29 Bathing in the River
Yuelou lay on the grass and stroked his swollen belly and said, "The sun makes me feel soft, why don't we sleep for a while?"
"Well, I'm a little sleepy too." Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Congshan closed his eyes and fell asleep after speaking. Yuelou didn't sleep, she kept her eyes open and looked at the blue sky.
"I and Satoyama have been lying on rocking chairs basking in the sun, I'm afraid we are as leisurely and lazy as we are now?" she sketched that scene in her mind, thinking that when the time came, they would talk about the little feelings in this long life, and she couldn't help but feel very happy. She wanted to convey this beauty to Congshan, but when she turned her head to look, she found that Congshan was asleep. At this time, she came up with an even stranger thought: "There is no one here anyway." Wouldn't it be very romantic if I were to bathe in the river with Congshan?" she smiled and tugged at Congshan's sleeve.
"Why don't we take off our clothes and go swimming?"
"Ahh ”
"There is no one, what are you afraid of?"
"No, it's not a question of whether there is anybody. The point is the discomfort that comes from the bottom of my heart. ”
"I don't care". Yuelou said that he had taken off his clothes. Her flawless arms, smooth back, and snow-white and elastic legs are slowly revealed. In such a beautiful place, there are such beautiful people. Satoyama wanted not to look at it, but he couldn't help it. He couldn't describe his mood at all. It was pure, natural, quiet, beautiful. Yuelou jumped into the river with a 'plop'. She would swim breaststroke, backstroke, and sidestroke, like a naughty child. Congshan couldn't help but laugh and said, "You have to pretend to be cute at such an age." ”
"People are only in their twenties." Yuelou said angrily.
"Why don't you come down? You don't even have the courage to pretend to be cute?" Yuelou walked naked ashore to Lacong Mountain.
"I felt very embarrassed. ”
"Do you see that I have clothes on?" Yuelou puffed up his chest: "If you don't take it off, I'll help you." She said the button of Xie Cong Mountain.
"I'll do it myself, and I'll make it even more embarrassing for you to take it off. ”
"Didn't I take it off for you at home?" Yuelou was disgusted: "Why can't you do it now?"
Congshan did not answer Yuelou's question. He pushed the moon tower into the river with all his might. Yuelou smiled and struggled, half-pushing and half-jumping into it. She poured water on Congshan, but Congshan went straight into the water. As soon as he showed his head, Yuelou splashed the water again. Congshan quickly threw a small pebble over, and Yuelou wanted to dodge but didn't dodge. Just as Yuelou frowned, Congshan splashed a lot of water on Yuelou. This Xiayuelou is really angry. Satoyama looked at her flushed cheeks and swam over to comfort her. Yuelou bit Congshan's arm and shyly slipped into his arms.
"You're lucky to have hit me in the hair, wouldn't it hurt if you hit my forehead?"
"I'm aiming for hair, how can I hit my forehead?" said Satoyama confidently.
"You've never said anything like this before. Confident people tend to make mistakes, so it's better to be grounded. ”
"Okay, I must be humble". Although Congshan said this, he was still a little dissatisfied in his heart.
Overhead, several large white birds flew by, and they landed in the river without flapping their wings like airplanes.
"What kind of bird is that? I've never seen such a beautiful bird. ”
"That's a swan......!"
Before Congshan finished speaking, Yuelou ran over. The two swans seemed to be frightened, and hurriedly swam ashore and ran back into the sky. One of the swans in the river was pecking at its wings, and the other two were wrapped around their necks, kissing each other.
Yuelou sighed: "The swan is not as charming and touching as the peacock, but its elegance is unmatched by any bird." The moon tower sat down and watched the swans carefully. Satoyama had never seen a swan before, so he observed it with great interest. These swans were not afraid of people, but walked towards Yuelou Congshan, stretched out their necks and rubbed their legs and arms. Yuelou smiled and directly hugged the swan on his lap and stroked its slender neck with his hand.
"You touch it too, its feathers are smooth and warm. I will come here again in the future, and it is really like a dream to be in such a natural place and to be in close contact with such beautiful birds." The eyes of the moon tower reflect the white swans and the green grassland road.
"I'm coming too. Today is one of the few happy days of my life." Congshan bowed his head and was stunned.
"You still say I'm upsetting myself, aren't you the same?" Yuelou took Congshan into her arms and stroked his hair like a kind mother.
The horse's hooves tapped lightly on the grassland, and the moon tower sang the Mongolian song it had just learned. The majestic and high-pitched Mongolian tune sings out of her thin and slender throat. Congshan looked at her raised head and delicate red face, and smiled from ear to ear.
"What are you laughing at? Am I not singing well?" Yuelou pretended to be unhappy. At this time, there happened to be a cloud blocking the harsh sunlight.
"I will laugh when you sing so well". Satoyama said seriously.
"Really, you always like to compliment me. You do know a woman's mind very well. My uncle said that you are a rare man, and there is nothing wrong with that." Yuelou looked at Congshan and said shyly.
Satoyama was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and rubbed his hair with his hands.
A strong man approached with a car. There were a lot of horses and cattle here, but he pulled the cart himself.
"Why are you pulling the cart yourself?" Congshan was puzzled.
"My father died today, and I'm going to take him to the celestial burial ground. ”
"Wouldn't it be more convenient to use a horse-drawn cart?"
"We have a custom in Mongolia: after a person dies, his children pull a cart and show filial piety. The cemetery is full of rubble and bones, and the road there is equivalent to the life of a person, and where a person falls, his life stops. ”
"Oh, I see". Congshan nodded slightly.
The strong man gradually walked away, and Yuelou turned his head and said, "Let's quietly follow and see what the heavenly burial ground looks like." ”
"Actually, I want to see it too, but it's a forbidden place for people, so don't we have a good past?"
"It is the custom of the Mongols not to allow others to enter the cemetery, so why should we abide by their customs? The Hui people don't eat pork, don't you eat pork either?"
"You do seem to have a point. ”
"Then we'll go!" Yuelou patted the horse's belly.
They followed the strong man from a distance and walked for more than an hour to reach a gentle slope. The strong man sat down and smoked a cigarette and wiped his sweat with his sleeve. Although he endured it, his body was still trembling, and tears kept flowing from his stubborn eyes.
"Do you think we should cry when our loved ones die?"
"Crying is a kind of attachment because you have a deep relationship. ”
"But people always have to die. Isn't death an ordinary thing, and it can't be more ordinary. Weeping over the death of a loved one is precisely a person who is confined to the world. You see, after the death of Zhuangzi's wife, instead of crying, he 'sang with a drum'." Yuelou's eyes revealed tranquility.
"Didn't you say that everybody is different, isn't that the difference between people?"
But I knew that it was irreparable, and I knew that it would be natural, but I still had to cry. Isn't it foolish and ignorant." Yuelou's eyes were even more tranquil.
The strong man rested for about twenty minutes and walked up the slope.
"Let's go around to the back and tie the horses there, and let's go up the gentle slope!" Satom suggested.
"You're so smart. ”
They tied their horses up the gentle slopes. After going uphill, you can see a small basin, and the basin is really full of rocks. The strong man pulled the cart and walked with difficulty, and the corpse was about to slide out of the car in the bumps. After a few more moments, the corpse fell into the rubble with a 'poof'. The strong man heard the sound of the corpse falling to the ground, and walked away without looking back.
As soon as the strong man left, Yuelou and Congshan walked down the gentle slope. As soon as he entered the basin, Congshan saw scattered white bones. He pointed to the white bones and said, "Look, are you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid." Yuelou squatted down and looked at the skull and pelvis: "This must be a female skeleton." ”
"Oh, why is that?"
"It has a small pelvis. Women mostly have smaller pelvis than men. ”
"Oh. ”
"It turns out that human bones are so white and strange." Yuelou touched his skull.
"You're so bold. ”
As they went on, they saw many scattered bones. The old man's body was in front of him. He was dressed in dark blue, his fists clenched, and his face was sad and confused.
"What do you think he would have thought before he died?"
"Of course, there will be memories of past events and important people. After all, death is the end of everything. Love, friendship, money, pleasure, loneliness, sublimity, everything turned to dust. ”
"Didn't you say that there is an afterlife?" Yuelou said happily.
"If you believe in the afterlife, of course, you will be full of hope and longing, but I don't believe in the afterlife. ”