Chapter 574: Elegance Never Goes Out of Style~ Reba: What Was I Even Looking Forward To TvT?

Li Kaixuan's mother was named Zheng Zhaodi.

Though well into her eighties, she still chatted with the tea-pickers in the tea-tree grove.

The old lady would occasionally help out with small things like handing over water and thanking people.

At first glance, she was a kindly old woman who couldn't sit still.

At her age, her body was still so sturdy.

Though she wasn't as old as Grandma Maria So whom Qin Feng and Reba had met by chance among the Ewenki.

But her spirit was even more vigorous!

Uncle Li Kaixuan introduced to the young couple: "This is my mother. I keep telling her not to run up the mountain, but the old lady just can't sit still."

Qin Feng nodded and said, "That's understandable."

That wasn't mere politeness.

It was genuinely understandable~

Like many elderly people.

They always find themselves something to do.

Even the viewers in the livestream room agreed wholeheartedly with this!

——【That's right, my grandma always loves growing vegetables in the field, she tends the seedlings so carefully.】

——【Most old folks are like that, maybe only when they're busy do they stop missing those who've passed.】

——【Whoa, the bro above really gets old people... suddenly feeling a bit teary-eyed.】

——【I'm a Yangcheng migrant worker, I see old men and women selling vegetables by the road — they're not really poor, might have several apartments at home, it's purely a hobby!】 ——【But of course, can't rule out that a good number of those old vegetable-sellers really are in tough straits.】

That said, the group chat:.! 7'!, 6'? ３.:; 4'8:0?! 1; 5,'7;: group,, 8? 5;"0:, 2,? 9; 6??'5:;? 0; １ — let's not go there.

The goofball netizens in the livestream sure knew how to derail a topic.

If the discussion kept going, it might go from people's livelihood all the way to the scale of the cosmos. Afterwards, during Qin Feng and Reba's chat with Uncle Li Kaixuan.

They learned that in Uncle Li's childhood.

His father had enlisted and gone north to take part in the war of national defense.

Qin Feng counted on his fingers.

A war beyond the northern border decades ago — it could only have been that one.

What tugged at the young couple's hearts was that Uncle Li Kaixuan's father never returned home after leaving. And so, Old Lady Zheng had raised three children all on her own.

Uncle Li Kaixuan also had an older brother and an older sister.

The three were named Kaixuan, Shengli, and Ping'an respectively.

Apart from Uncle Li's own name.

His brother and sister's names had been changed later on.

They sounded more like the old lady's hopes and wishes.

Uncle Li lowered his head, lit a Seven Wolves cigarette, and said with a smile: "The old lady has had a hard life. Now she's got grandchildren and great-grandchildren, blessings she won't enjoy, she just loves running up the mountain." Though the past was all told in laughter.

Perhaps the smoke had stung his eyes.

Uncle Li Kaixuan rubbed the corner of his eye.

Reba quietly listened to Uncle Li and Qin Feng chatting.

She gripped Qin Feng's palm tightly, feeling a little ache inside.

Moreover, the attentive Reba had also heard from Uncle Li's earlier words.

That a few of the scattered tea trees here had been planted by the old lady together with Father Li when she was young.

Now.

The Shui Xian tea trees, after half a century of rain and sunshine, had grown into a graceful canopy.

Perhaps that too was why Old Lady Zheng liked the mountain.

Reba pretended to be breezy and said: "Uncle Li! Let's talk about the tea leaves instead

Qin Feng also nodded and said: "We might even make it onto CCTV."

The moment Uncle Li Kaixuan heard that.

He was stunned!

When Qin Feng had contacted Uncle Li before, he'd only mentioned filming some video footage of Wuyi rock tea.

He hadn't gone into the specifics of why.

Uncle Li had assumed it was for local cultural-tourism promotion or tea-culture publicity.

Or perhaps to advertise oolong tea products for a tea factory.

This earnest young fellow Qin Feng had never said anything about getting onto CCTV?

Hearing this.

Uncle Li hurriedly stubbed out the cigarette in his hand.

He said: "Xiao Qin, why didn't you say so earlier — cut that smoking bit out of the footage."

As he spoke, Uncle Li used the sweat at his temples to slick back his half-gray hair.

Qin Feng and Reba burst out laughing at the same time.

As they chatted.

They finally reached the old lady's side.

Old Lady Zheng was very fond of these two young people, Qin Feng and Reba.

In the eyes of an elderly woman her age.

The young couple were basically still kids~

The old lady looked up at the sky and said, "The plum rain season in Minbei has arrived again; it looks like rain is coming soon."

Uncle Li Kaixuan seized the opening and proposed to go down the mountain with his elderly mother.

If it rains,

some rocky sections on the descent will be slippery; the old lady fears falling, so one cannot be careless.

Therefore,

whether in the eyes of Qin Feng and Reba,

or in the view of the live-stream audience,

an octogenarian old lady running up the tea mountain was already a shocking thing.

Of course, Old Lady Zheng does not come to the tea mountain every day.

After all, at her age, she only comes to check on the tea trees every few days.

Reba poked Qin Feng and said, "Let's protect the old lady down the mountain~"

Qin Feng shook his head.

Reba furrowed her dark eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qin Feng: "It's time to call the Wang Wang Patrol!"

Reba: "You're a dog!"