There is smoke and fire on the street, the sky gradually gathers a layer of gray gas, very dull afternoon, although the sun is not strong, but converges into a small and bright white spot, no one with sweat on the forehead dares to look up to see where the sun is, occasionally a few rays of sunlight penetrate the dark clouds and shine down, the dazzling white flowers around the eyes, from top to bottom seem to be surrounded by a circle of fireballs, the sound, even the thoughts seem to be surrounded by this circle of fireballs can not be transmitted, the street is quite quiet, but every time there is a movement it becomes noise to make people sad, and the bottom of the heart is panicked.

Tang Yuan complained in her heart that the boss who had just sold crabs had blackmailed her, she pursed her lips, and glanced at her hand casually, the Lu Wei grass holding the crab was dripping downward, and a long section appeared at the knot of the rope, there was no wind, and the reed grass there did not move.

Tang Yuan stretched out her hand to break the reed grass there, and then twisted it into a ball and rubbed it in the palm of her hand, Tang Muzhi suddenly appeared without warning, for her, it was like a peaceful life was broken by something light and hot all of a sudden, she bought a lot of vegetables according to the habits of Tang Muzhi when she was a child, but she always felt empty in her heart, Tang Muzhi, does he really like to eat? Tang Yuan walked aimlessly on the street, and the things she was carrying in her hands gradually became more and heavier.

A lot of time has passed, and Tang Yuan is still hesitating in her heart, but she finally understands that what she wants is not to buy vegetables at all.

“……”

The place at 1022 Johnston seemed to be shrouded in an apparition, attracting Tang Yuan to the bottom of the building, and her mind was sent back to that starry night in the Tengger Desert in 1979.

Tang Yuan has a feat that she is still proud of, when she was twenty years old, her footprints had been almost all over the inland provinces, north to Tianchi in Changbai Mountain, south to Hainan Island, which was not a province at that time, to the west she climbed the peak of the Tianshan Mountains, to the east she had been alone in Weihai.

Because when Tang Yuan was traveling to the NMG grassland at that time, she went through the forest edge meadow at the western foot of the Daxing'an Mountains, so there was only one province that is still inconspicuous - Ningxia, and she has never been there.

Tang Yuan likes to see the vast starry sky at night when there is no one behind, there is no light pollution at that time, whether it is on the towering snow-capped mountains, or in the big city where the crowd gathers, you can basically see the stars when you raise your eyes at night, Orion in winter, Leo and Scorpio can generally be seen in spring and summer.

That year, Tang Yuan came back from the south, and she hadn't stayed in Guan County for half a month, when a donkey friend she met on the road invited her to go to Shapotou, so she got into the car of a donkey friend again.

Her talent in practicing Qi is only medium, although she is a disciple of the inner door, but she has almost always been the role of a marginal person, at that time, everyone in the door was busy with their own work, this time she went to Shapotou, and it was the same as before in the door Few people know, even if the relatively open-minded clan elders know it, they don't bother to care about that, everyone has their own ambitions, although Tang Yuan always runs east and west, her academic performance is among the best among her peers in the door.

This time, Tang Yuan got her wish and saw the night sky on the desert in winter.

The night was indeed beautiful, sweeping away the fatigue of the day's trekking in the desert, the inky night sky was full of chess pieces, and she saw Orion, the twenty-eight of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, with three stars in the middle diagonally connected in a short line, and a bright star at each of the four outer corners, and the brightest of them, which seemed to be reddish in the western direction, was Betelgeuse.

Tang Yuan has been to many places, and almost every time she can find this star to accompany her. The previous day's desert had fallen with a thin layer of snow, and she always stepped on it as she walked, and the snow made a "kaka" sound, and then revealed the yellow sand like gold underneath, and it was as joyful as digging up a treasure.

At night, the yellow sand was submerged in the darkness, and the snow that had not yet melted floated on the darkness like thin clouds, Tang Yuan's friend found an excellent viewing point, where the terrain was relatively low, and in front of it was a very high sand mountain, covered with snow. From there, lie down on your back and look at the starry sky above the "clouds" that cover the darkness.

Looking from the bottom up, the sand mountain and the snow can imagine any landscape in the human world, and from there, everything has become even more the same, and Tang Yuan saw that the end of all this was hidden in the starry night.

They set up a tent there, the temperature was very low at night, Tang Yuan covered the big quilt she was carrying before leaving, but she was still stimulated by the cold air at night and woke up once.

Friends are asleep, Tang Yuan pondered for a while, and then she stretched out her hand and carefully pressed the two corners of the quilt, and she quickly jumped out of it, fortunately, the heat did not escape a lot, Tang Yuan touched the clothes that were padded on the back of her head when she slept, she felt that it was still warm there, so she also stuffed it under the quilt.

Tang Yuan quickly walked out of the tent and saw the dark desert, she was slightly frightened in her heart, but the vigorous vitality of her companions was like a fire, and the heart that connected her also burned.

They haven't gone up to the sand mountain in front of the tent yet, Tang Yuan tentatively approached and stepped on it, the sand mountain was not very soft, Tang Yuan's eyes were dark, she looked back at the tent looming under the night sky, and still climbed up to the sand mountain.

Tang Yuan's body was as light as a swallow, leaving only a few shallow footprints on the sand, and after a while, she climbed up, she knew that she was already standing at the highest point of this empty desert, there was no longer any obstruction in her eyes, the stars in the sky were like glowing raindrops hovering in the air, Tang Yuan even felt that she could touch them with her hand.

Tang Yuan was immersed in it, she raised her head, gently closed her eyes, as if she was being inspired by the gods of the starry sky, unconsciously spread her arms, dancing in the desert where the starry river flowed, her posture was graceful and slender, her toes touched the ground lightly, sweeping away the snow that had not dispersed for many days, and the golden sand under the snow flowed with her dancing.

The wind rose in the night, and the rough snow slag in the northwest mixed with the regular-shaped fine sand flew together, Tang Yuan was blown by the gust of wind and slapped by the flying snow and sand, and felt unprecedented comfort in the bottom of her heart.

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On the second day, Tang Yuan was woken up by a surprise companion, she rubbed her sleepy eye sockets, scribbled on her cotton clothes and followed everyone out of the tent.

"Let's go up and see...... It's amazing. The companion repeated this sentence excitedly.

Tang Yuan was brought to the sand mountain on which she had stood and danced last night, and the snow on it had become thinner, and Tang Yuan saw that there was a connected and closed figure clearly preserved on the sand and snow slope.

Tang Yuan's heart was familiar and unfamiliar, and she stepped backwards until she saw the whole picture clearly.

"It looks like a footprint." The companion whispered.

Tang Yuan's eyelashes trembled, and above the sand mountain, where she had danced last night, the footprints on the snow were decorated by the wind, and the patterns on the soles of her shoes were missing, and they merged into a huge footprint, like a light giant happened to pass by here last night.