"Is that your home?" Chen Xing asked in surprise.
"Yes, yes, will you come up?"
Her tone was brisk, as if climbing a tree didn't take much effort.
She soon arrived at a small house built with various branches, wooden boards, and black tarpaulin. Without entering, she sat at the door and opened the plastic bags brought by the children just now.
Chen Xing smelled the strong smell of beef again.
Having a bad nose is also a sin.
"If I don't come up, I can't climb the tree." Chen Xing said.
The girl could have gone into the tree house to eat, but she did not do so. While eating, she said to Chen Xing who was already far away: "That's a pity. The scenery up here is quite beautiful. What's your name?" Where in Asia are you a tourist from?”
"China."
"Wow, that's a really nice country, several times bigger than Sweden."
many? How ignorant!
Sweden seems to have only 400,000 square kilometers, while China has more than 9 million.
Sweden's area is less than a fraction of China's, only the area of one province.
The word "overseas travel" is relatively popular in China, but not so much in Europe. For people in Europe, traveling abroad is just like traveling to other provinces within the country. It is no wonder that so many countries in Europe are in the same family. It doesn’t matter the person.
She loves to chat and talks a lot to Chen Xing.
He is very principled, saying that Chen Xing has to climb up to eat, but now he really doesn't give it to Chen Xing at all.
Just when he was about to say goodbye and continue walking, Chen Xing heard someone running towards him.
Even Chen Xing couldn’t understand the squeaky Swedish.
I originally thought it had nothing to do with me, but then I discovered that this group of people was coming towards me. The leader was a child, one of the children Chen Xing saw just now, followed by a group of men and women, saying He was walking towards me speaking in Swedish that he didn't understand.
Although I don't know what they are talking about, their faces... are very unfriendly.
Simply vicious.
But when they approached Chen Xing, their expressions changed, and they looked at his equipment in confusion.
This is a gringo tourist...
It’s just that it’s hard to see foreigners in this small place like theirs.
"Who are you?" someone asked in English.
Finally, someone could speak in English. Chen Xing quickly replied: "I am a tourist. If this is your private place, then I can leave now. I'm sorry, I didn't know before."
Be timid first!
The English-speaking man misunderstood Chen Xing and then said to his companion.
"Just an ordinary tourist."
"Who said there was a foreign boss here?"
"Boy, please see more clearly from now on. We will be very tired after running so far!"
"Let's go then."
"Don't worry, this handsome guy is really good-looking, wait until I get to know him."
Everyone was talking about it, and Chen Xing was a little depressed. It was better to leave earlier and walk faster. Now he was in the city.
There was a burst of laughter in the trees.
The woman didn't know when she came down with the food, and she was listening to them talking on a tree several meters high.
Only then did Chen Xing see her face clearly.
She must be in her twenties, very young. I don't know whether her hair is natural or dyed later. It is white, but it is a bit gray in the dim light in the woods, but it cannot hide the smile on her face. At this moment, she is sitting on a On a thick branch, he was eating steak with a fork in one hand, holding a box in the other hand, and his legs were swinging back and forth.
Not afraid of falling at all.
What a nice balance.
Everyone looked at her when she laughed. After she said a few words, the group of people prepared to leave. This time their attitude was completely different from when they came. Everyone who knew English apologized to him and then said A few words like "Happy travel".
After they all left, Chen Xing said to the girl in the tree who was delivering a speech: "What did you say to them? Why did they all leave?"
"I said you are my friend who came from abroad to see me."
"..."
"Are you their boss?"
The scene just now looked quite majestic. There were about ten people in the group, and they were persuaded to leave with just one word.
Chen Xing does not envy this ability.
He was also impressive, who was still young and frivolous, but he was curious as to why these people would listen to a woman.
"no."
"Then why are they so obedient?"
She chuckled, hung the food bag on a branch, patted her side and said to Chen Xing: "Want to know? Then come up and chat with me, I'm almost bored to death."
Chen Xing saw that her eyes were clear and beautiful. He thought about it for a few seconds before nodding in agreement and then climbed up.
I dare not go up if it is more than ten or twenty meters high, but it is still ok if it is a few meters high.
Chen Xing hasn't climbed a tree for a long time.
But now his hand touched the trunk of the tree, and he soon thought of being led by his cousin to climb a tree when he was a child. He jumped up and grabbed the branches for support, and soon arrived in front of the girl. This person was indeed good-looking, especially When he smiles, he feels like the Nordic version of Zhang Zifeng.
"Look, isn't this coming up? And he said he can't climb trees."
She rolled her eyes, took out two pieces of bread from the bag and handed them to Chen Xing, saying, "I heard your stomach growling, haha, here you go, take it."
Chen Xing was not a polite person, so he smiled and said, "Thank you, I'm ready to eat."
"Wait a minute!"
He quickly grabbed Chen Xing, and then took out a small snack-like package from the pocket of his coat. There were Swedish characters on it that Chen Xing couldn't understand, but after she tore it open, he knew that it was flaky inside. The ham smells quite good.
She squeezed it out and put it between two pieces of bread, and then said: "Okay, it will taste better this way."
Don’t be fooled by domestic bread.
In fact, in Chen Xing's opinion, European bread is not very tasty, not very sweet, and it can easily dry your mouth, just like steamed buns. You have to drink it with some water to make it more interesting. I don’t know what the ingredients of this ham-smelling snack are, but it definitely tastes better when added to bread than when eaten directly.
After two mouthfuls, Chen Xing felt refreshed all over his body.
Fan Dabiao doesn’t bully me.
When people are hungry, as long as they have something to eat, they are happy.
I was sitting on a branch five meters above the ground. Some fir trees around me were only about this height, and the trees near the road didn't have many leaves. Could it have been blown away by the wind from passing cars? Anyway, he could now see through the trees the road that occasionally cars passed by.
Suddenly, a dirty hand appeared in front of Chen Xing's eyes. The shape of the hand was very nice, but there were many calluses on it, especially under the tiger's mouth.
This hand now holds a bag of milk.
Chen Xing looked at her hand, and then looked at her while taking it and eating.
Woman, you managed to get my attention.
Really, this is too mysterious.
He tore a corner of the bag, took a sip of milk to sweeten the bread in his mouth, and then said, "My name is Chen Xing. I told you I'm from China. How about you."
"Julie, my name is Julie Carroll."
She wasn't worried at all about what would happen at this height. She put her hands on both sides of her buttocks and her legs were dangling. From this, Chen Xing could guess that she was very happy now, but what was she happy about? You can't possibly fall in love with yourself, right?
Chen Xing thought narcissistically.
But her eyes were different from those superficial and pretty girls. Chen Xing didn't see infatuation in the eyes she looked at him, just pure joy.
After barely suppressing his hunger, Chen Xing breathed a sigh of relief: "Now you can tell me, who are they?"
"They are all volunteers from several nearby towns or villages. Sometimes they will send me some things. The three children you scared away are their younger brothers. Haha, do you look scary? They You will actually scare me away."
Chen Xing subconsciously touched his face.
"Stop touching, you look very good."
"Thank you for the compliment."
"Haha, I'm not blind."
At this time, the sun tilted a little from the middle, just enough to shine on them. Julie raised her head and closed her eyes, letting the sun shine on her neck. The white of her hair also highlighted her skin color. It was very white, the result of having been at home for too long. Bai who doesn't go out.
“It’s so comfortable to bask in the sun in winter.”
"Well, does that house belong to you? It looks very nice."
Zhu Li looked up at the house she had built, hummed, and nodded heavily: "I built it myself. It's nicer and wider inside. It has a bed for me to sleep on, and a small table made of tree branches. It’s very comfortable to sleep at night, and I have two birds as my neighbors...oh, not two, but two, one is the black-throated woodbird and the other is the red-breasted tit, both are beautiful.”
"Do you want to go up and take a look?" she asked, still looking at Chen Xing.
"No, no!"
Her treehouse was at least 30 meters tall. Chen Xing's legs felt a little weak when he looked down at such a height, let alone climbing up the tree step by step.
Chen Xing was afraid that he had the courage to go up but not the courage to come down.
"That's right!" Chen Xing suddenly realized, "You just said you were sleeping up there? You can't possibly live here, right?"
"You guessed it, I live here."
"???"
Subway old man-style confusion.
"But... why?"
"For this tree." She patted the branch she was sitting on, which made Chen Xing tremble.
However, the branches were very stable and did not sway at all.
"This tree is already 1,400 years old. It may be the largest tree in the surrounding area for hundreds of miles. It has protected us for many years. There are also many small animals living in this tree." Zhu Li hasn't said anything yet. After that, a squirrel quickly climbed up the tree from the ground, chirping.
His ability to climb trees was many times better than Chen Xing's, and the squirrel was no longer visible in the blink of an eye.
"Look, there are a lot of birds besides squirrels."
"Do you like animals?"
"I won't deny it, but I don't live in the tree because I like these animals, I just live in the tree because of it."
Chen Xing still didn't understand.
Julie put away her smiling expression, pursed her lips, lowered her head and sighed, and said to Chen Xing: "A year ago, the Slagness government issued a notice to cut down this tree because it was too big. , blocking the growth of many surrounding plants.”
Indeed, nature is about the law of the jungle, not only for animals, but also for plants.
Large trees will have deeper roots, and their crowns will grow taller and spread out in all directions because they want to absorb more sunlight, so of course the plants around them will not receive sunlight.
But it would be a pity to cut down such a big tree...
Chen Xing only felt it was a pity, but Zhu Li felt angry. She hammered the tree trunk several times in Chen If the tree is cut down, where will the elves live?”
"Elves?"
"It's the elf in our Nordic legends. The kind of elf that turns into a girl during the festival and spends the festival with us, goes shopping, and returns to the forest at night."
Chen Xing touched his chin with his hand like a detective.
Are you talking about yourself?
"So? You want to find the elf."
"No, as long as I live here, they won't come to chop down this tree." She said, feeling a little proud and shaking her feet, "Aside from being a little boring, living in a tree feels surprisingly good. , listening to the chirping of birds makes you sleep more soundly, really, you can try it.”
Chen Xing raised his head and shuddered when he looked at the 'treehouse' that looked very small due to the distance.
"No, no, no."
Only then did he see the girl's eyes narrowed into a straight line, revealing a relaxed and happy atmosphere, full of humor.
You're kidding.
But then Chen Xing realized what a terrifying thing Zhu Li was talking about in her relaxed tone. In order to prevent others from cutting down the tree, she had been living in this tree for a long time, and Will continue to live like this.
Unless the local government withdraws its order to cut down the trees.
She acted as a referee in a tug-of-war with a regional government.
Chen Xing looked up again to see where she lived, and then looked at her with a very deep and serious expression for a long time, which made Zhu Li's face turn red, and then asked:
"You are really awesome. How long have you lived here?"
"Almost...a year." She answered in a deep voice.
The atmosphere gradually became serious, and it looked like we were chatting to death.
But Chen Xing suddenly thought of a question and looked towards the ground under the tree. Zhu Li found that her face turned pale for a moment, and then turned red again. It was very interesting. She resisted this moment and pushed Chen Xing down. Impulsively, he asked: "What about you? Why did you come here?"
"Hiking."
"This is not a place for hiking. Are you lying to me?"
"No, I came here with a Dane who came here to look for meteorites. He was still looking for meteorites in the forest, but I wanted to leave, so I just walked towards the city, that's it."
Julie thought about the scenes she saw a few days ago and said with fascination: "Looking for meteorites? There was indeed a meteor shower two days ago. It was very beautiful. Then I believe you."
Chen Xing smiled, took the camera off his neck, opened the photo album and said.
"I also took a lot of photos, let's show them to you."
"Um……"
Julie agreed simply and happily.
In fact, she has a mobile phone and computer, a battery in the tree house, and a solar charging panel on the canopy. She can usually see things and scenes in the outside world, but she is just enjoying the moment of communicating with people.
Especially when this person shared it with me.
Julie was happy to share this.
(End of chapter)
