Chapter 796: The Road of Bones in the Eyes of the Old Driver
What country does the world's animal rights defenders hate the most? I'm afraid the answer is Tsarist Russia. There are 'three things' in the life of the Tsarists: the house, the car, and the fur coat.
The world's largest fur consumer is Tsarist Russia, the total value of fur imported from Han alone is more than 2 billion yuan every year, and more than ninety percent of Han farmers are exported to Tsarist Russia. In Tsarist fur clothing is always the protagonist of the wardrobe!
Yang Meng also likes animals, but he is definitely not the kind of animal protector without brains.
If nothing else, let's talk about the Far East: cases of animal attacks are endless. In the news, only people beating bears show the fierceness of the Tsarist Russians, but there are countless people who have been bitten and killed by fierce beasts!
The pillar industry of Ust-Kut is the timber processing industry, which requires a lot of deforestation. It stands to reason that all beasts should flee for their lives in such a place, but Valery's two Siberian wolves ran to their house to forage for food and were caught by him!
How dangerous is that?
Some say that this is because humans have taken over the habitat of animals.
That's right, it's certainly true!
But the people who say this sentence must not live in a living environment where they coexist with animals, they are the kind that do not have backache when they stand and talk------ if you have wolves, bears, and the like to 'visit the door' every day, can you bear it? This kind of animal protection is called 'cloud protection'. Think about things from the perspective of the person concerned!
If you try to protect Valery from the Siberian wolf? He can slap you in the face with a big mouth!
In the eyes of many people, animal protection is to enclose a piece of land, people don't go in, and let animals live in it, but in fact this is all nonsense! If animal protection is really that simple, then there are no extinct animals in the world! Environment, climate, the living habits of the animals themselves, the local ecological chain, and so on must be counted in it
Even at the National Animal Protection Conference, there are so-called 'experts' who say like 'blue peacocks can be domesticated, why can't green peacocks be domesticated'.
How can domestication be so easy? The domestication of an animal can only be done after tens of thousands of years of history!
To give a simple example: there are about 52 species of cervids in the world, including the muntjac subfamily and the roe deer, but today no cervid can be domesticated except for reindeer!
What? You say that sika deer are also bred in captivity? Now there are so many sika deer farms?
Please, artificial breeding does not mean domestication! Don't you see that the sika deer are now classified into the 'game' and are not allowed to eat?
Tsarist Russians have a very extreme personality, strangers are generally cold, and there is no smile on their faces, but if they are open to your trust, it is called a passion.
So what do you think of their enthusiasm?
The vodka was brought up, not to mention, Valery also called his eldest daughter and son-in-law, who worked in Ust-Kut, back as translators!
He had two daughters, the eldest of whom married to Ust-Kut and was an accountant in a timber processing factory, and the younger was a tourist in Manchuria in Han China, where she worked as a guide translator and guide for Russian tourists.
There were even more Russians in Manchuria than there were Han Chinese, and a large number of Russians went there every day for sightseeing and shopping. The signs of the local shops are all in Chinese and Tsarist Russian. This Valery should not look like a mechanic now, but it turns out that he is really an intellectual, otherwise he would not have worked in an aircraft factory! In the early 90s, he went to the Han Kingdom, and although the Han Kingdom was desperately poor at that time, he keenly felt that the future of the world was in the Han Kingdom----- or anywhere except Tsarist Russia.
Of course, eggs can't be put in one basket, so he has two daughters, the eldest daughter learning English and the younger daughter learning Chinese.
It turns out that learning Chinese is better than learning English,
Just like his eldest daughter and son-in-law, both of whom are fluent in English, work as an accountant and a truck driver in a timber mill in a small city in the Far East, and there are many fewer people learning Chinese. However, after decades of development, the Tsarist Russians found that following the Han State was the last word. In this way, people who can speak Chinese become fragrant dumplings. Now her youngest daughter is doing well on the Han side.
However, in Valery's eyes, the eldest daughter was more prosperous than the younger daughter: first, the marriage was happy, second, it was often seen when it was close, and third, it gave birth to a handsome grandson!
This daughter slave knows no borders.
And after seeing Valery's daughter and son-in-law's grandson, Yang Meng was most surprised that the little boy named Dimitri could speak Chinese------ although it was still the kind of word that jumped out a few words.
After Yang Meng asked, he understood: It turned out that Chinese in Tsarist Russia had been included in the content of the National Unified Examination. In the 'Tsarist Russian College Entrance Examination', Chinese became the fifth language to be tested after English, Germanic, Gallic and Spanish. Chinese has been incorporated into primary and secondary school textbooks.
Valery had already seen the benefits of learning Chinese, so he naturally let his grandson learn Chinese.
Yang Meng also read Dimitri's textbook, and the name is very interesting, called "It's Time to Learn Chinese". After all, relations between the two countries are at an all-time high, and it is not surprising that this is so.
With his daughter and son-in-law as translators, Yang Meng and Valery communicate very well.
When they knew that Yang Meng was going to ride a motorcycle on the 'Road of Bones', they were all shocked, thinking that Yang Meng was lying. As a result, Yang Meng could only take out the GoPro to show them.
Valery's son-in-law's name is Sergei, and after watching the video, he worried: "Yang, it's okay for you to walk here now, but if you continue the journey, it's really not that simple." The next route to Yakutsk is good, after all, this road is a timber transportation route, and there are still frequent contacts with Yakutsk. But if you leave the road of Yakutsk。。。。。。 You know, I'm a truck driver, and I'm familiar with the road. ”
After hearing this, Yang Meng hurriedly asked, "Really, then tell me, I really want to challenge this path." ”
Sergei explained: "The 'Road of Bones' is really my nightmare! Let's just put it this way, there is a saying in our Tsarist trucks, that is, 'no matter how much you are given, you will not take the road of bones.'" Two people died on that road last year alone!"
"What's going on?" Yang Meng asked curiously.
Sergei said: "This 'road of bones' is impassable in the summer. You also know that the road is built on permafrost, and the frozen road starts to melt in the summer, and it may not look like much on the surface, but the broken ice can collapse at any time, and you walk down the road as if nothing is wrong, and then the whole car will fall into the ice hole, and the body will not be found until the road surface is completely thawed. It could be a month later, or it might never be found!"
"And if the whole road surface is completely thawed, this road is even more impassable, all the way is mud puddles and swamps, in the summer we sometimes have to run that road, we will be prepared to be blocked there: encounter traffic jams for more than ten days and hundreds of kilometers in the road of bones every year! There are even many sections of the road that are completely unwalkable in summer!"
"Why are some sections of the road completely unwalkable? Isn't it just muddy?" asked Yang Meng puzzled.
Sergei shook his head: "That's not just a mud problem! Many of the roads in it were built nearly a hundred years ago, and there are many bridges there, all of which were made of wooden bridges at that time, which have long since rotted, and can directly trample the wood into slag when you walk up in the summer, so you can only pass after it is covered with snow and then frozen in winter." ”
"In fact, winter is the busiest time of the year, but it's also a dangerous journey. I said that I know both of the two people who died last year, crazy people from other places! It is not an exaggeration to describe the mountains and rivers to build bridges'------ which often walks with heavy snow and snow to close the mountain or avalanche to close the road, maybe the road that is cleared in the morning can not be walked in the afternoon, then it is necessary to clear the snow and the like, it is too dangerous for a car to go, and the two guys did not listen to the advice, two people drove a car to walk the road of bones, and encountered an avalanche road closure at the junction of Sakha and Tattinsky districts. And their car was stranded there because the temperature was too low, and then it was eaten by wolves. ”
"Eaten?" Yang Meng was taken aback when she heard this.
Sergei nodded: "When they were found later, there were only bones and boots on the scene. The two of them were gnawed clean. So Yang, it's really a miracle that you can ride here from Ulaanbaatar! It's a lot more dangerous than you think. ”
Yang Meng smiled: "It's because of the danger that I challenge it, isn't it? If there is no danger, what is the difference between me and riding a bicycle at the door of my house?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a 'ahhh
The two little golden eagles were not polite to Dimitri, and pecked him directly.
Although this time it was not ruthless, it could only be regarded as 'up to the point', but it also scared Dimitri enough to cry.
Sergei said a few words to Dimitri and then said to Yang Meng: "I'm sorry, the kid is too curious, he hasn't seen such a big bird yet." ”
After hearing this, Yang Meng hurriedly said: "No, no, no, it should be me who said sorry." These two little ones are only close to me, and it is indeed my fault, Dimitri, what do you think your uncle should give you?"
Sergei just wanted to refuse, but Dimitri didn't want to answer directly: "Gun!"
"Huh?" Several people were together Dimitri, how did he know that Yang Meng said that he was going to give him a gift?