"That woman always wants to turn the yard into some sort of European garden. She intends to pile soil over there and plant all sorts of foreign flowers, then enlarge this pond, and install some sculpture fountain or something," Old Meng said. "Where would I go to practice my boxing? She just keeps thinking about covering the open space with flowers. A garden, garden, all filled with flowers, and then there'd be no place for people to walk. If this house is left to that woman to decide, who knows what kind of mess it'll turn into."
Chiang Xiao pursed her lips.
Duan Qingqing's ideas and aesthetics were indeed quite progressive. In the future, European styles would definitely become quite popular, and if someone personally liked them, there was no harm in that.
But this old house was already close to perfect as it was and not suited for a European style. Moreover, with elderly people at home, her kind of thinking was just not practical.
