4. Chapter IV
It was still early, and Dick said to wait and drive the cattle and sheep back.
Via sat with him on the grass to bask in the sun, and the grass was like a carpet, soft, thick, and with a faint fragrance.
Dick saw her buttoning the grass there, and said with a smile, "The grass in our pasture is the best in a radius of hundreds of miles. ”
Wei Ya was surprised, "Is the grass still exquisite?" ”
"Of course, there is a lot of knowledge here, the color of the emerald green, the thickness of the grass blades are very important, you see the grass on the sunny side of the mountain grows green and dense, but in fact, the cattle and sheep like to eat the grass on the shade side the most."
Via took a closer look and found that this was really the case, "Why?" ”
"The grass on the sunny side has been exposed to direct sunlight for a long time, and the grass stalks are thick and old, so if you are a cow, you don't want to eat food that is not easy to chew, right? Therefore, we often harvest the grass on the sunny side to make hay. ”
Wei Ya nodded understandingly, "Every job has know-how and experience, and you need to practice it yourself to understand." ”
Dick praised, "That's right, that's the truth, now some experts come up with a new term at every turn, today is ecological grazing, tomorrow is innovative agriculture, as if they show themselves to be very powerful, in fact, they can't even grow grass." ”
Via gave a thumbs up, "You're so much better than them." ”
"That's that," Dick said with some smugness, "I've been in elementary school and growing up. ”
"So you decided to be a farmer?"
Via's words silenced Dick for a moment, and after a few seconds he laughed again,
"Yes, I'm going to succeed my dad and become the rancher of the 'Levitt Family Ranch'."
Viagra felt that Dick's words were insincere, nineteen years old was the most wanton and frivolous time in life, who was willing to stay in the depths of the mountains and live a life that could be seen at a glance.
But John and Manina had only two sons, the eldest of whom had gone out and settled abroad, and the younger son was bound to inherit the family business.
Via asked Dick, "Don't you have any other dreams?" ”
Dick scratched at his hair in anguish, "It's all unrealistic. ”
"Tell me?"
Dick's face turned red, and his expression seemed to say, "I won't sue you."
There was silence between the two men, Dick stared at the sky in a daze, Via looked at the cows and sheep in the distance, a large bird swept by the sun, stretched its wings and circled in the air, and kept circling around, and every time it passed over the heads of the cattle and sheep, it made a loud chirp.
A flash of inspiration suddenly crossed Via's mind, and she immediately grasped it, her lips moving, and she tried to hum:
If I were a bird,
He is the sun's rays, warming my wings,
If I were a cow or a sheep,
He is the green grass, stretching into the distance,
If I were a butterfly,
He is the flower, rich and fragrant.
If I'm lost in the forest,
He is the wind, guiding me in the direction of my home.
Even if one day there are no stars,
The sky is dark, I am lonely and wandering,
He's still not far ahead
"What are you singing?"
Dick interrupted her, his face full of doubt, he thought the melody was good.
Viagra sneered, "Uh, hum casually." ”
Dick persistently asked, "Whose song is it?" How come I've never heard it, what language are you singing? I didn't understand it at all. ”
Wei Ya couldn't answer, she couldn't say that she had just come up with a song, and she habitually used Chinese.
"Forget it, mysterious," Dick stood up and patted the grass on his body, "we should go back." ”
Via also got up.
She was going to go with Dick to the side of the cattle and sheep, but Dick put his hand to his lips and whistled a long whistle, and the sheep and the cattle seemed to have senses, lined up and walked neatly up the mountain.
It's amazing.
"How did you do that?" Viagra asked as she followed Dick.
Dick said slyly, "What is that song that you tell me first?" ”
Via felt that Dick's eyes were cheap at the moment, and she admitted defeat, "I just came up with it." ”
Dick was surprised, "The song and the lyrics are?" ”
"Well, the song is, as for the lyrics, I grunt it randomly." ”
"I thought it was a singer's new song, it was so good," Dick glanced at Via with a "you're unfathomable" look, leaned closer to her and asked,
"You can write songs?"
Wei Ya coughed lightly, "It's your turn to answer my question, how did you get the cattle and sheep to go home consciously?" ”
Dick pouted, "Don't you see a circle of wires around the pasture, there is a weak current in the wire, I have installed a system in my computer to control the strength of the current, every afternoon when the time comes, the current will automatically increase, and the whistle will drive the cattle and sheep back, of course, there is a training process in this." ”
Viagra exclaimed, "High-tech. ”
"Of course, what era do you think it is, are you still riding horses, flicking whips, and driving cattle and sheep into the barn as before? I have so many cattle and sheep in my family, and doing it like that will tire people to death. ”
"Can I try it?"
Via's eagerness to try, but Dick splashed a basin of cold water,
"It took me a year to get this bunch to listen to me."
In the evening, Via sat down at her desk, took out a piece of paper, and began to write the song she had come up with today.
To be on the safe side, she changed all the Chinese lyrics to English.
It was not until 12 o'clock at night that the entire lyrics were finally written.
She named the song "Flying Birds"
Via sang it from beginning to end against the score.
Feel good about yourself.
Viagra did know how to write songs, and she had been trying to do so since she was fourteen, but what she had written before was childish and she couldn't see anyone, and when she got sick, she was powerless and unwilling, and she wrote only one song in five years, and her parents didn't allow her to sing that song again after listening to it.
The next day, while cleaning up the pasture, Dick said, "Repeat the song you sang yesterday." He really missed that melody, and he went to bed and dreamed last night, and he had the same tune in his head.
It's a dream with background music.
"Then you can't be bad," Via was a little shy, writing songs that only she and her parents had heard.
"It's already amazing that you can write songs, and I admire it so much."
Dick was telling the truth.
Dick's words gave Viae confidence, and she cleared her throat and began to sing:
If I were a bird,
He is the sun's rays, warming my wings,
If I were a cow or a sheep,
He is the green grass, stretching into the distance,
As the song deepened, Dick's playful expression slowly became very serious, and he looked deeply at the girl in front of him, and his heart was very complicated.
Oh, my God
He actually heard the sound of heaven in the stinking tent full of feces everywhere.
At the end of the song, Via asked Dick a little nervously, "What do you think?" ”
Dick stared at her for a long time without speaking.
Wei Ya was even more nervous in her heart, could it be that her voice was not as good as in her previous life? She tried it last night, and she thought it was okay. Or is it that what she writes is not good for words?
"Bang Bang Bang," Dick applauded, "it's amazing, it's the first time I've heard such a beautiful song in real life, you're really amazing." ”
Dick was a little incoherent with excitement, and looked at Via's eyes as if he were looking at a piece of glowing gold.
"What's this piece called?"
"Asuka."
"Flying birds," Dick murmured, "do you have a score?" ”
Via nodded, "Yes." ”
Dick rubbed his hands together and asked, "Can you show me?" ”
"Okay, no problem."
Returning home from the ranch at noon, Via gave Dick the score, and she was surprised that Dick could not only read but also read music, and after reading it, Dick went upstairs into his room, and after a while, came out with a guitar.
Viagra only knew that Dick could play the guitar, but it was no surprise that who didn't have a little bit of a hobby of music these days.
Today John drove and Manina to town to deliver milk to the factory, and happened to be not at home.
Two people sit on the couch,
Dick's audition, all not in tune, he was a little embarrassed,
"Well, I haven't touched this thing in two years."
"It's okay, take your time, don't rush."
There was a magic in Via's voice that calmed Dick's impetuous heart, and he began to play the strings, and the melodious melody poured out.
He played the piece in its entirety.
This time, Wei Wei applauded, "Very good, you played well." ”
The music is all the same, and although Viagra can't play the guitar, she can tell that Dick's level is not low, and he must have worked it.
Dick laughed, and Via's praise made him happy.
"When I was in middle school, I formed a band with two classmates, you know, it's the kind of band that is similar to the playhouse, the three of us only performed in school and the community, and then we went to high school, and the schoolwork was tight, and the two of them were going to go to college, and the band was disbanded, and no one cared about us anyway."
Via Ya remembered his previous expression, "Could it be that your dream is to be a singer?" ”
Dick hurriedly said, "No, no, I have a bad voice, I used to be in the band only responsible for accompaniment, and I don't have any big dreams, I just want to go to the big city, to see the temple of music, I am a hillbilly, especially envious of those glamorous people." ”
"Do you want to accompany me now? Let's do this song together. ”
Dick was stunned, looked into Via's eyes, and said with a smile, "Okay." ”
The interior affects the effect, and the two people walked outside and came to the pasture.
Dick sat on the grass, put the guitar on his right lap, his hand hanging on the strings, leaned slightly, and moved very chicly, and he said to Via,
"I'm ready."
Via also gave him an OK gesture.
The prelude to the guitar sounds,
Via took a deep breath and opened her mouth to sing:
"If I were a bird, he would be the sun's rays, warming my wings; If I were a cow or a sheep, he would be green grass that stretches into the distance; If I were a butterfly, he would be a flower, fragrant."
The slow and brisk sound seems to have a magical penetrating power, in the already vast space, transmitted in all directions, accompanied by the crisp sound of cowbells, to the blue sky, to the lush forest, to the steep snow-capped mountains.
The peasants who were working at the foot of the mountain stopped their work and looked up.
In the warm light, they saw a young girl standing in the grass, unable to see her face clearly, except for a long black hair fluttering in the wind, and a long orange dress with sunflowers fluttering.
Someone asked, "Who's singing?" ”
Robert squinted and smiled, "It's Via." ”
"Who's Via?"
"John's adopted daughter, didn't you see Dick sitting next to her and playing the guitar?"
The beautiful and warm singing continues,
"If I am lost in the forest, he is the wind, guiding me in the direction of my home; Even if one day there are no stars, the sky is dark, and I am lonely, he is still not far ahead."
No one saw a man standing at the top of the hill at the junction into the forest, quietly watching the girl below.