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Walking forward with the old man, Lian Ge turned his eyes a little bit, followed the hillside beside him, looked towards the top of the hill,
Somewhere up from the hillside, there are some sparse and low shrubs.
Between clusters of bushes, there are mostly gaps with similar intervals,
The shrubs clung to the dirt road on the hillside, spreading clusters towards the top of the hill, covering the entire hillside, covering the loess hill with a thin layer of greenery.
"sough……"
Gusts of mountain wind blow by from time to time, disturbing the clusters of low shrubs,
The branches and leaves of the shrubs collided, and there were some rustling sounds.
"...Young man, wait a minute, I'll put the things away."
"The old man can do what he wants."
Having almost reached the entrance of the village, the old man smiled and said to Lian Ge,
Holding the two woven bags in his hands, he walked towards the side of the road and up the hillside a few steps,
He put a woven bag that was somewhat full in his hand on the hillside, and walked back with the remaining bag.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, young man."
The old man walked back and apologized,
Lian Ge shook his head, then turned his gaze to the woven bag placed on the hillside,
"The old man's bag contains saplings, right?"
After saying something aloud, Lian Ge turned his gaze and went up the hillside, looking at the clusters of shrubs that covered the hillside, which seemed a little sparse.
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"...Yes, it's a sapling."
The old man who walked back to the road listened to Lian Ge's words, smiled and nodded in response. Tufts of shrubs cover the hillside.
On the hillside, clusters of low and sparse shrubs were disturbed by the mountain wind.
The shadows of the branches and leaves reflected on the yellow ground also swayed slightly with the wind blowing,
The mountain wind passed by some sparse shrubs on the hillside, and gradually turned into a breeze nearer, bringing some rustling sounds of branches and leaves, and then disturbed the old man's clothes.
"...Go to the county to buy some drought-resistant saplings and come back. They are used on this slope, so I don't bother to take them back. I just leave them here. When I'm free later, I'll come and plant them directly. .”
Smiling, the old man responded again, stamped his feet, turned around again,
"...Young man, let's go, the village is just ahead."
Smiling, he greeted Lian Ge again, and the old man took the remaining woven bag in his hand, and then led the way, along the foot of the mountain, towards the entrance of the village not far away.
"Are some of the shrubs on this hillside planted by the old man?"
Looking at the hillside all over the place again, each cluster is separated by a similar distance, and there are some sparse and low shrubs,
Lian Ge paused his gaze, then turned his gaze back, moved his feet, walked towards the village with the old man, and said something aloud.
"……Hey."
The old man listened without looking back, led the way, and still walked forward, raised his head and looked forward, with some pride in his eyes,
"Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle. When you have free time, you will find a few saplings and plant them on the hillside. Some saplings have died of drought or withered, and some saplings have survived. Those who come and go will survive."
"The old man has spent a lot of time."
"... Hey, I don't have much time, I only come to this slope when I have free time, and it doesn't affect anything... It's just these drought-tolerant saplings, they grow slowly and don't grow very high... It’s been quite a while, but it’s still only this tall... But think about it, if it’s a bigger tree, where can there be so much water for him in this field..."
With a smile on his face, the old man spoke aloud, paused again, and did not continue talking about the saplings.
"...Speaking of which, I was talking to you today, young man. I didn't even notice it. I was about to walk to the entrance of the village. As usual, I carried these two bags of things and walked from the side of the road. It takes several trips to get to the village, and sometimes people in the village see it and carry it for me, and they have to trouble others..."
The old man was talking to Lian Ge, and Lian Ge responded from time to time,
Moving his feet, Lian Ge and the old man walked towards the village not far away.
Behind him, another gust of wind blew through the somewhat sparse bushes,
"sough……"
The sound of branches and leaves colliding.
……
"...This is our village."
Going around this kind of hills with some shrubs and some thin greenery,
Lian Ge and the old man walked along the foot of the mountain to the entrances of some villages behind the hill.
The old man stamped his feet, laughed again, and said something to Lian Ge.
Turning his gaze, Lian Ge looked in front of him again, in the distance.
This is a mountain depression surrounded by hills on three sides. Beyond the hills, there are many hills stretching all the way to the sky.
This village is at the bottom of this mountain depression.
Families are scattered, and a dirt road with some potholes extends from the entrance of the village to the village, and then passes through the whole village, connecting each family.
On the village road, you can see the figures of some passers-by villagers. It is noon on the houses of the people, and some cooking smoke is rising.
At this moment, Lian Ge and the old man were standing at the entrance of the village, on a fairly open piece of ground.
Looking at the village, Lian Ge paused his gaze, then turned his gaze to the hills surrounding the village,
The hill with some shrubs that had been bypassed before was also on one side.
Like several hills surrounding the village, on the hillside facing the village,
Extending from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, there are layers of terraced fields that have been reclaimed. In the land divided by the ridges, some seasonal vegetables, rapeseed, and wheat are planted, but they seem a little sparse, and many leaves look a little yellow.
On the mountainside and up to the top of the mountain, there is a much denser forest than outside the village.
The shrubs are staggered, covering the slope from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, and you can also see some taller trees with dense branches and leaves.
From time to time, the mountain wind blows, shaking the wheat seedlings in the terraced fields down the mountainside, and disturbing the branches and leaves of shrubs and trees on the slopes up the mountainside.
There were rustling sounds of branches and leaves, mixed with the cries of insects and birds hiding in the undergrowth,
From time to time, some flying birds rose from the forest and fell again.
It's just that the shrubs and trees are scattered all over the hillside, and some traces of artificial planting can still be seen.
"Is this hillside also planted by old people?"
Looking at the dense forest on the top of the hill, Lian Ge paused his gaze, and then turned his gaze back.
"... Hey, how can I do this."
The old man hunched over, the woven bag in his hand was placed on the ground, and he still held it in his hand,
Raising his head, he also looked towards the hillside, the bushes and trees with luxuriant branches all over the hillside,
First, the cloudy eyes were a little absent-minded, followed closely, and then said out loud with a smile,
"...This hillside was originally a forest, otherwise the ancestors would not have left the village here."
"...In these years, the forest on the mountain has become thinner, so I planted some saplings for him...Look there, those trees over there are the ones that existed before..."
"...and over there...that's what I grew up on myself."
The old man smiled, raised his hand, and pointed to several places on the hillside where taller trees grew.
Lian Ge followed the old man's gaze, looked at it, smiled slightly, and didn't say much.
Compared with the shrubs and trees planted all over the mountain, the places the old man pointed to only took up very little space.
"...Young man, you have been walking for so long... In our village, there are no shoppers in the front and back of the village. Thank you for walking with me for so long and talking for so long, young man, if you don't mind , just go to my place and rest your feet."
"...my house is over there. After entering the village, it's only a few steps away."
The old man turned his head again, and said to Lian Ge with a smile.
"Then thank you, old man."
"You're welcome. There haven't been many outsiders in the village for a long time, young man, if you come to our place, you are a guest."
Lian Ge expressed his thanks.
The old man spoke aloud, then lifted up the woven bag containing some saplings, led the way, and walked towards the village.
Moving his feet away again, Lian Ge and the old man walked into the village,
Listening to the voices in the houses of the villagers with the gusts of breeze ringing in my ears, the crowing of cocks and the barking of dogs, looking at the houses passing by along the road, passing by some pedestrians,
On the shoulder, the little white mouse also turned its head, then looked around,
"...Old Liang, are you on the street?"
"...Eat, Old Liang..."
"...No, no, you eat, you eat..."
"...Old Liang, carry such a big bag again, sapling?"
"...Yes, I bought some saplings and came back..."
The old man led the way all the way, carrying the woven bag, and walked briskly forward, saying hello to some pedestrians passing by on the village road, and passing by some villages in the yard.
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"...Old Liang, are you back?"
"……Eh."
Leading the way, the old man walked towards the village with the woven bag in his hand, answering the greetings of some villagers along the way,
The breeze blowing through the mountains and forests, and then blowing to the front, disturbed the old man's skirt,
"Who is this?"
"... Passers-by, come to our village to rest. Old Yan, are you going to the field with a hoe?"
Passing by a house, an old man in his sixties or seventies, wearing a pair of rain boots and carrying a hoe, walked out of the house, as if he was about to go out.
Seeing the old man, he said hello.
The old man responded with a smile, stopped, and said something,
"...Isn't this going to be done in the village at night? Didn't we talk about doing it on the land at the entrance of the village... Now that I've finished my lunch, I'll go over and help with the layout, leveling the ground."
The old man with the hoe stepped on the rain boots, walked to the side of the road, and responded with a smile, and asked the old man again,
"...Lao Liang, will you come over later in the evening? Also worship this mountain god, please God...see if you can give us some rain... If there is no rain, the crops in the field this year will be as low as It's all dead..."
The old man with the hoe was talking, the smile on his face gradually faded, he raised his head, and looked at the clear sky above his head.
Hearing what the old man with the hoe said, the old man paused for a moment, then said with a smile,
"I won't go. There are so many people in the village. I don't have many people, and I don't have many people. You just go... In the afternoon, I see that the sun is getting darker, and I have to go to the mountains. Mend a few saplings over there... If you really want it to rain, the saplings like mine can stay in some water and survive..."
As he spoke, the old man had a smile on his face.
"Okay then, old Liang, I'll go to the entrance of the village first."
The old man with the hoe lowered his head again, and responded with a smile again.
"Success, I won't delay you."
The old man with a hoe walked along the village road towards the entrance of the village.
Watching the old man drift away, the old man turned around again,
"...Young man, let's go. In front, there is my house."
The old man turned around, smiled and said something to Lian Ge, and then led the way to the village.
Glancing at the old man again, at the dense bushes on the hillside beside the village,