Xiang Nanzhi was too lazy to explain to him. She saw the sun break through the clouds, revealing a dazzling light.
She instinctively turned her head away; how could the morning light be so blinding?
"Shen Shixun, the sun is out."
"Let's go, let's get going."
"I want to watch the sunrise before I leave."
"It will be very hot later."
"It won't get hot so quickly once the sun comes out."
The man gently placed her head on the sand. He had already gotten up and was stuffing things into his bag. Seeing that she was still in the mood to appreciate the sunrise, he said slowly, "The sun rises very quickly here."
I don't believe it.
"The altitude here is high, so the heat from the sun is greater than on a normal flat surface."
No wonder the sky seemed to be right above us, within reach.
She stood up, brushed the sand off her hair, and felt a little dizzy the moment she stood up…
As her pregnancy progressed, her altitude sickness worsened, and she nearly lost her balance. The man quickly steadied her, calling out, "Zhizhi!"
"glucose."
The man fed her a little, not much, and Xiang Nanzhi suddenly didn't want to move. Looking at the small yellow tent on the ground, she just wanted to lie down and sleep.
"Shen Shixun, can I wait for you here?"
Can you do it?
Xiang Nanzhi's breath hitched. "But I feel like I'm a useless piece of trash here. I might take two steps and then..."
The man smiled, placed the black backpack in front of him, slung it over his shoulder, and squatted down in front of her. "Get on."
The tent is useless, so there's no need to pack it up. Just take the people with you.
Looking at the man's broad back, Xiang Nanzhi shook her head. "I think I'll walk around for a bit first."
I didn't care before; he deserved to be exhausted, since I never intended to have anything with him anyway.
But that won't do now. This is her man. If he dies from exhaustion, she'll be a widow. Where can she find someone better than him?
The man looked up and saw that Xiang Nanzhi had already left. She turned back to look at him and said, "Come on."
After taking a few more steps, she turned back and said, "What? Do you want me to treat you?"
"You're going the wrong way."
Yellow sand was everywhere, and there seemed to be no difference between east, west, south, and north. It was impossible to tell which way was south.
However, the nomadic people who have lived on the grasslands for a long time know that when the man sees that she insists on going on her own, he does not hesitate and takes her hand and leads her in one direction.
Xiang Nanzhi also couldn't understand how a normal person could walk so fast in this kind of sandy terrain.
Walking in shoes was too tiring, so Xiang Nanzhi walked barefoot. The soft sand felt so good under her feet. The man carried her shoes for her and held her small hand in his big hand.
As she walked, Xiang Nanzhi felt that this sandy area seemed to stretch on forever. She couldn't help but grit her teeth, "I'm going to go back and yell at him. Why did he stop me here!"
"Don't look, walk slowly."
"It looks far, but it's even farther when you walk there."
"That's not necessarily true; what you see may not be real."
Xiang Nanzhi was horrified by these words. The man just smiled at her and said, "You haven't even walked a few steps and you've already scared yourself to death. You're not tired to begin with, but you're making yourself feel tired, so naturally you'll feel even more tired."
"I don't understand what you're saying, is it a tongue twister?"
The man squatted down. "Get on, I'll carry you."
"I feel okay."
Xiang Nanzhi didn't ask him to carry her. They walked for a while longer. The sandy area looked far away, but before they knew it, they had reached a place with grass. It was still sandy, but there were grasslands in between.
The man said, "Sit down, I'll fix your hair."
He casually picked a blade of grass, rolled it around his index finger, and shook his head at Nan Zhi, "It's so ugly. I'm not a beggar, why do I have to wear grass on my head?"
"Don't move..."
The man spread his legs, letting her sit on his lap. Xiang Nanzhi had her back to him. "If you don't make it look good, I'll just take it all down..."
She had braided a small braid and glanced at Nan Zhi. Although it was tied with grass, you couldn't tell it was grass at all.
The man had a strong grip and pulled the straw rope very tight, leaving hardly any grass roots sticking out, which made it look quite unique.
Xiang Nanzhi thought that using this kind of hair tie would result in a mess of hair, but it turned out to be much better than she had imagined.
Shen Shixun does possess some skill.
"Let's keep working on it, and then we can get going."
The man quickly braided her hair into small braids.
The sun grew intense, making her feel uncomfortable all over. She put on a black fisherman's hat and felt as if her feet didn't belong to her when she stepped on the grass or sand.
She rejected Shen Shixun twice, and then felt a little embarrassed to say that she didn't want to leave.
She walked very slowly, incredibly slowly, almost like a snail.
She couldn't even keep up with the man's pace at all. "Slow down..."
He spoke while panting, "Please, slow down."
The man chuckled, "Can't walk anymore?"
"I could walk before, but after you did that last night, my body aches..."
The man quickly helped her onto his back, and he carried her along, allowing Nan Zhi to get on without any qualms.
And let me tell you, the weather on the grassland is unbearably hot, even if you don't move, as long as you're exposed to the sun. She's over 90 pounds now that she's pregnant, and Shen Shixun is carrying a big backpack, weighing over 100 pounds as he walks around.
The man walked steadily, wearing the largest size shoes, step by step, sweating profusely, without uttering a sound.
When Xiang Nanzhi was a child, her second brother carried her to school. While carrying her, he made her feel like she was about to slip off his back.
But Shen Shixun did not.
He didn't know how long he walked, whether it was an hour, two hours, or even longer, but he remained in that position.
Step by step, he unknowingly walked out of the desert and arrived at a barren rocky area with pebbles on the ground. He bent his waist very low, giving her a sense of security.
Xiang Nanzhi is used to staying in a greenhouse. In the ancient city, when it's only 30 degrees Celsius, she has to turn on the air conditioning. On the plateau, under the scorching sun, it must be over 40 degrees Celsius.
She hummed twice on the man's back.
"What's wrong??"
Thinking she was feeling unwell, Xiang Nanzhi pressed her face against his back, "It's so hot...when will we get there?"
Even without changing trains at Latu, the area deep in the plateau is too vast, a place inaccessible to outsiders, stretching as far as the eye can see, with mountain ranges and grasslands stretching endlessly, a place no one dares to reach.
Starting from the northwest of the motherland, it goes around a large circle along the edge, and then around to Saigon, crossing several provinces.
Different places simply have different names for this large area; it belongs to whichever side it's slightly off to, but no one can really tell which specific location it belongs to.
She was being too naive, simply believing that the plane could fly directly to Shen Shixun's house, to a place not far from his home, just a few steps away.
She's dreaming.
This is a place where even navigation systems can lose control; this land is inherently not meant to be controlled by any technology.
Saigon, this sacred land, has its own dignity and its own unique rules of survival.
That is, since you're here, make the best of it. Once you're here, you should abide by the rules, respect nature, integrate with nature, and love nature.
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