Chapter 2 micro dots on the map

A few years ago, I returned to my hometown Hunan and moved to a mountain village in the countryside.This is the junction of the two counties, located at about 113.5 degrees east longitude and about 29 degrees north latitude.The Dongting Lake Plain stretches to this point, and is suddenly blocked by high mountains.Mufu Mountain, Lianyun Mountain, Wufeng Mountain and other mountains rise up from the ground, forming the northern gateway of the mountains in eastern Hunan.They are like a sea of ​​clouds and fog in front of the steep banks in the aerial photography, raising a steel blue sky. The mountains rise from here, undulating and churning towards the south, pulling out the Wugong Mountains and Luoxiao Mountains, and finally subside in the unreachable northern Guangdong.I once found a map with a larger scale than the first one, like an airborne soldier quickly lowering the altitude, whirring to see the land more and more clearly, but in the end I still couldn't see my village.Only then did I realize that the village is too small, and people have no place or trace.Happiness or pain, memory or forgetting, achievement or regret, which usually seem enormous, once entered the coordinates of longitude and latitude, and once placed under the gaze of a high-altitude bird's-eye view, there will be no trace among the silent mountains and rivers—— It seems like it never happened and never will.

The vast landscape is always calming.