You rode the truck without buying a ticket, and walked twenty kilometres along the loess road that wound through the gullies and ridges. With only a bit of watermelon and some unripe jujubes to eat, you came as if driven by fate to swim this river.

• 你不买票扒了车，走了四十里沟壑梁峁的黄土路，只吃了些西瓜和青涩的河畔枣，命催着似的跑到这儿来游黄河。