The third time // The return journey is faster, and the afterglow is devoted // The wine shop breaks tea and Yizi audition

In the afternoon, Sunset and Yilan each lead a brown steed from the stable in Yiyuan to run around the countryside and investigate the progress of the Chinese language in the area.

Sunset doesn't like to wear long hair whenever he goes out on horseback, even though he knows that in Leeds it's only the poor who wear short hair.

Before he got out of the gate of Yiyuan Garden, Yi Lan first asked, "Mr. Sunset, which direction are we going?"

Sunset saw that the road to the south was wider when she went to the capital in the morning, so she replied, "Why don't we go to the south of the capital?"

Lan Yi nodded and agreed in agreement.

At the same time, the two of them stepped on horseback, and wore the straw hats they had bought in the morning on their heads and headed south.

Sunset has spent time on three technologically backward planets, and for convenience reasons, Sunset learns to ride a horse herself. As for Yi Lan, riding is a compulsory course for her.

When they had traveled nearly ten miles to a house on the side of the road, they tied their horses to two grapefruit trees on the left side of the house.

Most of the farmers here live in mud-walled houses or dilapidated old wooden houses.

Seeing two children sitting on a small bamboo chair under the eaves, eating, the two walked over.

One of them, a boy of about four years old, was holding a bowl of boiled orange diced sweet potatoes, and another girl, about five years old, was holding a bowl of sweet potato leaves that seemed to be cold, and looked up curiously as they approached them.

The children didn't even wear a shirt, each wearing only a pair of shorts, and their whole bodies were dirty, which was very pitiful.

Yi Lan couldn't help but step forward and bend down and ask the little girl affectionately, "Little friend, what's your name?"

The two children looked up at her, curious, and did not answer. Maybe the children have never seen such a beautiful person.

Seeing this, Yi Lan turned to Sunset and said, "Maybe they don't understand what I'm saying, right?"

Sunset just smiles, because he doesn't have a definite answer.

Illan stroked the little girl's shoulder, then waved "goodbye" at the two of them, and Sunset turned to walk away.

The sky is blue and the ground is golden, and at a glance, a large area of golden rice fields comes into view.

In the distance, men and women, old and young, wielding sickles to cut rice, so lively.

Closer, an old man in his seventies and eighties walked lightly and swiftly, with a plow handle in his hand, shuttling back and forth in the paddy fields.

The three people pulling the plough in front may be his son, daughter-in-law and grandson.

The old man was in rags, exposed to the scorching red sun, and his face was dark. Yi Lan's pity for the poor and the old couldn't help but arise spontaneously.

Perhaps it was the reflection of the two of them moving through the reflection of the paddy field that caught the old man's vague sight, and the old man raised his head inadvertently, and Yi Lan hurriedly waved his hand to him.

When the old man saw a fluttering fairy-like woman waving her hand, and was wondering who she was greeting to, he heard the fairy-like woman shouting, "Uncle, can you rest for a while?"

The three plowers heard the shouting and immediately stopped their work. When I looked up, I saw two fairy-like figures walking towards them with beautiful straw hats on their heads.

Just as they were wondering if they had taken a dazzle, the two of them had come to their ridge.

The youngest young man, about twenty years old, replied, "May I ask where you two came from, and do you have something to do with my grandfather?"

The ridge was a little wet, and Sunset stood carefully so as not to slip, and he replied, "We're from the city, can I talk to you?"

The young man replied enthusiastically, "Of course!" and so saying, they set up their ploughs, tied the ropes to the plows, and walked together to the open and dry vegetable fields on the edge of the ridges.

Illan smiled, and Sunset stretched out her right hand to shake the old man's hand.

The old man looked at his hands, but he didn't dare to stretch them out because he felt dirty.

Sunset understood what he meant, and asked, "Is the old man old this year?"

The old man replied in a hoarse and slow voice, "Seventy-eight!"

Sunset asks with concern, "Are you still up to the job?"

The old man smiled and replied helplessly: "There is no way! I don't do it, and the two of them can't pull the plow!"

Sunset doesn't know how to farm, and asks, "Can't you dig with a hoe?"

The old man explained: "You have to dig and drain the water, and if you drain the water, you have to wait for the rain to have water." The water in people's fields is also limited, and they are unwilling to release it into our fields. If it doesn't rain for a while, the late rice won't fall!"

Due to the problem of age, in addition to being hoarse and slow, the elderly speak Chinese more standardly.

Sunset is overjoyed and asks, "How did you learn Chinese?"

The old man looked at the two of them again before replying: "I have to go to the city to sell vegetables since I was a child, and I speak the local vernacular that many outsiders in the city can't understand, and we have been speaking Chinese here for hundreds of years. ”

Yi Lan glanced at the young man, although his face was dark, but he was very energetic, and asked, "Do those children speak Chinese, I mean those four or five year olds?"

The young man also admired Yi Lan's beauty, and replied with a smile: "They all speak Chinese, and we don't teach them to speak the local vernacular, which has no written language." Our 10-year-old children here are going to go to the city to sell vegetables with the adults. ”

The blazing sun was very dazzling, Yi Lan blocked the sunlight in front of him with his right hand, and asked, "Then don't they go to school?"

Yi Lan knew that most of the people on the backward planets had to go to school, but he didn't expect that most of the children on the backward planets like Darida didn't go to school, so he felt that he was asking abruptly.

But the young man's answer was unexpected: "The school is just in class, and I can still catch up after selling the vegetables." If you don't sell out for a while, you can give it to adults to continue selling. ”

Yi Lan smiled happily and continued to ask, "Are the children here expensive to study?"

The young man felt that they were like gods in the sky, and their clothes were the same as those of the legendary Fairy Emma, with parted clothes and trousers.

And at a glance, you can see that the texture is extraordinary, and said: "The school in our village was built with money from Yiyuan, and all the expenses of the current school are also from Yiyuan, so you don't need money to study." May I ask you, are you from the Eupon?"

Yi Lan Zheng felt that he was asking ridiculously, he was from Yiyuan, and he didn't even know about the situation of the children in the neighborhood studying, so he was embarrassed, and said with a smile: "We just arrived yesterday, so I don't know anything about the school, but this Mr. Sunset must know." We are the people of Yiyuan. ”

As soon as these words came out, the four of them immediately knelt down, kowtowed, and said: "If the benefactor has arrived, we have eyes and don't know the benefactor, it's really disrespectful!"

This sudden scene overwhelmed the two. But Sunset calmed down and helped them up one by one, saying, "You guys are so polite, how can we afford such a big gift!"

The middle-aged man said enthusiastically: "Two benefactors, if you don't sit at home and drink a bowl of water, let's talk about it!"

Sunset couldn't bear to delay their work, and said, "Thank you for your kindness, we have to go somewhere else, and it's not too late to come back next time!