Yunding Ranch

Chapter 180
The simple food is only cooked in the simplest way. Except for a few grains of salt, there is nothing mixed with it. The taste is really flat, but the inherent fragrance of the food stretches the stomach. The light and sweet fragrance makes people can't help but savor it carefully.Several dishes were quickly eaten up.

After finishing his meal, Lu Li took out the grilled corn. After tearing off the tin foil, the popped corn kernels exuded a charming fragrance. He was already full, but he started to salivate again when he didn't want to.Returning to the original cuisine is just as refreshing.

After dinner, Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi went for a walk around the camp. Lu Li repeatedly ordered them not to leave too far away, and brought them a torch and a walkie-talkie before nodding in agreement.

"Don't worry about the two of us. You should be careful if you stay in the camp alone. Otherwise, if the squirrels attack collectively, you will probably be in danger." Song Lingyi said dumbfoundedly, and then the husband and wife went to eat.

Lu Li stayed alone, first cleaned all the tableware, then took out the insect repellent spray, and cleaned the inside and outside of the tent. After finishing everything, he looked around and adjusted the campfire. I added a few thicker logs with a little dampness, and now I don’t have to worry about the fire being extinguished. This kind of thick trunk can burn longer, and it won’t be completely extinguished in the middle of the night. Try to keep the temperature of the camp at a certain temperature. level,
After finishing his work, Lu Li suddenly realized that he had nothing to do.He rummaged through his hiking bag and browsed through everything, only to find that he didn't bring any entertainment facilities except his mobile phone.

Look at the time, it's only a quarter past seven.If he was on the ranch, he could read books, watch TV, chat, prepare breakfast, take care of the sheep pens and cattle pens, and bask in the moonlight, but now that he is in the middle of the forest, far away from all modern equipment, Lu Li knows , What is the real return to the original.

boring.Yes, it's boring, and he doesn't want to play with his phone right now.

Lu Li couldn't help recalling carefully what he used to do at night when he was a child. At that time, the streets hadn't been re-planned, and they were still intricate alleys without any framework at all. If you were not careful, you would get lost in them.So, the friends played games together, either playing hide-and-seek, or playing police/cops catching thieves, all kinds of games, running tirelessly throughout the night, and laughing endlessly.

Life at that time was actually very simple, so simple that it was a bit monotonous. Every night, there were several games repeated over and over again, but they didn't feel bored at all, and they could always fill the time to the full. It’s all so clear; up to now, life has begun to become full, and there are countless means of entertainment. They can play in different ways for a whole month or even a whole year, ensuring that every day is not the same, but their time has become more and more empty. Happiness and joy are becoming more and more distant.

Why do people now have more and more, but are less and less happy; on the contrary, people in the past had only a handful of things, but they were able to embrace happiness.Maybe, if you calm down, everyone can find their own answers; but the problem is that not everyone can calm down.

Some people are pursuing more and more complex, while others are pursuing more and more simple.

Lu Li had stayed at the ranch for a few months, and his mentality had calmed down a lot. Even so, he could still feel a little restless tonight. At 07:30, there was nothing to do, and he was so bored that he couldn't even sit in a daze. He felt that he needed to adjust his mentality.

Thinking of this, Lu Li found a small notepad from his backpack, then took the pen, leaned on a tree trunk, put the notebook on his lap, and started writing.It's just writing. Lu Li can't even remember the last time he wrote with his own hand. Ever since he got a computer, he has long been accustomed to using a keyboard to record his thoughts. When he suddenly returned to writing with pen and ink, his brain suddenly hit him. A sense of strangeness.

No matter if it was Chinese or English, the pen was not easy to write. It looked like a dog crawling crookedly and coyly, and even couldn't write many simple characters. The absurd and unruly feeling made Lu Li laugh out loud.

I still remember that when he was in middle school, he liked writing very much for a period of time. He copied all the lyrics he liked, and even compiled them into a lyrics book, which densely recorded the popular songs sung among the students at that time.But after growing up, I gradually stopped writing, until one day, after leaving the keyboard, I couldn't remember the feeling of writing with both hands anymore.

"What are you writing?" Along with the sound of returning footsteps, Song Lingyi's voice came from far and near.

"Practice calligraphy." Lu Li didn't raise his head immediately. After writing all the words in his pen, he lifted up the notepad and showed it to Song Lingyi and Lu Huaijin. I went to bed at 07, but I couldn’t sleep. I wanted to read a book, but I found out that I didn’t bring a book with me when I came out today, so I planned to practice calligraphy.”

"Do you remember the memory of practicing big characters?" Song Lingyi said with a smile, and glanced at Lu Huaijin.

When Lu Li was in elementary school, he didn't like to take a lunch break at noon, so Lu Huaijin assigned tasks to practice a hundred big characters, practice hard pens a week, and practice soft pens a week.This is really a kind of torture for elementary school students, and they can't calm down at all.

"It's a step back." Lu Huaijin calmly commented.

Lu Li didn't mind it, and said with a smile, "You should look at the first few pictures, it's not just a step backward, it's like learning from scratch."

Both Lu Huaijin couldn't help but smile, Song Lingyi returned the notepad to Lu Li, "Then you can continue practicing."

Lu Li buried his head and continued to write. After a while, he didn't hear his parents' voices. He couldn't help raising his head—there was no entertainment, so what the hell were they doing?
Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi didn't sit by the bonfire at all, they stood by the stream, the bright moon was projected in the gurgling water, gently rippling, the shadows of the trees whirled and shimmered, Song Lingyi raised his right hand and pointed to the moon, Then I heard Lu Huaijin say in a deep voice, "Be careful of Mrs. Feng biting her ears."

This made Song Lingyi retract her right hand, bumped Lu Huaijin's chest with her shoulder, and smiled helplessly, "It's not a six-year-old kid."

Lu Huaijin grabbed Song Lingyi's right hand, lifted it up, gently took Song Lingyi around in a circle, and then put her right hand on Song Lingyi's waist, "Didn't you say that every woman believes in fairy tales, regardless of age." This made Song Lingyi laugh out loud.

Lu Huaijin hugged Song Lingyi's waist, and moved her steps clumsily, not in any special way, just one left and one right, one left and one right, with her body driving the steps, the rhythm came out naturally.

Song Lingyi pressed against Lu Huaijin's chest, listened to the sound of the beating heart with her right ear, and then began to shake her body following Lu Huaijin's rhythm. Under the moonlight, she could faintly see a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Without any musical accompaniment, nor any rhythmic guidance, the two of them just followed the instinct/instinct of their bodies and swayed gently. Surrounded by them, wandering gently.

Lu Li couldn't help but put down the notepad in his hand, looking at his parents dancing under the moonlight, he couldn't help showing a hint of envy in his eyes.In the vast sea of ​​people, meeting the right person at the right time and at the right place, and then holding your hand and growing old together, is how lucky. Fortunately, Song Lingyi met Lu Huaijin, and even more fortunately, Lu Huaijin I also met Song Lingyi, that's why I got him.

A faint happiness reverberated in his heart, and a smile could not help but climbed to the corner of Lu Li's mouth. He put down the notepad, and hummed softly.

"Love makes people sad, love always makes us sad sometimes, but that's the only thing I know."

Lu Li's simple singing voice didn't have any skills, just humming with a smile, but it carried a touch of warmth, so beautiful that the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't help but rise.The song is Ed Sheeran's single released last year, "Photograph," a personal favorite of his.

Looking at the parents in front of him, this song came to mind inexplicably in his mind, so he sang it to accompany their dance.

"When our love is in trouble, you know we will always encounter some difficulties, and love is the only thing that makes us feel the meaning of life."

When Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi heard the singing, they couldn't help turning their heads to look over.The firelight reflected Lu Li's face flushed red, and there was a faint tear in his eyes, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was full of happiness.

Hearing the plain but sincere lyrics, Lu Huaijin couldn't help but feel a little hot on the cheeks, and looked away in embarrassment; but Song Lingyi laughed happily, and gave Lu Li a thumbs up, thanking her son for the accompaniment, and then, she Leaning his head against Lu Huaijin's chest again, he swayed with the rhythm of Lu Li's singing.

"We use photos to freeze our love and leave deep memories for each other, because in the photos, your smiling eyes are always shining, our loving hearts will never fall apart, and time seems to stay at the most beautiful moment forever."

How wonderful it would be if time could be frozen at this moment forever, just like a photo, keeping the world at this happiest moment.But Lu Li knew that this was too greedy, they were already happy enough, and they should know how to be content.Fortunately, Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi have each other; even more fortunate, Lu Li has such parents and can witness all this.

Under the hazy moonlight, for the first time, Lu Li began to yearn for love, yearn for marriage, yearn for the beauty of Lu Huaijin and Song Lingyi.

(End of this chapter)