Wei Ergou told the story of 1,800 German soldiers being eaten by African jungle ants, Wei Yiyun and I shuddered, and from time to time I had to look around to see if there were ants, and I also noticed that there were indeed a few red ants crawling in the bushes with centipedes, and I subconsciously walked faster, and I didn't tell Wei Yiyun that I saw red ants.

Donai took us along the edge of the bushes, Erica also commanded the three black workers to cut off the thorns on the road with machetes from time to time, we marched very slowly, especially when we stopped and waited for the black workers to open the way, Wei Yiyun and I felt that time was standing still, Wei Ergou was relaxed and followed the back of the team alone, leaning on the shovel to take out a cigarette and smoke, and handed one to Wei Yiyun. Two smokers smoked at the back of the line, and the four blacks in front of me opened the way, and I walked in the middle of the group, and walked like this for about an hour, zigzag and round, and we walked almost in a big arc through the bush.

In front of us was an open meadow with a lot of banana trees here and there, and without saying a word, Donai trotted under the banana trees and cut down a bunch of bananas with his knife, calling us over to eat.

Everyone stood around the banana, and the three black workers were tired of walking in front of them, so they simply sat down cross-legged. The cut banana tastes exceptionally sweet, very short and not as long as in China, only as long as a finger. I was born in Shanghai, the first time I saw a banana tree, I was more curious, asked the black worker to take a machete, walked under the banana tree, and tried hard to cut a bunch of bananas, this banana tree and the banana tree look almost the same, but I didn't expect that I cut it down and didn't cut it, and the knife was stuck in it, Wei Yiyun saw this and came to help me, pulled out the handle of the knife, pulled down a bunch of bananas with my hand, and I broke off a lot of bananas and put them in my school bag. Wei Ergou shouted behind us, "Next to you is an ant's nest!" ”

Since I was breaking bananas, Wei Ergou's fast speech was not standard Mandarin, so I didn't hear it clearly. However, Wei Yiyun subconsciously jumped away, trembling, pointing to a small mound more than two meters behind me and said, "Xiaosheng, you are behind!" ”

I was still half-squatting loading bananas, and when I heard Wei Yiyun tell me to look behind, I turned my head and saw that two meters behind me was a mound of earth, just like a domestic grave, less than a meter high, conical, and as smooth as cement mounting. I stood up and asked Erika if this was a black man's grave, and Eriga laughed and said, "This is an ant's nest." ”

I jumped away several meters away and looked at the mound, Wei Ergou came over and patted me on the back and said, "Don't worry, Xiaosheng, the ants on the grass are very small, most of them are termites, don't worry." Several black men laughed when they saw my frightened appearance, and teased me with the local dialect, and Donnet also used a machete to pin off the tip of the mound, and waved me over to look at it, I carefully looked at the pin of dirt that was pinned away, and it was like a highly sophisticated internal device, layer by layer, a bit like a honeycomb shape, but not exactly the same, and from time to time a group of termites crawled out and looked out, termites were very small, but a group of people gathered on the surface of the mound were densely packed and looked a little disgusting, Wei Yiyun was also curious to come and take a photo, and took a photo with his mobile phone.

After resting for half an hour, we continued to cross the grass, at this time the sun was already above our heads, and the temperature had risen to more than 37 degrees, I felt that my clothes were soaked with sweat, Wei Yiyun and Wei Ergou were already sweating profusely, and Wei Yiyun's head and neck were all sunburned, and although the four black people also had beads of sweat on their heads, they felt like no one else, urging us to hurry, they were really not afraid of the heat, I had long heard Bai Ying say that black people did not die of heat only froze to death, it seems to be true! I feel like I'm back in the days of military training in college, standing in the scorching sun and marching in the army, and I should say that the situation is harsher now than it was then, because I feel like I'm a little prostrate. Erica saw that my face was a little wrong, and took out a green straw hat from his bag and handed it to me, I took it and put it on, it was really different, it felt like turning off the bath bomb and cooling it down, without direct ultraviolet rays, I walked much easier, although Wei Yiyun was the first time to come to Africa like me, I looked at his soaked back and solid footsteps, and admiration arose, and then looked at Wei Ergou's dark skin, which was completely integrated into African life.

In this way, in the middle of the noon in Africa, under the direct sunlight of the sun, thousands of tons of ultraviolet rays pressed us forward, walked for more than an hour, we approached the foot of the mountain, looked up, it was not far from the foot of the mountain, it seemed that it was less than a kilometer ahead, only need to pass through a forest.

I took out my mobile phone from my backpack and looked at it, it was already twelve o'clock at noon, and the mobile phone also showed several white missed calls, and there was no signal at all when I wanted to dial back, and we were completely already in the mountains. Wei Ergou beckoned us into the woods, found a super tree to sit underneath, the mountain wind blew over, it felt like returning from summer to spring, and then look at this super tree It is estimated that all of us can't hold hands together, and we can't see the head when we look up, there is a feeling of the tree of life in the movie Avatar. Wei Yiyun and I took out the bananas we had just filled and the biscuits and mineral water we had prepared, everyone was already tired, and Donai pulled out a cloth like a sheet and spread it on the ground for Erijia to lie down for a while, Erijia seemed to be exhausted, after all, the chief's son was usually pampered. Wei Yiyun leaned against the trunk of the tree and closed his eyes, seeing that he was gritting his teeth and insisting, he carried a shovel more than me, and carried more mineral water than me. The three black workers were already lying in the open space under the trees, completely resting in the whole ecology.

Only Wei Ergou is standing, smoking, looking around, looking into the distance with binoculars from time to time, seriously, Wei Ergou is two years younger than me, the immaturity of young people is not reflected in him at all, except that his mobile phone is loaded with a lot of games that young people like, since I met with Wei Ergou in Dubai, I am more and more admiring Wei Ergou, it is really not easy, just look at them to make more money, who knows how much sadness and hardship there is behind it!

"There is a gold mine in this wood, it's noon now, if you prospect now, you won't be able to go back later, Xiaosheng, you let the three black workers go back to find the little black on the pickup truck, let the four of them move the things behind the pickup truck over, and move them under this tree, the four of us use this big tree as the origin coordinates, and we will first search the area in front of the left." When it comes to work, Wei Ergou seems very professional and confident.

I followed his instructions and translated to the three blackmen, who threw their machetes under the trees, unloaded their knapsacks, and walked back into the grass. Erica and Donay looked at me and asked me what I was going to do next, I told them what Wei Ergou said, Erica and Donay still didn't ask for any reason, it seems that the black culture has been domesticated by the white people for hundreds of years, and they don't like to ask why they do it, just carry it out.