Chapter 300: Spirit Mountain
Chapter 300 Spirit Mountain
Grandma never dragged mud and water, and that night, we got on the plane and headed to our destination, Lingshan. Before leaving, my grandmother checked my luggage, except for a few sets of changing clothes, the rest were all screened out, mobile phones, laptops, tablets, all are not allowed to be brought, I now kind of understand why grandma said that this is a retreat, this is simply to find sin. I didn't even have time to say hello and goodbye to everyone before I was urged out of the house by my grandmother.
"Isn't there still her here?" Grandma pointed at Sister Wang Na, "Don't worry, I won't see you for a few days, that stinky boy from the old Yun family won't die." Grandma said.
I made a grimace at Ji Ziyang, fortunately with him with me, otherwise I am afraid that I will be bored to death along the way, Ji Ziyang still has a cold face, but I believe he must have seen it, I am used to his ruthlessness to the end. We hurried all the way, as if we were rushing to the battlefield, and the planes changed and transferred, and it didn't take long for us to arrive at Lingshan.
Lingshan, listening to this name, a bit of a Xianxia story, in fact, in China, there are quite a lot of places called Lingshan, and the boundary we came to is located in Mianning County, Sichuan. Lingshan Scenic Area, located on the west side of Xiaoxiangling, more than ten kilometers east of Mianning City, is a national 4A-level tourist attraction. The ecosystem here has not been damaged in any way, and there is a lot of natural scenery full of life, and I was attracted by the scenery as soon as I got off the bus. Although my family background is superior, in fact, I have very few opportunities to travel. Even if I had the experience of traveling when I was a child, it was a large group of people who followed and hugged each other, and I couldn't enjoy the fun of traveling alone at all.
Lingshan is backed by Xiaoxiangling, next to the Anning River, and the vegetation on the mountain is luxuriant. Mountains and mountains. It is the turn of spring and summer, and the shade is verdant and verdant. Along the way, the forest is shady and the sun is shady, and there are many springs gurgling. Peak loop turn. It's one step at a time. It's dizzying. Although the natural landscape is majestic and quiet, this journey to the mountain is not lonely. My grandmother and I are not around us, and we will meet some backpackers who come to travel. There were young travelers and older pilgrims, and my grandmother talked to them from time to time, but she was much kinder than before.
Climb to the high place and overlook, the scenery is even more beautiful, you can see the snow scenery of the snow-capped mountains in the north, the west side is the thousands of hectares of fertile fields on both sides of the Anning River, there is the majestic and quiet Niu Mountain, the south is the satellite launch base, and the east side has the Daliang Mountain that stretches for hundreds of miles and the Yijia cottage scattered all over the place.
We went all the way up the mountain road, because we are not ordinary tourists, we didn't take any travel guides and navigation, I came here for the first time, grandma seems to be very familiar, so she is my guide, I don't know where the specific destination is, I only know that along the paved stone steps of the mountain road all the way up, to the end I feel that I am already in mechanical movement, completely lost the sense of direction, but this makes me have some unprecedented feelings, the process of climbing, the body slowly tired, The brain slowly stops thinking, the breathing becomes heavy, the thinking becomes simple, and there is only one thing in front of the climber, which is a process of emptying oneself. After returning from the Shandong Ancient Tomb, my mind was filled with too many things, anxious, doubtful, full of negative energy, and occasionally temporarily emptying myself in this nature, which was also a kind of relief for myself.
Originally, I hadn't seen my grandma for a long time, and I heard from the people at home that my grandma's physical condition was not ideal, especially after my grandfather's death, I was more worried about my grandma's physical condition, but I slowly relaxed when I saw her performance today. The whole process of mountaineering grandma is in front, she seems to be in a particularly good mood today, along the way also keep explaining the surrounding scenery to me, for a while let me see a chic shape of the distant mountain scenery, a while and find a strange stone, but also from time to time to meet the travelers to talk and talk. I saw that her face was ruddy and her breath was even, but she was in better spirits than before.
Halfway there, my grandmother stopped.
"Aren't you tired, let's rest for a while." With that, she sat down on the spot, took out mineral water from her backpack, and I sat next to her, drinking water, looking at the scenery in the distance, and feeling that time had slowed down at this moment. I don't want to say a word when I'm tired, although I usually exercise, but the physical strength and exercise consumed in mountaineering are completely different. "I can't walk at such a young age, I wonder why I am so familiar with this place?" Grandma asked, I shook my head, in fact, I was also curious about this question.
"That was when I was younger." Grandma said, it seems that this is about to open the conversation, I quickly put away the mineral water, and listened attentively. "When we were young, not as good as you are now, in that era, you may not be able to buy things if you have money, I and the old Yun family, and a few other people, at that time have stolen a few small tombs, after changing hands, we have a little family foundation, young people, just like to travel in the mountains and rivers, so we go together, there is a scenery to see the scenery, there are ancient tombs, just rob the ancient tombs. Although our family is strictly controlled, after all, I am the only one who can make money, and I am slowly left to my place, and I am no longer constrained. ”
"You were so happy at that time." I said enviously.
"Also, compared to your generation of people who went to cram school as soon as they were born, our time was a little more simple and pure, and there were no constraints. At that time, we accidentally walked around here, I was 20 years old that year, I remember it was 1960, what was the trouble at that time, natural disasters, and it happened that this was the area where the disaster was severe. We had money on our shoulders, but we couldn't buy anything, and our faces were green when we were hungry. We didn't dare to stay in the nearby villages and towns, at that time, people were hungry and could do everything, and it was not worth mentioning anything at all, some people had reached the point of tiger poison eating children, and some people were killing people for food. We, the strangers, are even more likely to die in a foreign land like this, and we look at the hungry people on the road with fierce eyes on us. After several of us deliberated, we decided that we could not be separated, but that we must act collectively, and fled into the mountains overnight. Later, it was in this mountain that he found a way out and was saved. Grandma said.
"I didn't expect you to be so embarrassed, grandma, I always thought that the team formed by a few of you at that time could be regarded as invincible in the world." I say.
"What is invincible in the world, compared to those who are bold, it is not worth mentioning at all. A few of us will only have spirits after entering the ancient tomb, and the rest of the time, it is nothing more than that. "Grandma said this, but as far as I know, a few of them are not so ordinary, and grandma is really too modest to say this.
"And what about later? Were you saved and ran out of the mountains? I asked.
"No, this mountain was not developed at all, and there was no road on the mountain, we ran into it randomly, and soon got lost, and then we met someone who was destined to be saved." Grandma said.
"Who is the destined person?" I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
"You'll know in a moment, it's almost time to rest, let's go, let's continue." Grandma stood up as she spoke, and began to climb up the mountain road again. I looked up at the stone steps, which meandered upwards with no end in sight, and sighed, and continued to climb up after my grandmother.
The scenery along the way is not attractive to me at this time, I can't wait to climb to the top of the mountain, I looked at Ji Ziyang, he didn't go at all, his legs hung in the air and followed up, it's really annoying, as my ghost puppet, can't I be in trouble when the master is in trouble? He's good, he's happy. I watched him come all the way with a nonchalant expression, and it was clear that he did not reject this place. Finally I saw a building in front of me, it looked like a temple, thinking of the people along the way who constantly claimed to be pilgrims, I was able to understand, grandma was very happy to see the temple door, and the steps became brisk, I followed behind snorting and panting, looking around, the shadow of Ji Ziyang had long been gone, this guy had floated in front of us.
"Girl, fight for some gas, it's coming." Grandma said.
"Hmm." I snorted and agreed, and then I just walked with my head down, and I don't know how many steps I climbed, and finally I got to the end, and the steps under my feet became gentle, and there were a few steps between the two steps, and when the steps were finally gone, we were standing on a platform. There were a lot of tourists on the platform who were taking pictures in groups, and my grandmother walked to the side and began to read an introduction to a tourism profile, and I followed suit.
I don't know if I don't read it, I was startled when I read it, from the Parrot Mountain Tsui just now to the mountain gate of this temple, there are 4.7 kilometers of stone-level ancient road, no wonder I climbed without desire. After reading the tour introduction, grandma seemed to be relieved, and began to pace around the platform unhurriedly, changing various angles and enjoying the scenery. I'm looking at Ji Ziyang, he is leaning against a stone lion not far away and eating a lollipop leisurely, this foodie with a sweet tooth, I said in my heart. I didn't care about the image, I found a vacant place where no one was, sat on the ground, sore to death, about ten minutes later, grandma finally finished watching the scenery and walked over.
"Let's go, here we are, this is where we practice retreat." Grandma led me forward, and went up a few small steps, and a temple gate appeared in front of me, and I looked up to see three big characters written on the plaque.
"Lin San Temple." (To be continued......)