Chapter 5 The Mutton Feast

On the second morning of camping, there was a small conflict. The reason is that I didn't tell Perry and Muyuhua about the pit I dug with Soy Sauce yesterday, although Perry is a southern girl, she is quite spicy, and the excitement is even worse than that of hot sauce. I've had a few more interactions with Perry since then, and I'm understanding of her personality, but I just won't be included in the list of good friends.

"Why didn't you tell us yesterday? She asked in a loud voice, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that she was angry.

"You all ran away at night. I responded politely, feeling that I had been wronged.

"It's good to say no in the group. The wooden fish flower hid behind Perry, adding in a strange way.

"There are boys in the group, which is not good. "Most of my patience was lost with her.

Seeing that I restrained my emotions, Soy Sauce was angry for me: "Such a big thing is standing there, you can see it at a glance, I don't believe that you haven't been on it in the morning, how can you question the truth of the people who work." ”

"What about this follow-up treatment, you can't pollute the environment here. Perry seems to be an environmental pioneer, pointing fingers at the waist. I think she has a point, and I hope she'll lead by example and be resolute.

"Soy sauce and I will clean up, let's tidy up the tent first, okay?" I deliberately responded to her in an obedient tone, and sure enough, Perry frowned, and when Wei Lin and the accelerator saw that the dispute was clear, they hurriedly came up and made peace with the mud.

Mirin's attempt to pull my sleeve (the long-sleeved jacket I wore because of the temperature difference between day and night) was broken off without a trace. After packing my luggage, I pulled the soy sauce and went to deal with it.

"These big ladies. "Soy sauce is carrying a shovel and sullen. I tapped her on the shoulder and asked the soy sauce to remove the cloth and take it back to the car, while I pinched my nose and prepared to cover the soil.

At this time, the brake fart ran over, I said hello angrily, but the brake took the shovel and asked me to stand next to it, "I'll help you." ”

"Huh?"

He didn't say anything, he filled in the dirt, and I stood beside me helplessly.

The boy has a lot of strength, he filled the hole in a few clicks, and he didn't even frown, I don't know how to thank him.

"If there is such a thing in the future, just hand it over to me and Big Bear. "I don't talk much, but the sentences are very important, which makes people very comfortable to listen to, and I look at him differently.

When I got into the car, I took out a bunch of toffee from my backpack and stuffed it into the brakes.

"It's good, you guys actually got a blessing in disguise and established a revolutionary friendship" Soy sauce ate a snack and whispered to me.

I ignored it.

Privately, though, I did gradually start to compare the brakes with the flavor. Although Wei Lin has never been in love in college, but Peach Blossom Luck has always been very good, and girls can talk very well, pulling and pulling, left and right; Brake is more sullen, I don't know his relationship history, but I think girls will not be disgusted with people like him who talk less and do more.

If I had to choose......

I rolled my eyes, how can there be such a good thing, Xiao Li, do you think you are the heroine of a romance novel? You don't look at what you look like, where do you get thousands of favors, wake up.

Our itinerary for the second day was to continue deep into the grassland, to the established route to find the herdsman's hometown that the travel agency was familiar with. We were late to the car until one o'clock in the afternoon, but fortunately, there was a river in this grazing area, a river meandering, dividing the green canvas into two pieces, compared to the shock of entering the grassland yesterday, it is more flavorful, beautiful, and worth it.

Tonight we were able to stay in the yurt of the herdsman's home, saving us time in setting up camp. It had been more than an hour since the meal, and everyone was hungry, not to mention that breakfast was dealt with with compressed biscuits, and the eyes were green when they saw the meat.

After a while, we were lucky enough to have roast lamb, blood sausage, and lamb liver. The big bear was holding a large piece of meat, and it looked like he was about to ascend to immortality, and even the wind chimes ate a lot faster.

The roast lamb is fatty, the meat is juicy, and it is ordered in advance, and it is freshly slaughtered and slaughtered, which is exceptionally fresh. The rest went into the water and was poured with blood sausage. As the name suggests, blood sausage is the product of sheep blood poured into the intestines, the taste is strong, the smell of mutton is more intense than that of mutton, and it has a unique flavor, and the mutton liver is steamed, with a unique sauce, spicy and stimulating. I put on naan, ate a few pieces, and then I was full, and when I saw a dog wandering outside the door, I secretly took a blood sausage to tease them, and the dog ate it vigorously, and was happier than I ate it myself.

Everyone ate happily, so they opened their hearts and chatted, in which when it came to what they wanted to do after graduation, I lowered my head and drank mare's milk wine, and did not come out to speak. To be honest, I don't know.

"After graduation, I want to go to the top 500 for an internship, and if I don't pass the autumn recruitment, I will take a break for a while and then go to Japan for graduate school," Wei Lin said. ”

Kiyuka agrees, saying, "I want to go to Japan after graduation, and if possible, I want to go to the voice actor academy to further my studies." ”

"Then you have to communicate well, and maybe you will have a response in the future. "The throttle lifted the wine to the flavor lining, and the flavor lin replaced the wine with tea, and took it.

As I thought, these two people were quite a good match, I was a little disappointed, and the rest of the words, I listened one ear in the ear and the other out, and later, I whispered to the soy sauce about the origin of their nicknames, mirin and bonito flakes are both a type of Japanese seasoning, one to flavor the staple food, the other to add flavor to the dim sum. Soy sauce forced a smile and asked the others what I had named, and I went over them one by one. When it comes to braking, I say that this man is always gentle and sensible, always pulling the reins on the accelerator. Soy sauce whispered a yellow joke about the brakes, and I didn't dare laugh, so I could only slap her on the thigh.

At the dinner table, I heard the villagers say that an ancient battlefield is not far from the tent. So after we finished eating, we rode the convertibles of our fellow villagers to see them one by one. The road was bumpy, the horses on the side collapsed, and the sheep at the tail followed us forward, and the picture was stunning.

Half an hour later, we arrived at the location of the "Golden Great Wall", which was so desolate that only a monument remained, weathered and mottled. But the wind and sand thousands of years ago seem to be able to blow to today, Jin Ge Iron Horse, scolding Fang Xuan. The shouts of Genghis Khan and the Wanyan family, the thunder of the war drums, and the neighing of the iron horsemen.

I suddenly sang Xu Song's "Smoke and Sand in the Half City": "Smoke and sand in the middle of the city/Soldiers are in the pool/Jin Ge Iron Horse/Fight for the world/One will become ten thousand bones/How many white hairs are sent away/The smoke and sand in the middle of the city go down with the wind/There is still a wisp of concern in my hand/I just hope to return to the field and unload my armor/I can also get back the tea you made/Some love is in misery/The moon and sunset in the window are Chengjue/Some hatred is hidden but speechless/The abdomen turns the wind and snow into a sword." ”

Soy sauce whispered to me, "Do you remember a book that says: In the past, when God created the world, it must have been his palette, and he must have chosen blue, green, and white from here. ”

The rare depth of soy sauce made me a little sentimental, I smiled and told her a joke: "Have you seen the little sisters of the grassland when I was a child, how much I want to be them, and now I find that I only have two lumps of plateau red on the faces of the little sisters of the grassland." ”

Soy sauce was dumbfounded by me, and I didn't tell him what I really thought. I always feel that there is a parallel time and space for me, under the vast blue sky and white clouds, with loneliness, danger, and grassland as a companion. Bowed robes, spirited horses, and countless heroes herded cattle and sheep, and sprinkled their blood on the place where Genghis Khan once lived.

Suddenly the lyrics of Vitas sounded in my head - don't burn yourself, my stars, please wait for me, how many roads I will walk, how many mountains I will conquer in order to find myself, how many times I will fail, how many times I will start again, and whether it all makes sense I will be patient, I prepare for myself, the journey that leads to my dreams and hopes.

The tanuki and the rabbit were not as out of the way we did, and the two of them took selfies around the stone monument with high interest, posing in various poses, smiling brightly. I couldn't help but clench my hand holding the phone, it turned out that a 20-year-old girl should be this kind of teenager who doesn't know what it feels like. Brake holding the camera alone to shoot something, without any words, I secretly took a picture of his back with my phone.

Soon, the second batch also came, and it was none other than Muyuhua, Perry, throttle and wind chimes. I thought it would take a lot of time to go back in batches later, so I asked the fellow how to go back, and the fellow pointed me out the direction on the GPS of the mobile phone, so I and Soy Sauce prepared to walk all the way back.

There are so many roommates in the world, and I can become friends with soy sauce, one is fate, and the other is that the two of us can make do with it. Children who were harshly criticized by their families when they were young, when they grow up, will always try their best not to cause trouble to others.

Before leaving, I saw Muyuhua throw the straw bracelet that Wei Lin gave her in the direction of the stele.

Perry asked her, "Did you make it up yourself?"

Muyuhua smiled lightly: "It's all withered, what else do you want it to do." ”

When you like him, he's as precious as gold in the bank, and when you don't like him, he's wasted like gold in the desert.

I turned around and saw the grass growing and the warbler flying, but I couldn't see the beautiful and moving imaginary enemy in my mind, Muyuhua was not worth it, she was not worth it.

When we return to the yurt, the sun is already setting, and the sky is like a large oil painting, and the red, orange and blue pigments are unsparingly tangled. I think I'm letting myself go.

A wolf roar was faintly heard in the distance, and the soy sauce was so frightened that he hid behind me, and when I listened closely, there was no movement, as if to make us delusional.

The next day, we set the horses and herded the sheep, quite freely, Soy Sauce and I rode a brown horse, led by the villagers, and walked up the hillside, my buttocks were turned upside down, but when I looked up at the clear blue sky, the pain was not important. After an extra day at the villager's house, we drove to our last destination.

Beyond the grassland, there is barrenness, and beyond the barrenness, there is also the Gobi.

I once had such a dream - a desert female warrior with long hair and waist, with a beautiful melon seed face, a pair of eyes that are accustomed to life and death and indifference, exuding a cold air. Dressed in the costume of the Hu people, she was half-masked, barefoot, and walked step by step in the concrete forest city, and with each step, patches of sand spread out under her feet until the city was flooded with sand. It was dark, and an orange-red eclipse was reflected in her ice-blue pupils. As for the end of the dream, the proud girl bows her head and bends down to caress a small grass in the desert, the fantastical color replaces the cold yellow of the desert, and the grass imagines an adult man in a cloak. They stretched out their hands in agreement, fingers interlocked, and disappeared into the desert storm, leaving only moon-shaped sand dunes and silver crescents.

The desert we went to is said to have held a desert cross-country race, which is different from the desert I imagined, although it is endless, but in fact it is not far from the road, it seems to be desolate and uninhabited, in fact, people and camels live on the edge of the desert, it seems that there is no grass, but in fact there is a water in an oasis lake, and the white reeds are gently swaying in the wind, which means that there is a desperate place to survive.

According to the rules, we still parked in the village, this time on the cement open space next to the highway, in order to prevent the air conditioning from seeping, the throttle helped us lay an extra layer of mats.

As for dinner, we bought enough buns at the rest stop, with lamb and offal bought from fellow villagers, and hot sauce bought from the accelerator, which should be an excellent feast of meat sandwich buns. In terms of diet, exquisite southern cuisine is certainly my daily diet, but it does not prevent my love for noodle buns, especially this trip, which makes me feel a different kind of beauty.

Wei Lin commented very disdainfully about my pride: "Hello, female man. ”

Me: "......"

I don't like the definition that Wei Lin gave me, female is a sexist term in itself, but I admit that I do live like a female man these days.

I wore a pair of crossbow sandals, which were the slippers that were popular on the Internet a few years ago, so I had to stop and shake my feet every few steps, in an extremely indecent posture (like a husky shaking my feet after leaving a mark next to a fire hydrant). When I was in the grassland, I encountered a similar dilemma, as soon as the crickets and grasshoppers in the grassland stepped down, they would jump up one after another, like a swarm of bats flying out of a dark hole, terrifying and interesting. From time to time, my toes felt the hard shells of the bugs, and I was happy to bounce deep into the haystack. From this point of view, I am indeed a good man.

The boys' physical strength was much better than ours, they wore turbans, rented camels and ran around in the desert, as if they were imitating the merchants on the Silk Road, and they were more like big dogs playing around with joy than me.

Walking and running on the sand can be a bit of a struggle, let alone climbing the dunes. When you take a step up, it's like a pair of hands grabbing your ankles and pulling you down half a step. Even so, Soy Sauce and I half-walked and half-ran on the dunes, and finally fell in the sand, lying on our backs, laughing at each other.

We are simply happy, even if we don't rack our brains to take selfies, this scene will remain forever. Soy sauce and I talked about my previous travel experiences, and somehow we opened up the conversation, and we had to talk about one topic after another, and by the time we remembered the time, it was already evening.

At sunset, soy sauce and I were silent, and I lay on my back on the sand dunes, my hands resting between my hair and the sand, thinking about my past and worrying about the future that I couldn't touch. The fire clouds burned like a dynamic flame, burning away the white clouds, leaving only black ashes. The whole world is in a fantastical red, somewhat blurry. Am I flying in the Gobi in Dunhuang, or in the Sahara in Sanmao, or am I in Mars, where no grass grows? I am so close to the sun, I am so close to the stars, I must not be on the earth, I am not Fu Haoyue, I am another girl in a parallel world- I was bright and ponytailed, riding a permanent bicycle under a camphor tree by the side of the road, and I looked up to see only one star in the lonely sky, but I was content and began to crackle on my old computer with a novel that maybe no one would read. Or, I'm a boy in a parallel world, washing and cleaning the socks that have accumulated for a week, lighting a panda on the balcony, and the lighter is dimmed while his eyes are like red dust that has been extinguished. Maybe I'm just a grass in the desert, the wind and sand can't down, thirst can't kill me, and the sun can't burn me. I'm nothing more than a grass.

As a grass, I saw the thick paws of the camels, the yellow teeth of the camels, the long eyelashes of the camels, as if I saw a woman in a pale pink dress rolling over and falling to the ground. Thousands of years ago, women were like this, with fluttering skirts and long hair. The camel slowly squirmed its lips and dripped a drop of saliva, and I sat up and shook my head, and the dreamy scene was like blown sand. The camel let out a long breath.

Brakes and wind chimes came to us, "It's getting dark, let's go back to camp." ”

Soy Sauce poked me with her elbow, and I grimaced at her, patted the sand off my body and stood up, bending down to pull Soy Sauce up. Saying that the brakes said that he wanted me and soy sauce to ride camels, we felt that we couldn't go, so we simply walked back to the camp with the four of us, and the four of us chatted a little more with each other.

After the introduction of the wind chime, the original brake family lives next to the West Lake, to the magic capital, is to fight for their own ideals, although there are few words, but a lot of things have been done, three years have won a lot of college awards, no wonder the throttle likes this little talk of the senior.

Back at the camp, seeing a big hole in the middle of the clearing, Wind Chime smiled and said, "The accelerator and the big bear dug a big hole in the sand, I asked them why, they said that they just wanted to dig an earth-shattering pit, that's all." ”

I saw the lone crater, like the wounds of a meteorite on the surface of the moon. At dinner, everyone sat around the campfire and enjoyed their food as if the pit did not exist.

When I left the desert, it rained and reminded me of the heavy rain outside the window at the graduation ceremony, and I kept looking to the right of the auditorium to see the rain outside the window. Luckily, we have already graduated, and there is no teacher to correct us, "Don't look around during the conference!"

Thus will our trip to the prairie come to an end, and although I have made a detour of several cities and tasted local dishes on the way home, I know that my trip is over, and the wonderful world covered in green tulle is far away from me.

There are flowers that can be broken and need to be folded, and there are no flowers and empty branches. When we return to the city, surrounded by reinforced concrete, when we lose the courage to go, when we lose our health and youth, we never have this opportunity again. Probably.

When I got out of the airport, the oncoming heat made me wonder if I was returning from the city to the desert, not from the desert to the city. When I got out of the car, the scorching smell – definitely not the mild after-heat of the sun of youth, but the moment when I struggled to turn on the oven in the steaming kitchen – came to my face.

We waved goodbye to each other as if the last few days of travel had been a dream.

While waiting for the taxi, Wei Lin looked down at her phone.

"Do you remember one time when it was raining at the end of an elective class, we went back to the dormitory with umbrellas. "I was going to run back to the dormitory in the rain, but I suddenly got a yellow umbrella over my head, and he smiled at me, I think, from that moment on, I liked him, very vulgar, but also very real.

"Ah, I think there's such a thing?" Mirin, smirking politely.

What a man cares about is never the nearest dog's tail grass, but the red rose full of thorns, the red rose, which is his cinnabar mole and his bright moonlight.

In the desert in the distance, there was a sand pit crying, whining, like a runaway child running in the vast field. I know why Wind Chimes hesitated not to be with the accelerator, but she couldn't really let go of the frank and courageous child, and ended up cocooning herself, just like me.

I smiled and didn't continue the confession I had planned.

I think I'm letting myself go.