Old man Shi took a breath of smoke and said, "For you two have never walked like this, you can't do it with two legs. The old saying goes, "Hope Mountain is a good horse to run to death! If you want to go there, you must ride a mule and a horse if you want to go back tonight. Your car cannot be driven in!"

"Where can I rent mules and horses?" Lu Xiancheng asked immediately.

A continuous hill immediately aroused Lu Xiancheng's interest.

This terrain reminded Lu Xiancheng of an American ranch I visited in his previous life.

It was when Lu Xiancheng went on a self-driving trip with a few friends I met online, renting a car from the United States and traveling through the United States to New York in the East, and then flying back to China. On the way, Lu Xiancheng had seen countless American ranches, but there was only one mountain ranch that made Lu Xiancheng and his friends linger. Even when they think about it now, they still yearn for infinite yearning.

The undulating terrain is accompanied by thick grass, which will appear in your dreams from time to time in your previous life. When you ride a horse over a small hill and think you will see a crisp green grass, suddenly what jumps into your eyes is a blue sea of ​​flowers or a cluster of colorful forests.

Before this, Lu Xiancheng never thought that even the woods could be so beautiful, and even a light-colored wildflower could make people so surprised. The ever-rolling terrain was like a beautiful scenery that you could not see at a glance. Every time you pass by a mountain, you would hide a surprise when you go to one side of the valley. You could not imagine that kind of beauty without coming to you.

Seeing a group of hills suddenly gave Lu Xiancheng a ** that replicated this beautiful scenery.

"There is a rent when renting, but now it's almost the New Year, so it probably won't be cheaper. It costs thirty or forty yuan at all," Old Man Shi thought for a while and said.

When Lu Xiancheng heard that he was thirty or forty, he immediately didn't know what to say. He thought to himself: Do you think I can't afford to pay thirty or forty yuan this day?

Zhou Guangyong nodded when he heard this: "Rent a horse for thirty or forty? What's the problem!"

Zhou Guangyong felt the difference in consumption levels in the countryside and in the town. Five pieces in Shicheng are a box of lunch boxes. Five pieces in the town are fried with meat. When they arrive here, it is estimated that five pieces can cook two dishes in this town. It is only thirty or forty yuan a day for a horse. This makes Zhou Guangyong, who has not officially ridden a horse, feels excited.

"Then please help us hire two better horses. A good horse is fifty a day," said Lu Xiancheng.

After hearing this, Old Man Shi’s son Shi Dazhuang said, “There is no problem with this price. I’ll ask you if anyone is willing. I can squeeze out one horse here, and you can hire another one.”

After Shi Dazhuang said that, he pointed to a tree not far away, and Lu Xiancheng found three horses tied to the tree pole.

"Your family is in good condition, there are three horses," Lu Xiancheng said with a smile.

Shi Dazhuang said: "There is only one, and the other two are asked to borrow from other families and return them after the market is over. Besides, what we are carrying is not our family's belongings."

Lu Xiancheng didn't know that people in the mountainous areas might have to take a few families to buy something, just like Aunt Zhu's current overseas purchases. It was like a group purchase.

"Don't, your horses are still carrying things. Please hire two horses for us. I will pick up the ones!" Lu Xiancheng said.

Although he was kind to say, Lu Xiancheng actually didn't want to ride the three horses tied there at all, because these three horses were short and small in Lu Xiancheng's eyes. If Shi Dazhuang hadn't said they were horses on the tree, Lu Xiancheng would have thought they were donkeys. As a horse, it was about the same size as a donkey. Lu Xiancheng, who was riding a tall horse, wouldn't be interested in riding it, and he would have to ride it for a day.

Shi Dazhuang looked at his father after hearing this. He looked at Old Man Shi and nodded before he took a step towards the street.

Lu Xiancheng thought it would take some time to hire a horse at this time. Who knew that within ten minutes, Shi Dazhuang came with two men in their forties, who were just in their forties.

When Lu Xiancheng saw the horses led by two men, he couldn't help but feel disappointed again. These two horses were more beautiful than Shi Dazhuang's three. They were almost the same size, but the fur color was well maintained, unlike these three horses, which seemed to be covered with a layer of gray and dirty.

There was not even a saddle on the back of the two horses, only a sweat pad. It was said that the sweat pads were all lifting this thing, but Lu Xiancheng looked like a small quilt wrapped in a small baby in the countryside. The only thing that made Lao Lu think was that the sweat pads on the two horses were very clean, and the white quilt inside was brand new.

As for the belly belt, it is completely unobstructed if you have a triangle chest belt. You can wear two wide cloth belts directly through the horse's belly, even if you use it as a belly belt.

Even if they are hired, there is no need to say much. In the concept of Lu Xiancheng, it is probably not easy to find a horse with a shoulder height of more than 1.5 meters in this place. It is not that there are no tall horses in China, but they are all in the grassland or in the north. Where can there be tall horses in small mountain villages like Jiangnan?

The two men came to the scene. Everyone introduced them when they met. Lu Xiancheng knew that one of them was Ding and the other was Fang. As for the price, Lao Lu gave forty, they did not raise any price and responded.

The car was left at the door of the bamboo shop and asked the boss to help see the car. Lu Xiancheng and Zhou Guangyong were taken by Shi Dazhuang and each of them rode a horse to see the terrain.

When he set off, Lu Xiancheng rode alone, while Shi Dazhuang rode one by himself and then pulled Zhou Guangyong's bridle to take care of Zhou Guangyong who was riding a horse for the first time.

The interest in riding a horse and whip was not at all for Lao Lu, because after he stepped on the horse's back, he felt that his legs were almost reaching the ground. Lao Lu thought that if he tied a scarf, he would steal a landmine.

Moreover, the horse couldn't run fast, and it was probably the normal bicycle speed with four short legs. It was a little excited to be the little copper bell on the horse's neck, and it ringed all the way.

Among the three people in the group, Shi Dazhuang often rides horses, so naturally he won’t feel anything.

Lu Xiancheng is getting rid of the entanglement of "riding a donkey" in his heart, and there is no good feeling at all.

Only Zhou Guangyong was very happy and shouted one or two from time to time while riding a horse, as if he had found such a way to be free.

After walking for a while, Lu Xiancheng knew why Old Man Shi asked him to hire a horse. This road was really hard to walk. Let's put it this way, compared to the road you are taking now, it is simply a highway. Although the place is hilly, the road is surrounded by several small rivers. The horses can only walk around the river bank. The distance that is easy to reach in a straight line is a very large circle.

When the road is not good, it is impossible for a horse to even trot. The entire road is only about one and a half meters wide. There are either shrubs or hills next to it. The most important thing is that the road surface is still high and low. There are two ups and downs between one or two hundred meters, and the changes in the height difference of the trail can be directly observed by the naked eye.

After walking for half an hour, Zhou Guangyong's interest disappeared without a trace. He sat on the horse's back, looking half asleep and half awake, and finally lay half on the horse's back.

Lao Lu's interest has indeed risen. Although the road is getting harder to walk now, it makes Lao Lu more and more satisfied with the current terrain. Lao Lu doesn't like too flat places. And even if he likes it, it's useless. Such places have long been opened into farmland. There is no need to say much about the desire of Chinese farmers for land. Only such prefectures and counties can be contracted.

After walking for less than an hour and a half, the harder the road was to the point of the hill, and the less road it was, there was no more road left, and there was only one to circle around the ridges and shrubs. Or anything that could block the road, even more so when it reached the foot of the hill. The bushes of small shrubs and the kind of small spikes made the three of them suffer a little.

When we reached the top of the mountain, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. Shi Dazhuang took out a few pieces of bread from his horse's back, and then there was a military kettle, which was the flat military-green aluminum kettle.

Bread and water were lunch for three. Zhou Guangyong and Lu Xiancheng didn’t eat much, so they got the bread together, and almost all the rest went into Shi Dazhuang’s stomach.

Lu Xiancheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the mountain with satisfaction, revealing the red soil. Although there were not many plants on it, it was at least not stones. As long as there was soil, it would be no big problem to plant the Japanese-improved forage grass.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, there is a silver river in the valley on one side, and there is a small lake downstream of the river. The area is not very large but not small.

There is a small village not far from the small lake. Lu Xiancheng calculated that there were about thirty or forty families. You can also see the farmlands of these families near the village, but in the current season, you can't see crops, you can only see small ditches in the fields that separate the pieces of land into irregular quadrilaterals.

"What village is there?" Lu Xiancheng pointed at Shi Dazhuang and asked.

"Oh, it's Youjiawa there," said Shi Dazhuang.

When Lu Xiancheng heard this, he asked casually based on his own experience: "All of them are surnamed You?"

"No, there is no one in their village named You." After Shi Dazhuang said that, he looked at Lu Xiancheng with a confused look on his face and said, "Even they themselves don't know why the village is called Youjiawa. Anyway, the ancestors called this name so they followed it."

"Oh!" Lu Xiancheng looked at the small village in the distance, then looked at the other side with his back to the village. Not far away was another small hill, and the ridge was connected to the hill where he was standing, and there were two hills on both sides of his hands, which were arranged in a staggered manner, like a beautiful note in Lu Xiancheng's eyes.

Lu Xiancheng saw it and was happy in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh: "The world is a great place!"

After hearing this, Shi Dazhuang stood up and looked around. He only saw a few bare mounds, or mounds covered with thorny shrubs, which looked like a half-win situation.

The people in this city have a problem with their brains! Shi Dazhuang muttered in his heart.

Zhou Guangyong stood up after hearing Lu Xiancheng's words and looked around. However, Old Zhou had finally read some books and read them around and said, "It's really a good place to have mountains and water, but it's a little desolate. Planting trees and grass, and then building some flower beds around it, it's really good!"

When he heard that he wanted to plant trees and grass, Shi Dazhuang's eyes swept around the backs of the two city people two or three times: Sure enough, these city people really have no knowledge. It seems that the joke that people can't tell whether wheat or leeks are not clear. The city people are really so stupid!

As a person who grew up here, Shi Dazhuang doesn’t think that planting grass and trees in this place can be planted as long as you want. There were grass in the past, but I heard from the old man that it was a big tree in the mountains.

When the older generation were old people, this area was full of old forests, not only big trees but also all kinds of wild animals. Now that the forest has been cut down, there are no other things here except for the thorny shrubs.

I also plant trees and grass. I won’t say how much it costs to plant trees. Let’s talk about planting grass. What kind of grass can grow through the thorny vine forest all over the mountains?!

At this time, Lu Xiancheng didn't know that someone was complaining about him in his heart. The happy old Lu had already decided in his heart that he would have to take all the two or three hills when he was well-off.
Chapter completed!