Chapter 261: The Grassland Festival and Horse Racing
When Song You awoke from his nap, he found seven or eight small fish neatly lined up beside him. Lady Calico was soaking wet, sprawled out on the grass in the sunlight, fast asleep.
The world remained vast and open. The jujube-red horse had returned as well, now standing in the shade of the tree, peacefully grazing.
“...”
Song You let out a long breath, unhurriedly getting up to clean all the fish. Hearing the noise, Lady Calico lifted her head, glanced at him a few times, then rolled over and went back to sleep.
Dinner that evening was grilled fish and roasted groundhog.
They fell asleep beneath the starry sky.
His clothes, dried in the sun all day and blown by the wind through the night, were fully dry by the next morning. Only then did the trio—one man, one cat, and one horse—resume their journey.
They traveled through the vast grasslands.
In Yanzhou, where the land was wide and the population sparse, walking alone in such an expansive world could indeed evoke a sense of solitude. But once that feeling was accepted, it became nothing to fear. Instead, it brought a profound sense of inner peace and openness, as vast as the land itself.