Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Youth

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When the first rays of sunlight in the early morning passed through the mountains and sprinkled on the ground through the cracks in the bamboo forest, Chen Kun had already driven through Shiyan, and yesterday's wind and rain exchanged for today's fine weather.

SY City is located in the northwest of HB Province, bordering Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi and Chongqing. The four seasons are distinct, the climate is pleasant, and the unique geographical location makes Shiyan have the name of "the south ship and the north horse, the throat of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the thoroughfare of the four provinces".

It is bordered by Xiangyang, a famous city of the Three Kingdoms in the east, Shennongjia in the south, Daba Mountain in the west, and Qinling Mountains in the north, and the Han River traverses the whole territory from west to east. The current urban area in the Qing Dynasty was named Shiyan because people built ten dams in the Baier River and the Qianhe River barrage for irrigation.

The most intuitive explanation of the weir is the embankment that retains water, and the city named after this word is related to this, and the most intuitive Dujiangyan is the best example.

Shiyan as one of the birthplaces of ancient human beings, the historical and cultural landscape is very much, far away from the world-famous Taoist holy land Wudang Mountain is a place worth visiting, but Chen Kun does not have the intention of staying here, for Chen Kun Shiyan is not far away after all, of course, this is relatively speaking, for a soul who loves self-driving travel, spread out the map finger a card, more than 1,000 kilometers are also belonging to the category of the door.

SY City is surrounded by mountains, and the mountains belong to three systems: the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains extends to the north of Shiyan, Wudang Mountain is located in the middle of Shiyan, and the eastern section of Daba Mountain is listed in the southwest of Shiyan.

Chen Kun went all the way to the north, in a sense, from here Chen Kun had to climb over the Qinling Mountains, there may be many people who do not know a common sense, our country is vast and rich, how to divide the north and the south in the real sense? It is estimated that most people will blurt out that the Yangtze River, the south of the Yangtze River is the south, and the north is the north, in fact, this statement is wrong.

In fact, the Qinling-Huaihe River is the dividing line in the true sense, first of all, the boundary of precipitation. The annual precipitation in the south of the Qinling-Huaihe River is greater than 800 mm, and the annual precipitation in the north of the Qinling-Huaihe River is less than 800 mm, which also represents the difference in the length of the rainy season between the north and the south. The rainy season north of the Qinling-Huai River is concentrated and short, mainly in July and August, so why do we go to the northwest to have a rainy season, and the rainy season south of the Qinling-Huai River is much longer. Of course, the most important thing is the temperature, and the Qinling-Huai River is the limit of the 0°C isotherm in January. The average temperature in January south of the Qinling-Huaihe River is above 0°C, and it basically does not freeze in winter. The average temperature in January north of the Qinling-Huai River is below 0°C, and of course, the Qinling-Huai River is the dividing line between paddy fields and dry land. The north is dry land, where wheat is grown. The south is paddy fields, where rice is grown.

The season of Chen Kun's departure is just winter, it is not easy to drive over the Qinling Mountains in this year, the mountain road at this time can not talk about how wide, the road condition is not much better, not long after going up the mountain, several shady roads on the mountain road began to appear large pieces of snow, the cars crushed the snow into thick ice, and the hard and black black has long been unable to find the snowflakes half of the white appearance.

Although the sun was shining and the temperature in the early morning in the mountains was not high, Chen Kun looked at the thermometer in the car, the temperature outside the car was minus seven degrees, glanced at Tang Yuan, who was staring at the road with all his attention, and hung up the four-wheel drive, Chen Kun smiled and comforted: "Don't be too nervous, you have to trust the old driver." ”

Tang Yuan pursed his lips and didn't speak, he actually admired Chen Kun in his heart, in Tang Yuan's heart, he always felt that Chen Kun was actually very magical, no matter what it was, no matter how new it was, as long as Chen Kun came into contact with it, then he could get started quickly, and then play better than everyone, just take driving as an example, Chen Kun and she were in contact with cars at about the same time, but Chen Kun could drive better than everyone around him, of course, Tang Yuan didn't know that there was the water of Chen Kun's decades of driving experience in his later generations.

The car turned a corner, followed by a long downhill, the ramp was covered with thick ice, driving on the ice and snow section, the downhill is the biggest killer, Chen Kun was also slightly nervous, his right hand toggled the gear lever, forced to hang into a low gear, used the gear to lower the speed of the car, and then put the upper right on the handbrake and smiled at Tang Yuan: "Don't be nervous." ”

Tang Yuan replied with a sweet smile: "Well, open it slowly." ”

Fortunately, the car was stable all the way, and a large section of flat road could be seen not far away, seeing that Chen Kun was secretly relieved after walking the slope, and just wanted to talk and laugh with Tang Yuan, two antelopes came out of the low bushes dozens of meters away, and then a few, Chen Kun was slightly startled, while Vera handbrake, he subconsciously clicked the brake under his feet, and shouted Tang Yuan: "Sister Yuan, look at it, antelope antelope." ”

The moment the brake was stepped on, the car quickly swung its tail, slid out to the side, and slid out on the ice for several meters, but fortunately, the speed was not fast, and it stopped at the edge of the drainage ditch.

Chen Kun said secretly: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Looking back, Tang Yuan's face was already pale with fright, and Chen Kun comforted: "It's okay, Sister Tang Yuan, did you see the antelope just now?"

Saying that, looking up, maybe there was a lot of movement here, and the elves beside the bushes had already run up the opposite hill and were looking back curiously at this side.

Chen Kun unbuckled his seat belt, pushed open the door and walked down, and then Tang Yuan also got out of the car, and the cotton shoes he had specially changed into squeaked on the snow, and when he looked down, he could understand why Tang Yuan's face was frightened, and the right side of the co-pilot was a high cliff, and there was a thick layer of snow under the cliff, the beauty was extremely beautiful, but it was also extremely dangerous, although there was a concrete fence in front of the drainage ditch, it was just a matter of seconds as long as the speed was enough to turn down.

Looking down at the tires, one of the rear wheels on one side had fallen into the ditch, but fortunately in winter, the drainage ditch was full of thick ice, the ice was thick and high, almost flush with the road, and it was definitely no problem for Chen Kun's off-road vehicle to drive out.

After thinking about it, Chen Kun opened the car door and said to Tang Yuan: "Sister Tang Yuan, come, drive the car forward a little, two or three meters, I'll put on the snow chains." Then open the tailgate and pick up the specially prepared snow chains.

Tang Yuan nodded: "Just stop when you get to the right position." Chen Kun nodded.

The car started, moved forward, and easily got rid of the confinement of the ditch, Chen Kun made a sound, the car stopped, Chen Kun walked over and began to install snow chains, and Tang Yuan also pushed the door down to help.

At this time, the snow chain is actually closer to the iron chain, it is really a little troublesome to install, and what is more troublesome is that Chen Kun has to pay attention to the surroundings while pretending, first, he is afraid of passing vehicles, and the car is not a joke when he can't brake downhill, and secondly, he is also afraid of the beasts that haunt the jungle, this is not a joke, the mountains here are endless, that is, after 20 years, there are fierce beasts in the jungle from time to time, since I have met a herd of antelopes today, then the possibility of meeting other animals is also there.

Fortunately, Chen Kun is lucky, there are indeed few people who walk this line this winter, until the snow chains are installed, there is still no shadow of the car, except for a few antelopes on the opposite hillside, there are no other creatures to disturb, Tang Yuan is a girl, and she thinks that the snow chains are dirty, and she really can't help, so she returned to the car and picked up her newly bought seagull camera to take pictures of the elf opposite.

After installing the snow chains, Chen Kun got up, took the towel from the car, opened the mouth cup and poured some water on the towel, wiped his dirty hands, and then had the time to look around the entire valley, the valley after the snow is extremely beautiful, although the temperature is extremely low, and it is on the mouth of the mountain wind, the woods on both sides are thick rime, and the rime condensed in various shapes is neatly facing the northwest direction, Chen Kun knows that it is the direction where the cold wind blows, and some leaves that have not had time to fall are also ruthlessly sealed by the ice, with various colors, against the white snow, and heavy tree trunks, so the winter forest is colorful。

In summer, the dripping rock walls are filled with spectacular ice cubes, and the snow piled up from the untouched woodland, reflecting the sun's rays, and occasionally only the tracks of wild animals in the old woods appear on them.

looked at Tang Yuan's somewhat red face, smiled slightly, took down the woolen hat that had been prepared from the car, took out a big red scarf, and strode towards Tang Yuan.

patted the snowflakes on Tang Yuan's head, buttoned up his hat, wrapped a red scarf, and touched Tang Yuan's head, time is the most powerful killer and the most warm booster, more than half a year has passed, Chen Kun is already a head taller than Tang Yuan, Tang Yuan didn't speak, smiled and let Chen Kun do it, his little face was flushed, and he couldn't tell whether he was shy or cold.

took the camera in Tang Yuan's hand, "Sister Tang Yuan, you stand over there, I'll take a picture of you." Chen Kun put his eyes close to the camera, focused, and took pictures, at this time the cameras were all old-fashioned film cameras, of course, Chen Kun bought things with good ones, which was naturally not bad.

I took a few photos at random, but there were no antelopes on the hillside, and Chen Kun shouted from afar: "Hey, we're leaving, you have to take care." ”

The intimate voice echoed in the valley, startling the snow on the tree trunk, Chen Kun smiled dotingly, compared to Tang Yuan's personality when he first came into contact, and occasionally the little girl who wore coarse clothes, combed braids, and deliberately squatted in the antique market with a straight face.

Suddenly, childlike innocence, Chen Kun bent down to pick up a handful of snow, pinched a snowball and threw it far away towards the antelope on the slope, but he didn't imagine that the sheep were startled and scurryed, the leading sheep took two steps, arched the snowball, and walked away without interest, seeing Tang Yuan looking over, Chen Kun touched his nose, shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand innocently.

Over the continuous mountains, the road conditions are also better, the Guanzhong Plain has been a place of abundant goods since ancient times, but Chen Kun went to Xunxi, rubbed shoulders with Weinan, and went to LT County to step on the edge of the Guanzhong Plain.

The so-called Guanzhong Plain is actually the Weihe Plain, the whole plain is in the middle of SX Province, between the Qinling Mountains and the Beishan Mountains of Weibei, starting from Baoji in the west and reaching Tongguan in the east, with a length of about 300 kilometers, an altitude of about 323~800 meters, and an area of about 36,000 square kilometers. Because in Hangu Pass, that is, between the later Tongguan Pass and the Dasan Pass, the ancient name Guanzhong is the origin of the Guanzhong Plain, and it is also called Qinzhong, the terrain is narrow in the west and wide in the east, and it is known as the Qinchuan River for 800 miles.

At this time, the car has arrived at Lantian and is not far from Xi'an, Lantian this place produces Lantian jade, the so-called Lantian jade is here, jade Chen Kun is not very interested, to there is a water and land nunnery Chen Kun but wants to go to see, the water and land nunnery is located in the east of LT county 10 kilometers Puhua Town Wang Shun Mountain, known as the famous temple of the Six Dynasties, famous for preserving the ancient exquisite and rare colored sculptures, known as "the second Dunhuang". It is surrounded by water on three sides, resembles an isolated island, there are green mountains standing next to it, and there is a river circulating around it, so it is called the water and land hermitage.

Go out will be smooth, want to go and go, now get off the highway to drive to, but by coincidence, the temple called the water and land hermitage a few days ago heavy snow crushed the roof, this time to catch up with the closed maintenance but not open.

Chen Kun had never been to this place in his previous life, it was still early, so he naturally planned to walk around, thinking that the waterway nunnery thought it was a nunnery when he heard the name, but at this time, he saw that there were some bald monks who came in and out, and Chen Kun knew that he was mistaken.

There are a lot of vendors in front of the temple, Chen Kun took Tang Yuan to walk around, took a closer look, many stalls are placed on the local Lantian jade ornaments, the carving is not fine, even a little rough, Chen Kun is naturally not interested in it, Tang Yuan was born in Myanmar, is used to seeing fine things, and is not very interested in this.

In terms of geographical location, as the place where the emperor is buried the most, it is naturally very thick, and the cultural relics scattered among the people over the years are naturally very much, and at the moment pull Tang Yuan to squat down to see, in fact, there are not many things, it may be the relationship at the door of the temple, most of them are some bronze ornaments, there are two Buddha statues that feel OK, but the quality is incomplete, to Tang Yuan picked up the iron tile to make Chen Kun feel some meaning.

Tang Yuan looked at the pitch-black cast iron tile in his hand, with a line clearly engraved on it, in September of the Ming Hongwu year, he handed it to Chen Kun and said: "Fake, right? Where is the iron tile used? Is it still engraved with time?" The stall owner is a middle-aged man, and his temperament should be good, seeing that Chen Kun and Tang Yuan are not very old, he did not answer or refute, and let the two of them watch.

Chen Kun took it and said with a smile: "Sister Tang Yuan, you don't know, this is true." ”

He pointed to a small hole in the iron tile and said, "Do you see this hole? This tile is something from the mountain." He said and pointed to the towering mountains in the distance behind him: "The main peak of the Qinling Mountains, Taibai Mountain, is known as one of the 36 caves of Taoism, and it is the place where Zhang Guolao ascended to heaven. ”

Chen Kun smiled at Tang Yuan: "Buy a piece as a souvenir, how much does the store cost?" Only then did the store laugh: "The little brother understands people, and he can give two yuan." ”

Tang Yan pulled Chen Kun's sleeve and whispered, "Since it is a Taoist temple, let's not buy it, it's not suitable."

Chen Kun thought about it, nodded, and saw that the store didn't mind, but Chen Kun was embarrassed to walk away immediately, took out a cigarette at the moment, handed one to the store, and chatted a few words before walking away.

The waterway hermitage is not big, and the surrounding stalls are all similar things, so I left after shopping.

At the beginning of the lanterns, Chen Kun had already taken Tang Yuan to a hot spring resort hotel next to Huaqing Pond, saying that the hotel was actually more similar to a recuperation center in the system, the environment was naturally not to say, and the price was naturally not cheap, but first, Huaqingchi Hot Spring was too famous, and secondly, there was nothing more relieving than soaking in a hot spring for a few days.

The open-air hot springs, surrounded by the white snow that did not come and melted, immediately made Chen Kun and Tang Yuan feel that the money was worth it, at this time the whole recuperation center was not many people, Chen Kun soaked in the hot spring water, watching the snow reflect the bright moonlight, although it is said that there are fewer insects and birds in winter, but there is a feeling that silence is better than sound.

The moon is full, and when the youth is brocade, the youth is beautiful.