The old aunt made a sumptuous meal for everyone at noon today, including fried meat with alfalfa, fried fish, boiled pork slices, sauerkraut and white meat, fried shrimp, etc., Ye Duhong, Cao'er, Meng Hai and Aunt ate at a small square table and sat down in the courtyard. The yard was very flat, and there were ants crawling on the ground, and they sat and did not speak, and looked at the ants for a while. Ye Duhong, Meng Hai, and Cao'er rested in the yard for half an hour, and Cao'er went to walk around, and when they went out to relax, they followed Cao'er out of the yard.

To the south there is a wide road, which is less than a hundred meters to the end, and to the west there is a slope, and down the slope is the river beach. Ye Duhong followed behind Cao'er, Meng Hai followed Ye Duhong, they came to a stone bridge, looked at the water under the bridge for a while, then passed the bridge, and walked to the southwest, there was a winding and steep slope in this direction, they went down for a long time to the bottom of the slope, the road at the bottom of the slope was very straight and wide, all the way to Nanshan. On the east side of the intersection of this wide and straight road and the big slope, there is a large area of reeds, and the appearance of the reeds attracts three people, and the reeds are not very beautiful at this time, but according to the current appearance, the three people can fully imagine what it looked like when it was good-looking. Here they looked at the reeds for a while, and then went south again. On the way to the south, you can hear the wind blowing the leaves, because there are two rows of aspen trees on the left side of the road, the aspen trees love the wind and the wind loves the aspen trees, and they make a nice sound together. This straight and wide road connects to a bridge, which is still a flat bridge, so short that children dare to jump off the bridge. They crossed the bridge, walked a dirt road to the west, and went south past a field of wheat, and they went up a hill. There is a pipe on the hill that leads to the hill to the north. The three of them stood on the hill and looked at the hill to the north, and they felt that the mountain was overgrown with trees and grass, and what were those plants? Ye Duhong, Meng Hai, and Cao Er all guessed those plants, and they said, "Guess what that is?" What is that? They talked on the hill for a while, and then they came down the hill from another road, and came to a small field, which was sloping, and the slope reached more than 60 degrees, and this slope of more than 60 degrees was beautiful, and if in the spring, the wheat had just grown seedlings, and rolled down from the top of the hill, until it rolled to the bottom of the slope, smelling the wheat seedlings, and feeling the spring breeze, it must be the happiest and happiest thing in the human world. Ye Duhong and Cao'er left the small slope, and Meng Hai followed, although they were a little nostalgic, they were leaving.

There was a big bunker on the east side, and there was some water in the bunker, and there was not a single fish in the water. However, a few children circled around the bunker, thinking that there were fish in the water and wanted to go down, but the bunker was so deep that they could easily touch the water underneath. When Ye Duhong came to the edge of the sand pit, several children gathered around Ye Duhong and said, Big brother, can you go down to the bottom? Ye Duhong said that the sand pit is so deep, it is not easy to go down. If you have to go down, you can go down, but what are you going to do? A few children rushed to speak, saying that there were fish in the pit. One child said yes, another said no, and the other children also vaguely expressed their opinions, whether there were fish or not, and they didn't know if there were any fish underneath. Then they saw an apple under the bunker, and they wanted to eat it. The apple handle is very large, and the person who throws it away can't eat the apple well, and there is a lot of flesh on the handful. Several children discussed going down to the sand pit, they had to form a human chain, one pulled down the ground, the smallest one was at the bottom, responsible for picking the apple handle, there were two things to pay attention to, one is not to push the apple handle, to pick it up quickly, so that the apple handle will not stick to the dirty, and the other is not allowed to bite first after getting the apple handle. They plan it this way, and after a while they put it into practice. The shortest, skinniest doll was hung from the edge of the bunker, and as a result, they were not linked, and the little one fell, and his body rubbed off the bunker wall, almost falling into the water. When the little one picked up the apple handle, the children above shouted, "Don't bite first, don't bite first." The little guy is obedient, he doesn't taste the loot first.

Seeing that the child couldn't get up, Ye Duhong turned over and went down, grabbed the child's arm, and took the child to the edge of the sand pit. The children cheered when they saw the apple brought up. They began to share the apples, and the one who came up with the idea, that is, the one who proposed to build a human chain, took a bite first, and then the others took a bite, and one person took a bite, and the flesh on the apple handle was a little bite, and the little one only had a little bit of apple pulp. The hardest children get the most modest rewards.

Ye Duhong and Cao'er watched the children make noise for a while, and Meng Hai proposed to go further east, and they went east together.

They had not gone far before they came to a land with tall grass, where there were people tending sheep, and the old man was holding a shovel with a small and long hand, and a black leather whip was attached to the handle, which showed that this thing was for sheep grazing. The wool of those sheep is so white, like the clouds in the sky, and like the cotton of geography, and the sheep herders from time to time shovel a shovel of soil and throw it at a certain sheep, so that the sheep will not run around. This old man stood here blowing the wind, watching the clouds roll and the flowers bloom and fall.

Ye Duhong asked the shepherd what kind of place this was. The shepherd sues sù night solitude, this is the wilderness. Ye Duhong feels strange, the names of these places are not named after a certain person, nor are they called some kind of pretended names, they are called according to the characteristics of geography, they are deserts, they are called great deserts, they are swamps, they are called big swamps, and if they are wildernesses, they are called great wilderness, and they are extremely natural.

When the old man looked at the sky, Ye Duhong, Cao'er and Meng Hai were all looking at the sheep, although they were all looking at the sheep, but they were not looking at the same sheep, some sheep were eating grass, some were eating milk, some sheep were running, some were walking, and some were in a daze. These sheep are so interesting that the three of them watched it with relish. Sheep and people are similar, people constitute a variety of relationships between people, sheep also constitute relationships between sheep, in the process of sheep communication, each sheep is different. The sea of sheep is vast, and the three of them stand in the wind, and before they know it, it is getting late.

The three of them spent an afternoon in their leisure, and they made a decision, that is, to stay with the old aunt for a day, and set off for the east early tomorrow morning.

That night, the three of them slept in the same room, which was a little shabby, and the three of them would sleep without saying anything for the night. The next morning, the three of them said goodbye to the old aunt and set foot on a dirt road to the east.