Prose

When cicadas sing in the treetops, frogs fill the pond, and watermelons in the street, like girls' flower skirts, suddenly pop up a lot. Undoubtedly, the midsummer, which made us love and fear, came with an irresistible gesture.

The hot sun melted the ice cream in the children's hands and the warm wind became hot and dry. It is a good choice to go into the mountains for summer in this weather. Just as Li Ge and Ruijie had an outing, they hit it off and set off with Dou Dad. The destination was Niujiaogou.

Niujiaogou is located in Changcun Town, about 22 1 km from the provincial capital and 69 km from the urban area.

Out of the city, the weather was fine, the temperature was not high, and the sun ran behind the clouds. All the way south, the car sped on the newly-built asphalt road. This highway extends eastward from the mountainous area, along the direction of Chu Great Wall, Yanshan Reservoir and Gushitan Reservoir. More than 20 small and medium-sized reservoirs and a number of scenic spots are under its control, so it has the reputation of "Chu Great Wall Tourist Scenic Area Highway".

Because the center line of the road is painted with red, yellow and blue, it looks like a rainbow in the sky from a distance, which is lively and eye-catching against the thick green of the surrounding summer forests, adding a lot of childlike interest to this country road. People simply call it "Rainbow Road".

Today, we will take a rainbow to our destination-Niujiaogou, looking for this little pearl hidden in the mountains. Everyone talked and laughed all the way, and the car soon drove to the reservoir below the mountain.

In the distance is the rolling old castle peak, just like a fairy smearing different shades of indigo in the sky at will, making blue eyes more lofty and vast. The hillside is densely forested and strewn at random. The wind quickly swept over the top of the forest, making the leaves fly over, revealing the colors hidden on the back, such as butterflies flying, with great momentum.

Take a deep breath, strong negative ion air enters the heart, the fatigue caused by the heat wave is swept away, and the whole person relaxes. The mountain wind is blowing in your face, which is cool and comfortable. Go to Niujiaogou.

Niujiaogou, named after the shape of a cow's horn, is littered with rocks and silently tells the changes of the years. Li Ge became our guide, leading the way with a wooden stick, and Adou's father also picked up a broken one. Two ladies are closely protected in the middle, like it!

The birds in the forest showed great enthusiasm for our arrival, which made this silent ravine restless. Sometimes it's slow and melodious, sometimes it's short and twittering, and it's like asking questions, and it's called twice, which makes us call mountains one after another. At that time, people and birds were far away, and the harmony between man and nature was born in a few minutes.

Stop-and-go, the novel plants along the way aroused our great interest. At the bottom of the ditch, in the low bushes, clusters of tiny purple Vitex negundo are blooming alone. Whether you come or not has nothing to do with it. It just keeps time, germinates and grows along festivals, and expresses its fragrance and life color in summer.

Bloom is warm in spring and crisp in autumn, and summer is the season when fruits begin to bear fruit. Like pear trees and small bells full of trees, they rustle in the wind. These little cuties are hidden under the branches of leaves, and you can't find them if you are not careful.

Look, what is this?

The height of the plant is about 1 m, but the small head is full of pearl-sized fruits, some of which are red. The mobile phone is very bright when taking pictures, so there must be enough water in it. Li Ge grabbed one and put it in his mouth. He spit it out at once and said it was sour. He kept inviting everyone to taste it. We all laughed without saying a word, how could we be fooled by him.

Long in the middle of the road, it can still be so intact. If people don't have some skills, no one will believe them. Acid is armor, haha!

Walking all the way, I almost forgot the purpose of this trip. There are all kinds of stones in Niujiaogou, the most famous of which is bloodstone, which is very ornamental.

Summon up your courage and drag your eyes from the scenery on both sides to the rocks at your feet. It's not the rainy season yet, and there is only a small amount of water in the beach. If you come here after the rain, it will be a paradise for children. Many smooth little red stones, placed in the fish tank at home, are also a landscape. After a while, I found that someone had been here, so I folded the height with a small stone. This is playing with stones as building blocks.

As the terrain gets higher and higher, the stones get bigger and bigger, and the edges and corners become clearer and clearer. It is no longer a single color, but the content displayed on the stone is richer.

No, isn't the pattern on it a leaf? It fell gently thousands of years ago, slept on the stone for a long time, and woke up glued together by time.

There are also obvious lines on the stone, which can be clearly seen. The traces left by the ups and downs of the water surface make people doubt that this ravine was originally the bottom of the river, otherwise how could there be such layers of water marks!

As if to test our guess, a more peculiar and exciting boulder appeared. What does this look like? Is it like a fish?

If it hadn't fallen here, would you reasonably guess that it was made of cement?

No one knows whether these small stones are primitive biological fossils or whether some natural stones gradually dissolve into one in the embrace of years.

Now it is close to the top of the mountain, but more and more evidence shows that there used to be a big river here. In my imagination, after a long period of brewing, time finally began to ferment. As a result, the river dried up, the riverbed gradually rose, and the slow but continuous crustal movement finally lifted a mountain.

White clouds and cool breeze, the sea changes, in a flash, there is an illusion that I don't know what dusk is. Everything around is changing imperceptibly, but in the depths of the forest, the years are long in the mountains.

At this time, we almost reached the end of the road, and the bloodstone in Li Ge was still nowhere to be found.

We just climbed to the top of the mountain and wanted to take the Panshan Highway.

Walking, inadvertently looking up, everything in front of me has a sense of familiarity, and white clouds are floating in the air. If it's in front of you, raise your hand and you can reach it. Surrounded by mountains, it guards Niujiaogou, the reservoir and the small village at the foot of the mountain like a barrier. They stared at each other silently. This scene once appeared in my childhood memory. I couldn't help but take a lot of photos with Sister Rui and take the beautiful scenery home.

Down the mountain, still looking back frequently. With the solitary telephone poles along the cement road, the wires went deep into the mountains, turned several bays and were never seen again.

I wonder if there is anyone there. Will there be immortals living there? This is a question that I often thought about when I was a child.

Especially in summer nights, looking at the small black spots moving on the mountain and imagining where they come from and where they are going will give birth to faint sadness.

I hope my mobile phone has a signal so that I can check the location here. Could it be the back you couldn't see when you were staring at the distant mountains as a child, the legendary Zhongshan side?

I remember when I graduated, the teacher wrote in the guest book: "The greatest success in life is to realize my childhood dreams when I am an adult."

Kind of ironic. Did I realize my dream? Finally, I saw what was on the other side of the mountain. This is a village, road and forest similar to ours.

Niujiaogou, goodbye!