Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 156 Chapter 150
When we continued to move in the afternoon, we encountered some relatively large slopes, which were really impossible to get around.

Cheng He was busy helping them, using the hatchet he brought, to cut some thick branches, and temporarily build some convenient roads for them.

Sometimes, he also needs to pull a rope on the side of the slope for assistance.

It's always better to be safe when you're older than when you're young.If it slips or something, it will be troublesome.

After walking and resting all the way, we turned over another mountain and got closer to our destination.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng He called Zhao Sizai again, it was Cheng Xinxin's dinner time.

The little girl answered the phone, was eating again, and said, "Dad, why are you calling again?"

Cheng He was taken aback, but couldn't help but smile, the little girl thought she was annoying!

Zhao Sizai also spoke aside: "I know you are worried about your daughter. I have called many children over for her to play with her. She can't care about you right now. They are having a eating competition!"

Cheng He nodded and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Zhao Sizai asked again: "How are you doing over there? Have you been there yet?"

"Not yet, it's still early." Before Cheng He left, he had already told her that he was going to lead the archaeological team.

In fact, Zhao Sizai is also very interested in archeology, and she wanted to go with her at first, but she couldn't leave due to the school's business.

As a supporting teacher, the more she stays here, the more she gets used to it, and the more she stays, the more responsible she becomes.

She taught the children some things, but the experience of getting along with the children also gave her a lot of gains.

After chatting for a while, asking Cheng Xinxin about her meal, knowing that there were many children accompanying her, even that "big friend" Wen Qingsong, there was really nothing to worry about, so Cheng He hung up the phone.

After six o'clock, it was getting late and the sight was bad, making it impossible to go on the mountain road. Everyone found an open place and camped there.

At night, dry food is still served with hot soup.

In the afternoon, after passing a pool, Cheng He caught a few small fish and held them in his hands all the way.It's time to make fish soup.

Several archaeologists said cheerfully: "It's a good trip today, and I can also eat meat soup, which is not bad!"

After walking for a day, I was really exhausted, and no one wanted to move.

But people don't move, but their mouths can't be idle. The archaeologists lit a fire and sang songs around the fire.

"In the distant night sky, there is a crooked moon, under the crooked moon, is the crooked bridge, beside the bridge, there is a crooked boat, the crooked boat is the childhood Gillian ..."

They sang a very early song, "The Crooked Moon".

At this time, the sun had already set, leaving only a ray of afterglow, but the moon in the sky had already risen, and this song "Curved Moon" was quite suitable for the occasion.

A slightly younger person even took out a musical instrument that Cheng He had never seen before, and made music for the chorus of these people.

Cheng He was also surrounded by the fire, almost infected by these older archaeologists.

They are so young at heart.

Mr. Wu looked at Cheng He, who was more serious than them, and said with a smile: "Do you think it's new? We are half-old people, but we are younger than you and have tossed around?"

In fact, because of the status of these archaeological team members, Cheng He has always been very respectful in his heart, so his words are very polite.

But I really didn't expect that once they relaxed, these half-aged people lived quite comfortably without any airs.

Mr. Wu said: "Actually, when we study archaeology, we study things thousands of years ago, things hundreds of years ago. We really feel the power of time and space. Human beings are too small. Why not enjoy yourself while you are still alive?"

A person's life, but only a few decades, is really too short compared to what they study.

Cheng He nodded with a smile: "I think what you said is very reasonable."

"Look, Qin Shihuang, Tang Zong and Song Zu, who didn't build the next generation and be envied by later generations? But, didn't they only live for a few decades? How much wealth have been created by the people who are alive now? How much attention has been paid, but in the long river of history, these are just a drop in the ocean, so what is there to care about?"

Leaning against the big rock behind him, Mr. Wu squinted his eyes to see the afterglow of the setting sun in the distance, and said slowly.

His eyes are serene, his expression is serene, and he really has the attitude of seeing through all the mundane.

This made Cheng He look at him with admiration.

All day today, he was actually thinking that these young scholars could only walk to their working places after two days of hard work.

And the place where they work is uninhabited, living in the dark underground, and can only eat dry food and drink cold water.

Compared with their harvest, the hard work they put in is really far behind.

At first, I felt sorry for them, but looking at their attitude towards life, I have seen through thousands of years, they are calm and happy.

With such an open-minded mind, Cheng He said sincerely: "I really admire you guys! I hope I can be so open-minded when I reach your age."

Several scholars laughed, and then laughed at them.

Tomorrow will face a more difficult mountain road, as well as cave archaeological work.What's the point of being a human being if you can't be more relaxed in such a working environment?
Cheng He also leaned on another rock to rest, and listened to them singing "A Fire in Winter", which was probably a popular song when they were young.

Everyone has youth once, they are not born so old.

As soon as the spark jumped, Cheng He suddenly saw something moving in the distance.

His heart tightened, is there any wild animal?
Although there are not many wild animals on the hills behind Taohua Village, it does not mean that there are no wild animals. This must be guarded against.

Now that the sun has just set, it is the time for the wild beasts to hunt.

Cheng He took the hatchet in his hand and looked over there carefully.

His cautious attitude surprised all the archaeologists.

They stopped singing, fell silent, looked at Cheng He, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Cheng He pointed to that side, and said: "Just now I saw a movement over there, I don't know what it is, I didn't see it clearly, it shouldn't be very big."

Everyone followed the direction of his fingers and looked over there.

But there are only some weeds between the rocks, dancing with the autumn wind, nothing to see.

Maybe it was an ambush.

Everyone held their breath and waited quietly.

Maybe the singing just now was too lively, but after it quieted down, the surroundings were really quiet, except for the "wow" of the wind in the mountains.

Soon there was movement again in the grass over there.

A head popped out from behind the rock, tentative and wary.

Cheng He glanced at it, and suddenly remembered, isn't this the manulus he saved last time?

Why is it hiding behind the rock so ghostly?
In fact, the manul is very alert and will hide if there is any movement.It looks like a cat, but its fur is very flamboyant and its expression is very fierce. It always looks like "I'll kill you again".

They are also wild animals that do not get close to humans.

And this rabbit cat hides ghostly behind a rock not far away, and pokes its head out again, definitely not trying to escape.

Everyone was very quiet, for fear that the loud breathing would scare it.

The opportunity to watch a wild animal at such a close distance does not come every day.They are very happy.

It's just that the mantle's courage is really too small. After popping out a head, it didn't move anymore, and stared at it from a distance, very vigilant.

Cheng He thought to himself, could it be that this little thing was injured again and asked himself to heal it?
So he tried to say hello: "Little guy, come here!"

If Cheng Xinxin is here, the little thing will come over as soon as he calls out.

Cheng He tried it now, but he didn't know if it would work or not.

The hare had been lying in the haystack behind the rock, and when he heard Cheng He's call, he seemed a little more courageous, and slowly exposed most of his body.

It still has something in its mouth. Judging from its tail, it looks like a wild mountain mouse, which is quite fat.

Everyone was still quiet and could not make a sound.

The rabbit tentatively took two steps forward, and finally became more courageous, and slowly walked in front of Cheng He.

This process was very slow, so no one dared to move for fear of catching it.

The rabbit cat came to Cheng He, put down the wild mountain mouse in his mouth, called "meow~" at him, turned around and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

For a while, people thought the little thing was coming back, but it just disappeared and never appeared again.

After a long time, people decided that it would not come back, and they all slacked off.

Looking at the wild mountain mouse it put in front of Cheng He, everyone was puzzled, why?
Cheng He then briefly talked about what happened last time. Last time, he saved it by himself.Seeing that its legs and feet are flexible today, and it runs so fast, it should be completely healed from its injuries.

Everyone said "oh".

Elder Wu tentatively asked: "Is this little thing here to repay your kindness? This is incredible."

What an elf in the world!

Because Cheng He saved it, this time it smelled that Cheng He was its own savior, so it took its food to repay the favor.

You know, wild animals have only three things in their lives: hunting, drinking, and sleeping.

Food is their most precious thing, but it is really surprising and touching that it is willing to take it out!

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would hardly believe it.

(End of this chapter)