Chapter 55 Mountain Topography
"Yike, look ahead..." Ziyi stopped and pointed ahead. As soon as he looked up, the scenery in front of him came into view: a large area of grass with silvery hairs on the leaves. In the center of the grass was a long flower stalk, some of which were more than a foot long, and some were as high as five or six feet. Those five or six foot long flower stalks were covered with hundreds of purple flowers, and most of the large area of grass was in bloom.
The flower stalks are made of purple flowers and the leaves are silver. On the top of the mountain, there is no weed around. The flowers are blooming. They are exposed to the scorching sun during the day and the wind and frost at night. There is no wet land. One will first be attracted by the spectacular scenery of flowers and plants, and then be moved by their tenacious vitality.
Ziyi saw that Yike had finally changed his mind and forgotten his previous unhappiness, although he didn't know why Yike was unhappy.
"It's so beautiful! It's so beautiful! Look at this flower stem, it's more than one meter high. I have never seen such a high flower stem. Look at this flower stalk, there are hundreds of flowers growing on one flower stalk. It's really a miracle! It's a pity that I don't have a mobile phone. It would be nice to take a picture and share it." Yi Ke only murmured the last sentence in his throat.
Yi Ke ran forward happily and reached out to touch it.
"Don't move! Don't touch it. What if it's poisonous?" Ziyi quickly stopped him.
"No way? It's so beautiful." Yi Ke was a little bit unbelievable.
"That's not necessarily true. Just like mushrooms, the brighter the color, the more poisonous it is."
Yike thought about it and agreed, so he stopped touching her. "Hey, Brother Ziyi, look at this mountain. No other grass grows there. But this kind of grass grows there, and the flowers it blooms are so beautiful. Look at the leaves and the silver hairs. They are so beautiful! What do you think if we dig a few and plant them in our cave?"
"We have to check if they are poisonous before we transplant them. When we go down the mountain, we will bring some petals and leaves back to test if they are poisonous. If they are not, we can dig them up next time we come." Ziyi said.
"The top of this mountain is so wide and flat, it's big enough for an airport." Yi Ke said after looking around.
"Have you seen the airport?" Ziyi asked doubtfully. "I haven't seen it. I heard about it from the uncles and aunts in the village. They said that during the war, our people went to bomb the Japanese airport. They said the Japanese airport was so big, as big as our village." Yi Ke had to make up a story, "Ziyi is really something. He always pays attention to things that he shouldn't. He should be careful with his words in the future and put studying on the agenda as soon as possible. How did he know all this with such an excuse? I read it in the book in one sentence and it explains it all." Yi Ke silently planned his future life in his mind and followed Ziyi to the edge of the cave on the top of the mountain.
Ziyi held Yike's hand tightly, fearing that Yike would fall down accidentally.
"Don't go any further. What if these stones become loose?" Ziyi said.
"Okay! I'll be a good boy! Kehe!" Yike said mischievously, but Ziyi still held Yike tightly and refused to let go.
"Brother Ziyi, this cave entrance is so big! The cave is so high!"
"Well! It is several hundred meters high. The bottom of the cave is not as wide as the top. There is a lake at the bottom of the cave, and there is no grass on the top of the cave. It is very similar to the crater described in the book," Ziyi guessed.
"Will that...?"
"No, the eruption here should have been over." We can make a rough judgment by looking at other mountains. "Ziyi explained without waiting for Yike to ask, and then took Yike for a walk around the top of the mountain. He found that the mountains nearby were not very high, but one mountaintop was connected to another, like steamed buns falling to the ground. In the distance, those mountains stood tall, and the trees were more lush than those nearby. Looking east along this mountain, he found a mountain not far away that looked very much like the mountain at the hot spring he went to.
"Does that mountain look like the hot spring?" Ziyi pointed to the mountain in the east.
At this time, Yike also pointed at the mountain and asked, "Brother Ziyi, does that mountain look like a hot spring?" The two of them said the same thing at the same time, and both laughed after they finished speaking.
"There are few trees and shrubs on this ridge. Let's go over the ridge and see if it is the hot spring." Ziyi said.
“It doesn’t look far away, but I wonder if it will get there in one day,” and it feels very close at a glance.
"We should be able to get there. This ridge looks easy to walk on."
"Go now?" Yi Ke asked.
"Go now, the sooner you go, the sooner you can come back. There's still a lot to do."
"Okay! Let's go." Yike walked forward with great interest.
There are bushes and weeds growing everywhere at the foot of the mountain, but there are sparse bushes growing on the ridge. The base of the ridge is a gravel road. The farther you go, the more bushes there are. Some weeds with particularly tenacious vitality also begin to appear on the ridge.
Because they didn't have to cut down bushes and weeds to clear a path, the journey that was thought to take a day was completed in half a day. Bent down and looking at the familiar hot spring at the bottom of the mountain, Ziyi and Yike were overjoyed.
Ziyi said: "From now on, we will take this road when we come to the hot springs. It is not only close, but also easy to walk on and most importantly, safe."
"Do you want to go down and soak in the hot springs?" Yi Ke really wanted to take a dip.
"The way down might be hard to walk on. Let's go find out later which way is easier to walk down and then go there to bathe. It won't be dark if we go back now. Let's go back first and come back to bathe next time, okay?" Ziyi asked in a negotiating manner.
"Okay! Let's go back." Yike reluctantly withdrew his gaze.
"Come! I'll carry you for a while." Ziyi squatted down, hung the backpack on his chest, and prepared to carry Ke.
"No! I'm not tired. Thank you, Brother Ziyi. I would feel bad if you were tired." Yike helped Ziyi put his backpack on his back, held his hand, and walked back happily.
When they reached the top of the cave, Ziyi used a knife to cut some silver leaves and purple flowers and wrapped them in broad leaves. These broad leaves were brought when he wrapped the chicken, otherwise he wouldn't know what to use to wrap them.
When they reached the bottom of the mountain, it was dark. In order not to delay tomorrow's work, Ziyi and Yike returned to the paradise with flashlights.
"Aunt, I'm back. I missed you so much! Did you miss me?" As soon as Yi Ke entered the cave, he saw his aunt Zhang Yuling and rushed over to hug her.
Zhang Yuling had already gotten used to Yi Ke hugging her at every turn. She patted Yi Ke on the back and said, "You miss me! Of course I miss you. Once you leave, there will only be the sound of the wind in this cave. As your aunt, I can't bear to leave Yi Ke."
"That's right! I'm Auntie's happy pill. How could Auntie not miss me! Haha! I miss Auntie too, very much!"
Ziyi stood behind Yike and watched her act cute with a smile.
"Let's go! Let's go talk over there," Li Haoran said. At the same time, he said to Yike, "Yike, Ziyi and I won't interfere with your kiss with your aunt!"
Dinner was another rich meal. Actually, every meal was rich. Yi Ke deliberately added a festive name: "Uncle Hao, Auntie, tonight we are celebrating the discovery of a new cave and a shortcut to the hot springs. How about it? Do you two want to express your gratitude? Let's have a glass of sweet wine."
"If you want to drink, just say so. Why do you need a name? Come on! Ziyi, pour Yike half a glass." Uncle Hao laughed at Yike's greed for wine.
The aunt picked up a piece of pork and gave it to Yike: "Don't drink too much, or you'll get drunk."
Ziyi poured half a cup for Yike, but Yike thought it was not enough. The two of them fought over the bottle. Yike took advantage of Ziyi's unpreparedness and poured the wine in Ziyi's cup into his own cup. He covered the glass with both hands and laughed. Ziyi had no choice but to fill his own cup again.
"Come on! Let's raise our glasses to celebrate our better life!" said Uncle Hao. Everyone raised their glasses and clinked them together, then took a sip of wine and ate the meat in big bites.
right! I just drink in small sips. Because wine is expensive, I buy little, and drink a glass of wine slowly to satisfy my craving for alcohol. You can eat as much meat as you want; meat is the most abundant thing in the mountains.
"Uncle Hao, do you know the flowers and plants on the top of the mountain? Are they poisonous?" Ziyi asked while eating. "I know it. It's not poisonous. I don't know what it's called, but I saw it abroad when I was doing business with your father. It is said that this kind of grass grows in the crater of a volcano. It is not afraid of high temperature or cold, and has a very strong vitality." Li Haoran said.
"Uncle Hao, does this grass only grow in volcanic craters?"
"Yes. That's what our friends abroad say." Uncle Hao said affirmatively.
"Then this cave and that cave should both be craters." Ziyi analyzed, "According to the introduction to volcanoes in the book, a volcano may have erupted here tens of thousands of years ago. These small hillsides near us should be lava formed after the volcanic eruption. The cave over there should be formed by a central eruption, and the cave here should be formed by a fissure eruption. Those tunnels should be channels for the volcanic eruption." After the analysis, Ziyi gave a detailed introduction to the reasons for the formation of the volcano, what kind of terrain would be formed after the volcanic eruption, and so on.
"Brother Ziyi, you know so much! I want to know as much as you do. Can you teach me? Let's start tonight, okay?" Ziyi looked at him with starry eyes and said, "Okay! I was planning to teach you. Let's start tonight! But studying is very hard, don't be afraid of the hardship!"
"No, no! I promise! But I don't want to learn elementary school knowledge. I want to start from middle school. My elder sister has taught me." Yi Ke thought to himself, "I'm just looking for an excuse. I don't really need to learn. I've already learned this knowledge."
"Yike, let me tell you, studying is indeed hard, but if you learn well, it will be of great use. Just like what your uncle Hao taught me when I first came here, every day..." Aunt Zhang Yuling talked about her study experience, which was harder than collecting firewood or doing farm work in the fields at that time. Yi Ke laughed secretly when he heard it, but he still had to cooperate with her, and exclaimed "Ah!" and "Oh!" at appropriate times. Yi Ke felt that he could develop into an actor in the future. I didn't see Zhang Yuling still talking with relish about her study experience and the various benefits of learning culture, and I didn't see anyone responding to her at all.
In short, Zhang Yuling's main idea is, "Don't be afraid of the hardship and fatigue of studying, because learning will bring great benefits."
Yike listened while eating with big mouthfuls, drinking with small sips, and occasionally stealing a drink from Ziyi's glass, feeling smug about himself for not being discovered.
In fact, this little action was discovered by Ziyi from the beginning, and Ziyi was just pampering her. Because they were at home, Ziyi was not afraid that she would get drunk, so he did not stop her.
Sure enough, after finishing the wine, Yike's eyes were full of stars. Our Yi Ke, totally unaware of the day, even drunkenly sang a song adapted by her husband in her previous life:
Does the wine smell good?
What a familiar voice
How many years of wind and rain have you been with me?
Never need to remember
Never forget
Without you, there would be no me
Without you, there would be no me
If you never loved me
Give me a warm life
If I had never loved you
I will never experience the sweetness of love
It's the love you gave me
Makes me feel warm
You gave me a home.
Let me share it with you
Although it was just the soft singing of a drunk person, Ziyi still understood the general idea of it.
Ziyi felt like he had heard this song somewhere before, and it seemed like he had it in his memory. But when he tried to think about it carefully, he couldn't remember it. So Ziyi wanted to listen carefully again, but found that Yike had fallen asleep.
Ziyi had no choice but to carry Yike to bed, take off his coat and trousers, wash Yike's hands, face and feet with warm water, wash himself, and fall asleep while holding Yike's soft body. Before going to sleep, I thought to myself, "I'll let Yi Ke sing it again tomorrow."
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