Section 4 The Ends of the World

Back to the breeding team, Stationmaster Cheng Houbo was surprised: "Come back so early." It's a rare trip, and it's not fun?"

Marlinsi knew she was joking with him, so she said, "Play." The county seat is just that street, and I walked back and forth four times. ”

"I'm not tired. If you are not tired, you will go to Sanya tomorrow. Stationmaster Cheng asked.

"Riding in a car is not labor. Okay. Malinsi said.

"Time can't be delayed, up to three days back and forth. He said.

"Who else?" asked Marinthi, because it was not safe to be alone because of long business trips.

"Xiao Fan will go with you. Stationmaster Cheng Houbo said.

In the evening, Hu Longbiao heard that Ma Linxi and Fan Guangjie were going to Sanya, so he hurriedly found Stationmaster Cheng to intercede, and he was also allowed to go together.

In the early morning of the next day, the three of them went to Sanya together. I didn't have time to buy a ticket beforehand, so I was afraid that there would be no more bus tickets, so after discussing it, I decided to take the train. The bus station is on Banpo Street, and the railway station is a long way north of the market town.

The train was coming from the Huangliu side in the direction of Sanya, and at nearly eight o'clock, they boarded the train from Banpo Station.

Banpo is the second station from Huangliu, and there is only a small station in the middle of Yinggehai. Further west of Banpo, because there are no fields where rice can be grown, there is no breeding team station, and the carriages are empty. Each of them chose a seat by the window and sat down, lying down at the window in a leisurely manner, quietly looking at the scenery outside.

"Trains are not as fast as cars. "This is one of the eighteen monsters in Hainan.

When they actually sat on this southernmost train in China, they felt a special enjoyment.

As they say, trains are really not as fast as cars. The main reason is that it has too many stops along the way. Almost all the commune brigades along the railway line have stations, and even if there are no station houses, they will set up a cement sign, which is somewhat similar to the hailing station of a country bus. Since you drive slowly, you can see from a distance whether there is anyone under the stop sign in front of you.

After the train passed two stops, the number of people on the train began to increase. This is due to the concentration of breeding teams and the concentration of local populations.

Ma Linxi's original plan was to go to Sanya first, and then go back to Maling to visit the ends of the earth. Hu Longbiao came to play the ends of the world, so he did the work of Ma Linxi and Fan Guangjie all the way: "Let's play the ends of the earth first." How can I have this time to go back? ”

Hearing him say this, Ma Linxi and Fan Guangjie both felt that it made sense, so they got off the train at Maling Station.

Maling is a major station on the line from Huangliu to Sanya, and is the seat of the commune.

As soon as the door opened, a group of vendors surrounded them, shouting loudly for the sale.

"Jackfruit, jackfruit, a dime. ”

"Watermelon, watermelon. ”

"Do you want bananas?"

"Selling coconuts, freshly picked coconuts. It's cheap. ”

They finally squeezed out of the crowd, followed by a barefoot little girl, holding a jackfruit poked with a bamboo paper in her hand, and shouting loudly: "Uncle, uncle, buy one, buy one." ”

The train started slowly, and the hawkers returned to their stalls, which were in the shade of a row of trees on the south side of the side street.

The so-called street is actually an east-west road that runs parallel to the railway.

The narrow road resembles a wide groove, and on the north side of the railway is a shrub about a meter wide and full of thorns. To the south of the road is a row of tall coconut trees with a long line of various stalls. There are those who sell fruits, souvenirs, daily necessities, meat, and snacks. Chickens, ducks, roaming around. I don't know which family's fat pig also joined in the fun, humming and chirping in front of the watermelon stall, looking up and humming a few times at the stall owner. The stall owner picked up the branch that chased the flies and hit it with a fierce blow before it reluctantly walked away.

In front of the coconut trees, there are rows of high and low thatched houses, and a little further south, there is the South China Sea.

They had never been to the ends of the earth, and they did not know the exact location. When asked a local girl, she pointed to the front: "Two more kilometers to the east." ”

Sure enough, a short walk east along the gravel-covered road, the village was left behind, and the vast sea was presented in front of me.

Under the clear blue sky, the sea is as blue as blue.

There are dotted white sails on the sea, looming in the raging waves. In the distance, there is a palm-sized island, like a jadeite, floating quietly above the blue waves.

The coastline is smooth and smooth, and on the sandy beach that is 500 meters wide, it is flattened, and a wave of waves pushes up, which seems to destroy the coconut trees and sand banks in front of it. However, just as they were about to reach the sandwiged shores and the crooked coconut palms, they quickly retreated, and so on for thousands of years, leaving behind a smooth and shiny sand.

On the beach, there is a wasteland full of thorns, and there is not even a small tree. As far as the eye can see, it is as desolate as a primitive ecology, as if returning to the era of flood and famine thousands of years ago.

After walking through a large stretch of sand, I found a jagged rocky bush on the beach in front of you.

High and low, large and small, seemingly connected, slowly spread along the coastline, to say the least, it is hundreds of meters long. It seems that this should be the place where the "end of the earth" is located.

With great difficulty, they found a very inconspicuous path from a place with few thorns.

It is said that it is a road, but in fact, it is just a gap found in the thorns that are everywhere that is supposed to lead to the beach. Because on the beach where there is no end in sight, there is a seemingly low but impassable natural barrier between the sand and the sea - patches of cacti.

In Marinsi's mind, cacti are bonsai that grow in pots for people to see. But most of the cacti here are more than one person tall, and many of them have bewitching rhubarb flowers. Despite his caution, Marlinsi's pants were torn and blood marks were made on his legs.

On a hot day, the sand on the ground is as if it has been fried, which is particularly hot. Only then did he remember how hard it must have been for Su Dongpo, who was old and long-fashioned, to be exiled to this wild place.

Finally, the three of them came to the beach.

When I looked up, a huge rock suddenly appeared in front of me, and a row of eye-catching red lacquer characters were written on it: "The End of the World Tourist Area".

"The end of the world" and "Haijiao" have a beautiful legend.

A man and a woman in love come from two feuding families, and their love is opposed by their respective clansmen, so they are forced to flee to this place, and both jump into the sea, turning into two boulders, forever opposite each other. In order to commemorate their loyal love, the descendants carved the words "the end of the world" and "the cape", and later men and women often fell in love with "the end of the world will always be with each other" to show their hearts.

A long time ago, the vicious waves in the Li'an sea area of Lingshui turned the sky, and the people lived in hardship. When the two fairies under the Queen Mother found out, they secretly went down to earth and stood in the South China Sea to guide the local fishermen to fish. The Queen Mother was angry and sent Lei Gong Lei Mu to arrest them back, but the two refused, turned into a double-peaked stone, and were split into two, one fell in the sea near Li'an, and the other flew to the end of the world, becoming "a pillar in the south of the sky".

Walk about 300 meters east from the two stones of "Tianya" and "Haijiao", a tall and conical strange stone, like a magic pen pointing straight to the sky, this boulder in front of you is even more peculiar, just like a childhood spinning top that is whipped and played, piercing the clouds and the sky, firmly buckled there, and several big characters jumped into view: "a pillar in the south sky". It looks like a philosopher's head from the front and a "brig sail" from the side.

The "Fortune Stone" has the aura of turning decay into magic. There was once a wealthy Hong Kong businessman who wandered the world after his defeat, and after close contact with the "Southern Heaven Pillar" stone, he returned to Hong Kong to revive his career. Therefore, it is called the "Pillar of Fortune" and is also regarded as the Stone of Fortune by local people and tourists. Because it towers between the sea and the sky, full of wealth and masculinity, the stone scene is printed on the back of the fourth set of RMB binary banknotes.

Of course, that's all for later.

There is also a legend that it is a section of the "Heavenly Pillar" that "Gonggong is angry and cannot touch the Zhou Mountain, the Heavenly Pillar is broken, and the Earth is absolutely destroyed", and it was sent here to support the southern sky alone. In the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty (1909), Fan Yunti, the then governor of Yazhou, engraved the four big characters of "a pillar in the south of the sky" according to the above statement.

In front of the right side of the "Nantian Pillar" is a chaotic rocky beach, with fangs and claws, full of dangers, with a strange and hideous appearance. However, when a wave of ocean waves came up, it was submerged by the sea and hidden. As soon as the sea receded, it came out with an abominable face.

They took off their shoes and socks and walked along the beautiful and comfortable sand, leaving a series of footprints that were immediately smoothed by the rushing water.