From Tashan to Hescovalna

Friday, April 15

The boy sat in the room all night and hardly slept, but near the early morning he fell asleep and dreamed of his father and mother.

He could hardly recognize them.

Their hair had turned gray and an old face was covered with wrinkles.

He asked them why they became like this, and they replied that they became so old because they missed him.

He was both moved and deeply shocked because he had always thought that they would only be happy to get rid of him.

It was already morning after the boy woke up.

It's another sunny day.

He first ate some bread he found in the house, then brought breakfast to the geese, gray geese and the old cow, then opened the door of the cowshed and asked the old cow to go to the nearest farm.

When neighbors find the cow going out alone, they will think of something that must have happened to her hostess, and will definitely run to this lonely farm to visit the old woman, so that they will find her body and bury her.

As soon as the boy, the geese and the little gray geese flew into the air, they saw a tall mountain with steep cliffs and flat tops.

They recognized that it was Tashan.

Aka and Yaksi, Kaxi, Korme, Nelia, Visie, Kusey and six geese were waiting for them on the top of the mountain.

When they saw the goose and Deng Fen successfully found the little man's thumb, there were enthusiastic screams in the whole group of geese, flapping their wings and shouting, and the joyful scene was hard to describe.

The cliffs on both sides of Tashan are covered with huge trees, but the highest peak is bare.

Standing on the top of the mountain, you can look out from all directions.

If you look down from the east, south or west, you will see almost all barren plateaus, with nothing but dark spruce, brown swamps, and ice-covered lakes and light blue ridges.

The boy couldn't help but think that this might be the case. The person who created this land did not put any effort into his work. He just hurriedly tinkered with the work.

But if you look far from the top to the north, the scene will be completely different when you see it in front of you.

The land-making man seemed to be extremely meticulous and extremely devoted to creating such a piece of land.

Looking down from this direction, you can not only see beautiful mountains, soft lines, winding streams, and even look at the huge lake, Witten Lake. The water of this lake will not be frozen all year round, clear and transparent, and the lake surface is shining, just like the lake is not water but blue light.

It was Lake Witten that made the scenery north of Tashan so beautiful and charming, as if the blue light rose from the lake and sprinkled throughout the earth.

The forests, hills, roofs, and the top of the tower of Yancheping, which shines along the shore of Lake Witten, are bathed in a blue light, pleasing to the eye.

If there were countries in heaven, they must have been blue like this, although boys did not have a clear concept of what heaven was.

Later that day, the geese continued their journey, flying towards the blue valley.

They were in a happy mood along the way, shouting and making a lot of noise, and all living beings with ears could hear their noisy symphony.

This is the first truly beautiful spring day in this area since the beginning of spring.

Before that, the whole spring was windy and rainy.

As the weather suddenly improves, people's hearts are filled with the desire for the hot summer and the green trees, which makes them almost unwilling to complete their work.

When the geese flew high across the sky, free and happy, no one on the ground kept looking up at them.

On this day, the first person to see the geese were the miners in Tashan, who were digging ore at the exit of a mine.

When they heard the shouts of the geese, they stopped their mining tasks, and one of them shouted at them: "Where are you going?

Where are you going?"

The geese didn't know what they said, but when the boy heard it, he leaned down from the geese's back and replied to the geese: "We go to a place where there are neither picks nor hammers."

When the miners heard these words, they all thought that their desire turned the geese's call into human voice.

"Take us! Take us!"

They shouted.

"Not this year," the boy screamed, "Not this year."

The geese flew along the Tashan River toward Lake Monk, and along the way, they kept shouting loudly.

On the narrow strips of Lake Monk and Lake Witten are the large factories around Yancheping City and its surroundings.

The first thing the geese flew past was the Lake Monk Paper Mill. The lunch break had just ended, and workers rushed to the door of the paper mill like a tide.

When they heard the geese crowing, they couldn't help but stop and sounded.

“Where are you going?

Where are you going?"

The workers shouted.

The geese didn't understand what they were saying, but the boy replied for them: "We go to places without machines and steam locomotives."

When the workers heard these words, they all thought that their desire turned the geese's call into human voice.

"Take us! Take us!"

"Not this year," the boy replied, "Not this year."

Then the geese flew past the famous match factory, which was located on the shore of Lake Witten, as big as a fortress, and its tall chimneys towered straight towards the sky.

There was no one walking around in the factory yard.

But in the large factory, young female workers were sitting there putting matches into matchboxes.

They opened a window, and the sky outside was extremely beautiful. Through the window, they heard the shouts of geese.

The female worker who sat closest to the window, holding a matchbox in her hand, shouted to the sky: "Where are you going?

Where are you going?"

"We go to a place where neither fire nor matches are needed."

The boy replied for the geese.

The girl thought she was hearing the robe's screams, but she felt that she had heard the meaning of a few words, so she shouted and replied: "Take me with you! Take me with you!"

"Not this year," the boy replied, "Not this year."

To the east of the factory is Yancheping City, which is located in the most conspicuous place in the city.

There are tall steep sand embankments on the east and west sides of the narrow Lake Witten.

But directly south of the lake, the sand wall had collapsed, and it seemed that a gate was opened so that people could pass through the gate to the lake.

In the center of the gate is Yancheping City, with mountains on both sides, facing Lake Monk and Lake Witten.

When the geese flew over the narrow Yancheping city, they still shouted loudly as they did in the countryside.

But in the city, no one responded to their screams.

They obviously also did not expect the city people to answer and make calls to them.

Their journey stretched far along the shore of Lake Witten, and soon they flew to the Sana Nursing Home.

Some patients were enjoying the spring air in the corridors of the hospital, and they also heard the shouts of the geese.

"Where are you going?"

A patient shouted in a weak voice, so low that the boy could barely hear it.

"Go to the place where there is no sadness or illness."

The boy answered for the geese.

"Take us!"

The patient shouted.

"Not this year," the boy replied, "Not this year."

They continued to fly further to Hescovarna, located in the canyon, where the mountains surrounding it were steep and beautiful.

A river poured down from a high place, and the water turned into a narrow waterfall.

There are many workshops and factories under the cliff, workers' residences are spread all over the bottom of the canyon, and there are small gardens around the houses.

In the middle of the valley bottom is a school.

As the geese flew over the canyon, the school bell rang, and a large group of children came out of the classroom in line.

There are too many students, and the entire campus is filled with their figures.

“Where are you going?

Where are you going?"

When the children heard the shouts of the geese, they asked loudly.

"Go to a place where there are neither books nor homework."

The boy replied.

"Take us!"

The children shouted.

"This year won't work, next year!"
Chapter completed!