Around eight o'clock, the village chief's wife called Lin Yi for dinner. Although Lin Yi didn't expect much, she had prepared several dishes.
"Mr. Lin, come and sit down."
The village chief saw Lin Yi coming and called him to the dining table. For dinner, the village chief's wife had made scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried chicken with broccoli, braised pork belly, white rice, and Shepherd's Purse tofu soup.
"Since Mr. Lin is coming for dinner today, I told my wife to prepare more food." The village chief said as he handed Lin Yi a bowl of rice.
"Then try these dishes and see if Mr. Lin likes them."
"Thank you, village chief." Then Lin Yi began to eat without hesitation. The food the village chief's wife had prepared was typical home-cooked food, but he had never experienced such deliciousness and freshness.
Although the food prepared by the Su family could never compare to this, Lin Yi never got to experience the taste of the food in that house. That was because Lin Yi was never allowed to sit at the Su family table. Although he was the real youngest child in the Su family, no one in the Su family accepted him as a member of the family. Therefore, the food Lin Yi ate in daily life was even poorer than this food.
"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin, are you okay? Isn't this food good?"
The village chief asked, seeing Lin Yi suddenly stop eating and thinking about something.
"Oh, no, it's nothing; I just remembered something. There's nothing wrong with the food; it's very tasty. Thank you for making such delicious food."
Lin Yi was snapped out of his thoughts by the village chief's question.
"By the way, village chief, you can call me Lin Yi. It seems a little awkward to call me Mr. Lin."
"Okay then, I'll call you Lin Yi. Anyway, from now on, you're from our village, so why bother?" The village chief said while smiling.
While eating, Lin Yi asked the village chief about Peach Blossom Village and the lands he was going to visit tomorrow. According to the village chief, Peach Blossom Village is a remote, rural village, but it has electricity and internet. All the roads in the village were renovated in the last few years.
Not only that, but as the name of the village suggests, when the peach blossom season arrives, the entire village turns pink and beautiful, and peach plantation is the village's main source of income.
According to the village chief, in addition to sending peaches to the market as fresh fruit, peach canning and fruit drinks are produced at a factory near the village. Not only that, when the peach blossom season arrives, every house in the village doesn't forget to make peach blossom wine.
When Lin Yi asked about the land, the village chief said that the village had several vacant plots of land of different sizes. Not only that, the village chief said that there were even abandoned houses on some of the plots. But among them, Lin Yi's heart went out to the land where there was an abandoned house that had previously been built in a cave.
The next morning, at around 5 am, the rooster crowed. Lin Yi woke up from his sleep to the sound. Although he was a little sleepy, Lin Yi got up from his bed and opened the window.
As soon as he opened the window, a cold breeze blew in and hit Lin Yi's face, completely removing his sleepiness. Lin Yi looked out the window and saw the sun rising from the mountains in the distance, coloring the entire sky.
"Wow! It's so beautiful."
Lin Yi had never seen such a beautiful sunrise before. That's why Lin Yi felt a strange feeling when he saw that scene. Moreover, Lin Yi didn't forget to take out his phone and record the beautiful scene.
Then, Lin Yi didn't forget to upload a beautiful picture of the sunrise he took on his social media account, which had been deserted for months. Although the post contained only a single picture without words, anyone who had seen Lin Yi's previous posts could understand what Lin Yi really meant. That's because every post Lin Yi had uploaded before was a way to express his feelings.
After Lin Yi came to the Lin family from the orphanage, the problems he faced were endless. However, he had no one to share those things with. For this reason, Lin Yi started a social media account that no one else knew belonged to him and occasionally uploaded his feelings there.
Although many people didn't see those posts, he met a few people who understood his feelings through them. In the past few months, Lin Yi has been focusing his full attention on his thesis and completing his degree, so he hasn't uploaded any posts. This is the first post he uploaded after graduation.
After watching the sunrise for a while, Lin Yi went out and washed his face with cold water, then put on a light yellow long-sleeved shirt and dark blue denim shorts and entered the living room of the village chief's house.
When he arrived, he saw the village chief drinking tea from the bench under the big peach tree in the front yard. Not only that, but Lin Yi saw smoke coming from the kitchen chimney and knew that the village chief's wife was cooking in the kitchen.
"Xiao Lin, you woke up earlier than I expected. Did you sleep well last night?"
Seeing Lin Yi coming, the village chief asked him while pointing to the bench and inviting him.
"Hmm... I slept well last night like never before. Maybe it's because I went to bed early that I woke up early."
Lin Yi took the teacup the village chief gave him and answered as he walked up to the bench.
"Hmm... this tea is very delicious and has a good aroma."
Lin Yi was surprised when he tasted the tea. Because this tea was more delicious and fresh than some of the expensive teas his grandfather had. When he was in the Su family, he often saw how Grandpa Su showed off his tea collection to everyone who came to the house.
Because of this, Lin Yi studied tea well, because he thought that if he had a good knowledge of it, he would be able to gain Grandpa Su's approval one day.