Chapter 438 Strata
I also did not forget to take out the food. There was a pot filled with soup in the backpack. The pot for soup was a thermos pot, and the soup was still hot. I soaked the hot pork bone soup in the dogs' food before feeding them.
He added salt to the remaining half of the pork bone soup before handing it to Mu Xi.
Mu Xi had just drunk a bellyful of water, but he put it down after taking only two sips, staring intently at the golden little bread in the transparent box.
The bread looked delicious, and there was a bottle of something that looked like jam next to it. I thought it was the strawberry jam I had made earlier, but when Zhao Yeqing took it out, I saw that the transparent glass bottle was filled with dark purple jam.
The metal bottle cap was unscrewed, and a sweet grape aroma came out. Mu Xi wiped the dirt on his hands with a wet towel, picked up a small bread, scooped some jam on it with a spoon and put it into his mouth.
He loves sweet things, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes as soon as he took a bite of the jam. Zhao Yeqing looked at his satisfied face and couldn't help but secretly said:
So easy to coax.
After working in the mountains for two days and being as tired as a savage, she was satisfied with just a small piece of bread with jam. If she were an exploitative capitalist, she would definitely love such employees the most.
Thinking this, I just said it out loud.
Mu Xi ate half of the bread in one gulp, swallowed it with water, raised his eyebrows and replied: "How about I ask for more?"
Zhao Yeqing saw the hint in his eyes and turned away his eyes as if nothing had happened. He stretched his body lazily and looked around at the scenery, trying to hide his mistake.
Mu Xi lowered his head and continued to eat bread, feeling a little regretful but also somewhat fortunate that Zhao Yeqing did not continue the conversation. The two of them were rarely apart on weekdays and saw each other almost every day. They hadn't seen each other for a whole day, and when he saw her again, he almost couldn't help but hug her.
But even he could smell the smell on his body. When he got close to Zhao Yeqing, he smelled the aroma of soapberry coming from her body, which was a bit like pineapple and a bit like plum.
He teased her by letting her smell his stench, fearing that she would feel bad for him, but in fact he didn't dare to let the dirt on his body get on her at all.
After finishing the bread, Mu Xi started talking about what happened along the way.
"There's a huge rock blocking the road ahead. We can't move it or knock it down, so we have to take a detour. But it's only a dozen meters longer. You'll know which rock I'm talking about when you see it. There was a pretty big snake hole further ahead near the forest..."
When Mu Xi said this, he saw Zhao Yeqing's pupils shrink obviously, and he couldn't help but laughed:
"It's okay. The cave is empty. I checked it. There's nothing inside. It's been a long time since they left. They probably left when the landslide happened. I told you this because I'm afraid you'd be scared if you saw it. There's nothing special going forward. But when you get close to the slope, which is where I saw the deer, there are a lot of berries. I relied on those berries to replenish my water this morning."
The water in the pot was finished last night. Knowing that Zhao Yeqing would come this morning, he did not go to the trouble to get dew to drink. He ate two handfuls of berries. The berries had been soaked in dew and washed early in the morning. The taste of the berries was 60% sweet and 40% sour. Eating a handful made his mouth water and it quenched his thirst.
When the dogs were thirsty, they would lick the water droplets on the bushes. They were actually better off than him.
"And the cross section of the sloping cliff... I won't tell you about it, you can go and see it for yourself."
Still keeping it a secret?
As Mu Xi was talking, Zhao Yeqing rode his bike forward, passing the several landmarks he mentioned. When he reached the edge of the slope, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise even though he was prepared.
The slope in front of us was formed by a landslide from a whole cliff. It was long and wide. The cross-section of the soil layer contained not only mud, but also the stratification of different types of soil underground. This is something that cannot be seen on the surface on a normal day, and can only be seen in textbooks.
But now it is so "vividly" displayed before her, allowing her to feel the magic and splendor of nature, as well as the passage of time in the most intuitive way.
It is unknown how many years these soil layers have been deposited to form such stratifications. Perhaps the bottom layer they see has been formed over hundreds of millions of years ago. The lines of the soil layers are also very flat. After the collision of the continental plates, the strata should have been squeezed and bent.
But as time passed, the lines of these soil layers were gradually flattened by the weight above, forming this beautiful scene.
If the colors were more brilliant, it would be exactly the same as the Danxia landform.
(Pictures available here)
Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but murmured: "If order is restored in the future, we must apply for a national 4A or 5A scenic spot."
The cliff slopes, the beautiful geological strata, and the surrounding meadows and forests make it hard to imagine how many people will come here once it is developed.
Mu Xi finished the last bit of finishing work, found a few relatively flat rocks around, connected the slope that was half a meter higher with the land on their side, and made a small uphill slope, which would be convenient for riding the electric bike up later.
The food Zhao Yeqing brought was enough for two days, so Mu Xi planned to go down and check it out today.
But she brought so many things just in case. Seeing that Mu Xi really wanted to go down the slope, she couldn't help but ask, "Don't you need to go home and wash?"
I wanted to go down and take a look, but a gust of wind blew over and Mu Xi smelled the smell on his body again...
"Okay, let's go back today."
Zhao Yeqing drove the man back the whole time. After Mu Xi took a shower, he shaved his beard in the bathroom. When he walked out of the bathroom feeling refreshed, Zhao Yeqing felt like he had changed his boyfriend and looked ten years younger.
The two of them have been in the mountains for so many years, and to be honest, they haven't aged much.
In the past, farmers working in the mountains would generally age faster than others because the exposure to the wind and sun was too tiring. I don’t know if it’s because the summers were too hot in the past few years, and the two of them hardly went out and had to stay at home. The winters were cold, and they worked in the basement for a long time, and they only planted enough food for a year in the fields outside.
The two of them hardly got any sun exposure, and with the good air, they had almost no pressure or worries in the last few years, so it's true that there are few signs of aging.
It’s just that her temperament has become more calm and mature.
Mu Xi's arms, waist, abdomen and back muscles are stronger than when he first returned to Meishan.
It was summer, and he came out of the shower without putting on a shirt. Since he was not outside the brick wall, he was not afraid of mosquitoes. He walked to the kitchen with his bare chest and hugged Zhao Yeqing from behind while he was making iced drinks.
He lowered his head and asked, "What are you drinking?"
There was obvious grape juice in the transparent kettle, and he asked deliberately. The hot steam hit Zhao Yeqing's ears. Even though she had been with Mu Xi every day for so many years, she couldn't help but blushing.
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