A few days before the fight against SARS, the town was filled with a strong smell of boiling medicine, even in the early morning. Today, me, my son and my nephew went camping at Little Chahan Beach, about 60 kilometers round trip, which was the first time we had traveled such a long distance by bicycle, and the children were very happy.

The children wake up early and prepare their own camping equipment. Preparing for difficulties can not only increase the motivation to move forward, but also the starting point for paying attention to details.

"Dad, let's go. The son's voice was heard, "The sun is rising." ”

I went over, kissed my son on the forehead, and prayed for good luck today. As soon as the order to set off came out, the little brothers rushed forward happily, and the child's original shyness was gone.

There is no wind in the morning, and the sky is full of thin clouds. When we got to the five-kilometre toll booth, it was a good day, but by the eight-kilometre point, the clouds cracked, the sun was shining, and it was hot. The son said regretfully.

"Parking," I said, "camping starts with special circumstances in mind. I took my sun hat out of my bag and said, "Here, you two put it on." ”

"Dad is so nice. The son said happily.

"It's not my fault, it's your lack of common sense about camping, and there are obvious problems with the preparations, which gives Dad a chance to be reckless, and I hope that in the future, Dad will have fewer and fewer opportunities for this kind of recklessness. ”

"I will. ”

"You two look so good wearing a straight hat, don't wear it crookedly, it won't be majestic. I said, "Now that we've got the sun hat, what's next?"

"Keep going. The two brothers said in unison.

Putting on a sun hat, we rode to nine kilometers. There's a billboard there. We rest in the shade below. At this time, the calm of the surroundings made me feel a chill in my heart, saying that it was winter and the earth seemed to be a little green, and that it was summer when the earth was bare. Along the way, we didn't see a single bird, I felt weird and uncomfortable, but there was roast bird meat in the barbecue restaurant, and in this era when development is the last word, as long as you make money, it's good.

Eleven kilometers away, there were two abandoned houses by herders and a few sprouting trees next to the road, which was the most beautiful view we had seen on the camping so far, and we decided to bury the pot and cook there. When they arrived at the tree, the two children learned the plot of the cartoon to collect firewood, light the fire and make breakfast, but after a while, the fire was not lit, but the pot overturned. "You can't learn the real thing from books and cartoons alone," I said, "and this is sand, and you need to scrape off the layer that is too soft, and then dig three little nests and fix the three stones so that you can hold the pot steady." ”

After a while, the aroma of instant noodles wafted out of the pot, and the children ate their first meal of the day. That's not to mention how high the happiness is. After eating, some waste was scattered on the ground, the elder brother stood up and walked to the car, and Wang Xile naturally picked up the garbage on the ground and put it in his bag. I am proud of my son's behavior, but I am not surprised, it is the result of the family's habits and rules. I said, "Joy, Daddy is proud of you." ”

"Pride! What do I have to be proud of?"

"Dad is very happy that you know at such a young age that you can pick up the waste that has fallen into the ground. ”

"It's my business. Because the garbage is brought by ourselves. ”

At this time, I remembered that my middle school had been pushing tough measures to stop students from littering the campus, but the results were all superficial, and bad things could be seen everywhere on campus. The reason for this is not that education management is bad, but that children's knowledge and actions in the process of growing up are out of touch with real life. Once education cannot make people feel emotional about the sun, the moon, the land, and the flowers and trees, the cultivated people will not produce public morality for the society.

Nineteen kilometers later, the clouds in the sky had completely dispersed, the scorching sun had removed the barrier, and the air around me began to smell a little hot. I was about to open my mouth to speak, when I saw my brother casually throwing the finished drink bottle to the side of the road, "stop", and my son said loudly, "Brother, the bottle should not be littered, it will pollute the environment." ”

The son walked down the road, and his face was red from the heat. When he bent down to pick up the bottle, I asked myself - what is the real education? Education is to create a beautiful mentality for the child's mind, and book learning is only a skill, it does not determine the direction of life.

"Dad, what are you doing there?"

I hurriedly got into the car and rode forward.

"Dad, can you tell us a story?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Tell the story of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and tell the story of Cheng biting gold. ”

"Good. ”

Finish the story. I said, "Joy, sing a song to Daddy." When my son heard this, he said with a shy face: "I can't do it, the teacher said that I am incomplete in five tones and my singing is very poor." ”

"Rejoice, is there a man in the world who sings poorly?"

"Yes. I am. ”

"Wrong. There is no one in the world who sings badly. ”

"Nonsense. Our teachers often say that whoever sings well sings and who sings poorly. ”

"That's a serious mistake on the part of your teacher. ”

"Why?"

"Singing well refers to an innate talent, such as who has a good voice and strong rhythm, but that is not the meaning of singing itself. ”

"What is the meaning of singing itself?"

"Joy, when you've done something, you can't help but hum a little song in your mouth. ”

"Yes. ”

"Why are you humming a song when you don't have all five notes?"

When I was happy, I couldn't help but want to hum. ”

"That's right. Singing is not about singing well, it's an expression of happiness. There is no good or bad way to sing for yourself, as long as you sing it, everything is the best. Do you know how the music and singing exams are conducted in the United States?"

"I don't know. ”

"The music singing test for American children is not to see how well you sing and how accurate the syllables are, but to see if you dare to finish singing loudly in public. This process seems simple, but in fact it is very difficult, and it requires a lot of courage on the part of the student to complete, rather than a single good voice. ”

The son lifted his sun hat upward, cocked his mouth, smiled, and said, "Dad, I sing the most childish song, don't laugh at me." ”

My son's words clearly told me that in the past few minutes, he has changed from being afraid of singing to wanting to audition. In just such a short period of time, he has made such a great change in the same thing! Educating people is really a superb art, and it is not comparable to teaching. Truth be told, no matter how bad a child is, there is a strong sense of initiative, but the process needs help and tolerance. When a child comes to this world, he does not have any courage and confidence, and courage and confidence will not be acquired naturally, it needs to be cultivated through practice and accumulated.

"Your dad can't be full of five tones, and he can scare others away when he sings, but does Dad sing a lot?" I said in a hurry.

"Yes. ”

"Joy, no matter how ugly the singing is, that is also the voice of your heart, as long as it can bring happiness to yourself, it is enough, this is the value of music. ”

"Little Swallow, wear flower clothes, come here every spring......" the son sang a nursery rhyme in a low voice.

"If you sing well, your voice is a little small, as if you are singing alone. Don't forget, you have two listeners by your side, sing it again so that we, the listeners, can hear it clearly. I said.

The son sang again, "Great, we can hear clearly, but the sound is still a little small, and the road under our feet has not yet been heard." Joy, the road, carries us to the goal, should we give way and be happy?"

"Yes. ”

The son sang again, and the voice began to come out of his throat normally.

"Great. Joy, listen, the road burst into laughter. ”

"Dad, you're lying to me again. This is the sound of bicycle wheels and the road. ”

"Listen carefully, is this a happy voice or an unhappy voice?"

"It's a happy voice. My son heard about it.

"Joy, now the listeners are satisfied, and the road is happy, but there is one most important person who is not satisfied. ”

"Who isn't satisfied?"

"The land that nurtures us. Can you do your best to sing to the earth on both sides of the road again? The land provides all the material resources for mankind, without which people cannot survive, the land is the parents of mankind, and people should be grateful to the land. ”

"Okay. ”

The son sang as hard as he could into the wilderness on either side, and his voice had the taste of his chest, where the original sound of life came from. When he finished singing, he was in a mood and raised his brother's army, and they sang together. On the field, the three-person singing team sang all the way to the road, to the wilderness, and to themselves, moving towards the goal.

The son is very energetic, riding at the forefront, and singing the hardest. I don't think so, because at home I tried to encourage him to sing loudly many times but failed, and then my son's singing drifted to the earth along with the sun, and the earth accepted it silently without any bad feelings. "Mother Earth, the homeland is inseparable. Out of nowhere, this sentence suddenly popped into my head, and my heart became ecstatic. Now the wilderness is not like a mother, who accommodates her son's incomplete singing! Without the earth's tolerance, would his courage to sing change so quickly?

No, no.

It seems that there is an unconscious force in the earth in people's conscious activities. The son sang brighter and brighter, who did he sing to? Sing to his brother? No. Sing to Daddy? Not yet. Because when he sings, he doesn't even look at us, and there is only one explanation here: to sing to the earth. The earth is pouring power into the child's heart in a gentle way with an underlying maternal power, and I dare say that my son has never been so happy in singing since he went to school.

The big and small troubles in our hearts were dispelled with the singing, and we were smiling and refreshed. Ahead is a three-kilometer downhill section. We raced. Came to the station of the second team twenty-two kilometers. It was desolate, there was no one left, only more than twenty abandoned houses. The son was puzzled:

"Dad, why don't people live here, where did they go?"

I was at a loss. How do I know where the last few people have gone? The surrounding land, in the sun, is orange-red and unusually dry, and the air that is inhaled into the lungs can feel hot. The original field, bare and bare, was laid out there, and it was very unpleasant to see people's hearts. The remnants of the tree, as if angry with someone, stood gloomy, without a trace of life, and the scene accompanied by the dilapidated room was as if it had suffered a catastrophe. I said, "Rejoice, is there a drought here?"

"Drought. ”

"I don't know where the people here have gone, but I do know that the people here are leaving their homes because of the drought and they can't survive. ”

"Yes. The trees died of drought. ”

"In fact, our hometown is also being affected by drought. If we can't find a way to deal with the drought, twenty or thirty years from now, your hometown will look the same as it is now. ”

The son fell silent and rode forward quietly. Rode two kilometers. He suddenly said, "Dad, tell me the story of the Three Kingdoms." ”

"It's too hot for storytelling. I said.

"Oh, I see," said the son, "it's hot, and everybody is tired." Then he asked, "Dad, how far is it from Little Chahan Beach?"

"Ten kilometers. ”

"It's not far off. ”

A second-grader can say such things on a hot day when he rides 24 kilometers in a row and has a lot of physical exertion, which shows that he has a sense of purpose. I looked at his face with joy, and there was a resolute aura on his smooth round face, and this kind of spirit would produce confidence in anyone who saw it.

"Third uncle, there's still ten kilometers left! It's too far!" said the nephew.

"It's not far, it's only ten kilometers. It'll be there in a moment. "The son cheered for his brother.

The son went on this long-distance camp through a period of preparation, but his brother did not. Although my brother was two years older than my brother, I was really physically exhausted at this time, so I said decisively, "Get out of the car." Rest. ”

"Dad, ride! there's not even a bit of shade here. The son said.

"Joy, why do people go to school?"

"To learn knowledge, to create. ”

"Well said. Can't we create shade without shade?"

"How do we create? We can't shade the sun! Look at Daddy's creation of shade. The son said puzzled.

After getting out of the bike, I leaned my bike against the right place, took a slip out of my bag, and fastened the four corners to the bike. The pergola appeared. The son said, "Dad has a lot of solutions!"

"It's not that my dad has a lot of methods, but I have learned to use knowledge. As long as you don't die studying, there is nothing that will stump you in life. Dead reading is the most meaningless learning in the world. ”

The wilderness here is nothing attractive, it is surrounded by yellow sand, and the vegetation of the desert, like small islands in the sea, is dotted in a few places. During the break, the nephew looked haggard, and the joy he had when he came out was gone. At this point, I regret letting him participate in this long-distance camp, because this kind of camping is very physically and mentally taxing, and usually requires a lot of preparation before it can be carried out. I approached my nephew and asked him if he was okay and if he needed to rest and ride back, "I'm not tired at all," my son said hurriedly, and my nephew slowed down, looked at my brother, and said, "Then I'll ride with Wang Xile for a while." ”

Everyone has an upward heart. But the "upward heart" will be killed in an inappropriate state. The nephew didn't mean what he said, his weak tone showed that he was wavering in achieving his goal, and the only motivation to support him was - I couldn't lose to the brother in front of me. Faced with this situation, I said, "Then let's rest a little longer." ”

"One rest, one rest," the son said with emotion, "if this is the case, it will take a long time to reach Little Chahan Beach!"

How can my son know that I am the mental energy of my nephew to achieve his goal. Saying that there is no such thing that the elder brother can't compare with the younger brother, once the big one can't be compared to the small one, it's very easy for the animal body to have the psychology of "I can't do it". Son, get these pieces on the car so that the shade is greater. Well, the son said, "I'll renovate the pergola." ”

After the renovation of the pergola. My son took out bread, snacks, and milk, and we ate and talked while looking at the trees in the distance. I pointed to it and asked, "What do those shuttles on the sand beam mean?"

"Anything can live," the son replied first. The elder brother followed and said, "Yes." ”

"Yes. I said, "Anything can live." In fact, human beings, like plants, can thrive no matter how bad the conditions are, as long as they have vitality in their hearts. It's so barren here, but the Saxon tree can live well on the sand beam, which shows that the desolation is not terrible, but it grows slowly. This is like a child's learning, as long as you have fun when you play, and concentrate on learning when you learn, everything will slowly get better after a long time. ”

My son stared at me and said, "Dad, you often tell me to play more and concentrate on learning, I went to the second grade and thought I could play well and learn well, but the teacher was strict when he saw me playing, you are also a teacher, they are also teachers, why is it so different?"

I patted my son on the shoulder and said, "It's a pleasure for you to ask such a question, it all has to do with people's life experiences, my father leads the school sports team all the year round, and there are many students who have won the college entrance examination in both civil and military arts, and there are also students with poor academic performance and good athletic ability. On the other hand, if you do very well in school, that's a kind of creation, just like a scientist can't achieve it through hard work.

The son nodded as if he didn't understand. He crossed his hands to the sky, as if to hold the sun, and said, "I want to play always and always find a way to win." Listening to his words, I felt a kind of excitement in my heart. I stood up and looked into the distance. A target comes into view. I pointed with my hand and said:

"What's that?"

The son came out of the pergola, looked far away in the direction he pointed, and screamed: "Golden Triangle, sign of the Golden Triangle." ”

The appearance of the target made the fatigue on the child's body fly suddenly, "Dad, you clean up the ground, and my brother and I will go first." The son left this sentence and rode with his brother towards the goal, and during the SARS period, the road was also wider.

When I arrived in the Golden Triangle, I looked at my watch, and it was exactly one o'clock, and I rode thirty kilometers for six and a half hours. When I was enjoying the cool air in the Golden Triangle, I said, "Two kilometers ahead is Xiao Chahan Beach, and we will have lunch at the restaurant here, or will we continue to move forward?"

"It's broken. I forgot to take the money when I went out, how can I buy food?" said the son.

"Joy, Dad went out to pay for it, and the next time you forget to take the money, it will be miserable. ”

"No, it won't. I'll be sure to remember it next time. ”

As we had eaten during our break at the twenty-four kilometres, it was decided to move on. Determined, we got into the car and headed straight for the little Chahan Beach, two kilometers away. At the 32-kilometer fork in the road, turning into the dirt road, the children's strength was noticeably weaker. We pushed and rode towards a large elm tree in front of us. Fifty meters from the elm tree, the son stopped, he gazed at the trees on either side and asked:

"Dad, why are there so many dead trees?"

The son's question seems simple on the surface, but it is actually a complex question, which cannot be answered by the death or life of the tree alone. I consciously think broadly, this kind of life problem, once the child understands, once it understands, it will inject subconscious into his heart. I said, "What are these dead trees?" Think about it, when I went to Hohwa last year, there were downed trees everywhere, what did I say?"

"It's all 'heavenly cows' who eat to death. The son said, "Now the Agriculture and Forestry Department charges a five-cent 'Tianniu'." ”

"The trees in front of you were also eaten to death by the bulls, and in a few years, they destroyed the fruits of decades of afforestation in many places in the northwest. Do you know where the Celestial Bull comes from?"

"I don't know. ”

"The longhorn beetle was brought in from timber imported from Russia. ”

"Why didn't you find out?"

"On the one hand, China's testing technology is not good, and on the other hand, people's sense of responsibility is not enough. Therefore, the state needs children to improve our technology with new inventions and creations in the future through the acquisition of knowledge. However, no matter how good the technology is, if people have no sense of responsibility, it is meaningless. ”

At this moment a few small birds were squeaking in the big elm tree, as if to ask what we were doing, with a kind of anger in their voices, because there was a large net of birds beside the tree. I secretly blamed myself: over the years, human beings have done too much evil to nature! Not to mention that the trees are dying, and even the birds have been arrested and sent to the barbecue restaurant!

On the other side of the big elm tree, there was a two-square-meter pool under the elm tree, and such a small pool was definitely not for the purpose of storing water in the field, and I don't know what it did. When the child asked me, I replied the same way. The son was lying on the platform of the pool. After a while, he seemed to be stimulated by something, sat up suddenly, shook his head, and shouted: "Dad, it's so cool, it's too cool under the shade of the tree." ”

It baffles me.

"Dad, lie down and watch. ”

I lay down and got it all. The sunlight passed through the cracks in the trees, and the seven-colored halos were one after another, and the son had never noticed that the sunlight had such a charming color change. He and his brother sat up and lay down, talking about their new discoveries from different angles. Tired of playing by the pond, we came to the field, although there are no spring flowers here, but the first blooming branches and buds, newly unearthed young grass, glow with life power. At this time, the son said unhappily: "Dad, let's go, what is there to see here!"

A child is a child, he is growing, and his understanding of vitality needs the guidance of adults. "Joy, you are staring at the green grass for three minutes of attention training, can you make your mind think about anything but the green grass. I said. The son held his breath and stared at the green grass. When the time came, I said, "What do you see?"

"I saw that the grass seemed to be growing upwards, competing for the sun. ”

"Why take in the sun?"

"In order to make myself grow faster. ”

"What happens if it's too slow?"

"If you grow slowly, you will be pressed by the fast growth, and you won't be able to grow if you can't shine in the sun. You told me about this when you grow vegetables in our yard. ”

"Joy, what is the sunshine of the child?"

"Learn. ”

"Why?"

"If you study well, the teacher often praises you, and you are happy, and you will be serious about learning. ”

"The sunshine of children is learning. ”

"This kind of motivation to learn is not contagious," I said, kissing my son, "learning is not only to be praised, but also to serve others." Then we walked out of the field and went back to the elm tree.

After a while, I whispered, "It's not early, let's go to the Golden Triangle for dinner, and then return." ”

Leaving Xiaoqiao Han Beach, at three o'clock, we returned to the Golden Triangle again and ate at a restaurant in the north of the road. At this time, the nephew's face was heavy and he had no smile, like a bleak autumn day, and he had little confidence in riding back. I wanted to say something of encouragement but didn't say it, but I saw that the wind was slowly picking up outside, and it was still a good wind, and my previous worries disappeared for a moment, and I said, "I rode for six and a half hours when I came, how much time will it take to come back?"

"It's still six and a half hours. The son rushed to say. The elder brother looked at the younger brother with a lot of concern and said, "Impossible. ”

"It won't take six and a half hours. You are all ambitious young men, and God will help you. Wang Xile, what is the one sentence I often say to you?"

"People help themselves, and God will help. The son said, "God has helped us?"

"It's windy outside, and it's a tailwind. ”

After eating, the little brothers happily filled the empty water bottle with water and prepared to go home.

The song of the wind is singing louder and louder, and it brings infinite comfort to the children. Nature is so magical, always silently helping you when you need it most.

Coming out of the restaurant, the son innocently tried the direction of the wind with his hands, and kept shouting, "Downwind, downwind". My son often camps and understands what it means to have a tailwind, but my brother is not so sensitive to this, but he is not worried.

As soon as he hit the road, his nephew changed into a different person. He immediately felt the power of the downwind in the wilderness, his stuffiness was gone, and he rushed to ride forward, and the "tailwind" encouragement in nature was so magical.

At six o'clock, we arrived home, and my nephew was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to eat, and Wang Xile ran out to find someone to play after eating. And my nephew never camped with us again.