At nearly 8 o'clock in the evening of December 3, I stood in the courtyard and saw a large rocket-like flying object falling from the sky facing west of the lake. I quickly grabbed my binoculars, got on my motorcycle, and took Wang Xile to the west of the lake. When we arrived at the Huxi Highway, we took our binoculars and looked carefully, but there was nothing in front of us except the thick night. I said: "The rocket is blocked by the sand beams in Huxi, and tomorrow Saturday we will go to Huxi to look for the rocket." ”

"Good. The son said happily.

After lunch the next day, we set off on our motorbikes and arrived in Huxi half an hour later. We climbed the highest sand beam in the west of the lake, and then carefully searched along the sand road with binoculars, and it was almost three o'clock, but we still found nothing.

"Joy, there is an old saying, 'Look at the mountain and run a dead horse'. Standing in the courtyard and watching the rocket in the sky is very close to us, but now in fact, it is at least forty or fifty axioms away from us, and we can't find a rocket to go to the cistanche in the west of the lake. Joy, you are a young man, can you take me to the Cistanche pit in the west of the lake?"

"Daddy, that cistanche pit should be to the south of us, not too far from here. Wang Xile thought for a while and said.

"Why?"

"Cistanche is dug from the south to the west of the lake, and we are now in the north. ”

"Quite right. ”

I got on my motorcycle and quickly went to the southwest side of the lake and into the depths of the field. Wang Xile used his memory to lead me through the middle of the lake, which was full of dead trees, and we had nothing to do but walk, and there was nothing to see. Wang Xile was also unusual, he no longer urged me to tell him a story, he looked around and walked forward, until there were still more than two or three hundred meters away from Cistanche, he said: "Dad, that Cistanche pit is in this sand ditch area, I can't find the specific point." ”

"Joy, you have a great ability to discern direction. ”

I led Wang Xile to a specific location, and we immediately squatted down and shaved the sand with our hands.

"Cistanche. The son shouted at once.

"Joy, last year was a low ebb year for Cistanche growth, and this year it may progress as much as you learn. ”

When the eighth cistanche sprout showed its head, I patted my son on the back and said, "Cistanche has made progress as you do." ”

Wang Xile didn't speak, kept planing, and when he confirmed that there was no more cistanche, he smiled and said: "It's not progress but great progress, a total of twelve seedlings, great!"

Wang Xile sat there proudly admiring the lovely scenery of Cistanche, and when the joy passed, he said, "How can you dig without a shovel?"

"What do you say," I said, "you can't dig it out without a spade?" ”

"Planing by hand. ”

"Good son. But it is not possible to planer by hand alone. ”

The sun is starting to move west, and the problem must be solved as soon as possible. Although Cistanche is only two feet long, it is not easy to dig it out without a spade.

I quickly found a suitable wooden stick to use as a spade, and the two of them remained silent, both carefully and quickly. When we dug up all the cistanches and the sun was about to set, I said happily in the face of the fruits of labor: "Joy, you see the place where the vitality is strong, even the sand is soft in winter, so to be a human being, you must have a strong vitality, that is, the little doll must have enough liveliness." ”

In winter, the night is coming, when we come to the motorcycle with Cistanche in our arms, it is dark, although it is cold at this time, our hearts are warm.