Until noon, Feng Shui Zhou just found an open meadow to rest on the suggestion of Boss Mi. Gao Maocai couldn't wait to direct Lin Hui and Liang Hu to spread out the plastic sheet and take Feng Jinhua to sit on it. We also put down our backpacks and each took out

They found dry food and sat down to eat in the shade of a tree. The horse team happily ate the plump and tender grass that was nourished by the clear springs in the mountains within the sight of Boss Mi.

This was our first picnic since we set out. Although we ate dry compressed biscuits, we breathed in the unique fresh air outdoors, watched the majestic mountains in the distance, and sat on the ground beside the green grass with the mountains as our backs.

Occasionally, I heard the cries of birds and the crow of pheasants, and I actually felt that my five senses were nourished to varying degrees. When I took a sip of sweet spring water, the compressed biscuits in my mouth seemed to have a faint sweet taste.

I was expressing my petty bourgeoisie complex of escaping from the hustle and bustle of the city and returning to nature. Suddenly I heard Axia calling me. He Erduo came to her side. It turned out that she found that among the green grass under the sun, there was a coquettish wild rhododendron growing alone. The red

The red flower branches bloom provocatively, looking so out of place with the rich green surrounding them.

Seeing this, he naturally wanted to take it off and give it to Axia. He was happy to show his courtesy. He stepped forward and was about to extend his hand, but was stopped by Boss Mi, who was leading the leading horse back to the meadow. He waved in panic.

We went over, sat around him, pointed at the solitary wild rhododendron branch that was gradually submerged in the grass, took a puff of dry tobacco, and told us something that he personally experienced when he was a child:

That was when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. At that time, he stayed with his mother in his hometown on the hilltop next door, cultivating the fields left by his ancestors. Since he had to help his mother go up the mountain to cut firewood and burn charcoal to sell every day, that was it.

, he got acquainted with Qiu Yan, a shepherd girl who was two years younger than him and also lived in an old house on the mountain. The two often met in the meadows on the mountain and became familiar with each other as soon as they went back and forth. Qiu Yan talked a lot, and she pestered him every day.

Boss Mi said this and that about firewood, and both of them were very happy. However, gradually, Boss Mi picked up less and less good firewood, which made him almost scolded by his mother when he returned home. Finally one day he

I had a quarrel with Qiu Yan and yelled at her: You herd sheep and I chop wood. You let me chat with you every day. Your sheep are getting fatter and fatter. Where is my wood? I chop wood.

How much? Qiu Yan was stunned, stood there for a long time, and then left in despair. Later, she became introverted. She occasionally met Boss Mi, but ignored him, and herded sheep and walked further and further away by herself.

Later, when Mr. Mi was chopping firewood, he watched the dull Qiuyan from a distance chasing the grazing sheep into a field of red wild rhododendrons. They were blooming brightly under the sun, which was very eye-catching. Under the blue sky, white clouds and green mountains,

Against the background of green grass, there is an inexplicable beauty. After cutting the firewood, Boss Mi didn't see her when he was about to go home. He only saw the sheep still eating young grass leisurely. He thought she was just having fun.

He ignored her and went home. However, when he was going to cut firewood the next day, he passed by Qiu Yan's house and heard that Qiu Yan's sheep had gone back by themselves in the morning, and none of them were missing. However, Qiu Yan did not go home.

His family searched for several days without finding anything. Qiuyan's mother, who happened to be pregnant, gave birth to another son, so his father simply stopped looking, and the matter was left unsolved. However, later, when Boss Mi was chopping firewood, he could not find anything.

He did not dare to approach the beautiful wild rhododendron land. Later, during the Chinese New Year, he followed his father to the Daheishan Horse Racing Club and met the wife of the Miao Village. Later, he settled in Fu County, which is relatively close to the Miao Village.

He has never returned to his hometown. However, every time he walked through those fertile meadows, he would still think of the unhappy face of the resentful Qiu Yan, and he could not forget her dejected approach to the wild rhododendron field.

One scene.

When I heard this, I couldn't help but interject: "Then Qiu Yan obviously likes you! How can a girl hate you and always pester you to talk? You really owe her." After saying these few words, her expression seemed a little bit straight.

The guilty boss Mi became more and more embarrassed. He took a long puff of dry smoke dejectedly, and silently led the horse away in response to Feng Shui Zhou's call. But his ears were still sitting there, foaming at the mouth and continuing to talk nonsense: Maybe the flower just now

The lonely wild cuckoos blooming alone are the result of his sweetheart Qiu Yan. Who knows that this little old man is still so confused at his age. If there is any girl in the world who clings to me like that, I will not care about him in the world.

He would treat her badly, he said, and glanced at Axia without even looking at him... I saw that he was getting more and more outrageous as he spoke, so I quickly stood up and pushed him, urging him to pick up his bag and hit the road.

After the team passed through a black pine forest that blocked the sky, the changes in the surrounding vegetation accelerated significantly. From broad-leaf to coniferous to grass-leaf, there were so many types that I couldn't recognize them. I have loved outdoor sports since I was a child.

, I also knew some common wild plants, but I still felt that the surrounding vegetation was changing too fast, and it was a bit dizzying. I took a chance to rest and asked Boss Mi what was going on. Boss Mi leaned against a spotted ancient pine and said: My father has grown up with this tree since he was a child.

I was introduced to it, and it’s called Wuli Song. This place, as its name suggests, is called Wuli Different Sky. It has two meanings. One refers to the long trees, which look different along the way; the other means, it refers to the weather.

While I was talking, I also felt that the rays of sunlight leaking through the cracks in the trees were getting weaker and weaker, and the sky became much dimmer with the cold wind.

We quickly followed Boss Mi to a large stone that looked like an arch bridge. The stone was like a natural cover, and fortunately it was big enough for ten people to squeeze under. Boss Mi smelled the air and quickly asked a few of us young people to help him load the goods on the horse team.

I unloaded it and put it under the stone. As soon as I put the last load on my ears, the heavy rain started falling. The cold wind made me shiver, so I quickly took out the windproof jacket from my backpack and put it on outside. Boss Mi

The horses were miserable. The six good horses had to take a cold bath obediently. The heavy rain was also mixed with some hailstones, which beat the horses to pain from time to time. The neighing sounds were instantly overturned by the pounding rain.

The sound is drowned out.

Fortunately, the rain only lasted for more than ten minutes. After a while, the raindrops became much smaller. After another pack of cigarettes, there were only raindrops falling from the trees from time to time and accumulated on the leaves, and mottled raindrops began to fall from the cracks in the trees.

The sun and the air also warmed up in the rising water vapor. This is called "mountain rain". Seeing that I was still sighing, Axia explained it to me with great interest as she walked. At the same time, she also explained that inside

In land mountainous areas, places where sudden huge vertical changes in altitude occur, such as a high mountain in the center of a basin, can easily lead to step-like changes in surrounding phenology, which can then present subtropical, temperate, cold temperate, frigid and other conditions in the limited surrounding area.

The climate characteristics allow the vegetation to adapt to changes in temperature and humidity, and grow moisture-loving plants that can only grow in tropical or even Mediterranean climates. And on high-altitude ridges and mountain tops, there are also mosses from the cold zone.

.In turn, this diverse vegetation environment can gradually affect the internal atmospheric water circulation of the mountain environment, so the weather will become more complex and changeable... When I heard Axia's explanation, it was very detailed, but the professional terminology became more and more complicated.

The more I read, the more I felt like I was running out of brains, so I had to respond awkwardly. Fortunately, Uncle Okawa seemed to appreciate Axia's rich geographical and phenological knowledge and practical inspection experience, and from time to time he raised some interesting questions, such as exploring the wild fungi in this situation.

Regarding the growing areas and harvesting seasons of medicinal materials, I humbly asked Axia, who had solid basic skills and outstanding analytical skills, to free me from teacher Axia's erudite and active geography class.

Later, as the fir forest gradually became sparse and faded, the bryophytes that Axia had predicted appeared on the ridge ahead. The tall trees along the way had disappeared, and occasionally there were a few low shrubs that were covered with snow and grew wilted.

.Inadvertently, we followed the caravan across the snow line. Gao Maocai and others in front stopped and followed Uncle Dachuan to check. It turned out that Liang Hu and Zhang Yan found some animal excrement and some plum blossom-shaped footprints. Dachuan

The uncle broke a wooden stick to separate the excrement and found some undigested fur. He also measured the claw marks at the tip of the footprints with his hand and concluded that it was wolf excrement. When Lin Hui heard this, she quickly grabbed Gao Maocai's arm.

The deputy also panicked and decided to move the team more compactly. At the same time, he asked Feng Jinhua and Lin Hui to gather in the middle of the team with him, and asked Liang Hu and Zhang Yan to follow Feng Shui Zhou and Boss Mi in the front, while Uncle Dachuan and we were pulled behind to hold down the formation.

I was also a little scared, so I couldn't help but ask Uncle Dachuan whether the wolves on the snow line were ferocious. Uncle Dachuan smiled and said to me, they are definitely not as ferocious as those in the old woods. Those who step on the snow line are just looking for animals that freeze to death.

There is nothing to be afraid of if you eat corpses. As he said that, he broke off a strong and straight shrub branch and handed it to me and Axia respectively along with the one in his hand. I felt a little relieved, but Gao Mao in front was only a few people.

They were all huddled together, looking left and right at the same pace, hurriedly hurrying on their way.

As we walked, there was more and more snow along the way, and the weather was getting better and better. Even the shrubs could no longer be seen around us. Only some dark green moss was sparsely stretched on the occasionally exposed dark soil and rocks. Gao Maocai

Several people, including Liang Hu and Zhang Yan, including Er Er, had been left behind by us unknowingly. I saw Feng Shui Zhou pointing in front of me, who stopped to take a breath. I looked up in the direction of his hand, and sure enough I saw something in the distance.

At the foot of the rocky slope at the top of the mountain, the small flag on the tip of the microwave station signal tower stretched and twitched in the cold wind.

I was excited in my heart. Suddenly, I felt a panic when I stepped out. My head felt dizzy and I almost stumbled. After being held steady by Uncle Dachuan, I felt a little used to it. Needless to say, I studied medicine.

I naturally reacted. This is what we often call altitude sickness. No wonder they staggered a little at the beginning. It turned out that each of them had already encountered their own critical point. I calmed down, looked back and forth, and saw a group of people.

Except for Uncle Dachuan who was calm and composed, Axia with slightly red cheeks, and Boss Mi who often climbed this caravan road, all of them were a little depressed. I had to quickly take out a small bag of American ginseng lozenges from the medicine box and give them to myself

I took two tablets in my mouth first, then handed five tablets to Axia, giving her, Uncle Dachuan, and Boss Mi one tablet each. The remaining two tablets were distributed to Feng Shui Zhou. After explaining, I turned around and walked twenty or thirty meters behind.

The people who were pulled out and gasping for breath walked over and fed two pills to their ears first, and then distributed two pills to each of the others in turn.

After resting for a while, we all walked up to the top together. After walking a few steps, we heard loud shouting in our ears. We followed his fingers and saw that deep in the snowfield and sea of ​​clouds on the other side of the mountain ridge, the mist dispersed as the clouds opened.

Two rings of colored halo appeared together, and then they seemed to spread out into four rings of seven colors, blooming with bursts of comfortable and soft light, just like the halo on the top of the Bodhisattva in the mural of the Inspiration Temple... I am still amazed,

But I was interrupted by the sound of several people around me taking pictures with their mobile phones. When I came back to my senses, I hurriedly took out my mobile phone to take a few pictures. However, the halo had faded by this time and I only took one or two afterimages.

"Buddha's light! Buddha's light!" "It's really Buddha's light!" Gao Maocai and Feng Jinhua looked back at the scene they had just taken and looked very excited. From time to time they revealed the bracelets of consecrated Buddhist beads on their hands. They were both good men and women, and they saw it.

The auspicious image could not help but show a determined look. When I heard that it was a good omen, I quickly looked at Feng Shui Zhou in front of me. He and Uncle Dachuan were talking about something.
Chapter completed!