Old man Shi took a puff of smoke and said: "With the two of you who haven't walked like this, you can't do it with two legs, as the old saying goes, Haowang Mountain runs a dead horse!" If you want to go there unless you don't go back tonight, if you want to go back, you have to ride a mule or horse, and your car won't be able to drive in! ”。

"Where can I rent a mule or horse?" Lu Xiancheng immediately asked.

A continuous hill immediately aroused Lu Xiancheng's interest.

This topography reminded Lu Xiancheng of an American ranch he had visited in his previous life.

That was when Lu Xiancheng went to the United States for a road trip with a few friends he met on the Internet, rented a car from the west of the United States to travel through the United States to New York in the east of the United States, and then flew back to China. On the way, Lu Xiancheng has seen countless American ranches, but only one ranch in the mountains makes Lu Xiancheng and a few friends linger the most.

When you ride over a small hill and think that what you will see will be a crisp green pasture, suddenly you will see a sea of blue flowers, or a cluster of colorful woods.

Before this, Lu Xiancheng never thought that even the woods could be so beautiful, even a pale wildflower could make people so surprised, the undulating terrain is like an endless beauty at a glance, every mountain, every side of the valley hides a kind of surprise, but you can't imagine that kind of beauty at all.

Seeing a group of hills suddenly gave Lu Xiancheng a desire to replicate this beauty.

"There is a rent to rent, but now that it's almost the New Year, it is estimated that it will not be cheap, and it will cost thirty or forty yuan at the end of this day," Old Man Shi thought for a while and said.

When Lu Xiancheng heard thirty or forty, he suddenly didn't know what to say: Do you think I can't afford to pay thirty or forty yuan a day?

Zhou Guangyong nodded when he heard this: "Thirty or forty rented horses?" What's wrong with that! ”。

Zhou Guangyong felt the difference between the consumption level in the countryside and the town, and the five pieces in Shicheng were a box lunch. The five pieces in the town are fried with meat, and it is estimated that five pieces can be fried in this town for two dishes, and it is only thirty or forty yuan a day to hire a horse, which makes Zhou Guangyong, who has not officially ridden a horse, suddenly interested.

"Then please help us hire two better horses, a good horse is not a problem for fifty a day," Lu Xiancheng said.

Shi Dazhuang, the son of Old Man Shi, heard this and said, "This price is no problem, I'll help you ask." Let's see if anyone is willing, I can still squeeze out one here, and you can hire another one."

After Shi Dazhuang finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a tree not far away, and Lu Xiancheng found three horses tied to the tree pole.

"Your family is in good condition, there are three horses," Lu Xiancheng said with a smile.

Shi Dazhuang said: "There is only one horse, and the other two horses are borrowed by other families to be returned after the set, and the ones on the back are not our family's things."

Lu Xiancheng didn't know that people in the mountainous areas might not have to bring a few families to buy things when they rushed to a fair, just like Aunt Zhu is going abroad now. It is equivalent to collective small procurement.

"Don't, your horses are still carrying things, hire two for us, pick up the good ones!" Lu Xiancheng said.

Although he said politely, in fact, Lu Xiancheng didn't want to ride the three horses tied over there at all, because these three horses were short and small in Lu Xiancheng's eyes, and if it weren't for Shi Dazhuang saying it was a horse, Lu Xiancheng would have thought it was a donkey. As a horse, it is about the size of a donkey. Where would Lu Xiancheng, who had ridden a tall horse, be interested in riding, and he would ride it for a day.

Shi Dazhuang listened and looked at his father. Looking at Old Man Shi, he nodded, and then he took a step and walked towards the street.

Lu Xiancheng thought that it would take some time to hire a horse at this time, but who knew that in less than ten minutes, Shi Dazhuang took two men in their early forties, and the two of them led two horses.

Lu Xiancheng saw the horses led by the two men, and couldn't help but feel disappointed in his heart, these two horses were limited even if they were better than Shi Da's three horses. The size is almost in the middle of the middle, but the coat color is quite well-groomed, unlike the three horses as if they were covered with a layer of dust, dirty.

Both horses did not even have a saddle on their backs, only a sweat pad. said that the sweat pads were all lifting this thing, how did Lu Xiancheng look like a small quilt wrapped in a little doll in the countryside. The only thing that made Lao Lu feel good was that the sweat pads on the two horses were very clean, and the white quilts inside were brand new.

As for what belly belt, the triangle chest belt is completely a shadowless thing, and two wide cloth straps are tied directly through the horse's belly, even if it is a belly belt.

Even if they are all hired, it is not easy to say much, and in Lu Xiancheng's concept, it is estimated that it is not easy to find a horse with a shoulder height of more than one and a half meters in this place. It's not that there are no tall horses in China, but they are all in the grassland or in the north, where there are tall horses in small mountain villages like Jiangnan.

It is also true that the two men arrived, everyone met and introduced, Lu Xiancheng knew that the two of them had a surname Ding and a surname Fang, and as for the price, Lao Lu gave forty, and they did not raise the price in one go.

left the car at the door of the bamboo shop and asked the boss to help watch the car, while Lu Xiancheng and Zhou Guangyong were led by Shi Dazhuang and the three of them each rode a horse to see the terrain.

When he set off, Lu Xiancheng rode one alone, and Shi Dazhuang rode one by himself and then pulled Zhou Guangyong's bridle to take care of Zhou Guangyong, who was riding a horse for the first time.

There was no interest in riding a horse and whipping for Lao Lu, because after Lao Lu's height of eight meters stepped on the horse, he felt that his two legs were almost on the ground. Lao Lu thought that if he tied a flower scarf, he would steal a mine.

And the horse can't run fast, walking on four small short legs is estimated to be the normal bicycle speed, to the small copper bell on the horse's neck is still a little interested, jingling all the way.

Among the three people in the group, Shi Dazhuang often rides horses, so naturally he doesn't feel anything.

Lu Xiancheng is getting rid of the entanglement of 'riding a donkey' in his heart, and he can't talk about any good feelings at all.

Only Zhou Guangyong was very happy, riding on horseback and shouting a sentence or two from time to time, as if he had found such a little bit of a style to believe in the reins.

After walking for a while, Lu Xiancheng knew why Old Man Shi let him hire a horse, this road is really not easy to walk. Let's put it this way, the road out of the town is like a highway compared to the road now, although the place is hilly, but the road is winding around, and there are several small rivers in between, and horses can only walk around the banks of the small rivers. The distance that is easy to reach in a straight line is that it has to go around a big circle.

When the road is bad, it is impossible for the horse to even trot. The entire road is only about one and a half meters wide. Next to it is either a shrub or a small hill, the most important thing is that the road is still undulating, there are two ups and downs between one or two hundred meters, and the naked eye can directly observe the change in the height difference of the trail.

After walking for half an hour, Zhou Guangyong's interest disappeared without a trace, sitting on the horse's back and swaying like he was half asleep and half awake, and finally fell directly on the horse's back.

Lao Lu's interest is indeed rising, although the road is getting more and more difficult to walk now, but Lao Lu is more and more satisfied with the current terrain. Where it's too flat, old Lou doesn't like it. And even if you like it, it's in vain, this kind of place has long been opened up into farmland, and there is no need to say much about the desire of Chinese farmers for land, only in such a county can people contract.

After walking for about an hour and a half, the road became more and more difficult to walk near the hill, and finally there was no road at all, only around the ridges and bushes. Or anything that stands in the way of your way, especially at the foot of the mountain. The clumps of small shrubs and shrubs with such small spikes made the servants suffer a little.

When he arrived at the top of the mountain, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, Shi Dazhuang took out a few pieces of bread from his horse, and then there was a military kettle, which was the kind of flattened army-green aluminum kettle.

Bread and water were the couple's lunch. Zhou Guangyong and Lu Xiancheng didn't eat much, a piece of bread was done, and almost the rest went into Shi Dazhuang's stomach.

Lu Xiancheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at the mountain with great satisfaction, although the plants on it did not grow much. But at least it's not stone, as long as there is soil to grow that kind of grass that the little devil has improved, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, there is a small silver river in the valley on one side, and a small lake downstream of the small river, which is not very large but not small.

There is a small village not far from the small lake, Lu Xiancheng counted the appearance of about thirty or forty households, and the farmland of these families can be seen near the village, but the crops can not be seen in the current season, only the small ditches in the fields can be seen, dividing the pieces of land into irregular quadrilaterals.

"What village is over there?" Lu Xiancheng stretched out his finger and asked Shi Dazhuang.

"Oh, that's You Jiawa," Shi Dazhuang said.

As soon as Lu Xiancheng heard this, he asked casually with his own experience: "Are they all surnamed You?" ”。

"No, there is no one surnamed You in their village" Shi Dazhuang finished speaking, looked at Lu Xiancheng with a puzzled face and said: "Even they don't know why the village is called You Jiawa, anyway, the ancestors called it this name and it has been inherited."

"Oh!" Lu Xiancheng looked at the small village in the distance, and then turned his back to the village and looked at the other side, not far away was a small hill, and the ridge was connected to the hill where he was standing, and there were two small hills on his two hands, which were like a beautiful note in Lu Xiancheng's eyes.

Lu Xiancheng saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh: "The world is beautiful!" ”。

Hearing this, Shi Dazhuang stood up and looked around, his eyes only saw a few bare mounds, or mounds covered with thorny bushes, where there was a half-point victory.

There's something wrong with the brains of this city guy! Shi Dazhuang muttered in his heart.

Zhou Guangyong listened to Lu Xiancheng's words and stood up and looked around, but Lao Zhou finally read some books, looked around and said: "There are mountains and rivers It is indeed a good place, but it is a little desolate." It's nice to plant trees and grass, and then build some flower beds and so on! ”。

As soon as he heard that he was going to plant trees and grass, Shi Dazhuang's eyes swept around the backs of the two city people two or three times: Sure enough, these city people really don't have much knowledge, it seems that the jokes that people can't tell the difference between wheat and leeks may be true, and the city people are really so stupid!

As a person who grew up here, Shi Dazhuang doesn't think that planting grass and trees in this place is what you want to plant.

In the old generation, this area was an old forest, not only with big trees but also with all kinds of wild things, but now that the forest is cut down, nothing but thorny shrubs can grow here.

Trees and grass are also planted, not to mention how much it costs to plant trees. Let's just plant grass, what kind of grass can grow over this mountain of thorny vines?!

At this time, Lu Xiancheng didn't know that someone was slandering him in his heart, and the happy old Lu had already decided in his heart, waiting for him to have plenty of money, at least to cover all these two or three mountains.

Thinking like this, Lu Xiancheng began to plan in his heart, where to build a house over there, where to put the stables, and how to plant the woods....... (To be continued.) )