At noon in early August, the sun dried the leaves, there was no trace of wind, the three dogs were hungry and hot, and they walked in a hurry in the morning, only eating two steamed buns, and had to follow everyone to replenish water in the middle.

This is strange to say, drinking so much water, and not urinating much, it is estimated that I sweated too much, sweating my clothes with sweat, and after a while, I dried them, and after drinking water, I sweated my clothes again, and then I was dried, and the sweat stains on my clothes were wisps of white flowers.

This was originally hungry and hot, and carried the burden up the mountain, Sangou felt that his legs were weak, and he couldn't use his strength, so he usually stepped on the steps in one step, but now he had to kick a few steps, and after a while, he pulled down a distance from Lao Litou.

Lao Li Tou had no intention of stopping, and continued to climb the mountain unhappily, and when he reached a shady place, he stopped, unloaded his burden, sat on the flat pole on the ground, took out a dry tobacco, smoked it, and waited for the three dogs to come up while smoking.

Sangou finally climbed up, his face was red, and he didn't know if it was red, or a little ashamed red, a person in his forties didn't breathe, he was still a descendant, and he still had to wait.

Fortunately, Lao Li Tou also understands people, knowing that Sangou is the first time, it is not easy, he didn't eat much in the morning, and he is estimated to be hungry, so he asked Sangou to stop and rest.

Then he took out two raw sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes) from the basket, threw one to the three dogs, and ate them; Originally, Sangou was very resistant to sweet potatoes at home, because he ate too much when he was a child.

There is nothing to eat at home, I eat sweet potatoes when I am hungry, I eat sweet potatoes when my mouth is hungry, and when my family runs out of food, I eat sweet potatoes with the whole family.

In school, as long as he saw his classmates eating sweet potatoes, the three dogs would walk around, preferring to be hungry rather than eat; On the street, I saw that many people liked to gather around the stove of roasted sweet potatoes and buy freshly baked sweet potatoes to eat, but Sangou didn't even want to smell the smell, so he walked away from it, thinking to himself, it was a waste of money to pay for such an unpalatable thing.

But now, I found that the sweet potatoes were still very delicious, and the three dogs were so hungry that the fire burned in their stomachs, and they took the sweet potatoes of Lao Litou, and they didn't even have time to plane the skin (no knife to plan, they could also use the front teeth to plane), rubbed a few times on the clothes, rubbed the mud and ash or something, rubbed it off, and even ate the belt meat.

It's so delicious, the sweet potato is so sweet that his mouth is full of relish, and he solved a sweet potato with a big wrist in three clicks and two clicks, and he was stunned by the old plum, and said in a loud voice:

"It's better to be young, the eyes (eyes) are like snow (lightning), and the teeth are like scissors (scissors); Eating stones can melt away. ”

Sangou remembered that he was in a hurry to eat just now, and he didn't thank them properly, so he hurriedly thanked them, a lot! (Thank you very much!) ）

"What's polite, a rotten sweet potato", Lao Li Tou disagreed.

After a break, get up and continue walking, Lao Li Tou asked Sangou, is it the first time to go here, Sangou said yes, Lao Li Tou's words came up again, said, walk a little more, to the Tianguiyan in front, and then rest, if you can still climb, I can help you look at the burden, you can go to see Tianguiyan.

About Tianguiyan, Sangou also heard in school, the small county town is not big, there is a small scenic spot, everyone is spreading, Lao Li Tou also said this, when Lu Dongbin came to Tianguiyan to practice, his mount, a deer ran out to steal crops, was cut off by Lu Xian and turned into a rock to guard the entrance of the cave forever, there is a broken leg on the rock wall of Tianguiyan Stone Deer is still there.

The white crane is related to Lu Dongbin, and this day Guiyan is also related to him, it seems that this legend is estimated to be wholesaled from somewhere, Sangou laughed secretly in his heart.

However, the real Lu Yan (No. Dongbin, Jinshi of the Tang Dynasty), when he was the commander of Jiujiang County, came to Guangfeng Tianguiyan here, I heard that he stayed here for a while, and wrote some poems to stay.

But since they got here, Sangou still only went to see the entrance of the cave of Tianguiyan, did not go down to the belly of the cave, it was a big karst cave, it was very dark, I heard that there was no problem with standing thousands of people, seeing that there was nothing wrong with this, the entrance of the cave did not look big, but it was indeed very big inside.

In addition to the big belly of the cave, I heard that there are many small intestine-like holes inside, which extend in all directions, and generally a few people dare not go deep, for fear of being trapped and unable to turn out.

Sangou stood at the entrance of the cave, the cool air in the cave was bubbling out, coupled with the shade of the green trees, Sangou felt refreshed, and also felt that he had heard that Huaisu, Zhou Dunyi, Yang Wanli, Han Shizhong, Zhang Shuye, Zhu Xi, Shen Baozhen and other well-known figures and traces, including their literary atmosphere, will not disperse for thousands of years.

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After Tianguiyan, it went all the way downhill, and soon arrived at Liujiawu in front, everyone was waiting for the two of them, and the black cow beckoned everyone into a roadside stall to eat.

Eating is also some home-cooked meals, Sangou even ate several big bowls, and the stomach that can't fit it before putting it down, fortunately, no one pays attention to his amount of food, or everyone's amount of food is very large, so he thinks Sangou is normal.

There is less oil and water in the stomach, and the meals are coarse tea and light rice, of course, you will eat a lot, and you have to rush in the afternoon, if you don't eat enough, you can't keep up with the team when you're hungry, and it will drag everyone down.

After eating and drinking, everyone's spirits came up again, and after resting, they would continue to pick up the burden and hurry, and there were meat and vegetarian jokes along the way, and Sangou couldn't help laughing.

These rough men, although their mouths are a little vulgar, but their hearts are not bad, and they will not say anything to you like some people in the city, so that you can't speak for a long time.

Everyone goes straight to the point, saves a lot of speculation, and the relationship is a lot simpler, if you don't like it, you don't like it, and even scold it right away, if you like it, I can't wait to hug you and kiss you.

After walking for more than an hour, I heard that the front was about to arrive at the Vulture Temple, but this is all a flat river, where is there a trace of the mountain temple? Sangou wondered, but it's not in a hurry, maybe it's going to turn to the foot of the mountain and see it, if you want to rest, go to the temple to worship, recently I am really too moldy, I heard that the Vulture Temple is the most effective temple within a radius of dozens of miles.

After a while, seeing the dust in front of me, and hearing the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums, could it be a temple practice? Approaching, everyone hurriedly walked against the side of the road, it turned out to be asking for rain.

This year (1934) is another big drought, it's August, rice seedlings are planted, there has not been a rain, the fields on the roadside are almost out of water, many seedlings are about to be wilted, if it doesn't rain again, it is estimated that all will be sunburned to death, and the people's annual harvest is afraid that it will be in vain again.