The wind is shaking its leaves, the grass is laying its seeds, and it is very beautiful for us to stand without speaking.
When Hu Lin stood on the balcony of her new home in Lijiang and looked at the staggered scenery in the courtyard, the first thing she thought of was Gu Cheng's poem.
A few days ago, Oriental Satellite TV's newly broadcast home improvement renovation program "Dream Transformation Home" let the audience know Hu Lin and her friends.
The old sisters who are more than half a hundred years old have found a house in a foreign country to prepare to live together for the elderly, which makes young people envious.
<h2>More than 20 years of sisterhood</h2>
In fact, the friendship of this group of sisters dates back to the 1990s. Hu Lin was originally from Luzhou, Sichuan, and went to Chengdu to study and work there, and has become half a Chengdu native.
When she was young, Hu Lin liked to make friends, and in 1992, when she was playing with her classmates in college, she met Ji Rong and saw each other as soon as she was, and they met the earliest of the five sisters.
Later, attending the birthday party of college classmates, Hu Lin met the humorous and sharp Cai Kui, and several Sichuan girls of similar age quickly mingled together.
Hu Lin, who can't cook, often goes to her sisters' homes to "rub rice", sometimes everyone visits each other to borrow, which can be up to a month, and friends' parents are accustomed to it, "When we are our own children." ”
Usually, the sisters are also busy at work, and they are not often tired of being together. "But as soon as the holidays are over, we get together to find food, gossip, and be very happy."
Hu Lin and her friends sometimes even drive two hours to find local specialties, "We have eaten all the delicious food here." Hu Lin laughed.
Looking back now, everyone has spent most of their lives in ordinary and comfortable daily life, there is no thrilling big event, and the days come day by day. "Sometimes when we talk, we say that when we have time later, we will find a house, and everyone will live together, how lively." 」
The idea of a girlfriend living together was actually born in an unintentional chat.
<h2>Trip to find a house to step on the iron shoes</h2>
Although this good wish has been around for a long time, everyone has been busy with their work and has not been able to achieve it.
Four years ago, Hu Lin retired, and she began to officially embark on a journey to find a house. In the show, their house was selected in Lijiang, Yunnan, which made many people wonder: Is Chengdu not the livable capital that many people yearn for?
In fact, Hu Lin also likes this gastronomic capital that has lived for more than 20 years, and what made her decide to "escape Chengdu" was actually her physical condition.
Perhaps because the climate was not suitable, Hu Lin always suffered from cough after coming to Chengdu in the early years to live. "As soon as the season changes, I start to cough, and when it is serious, I can't relieve it for half a year, and I cough all over my body and have a headache, but the doctor can't find the cause."
So while looking for a house, the sisters searched for a scenic city outside of Chengdu, trying to find a place with a pleasant environment that would allow Hu Lin to stop coughing.
Since 2017, everyone has searched all over the large and small towns in Sichuan, Sichuan Aba, Yunnan Dali, and everywhere is full of green mountains and rivers. However, places with good ecology are often too remote, and supporting facilities such as shops and hospitals are incomplete.
When I was in Dali, everyone liked the local environment and the simple folk customs, but when Hu Lin had altitude sickness there, everyone checked the hospital and found that it was a two-hour drive from the town, and they had to give up quickly.
After coming to Lijiang, Hu Lin found that her high anti-reaction had disappeared, and even if she changed seasons, she no longer coughed, and after several searches, they looked at the courtyard on the mountainside now.
There is no place to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to describe the old sister's journey to find a house. They quickly settled down and signed up to the "Dream Reform" program group.
"Our whole family is a big fan of the show, from the first season to the present. At that time, when watching the show, I said that when I bought a new house in the future, I must sign up. "Hu Lin shared with us the initial love affair with the show.
<h2>Be selected by the show, like winning the lottery</h2>
Due to its location in the heart of the tourist attraction, the approval process for new houses lasted for more than a year, and in May 2019, the sisters finally decided to start the reconstruction work, and at this time, they had not yet waited for the admission call of the program group.
"At that time, we felt that it was normal to fail to choose, so we did not hope anymore and began to find a construction team to renovate."
However, no matter how the design and construction, the effect is always unsatisfactory, Hu Lin broke her leg in Lijiang for the front and back of the house, and also invested some funds, and the result was also adrift.
Just when the project was halfway stopped, Hu Lin received a call from the program team. "I was so happy, like I had won the lottery. After such a long time, how could I have been chosen! ”
Hu Lin used "keeping the clouds open to see the moon" to describe such a fate, so there was the whole process we saw on the show. From August to December this year, the entire project lasted for four months, and their dream home was finally completed.
When we interviewed the phone, Hu Lin had already moved in, and she was busy cleaning, dealing with some trivial finishing work such as water and sewage dredging.
"I was the first to come in, and some of my sisters were still working, and when they were fully retired, they all came here to settle down." Hu Lin couldn't hide her happiness in the conversation.
In ordinary life, Hu Lin has many small hobbies. Since she was young, she has loved to read all kinds of literary works, and to this day, her speech also reveals the atmosphere of literature and art.
In addition to reading books, chasing dramas is also a great pleasure for her, "I just finished watching the Korean drama "The Forced Landing of Love" that was on fire at the beginning of the year! ”
In the sister group, although Hu Lin is the least able to cook, Li Yan is a chef who can make a good Hand sichuan cuisine, and with her, the only cooking work that Hu Lin can get her hands on is cold cucumber.
Ji Rong is the face value of the team, everyone calls her Ji Mei, "what makeup, fashion she knows best." ”
Sister Cai is humorous and funny and loves to talk about gossip,
Dan Mei is warm and thoughtful and loves snacks.
The old sisters each have their own skills, everyone together complements each other's personalities, life is mutually helpful, in Hu Lin's view, it is the greatest luck to meet them.
Young people say that you live the life that everyone yearns for, and many people want to be free like this, but they may "fight" with the traditional concepts of their parents.
When I was young, I would also be nagged by my family, and of course they wanted you to live a traditional life of marriage and children. But for us, the most important thing is to be happy ourselves, and if there is anything that makes you unhappy, don't force it. More importantly, young people must have the ability to live independently, work well, and live a life within their own capabilities. Now it is too early to think about how to retire, first live a good life, after a wealth of accumulation, the rest will happen naturally.
Source: Thoughtful