Chapter 22 second quarter

Mount Vernon, the former residence of Washington, is located on a ridge on the right side of the Washington Canal.It is surrounded by sparse forests and grasslands.On the grass, there are clusters in the east and clusters in the west, with small yellow, purple and white flowers blooming.The path is winding and winding, connecting the wharf and the buildings of Mount Vernon, where squirrels and black birds sing, dance and play.It was exactly the kind Cheng Shaozhong saw on the lawn of the White House, they were not afraid of people at all.Tourists walked along the path, through the woods and meadows towards Mount Vernon. Along the way, Sophia and Mary were also jumping like little squirrels and black birds.Brown was as happy as a child, and couldn't help singing:

September wildflowers whisper to me, The autumn wind has blown across the grass. ... Immediately Sophia and Mary took Brown's arm one by one, and walked with him, singing: Hurry up to harvest your love, One more day of joy. ... The path they walked led to the back gate of Mount Vernon, so when entering the former residence complex, the first thing Cheng Shaozhong saw was the stables of the Washington family.Inside is a clearly eighteenth-century carriage and saddlery, which may have been ornate then but is now dated.A sign introducing the carriage reads: On May 9, 1787, Washington took this carriage to Dutchester to assume the command of the Continental Army.

There are also several horse lanterns hanging on the ceiling of the stable.Next to the stables is the warehouse, where farm tools are displayed, followed by the bakery, kitchen, filled with various cooking utensils and tableware, and then there are bedrooms, living rooms, reception rooms, etc. of different sizes in the main building, which are distributed on the first floor The largest room, with pianos, many seats and sofas, is said to be the place where Washington and his wife, Martha, held family dances.But in Cheng Shaozhong's eyes, this family dance hall is too small, not to mention incomparable with the spaciousness of the Beijing Imperial Palace, even compared to his family's Huichun Hall, it is probably too small.Later, they visited the wooden house where the Washington family's male and female servants lived, and a row of simple sheds used by his family for brewing and slaughtering, as well as orchards, vegetable gardens, chicken coops, and duck coops.In the end, when everyone gathered on the large lawn in the center of the courtyard to take pictures, Cheng Shaozhong's impression of the outing was very ordinary and not interesting.The dignified former residence of the founding father of the United States is actually such an ordinary farmer's manor. It is not magnificent, let alone grand, and only has a little taste of a pastoral home. Thinking of this outing, he seemed to feel much better than now. Only then did he realize that after seeing the ostentation and luxury of Chinese imperial palaces and land rich people, it was too ordinary to visit the former residence of Washington, and after a few days in the cowshed Looking at the former residence of the great man in Shaoshan Chong has been regarded as well-off, and then thinking about the former residence of Washington, it is a very remarkable and decent manor. One morning in September 1912, Cheng Shaozhong’s evaluation of the former residence of Washington was: Unexpectedly, such an ordinary farm family produced such an outstanding American hero.

Tang Renjie was different. He felt surprisingly good about this outing. After he actually investigated what kind of family environment can produce a first-class national leader, he had a bottom line in his mind.Comparing my home in Hong Kong, I feel that although it does not have such a large scale, if it is reduced proportionally, it should be possible for his family environment to be the mayor of Washington.And for him, that's enough.At least equivalent to a mayor of Beijing in China.In this way, he made many poses that he thought were charismatic, and Fang Zhiwu took pictures of him after asking everyone to confirm.

On the way back, Tang Renjie had been standing alone at the windward part of the front of the top cabin, with his hands clasped around his waist, and he looked proudly standing upright.He wanted Fang Zhiwu to take another photo of him in this pose, but Fang Zhiwu said that the film was used up and the spotlight bulb was gone, so he was very depressed and said: "I just found the feeling of a leader, unfortunately... ..." After returning from an outing in Washington, Tang Renjie kept silent, shutting himself in the room alone, neither eating nor drinking.Fang Zhiwu and Mary came to see him, thinking that he was out of money again, so they took out a handful of money to him, but Tang Renjie pushed the money back and said: "No, I can't go on like this in the future, I should pay him the money." Learn from Washington, hold the three-foot sword, open thousands of miles, and do it vigorously!"

That night, Tang Renjie took advantage of Cheng Shaozhong's English tutoring again, took out his notebook, asked him about many small prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, and wrote them down in the notebook one by one.It was like this for the next few days. At the same time, he also asked Cheng Shaozhong for several commonly used Chinese patent medicines that he brought with him, and borrowed a few books on Chinese medicine. Another night, when Cheng Shaozhong and Sophia went to Tang Renjie's place again, Tang Renjie had already left with his things, leaving only a piece of paper on the bed with a poem written on it:

Don't ask me where I went, I am with my ideal! Don't ask me where I went, I am competing with my dream! If one day a miracle happens somewhere, You will hear my name at the same time, That miracle is my gift to you, It will tell you why I left! Bye Bye (goodbye)! Nabs (dude)! Your Tang (Your Tang)