Chapter 1: Mottled
Wu Wending sat on a bench at the entrance of a commissary at the intersection of the brush horse road at the junction of the mountains and the plains. I don't know whether it is the sycamore or the poplar trees are very closely lined around the three-way road, and the sunlight spreads from the canopy, through the obstruction of the leaves, and projects on the ground, the houses, and Wu Wending's body, mottled like his mood.
Two hours ago, the coach that was supposed to pass through this intersection was broken, and he and a group of people were thrown down, and the bus that turned around was as agile as a rabbit, and I don't know what was broken. On the side of the road, where it is said that a car will pass by in three minutes, the various trucks and trolleys passing by have taken away most of the people, most of them locals, and only a few people remain.
Every year, sketching is the basic homework of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wu Wending likes it very much, publicly-funded travel, and today's society does not need to bring a legendary sketchboard to set up and draw something everywhere, it is a camera to go all over the world, at most to see some particularly interesting scenes or draw a few sketches casually. But he's not good at this, so I can't see any artistic performance from head to toe. Originally, he was supposed to charter a bus with a professional class to the Aba Tibetan area on the border of Sichuan and Gansu, but he had to catch up alone because of a two-day delay in family affairs. It's okay, otherwise you won't be able to meet Lin Ling.
Lin Ling was wearing a light green jacket, gray cotton sweatpants, dark green hiking shoes, and wide brown-colored sunglasses to make his skin fairer, but in the sunny weather, he turned up the hood of the jacket and put it on, saying that the ultraviolet rays on the plateau were too high to avoid sunburn skin. The red braided ribbon on her wrist stood bright against the green grass, and she was carefully closing her hands in an attempt to catch a large, colorful beetle.
They met at the station from Chengdu, and there were not many travelers on the bus in August, so they quickly got acquainted with each other and had a good response, and now it seems that it is mainly Wu Wending who takes care of Lin Ling. Lin Ling is from Fujian Province and has always grown up in a seaside city, so he hasn't seen much of the scenery in the mountains, and he is quite surprised and excited along the way. It is estimated that she is the happiest to be thrown out of the car, and she missed a few hitchhikers because she was taking pictures, catching insects, and playing in the water. It was already half past two in the afternoon, and there were still more than 100 kilometers to the former Hongxian County, and there was no place to stay at this three-way intersection water filling point, which was only a commissary.
Along the way, the most is to chat, not too familiar, but just a few Tibetan men and a little girl walked alone, as if they felt weird, so when a wild horse off-road vehicle stopped, Wu Wending still shouted Lin Ling casually: "The sun is going down, Wukong, on the road." ”
No sound.
"Bajie, Master has gone to the West Heaven. ”
Still no response.
Glancing at Lin Ling, who was concentrating in the grass, Wu Wending threw down his cigarette butt and picked up his bag, approaching a few Tibetans who were bargaining with the Mustang driver, ready to get something for nothing.
Fifteen yuan per person was sold, and five people squeezed into the car, and just as they were about to set off, Lin Ling appeared by the window and said with a smile: "Arnold is not good, I can't catch it as soon as I make a sound." "Arnold is the beetle.
Then squeeze it again, I won't take care of the lady in the co-pilot, because a big man is already sitting there, and it would be too unrealistic to replace him in the back. Wu Wen set the car and called the driver to open the back door, the trunk of the off-road vehicle is still very large, sitting against the side wall, with his height of less than 1.8 meters, he can still straighten his waist, not to mention that his legs are straight, I am afraid it is more comfortable than squeezing in front. Lin Ling looked at the heavy Tibetan robe in the back seat, blinked his eyes, and climbed into the trunk with his new pet and sat down on the other side.
Exit the junction and immediately enter the mountains. Along with the road on the cliff, the river under the cliff flows away very happily. The road is not wide, and it is a bit thrilling, but the driver is familiar with avoiding the dirt pits and larger stones on the road. also happily smoked and chatted with the big man, and the three people behind him also sang and accompanied.
The steep hills seem to be split by the river, and the green is full of the occasional stone house, and the roofs are painted with white ethnic motifs. Wu Wending, who was in the trunk, only felt that he had been tilting his head towards the back of the car all the time, because he had been climbing the mountain, and it was not until about two hours later that he suddenly turned right and went to the plateau. Looking at the white mountain tops in the distance, the little silver light reflected by the sunlight showed that it was the snow that did not melt all year round, and a world that had never been seen before jumped in front of me.
Lin Ling also turned around and twisted his body to lie on the window, looking at the deep cliff on the side of the road, and said in fear: "It's so spectacular, I'm dizzy." ”
Wu Wending said: "Look far, don't look close, especially the cliff by the curb. ”
Lin Ling turned around and said, "I brought my ID card, if I fall down, will it burn I don't know who I am?"
Wu Wending was a little dizzy and said, "You can now take a pen and write your name and your home phone number in every corner of your bag and clothes." ”
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Lin Ling, who had done his homework in advance, also introduced to Wu Wending: "It feels like going up a step, it can be regarded as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then walking a little away from the mountain range is the prairie where the Red Army crossed the grassland back then." ”
Wu Wending did not show weakness: "It used to be called 10,000 acres of grassland, and it was a flat river." ”
Indeed, the road became straight, and soon left the dizzy mountainous area, and on both sides were undulating grassland hills, and the blue sky was suddenly pulled closer, and the white clouds seemed to be unreal marshmallows hanging on the blue curtain, which could be grabbed and given to Arnold as a snack.
The car suddenly stopped, broke down again, and it was not repaired, and it had to turn back. Without waiting for Wu Wending and Lin Ling, who were stunned, to find the driver and say, a few Tibetan Han jumped down as a matter of course, looking like they didn't care.
Wu Wending said depressedly: "Do they have to turn around if their car here breaks down?"
Lin Ling was afraid: "I feel like a robbery posture......"
So in this mood, the off-road vehicle that turned around and drove away seemed to indicate that it was not a robbery, which made the two outsiders breathe a sigh of relief. Catch up with the laughing Tibetan Han and walk forward.
"It's okay, there are still forty kilometers ahead to Longri Dam, and Longri Dam will be forty kilometers away from the county seat," said a man in a Tibetan robe with red stripes in the crowd of three.
"Eighty kilometers!? You can't get there until it's dark," Wu Wending felt a little headache.
"It's okay, just find a place to sleep, and get up tomorrow morning to continue walking" The Tibetan Han with green and white trim is also very nervous.
Lin Ling looked at his spring jacket and suddenly felt faint.
Wu Wending looked at the black shiny Tibetan robe, and knew why these unreliable guys just showed one side of their arms and didn't take it off on this sunny afternoon, and most of the luggage they carried was similar to the Tibetan robe roll, and one of them also hung a small pot on the luggage, so that they could camp at any time, which was more convenient and durable than any brand-name camping equipment.
"No, you have to find transportation. Wu Wending stood on the endless grassland and said firmly.
"Ah~~~~" Lin Ling also cooperated with his right hand to cover his eyebrows and look around, trying to find a person or a car.
Let's walk.
The three of them were not lonely at all, singing and laughing along the way, introducing the biggest man nicknamed the seeder, because he often went to various villages to spend the night and sprinkled the seeds of love by the way. They are all fellow villagers, and since they were children, they went to distant temples together to become lamas, and all but one of them returned home. It's just that the one left is not a red-striped man, not a green-and-white man, not a seeder named Tashi, who is already the little leader of the temple.
More than two hours later, when it was getting dark, the planter pointed to the dark hills on the side of the road and said, "There is a village there, maybe there are cars."
Twenty minutes later, six people left the village in a sudden walk-behind tractor, Wu Wending saw a waste tire in the body, and hurriedly pulled Lin Ling to sit on it, and quickly congratulated himself on this extremely wise decision, because the tractor was too bumpy on this road.
It soon got dark, and Wu Wending sadly found that the speed of the tractor did not exceed ten kilometers per hour at most. And the sky was as black as oil paint, and there was not a single starlight or moonlight visible, and the red-striped man brought another bad news: "It's going to rain." ”
In fact, the red-striped man was wrong, it wasn't rain, it was hail, because even if he pulled up his hood and hit his head, it still hurt a little, it might not be too big, but Wu Wending and Lin Ling, the two quails from the two cities that had not been stormy, still suffered. Wu Wending wore a T-shirt in his jacket, there were no thick clothes in his bag, and there were no thick clothes in Lin Ling's bag, so Wu Wending was fortunate to kiss Fang Ze in this dark rainy night, and hugged Lin Ling tightly in his arms and hid under him.
The three of them and the seeder had no effect at all, they pulled up half of their sleeves, and their heavy Tibetan robes were crackled by the hailstones, they were only worried that the cigarette was not easy to ignite, and they wanted to call the tractor man to stop and light a cigarette. was stopped by the trembling Wu Wen.
Not hot-blooded at all, not romantic at all, not AV at all, Wu Wending shivered while commenting on his current sexual encounter, because he felt that if he didn't want to order something, he was afraid that he would faint from the cold. I don't know if those students in the major went to bed to rest, seeing this rainy night, is there any creative inspiration, I created a huge oil painting "Cattle Stealing Picture", all of which was done in black, and went to steal cattle on a rainy night with no moon and no stars, naturally I couldn't see anything, Tao Yaling would definitely scold me and grandstand......
was thinking wildly, Lin Ling, who had been raided in a bump so far, finally spoke up: "Thank you, it's not so cold." ”
Wu Wending wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh and said, "That...... Then I'll put it ...... Let go of you?"
Lin Ling said slowly: "It's still like this, will you die like this, and then be on the news?"
Wu Wending was a little dizzy and said, "At least...... At least this ID card can still be seen. ”
Lin Ling laughed: "Yes, but I'm going to change my ID card, I must take a good photo this time, and if it doesn't look good, I'll do it again until I'm satisfied." ”
So I listened to Lin Lingxu chatter and began to speak, it turned out that she had just been admitted to Sichuan University, but in fact, she originally wanted to be admitted to Peking University, but she was unsuccessful, although her family did not have any pressure to her, but she was a little dissatisfied with the start of school and came to the Aba Tibetan area in western Sichuan to see the scenery and relax, but she did not expect that she might die on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is beautiful during the day and devil at night. I don't know how sad my parents will be when they find out, and whether my brother will cry while scolding. Arnold may survive, should he post a note for his brother to help raise him......
When it was close to twelve o'clock, the tractor was slower in the rainy night, and the little bit of dim headlights in the dark night, finally saw the same kind, but there were only one or two, it should be Longri Dam, and he couldn't go any further, Wu Wending felt as if he had frozen into an ice sculpture, and if he shook it again, he would become pieces, and in the words of the sculpture department, it would be a pile of scraps.
Fortunately, there are three beds in the commissary under the light to rest, the heavy ghee smell is not annoying at all, and the barrel noodles brought by the Tibetan aunt are not very hot, which finally made Wu Wending recover some popularity, holding the noodle soup for a while, and then began to clumsily pick noodles with a plastic fork to eat. Lin Ling sat next to him, fixedly looking at the soaked Wu Wending's jacket that seemed to have frozen slag, he didn't laugh out loud, and after eating two bites, he brought it to Wu Wending and said, "You eat more, it's warmer." Do you want me to make another bowl?"
The seeder walked in and threw the burden on the bed by the door, and said with a smile: "You two have one bunk, one for me, one for the three of them, and the driver has found a place to sleep by himself." ”
"Yes. Lin Ling glanced at Wu Wending, promised to put the bags of the two people on the innermost bed, and went out to find the aunt to ask for hot water to burn her feet. Wu Wending's brain was still in the fine polishing of the ice sculpture, and he mechanically ate the second bowl of noodles, and did not think about the first heterosexual bed that would come soon.
Lin Ling said that the old man warned that he must burn his feet after the wind and rain to ensure that he is not easy to get sick, so the two of them used the little remaining hot water together to scald together before going to bed. Wu Wending finally recovered, and looked at the little shy toes in the red-edged enamel basin avoiding his feet, and his gradually warming head was combing how the two men and women who didn't know each other yesterday could progress to this point.
Wu Wending gradually smiled with an expression and said: "I have athlete's foot, you have suffered, the first of the ten major infectious diseases." ”
Lin Ling leaned his feet on the basin wall intently: "It's so cold, beriberi is frozen, it's not contagious." ”
Wu Wendingle: "There was only one athlete's foot in our dormitory, but after two years, it was all gone. ”
Lin Ling responded calmly: "I brought my own towel when I went out to reduce the source of infection." ”
Wu Wending also tried to concentrate his feet in the middle: "I wipe my feet directly with the hem of my trousers, so don't touch my trouser legs." ”
Lin Ling finally couldn't stand it anymore: "I'm fine, you enjoy it slowly." ”
There will be no nosebleeds on such a cold day, after washing, the two went to bed with their clothes, and Wu Wending also took a pillow and put it between the two of them. The three of them had already hummed happily and began to snore together, and the seeder even pressed the bed board to creak and fell asleep. The two of them said good night in a daze, and fell asleep under a quilt with a thick smell of ghee and snoring.
Wu Wending, who was woken up by the sound of a car horn in the morning, opened his eyes, there was no jade arm on his chest, and there was no delicate body wrapped around his body, only a white and delicate face beside him, not the kind of amazing beauty, but definitely a beauty, the broken short hair is very black, not a standard melon seed face, but a little thin, thin lips are a little small, the nose is very straight, the eye sockets are a little deep, and the corners of the eyes are relatively long, so although the eyes are closed, they should be relatively large, and the three-dimensional sense of contrast between the eye sockets and the bridge of the nose is very goodIt's best to use breadcrumbs with a little kneading technique, but don't go too far, it's a bit like street charcoal painting.
After carefully commenting, Wu Wending quietly got up with difficulty, bent down like a soldier in the trench and slipped outside the house, first released the water, and then squatted in the corner of the house, the bright sunshine had no trace of last night's raging at all. The three of them and the seeder were already outside, and when they saw him come out, they smiled at him with their eyebrows and eyes, Wu Wending suddenly felt that national unity was really good, and took out a cigarette, one for each person, and Tashi in the middle of the temple did not want it, so he began to bask in the sun in the morning.
The seeder looks very honest, doesn't talk much, and laughs all the time. The red-striped man said that they would leave later, and that if there was a car, they would go to the county seat if they didn't have a car, and that they would go to the county seat if they didn't have a car, so do you have to wait for your daughter-in-law to get up before leaving? Tashi said that he also had to hurry back to the temple, and there was a set time.
Wu Wending looked at the sunlight slanting from the corner of the house, it was still early, how could he walk the 40 kilometers today, so he was not in a hurry, and asked Tashi: "Which temple are you from, I came here to sketch, the temple should be the focus of visiting?"
Tashi seemed to understand the meaning of sketching: "I am from Vientiane Dalun Temple, just more than 10 kilometers north of the county seat, you must remember to come to me, I ask the living Buddha to bless you." We often have students come to draw and take pictures, and living Buddhas are not common. ”
Wu Wending asked for the address: "Then I must go, I have never seen a living Buddha." Tashi also wrote his name in Tibetan on Wu Wending's notebook.
As he was talking, the back door opened, and Lin Ling poked his head out with sleepy eyes: "I thought you dared to leave me here alone, the bag is still there......"
Wu Wending took off the cigarette from the corner of his mouth: "You dare to see people without washing your face?
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