Chapter Seventy-One: Time in the Ancient City

It was just a stop on the way, and I was still far from my destination, and I knew that I would have to spend the night on the train. I looked at the snacks in my backpack and almost ran out, and even the instant noodles were only a bucket left.

In this era, instant noodles and snacks seem to be the food that our youth can't live without, and the scene of a group of people squatting outside the store to eat instant noodles has become a beautiful scenery since junior high school.

When I was in high school, I was in a hurry to fill my stomach with instant noodles, and even though the chemistry teacher said how dirty the instant noodles were, it still couldn't stop our enthusiasm. For us, life has been like this, who cares about health or not.

Just as foreigners ridicule us Chinese for having a strong stomach, we Chinese really don't dare to eat. Spicy strips have reported many scandals, but they still do not affect the public's liking, and we still called it daily "drug use" at that time.

When I got to college, I gradually dropped these things, not because I didn't like them, but because I paid more attention to my image. Just like the boss who travels to take a plane and take first class, we start to eat more expensive things, more noble things, but that cheap snack is being replaced little by little.

At night, the train passes through the remote countryside, but the sporadic lights give people a special feeling, and they may be quiet for a long time and suddenly feel very lonely when they see a little chance of life.

I once read a report about deep-sea diving, and in addition to the fear of high water pressure, one of the biggest demons in my heart is the fear of unknown creatures.

When a person stays in the dark for a long time, there will be endless fear, and when a person stays in a quiet environment for a long time, there will be endless loneliness. Especially when you see the crowd, you are the loneliest.

I saw that all the people around me had fallen asleep, and the whole carriage was quiet, and I couldn't tell a clear reason why I couldn't sleep, so I took out my headphones and plugged my ears, hoping to fall asleep quickly with the music.

I still hope to have that dream again, some people will have great satisfaction even when they meet in a dream, and I don't know how many songs I listened to, but I finally fell asleep.

The moment I opened my eyes in the morning, the twinkling of the morning light was as beautiful as the legend of the ancient city. It's a secluded world, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but it's not as untouched as the Peach Blossom Spring, but it's more remote.

It is a thousand-year-old city that has completely preserved many ancient cultures, such as architecture and customs. Therefore, most of the people who live here, except for tourists, are local ethnic minorities.

Although poetry and distant dreams are no longer accepted by many people, because the embarrassing point is poor travel. But there are always places where it becomes a pity not to go in this life, and for me this ancient city is like that. The ancient city of Qingyuan has a quiet sea, towering snow-capped mountains, beautiful ancient villages, and beautiful scenery, and it is not an exaggeration to call it poetry and distance.

When I stepped into this land and felt the breath of humanity, I knew that this would be the longest stop I would ever stay. Living in such a place is like reading a novel, or writing it yourself, and there are too many emotions.

The weather here is refreshing, warm and moist all year round, it is the climate that I have envied since I was a child, when I was a child, I always thought that I was the most afraid of heat or cold, and finally came to the conclusion that I was afraid, so in the future, living in a city with all four seasons like spring has become my good wish.

Blue sky, white clouds, clear water, walking in the ancient city for the first time I made the mistake of recording, every time I go to a place, with beautiful words to record, for a moment I feel that I am a writer who came here to find inspiration.

I did have the idea of becoming a writer, but I was trapped in the narrowness of my horizon and dispelled this idea, but who knows if I will pick up the pen again after many years, I once said: "A good future often confuses the present, and not knowing the future may be the best miss." ”

Walking through the quaint streets, you can see many tourists dressed in fancy costumes, the streets are lined with ancient blue bricks and white walls, and all kinds of trinket shops and snack bars are very lively, walking in them is like catching a market. Trying local snacks and buying some souvenirs seems to be a necessary step in the tour, although I am not a foodie, but who does not have a heart to eat all the food in the world.

If I were an architect, I would be amazed by the architecture of the houses, the perfect structure of the eaves and roofs made these houses stable and beautiful over the years, but unfortunately I am a layman.

Some of the people I met spoke a national language I didn't understand at all, and there were even foreign tourists, but I also occasionally met a few strangers who spoke the same language, smiled and greeted, and then passed by.

I actually envy those who come to travel in groups, have clear goals, have companions, and have others to witness every beautiful moment, and I only have a special kind of tranquility, but I don't have to envy others too much in life, because I am me, and it is a different fireworks.

Then I wandered to the beach, a lake to be exact. It is originally a lake, and it is named the sea because of people's love for the sea. The sea is not the sea, the lake is not the lake, there is not only the vastness of the sea, but also the still shadow of the lake, one scene and two colors, both charms are endless. The most refreshing thing is the tranquility and comfort and the elegance away from the hustle and bustle.

I was standing under an ancient tree, the sunlight was mottled through the leaves, and some of them passed through the gaps to form circles of light on the ground, I felt that the scene was familiar, but the memory was so blurred that I couldn't remember who I was with, maybe I really forgot too many memories, which is good news.

When I turned to leave, a girl came into view, wearing a colorful horizontal striped blouse with a white gauze skirt, very plain dress, her hair blowing with the breeze giving people a heart-warming feeling.

Not far from the lake, someone swam in a light boat, and a few egrets flew when they heard the sound, and when they reached a high place, they seemed to merge with the blue sky and white clouds.

She then got up and walked down the stone path by the lake, her hands shaking so badly that she looked like she was about to fall, and I followed her, with a rare smile behind her.

For a moment I thought it was Xu Qing coming back, it was too similar, but after the ghosting, I knew that everything was an illusion, and the scene of our reunion in the dream was just a dream after all, and people are always prone to think too much.

Soon she stopped in a shallow area of water, picked up a few rocks and threw them into the lake, which reminded me of the days when I was a kid and used tiles to float in the water, when great people could float 7 or 8 times at a time.

I walked in to see her face clearly, her facial features were clean, although it was not very beautiful, but there was a unique beauty, especially when the breeze blew by.

She seemed to have something on her mind, and then gestured something with a tree branch on the beach, which I quickly wiped away with my hand when I approached her and heard footsteps.

For the first time, I took the initiative to talk to a strange girl, "Hello, stranger. ”

She turned her face to look at me strangely, and after a moment of pause, she threw away the branch in her hand and stood up and replied stupidly, "Hello." ”

I picked up the branch she threw down and drew a flower next to the place she had just drawn, and she looked at me and suddenly asked, "Why hasn't this flower bloomed yet?" ”

I replied lightly: "Wait for an appreciative person to arrive." ”

She nodded, put her hand on her chin as if thinking, then looked at me and said, "Short-lived? ”

I shook my head, "No. ”

She immediately responded, "Okay."

I asked her, "What about you, what do you write?" ”

She looked at the erased area, and said affectionately, "Painful memories." ”

I smiled and said to her, "The grade is small, and it's quite sad and sentimental." ”

She said, "You don't look big, and you're so sad and sentimental." ”

After some conversation, we finally got to know each other. Her name is Zhang Ruohan, she is a sophomore, she came to travel with her sisters, she just fell out of love so she found this quiet place to relax.

I said to her, "It's not enough to write down something you're unhappy about!" ”

She looked at me and said, "You mean ......?" ”

I nodded, and I could read from her eyes that she understood what I was saying.

She said strangely: "You come first, I'm afraid you will cheat me." ”

I snickered, "I'm not a novelist, so I don't covet your story." ”

She looked away, "Who knows." ”

I looked at her helplessly, then took a deep breath and shouted towards the lake, "Xu Qing, I love you, I miss you, come back!" ”

It wasn't surrounded by mountains, so there was no response, only a breeze responding, and then she finally let down her guard and shouted. It is not false that a person will get sick if he holds his heart in his heart for a long time, so proper catharsis is beneficial and harmless.

I could tell from her expression that I felt much more comfortable after shouting, asking what the world was like, and teaching people to live and die. We are not trapped by love, but by life.

She went to her sister when we parted, and I continued my journey, but before that I had to go back to the hotel and enjoy a good lunch. The decoration of the hotel is very beautiful, the service attitude is good, and the floor I am on just overlooks the whole ancient city, except for the majestic snow-capped mountains.

Ancient Tea Horse Road, Luoshui Qingcheng, how wonderful it would be if you could meet, but unfortunately it is the least worth talking about.