13. Dripping water into ice
The temperature at the top of the mountain was so low that I was shivering even though I had put on a rented military coat from the bottom of the mountain before I took the cable car. The sunset gradually fell, and when night fell, Lele hid in the room early, but I was still standing alone on the open-air platform in front of Guangming Ding Villa, looking down at the layers of pine sea under the platform, and the undulating mountains in the distance, feeling an indescribable tranquility with my heart.
The temperature dropped and I ran around the platform several times, but I still couldn't resist the biting cold, so I had no choice but to run back to the villa step by step. The accommodation conditions on the mountain are really not ordinarily poor, and the small room is crowded with four iron beds with bunk beds, as if we have returned to the time of military training. In the simple bathroom, there is only one squat toilet, there is no hot water, and the only faucet is also frozen by the cold air, and not a drop of water can flow for half a day.
There was no entertainment on the mountain, and after a tired dinner in the restaurant, everyone gathered in the hall bored and listened to a few old travelers talk about their true and false stories. Maybe it was because the day's work was too hard, and it was only after 8 o'clock that I began to feel faintly sleepy.
Back in the room, Haozi got a pot of hot water from somewhere. Ladies came first, and everyone took turns soaking their feet in hot water, and the previous fatigue was suddenly alleviated a lot. Turning over the quilt, a wave of moisture accompanied by a thick chill rushed to the face.
"How do you sleep here!" Lele couldn't help frowning.
"It's just one night, make do. I pouted helplessly.
In order to take the lead for Lele, I didn't bother to take off my clothes and climbed to the top bunk and got into the wet and cold quilt.
Tossing and turning, it was so cold that I couldn't sleep, I had to jump out of bed, and pulled out a pair of woolen pants from Lele's backpack, regardless of whether the size was appropriate or not, I put it on my body after dividing it by two, but it was still very cold.
I slept in a daze until the second half of the night, and suddenly felt that there was an extra person beside me, and I opened my eyes in shock to see that it was Lele. Lele is like a loach, burying his head and desperately burrowing into my body.
I suddenly thought of something, and quickly removed Lele's hand from me, then jumped out of bed again and carried the quilt on the lower bunk. The two quilts covered the body, and it suddenly warmed up a lot......
It was reported that the time of sunrise today was 6:19.
Because the weather was too cold and the room was full of people who didn't know each other, they slept with the lights on all night. I didn't sleep well, so I woke up quickly naturally, but fortunately, my spirit was pretty good. Lele was still asleep, so I quietly got out of the bed and carefully stepped over her to get out of bed. I opened the door and walked to the corridor, and suddenly remembered that the tour guide said last night that the clouds were too thick, and I might not be able to see the sunrise today, so I hurriedly pushed the window to take a look, and actually saw the moon hanging high in the sky, and the luck was really irresistible.
By the time I walked around and got back to my room, everyone was already up and everyone was waiting to go to the bathroom. At the top of the mountain in the early morning, even the air was cold and cold, and everyone didn't want to talk, and the whole room was dead silent. I hurriedly packed my luggage and wanted to brush my teeth with mineral water, but I found that the bottle of mineral water had long been frozen into ice, but I had no choice but to brush it on the spot.
I finally solved the washing problem and wanted to eat something, but I found that all the food I could eat was eaten by Haozi and his wife in the middle of the night, but fortunately I wasn't very hungry. After tossing for a long time, the time was almost up, and after gathering in the hall, the tour guide took us out of the gate of the villa.
As soon as I got out of the villa, I found that the mountains were already full of people, and those tourists who lived at the bottom of the mountain also flocked to the top of the mountain. Following the flow of people all the way to the observation deck not far from the villa, there is only a crumbling railing in front of you, and there is a cliff less than 100 meters outside the railing......
Just like the tour guide said, other places are taking a step back and opening the sky, but here a step back is nowhere to be seen. Although the people in front kept shouting: "Don't push the back anymore!" But at this time, people still cared about this, and they still squeezed forward vigorously. It seems that the person who designed this guardrail was really prescient, if it were not for the buffer zone of dozens of meters in front of the guardrail, it is estimated that many people would have been squeezed off the cliff by now.
Soon, many tourists who could not bear the crowd boldly climbed over the guardrail and walked out, although the staff kept shouting loudly to stop them with loudspeakers in the back, they still climbed to a high hill in front of the observation deck in twos and threes, and roared towards the magnificent sea of clouds in front of them.
Haozi and Xiaofei didn't know where they were squeezed by the crowd, but fortunately, I had been pulling Lele just now, so the two of us didn't get separated. I desperately squeezed a gap for Lele to come to me, and then lifted her up to the guardrail and held her firmly from behind. It's safe, it's also warm.
As soon as the location was chosen, the deep blue and purple in the sky gradually began to be unable to suppress the faint orange. The black silhouette of the tourists on the hill in front reflects the dawn of dawn, giving people a magnificent beauty that words cannot describe. Looking back again, I saw the light of the camera LCD screen everywhere, everyone was sucking the nose that was red from the cold, or holding the hair that was blown by the wind, but the fingers did not dare to leave the camera shutter half a step, everyone was waiting reverently at the moment, for fear that if they were not careful, they would miss the moment of sunrise.
The do-gooders also took the opportunity to make a joke, and from time to time they let out a burst of cheers, which made everyone startled......
After waiting for a while, the sun finally showed its head little by little. At first, it was just a blush of sky, and then it slowly changed to the shape of a baked cake, and then from a baked cake to half an egg yolk, and then a whole egg yolk.
Lele screamed excitedly in my arms, completely devoid of the usual ladylike appearance. I let go of Lele and quickly squeezed a few steps back, capturing this unforgettable memory as quickly as I could.
It can be seen that everyone's interest is very high, after all, a new day and a new beginning.
After watching the sunrise and having breakfast, we began to descend the mountain, and on the way, we also passed the "Flying Stone" in the Dream of Red Mansions. As the saying goes, it's easier to go up than down, and the tour guide strongly recommends that everyone take the ropeway down the mountain, but at the instigation of Lele and Haozi, we still chose to walk down the mountain. The four of them ran wildly all the way, as if they had forgotten their fatigue.
The consequence of running down the mountain was to sit on the bus, and our legs were still shaking desperately.
In the afternoon, it was free time, and Haozi and I were dragged by two beauties around the ancient streets of Huangshan with a strong Huizhou atmosphere, and then almost crawled to the train station. After the tour guide put everyone on the train, the original lively carriage suddenly fell silent, everyone was tired enough, and there was no passion when they first came, and they were lazily lying on their bunks for a long time and did not want to get up.
At 18:30, the train slowly drove out of Huangshan Station......