Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

After much thought, I felt that it was better for me to go to Dongshan alone, so that no one could know about it, and I could make a way out of heaven in the future. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info So, I said, "Dongshan is a long way, there are many hardships and dangers, the girl is really inconvenient to go, if the girl is not suspicious, Longhua is willing to go alone, hurry up, and can rush back in a day or two." Ying'er was very moved when she saw my promise, and hurriedly said, "The son attaches so much importance to righteousness, so the little girl is grateful, please be respectful by the girl." So saying, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed. I hurriedly said, "Ying'er, please get up, please get up." ”

When Ying'er got up from the ground, I said, "Serving the girl, Longhua will never give up, but I don't know where to hide after bringing Brother Ling back to heaven?" Ying'er said, "It's not difficult to do this, and hide it in the reeds in the depths of the shallow lake." When my mother and I left, I left some bedding and yamak in the hut and used them for a few days. After that, my mother and I would visit my brother every three to five days, and we would often bring supplies with us. "I felt that I really ought to leave, and that it would be difficult to explain if the king ran into me here, so I said," I said, "What the girl said, and with it in mind, Longhua will take her leave, and tomorrow morning the road will be heard, and if things go well, there will be a reply within a day or two." Ying'er nodded deeply at me, and repeatedly admonished, "This trip to Dongshan is far away and extremely difficult, so please take care of your son." With that, he sent me out of the Spring Garden.

At five watch the next day, Yilan cooked a meal for me and sent me on my way. At the dawn of winter, the morning stars are full of the sky, the hoarfrost is all over the ground, the cold wind is boneless, and the four fields are desolate. I took a long sword, a bag of pancakes, and a sketch of going to Dongshan. This sketch was drawn by Uker, who had escorted prisoners to Dongshan and was naturally familiar with the journey. I rode unhurriedly in the direction of Dongshan, and arrived at the junction leading to Yunshan at dawn. From here, there is no road to the east mountain, and you can only rely on the map to lead from the forest and the wild grass to the distance. I took out my map and started walking towards the mountain it pointed to. I remember that it was when I went up this mountain that I really saw hope for survival. That's why I call this nameless mountain the Hope Ridge.

Entering Dongshan can be said to be a wild adventure, not only the road is remote, there are many difficulties, and it is easy to get lost in the boundless primeval forest, if you encounter black bears and tigers and other wild beasts, it is even more unpredictable. From the foot of Hope Ridge to the primeval forest, the adventure begins. I crossed the vast forest sea that covered the sky and the sun, passed by the steaming geothermal fountain, and came to the edge of a small river dozens of meters wide. This is where Hi and I broke up. But the map marks where to place the boat. So, I walked along the river, searching, and after a while, I saw a small boat only about two meters long on a pile of rocks by the river.

I tied my horse to the meadow on the edge of the river, and lifted the boat and put it in the water. The boat was made of a sturdy, lightly drifting tree, not very heavy, and could carry two people at a time. According to Ukir, when the palace guards exiled prisoners, they usually blindfolded the prisoners, sent them to the other side of the river in small boats, and then released the prisoners.

After crossing the river, there is still a vast forest sea. I walked straight to the east. The ancient trees in the forest are towering into the sky, and the dense branches and foliage block the sunlight, and only a warm light can be seen through the dense forest. Based on this light, I am constantly correcting and determining the direction of progress. After walking for about half an hour, I finally came to the bottom of the East Mountain. This used to be a place where Hi and I used to go in search of food, so I quickly found the cave where Hi lived.

With my sword in hand, I came to the entrance of the cave, which was a little dark, and I yelled at the cave for safety, but there was no movement. I thought I might have gone out looking for food, so I went into the cave. At first, I couldn't see anything in the cave, but when I entered the cave and looked out through the sunlight, I saw a pile of white bones on the ground, which had been weathered, but in shape, it looked like the joints of a human body. I crouched down and picked up the bones with my long sword to examine them closely. Just as I turned around, something was stirred under my feet, and when I looked at it, it was a human skull.

There is no doubt that this is Hi's skull. Judging by the weathering of the skull, he may have been dead for a long time, perhaps shortly after sending me away, for there was no food in the woods by then. An indescribable wave of sadness and disappointment came over me. I sighed for a moment with tears in my eyes, and then, taking off my gown covered with cotton clothes, picked up Hi's bones, wrapped my gown, dug a pit with a long sword in the grass in front of the cave entrance, buried Hi's bones, and brought a stone from not far away, and stood on it as a stone monument.

I stood in front of Hi's monument for a long time, watching the bleak sun move past the middle of the sky, so I knelt in front of Hi's tomb, kowtowed three times, and then walked towards the waterfall. Tracing the source of the stream, I found a thousand-foot waterfall hanging on a hanging wall. I stood on the edge of the deep pool where the waterfall fell, wondering how to get to the edge of the hole, which was the only way out of heaven.

However, the entrance to the cave is suspended on a steep and smooth rock wall, and it is completely impossible to climb from the bottom of the mountain to the stream hole. The fear and luck of the last time I fell off the cliff still scares me to this day. I would never risk my life again. But how can you get to the cave without that? I sat on the cold winter meadow and watched the stream rush thousands of feet into the deep pool, rumbling loudly, but I could not think of any way to reach the mouth of the stream safely.

Just as I was pessimistic and desperate to leave here, I saw a goshawk whirling from the bottom of the mountain and flying in the air near the brook cave. Looking for the route of the goshawk's flight, I found that from the slope not far away, I could climb to the halfway point of the mountain covered with pines and cypresses, and as long as I tied a rope about forty or fifty meters halfway up the mountain, I could hang down to the hole in the rock wall below.

In order to confirm the feasibility of such a plan, I walked down the hill and looked at the terrain along the hillside for a while. The slope of the mountain is about 70 degrees angle, all the way up, there are many pine trees growing on the rock slope, from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside above the stream hole, there is no thrilling steep rock wall on the slope, as long as you can climb down the hillside, with a strong rope tied to the tree on the hillside, you can go down the rope to the hole between the rock walls.

Although I couldn't bring Hi back to Heaven, I found a way to escape from Heaven, so I think this trip to Dongshan was very rewarding. On the way back, I was thinking about escaping from heaven. I thought that with a long, strong rope I would be able to escape from Heaven and return to the home I had been dreaming of. However, Hi is no longer alive, how should I explain to Ying'er when I go back, do I really want her to turn her full expectation into endless grief?

The next morning, I went to the palace of spring. As soon as she saw my look, Ying'er guessed that something was wrong, so when I was about to finish the story, she didn't show excessive sadness, but just sighed and said to me, "Brother's life should be like this, as long as the son can return safely, the little girl's heart will be steady." From her words, I can feel the true feelings that Ying'er has for me.

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