Chapter 5: Memories of Childhood
The location of the reservoir is not too far from the school, and the group is pushing bicycles, walking, talking and laughing towards the destination.
Today's weather is fine, just after nine o'clock, and it has not yet reached the hottest time of the day, and the occasional breeze blows through to bring a hint of coolness.
Most of the people who came here have been to the reservoir to play, or fish or hang out, and they are all familiar with it.
The scenery along the way is very good, after walking through the residential area, there is a small forest next to it, there is a long stream, the water is clear, and you can occasionally see small fish fry shuttling in it.
This creek is formed by the accumulation of water that flows out of the dam of the reservoir.
To get to the reservoir, it is a way up the mountain, and the Shengli Reservoir is built in the middle of the mountains. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the environment is very good.
Shen Qi and Du Bing walked side by side, this was the result of other people's consciousness, and Du Bing did not resist.
After a leisurely walk, the silence was finally broken.
"Shen Qi, what are you carrying behind this?" Du Bing asked, with a little curiosity in his eyes.
"The guitar I carry." Shen Qi replied when he heard this, took it off his back, and unzipped the guitar bag, revealing a corner for Du Bing to see.
"Guitar? Shen Qi: Do you still play the guitar? ”
"A little."
"Do you want to play it with you for a while?"
"Well, I'll be ugly for a while, and I'll play him and sing two songs for everyone, don't laugh."
"No, no, no." Du Bing waved his hand, with some expectation in his eyes, and said, "I haven't heard you sing yet, I'll listen to it later." ”
"Haha, then you just wait."
"Hmm."
The relatively silent atmosphere was finally broken because of this little episode, and the two gradually opened up the topic and started chatting.
Although since that time, the two have often chatted on QQ, but they are separated by hundreds of kilometers and two network cables, so they naturally don't have so many scruples when chatting.
But in person, it's a different story.
While chatting about the sky and going up the mountain, in August and September, it is the season when the sour jujube is ripe, and occasionally a few trees are encountered, and a group of people run over to pick them up, eating while walking.
Even if you get pricked, you don't care.
Rural children, there are not so many scruples, since childhood, I have seen sour dates are directly picked and eaten, and when I eat them, they are sweet and sour, and the taste is particularly good.
Shen Qi was no exception, they were lucky, they came across several connected trees, and there were a lot of ripe sour dates on them, he followed and picked up a small half of his coat pocket, and put one in his mouth from time to time, and his mouth was full of water.
When I was a child, I saw this thing every day, and I might see it on the way to and from school, and I ate it every year at that time.
But when I grew up, I ate less of this thing, and I was too lazy to pick it up.
In addition to sour dates, Shen Qi was most impressed by a wild fruit called purple yanyou.
The scientific name of this thing is nightshade grass, but the people there call it yanyou, and it is this name that Shen Qi has been exposed to since he was a child, nightshade grass, which he later found out to his mother.
It's a small purple fruit that has medicinal properties, but when I was a child, I used it as a snack and it tasted good.
On the way, Shen Qi also deliberately swept the surroundings carefully, but he didn't see this plant.
The dirt road, next to the grove, the summer has not yet passed, and occasionally there are two known cries from the woods next to it.
Meow...... Ga.
These are all memories of my youth, in the summer, I found a stick, circled a wire loop, went to find two spider webs, and after filling the wire loop, I took this to deduct it.
A few friends together, whoever catches more in the competition can often stick to a lot of them.
Or just grab it with your hands, the hand speed is faster, and you can also gain a lot. The relics that I knew in the woods, I had just finished shedding my skin, and I knew that I was covered in green, and I had seen a lot of them at that time.
and using the same tool to stick dragonflies, and I did it many times when I was a child.
It can be said that how many teenagers have not been bear children a few times?
At that time, I never thought that dragonflies were so cute! Why catch them.
All I think about is that I am happy, and I often catch them and put them in the house to raise them, but except for those who run away, they are dead.
After a few years, this kind of behavior will stop, Shen Qi will see a dragonfly stuck by a spider web or something, and when he encounters a dragonfly that is still struggling, he will help it, and after saving it, he will carefully remove all the spider silk stuck to its wings, and watch it fly away, and he will be very happy.
As for spiders......
Not.
Shen Qi really doesn't have a good impression of this creature, if he asks him to name the two most hated creatures, one is a snake, and the other is a spider......
Well, it turns out that it doesn't matter if it's a human or an animal or an insect.
Having a good face has a huge effect.
……
The group walked and stopped, and it took more than half an hour to arrive at the place.
A place like a dam looks imposing.
The dam is more than ten meters high, and some water flows slowly from below, and the stream below the mountain is formed by the water from here.
Next to the dam is a wall made of large stones, which is wide and paved with stone bricks.
There is a fence on the side of the stone brick road, and across the fence, it is a slope of about 30 degrees, and there is a platform under the slope, which can be about two meters wide, and next to this platform, there is a water source.
It is not false to say that it is close to the mountains and rivers, the whole reservoir can be seen with the naked eye, the area is huge, and there are mountain peaks next to it.
On the small platform below, Shen Qi even saw a few people fishing with fishing rods.
Next to the dam, there is an iron ladder for people to go to the top of the dam.
When they arrived, a crowd of people rejoiced.
There are a few who are clamoring to go to the top of the dam, and there are also those who want to try catching fish.
Of course...... It is impossible to catch fish in the reservoir, not to mention the depth of the water there, and the moss on the shore alone can kill people.
They catch fish in the water that flows down from the other side of the dam, where they converge into a stream.
Some classmates went to the fisherman to see how much he caught.
Shen Qi didn't care, this was all discussed by them, come here, just have a relaxed and fun mentality, and the confession will be postponed for a while.
The group had a great time, and finally they all got together gradually.
Leaning against the railing, the group sat up in a circle.
The snacks that Shen Qi bought were obviously prepared for this time.
Nine people chatted, and gradually, the atmosphere became a little sentimental.
The nine of them, they have all taken the high school entrance examination, county high school, Liucheng, even if they are in the same school, I am afraid they will be divided into different classes.
In the future, I am afraid that there will be few opportunities to get together like this.