Chapter 180 Old Town

"Why did you pull me to the boat?" The girl stopped after a few steps and looked at me doubtfully.

"Take you to a safe place and sit on it." I answered directly. Living in Xuecheng since I was a child, I almost accepted the existence of the sand boat. At that time, in my consciousness, it was the most convenient means of transportation to move forward in the desert.

"Sit on the boat and go to a safe place?" The girl stopped completely and had no intention of continuing to leave. I said, this little brother, are you dizzy by the sun in the desert? How can the boat walk on the sand?

"The boat is not moving forward in the sand, where should it be?" When I was young, I completely forgot to explain. I just thought that someone had deviated from me on common sense. These are not the scope of knowledge, but nailed things like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

"Water. Of course, the boat walks on the water and can be on rivers, lakes and seawater. The girl seriously described to me that although there were no superfluous words, through her eyes, I could feel that a boat sailing on the water must have appeared in her mind at this moment.

The boat on the water is indeed used by the teacher in class, and there are even pictures in the textbook. But those pictures are only black and white lines, and even the color of the sand is not added. How can the things outlined by those lines be as vivid as described by the girl in a few words? The boat sailing on the water seems to me like an unreal dream. For the first time, I felt how happy that girl was to see so many new things. For the first time, I felt a little inferiority because I lived in the school city, even if I couldn't imagine the day before.

I have always felt that I am a proud apprentice, but in this conversation, I suddenly realized that I was just an ignorant and ignorant boy.

(I would like to pay tribute to the 100-year-old John Turner series of works on Mars. I have always felt that works that are too fast-food should not be the development trend of reading in the future, and I also know that my work is not very friendly to readers who pursue refreshment. Thank you very much for reading this, and I will try my best to continue.)

"That's your place." I have to pretend to be erudite, and I don't want to show the slightest timidity." How can there be pieces of water in the desert, so someone has developed a boat that can walk in the desert. Girl from the Central Plains, you can try it. I guarantee that this is much more interesting than the boat in your hometown. I believe she likes novelty, and I'm using this ** to hide my uneasiness.

Then, I took her hand and walked into the sand boat. The ferryman did not say much. He stood alone on the other side of the boat, supporting the soft sand with a pole to let the boat slide forward quickly. Of course, this is not as fast as the use of blood ceremony, but it is much smoother. It's not very time to go back. That kind of excessive bump should be a serious torture for a person who has just woken up.

The girl sitting on the sand boat was curious and touched this and that excitedly. My eyes were inseparable from her white stone-like fingers in the moonlight, and then I found that the bone dagger inserted in the bow was missing. It should have been taken back by the ferryman just now. I also took a special look at the wooden trough, but there was no blood. I really don't know what's going on.

The girl seemed to notice my eyes, and her fingers also touched the groove. Finally, she touched all the places she could touch. After that, she put away her hands and just turned her head back and looked at the scene in the desert. I really want to talk to her, but I'm afraid to break this intoxicating scene and her beautiful side face. At that moment, I should have no idea of admiring her beauty.

I didn't know until later. At that time, she really didn't know anything like Shazhizhou. All she knew was that the people in the city had a very special thing to walk through the desert. And that groove was indeed noticed by her at that time. The groove is so strange that people can be sure at a glance that it must be used to place things. It's just that she couldn't ask what it was, but she didn't wait long on this issue.

Unlike the random collision when he came, after the ferryman identified the direction, the return road was extremely smooth. However, the sand boat did not enter from the southeast gate of the traditional main gate, but took a big circle and entered from the northwest gate at a distance from the city. When entering the door, the ferryman took out a huge black cloak from nowhere, covered the girl's body, and said, "Don't make a sound." And I sat next to it. I understand that this is a disguised protection for girls. No one dares to check the sand boat. The apprentice robe on me is enough to make this ship a little majestic.

The school city is divided into two parts. The one in the west is called the old city, and the one in the east is the new city. As the name implies, the houses in the west were built a long time ago, while those in the east were built later. In fact, in my opinion, there is no difference between the new and old city. Those houses that have been built for hundreds of years are very old in appearance. What's the difference between 400-hundred-year-old buildings and 450-old buildings? Therefore, the so-called appearance difference reflected in the name of the new and old city does not exist at all.

The real difference lies in the people who live there. Xincheng is the soul of Xuecheng. All classrooms and academic institutions are there. Countless apprentices like me and those bachelors standing on top of apprentices also live in Xuecheng. And other people in the city, who can't touch knowledge, will live in the old city. Of course, except for the ferryman. Like the ferryman's apprentice, he also lives in the new city. This rule seems strange, but what's more strange is that everyone, including me at that time, did not raise any questions about this regulation. Yes, most people in the city only know how to obey, only explain problems, try to make everything understandable, and rarely ask questions.

There is a wall before the new city and the old city, which is a forbidden area. Outside the specific crowd, no one can wander back and forth between the new old city. The noble new urban area people do not cut down on the old city, and although the people in the old city yearn for knowledge, they can't climb over the high wall.