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Volume 2 Smile Through Time and Space Chapter 17 Alone with the whole world

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    ?Clean the house, have breakfast, get dressed in Pinellia, put on a backpack, bring a bow and arrow, insert a dagger and a pistol, and be fully armed.

    Looking in the mirror, she is wearing a light blue sleeveless dress, a refreshing single ponytail, a pistol on her right waist, a dagger on her left waist, a longbow in her hand, a backpack and a quiver behind her back, she looks so heroic  A dashing armed girl.

    Great!

    Ban Xia stretched out her thumb and blinked her eyes.

    "Mom and Dad, I'm going out, I'll be back at night."

    Close the door and the girl goes downstairs.

    The sun is scorching outside, Ban Xia holds up a red umbrella.

    The stored dry food is almost used up, and she has to collect the raw materials for making dry food.

    The distance from Plum Blossom Villa to Crescent Lake Park is so close that you don¡¯t need to ride a bicycle. You just turn a corner when you go out. Banxia takes out a small luggage cart from the back of the stairs on the first floor of the unit building. It has two small wheels and can be used immediately  Get up and stop, or you can pull it diagonally, just like dragging a suitcase. The girl hangs the backpack on the small trailer, and the wheels grind on the rough concrete road.

    In Nanjing in October, the temperature is high. The sun shines on the ground at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and the heat waves roll up. The air can smell the smell of wormwood. Pinellia knows that there is a large area of ??wormwood nearby.  taller than her.

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

    Turn from Clover Park Avenue to the Zijin Bridge, which crosses the narrow lake and faces a huge city gate.  On the surface, you can see the gray-black ancient city wall unfolding in front of you. The ancient city wall is hidden in the green tree canopy. There are three arches under the city wall.  Part of it, so the city wall and the lake are close together.

    The girl stood on the bridge and stopped, turning her head to look at the lake.

    Over the years, the water area of ??Crescent Lake has shrunk a lot. Originally, its water area was shaped like a slender crescent, connected with the water area of ??the moat, and attached to the outside of the ancient city wall. However, the lake has gradually dried up over the past few decades.  There is no crescent moon, and the lake is more abundant during the rainy season in summer, but in winter, the water area will shrink towards the center of the lake, exposing the muddy land along the coast.

    "The water of the West Lake, my tears"

    Ban Xia hummed a song, turned right in front of the gate of Houbiaoying, and stepped into Crescent Lake Park calmly.

    An overview map of the park stands on the lawn next to the entrance. It is located in the dense weeds, and only two golden characters of "Overview Map" remain. The one-person tall sign has been cut in half, and the remaining half  There were a few molten and burnt bullet holes, thick enough to stick a fist in, probably from armor-piercing bullets.

    Entering the garden is a small square, densely paved with small white square floor tiles, and a tall and slender sculpture, which fell down and smashed into two sections, a brown marble column, and a big brass bird stands on the top  .

    The teacher said it was not a big bird.

    is a rooster.

    (actually Suzaku)

    The raw materials of Pinellia's dry food mainly come from Crescent Lake. Fish can be caught in the sea, and meat can be hunted for deer, but starchy food can only be collected from Crescent Lake.

    Holding a red umbrella, the girl walked under the city wall, walked through the dense shade of trees, and looked out to the lake through the wicker. There were green duckweed along the shore.

    Her source of starch is lotus seeds, lotus root and water chestnut in the lake. Summer is the time when the lotus in the lake blooms luxuriantly. Originally, Crescent Moon Lake had a lotus pond for ornamental purposes.  The more it grows, the longer it grows and the more luxuriant it is. In July and August, pinellia came to the lake, and the lotus bloomed in full bloom. The lotus leaves as big as the washbasin overlapped and could not see the water surface.

    A little further along the city wall is the banquet hall of Ye Shanghai Hotel, a building with white walls and red tiles, standing by the lake and surrounded by green lotus leaves.

    They are restaurants built on the lake, but now they can no longer see the original appearance, only the foundation columns and the water platform are left in the lake. On the platform are broken walls, and the red roof and white  the walls.

    Pinellia enters the water from here.

    She took off her shoes and socks, switched to sandals, left her equipment on the shore, climbed over the chain link fence, gave a hard "hey" and jumped onto a large concrete block two meters away from the lake shore, which was half submerged in the water.  , half exposed outside, is a small isolated island.

    This is her official launching point.

    Every time I go down to the lake, Pinellia passes through here. This area of ??water is relatively shallow, and the feet can only reach knees when I step on it. Moreover, large and small construction debris sinks on the shore of the lake, and I can climb up to rest at any time.

    Exploration of pinelliaI stepped my feet into the water and slowly sank into the mud at the bottom of the lake. The lake water was very clear, and the mud started to become muddy when the girl's feet stirred it up.

    The silt can completely bury the ankles. Ban Xia stepped on it hard, and when she stepped firmly, she put her second foot into the water. Both long legs were covered by the cool lotus leaves.

    Pinellia hangs a big bag on its chest, which is used to hold the dug out lotus root or water chestnut. If there is a lotus pod, throw it in. It tilts its head and clamps the handle of the red umbrella with its neck. The umbrella is used to shade the sun, so vicious.  The sun will burn the skin for a long time. Pinellia slowly pokes in the lotus leaves, with her feet. She pokes her feet into the soft mud and gropes among the complicated lotus rhizomes.  It was the swollen root joint of the lotus root. She bent down again, and slowly dug up the silt with her hands. With slow and steady force, she dug out the whole lotus root from under the silt.

    This is a technical job. The lotus root cannot be broken during the process of watering out. If it is broken, it is not easy to preserve. The intact lotus root can be stored for a long time. Pinellia must pull out the whole half-meter-long lotus root from the mud.  Rinse in water again.

    If it is fast, one can be dug out in five minutes, and it can take more than ten minutes to deal with difficult ones. At this time, the girl breaks it off angrily, washes it, stuffs it in her mouth, and chews it. It is right to vent her anger and let it  Dead without a whole body.

    The lotus root just out of the water was not delicious, and the taste was quite astringent, so the girl chewed and vomited with a bitter face.

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

    The girl's tender instep and toes are very sensitive, and the lotus root can be clearly distinguished.

    "Is this it? No."

    "Is this it? No."

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

    Ban Xia bent down and pulled it out forcefully, took out her hand and frowned.

    Unplugged wrong.

    What is this black cylinder?

    Whatever it is, it's definitely not lotus root.

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

    There is a lot of garbage in the mud at the bottom of Crescent Lake. This is why Pinellia should wear good shoes when entering the water. In addition to stones, bricks, and broken concrete, there may also be broken glass, rusty nails, and other sharp objects on the bottom of the lake.  If you go barefoot, you may cut the soles of your feet.

    Once the neck bag was full, she returned to the shore to unload and sit in the shade to rest.

    On hot days, drink a big sip of water.

    "Wow¡ª¡ª! So cool!"

    Pinellia sat on the stone slab by the lake, looking at the green shade on the other side, blowing leisurely.

    A person's life is actually simple and lazy. There has never been anything urgent. Ban Xia can do it whenever she wants, and don't do it whenever she wants. She can continue to dig lotus roots this afternoon.  , You can also sit here wow, she can count the leaves on the tree, you can also squat on the ground to watch the ants move, and you can even close your eyes and rest, letting the breeze and time pass by.

    That was her time alone with the whole world.
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