Chapter 217, Manchuria
There were a large number of windmills on the way to Hulun Lake, which made the most of the year-round winds in this area, and Ye Kai had to close the windows of the car.
Because it is a large plain, Ye Kai can see many different celestial phenomena in the sky at this time.
At the farthest distance, there will definitely be a torrential rain and showers within half an hour.
The sky to the left is persistently clear and breezy and looks like it should be comfortable. And the road I am driving on now is constantly windy, and it will continue to be so for the rest of the year.
Ye Kai's eyesight can see farther away on this empty grassland, and it is simply a humanoid grassland weather forecaster.
"I saw the lake. Ye Kai said suddenly.
Meng Ke glanced into the distance, and couldn't see anything except the grassland, but he also said: "It's almost there, it is estimated that you can reach Hulun Lake in about ten minutes." ”
Hulun Lake is located in the hinterland of the Hulunbuir prairie and is known as the "pearl of the grassland" and "the kidney of the grassland".
His Mongolian name was Dalai Lake, which means sea-like lake.
The road gradually became not so easy to walk, but they could already see the blue waves of the Hulun River from the heights, and there was a section of the river bank that derived into the Hulun Lake in a triangular shape, like a wolf's head.
Munch said, "This is the Khan's tethered stake." ”
Ye Kai was a little curious and asked, "Genghis Khan, what is he doing here?" ”
"This is a legend, my grandmother told me, and I don't remember well, I heard that it was the Khan's growing power that caused the dissatisfaction of the surrounding tribes, and united other tribes to raid the Khan.
The Khan rushed to meet the enemy, rushing to kill, but still unable to win. He had no choice but to order a retreat to the rich pasture of the fishing Haizi, which is now the tethered horse pile, and set up camp here. ”
"But why should it be called a hitching stake? ”
There are too many such places in Huaxia, what is the place of Cao Cao's troops, the land of Zhuge Liang's troops, and the bigwigs who have been stationed for thousands of years can hold a football match below.
And there are even more members on the bench playing field.
"There is a stone stake below, and legend has it that the Khan tied his horse to it, and every morning, the Khan stood on the top of the hill and looked out over the northern steppe, plotting a plan to unify the steppe.
At this time, the eight horses that had been on the battlefield for a long time could not bear the leisurely loneliness, and they all raised their manes and hooves, and for a long time, the reins of the horses were strangled out of the lines......
"Understood. ”
As a legend, the authenticity of this incident needs to be verified, but in the eyes of the grassland people, perhaps these things are true stories.
You can hear it from Munch's mouthful of a khan.
The road is getting harder and harder, and the original asphalt road has become a dirt road before you know it, but this section of the road has been traversed by many vehicles, and now it has become unruly.
A faint trace of the presence of the road can be seen.
Is this how you go? Ye Kai was a little skeptical.
Munch scratched his head and said, "It's been a long time since I last came here, and the road must have been right, but it wasn't so bad back then. ”
After walking for a while, the road conditions were too bad, Ye Kai lost confidence a little and wanted to go directly to Manchuria.
At this time, I came across an oncoming jeep, and Yanjing's photo should also be a tourist here. Ye Kai lowered the window and asked, "Dude, how far is this road?"
"It's not far off. This Yanjing brother was extremely enthusiastic and said, "After walking this way, it is a good road! Don't go back, it's not easy to come here, it's a pity not to take a look." ”
He's right, too.
So I regained my confidence and continued on this dirt road.
May in Inner Mongolia is really cold, and May in the mainland is two different concepts, compared to Tibet. The mud on the road was still frozen, and the car clicked as soon as it started.
It may have rained last night or before, and you can see some small water stalls on the side of the road.
But at this time, they were all frozen and became blocks of ice. The sun wasn't scorching, and it looked like it would take a few hours for the ice to thaw.
Sure enough, soon the road came to an end, and there was an endless asphalt road ahead, and along this road you soon reached the lake, which can be called a sandy beach.
On the stone tablet made of several pieces of rubble, three words are written on the word Dalai Lake.
This grassland pearl is not as clear and bright as Ye Kai thought, although it is also called a lake, but compared with West Lake, it is basically two concepts.
Ye Kai felt that compared to the word lake, Hulun Lake was more like a sea.
The wind from the grassland makes the lake water rush up to the riverbank, just like the waves on the seaside, except that they don't rise a few meters high.
The water of the lake is not blue, although it is clear, but it shows a very sharp temperament.
Ye Kai looked at this river and said, "Is this one side of the water and soil raising one side of the people?"
The West Lake has attracted so many literati and artists, the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the blue waves and pavilions, the broken bridge and the remnants of the snow, which are beautiful. Hulun Lake, located in Inner Mongolia, has nurtured the grassland peoples of the jungle.
If you don't know the size of Hulun Lake until you reach the lake, you can't see the edge at a glance.
Walking to the river, Ye Kai touched the lake water with his hand, the temperature was very low, similar to the temperature of glacier water in Tibet, but Tibet was living water and could be drunk directly.
Ye Kai's feet are a stone, the waves keep fluttering on this stone, and the Hulun Lake under the sun is sparkling, which is really like the sea.
In fact, tourists come to visit here, and the most famous attraction is a place called Golden Beach.
Why is it famous?
Because if you want to see Hulun Lake, the final location given to you on the navigation is Golden Beach, if you don't have the intention to look for it, you won't be able to find this Genghis Khan tied to the horse stake.
So there are not many tourists here, but the scenery is the same, with meadows, lakes, rocks, water birds, etc.
Ye Kai found a perspective and photographed Hulun Lake.
Under the close-up shooting, no one will think that this is a lake, and in the inland lake, whoever sees Ye Kai's picture will think that it was taken by the sea.
Seeing Hulun Lake, Ye Kai found that he still preferred the grassland.
On the way to Hulun Lake, the water and grass are fertile, there are herds of cattle and sheep, and there are countless wind turbines on the grassland as far as the eye can see.
Green has always been a very pleasing color, but in recent years, the vocabulary on the Internet has made Chinese people taboo about the word green, and the green of the Hulunbuir prairie seems to have changed its meaning.
I don't know what these herders living in the Hulunbuir grassland will think.
After strolling around Hulun Lake for an hour, Ye Kai took a picnic cloth from the car, beckoned Meng Ke and said, "Come on, come and eat something together." ”
There was everything in the car, even gas canisters could be found.
This is what Ye Kai bought in case of emergency, it is very small, it is estimated that it can only be used for one or two meals at most, and it will burn for an hour to reach the sky, but it has not been used so far.
Fortunately, the snacks Ye Kai bought had a lot of bread, enough for Ye Kai to eat alone for two or three days.
At twelve o'clock, the two set off again and headed for Manzhouli, a city 88 kilometers away from Hulun Lake, except for a very poor section of Hulun Lake, the other roads are asphalt roads.
It is estimated that it will take about two hours to drive.
It is said that the sky corresponds to the earth, and what kind of earth there is has is what kind of sky.
Ye Kai likes the sky in Tibet very much, but the sky of the grassland is no worse than that in Tibet, and when he returned to the grassland after bidding farewell to the fierce Hulun River, Ye Kai seemed to hear the song of the grassland again.
The songs of the grassland sound the same taste, everyone calls this style the grassland style, but listen carefully and taste carefully, will you hear the heroic sense of the grassland songs in the songs of the mainland?
Out of the framework of love and love, most of the songs of the steppe wind express the love of the Mongolians for the steppe. And it sings affectionately, without any sense of disobedience.
You want to say that Ye Kai likes Rongcheng, and let Ye Kai write a song about his love for Rongcheng.
If you want to write something else, write about the commercial streets of Rongcheng, write about the subway, dance halls, and bars in Chengdu......
Where are these things gone?
So it's really hard to write a song that loves your birthplace.
Two hours later, Manchuria arrived.
The architecture here is very exotic, even if Ye Kai is very familiar with the architectural styles of various places, Ye Kai can't talk about what the buildings here are.
Good at using a variety of colors, a third of the roof is colorful, and it is a European-style spire. But if you look down, why is it a bit of Russian architecture?
China, Mongolia, Russia, Europe.
The blend of several architectural styles has become the most unique flavor of this border city, and the streets are full of plaques and advertisements written in Russian and Chinese, making people think they have gone abroad.
Ye Kai parked his car in a parking lot and walked down the street with Munch.
"It's incredible that there are such cities in China. Ye Kai whispered to Meng Ke.
Walking on the streets of Manchuria, for a moment Ye Kai thought that he was walking on the streets of Europe, and the pedestrians on the street looked very different from those from the mainlanders of China.
In fact, many of them are Chinese, just mixed-race.
It looks like a blonde foreigner, but maybe someone else speaks Mandarin that is more standard than you, or a standard Mongolian 'Mandarin'.
There is an illusion that people with black hair and black eyes are all Asian tourists.
The most on the street are all kinds of mutton restaurants, smelling the fragrance wafting out, Ye Kai wants to go in and taste it.
I had a snack before, and it wasn't a meal.
As we all know, snacks can't be eaten as meals, so after three hours, and still driving, Ye Kai's stomach is protesting to the brain.
Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry......
Ye Kai's throat rolled, and he suddenly felt that his mouth was dry, and he said, "Why don't we try the mutton restaurant here?" I want to see what is the difference between the mutton here and the one in the mainland city. ”
Meng Ke was a little surprised why Ye Kai wanted to eat again, obviously he had eaten bread not long ago.
But he looked at the restaurant and said, "I have a few friends in Manchuria, and we can go and eat fresh mutton, these places must be very expensive, after all, tourist cities." ”
Manchuria is really an iconic city in Mongolia, too many people will come to Manchuria to experience the exotic customs in the country after visiting the steppe.
"It doesn't affect the ......," Ye Kai said, enthusiastically putting Meng Ke into the hot pot restaurant on the side.
I don't know why, when I see the food street, I always want to find a restaurant that is pleasing to the eye to taste, and if I go away, I always feel like I have lost something.
It's much warmer inside the hot pot restaurant than outside.
As soon as you come in, you can see that someone else's hot pot is rising mist, and the hot pot is different from Rongcheng's, like Yanjing's shabu mutton, with a total of two layers, the upper layer of red oil, and the lower layer of clear soup.
It was the first time Ye Kai had seen such a two-layer hot pot.
In fact, there is a chimney hot pot, and Ye Kai has eaten it for the first time.
It's not a formal meal time, there are still relatively few people here, Ye Kai found a location facing the street, and he really likes to see the scenery outside the window when eating.
There weren't many dishes ordered, but they were all what Ye Kai wanted to taste. There is still one meal in the evening, so you can't eat too much at this time.
Ten minutes later, mist began to emanate from their pots, and they suddenly felt a strong enthusiasm, this kind of double-layer hot pot always felt more domineering than the traditional hot pot in the mountain city of Rongcheng.
The mountain mushrooms here taste good, the mutton is thinly sliced, and you can eat it by dipping it in a hot pot, and the taste of the bottom of the red oil pot is actually Sichuan Province hot pot.
But the clear soup is the taste of northern hot pot, although Ye Kai has never eaten it, but it is very fragrant.
In addition to the must-order mutton slices, Ye Kai also ordered Indian flying cakes and lamb skewers, which are both delicious, but it is a big pity that the stomach cannot be archived, and when you are full, you are full.
When he put down the chopsticks, Ye Kai was about seven or eight minutes full, and he was a little unsatisfied, it would be better if there were more people, and when the time came, he ordered a few bottles of wine, and after eating and drinking, it was called a comfortable.
Munch doesn't care so much, he eats at night at night, and since he is on the table, he must be full. So I solved a lot of food that Ye Kai ordered.
After everyone had eaten and drunk, Ye Kai asked, "Didn't you say you were going to show me the lyrics when you left?"
"Oh yes!" he wiped his mouth, took out his mobile phone and clicked on the memo, and handed it to Ye Kai, "There are only lyrics, which were written when I first came to the grassland, but after so many years, I wrote countless tunes, and I was not satisfied." ”
Ye Kai was the first person he met who really knew music.
Many people who write songs are full of enthusiasm to write songs, and they think it is good, but in fact, newcomers have little appreciation for the songs they write.
I may think it's very good, better than a lot of songs.
But when you show it to many musicians, there will be a lot of mistakes, and the lyrics are the same. Ye Kai originally thought that Munch's song was similar.
But when Ye Kai saw the lyrics, he felt ......
It's not lyrics, it's a poem, a modern poem.
"It's well written, you really haven't been to college?"
"I really haven't read it, and I don't think writing about it really has much to do with academic qualifications. Munch said.
"Definitely. ”
Ye Kai watched it three times, and finally said: "Can you give me this song first?" I can't write a tune for a while. ”
Ye Kai is not very familiar with grassland songs, and he will have to study them carefully after he goes back.
I thought it was a very simple task that could be solved in a few minutes, but this word was written so that Ye Kai had to be cautious.
Meng Ke was relieved and said, "Great, Brother Ye, if there is any benefit from this song in the future, I will give it all to you." ”
"If you don't use this, you can't make money writing music in the music industry. ”