Chapter 19: Wandering Around the Holidays
Regardless of the start of school, the days of the holidays still feel quite long. During the summer vacation, I want to stay at home to read and study, how can I sit still. Parents want their children to stay at home honestly, and that's just a luxury. It's also not realistic to go out with your children, so it's all about free-range. In addition to eating, sleeping or having something to do with the child, it is more that the child is crazy outside. Perhaps, adults also covet the peace of not having children around them.
My mother didn't want me to get her in trouble because she had to watch her sister. If I was at home, my mother would urge me to do my summer homework, and for my mother, at least there was not so much to do when I was doing my homework, and everyone was comfortable doing my own thing quietly. However, I was asked to do my homework, and I didn't want to. To avoid this, I usually run far away after eating.
I don't know what about the other friends, it's about the same situation.
For us, the bare North Mountain is a lot less fun than the South Mountain. There is a small stream at the foot of the South Mountain, the water is gurgling, and the water that passes through the town has all kinds of white and gray ribbon-like things floating, and the bottom of the water is black and dirty. But when I got out of the town and went up, the stream was quite clear. The stream is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide, and the narrow places are easy to cross with a single step, and the wide places need to be detoured to other places. In some wide places, there are rocks that emerge from the water in the stream, and I always like to jump on the rocks that are out of the water. Even if you fall into the water, you don't mind, what is there in sandals and pants in summer, and you get some water.
Continuing up the creek, there is a cypress forest quite a distance east of the town. According to the adults, in the old society, there was a servant who worked long hours in the landlord's house, and the servant often fed the landlord pigs, and he found that the pig food in the broken pig trough in the pigsty would never be eaten. Even if you don't feed the pig for a few days, there will always be no more or no less food left in the pig trough. Because the servant works hard, the landlord is ready to reward him with something during the New Year, and then asks the servant, you work well, very hard, this New Year, I am ready to reward you with something, you see what you want, even if you open your mouth or I give you more money, you can also. Then the servant said, "I don't want anything else, just give me the pig trough in the pigsty." The landlord laughed after hearing this, thinking that this person is really ignorant, and he should not ask for anything but the broken pig trough. However, since it was his own choice, he would have given it to him.
So the servant carried a broken pig trough home, after all, the stone pig trough was still quite heavy, and when he was halfway there, the servant really couldn't carry it, so he thought about going home first, and then finding someone to help carry it back together. In order not to throw away the pig trough when he returned, he dug a pit and buried the pig trough, and then planted a small cypress tree found nearby on it to make a mark.
After thinking that the arrangements were in order, he went straight home. When they went home and found someone, they went together to the place where the pig trough was buried, and the place where he buried the pig trough was a wilderness, but when he was about to get there, there was a cypress forest in front of him. The servant froze, and searched around in the cypress forest, and the trees were all about the same, and how could he find out which tree they were buried in?
So, since then, there has been that cypress forest there.
I don't know if what the adults say is true or not, but for the children who have heard it, it adds a lot of mystery to the cypress forest.
I've always heard people say this, and my father sometimes talks about cypress forests and cypress forests, and I start to think that the cypress forests they are talking about are a hundred forests, a forest of a hundred trees. It wasn't until I went with my friends that I found out.
From a distance, the woods covered a large part of the mountain, and it seemed that it had not reached the end from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. As I got closer, I couldn't see the edge through the woods, either up or forward. Under the trees are the kind of grass with very thin and long leaves, one by one. Tie the two strands together and make a little trap for tripping people, and I don't know which unlucky person will trip over.
When I was playing there with my friends, I had a great desire to explore the forest, but I was afraid of the unknown in the depths of the forest, and because of fear, I stopped the script. Every time I look up, I wonder what the woods above will look like.
British writer, Jack London, in his book "The Call of the Wild", has a description of the wolf, the wolf cub is just born to open its eyes, to see the first light of the world, and then crawl out of the cave, smell the breath of the outside world, step by step, and then grow up to run neatly, to explore the woods and rivers outside. When the little wolf cub first feels the sun's rays, it is cautious, cautious about the unknown, and uncertain about safety. However, this does not stop the wolf cubs from exploring the unknown, and as the range of activities expands, the exploration becomes more and more extensive.
This animal habit has not disappeared in the human body, and the unknown is sometimes the driving force for human beings to explore the world. What lies ahead, and what kind of scenery it will be, all attract the heart that longs to know.
In the end, we didn't go deeper, but only walked around the periphery, especially when some friends said that the adults told us that there were snakes in the woods, and there might be wolves.
I don't go in the woods, but there is still a lot of fun in the stream at the foot of the mountain. Along the water plants along the stream, touch inside, there will be holes in some places, and there may be crabs in the holes. After being caught by the crab a few times, I also know to be careful and slow when touching the hole. Although there are not a few crabs to touch, they still have a lot of fun.
I was once playing by a stream under a cypress forest when I heard the voices of other people downstream. walked to a slightly higher place to look, and found that it was Jia Rudao and a few of them, as well as a few girls, Ning Jing and Zhao Xiaoman. They also found us, and it was clear from their eyes that they didn't want us to be with them in the past. And the Tranquility girls didn't notice us, they watched the boys stretch out their arms by the stream and dig something. They were together, and we didn't want to get involved, laughed at each other, and then walked away to other places.
When I went to a new place and came home, I always liked to talk to my mother. Where I went, what I did, who I was with, β’β’β’β’β’β’and so on, my mother just looked at me and smiled, and rarely said anything. But when I went to play in the cypress forest, and when I told my mother, my mother said, "Yo, run so far!" and then said, "There are snakes in there, don't go inside, just play outside, it's not good to be bitten by snakes, snakes are poisonous." I said, "We didn't go inside, we just walked around outside." My mother seemed to think of something again, and then said to me, "Don't go to the pit to bathe, you can drown if you fall inside." Looking at my mother's appearance, I replied, "Ang, I see." β
"Dragon, you can't just know how to play, you also have to write your homework. My mother began to nag me, "Look at you, since you were on vacation, you either watched movies or went out to play, did you write your homework?" I lowered my head and reluctantly said to her, "Got it, write it tomorrow." β
Mother may have just nagged and didn't emphasize when to write. At home, I would tinker with the TV. At that time, it seemed that the cartoon had not been watched, and the cartoon did not seem to have an ending. Now that I think about it, there is another program that has no ending, and that is the news network. After the cartoon ends, add some advertising, and at 7 o'clock, the news broadcast will be broadcast on time, and every time it comes to that time, I don't bother to change the channel, because it's all the same. It was also the time when I was least willing to watch TV, but adults tend to be very keen to watch it, so I just wandered around the yard of the house and played around.
When I play, I still think about where to play tomorrow, and I think of the creek. Then the idea came that maybe we could get something to eat and walk along the creek to see how long the creek was and what it looked like at the end of the stream. Thinking about it, he asked his mother, "Mom, where is the little river in the south?" and my mother said, "I heard that it flows into the Fen River." "Is the Fen River wide?" I continued. "The Fen River is wide!" said the mother, doing the work in her hands. "Is the Fen River deep?" I asked again. "Of course, the Fen River is deep, the Fen River can be big, and the Fen River goes into the Yellow River. Mother thought and said. I asked my mother, "How big is the Yellow River?" and she replied, "The Yellow River is very big." Later, he added, "The Yellow River has no bottom." Let's go back to our hometown and take the train to cross the Yellow River, don't you see?"
But I don't remember seeing the Yellow River, and I didn't see my mother saying that I was passing by by train. "Then, the next time you cross the Yellow River by train, remember to tell me. I told my mother. "Okay, I'll call you when the time comes. My mother looked at me and said.
When to go, I don't know, then I can only look forward to it.