Chapter 1: The First Arrival in Seoul
No .1
Under the stars on a summer night, two girls are preparing grapefruit lanterns by the river.
The river flows quietly to the west, the sky full of stars shines on the river, and the melodious sound of insects can be heard from the aquatic plants on both sides from time to time. The night is as cool as water, and the occasional evening breeze blows through, bringing a moist taste.
The grapefruit lamp has been made, with six petals, and the grapefruit peel is hollowed out to form a pattern for light transmission.
"Bai Lu, look, there's a firefly there."
Huang Huang excitedly put down the grapefruit lamp, put one hand on Bai Lu's shoulder, and pointed to a faint green light by the river with the other.
Seeing that mysterious green light, Bai Lu was also very excited. Although it wasn't the first time she'd seen fireflies, the glowing fireflies were especially cute on this midsummer night when frogs chirped and insects chirped.
The two sisters, Huang Huang and Bai Lu, are both wild fans, worship and love nature. Bai Lu's idol is Bei Ye, and Huang Huang's idol is De Ye.
Before coming here, the two girls made two plans. Plan A is close to the mountains, and Plan B is near the water. Before implementing Plan A, Bai Lu and Huang Huang conducted a field trip. After a day of climbing, they all agreed with Plan B.
The mountain they chose was the closest mountain to their home, called Phoenix Mountain. The camping site is about 800 meters above sea level. Although the mountain road is winding and overgrown with weeds, the scenery at the campsite is very good, with green bamboos and green leaves, and the stream water is clear.
However, when they came down the other way, they saw a lot of flowers. Although the red flowers are beautiful, the bright color makes people feel an indescribable palpitation. Sure enough, Bai Lu saw a lot of stone tablets engraved with the old Xian Kao, so the Xian Yan. During the day, it may be acceptable, but at night, the two little girls say that they are not afraid, and they are just two people boasting to each other.
According to legend, the dragon vein on Phoenix Mountain, the dragon vein will move on the mountain, move to the grave of the ancestors, this family will have good luck. Be a champion, make a fortune, and have a prosperous official fortune. For the sake of the luck of the family, the descendants of the deceased want to occupy as much territory as possible, so there are very few joint tombs on Phoenix Mountain, and there are many single tombs.
Huang Huang and Bai Lu cautiously approached the firefly, and when the two of them were only about half a meter away from the firefly, Huang Huang's eager posture scared Bai Lu.
Bai Lu first pulled Huang Huang back, then pointed to the flowing river, and whispered, "Huang Huang, you will pounce into the river later, I won't be able to swim." ”
"No, I'll be careful and catch the fireflies. Don't worry, I won't hurt it, just ask it to my hand and we'll take a closer look. Huang Huang changed his strategy and changed to crawling forward.
Bai Lu looked at Huang Huang's posture from the side and felt funny, which had to remind people of the assault soldiers on the battlefield.
Bai Lu remembered what the second uncle had said about an experience he had on a mission in Yunnan. The second uncle received the order and prostrate on the grass to wait to shoot the drug dealer. However, the drug dealer did not show up for a long time, and a king cobra crawled over him.
The firefly seemed to sense the movement, took off, and flew across the river.
"It's a pity, but it's okay, although we didn't have zero contact with the fireflies, it's considered close contact."
Bai Lu walked up and helped Huang Huang pat the weeds on her body.
"It's a pity, I don't want to do so much, let's go put a grapefruit lamp!" Huang Huang picked up the grapefruit lamp again.
"Fireflies are really elves in this world, and it's satisfying to see them once. Let's go, go put the grapefruit lantern. ”
Seeing that the fireflies on the other side of the river were glowing with a faint green shimmer, a sentence that had been said by Song Xiao in "Strange Man Yizhimei" suddenly became clear in Bai Lu's mind.
No matter how old a person grows or where he goes, there will be times when he gets lost, but God has been kind to us and created fireflies that allow us to find the light directly from the dark place and find the way home.
No. 2
A few hours ago, after Bai Lu and Huang Huang's families set up their tents, they began to prepare for a picnic. After the wine and meat were full, everyone began to eat the fruit after the meal - grapefruit.
Grapefruit is one of the common fruits of Lanting, and the pomelo of Lanting is generally not very large, and the seeds are sour and sour.
But as the saying goes, there is an old man in the family, such as three treasures. Bai Lu's grandfather, in a sense, can also be regarded as an agricultural scientist. Whether it is planting trees, vegetables, grain, fish, chickens, or ducks, he has a very good set. After the careful care of my grandfather, the pomelo trees on the pomelo tree grew bigger and sweeter every year.
When cutting the grapefruit peel, Bai Lu and Huang Huang were very careful and succeeded in cutting out six petals of similar size.
In order to increase the light transmittance and beauty of the grapefruit lamp, it is also necessary to give the grapefruit peel a little hollow.
Huang Huang carved out the words "I,♡,you".
Bai Lu didn't know what to carve and fell into thought.
A little more difficult? Not good engraving. Simpler? What's good about carving?
Same as Huang Huang's engraving? There's always a feeling of picking up people's teeth.
After some thought, Bai Lu decided to carve out a few simple figures. Triangles, rectangles, hearts, diamonds, hexagons and circles.
After the engraving, the two men turned around, back to back, and wrote what they wanted to say on the grapefruit peel.
"Is it written? Can it be turned around? ”
Bai Lu took the lead in finishing and put a little pressure on Huang Huang.
"Alright, alright."
The two turned around, looked at each other, and both smiled.
Fix the grapefruit peel on the float and put a candle in the middle, and you're done.
When it's done, it's really good-looking. Huang Huang inevitably took another wave of photos and posted space pictures.
Bai Lu wrote on the petal of grapefruit peel with a heart, "Huang Huang, have a good trip".
Striking matches and lighting candles, the two men gently lowered the grapefruit lamp into the river.
The water did not flow quickly or slowly, but flowed to the west. After watching the grapefruit lantern float seven or eight meters away, the two of them closed their eyes, interlaced their fingers, and silently recited the words they had just written in their hearts.
"What did you write on the grapefruit lamp?" Huang Huang asked Bai Lu a little impatiently.
"I didn't write anything, I just wrote something casually that I was finally free."
Bai Lu laughed.
"I don't believe it, I'll be honest."
"Really, believe it or not."
"Be honest, hurry up." After Huang Huang said this, he was still making a posture to tickle.
"What I wrote is, Huang Huang, you pig's head." After saying that, Bai Lu spread her legs and ran towards the tent.
The two of them walked around outside the tent a few times, and finally, Bai Lu was tired, and was caught by Huang Huang and captured.
"I said, I said, stop scratching."
Tickling this kind of thing, scratching yourself doesn't feel anything, and others feel itchy before they get started. Bai Lu couldn't stand it anymore, so she had to beg for mercy.
Huang Huang stopped moving.
"I thought a lot about digging the grapefruit peel, but I only wrote one sentence when I was writing. Huang Huang, have a good trip. Bai Lu confessed honestly.
Huang Huang was silent, and after a few seconds, Huang Huang looked at Bai Lu and said chicly, "I also thought about a lot of words, but when I wrote it, I only wrote one sentence, Bai Lu, thank you, go and fight, I bet you are prosperous." ”
Bai Lu was a little stunned, this was the first time Bai Lu heard Huang Huang say thank you to her.
Under the starlight in the sky, through the light in Huang Huang's eyes, Bai Lu saw sincere blessings.
"Are you crying?"
"I didn't."
Bai Lu didn't want to admit it.
Bai Lu spent more than ten seconds, restrained the tears in the corners of her eyes, and glanced at Huang Huang, both of them smiled, heartless. They all understand that there are thousands of words in a short sentence.