Chapter 8: A Helpless Choice

Looking at the small figure that was gradually moving away from her back from the reversing mirror, and listening to Li Hao's introduction, Yang Qianxun felt a shocking touch, a feeling that she had never felt before, and she had the urge to understand Tibetan Buddhism urgently. After another half an hour, Qinghai Lake, the world's tallest saltwater lake, appeared in front of me. Although the weather is already cold, there are still many tourists taking pictures by the lake. The pure white yak is led by the owner, as a prop for taking pictures, honestly carrying the weight of tourists.

Qinghai Lake is as level as a mirror, there is no ripple, a speedboat carrying tourists shuttles on the lake from time to time, the small shops selling Qinghai specialties are lined up on the side of the road one by one, although there are not many tourists who patronize, but it still attracts the attention of Yang Qianxun and Liu Zhiyang, two people want to go down to see, maybe they meet what they like, buy one or two good things to go home and send away.

Li Hao shook his head and said, "It's still far from our destination, and we won't be able to arrive today if we delay, so let's hurry first and take a good look when we come back." ”

Without waiting for the other two people to answer, the car drove all the way forward. From time to time, there are restaurants made of small yurts on the roadside, and you can clearly see the furnishings on the road, and some of them can even be opened to tourists as overnight hotels. Each yurt is white and embroidered with various unknown motifs, perhaps with a variety of unknown paintings, highlighting the extraordinary national character that the region should have. Rows of small houses with red roofs appear on the side of the road from time to time, "This is a project of the local government to benefit the people, and the government has funded the houses built for the Tibetans because they want them to move into the houses and live in them, like the Han people, to have a fixed home, and no longer live in tents, with the aim of improving the living environment of the Tibetans." When Yang Qianxun asked about these houses, Li Hao explained like this.

"But why are they all idle and uninhabited?" Yang Qianxun asked curiously.

"Hehe, it is said that Tibetans are afraid to live in a house, and they can't run out when there is an earthquake, so they don't dare to live there. Why, exactly? I haven't heard of it either. Li Hao explained the things he heard last time to the two people in the car.

Endless grasslands, wide roads, cars are speeding around, enjoying the beautiful western scenery, and the three of them are laughing and making noise all the way forward. Along the way, in addition to the traveler's vehicle, it is the warehouse car that pulls coal, and occasionally, there are travelers riding bicycles in twos and threes, wearing streamlined helmets, on the asphalt road of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, sprinting and accelerating forward from time to time with their heads down, their expressions are focused, and their movements are smooth and graceful, so that Yang Qianxun can't help but frequently look back at those travelers.

The water of Qinghai Lake gradually narrows until it becomes a shallow stream, which winds its way not far from the side of the road. Finally saw a red archway with the characteristics of the northwest, erected in the middle of the highway far away, "Tianjun people welcome you!" Why is it that the welcome words of the whole country to welcome outsiders are the same? Chihiro smiled and looked at the torii in the distance, knowing that she had finally arrived at the first destination, Tianjun County, and looked at her watch, it was almost eleven o'clock at noon.

"Let's eat first, and then find a hotel as fast as we can to open a room before going to the mine. In this way, even if you come back late, you don't have to worry about running out of places to live. Li Hao asked for the opinions of the two while thinking.

"Alright, alright, then find a place to eat." Liu Zhiyang replied.

The car continued to move forward, slowed down, began to look for a suitable restaurant, and finally stopped in front of a mutton restaurant, Li Hao continued to introduce "Tianjun's mutton is absolutely different from the mainland, it is really grown up eating cordyceps and drinking mountain spring water, unlike the sheep fed with clenbuterol in the mainland, which is particularly delicious. ”

"Yes, yes!" The other two spoke in unison, eager to try.

After parking the car, the three of them walked into the small restaurant, three men who were dressed dirty and couldn't see their age, sitting at a table in the corner of the restaurant, drinking slowly, a pot in front of them seemed to be lamb ribs, and each person was holding a bone in his hand to gnaw, seeing this, Liu Zhiyang felt arrogant, "Boss, boss, bring us a bowl of mutton soup like theirs, one person and one bowl." ”

The three of them found a table at random and sat down, looking at the small restaurant carefully, feeling that it was a world of difference from Shenzhen, just a dirty word, which could summarize all the differences from Shenzhen restaurants. But the environment here, is there a clean place, the gray roads, houses, non-stop coal trucks, and the dusty coal pullers or escort car owners who jump off the cars, the biggest shock to Yang Qianxun is, do I want to survive in this environment in the future? It's horrible! Looking at the three black men in the corner, she felt very depressed, this is not the life I want! The novelty and happiness along the way were cleaned up by a dirty word.

The sheep bones soon came up, Yang Qianxun tentatively took a small piece, gnawed a small piece of meat, and chewed it in his mouth, but he couldn't chew it, looking at Li Hao and Liu Zhiyang but swallowing it in a big gulp, with two satisfied expressions, as if they were eating the delicious food in the world.

"How to eat, it's not cooked!" Chihiro whispered to Li Hao.

Li Hao turned his head to look at Qianxun, and said with a smile, "Don't chew so carefully, it's almost enough, this is the plateau, Tianjun County is more than 3,300 meters above sea level, mutton is difficult to cook, you see everyone eats like this, eat, don't you think it's very delicious?" ”

Yang Qianxun pursed his lips, put down the mutton in his hand, and beckoned the shopkeeper, "Boss, what else to eat?" Is there a steamed bun? ”

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy wearing a little white hat opened his eyes and watched Yang Qianxun finish speaking, didn't say anything, turned his head and went into the kitchen, and brought out three large cakes. Yang Qianxun stopped talking, picked up a cake and ate it. I didn't like the mutton soup even more, so I drank some boiled water. Sitting on the side and waiting for the two men to finish their meal, the three left the restaurant and turned towards a hotel they had passed by.

After opening the room and sitting in the car, Yang Qianxun no longer had the happiness he had when he came, but Liu Zhiyang seemed to be more interested. Laugh all the way and keep going.

"Xiao Liu, you take out the video recorder, from here on, we will record the video, if necessary, it can be used for propaganda in the future. Chihiro, what about your camera, the necessary place, take a picture. Li Hao arranged the work of the two while driving.

The two are ready, the car along the winding stream, on the edge of the clear river, at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour to the Muli coal mine, the road is narrow, but the coal barn car can still stagger through, and then forward, a green stream, on the grass at a depth of 2 meters from the road, all the way along the grass and the road meander forward, herds of cattle and sheep under the care of the herdsman, along the river to draw water, the road gradually shortened, gradually parallel to the grass, a long sandy road appeared in front, Li Hao said about ten kilometers, There are a total of 50 kilometers of sand and gravel road to the mine, and there is a section in front of this section, and there is a gravel road and dirt road all the way to the mine. The vast meadows, the green spaces in the distance and the blue sky along the way are high and cloudy, but Chihiro fell into a deep confusion, she felt that she voluntarily or unvoluntarily crossed into the circle of life before the seventies of the twentieth century, for the sake of life, or for Li Hao, do I have to live here?

From the county seat to the mine, a total of 100 kilometers of travel, six hours of time, finally arrived, got out of the car, look at the watch, it was almost seven o'clock, fortunately the sun is still very high, but it is very cold, car drivers, repair workers, small shops nearby, give people the feeling that there is still only one word: "dirty"! Qianxun was looking around, and Li Hao came over to greet him, "Qianxun, Xiao Liu, let's get in the car and drive in as soon as possible, otherwise the sun will go down, and it will be even colder, and we are not prepared to spend the night here, so we have to return to the county seat early." With a greeting, the three of them got into the car again and drove towards the coal mine. The three of them had to drive along a dirt road that stretched inward, and the mountains in the distance were full of excavators and vehicles, and the dirt roads with potholes extended from the side of the mountain, intersecting with the road they were driving on, turning into a crossroads, all of which were busy with vehicles, shuttling back and forth, which was really a strange sight that had never been seen before! Now, even Yang Qianxun believes that it is possible to make money by engaging in transportation here, as long as you can endure hardships, are not afraid of being dirty or tired, and work hard for three or five years, you can definitely make money!

Like a village in front, Li Hao said that it was Muli Town, there are more than 1,000 people in the town, here is not more than the mainland, not more than Shenzhen, the land is vast and sparsely populated, although it is called a township, in fact, there are very few people, and the whole Tianjun County is less than 20,000 people. In the car, I took a general tour of the town of Kiri, there is an Internet café, an inn with a hotel sign, if it can also be called a hotel, there are more bathhouses, I don't know what it looks like, Chihiro imagined the water flowing in the bathhouse and the same color as coal, I felt very sick to my stomach, and immediately forced myself not to think about it, there is also a gas station, a few small shops, a barber shop, and of course, most of all, a shop that sells truck supplies and car repair. It can also be said that although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs.

The three of them drove the car to the end of the road, saw the Muli town government and the sign hanging at the door, and really determined that this was indeed a township. Returning the same way, the three of them discussed to visit the driver who stopped along the way, next to the gas station, Li Hao stopped the car, the three got out of the car, chatted with someone respectively, ten minutes later, and returned to the car, Liu Zhiyang said excitedly, "Say that a car with 50 tons of coal, a trip can earn 14500, two round-trips a day, you can earn more than three thousand, hehe, really do it, send it!" Yang Qianxun nodded, "I asked two drivers, and they both said that the net profit of a car is about 1,000 yuan." Don't say whether you can earn 3,000 or 2,000 a day, you can earn more than 1,000 a day! Li Hao started the car and continued to walk along the way back, "I have decided, work hard for three years, buy ten cars first, hire twenty drivers, work shifts day and night, and strive to remove the driver's salary, fuel money, car maintenance and other expenses, and earn a thousand yuan a day for a car, just be conservative, how about it?" ”

"Okay,!" Liu Zhiyang waved his hand, as if he had cut it out.

"Then ...... Let's go! Yang Qianxun knew that he couldn't go back to Shenzhen. From today onwards, it will be consumed in this dirty and thorough wood.