Chapter 26: Dragon's Eye, Sunset, and the Great Forest Pit

After dinner, Xiao Yan stayed behind to help her mother clean up and clean the dishes and chopsticks. Xiao Yan also asked me to help, but in order to exercise Xiao Yan's ability to do housework, I didn't care about her and went up to the 2nd floor.

It was 6:30 p.m., and it wasn't that dark at this point in the fall. I ran to the balcony on the second floor and saw that the sun had not yet set in the distance, and on the side of the balcony on the second floor there was a large thick branch, which was the branch of the longan tree planted next to the house.

This longan tree was planted when my father and mother got married, and it is very old, 18 years old. This longan tree carries many memories with our family.

My mother worked in a newspaper before marrying my father, but I didn't work in a newspaper after marrying my father, but she would write some articles and send them to the newspaper in exchange for some manuscript fees. I still remember that my mother wrote an article called "Longan", and the content of the article remembered the growth of longan and some stories of me and Xiaoyan growing up. This article has also been compiled into the Chinese textbook of junior high school, and I have read it many times, even when the teacher asked me to recite it in class, I could recite it word for word.

I climbed up the branch, climbed to the fork of the branch, and sat on the branch against the trunk of the tree (climbing the tree is a dangerous action, please do not imitate it if you are not a professional). I'm a professional. )。 The chickens under the tree seemed to notice my arrival, and they also "clucked" a few times to welcome me.

I sat in the shade in the trees, and the scenes in my mind felt as if they had happened yesterday. Looking at the figure under the big tree-

It was when I was 6 years old, and I was riding here on my dad's shoulder and stretching out my hand to pick the longan, and I was so happy. And Xiao Yan, who was being held by her mother on the side, was covering her face and crying her nose and saying that she wanted it too.

Xiao Yan was only 4 years old at the time. But even if she rides on her father's shoulder, she is not tall enough.

My mother was very helpless, so she directly snatched all the longans I picked and handed them to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan was still crying! She didn't follow, saying that it was picked by her brother, and it was not delicious. Be sure to pick it yourself!

Dad was very helpless, he didn't know where to find a herringbone ladder, and then climbed up to pick the fruit with Xiao Yan with a smile. But the problem came again, when Xiaoyan picked the fruit, he pulled it hard, the fruit fell off, and the branch flicked......

You know what?

In fact, my brother is also very helpless!

I had covered my eyes with my hands, and I didn't remember what happened next, because I couldn't stand it at all! Well, she must have cried again!

……

Xiao Yan is a crybaby! This longan tree is a mark that accompanied me and Xiao Yan growing up, and I remember Xiao Yan always crying under this tree. I always thought that this longan tree grew up under the irrigation of Xiao Yan's tears. Well, I'll tell you secretly, my urine also participates in irrigation. And Xiao Yan and I also grew up eating the fruit of this longan tree.

"Brother, what are you smirking at?" At this time, Xiao Yan also climbed from the balcony to the branch, and she climbed to me and sat down.

"Nothing, watch the sunset. "I looked at the glorious clouds in the distance, the glow of the sunset.

Xiao Yan didn't say anything, and quietly watched the sunset with me.

The sun was setting in the west, and I could still see half of the sun, the original blue sky and white clouds were colored by the refraction of the sun, and from here to the west, across a nature reserve, we could see the dense jungle, and the rays of sunlight shining through the trees were not dazzling. There are also birds flying over there.

Our house is at the end of the village, and there is a road to the northwest at the end of the village, and this road is lined with many wild cypresses, banyan trees, and bamboos. More are dwarf, wild snake plum and bromeliad trees, but mimosas seem to be interesting.

Every year during the summer vacation, Xiaoyan likes to ask me to accompany her to touch the mimosa, the leaves of the mimosa are not piece-by-piece, but like a bundle, that is, many needles are arranged neatly from both sides of the leaf stem. However, although it is a leaf arranged with needles, it does not prick the hands, but is a little hairy and soft, which looks very interesting. The needles of mimosa leaves are usually unfolded, but when you touch them, they shrink and fold together, like a shy girl covering her face, which looks more interesting. During the summer vacation, mimosa is also in bloom season, and the mimosa flowers are like dandelion flowers and a hairball, but they are pink flowers, which are very dazzling. So Xiao Yan can not only play with mimosa, but also pick the flowers and throw them in the sky to blow air to make her fly.

Xiaoyan is afraid of caterpillars, there are many caterpillars in the summer vacation season, and badass caterpillars also like to crawl on delicate mimosas. Xiao Yan asked me to accompany her to see the bright pink flowers of the mimosa, and she also likes to touch the leaves of other people's mimosa, and sometimes she can touch the caterpillar. Look at the situation where the leaves are shy and hiding, she doesn't want to laugh. In fact, this September mimosa is still in full bloom.

The road to the west to the north is about half a mile, and it is a large hillside, called Dalin Slope. The slopes are not high, but they are large and continuous. On a hillside closest to our village, the people of our village would plant fruit trees and vegetables at the bottom of the hill. There is also rice planted at the bottom of the slope, and there is a river called Hanyang River not far from the bottom of the slope, which is a tributary of the Pearl River and then forked, I don't remember how many tributaries of the Pearl River were. My family has no fruit trees and no land on the hillside, but there are some places below the slope where our family also grows vegetables, and there is no land under the slope. It seems that Xiao Yan went there to pick the cabbage tonight, and I guess I was still sleeping at that time, and she didn't ask me to accompany her.

As for the slope that crosses the farthest side of the big forest slope, it is actually still the big forest slope, and there are many slopes in a hurry, and this continuous hillside is called the big forest pit. Dalinkeng has been listed as a national provincial nature reserve, and it is called Dalinkeng Nature Reserve. There are also first-class protected animals such as green peacocks and second-class protected baby macaques in the reserve.

Because we are in the middle of nowhere, there are not many tourists in the nature reserve. I still remember that in the past, in March after the Spring Festival, this nature reserve adjacent to the west of our village would be opened, and there were many areas where people from several villages near us could go to the mountains to pick mushrooms and fungus. My mother, Xiaoyan and I basically go every year, and we will also go to see the peacocks, those peacocks under the big banyan coconut and sisal are generally very quiet, many times tourists call them, they don't pay attention to them and just stand still, very boring. I don't like to watch peacocks, but Xiaoyan likes to watch them, they have to feed a lot of food before they occasionally open the screen, and they have to wait for a long time.

What I like is to see the little macaques who have nothing to do, and the little macaques like to throw dates at the crowd. The cutest are the little macaques, who will give us a taunt when they throw dates into the crowd and hit someone, and if it weren't for the barbed wire, many people would have killed them. I think this barbed wire fence is just to prevent people from rushing over and killing them. I was also smacked a few times, and when I saw that it was a green jujube or a monkey that had never eaten it, I didn't dislike it, so I wiped it clean with my clothes and ate it. After eating, I also spit out the jujube kernel into the iron net, and the jujube kernel flew far away, so that the monkey would grin with hatred, and it would throw it again, and it would bite the jujube first and then throw it, which was really naughty.

Although there are some hills on the slope of the big forest, they are not high, and the direction is relatively north, and it does not stop me and Xiaoyan from watching the sunset.

The sun was setting in the west, and the glow on the horizon was much dimmer, but it was still gorgeous. The morning glow does not go out, and the sunset travels thousands of miles. It looks like it's going to be good weather for the next two days.

By 7 o'clock, the sun had already gone down. I had no choice but to crawl back into the house with Xiaoyan. The room was dark, so the lights were turned on. I estimated that I would have to leave for the "crazy front" at 9 o'clock, so I opened the book and looked at it to pass the time.

Until 9:30 p.m. There aren't many people who take the bus here at this point, and I also go out to take the bus "before the idiot".