Chapter 30 The Sun Moon Mountain Falls Down the River

New Year's Day was happily spent under the hospitality of Qinghai friends. The next day, the three of them did not go to the office, and set off directly at half past seven in the morning and drove to Tianjun. In the car, Li Hao said: "This time we will take another road, turn from Riyue Mountain, and go to Riyue Mountain by the way." ”

Of course, Yang Qianxun and Liu Zhiyang had no objections, and after more than an hour's drive, the car arrived at Riyue Mountain. As the saying goes, "It's better to see the scenery than to listen to it." "In fact, looking at the Sun Moon Mountain in the past, it was two simple earthen bags, but a pavilion was built on the top of each of the two earthen mountain bags. From the root of the mountain upwards, it is full of various colored flags with Tibetan characteristics, and the colorful flags fluttering from a distance have a unique charm. Approaching, Li Hao stopped the car on the side of the road, the three of them got off the station to watch on the side of the road, and Yang Qianxun walked to the large billboard erected on the side of the road to see the introduction.

Riyue Mountain is located in the southwest of Huangyuan County, Qinghai Province, 40 kilometers, belongs to the Qilian Mountains, 90 kilometers long, the highest altitude is 4877 meters, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway passes through the Riyue Pass is 3520 meters above sea level, is a natural dam in the east of Qinghai Lake. Riyue Mountain is located on the dividing line between the monsoon region and the non-monsoon region in China, and is located in the overlapping area of the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Tibetan "Sun Moon Mountain" is "Nima Dawa", and the Mongolian language is "Nalasara", both of which mean the sun and the moon.

Sun Moon Mountain, has always been the throat of the inland road to Tibet, as early as the Han, Wei, Jin, Sui, Tang and other dynasties, it was the outpost and barrier of the Central Plains Dynasty. Therefore, it is known as "West Sea Screen" and "Grassland Gateway". Historically, Sun Moon Mountain was also the boundary between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet. In the seventh century, the Tubo Yalong tribe led by Songtsen Gampo annexed other tribes and established the Tubo Dynasty in Lhasa, which was bounded by the Sun Moon Mountain with the Tang Dynasty at that time. Therefore, the mountains of the place are red, so they are called Chiling.

Looking at the back, it introduces the story of how Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo went to the Tang Dynasty to ask for marriage, and how Princess Wencheng got married. At this time, I realized that the sculpture on the small square of the inverted river turned out to be Princess Wencheng.

Legend has it that Princess Wencheng, who set out from the ancient capital of Chang'an, must follow this ancient road expanded by her ancestors to distant Tibet. As the last stop to bid farewell to the Central Plains, Princess Wencheng set up a tent on the mountain, made her last dream in her hometown, and looked at her hometown for the last time. She stood on the top of the mountain, looking at Chang'an from afar, a desolate homesickness arose, and she couldn't help but take out the sun and moon treasure mirror given by her father Tang Taizong before leaving, but she didn't expect that what appeared in the mirror was the prosperous scenery of Chang'an, which made her feel more sorrowful. The princess was filled with joy and sorrow, and tears welled up. Thinking of the heavy responsibility of marrying and relative, he resolutely threw the sun and moon treasure mirror off Chiling. It is the sun mirror that falls in the east, and the moon mirror that falls in the west, and the broken lens buries the tears and wind and sand, becoming today's sun and moon two mountains. The two mountains face each other across the mountain, lips and teeth depend on each other, such as lovers such as father and daughter, their feelings and scenes, all of them are not moving. In order to commemorate this princess who knew the righteousness, the locals renamed Chiling Sun Moon Mountain.

In order to survive the stormy land of the Central Plains for thousands of years, in order to maintain the eternal foundation of the emperor, the harmony policy in Chinese history has allowed many famous and noble girls raised in the boudoir to marry thousands of miles to the bitter cold and wild land in the northwest, and Princess Wencheng is not the first or the last. Heavy history, the responsibility of peace, must be sacrificed a woman's love and happiness in exchange, as a descendant of China, standing on the Sun and Moon Mountain, looking at the opposite Sun and Moon Pavilion, full of desolation, Yang Qianxun's tears overflowed his eyes.

"Persuade you to have a glass of wine, there is no one in Yangguan in the west!" Princess Wencheng's great historical exploits will be admired forever by future generations!

Sitting in the car, Yang Qianxun has not spoken, Li Hao is also silently driving, on the bright asphalt road as fast as a mirror, on the soil slopes on both sides of the road through which the highway passes, many colorful flags of blessing, pulled above the highway, waving in the wind, there are pieces of small square pieces of paper floating on the road, flying with the wind, and Tibetans come to pray for blessings. Although it is a cold winter, the green of the pastures on the roadside has become lighter, but the leisurely cattle, sheep and herdsmen have pieced together a long scroll that is boundless.

Liu Zhiyang was the first to break the silence: "Do you know where the name of the river came from? Before the two of them could answer, he continued: "I checked the introduction on the Internet at home, it turned out that when Princess Wencheng arrived at Riyue Mountain and was about to leave the Central Plains, she looked at her hometown from afar and was very sad. ”

Seeing how seriously Li Hao and the others listened, Liu Zhiyang continued: "In fact, the Inverted River was originally a river that flowed eastward, and it was also a tributary that flowed into the Yellow River. ”

At ten o'clock, they finally arrived in a small town, and the three of them discussed finding a place to eat quickly. The speed of the car slowed down, and I walked slowly while looking at the small shops along the way. The most on the side of the road is still a ramen restaurant, breakfast time has passed, or there is no porridge fritters xiaolongbao in northern and southern cities here, there is no other way, the three of them entered a relatively clean looking ramen restaurant.

Coming out of the restaurant, Yang Qianxun said: "The next time I go out, I will buy some bread, braised eggs, biscuits and the like, and I will not eat ramen in the future." "When I drove to Tianjun County, it was already one o'clock, Li Hao called Uncle An Min's phone, but still no one answered, so he sent him a text message, saying that the three of them were waiting for him in Tianjun, and they must meet and so on. Then I found the hotel where I stayed last time and opened the room. There was nothing else to do for the time being, the three of them each took a stack of leaflets, drove to the Tianfeng coal yard, and went to the vicinity of the long queue waiting for the unloading of coal. Yang Qianxun walked around the coal truck for more than ten minutes, and did not give out many tickets, because some of the drivers on these cars were not there, and they were sleeping, and it was rude to wake up others. Yang Qianxun felt that it didn't make much sense, so he walked away from the long line of cars, arrived at the side road, and walked aimlessly towards the place where his car was parked. At this time, I saw the car from afar, Li Hao was already standing there, chatting with a black person.

Yang Qianxun walked a few steps quickly, Li Hao and the black man saw her, the black man smiled, and the white teeth on his face were very obvious: "This is Xiao Yang, right?" ”

Li Hao hurriedly said: "Uncle An Min, I saw it last time." Yang Qianxun smiled and said, "Hello Uncle Anmin, but your dress is really hard to recognize!" ”

Li Hao said: "If Uncle An Min hadn't called me, I wouldn't have recognized it." Chihiro, you call Liu Zhiyang and tell him not to send it, come over first. ”

After a few minutes, Liu Zhiyang also took his leaflet and walked over, and it seemed that he didn't send out a few sheets. Seeing Liu Zhiyang coming, Li Haocai said: "We won't send them today, leave some leaflets for Uncle An Min, and let him send them to us when he is free." Now let's go back to the hotel first, wait for Uncle An Min to take a shower, and take us to visit a few bosses who are pouring coal here. ”

Uncle An Min said: "I know the hotel where you are staying, you wait for me for half an hour, and I will go over to find you soon." I'll go to the checkout first. ”

When the three of them saw Uncle An Min leave, they also drove back to the hotel.

In less than half an hour, Li Hao received a call from Uncle An Min, went to the door of the hotel, and saw that he had taken a shower, changed his clothes, and was standing at the door waiting for them. The four of them got into the car, and Uncle An Min said: "Let's go to Boss Li first, this Boss Li is from Shaanxi, has been here for five or six years, has registered a logistics company, has forty or fifty cars in his hands, and pulls coal from the mine and sells it himself." Earned a lot of money over the years. ”

The car drove into a potholed dirt road and stopped at the door of a small hotel, Uncle An Min took Li Hao and the three of them into the first floor of the small hotel, at the door was a single bed, on the bed was a dirty futon, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy with messy hair raised his head from the bed and looked at them, but did not speak. Uncle An Min led them directly to the hall inside, and in the hall, facing the door, were two desks placed opposite each other, and on the tables were two desktop computers, full of papers, notebooks, and forms sandwiched in clips. A man and a woman sitting at the desk looked up and watched them walk in, the man looked at them and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Uncle An Min was still walking inside, and said as he walked: "Find Mr. Li." Passing through the hall, a small oblique door entered, a small courtyard with flowers and plants, a middle-aged man with a big belly walked out of a house next to him, saw Uncle An Min, and greeted loudly in Shaanxi dialect: "Haha, Lao Zhang, didn't you go to the mine?" ”

Uncle An Min also walked into the room with a smile, reached out to hold the hand of the big-bellied man, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, let me introduce you." Pointing to Li Hao and the three of them, he said: "This is my nephew from my hometown, called Li Hao, this is Xiao Yang and Xiao Liu, they are all from the big city of Shenzhen, and they also want to raise cars here, I will take them to you to see, get to know each other, and make friends." ”

Mr. Li listened to the introduction and shook hands with them one by one. Affectionately let them into the room and sit: "Come on, come and sit in the office." ”

Li Hao and the three of them followed in, this was the most luxurious office Yang Qianxun had seen since he arrived at Tianjun. The room is covered with a red carpet, quite clean, a large office desk is placed in it, a large rotating chair is more than 50 centimeters above the office desk, in front of the office desk, there is a set of large and two small wooden sofas, in the middle of the sofa is a wooden coffee table that looks very heavy, the table is paved with marble, and the coffee table is placed with high-end tea sets, desktop electric kettles, a plate of freshly cut watermelons and a plate of grapes. On the front wall of the office, there is a large landscape painting, and there is a treadmill behind the door, and there is no stove in the room, but it is very warm, and I think the heating should be burned.

Yang Qianxun was looking around, and a woman of her age with short hair walked in. Mr. Li pointed to the woman who entered the door and introduced, "My wife." The woman smiled at the people present, but did not speak.

Mr. Li turned around and beckoned them again: "Come on, eat watermelon, freshly cut." As he spoke, he picked up a piece of watermelon and handed it to Yang Qianxun, and then picked up a piece to Uncle An Min who was sitting next to him, and beckoned Li Hao and Liu Zhiyang in his mouth: "Come, eat, eat!" ”

One person ate a piece of watermelon, and Mr. Li had already made tea and put it in front of the four of them. An Min said that he briefly explained their intentions, and Li Hao also expressed their sincerity and need to do things in Tianjun. Mr. Li said in his non-standard Shaanxi Mandarin: "Now there are a small number of outside cars pulling coal here in our place, if you have a car, you can also come, a large part of my car is going to be eliminated, running for two or three years, and I can't do my job." You're new car, and that's good. When you guys are coming, let me know in advance, and I'll arrange it. ”

Li Hao asked about the current situation of vehicles pulling coal, and said that it was similar to what they had inspected before. This Mr. Li seems to be a very kind person, and he feels that what he said is also very real, which makes Li Hao and the three of them believe in his words.

After chatting for I don't know how long, the light in the room kept on, which made people lose the consciousness of the passage of time. A boy walked in with a large plate of boiled lamb chops in one hand and placed it on the coffee table. Yang Qianxun looked at his watch and realized that it was past seven o'clock. Mr. Li greeted them: "You're welcome to come here, come, eat mutton." Yang Qianxun thought to himself, are the people here all stained with the arrogance and roughness of the prairie man, and everywhere he goes, he brings out a large plate of mutton to greet guests!

Pick up a relatively small one, still like the first time I ate it in Tianjun's mutton restaurant, I can't bite it. Mr. Li saw the difficulty of Yang Qianxun's gnawing and explained: "Tianjun is more than 3,000 meters above sea level, and the mutton is not very cooked. Then he asked the man who came in with the meat, "If there is anything else to eat, bring me some." The boy went out for a while, and brought another plate of flatbread, Yang Qianxun saw how fragrant the others were eating, and no matter what the master thought, he put down the mutton and ate the flatbread himself.