The old lady cooked a hearty meal for everyone at noon today, including fried meat with alfalfa, fried fish, boiled meat slices, sauerkraut, fried shrimp and so on. Ye Duhong, Caoer, Meng Hai and aunt sat down in the yard after eating at a small square table. The yard was very flat, and there were ants crawling on the ground. They sat silent and looked at the ants for a while. Ye Duhong, Meng Hai and Caoer rested in the yard for half an hour, when Caoer suggested that they go for a walk and go out for a break. Ye Duhong and Meng Hai followed Caoer out of the yard.
There is a wider road to the south. At the end of the road which is less than one hundred meters, there is a slope to the west. Below the slope is the river beach. Ye Duhong followed Caoer, and Meng Hai followed Ye Duhong. They came to a stone bridge and looked at the water under the bridge for a while, then passed the bridge and headed southwest. There is a winding and steep slope in this direction. It took them a long time to reach the bottom of the slope. The road at the bottom of the slope is very straight and wide, leading to the Nanshan Mountain. On the east side where the wide and straight road meets the steep slope, there is a large Reed marsh. The appearance of the Reed marsh attracts three people. The Reed marsh is not very good-looking at this time, but according to the present situation, the three people can fully imagine what it looks like when it is good-looking. They lingered here for a while and then headed south again. On the way south, the sound of wind blowing leaves can be heard, because there are two rows of poplars on the left side of the road. The poplars love the wind and the wind loves the poplars. They make a nice sound together. This straight and wide road is connected to a bridge. This bridge is still a flat bridge, very short, so short that children dare to jump down from the bridge. The three walked across the bridge, walked a dirt road to the west, and passed a field of wheat to the south, and they went up a hill. There is a pipe on this hill that leads to the hill to the north. Three people stood on the hill and looked at the hill to the north. They feel that the hill is covered with trees and luxuriant grass. What were those plants? Ye Duhong, Meng Hai, Caoer guessed those plants. They said, guess what that is? What is that? After talking for a while on the hill, they came down the hill from another road and came to a small field. The land was inclined with a slope of more than sixty degrees. This slope of more than sixty degrees is beautiful.If in spring, the wheat has just grown seedlings, rolling down from the top of the slope to the bottom of the slope, smelling the wheat seedlings and feeling the spring breeze, it must be the happiest thing in the world. Ye Duhong and Caoer left this small slope, and Meng Hai followed. Although they were nostalgic, they were leaving.
There is a large bunker on the east side. There is some water in the bunker and there is no fish in the water. However, a few children circled around the sand pit. They thought there were fish in the water and wanted to go down. However, the bunker is so deep that how can they easily touch the water below? Ye Duhong came to the edge of the sand pit, and a few children surrounded him, saying,"Brother, can you go down to the end?"Ye Duhong said,"It is not easy to go down the sand pit. If I have to go down, I can go down, but what do I do next?"A few children rushed to speak and said,"There are fish in this bunker."Ye Duhong said,"How can there be fish with so little water?"One child said yes, one child said no, and the other children also expressed their views vaguely. Are there any fish underneath? They've never been down there, and they don't know. At this time, they saw an apple handle under the bunker, and they wanted to eat apples. The handle of that apple is so big that the person who throws it away doesn't eat the apple carefully. There is still a lot of flesh on that handle. Several children talked about going down the bunker. They were going to form a human chain, one by one, and the one with the smallest weight was at the bottom, responsible for picking the apple handle. There are two things to pay attention to, one is not to push the apple handle, you must pick it up quickly so that the apple handle will not stick to dirty things, and the second is not allowed to bite first after getting the apple handle. They planned it in this way, and after a while they put it into practice. The shortest and thinnest child was hanging from the edge of the bunker. As a result, they didn't connect well, and the little one fell, and his body scraped off the wall of the bunker and almost fell into the water. When the little guy picked up the apple handle, the children above shouted,"Don't bite first! Don't bite first!" The little guy was very obedient, he didn't taste the booty first.
When Ye Duhong saw that the child could not come up, he turned over and went down, picked up the child's arm and took the child to the edge of the bunker. Several children cheered when they saw the apple handle being brought up.They began to share the apple handle, and the person who proposed to build the human chain took a bite first, then let others bite. After a bite, there was only a little bit of flesh left on the handle of the apple, and the little guy only bit a little bit of the flesh of the apple. The boy who works the most gets the least reward.
Ye Duhong and Caoer watched the children for a while, and Meng Hai proposed to go east, and they went east together.
They did not go far before they came to the tall grass, where the sheep were herded, and the old sheep herder had a shovel in his hand. The handle of the shovel was long, and there was a black whip tied to one end, so it could be seen that it was for sheep herding. The wool of those sheep is so white, like clouds in the sky and cotton in the ground. From time to time, the shepherd shoveled a shovel of dirt and threw it at a sheep to keep the sheep from running. The old man stood here in the breeze, watching the clouds rolling, the flowers blooming and falling.
Ye Duhong asked the shepherd,"What is this place?" The shepherd told Ye Duhong,"This is a wilderness." Ye Duhong felt strange that the names of these places were not named after someone, nor did they have a loud name. According to the geographical characteristics, it is called desert, it is called great desert, it is swamp, it is called great swamp, and if it is wilderness, it is called great wilderness, which is extremely natural.
When the old man looked at the sky, Ye Duhong, Caoer and Meng Hai were all looking at the sheep. Although they all looked at the sheep, they could not see the same sheep. Some sheep were eating grass, some sheep were drinking milk, some sheep were running, some sheep were walking, some sheep were in a daze. The sheep were so interesting that the three watched them with relish. Sheep and people are similar, people form a variety of relationships, sheep and sheep also form a relationship, in the process of inter-sheep communication, the performance of each sheep is different. The vast sea of sheep, three people standing in the wind, unconsciously, the sky has been dark.
Three people spent the afternoon in their spare time. They have made a decision, that is, they will stay with the old lady for a day and leave for east early tomorrow morning. Why should they go to the east? The reason is very simple: there is a"Shadow in Dream"mainland in that direction.
That night, three people slept in the same room, the room was a little shabby, three people slept and did not speak all night. The next morning, three young adventurers bid farewell to the old lady and embarked on an eastward dirt road.