning to open to the outside world."

   Liu Ming shook his head slightly. "I don't have such a plan, but if some partners and friends come over to talk about business, it's not very interesting to come here to talk while on vacation." Whoever is Liu Ming's partner will also feel comfortable and face a lot.

   Liu Ming smiled. "You see, it's not a bad thing to have time to learn to enjoy." "That's what you say, but it also takes effort, let's not talk about it, I don't see any red wine here, you are a winery, don't you think? , don't take me to see it."

"No hurry, you have time, come here and listen to my arrangement, Dudu, baby tell uncle, do you want to eat snacks first?" Liu Ming asked with a smile and bent over to the two little guys. , Dudu and the baby nodded vigorously and ran all the way down, very tired.

   "Han, I'm going to prepare some snacks. Auntie will try them together."

  Liu Ming invited the chef here, and it really wasn't covered. There was a round table at the center. "You don't make a special trip to invite a pastry chef." There are at least twenty kinds of desserts here, and Li Han really knows a few, BJ's famous dessert.

   "Of course, Auntie, try the flower cakes." Flower cakes are also called chestnut cakes, which are named after the steamed rice is lined with whole chestnuts. There is also a chestnut cake, which is made with chestnut puree as the main ingredient.

Its practice is to peel and steam the raw chestnuts, then mash them into mud, spread out one part as the bottom layer, then spread a layer of Jing cake slices, and then use another part to spread on the Jing cake slices, and then apply a layer of sand filling. , the last part of the chestnut mud is spread on the top layer, and the Beijing cake slices cut into small water chestnuts and fine green plum silk are used to form a pattern, so that the upper, middle and lower parts are yellow, with red and brown two colors in the middle. Layers of chestnut cake. When eating, pour the sugar juice made from white sugar and sugar osmanthus on top.

  This stuff fits the scenery. It’s just been a while since Chongyang passed, but Dudu and Baobao seem to like bean cakes. The bean noodles are also called donkey rolls. Li Han tasted one, not to mention the taste is really good. No wonder Liu Ming just boasted that the dim sum here is delicious, and this guy really enjoys it. The chefs and pastry chefs are invited in China. No wonder it is not bad for Michelin.

  Chinese food and Chinese dim sum are several times better than Western food. "Han, you're welcome." These Liu Ming made specially for Li Han's family, such as milk roll skin, shaqima, harvest cake, kidney bean roll, pea yellow, open smile, cream fried cake and so on.

  Dudu and Baobao are very happy. Let’s try this one. If it wasn’t for Li Han to stop me, my belly would be bulging, and there would be no need to arrange lunch. "Liu Ming, you are bothered."

   So many dim sums must be arranged in advance, Liu Ming smiled naively. "Auntie, it's not a big deal. It just happened that I invited a dim sum chef some time ago. You can try this again." "If you are free, ask the master to learn how to do it. If you have children at home, it is convenient for you to do it yourself."

   "Auntie, you said yes."

  Li Han knows that these desserts look simple, but it is not easy to learn. "Liu Ming, we'll have snacks this time. It's still early. We can't wait for lunch. I can bring Dudu and the others to play."

   Zhang Xiuying glared at Li Han, this kid, Liu Ming doesn't care to get acquainted with Li Han, and the two of them should talk less politely. "I originally arranged a helicopter and planned to go for a walk, but it was good to see the hot air balloon. I changed the hot air balloon. How about it? I will take you to sit around for a while."

   (end of this chapter)