one person's life

Chapter 335 Footprints
Smoke was rising from the street, and a layer of gray smoke gradually gathered in the sky. It was a dull afternoon, and although the sun was not strong, it turned into a small, bright white spot. No one with sweat on their foreheads dared to look up. Where is the sun? Occasionally, a few rays of sunlight penetrate through the dark clouds and shine down. White flowers are dazzling everywhere. From top to bottom, it seems to be surrounded by a circle of fireballs. Sounds and even thoughts seem to be surrounded by this circle of fireballs and cannot be transmitted. , the street was relatively quiet, but every sound turned into noise, which made people sad and panicked in their hearts.

Tang Yuan complained in her heart that the crab seller just blackmailed her. She pursed her pale pink lips and glanced at her hand casually. Water was dripping from the reed that tied the crab, and water appeared from the knot. Come a long section, there is no wind, and the reed grass there is not moving.

Tang Yuan stretched out her hand to break off the reeds there, and then twisted them into balls and rubbed them in her palms. Tang Muzhi suddenly appeared without any warning. To her, it was like her peaceful life was suddenly interrupted by something glowing and bright. The hot things were broken, and she bought a lot of vegetables according to Tang Muzhi's childhood habits in her memory, but she always felt empty in her heart. Tang Muzhi, does he really like to eat anything?Tang Yuan walked aimlessly on the street, and the things she carried in her hands gradually became more and more heavy.

A lot of time passed, and Tang Yuan was still hesitating in her heart, but she finally realized that what she was thinking about was not shopping for groceries at all.

"..."

The place at No. 1022 Johnston seemed to be shrouded in a phantom, attracting Tang Yuan to walk under the building, calling her thoughts back to that starry night in the Tengger Desert in 1979.

Tang Yuan has a feat that she is still proud of when she thinks about it. When she was 20 years old, her footprints had spread all over the mainland provinces, from Tianchi in Changbai Mountain to the north, to Hainan Island in the south, which was not a province at that time, and to the west she climbed the Tianshan Mountains. She once went to Weihai alone to the east.

Because when she visited the NMG grassland, Tang Yuan passed through the forest edge meadow at the western foot of the Greater Khingan Mountains, so there was only one province that she had never been to, Ningxia, which is still relatively unremarkable.

Tang Yuan likes to see the vast starry sky at night when there is no one around. There is no light pollution at that time. Whether it is a snow-capped mountain towering into the clouds or a big city where people gather, you can basically see the stars when you look up at night. Orion is the constellation in winter and Orion in spring. Leo and Scorpio are generally seen in summer.

That year Tang Yuan came back from the south and had not stayed in Guanxian County for more than half a month. When a travel friend she met on the road invited her to go to Shapotou, she got on the travel friend's car and went there again.

Her Qi training talent is only average. Although she is an inner disciple, she has almost always been a marginalized person. At that time, everyone in the sect was busy with their own tasks. This time when she went to Shapotou, she was in the same place as before. Few people in the sect know about it, and even if the relatively open-minded elders know it, they don't bother to care about it. Everyone has their own ambitions. Although Tang Yuan is always running around, her academic performance is among the best among her peers in the sect.

This time, Tang Yuan got her wish and saw the night sky over the winter desert.

That night was indeed beautiful. It swept away the fatigue of hiking in the desert during the day. The dark night sky was filled with stars like chess pieces. She saw Orion, which is the 28th constellation of Betelgeuse. The three stars in the middle were connected diagonally to form a short line. , there is a bright star in each of the four corners outside, and the brightest one, the reddish star that looks to the west, is Betelgeuse.

Tang Yuan has been to many places, and almost every time she can find this star to keep her company.A thin layer of snow fell in the desert the day before. She always stepped on it when she walked. The snow made a "click" sound, and then the gold-like yellow sand underneath was revealed. It felt like digging out a treasure. Delightful.

At night, the yellow sand was submerged in the darkness, and the unmelted snow floated on the darkness like thin clouds. Tang Yuan's friend found an excellent viewing point, where the terrain was relatively low, and there was another place in front of it. There are high mountains of sand covered with snow.From there, lie down and look at the bright starry sky above the "clouds" covering the darkness.

Looking from the bottom up, the sand mountains and white snow can be imagined as any landscape in the world, but looking from there, everything becomes the same. Tang Yuan saw the end of it all and hid it in the starry night.

They set up a tent there. The temperature was very low at night. Tang Yuan covered herself with the big quilt she carried before setting off, but she was still awakened once by the cold air during the night.Her friends were all fast asleep. Tang Yuan thought about it for a while, then she stretched out her hands and carefully pressed the two corners of the bed, and she quickly jumped out of it. Fortunately, the heat did not escape much, Tang Yuan touched it She felt that the clothes on the back of her head were still warm when she slept, so she also stuffed them under the quilt.

Tang Yuan quickly walked out of the tent and saw the dark desert. She was a little scared in her heart, but the vigorous vitality of her companions was like a fire, and her heart was burning. Tang Yuan calmed down and used it. To dispel the cold air, she walked quietly towards the sand mountain for a while.

They had not yet climbed up the sand mountain in front of the tent. Tang Yuan tried to get closer and stepped on it. The sand mountain was not very soft. Tang Yuan's eyes went dark. She looked back at the tent looming under the night sky, and climbed up the sand mountain. Go up.

Tang Yuan was as light as a swallow, leaving only a few shallow footprints on the sand. After a while, she climbed up. She knew that she was standing at the highest point of this empty desert. There was no obstruction in the sky, and the stars in the sky were like stars. They were like luminous raindrops hovering in mid-air, and Tang Yuan even felt that she could reach out and touch them.

Tang Yuan was immersed in it. She raised her head and closed her eyes gently. As if she was being inspired by the stars in the sky, she unconsciously spread her arms and danced in the desert where the stars flowed. Her posture was graceful and slender, and her toes touched lightly. Underground, the snow that had been lingering for many days was swept away, and the golden sand under the snow flowed with her dance.

A wind blew up at night, and the rough snow slag from the northwest mixed with fine sand with regular shapes flew together. Tang Yuan was blown by the gust of wind and slapped by the flying snow and sand, feeling unprecedentedly comfortable in her heart.

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On the second day, Tang Yuan was awakened by her surprise companion. She rubbed her sleepy eye sockets, put on her own cotton-padded clothes and followed everyone out of the tent.

"Let's go up and see...it's amazing." The companion repeated this sentence excitedly.

Tang Yuan was taken to the sand mountain where she had stood dancing last night. The snow on it had become thinner. Tang Yuan saw that there was a clearly connected and closed figure left on the sand and snow slope.

Tang Yuan felt familiar yet unfamiliar in her heart. She backed up until she could see the entire pattern clearly.

"It looks a lot like a footprint there," the companion said softly.

Tang Yuan's eyelashes trembled. On the sand mountain, just where she had danced last night, the footprints on the snow were blown by the wind and modified. The patterns on the soles were not visible, and they formed a huge footprint, like some lithe giant's footprints last night. Just happened to pass by here.

(End of this chapter)