Li Shuri was busy cooking and entertaining guests. Photographed by Hainan Daily trainee reporter Zeng Yuhui
Original title: University teachers born in the 1980s started a farmhouse in the ancient village to create a new life of half city and half countryside
Walking on the bluestone floor tiles in the alleys of Luoyi Ancient Village, rows of volcanic stone brick walls were repaired The houses are built near the lake, or stretch deep in the corners of the streets. The archways, ancestral halls, ancient wells and stone bridges that have imprinted the years come into view from time to time. The vicissitudes and tranquility of the ancient village make people feel as if they are in another world. Feel.
"Some people say this is a kind of sentiment, but our couple feels that this is a kind of nostalgia. My childhood is in the ancient village, and there is also the childhood of my children."
Luoyi Ancient Village, Bailian Town, Chengmai County, was formed in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It is a well-known cultural ancient village. Every weekend and holiday, Li Shuri and Yang Hui, a couple born in the 1980s, will rush back to the village from the city to receive tourists in the farmhouse renovated in their own courtyard. In fact, the farmhouse is just a part-time job. The couple also has another identity that makes the villagers give thumbs up - after graduating with master's and doctoral degrees, they engaged in teaching and research work at Hainan Normal University .
At the corner of the streets and alleys on the north side of the ancient village, almost every weekend, the expanded farmhouse courtyard of Li Shuri’s old house is very popular. Among the guests are parties, self-driving tours of the ancient village, or people who come here to expand their business. Events Team. Black-rimmed glasses, dark complexion, short crew cut, thick eyebrows, and a square face with a smile all the time. This is the first impression of 35-year-old Li Shuri.
"For about 40 guests, at least four tables of dishes, some of which require highly processed seafood, are enough to keep the family busy all morning." Before 7 o'clock in the morning, there were six or seven adults in Li Shuri's family. He started cooking with two firewood stoves and two gas stoves. He and his uncle took turns cooking. The firewood in the brick stove was burning brightly, and the boiling water in the big iron pot was boiling. Li, who was wearing a short-sleeved football uniform, Shuri put on a blue plaid apron and half-bent down to "turn over" the three white lotus geese in the pot. The sultry steam rushed to his face. The sweat on Li Shuri's forehead fell from time to time, and the thick glasses were very bright. It was soon covered with a layer of white fog. Outside the kitchen, his parents were busy washing and chopping vegetables, while his brother Li Shubao was busy cleaning seafood and making dipping sauces.
Li Shuri has been influenced by his uncle since he was a child. He loves to think about dishes and is very confident in his cooking skills. His wife Yang Hui, who is two years younger than him, grew up in rural Shanxi. She has a gentle temperament and helps in the kitchen. In the hall, my 5-year-old son devoured ripe black wild myrtle fruits (mountain twisters, commonly known as "Ronnies"). "They were all picked on the hillside behind my home. They are very sweet. Now they have become... There are too few, and it’s almost impossible to pick them.” Li Shuri also took the time to grab a handful and eat them.
Li Shuri and his family of three plant fruit trees. Photographed by Hainan Daily trainee reporter Zeng Yuhui
Simple original intention Master and PhD couple guarding homesickness
Li Shuri and Yang Hui met and fell in love when they were undergraduate students at Zhengzhou University, and studied for master's degrees together at South China University of Technology. After that, Li Shuri worked in Guangzhou , Yang Hui went on to study for a Ph.D. In 2011, the two returned to Hainan Normal University to engage in teaching and research work.
"I had my childhood in the ancient village, and I always wanted to do something in the ancient village to protect this nostalgia." Recalling the time when the family organized a farmhouse together, the couple admitted that they had some doubts in their hearts: As a famous cultural ancient village, There has been a commercial farmhouse in Luoyi Ancient Village before, but this is the first farmhouse to be renovated using one's own yard. Since there is not much capital investment, the environment of my own courtyard is relatively simple. The surrounding green plants are almost in their original growth state, and the leisure facilities have not yet started. However, the courtyard in front of the door is dozens of acres of wetland, and the view is very broad.
just started. Starting from the summer vacation of 2015, Li Shuri's family began to renovate the kitchen, purchase kitchen equipment, build a courtyard awning, and dug a fish pond of about 600 square meters, and built chicken, duck and goose cages. Next to the fish pond, geese and ducks play in the fish pond every day and are stocked in the large wetland. Li Shuri said that a total of more than 200,000 yuan has been invested so far. At most, he has received seven or eight tables of guests a day. At less, he has not received a reservation call for several days, and at most there are only three or five individual customers.Her mother, Li Airong, saw this and was both distressed and worried: The wages of her son and daughter-in-law are not high, but this is a big account. It will take ten or eight years to make a profit, right?
"The couple are both graduate students and university teachers, and they actually returned to the village to open a restaurant. What do you think?" At first, many people in the village were puzzled by their actions. Li Yiyong, who is in his 50s, is a native of Luoyi Ancient Village. At first, he thought that the couple was "tired of staying in the city" and went home to find something to do to relieve their boredom. After all, Luoyi Ancient Village is only three or four kilometers away from the town market. Kilometers, it's not far from the county seat. There are several local restaurants along the way. As a farmhouse in the village, I don't expect there to be many customers. But over the past two years, as he watched the couple make the farmhouse more and more lively, he couldn't help but admire it from the bottom of his heart.
Li Shuri’s son drives the geese “home”. Photographed by Hainan Daily trainee reporter Zeng Yuhui
Every bit of hard work and hard work cultivates the farm paradise
At around 12 noon, all the dishes were prepared, including white lotus goose, white chopped chicken, stewed eel, yellow fin, sea oysters, clams, mutton, etc. It can be said that the table is full of color, flavor and flavor, and the guests are having a great time while chatting about the meal and drinking.
"I always use weekends and holidays to go back to the countryside to be busy, even a little bit of working time is not occupied." In Yang Hui's view, sometimes she feels tired at work but has no way to decompress, and she is also very busy at the farmhouse. All I think about in my mind are recipes, portion sizes, division of labor, etc., but the difference is, “The moment I see a table full of dishes after finishing my work, the feeling of satisfaction and joy that wells up in my heart can overwhelm me. All tired."
"After tasting the White Lotus Goose, some tourists will call and send WeChat to buy goose meat and eggs." Li Shuri looked at the account book and said that the feed-fed meat geese on the market today are generally raised for three months. It is now on the market and sells for about 20 yuan per catty. However, our own White Lotus Goose has always insisted on raising pure rice for one year before going on sale. The price is 45 yuan. It has a very good reputation in the local area. In 2016, a total of about 200 were sold. White Lotus Goose and 1,000 goose eggs, as well as a small number of free-range chickens and rice ducks.
"We don't have much savings to invest, but the family will use their free time to take care of the courtyard bit by bit." At around three o'clock in the afternoon, under the scorching sun, Li Shuri was stepping on the mud of the wetland and cleaning the ditch with a hoe. Lotus flowers were also planted along the ditch. Not far away, my brother moved pieces of slate bricks and piled them beside the ditch to build a viewing plank road. On both sides of the plank road, the yellow bark, jackfruit, and mango plants that were just planted have begun to sprout new shoots.
"We plan to build the plank road to the fish pond, and also plan to surround the dozens of acres of wetland in front of the courtyard." Teacher Li said that the lotus will be in full bloom next year, and in two or three years, these fruit trees will also start to bear fruit. Fish and shrimps swim freely, and tourists can walk along the plank road to enjoy the scenery. They can also experience picking up goose and duck eggs in the wetland grass. It must be a unique and attractive farmhouse fun.
A beautiful vision accompanies childhood and grows up
In the view of Li Shuri and his wife, although the farmhouse in their own yard is still in its faltering start, the family is not eager for quick success and quick gains, and works hard every day. As time accumulates, the farmhouse will become better and better. Suitable for leisure vacation. What's more valuable is that farmhouse entertainment brings children a lot of beautiful and innocent childlike fun as they grow up and change day by day.
Nowadays, colleagues, relatives and friends from time to time come to Luoyi Ancient Village from Haikou, Qionghai or Sanya to look for the precipitation and tranquility of the years. They gather for dinner, tea and fishing in the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Li Shuri. Even after being in a daze and wandering around for a whole day, I felt that the trip was "well worth it". Li Shuri analyzed that rural tourism in ancient villages has not yet formed a climate, and with the simultaneous advancement of protection and development, rural tourism in Luoyi Ancient Village will become more and more popular and business opportunities in the future. He hopes that there will be More villagers try to develop farmhouses and form a regional development pattern. Only in this way can the ancient village farmhouse industry become famous.
"It's great to have a long vacation both physically and mentally during the two-month summer vacation!" Li Shuri and his wife said that every morning or evening, as the sun sets, they watch their 5-year-old son running in the fields with a group of urchins. Driving geese back to their nests, or learning to pickle duck eggs from the old man, or picking vegetables and catching insects in the vegetable field, that kind of scene can make the day's fatigue return to zero; I have also imagined that in my twenties and thirties, Years ago, when all the primary school and junior high school students retired, we invited them together to the courtyard of their farmhouse. At that time, the fruits were fragrant, and everyone had a drink and talked about the past. It must have been a beautiful scene... (Trainee reporter Zeng Yuhui)
