porridge for two

Several people went back to their respective homes after dinner, and each went to find their respective mothers.

After Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu arrived in the town by car, they walked back on the mountain road.It had only rained the day before, and the sun was shining again today, and the mountain road was still very clean.

The two walked for almost an hour, passing through several small villages, but they didn't meet many people.The sun was scorching at noon, but fortunately, the roads we walked were all mountain roads, and there were tall trees along the roadside, so it was quite cool to walk under the shade of the trees.

The two walked to a big bend, and there were still traces of yesterday's rain on the road.There is a slope on the inner side of the big bend. The hillside was washed out by the water into a deep gully, and the washed out silt piled up on the road.Two deep car marks ran over.

"Look at the marks on this big car, do you dare to drive? The whole wheel is sunk!" Xie Xiuping pointed to the high sand piled up in the curve.

"Uh, it's really scary!" Su Zeyu felt creepy looking at Che Yinzi.

"Some people don't believe in evil, um, they have to drive over. Either they are welded inside and can't get up, or they panicked and beat the plates, and rolled downhill!" Xie Xiuping looked at Su Zeyu's discolored face and said: "In this case, you can try the empty cart, and the small ones like cars can rest, they won't get food!"

"Let's go!" Su Zeyu pushed Xie Xiuping, and the two of them stepped on the footprints of the pedestrians before them, one deep and one shallow.

People's footprints are all along the outside of the road, and the sand is accumulated on the inside, and the depth is unknown.

The inside is a slope, and the outside is a ridge.

"Hehe! Do you know? This ridge is called Niu Dakan, and this slope is called Niu Gunpo!" Looking at Su Zeyu who was walking cautiously, Xie Xiuping turned to help his arm, and said with a smile.

"Well, can we talk about it in the past? Otherwise, we will have to change our name to Dakan." Hearing Xie Xiuping's words, Su Zeyu stopped walking tall and short, and gave Xie Xiuping an angry look.

The two walked slowly and carefully for a long time, and finally passed the 10-meter-long bend.

"Isn't the fourth grade of elementary school here going to the town to study? We didn't have any cars at that time, and we usually went together. Once the school said that there were subsidies for poor students, and they needed to go home and fill out a form. On the way back to school, I'm just welding here, and I can't get up for a long time!" Xie Xiuping looked at Su Zeyu who was walking in front, walked through the muddy road, relaxed a little, and told him something.

"At that time, my parents hadn't been away for a long time! It was almost the rainy season at that time. There was actually a small road down there, but it was a long way around. It was the road I took when I went home." Xie Xiuping recalled Very far away, Su Zeyu listened quietly.

"Obviously seeing that there is mud, I felt as if someone was pushing me forward. I took one step, two steps, welded in, and continued to move forward. Until I walked more than ten steps, the mud was gone. My thighs, I suddenly woke up." Xie Xiuping recalled as they walked, and the two of them walked in such a leisurely manner.

"I woke up probably because the welding was too deep and the sand was so heavy that I couldn't move my feet!" Xie Xiuping said as if telling a story, as if it was someone else's business, and he was just a storyteller.

"Looking at the mountains around me, there was no one there, and I couldn't move. At that time, I felt a threat of death. Later, I thought of my parents, my father, and I somehow regained my strength. Seeing the marks that hadn’t dissipated when I walked over, I hurried out, my heart was beating, and my pants and shoes were full of sand.”

"What happened next?" Su Zeyu answered, he was a competent person who listened carefully to the story.

"Later, I didn't return home, so I changed the path. The path passed by a river, and I washed it there. I wore wet pants and shoes and went to school."

Xie Xiuping spoke very calmly, without complaining, without anger, and without the fear and anxiety of facing danger at the beginning, as if it was someone else's story.

Su Zeyu listened quietly, he is a qualified storyteller.These things have passed, Xie Xiuping has come out by himself, he just needs someone to share this shocking moment that no one knows about.

"Later, I didn't tell my family, nor did my teacher. The fear I felt at that time was probably because I heard too much about the dragon gate array set up by the old man! Hehe!" Xie Xiuping said, stepped forward and put his arms around Su Zeyu's waist, and suddenly laughed up.

"Did you know? There are always many winding roads near the stockade. The bends are deep and quiet, and there are some big trees that are deeply shaded. They say that there are ghosts in such places, and ghosts are messing around." Xie Xiuping He continued to smile and said: "Maybe they are boring, maybe they are talented, and many stories of monsters and goblins come out of their mouths, which are so vivid!"

"As you said, I feel the coolness behind me."

……

"It should be coming soon!"

It's been about an hour and a half from town.Su Zeyu saw the village in the distance from a section of the mountain road where his eyes were wide open.

"Hurry up! Don't forget that there is a word called Wangshan running dead horse. But what we see here are other villages. The village is at the foot of the mountain, and we can't see it here. After climbing this slope, we will arrive." Xie Xiuping He pointed to the villages he saw and told Su Zeyu.

"I believe it, the real children in the mountains. It's almost like a primeval forest!" Su Zeyu looked at Xie Xiuping with a smile.

"There's a river down there, there's a karst cave, and there's a temple ruins on the top of the mountain. You can go and see it when you have time." Xie Xiuping said, pushing Su Zeyu to continue walking.

……

Xie Xiuping's house is three wooden houses.Next to the yard is a granary and a fire shed, and below it is a stone pen for pigs, cattle and horses.

"If you want to go to the toilet, Mao Si is over there!" Xie Xiuping pointed to a separate space made of stones next to him.

"Oh! I know, it's the same in our hometown!" Su Zeyu walked into the yard with Xie Xiuping as he said.

"Wow woof! woof woof..."

A red-nosed white dog lying under the eaves ran over when it heard the noise, barking, and saw that it was Xie Xiuping, and circled around his legs a few times, wagging its tail happily.After the excitement, he walked around Su Zeyu twice, as if to remember this person's taste.

"This dog is quite intelligent!" Su Zeyu lowered his body and wanted to touch the white dog. The white dog looked at him twice, then at Xie Xiuping twice, and went to Xie Xiuping's side.

"Same as you!" Xie Xiuping joked with a smile.

"But this dog has to be raised freely. It is spiritual and can be lured." Seeing Su Zeyu's liking for dogs, Xie Xiuping added another sentence.

"Can such a small dog hunt? It doesn't look big! It's much smaller than a golden retriever!" Su Zeyu was even more curious about how such a big dog ran around in the mountains.

"I'll know if I have a chance to take it up the mountain for a try! There are a lot of outsiders who specifically inquired and bought Qingnan's red nose thick to go back to Lui Mountain!"