My hotel connects the past and present

Although Maoyang Village is just a small fishing village, with probably only a hundred or less than two hundred households in the village, the area of ​​the village is quite large.

The greening in the village is also very good. Arrow bamboo and hibiscus flowers are planted on both sides of the cement-paved road, and there is a bougainvillea plant five meters apart.

There are also plants that can be seen everywhere in the village, including coconut trees and betel nut trees, and then there are rosewood trees and agarwood trees.

Rosewood trees and agarwood trees are small trees that have been planted for a few years or more, but their crowns are quite lush and also provide shade.

Then there are various fruit trees, such as lychee trees, longan trees, mango trees and jackfruit trees, which can be seen everywhere in the village.

There are several jackfruit trees in the village that are about several decades old. They were broken during typhoons in the past, but they are still growing well and bear fruit every year. However, people in the village don't like to eat jackfruit very much anymore.

There is also a lychee tree that is several decades old and nearly a century old. It is right on the edge of the village. The trunk is very large and the crown is very lush. When Chen Wenjiu was a child, he was particularly greedy for the lychees from this tree.

It's a pity that this lychee tree has an owner, and the lychees it produced were picked and sold by the owner in the past, so she couldn't eat them if she wanted to.

Chen Wenjiu still likes the older trees in the village. She likes these very strong trees. She has dreamed of living in a tree house in the shape of a tree hole since she was a child.

Maybe because she watched too many cartoons when she was a child, she imagined that one day she could live in a house like this. It would be very cool.

But it's a pity that the older I get, the more I realize that there are very few trees that are so strong that people can live in. Even if there are such big trees, they are hundreds of years old. It is impossible to hollow out the trunks and make small houses.

Even so, Chen Wenjiu still likes this kind of old trees. They are also very beautiful and lovable - she likes trees that do not require her to sweep leaves.

"Jiujiu, are you coming out to play?" Chen Wenjiu looked at some flowers on the roadside while walking. When passing by a house, an old lady said hello to her.

"Grandma." Chen Wenjiu heard someone calling him and greeted him politely.

This grandma was not the one who gave Chen Wenjiu coconuts before. Anyway, the locals called their elders grandparents, so Chen Wenjiu just called her "grandma".

"Jiujiu, come in and eat bananas." The old lady greeted with a smile.

"If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it." Chen Wenjiu waved her hands and said. She is not greedy for bananas at all now and does not want to eat bananas and plantains.

"Our pomegranates are ripe, do you want to eat one?" Grandma pointed to a guava tree in her yard and said to Chen Wenjiu.

This grandma’s house did not grow fruit trees such as lychee and longan, but she planted a guava tree. Chen Wenjiu thought that this tree was probably twenty or thirty years old. Anyway, she had seen this tree when she was a child. Grandma is at home.

"Grandma, do you still have this pomegranate tree in your house?" Chen Wenjiu asked curiously.

You must know that there used to be many guava trees in the village. After all, guava seeds germinate easily, and their saplings grow very quickly and well. If humans don't pull them out, they will grow up easily.

Later, more and more people built houses in the village. As people's living standards improved, more and more fruits were available to eat. So they didn't care much about the guava tree. They would pull out the saplings when they saw them. Drop or cut off.

After all, sometimes those guava saplings grow in the wrong place, and people are afraid that they will get in the way when they grow up, so they simply don't let them grow.

The guava at my grandma's house is red. Chen Wenjiu had been tired of eating red guava since she was a child, followed by yellow and finally white.

Chen Wenjiu still buys white-flesh guava from fruit stalls outside to eat, but it is absolutely impossible for her to buy red-flesh and yellow-flesh guava.

When she was a child, she wouldn't eat it if she wanted to. If she didn't want to eat it, she would feed it to pigs or throw away the guava. It was already good for her to be able to spend money to buy white pomegranates.

"This pomegranate tree is growing so well, so it's good to keep it." Grandma said with a smile.

This guava tree has been a favorite of children in this area since they were young. Now that the children have grown up, they don’t like to eat guava very much, but grandma still wants to stay and think about it.

Chen Wenjiu raised his head and looked at the guava tree. The tree was full of fruits, some of which had just grown, and some of which might be ripe. There were also white flowers on the branches.

The guava plant blooms all year round, and you can probably eat the fruit all year round. This guava tree is growing well. Under the eyes of grandma, Chen Wenjiu stretched out his hand to pull down the branch and picked a just ripe one. Guava.

This kind of guava that is just ripe, with some red inside but not completely red or soft, tastes very good. Even Chen Wenjiu who is tired of eating red guava finds it delicious.

Guavas are more delicious when the inside is red but the outside skin is still green. She doesn't like the ones when the outside skin has turned yellow.

"Is it delicious?" Grandma said happily as she watched Chen Wenjiu take a bite of guava.

"Yes, it's delicious." Chen Wenjiu nodded, took out a handful of toffee from his pocket and handed it to grandma, "Grandma, you can also eat some candies."

"Grandma, I'm leaving." Chen Wenjiu said goodbye after giving the toffee to Grandma. She planned to continue walking and treat it as exercise.

After Chen Wenjiu said goodbye to her grandma, while nibbling guava, she remembered the time when she and her mother went back to her grandmother's house when she was a child. Then she and her brother went up the mountain with her mother to pick guavas from her cousin's house next door and eat them.

The guava was particularly big in Chen Wenjiu's memory. She and her brother each picked one, which was about the size of one and a half pear. She and her brother took one each, but the brother and sister only ate half of it. I can't eat any more.

The remaining half of the guava was thrown to the pigs by my mother. After that, it was a pity for Chen Wenjiu. He finally managed to eat such a big guava, but ended up not finishing it. What a pity.

After a few mouthfuls, she finished the guava that was about the size of her fist. Chen Wenjiu walked around for a while before heading to the hotel. It was better not to hang around outside at noon.

"Chef He, what are you eating today?" Chen Wenjiu had just returned to the store. After wiping the sweat on his forehead, he ran to the restaurant to ask about the menu.

"What do you want to eat?" Chef He asked without changing his expression.

"What do I want to eat?" Chen Wenjiu thought for a moment and said, "How about something sweet and sour to appetize? How about pineapple and sweet and sour pork?"

He Zui said, "Would you like to add another hibiscus shrimp?"

"I want tomato sauce shrimp." Chen Wen said over wine.

"Okay." Chen Wenjiu thought for a while and said, "Let's have another piece of pineapple fried rice."

He Zui nodded to show that he understood and asked her to wait. He would prepare these dishes for her to have a full meal in a while.