When Wu Dao and He Hua returned to the yurt, the shop was making roast whole sheep, and He Hua left some wild mushrooms to take home, and gave the other part to the proprietress for her to eat with mushroom stew at noon.

The two of them returned to the big yurt where they were eating and sat down, and after a while, the roasted whole sheep was served. The store cut the sheep into pieces and served one to everyone, Wu Dao ate it, and the taste was really unusual. However, after arriving in the northwest, the meals were all full of meat, he was already bored, and the northwest diet was completely different from the east, and the meals were not easy to digest, he felt that the meals he ate last night and this morning had not been digested, and he had no hunger at all, and he only ate a little mutton and stopped eating, and the only thing he wanted to eat now was the mushrooms he had just picked back with He Hua.

After a while, the shop brought the mushroom stew. After Wu Dao ate it, he found that the taste was indeed very delicious as He Hua said, and it was very different from the mushrooms he had eaten before. After eating the mushrooms, he walked out of the yurt and sat on a stone by the Pearl Lake. Looking at the clear lake in front of him and the Tianshan Mountains in the distance, Wu Dao suddenly thought that people in the eastern region often say that the environment in the northwest is harsh and unsuitable for human habitation, but how many people have really been to the northwest and know that there are not only deserts and Gobi deserts here, but also such beautiful scenery? If you can stay here for a long time, isn't it also a great joy in life?

He Hua didn't drink alcohol, and after eating the mushrooms he picked, he also walked out of the yurt, and when he saw Wu Dao sitting by the lake, he also walked over. Seeing that Wu Dao didn't notice her, she deliberately walked behind Wu Dao and shouted, wanting to scare him. Wu Dao was indeed frightened, and when he looked back at He Hua, he smiled. He Hua said:

"What did you just look at, so fascinating?"

"I'm looking at Pearl Lake and the Tianshan Mountains. You don't know, but I'm actually envious of you. Wu Dao said.

"What do you envy us?"

"I envy you for living in such a beautiful environment, living simply and happily."

"You can live like this."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"Not everyone has such good luck. I'll go back tomorrow, I still have a lot of things I want to do, and when I've done everything I want to do, maybe I'll come back here and live forever. ”

"I think you're just thinking too much about things, and you're too tired of life, that's why you're unhappy. If we live without heart and lungs like us, life will naturally be happy. ”

"Speaking of heartlessness, I used to think that Su Dongpo was a heartless person, no matter how much suffering he suffered, he could face it calmly and make fun of it."

"According to what you say, I am not the same person as Su Dongpo?"

"To some extent, it is the same person, but, in my opinion, Su Dongpo's happiness is far less pure than yours, and his happiness is often even pretended, and your happiness comes from the heart."

"You're not me, how do you know that my happiness isn't faked?"

"The son is not me, and I know that I don't know the joy of fish?"

"That's what Zhuangzi said, right?"

"It's Zhuangzi who said it. One day Zhuangzi was out with a friend and saw a fish in the water, and Zhuangzi said that the fish swim freely, which is the happiness of the fish. My friend said, "You are not a fish, how do you know the happiness of fish?" Zhuangzi said, you are not me, how do you know that I don't know the happiness of fish? To paraphrase Zhuangzi, you are not me, how do you know that I don't know that your happiness is not pretended? ”

These words are too tongue-in-cheek. However, it would be nice if we could live like fish, and the fish in Pearl Lake are very happy. But this sentence is not entirely true, the fish living in the lake and the sea are very free and happy, but the fish living in the fish tank are not so free. ”

"That's why I'm so envious that you can live in this vast world."

In order to attract more tourists, the local government organizes each county to take turns to hold ethnic song and dance performances by the Pearl Lake during the peak tourist season every year. On the day Wu Dao arrived at Pearl Lake, there happened to be a performance in the afternoon. In the morning, the performance unit had already set up the stage. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the show officially began. Wu Dao had seen many singing and dancing performances on TV before, including Northwest ethnic songs and dances, but he had never paid attention to such programs, let alone appreciated them. Watching folk songs and dances at close range by the Pearl Lake, at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and on the grasslands, Wu Dao rediscovered this art. The songs and dances of each ethnic group have their own characteristics and are beautiful. Wu Dao found that the artistic effects of these ethnic songs and dances on TV and on the shore of Pearl Lake are completely different, the former restricts the characteristics of national songs and dances, while the latter can fully release their beauty, and the kind of freedom, unrestrained and happiness presented in the songs and dances is enough to infect everyone present. After the performance, He Hua also pulled Wu Dao to the stage and took a group photo with the actors.