In mid-June, the grand summer comes. Yinchuan, another midsummer that is different but still "boring" is coming. The first person to perceive this was my puppy. Unlike April, it just lay on its stomach without doing anything, and the frequency of sticking out its tongue increased significantly. Unlike animals, as a human being, the endless reports, endless videos, and unfinished KPIs are all like dark clouds in midsummer.

The mysterious group of people in the circle of friends who "look like they have no work all year round, traveling everywhere is not a tourism career" flashed again. Indeed, when there are still countless videos that have not been edited, I am indeed moved. Watching Their circle of friends is palpitating, and a heart yearning for travel, yearning for blue and green is about to move.

At this time, looking through the files, I suddenly turned to [that small courtyard] that I visited many years ago. Working as a worker in the city, you can't come and go on a trip, but you can still be the master of stealing half a day's leisure.

Open the navigation, search for: Luyuan Farmhouse. Drive 15 kilometers north from Xingzhou Street, the old railway station, in the direction of Nanliang Farm, which is the destination this time. Stay away from the urban concrete forest and go to see the beautiful summer gifted by nature.

"If there is a way, who would like to live in the city, it would be nice to have a yard." Before entering the door, I have already heard the sighs of the guests in the small courtyard, and it is true that I was the first to speak my heart.

Those who lived in a small courtyard when they were young will definitely feel very cordial the first time they enter this place. When I arrived at this small courtyard, I was brought back to the feeling of my childhood, as if my adult self met my childhood self in a parallel time and space.

According to the current impetuous Internet headline party practice, I would like to call this place: an old couple, a real farmhouse in the suburbs of Yinchuan! Just imagine, one hundred yuan, what can you do in the city? What can you eat?

But here, you can steal half a day off, relax, pick, fish, barbecue, and have a real farm meal, which is the kind that will make people move after a bite. The rest are not so complicated and pure. .

All kinds of projects without commerce are very pure, just like visiting a grandparent’s own yard and paying 100 yuan per head.

In the courtyard, according to the natural replacement, we can eat the freshly picked fresh fruits and the vegetables we eat can also use what is in the field. All fruits and vegetables are determined not to use pesticides.

Keep one price for so many years. Now that farmhouses are becoming more and more commercial, and most of the dishes are no different from Chinese food in the city, this place is simply a breath of fresh air. The most interesting thing is that every year from the first fruit in the yard to mature and open to the public until the last fruit withers.

The small courtyard was closed to the outside world, and the old couple started their own travel time. When the melons and fruits were growing, the door was opened for others to visit, and when the melons and fruits matured, they went to other people's worlds as guests.

Here, like opening a blind box, you will eat different things in different months. For example, there are mulberries this month, and the last batch of apricots. What to eat next month, all listen to the replacement and gift of nature!

Then there are plums, peaches, apples, pears, prunes, tomatoes, and more. It is the uncles and aunts who transformed the dilapidated old courtyard into the big gardens and small forests like they are today, so they are very affectionate. Farmyard manure is used without pesticides, and some customers want to order or even buy these fruits at a high price.

The aunt simply priced the fruit at 50 a catty, which is much higher than the market price, just to prevent customers from buying it. She said: "You can eat as much as you like when you come here. As long as you like our yard, farmers are not afraid of others eating it. Look at it." I'm happy that you like to eat, but I don't like to buy it away, because the people behind can't eat anything!

My aunt cooks delicious food. She used to be a chef in a hotel, and later she also worked in her own restaurant. She said that she likes to tinker with food all her life.

But she doesn't like a particularly commercial cooking environment, and now the guests who come here don't make her feel that way, it's like entertaining friends and doing something she is good at.

The shiitake mushroom tea egg is a must here. You can’t buy shiitake mushrooms alone, and you can’t eat them for a month or two. According to my aunt’s words, ordinary shiitake mushrooms can’t be replaced, so I don’t make them at all. For the guests who didn’t eat, I told them that it’s okay to make up for you when they come later, and you can’t be fooled.

Shredded sweet potatoes, fried pumpkin flowers, and tea eggs are the flavors I miss most here. They are really tastes and methods that I have never eaten anywhere.

There are also simple but delicious home-cooked dishes such as large plate chicken, Yellow River fish, and old noodle rolls. They are all included in the lunch here, so it is the first time to experience the purchasing power of 100 yuan, and it is actually so worth it.

There is also a private room where you can rest at noon. There are kangs and mahjong tables inside, and barbecue equipment (stove seasoning, coal sticks, etc.) are provided free of charge. You can also experience the fun of fishing in the small wild canal at the entrance.

The same as many years ago, it is still simple and moving. The difference is that uncles and aunts do have a lot more gray hair than I did six or seven years ago.

Uncle said now: I can't do it anymore, I'm getting older and my energy is limited. Auntie poked her head out of the window after hearing this, and her voice was still bright and capable: I bought it to live by myself at the earliest, but I didn't realize it as a farmhouse, and now I still can't bear it.

Auntie said that she tidied up the small courtyard bit by bit. Almost all the painstaking efforts of these years have been spent here. It doesn’t matter if the house in the city is sold, but this courtyard is not willing to sell it. Many owners with capital have come. They were all rejected by the aunt one by one. When asked why, she said: It can be seen that they are all just investing, and they don't know how to take care of the yard and have no time to take care of the yard.

"I just hope that there is someone who likes to take care of the small courtyard and like this kind of pastoral life, and can't change my courtyard randomly. If he meets him, he will retire and go on a trip," the aunt said reluctantly. This summer, go to the small courtyard to meet your childhood self? I hope that in the next summer, you can visit the small courtyard as a guest.

Address: East of Nanliang Pagoda Petrochemical in Yinchuan (the old railway station Xingzhou Street drives 15 kilometers north to Nanliang Farm, bus No. 6 gets on the old railway station and gets off at Yidouqu) Luyuan Farmhouse