We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 32 Being Alone with the World

  Clean the house, eat breakfast, put on Pinellia dressing, put on a backpack, bring bows and arrows, insert daggers and pistols, and be fully armed.

Looking in the mirror, the light blue sleeveless dress, the refreshing single ponytail, the pistol on the right waist, the dagger in the left waist, the long bow in his hand, the backpack and the quiver on his back, what a heroic posture The sassy armed girl.

Great!

  Banxia stretched out her thumb and blinked.

   "Parents, I'm out now, and I will be back tonight."

  Close the door and the girl goes downstairs.

  The sun was venomous outside, and Pinellia held up a red umbrella.

  The stored dry food is almost finished, she has to collect the raw materials for the dry food.

The distance from Meihua Mountain Villa to Crescent Lake Park is so close that you don’t need to ride a bicycle. You can just turn around when you go out. Banxia picked up a small luggage cart with two small wheels from behind the stairs on the first floor of the unit building. Get up and stop, or you can walk diagonally, just like towing a suitcase. The girl hangs the backpack on a small trailer, and the wheels slam on the rough concrete road.

Nanjing in October, when the temperature is high, the sun shines on the ground at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning, the heat waves are rolling up, and the air can smell the wormwood. Pinellia knows that there is a large piece of wormwood nearby. Taller than her.

  She was holding a red umbrella, dragging her cart, and walking on the empty street.

Turn to the Crescent Lake Bridge from Muxuyuan Avenue. This bridge spans across the narrow lake and faces a huge city gate. The girl walks along the railing, and the strong wind disturbs her hair and skirt. She stands On the bridge, you can see the gray-black ancient city wall unfolding directly in front. The ancient city wall is hidden in the canopy of green trees. There are three arches under the city wall. This city gate is called Houbiaoying Gate. The teacher said Crescent Lake is the moat of the ancient Nanjing city. Part of the city, so the city wall and the lake are close together.

  The girl stood on the bridge and stopped, tilting her head to look out over the lake.

Over the years, the water area of ​​Crescent Lake has shrunk a lot. Originally, its water area was shaped like a long and thin crescent, connected to the waters of the moat and attached to the ancient city wall. However, the lake has gradually dried up for decades, and the crescent has already dried up. Without a crescent, the lake will be more abundant in summer and rainy season, but in winter, the water will shrink toward the center of the lake, exposing the muddy land along the coast.

  "The water of West Lake, my tears..."

   Banxia humming a song, turned right in front of Houbiaoying City Gate, Shi Shiran stepped into Crescent Lake Park.

An overview map of the park stands on the lawn next to the entrance. It is located in the dense weeds. Only the two golden words "View map" are left. The one-person-high sign is cut off in half, and the remaining half is on. There are a few molten bullet holes that are thick enough to put a fist in. It is estimated that they were hit by armor-piercing bullets.

The entrance to the park is a small square, covered with small white square floor tiles, and a tall and slender standing plastic, which fell horizontally and smashed into two pieces. A brown marble column with a big brass bird standing on top .

  The teacher said that it was not a big bird.

   is a rooster.

   (actually Suzaku)

  The dry food raw materials of Pinellia ternata mainly come from Crescent Lake. Fish can be fished in the sea, and meat can be used to hunt deer, but starchy food can only be collected from Crescent Lake.

  The girl is holding a red umbrella, walking under the city wall, passing through the dense shade of trees, looking out the lake through the wicker, and there are green duckweeds along the shore.

The source of her starch is the lotus seeds, lotus root and water chestnut in the lake. Summer is when the lotus in the lake is blooming. Originally, there was a lotus pond for viewing in Crescent Lake. The longer it grows, the longer it grows and the more luxuriant it is. When the midsummer comes to the lake in July and August, the lotus blossoms are full of wonders, and the lotus leaves are so large that they can't see the water surface when they overlap.

  Go a little further along the city wall, and you will find the banquet hall of Ye Shanghai Hotel. The building with white walls and red tiles stands on the edge of the lake, surrounded by green lotus leaves.

They are restaurants built on the lake, but now you can’t see the original appearance, only the foundation pillars and water platforms that were hit in the lake water are left. The platforms are broken walls and you can barely see the red roof and white. Walls.

   Banxia is launched from here.

She took off her shoes and socks, replaced them with sandals, left all her gear on the shore, turned over the chain fence, slammed "hey", and jumped onto a large concrete block two meters away from the lake shore. Half of the cement sank in the water. , Half exposed, is a small island.

  This is her royal launch point.

  Every time I go down to the lake, Pinellia has passed from here. This area of ​​water is relatively shallow, and the foot can only reach the knee when it is stepped on. Moreover, large and small construction **** sinks on the shore of the lake, and you can climb up to rest at any time.

   Pinellia tentatively stepped his feet into the water and slowly sank into the mud at the bottom of the lake. The water was very clear, and the mud began to become muddy when the mud was stirred by the girl's feet.

  The silt can completely bury the ankles. Pinellia stepped on it hard, and then stepped firmly, and then put the second foot in the water, and both long legs were covered by the cool lotus leaves.

Pinellia hangs a big bag in front of her chest to hold the dug out lotus root or water chestnut. If there is a lotus root, throw it in. Tilt your head and use the neck to hold the handle of the red umbrella. The umbrella is used to shade the sun. It is so poisonous. Long time direct exposure to the sun will burn the skin. Pinellia slowly probes in the lotus leaf and probes with her feet. She plunges her feet into the soft silt, groping between the complex lotus rhizomes, if you encounter suspicion It was the enlarged root knot of the lotus root. She bent down again and slowly digged up the silt with her hands, slowly and calmly, digging out the whole lotus root from under the silt.

This is a technical job. The lotus root cannot be dug out during the process of watering. If it is cut, it will be difficult to preserve. The complete lotus root can be stored for a long time. The whole half-meter-long lotus root must be completely pulled out of the mud in Pinellia ternata. Wash it in water again.

If it's fast, one can be dug out in five minutes. If it is difficult to deal with in ten minutes, the girl breaks it off in annoyance, cleans her mouth and chews, right to vent her anger, let it No dead body.

  The lotus root that just came out of the water is not delicious, and the taste is quite astringent, so the girl chewed and threw up bitterly.

   Pinellia patrolled slowly among the green lotus leaves, carrying bright red umbrellas.

  The girl’s soft instep and toes are very sensitive, and she can clearly distinguish lotus roots.

  "Is this? No."

  "Is this? No."

  "This...this is, wow, this is definitely, thick and long! It's hard!"

  Banxia bent down and pulled it hard, took a look at it, and frowned.

  The pull is wrong.

  What is this black cylinder?

  Whatever it is, it is definitely not lotus root.

  The girl shook her head and threw it onto the dry mud ground by the lake.

There is a lot of **** in the mud at the bottom of Yueya Lake. This is why you should wear shoes when you enter the water in Pinellia. In addition to stones, bricks, and cracked concrete, there may also be cracked glass, rusty nails and other sharp edges at the bottom of the lake. The metal fragments may be cut barefoot.

  When the bag around her neck was filled, she returned to the lake shore to unload the goods, while sitting under the shade of the tree to rest.

  Drink a sip of water on a hot day.

   "Wow! It's so cool!"

   Pinellia sits on a stone slab by the lake, looking at the green shade on the opposite bank, blowing wind leisurely.

A person’s life is actually simple and lazy. There has never been anything urgent. Pinellia can do it when she wants to do it, and she will not do it when she wants to. She can continue to dig lotus roots this afternoon. She can also sit here and wow, she can count the leaves on the tree, she can also squat on the ground to watch the ants move, or even close her eyes to rest, letting the breeze and time pass by.

  That was her time alone with the world.

  (End of this chapter)