Ivy-covered house witnesses love of 23 years. (Photo/ huaxi100.com)
Sun Sufang, 65, sits in a chair in the front of an ivy covered house at the end of JunxingRoad in Ziyang City, Sichuan province on Aug 26. The house behind her is about to bedemolished by local government.
Sun and her family reached an agreement to leave the old house for a new one a day ago.
Sun said those ivy wines were planted by her late husband all around the house. "Heplanted for me because he knew that I love greens." Sun’s husband passed away six yearsago. "That ivy wines are precious,because they are all he left for me."
At first, Sun were not willing to move out the ivy-covered old house, where is filled with allgood memories with her husband. In order to provide a better housing condition for hergrandchildren, she finally decided to say goodbye to those 23 year old ivy wines.
23 years ago, the house is situated in the suburb of Ziyang city. Neighbors plantedvegetables around their houses at that time. Only Sun’s family planted ivy wines aroundtheir house. At time goes by, the house is now fully covered with ivy wines and becoming adreamy place for tourists.
The lush ivy wines often remind Sun of her late husband. She used to compliment herhusband, saying "Ivy wines turned our home into a dreamy place".
However, Sun’s house is about to be demolished because local government plans to buildhigher buildings there. Sun’s family will move to a new house. "I want my son and mygrandchildren to live in a new house but I’ll miss my old ivy-covered home."
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