Pastoral Daily Life

The name of the neighbourhood where Lu Lingxi lived was Hongfu (Ever Rich) Community. Compared to the names like Xincheng (New Town), Tiandi (Universe), Shuiyunjian (Between Water and Clouds) and so on that were popular in Fengcheng now, this name could only be described as down-to-earth. However, as it was one of the earliest communities in Fengcheng, the residents still living in the Hongfu Community were basically old neighbours for more than ten years. The ones with a little money had moved away, and the rest had grown accustomed to the name over time and even found the name of the community to be friendly and attractive.

In the last two months, the residents in the neighbourhood had clearly felt the change in the environment. It seemed that the neighbourhood was still in the same messy and dilapidated state, but the air seemed to be different. The most obvious thing was that there seemed to be more birds that had been extinct for years in the neighbourhood. People talked about it in private, but they thought it was because of the removal of the garbage dump next to the neighbourhood.

The Hongfu Community was built a long time ago. Back then, it was still on the edge of the urban area. In order to solve the problem of garbage in the city centre, a certain mayor built a garbage dump in the area. At that time, people didnt understand environmental protection and thought it was convenient to dump the garbage close to home. As time went on and the city expanded, the Hongfu Community was already close to the city centre and people gradually became aware of environmental protection and started to oppose the existence of the garbage dump.

The most crucial thing was that as the population of Fengcheng City increased, the amount of domestic waste also increased dozens of times. The amount of garbage dumped greatly exceeded the carrying capacity of the garbage dump, which directly led to untimely disposal of garbage, breeding of flies and mosquitoes, and stench, all of which affected the surrounding natural environment. At the beginning of spring this year, the first initiative of the newly appointed city leadership team was to move this dump to the suburbs, where a new environmentally friendly and harmless waste disposal site was built.

Therefore, although the environment of the neighbourhood had been changing day by day recently, the people didnt think much about it. Apart from Lu Lingxi, who was a bit anxious, everyone gave credit to the new mayor for moving the dump, and their opinion of the new mayor improved greatly.

In the morning, after Lu Lingxi washed up, Wang Shuxiu exchanged a packet of tomatoes for two Chinese cabbage from the neighbour next door. When she saw that Lu Lingxi was almost ready, Wang Shuxiu remembered something, “Well make dumplings at home tonight, so call Yan Yue to come and have dinner. Weve been troubling Yan Yue all this time, and theres no other way we can thank him.”

“Okay.” Lu Lingxi agreed quickly and added after a moments thought, “Big Brother Yan likes to eat pork and scallion stuffed ones.”

“Got it.” Wang Shuxiu muttered in her heart, the little bastard knew what kind of stuffing Yan Yue liked to eat and remembered it clearly. She was just about to peel the scallions and chop the stuffing when Lu Lingxi thought of something else and ran to the kitchen door to ask, “Mom, can you make eggplants with garlic? Big Brother Yan likes them.”