009 Chapter 9 All the way north
I believe that many people have heard of the eighteen monsters of Yunnan, and Guizhou is also like this, Yunnan and Guizhou are one (Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau), all of them are karst landforms, especially in the west and south of Guizhou, which are mountains, so there is the world's second largest waterfall———— Huangguoshu Waterfall, all kinds of small waterfalls are countless, and there are ravines everywhere. You can imagine how miserable the local traffic is, yes.
Some people say that the cost of building a railway in Guizhou is higher than that of building an airport. It seems that this is indeed the case, there is only one railway in Guizhou, and there are not a few railway stations, but there seem to be a lot of airports, and they are almost one in each city.
The bus struggled to go around the winding mountain road, and only arrived at the highway a few hours later, all the way to the green mountains and green waters, which was really beautiful. After all, there is no industry in Guizhou, and the tourism industry is extremely developed, so the scenery cannot be bad.
I was going to get on the train in Yuncheng, where my cousin was studying as a teacher, and she listened to her family's advice when she filled out the volunteers. She is a good child, and few people make her family angry, which is very worry-free. She is a very strong and self-reliant girl, and she has not asked her family much for money in the past few years in college, so she relies on getting some scholarships and grants at school, and working part-time as a tutor in her spare time, which is enough for her own living expenses. As the eldest daughter in the family, she has set a good example, and as the eldest son, I can't say anything.
She took me to dinner, helped me buy snacks, bought fruit, and I felt completely unnecessary because there was food and fruit on the train.
"You are a loser, it's not that you don't know how unpalatable the food on the train is, how expensive the food is, buy it now, it's economical and affordable. There are a lot of people on the train, pay more attention, don't be as arrogant as usual, call me when you go out of Guizhou, call me at school, call home often, don't call home once in a few months like in high school, ask for money when you call, remember to tell me if you have something............"
Although I couldn't stop talking, I still listened to it more or less, and I wasn't as impatient as usual, I often said that I was a lonely person, dispensable, but in fact, there were still many people who always cared about me, and I was really wolf-hearted.
The train from Yuncheng to Yangcheng, the provincial capital, was only more than two hours, and because of the large number of people, I bought my ticket too late, and I only had a standing ticket. But it doesn't matter, when I was in high school, I still carried a 30-pound weight-bearing vest every day, and I was used to it for a long time.
The wait was always so long, and there was no way to look out the window, half of the two-hour journey was tunnels and viaducts. But life is never so boring, I still have a mobile phone, as long as the mobile phone has power, nothing is a problem, I think I, like many people, can live without a girlfriend, but I can't do without a mobile phone.
Open the e-book and continue to read "Green Lantern" that I haven't finished reading before, this is Beidao's novel, everyone may know that Beidao is a poet, but they don't know that he also writes novels, just like Li Bai is still a swordsman. I like Kitajima, I like his angry youth, I like his sarcasm about society, even though I'm not a rebellious young man.
When the train arrived, I reluctantly put down my phone, the next train was four hours later, during which time I couldn't wait in the train station, I had to go out and have some fun.
As soon as I got out of the train station, I saw a lot of vendors selling power banks, I subconsciously looked at the mobile phone, and there was 40% of the power, although there was also a power bank, but for the next trip, it was obvious that the electricity was not enough to see, so I could only find a place to charge. So a few minutes later I walked into a hotel near the train station, the basement was an Internet café, and I thought that it would be better to go to the Internet if I had the money to open an hourly room. What disappointed me is that the environment of this Internet café is very poor, the equipment is not good for a long time, and it is still 6 yuan an hour, and the new power next to high school is only 4 fast or not. The game can't be played, so I can only watch movies and recharge. I'm still full of energy, and I have to let myself get tired and go to bed as soon as I get on the train, after all, the next train will take more than twenty hours.
In the evening, I got on the train from Yangcheng to Xi'an in a daze. As soon as I got on the train and played with my mobile phone, I fell asleep, during which my family called me a few times, but because the train was not in the tunnel where it stopped, the signal was not good, and I didn't talk about anything. I didn't eat dinner, and I woke up and fell asleep many times in the middle of the night, which was simply tormenting.
A few young people next to me are also students, all of them go to Xi'an or other places in the north to go to school, and they talk to each other, I have no interest in this, I am too lazy to participate. However, everyone was surprised and admired that I went to school so far away by myself, after all, they were accompanied by their families for the first time they went to school.
Passing through many cities along the way, the scenery is constantly changing, the frequency of tunnels and bridges is getting less and less, there are too many bridges and tunnels on the road, and Guizhou has many viaducts and tunnels in the world. Along the way, I passed through Chongqing, Sichuan, and finally arrived in Xi'an, Shaanxi. From the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Loess Plateau, the scenery along the way slowly turns from green to yellow, the vegetation is getting less and less, there are more and more factories, and the scene is very different from Guizhou.
When I crossed the Yangtze River, if I didn't have some knowledge of geography and humanities, I almost thought that this was the Yellow River, after all, the current Yangtze River is not the Yangtze River of decades ago, and it is no wonder that many people will misunderstand.
Xi'an is the ancient capital of the Sixteen Dynasties, the largest city in the northwest, very prosperous, I have not been to Beijing and Shanghai, but Xi'an is indeed the largest city I have ever visited. The train was delayed by nearly an hour, and it should have been two hours for me to walk around Xi'an. But now I can only eat a little casually outside the train station, I have to say that the rice here is very suitable for my taste, meat sandwich buns, cold skin, ramen, I have eaten them all, in my opinion this is what men should eat. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, I'm not a picky eater.
Inside the train station I met a group of Muslim tourists (I don't know if that's right) who were dressed in Arabic robes, and men wore small white hats with square or round heads. Some ladies wore veils on their heads and wrapped their hair up. I was curious, because my destination was a Hui autonomous region, and there must be a lot of Muslims, Muslims. I don't know if they're all dressed like that.
Islam has a lot of taboos, and the eating habits are very different from those of us southerners, and I am afraid that it will be bad to cause any misunderstanding because I don't understand the local customs. My understanding is all through the Internet, I don't know what the specific situation is, I am worried and looking forward to it.
There are a lot of students who go to school in Yincheng on the train, many of them are freshmen like me, this time I also chatted with everyone, exchanged experiences, and many seniors enthusiastically introduced the situation of the school to us: how big is the school, what is the cafeteria, how is the sports field, how is the dormitory, what do you need to do in the freshman year, what subjects are easy to hang, what certificates to take, what is the situation in the school, etc.
The night passed quickly, and when the dawn rose, when I saw the northwest earth outside the window, my heart instantly cooled, and the endless plains did not even have a tree, and as far as the eye could see, there was a vast expanse, and the sky was yellow, how desolate and desolate it was, this should be the legendary land where birds do not. Occasionally, a few factories tower, and a few wind turbines that guard the barren land like guards.
"It's so desolate! Is this to Xinjiang?"
"This is "plugging the south of the Yangtze River" - Ningxia, telling you that you can't study geography well in junior high school, by the way, why are you here?"
"Because you miss me!"
"There are too many people, let's talk about it at school. ”
This is Lan.
I can't help but be a little disappointed, how do I feel like I've been in Xinjiang, and has desertification in the northwest been so serious in recent years? When I arrived at the Yellow River and Qingtongxia, the situation has improved somewhat, and it seems that the northwest has its vitality only where there is water. The outline of the destination Silver City appeared in front of me, becoming clearer and clearer, and finally arrived.