Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

After breaking up with Hi, I walked straight forward in the direction Hi was pointing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The forest was damp and green, silent, and only the sunlight shone dappled through the branches and leaves in the sky. I don't know where I'm going, or when the forest will end. As I walked, I noticed a white mist drifting into the forest, which I thought was strange, because it was a clear daylight, and it was generally impossible for the fog to float and disperse in the forest. So, I walked towards the place where the fog had drifted away. The mist had a warm, damp feeling, and it felt wetter and hotter, mixed with a faint smell of sulfur.

Not long after, I walked to the edge of the forest, but I saw that in the wilderness outside the forest, there were dozens of hot water columns erupting dozens of meters from a high ground, and the momentum was spectacular, and the eruption continued. The huge steam spread like smoke from an atomic bomb explosion, so that the entire area around the fountains was covered in a dense fog for hundreds of meters. The hot steam burned the surrounding air, so that not a single grass grew on the nearby ground, and even the trees in the farther woods were covered with thick moss due to the diffuse and erosion of heat and moisture, and large areas of decay and lodging. The erupting hot springs create a large pool of water on the ground. The waterhole is like a huge steam boiler, and the entire sky is surrounded by dense steam, making it impossible to see the water in the pool. However, I can see the direction of the river by the shape formed by the steam extending westward.

This strange and wonderful landscape is truly a sight to behold. I've never seen it before, I've never heard of it. I think it won't be long before this becomes one of the world's most popular tourist hotspots, and this discovery will definitely be associated with my name. But this discovery also extinguished the hope that I had been so eager for, because the rising mist before me was not the herdsman's cooking smoke I imagined.

I sat on the meadow at the edge of the forest, watching the fountain and the steam, and eating the delicious bag of hare meat that Hi had prepared for me. This meat has been dried in the sun for many days, and it has been dried and hard, but he has never been willing to use it, but I don't know that it has become the dry food for me on the road today. This rabbit meat is really delicious, but it is also extremely precious. I didn't know how far I was or what kind of place Hi wanted me to go, so I didn't dare to eat all the food at once.

Since the river formed by the fountain coincided with the direction in which I was going, I hurried along the steaming river. Because there are no trees on the river, it is very flat, so it is much easier to walk and the pace is much faster. The river stretched forward in the primeval forest, and the more I walked, the more I felt that the forest had no end, and the more I walked, the more I felt that my heart was bottomless, and I watched the sun move further and further west in the sky, and the time of the day was running out, and my heart gradually began to panic. But I still believe that Hi is not going to send me to death. With that in mind, I mustered up the energy and continued to walk briskly.

When I went up to a small mountain beam, I looked down and saw that there was a gentle slope with a high middle and a low side. The sloping ground is full of fresh green grass, which looks very fresh and pure in the sun. In the midst of the green space are lovely groves, and two small rivers flow from east to west on both sides of the gentle slope into the distance, with no end in sight. One is the fountain river that emits steam, and the other is the clear and clear clear water river. I'm sure there will be Tibetan herdsmen by that little clear river. Ah, I finally came out of the boundless primeval forest. I was excited, and I immediately felt that my whole body was full of inexhaustible strength. So, I yelled several times at the sunny green field below, and then ran down the hill in a hurry.

From the ridge down to the creek at the bottom of the slope, a path flashed dreamily out of a grove. I was stunned at first, and I couldn't believe it. When I was sober and real, my heart almost jumped out of my chest with a sudden rush and surprise. After so many days of trekking and groping in the life-and-death danger of the boundless wilderness, I finally found my way and found hope. As I stood on the edge of the path, looking out of the grove by the river and winding away from the slope, tears welled up in my eyes, blurring my vision.

After a moment of euphoria and excitement, I calmed myself for a moment, wiped tears from my face, and walked towards where the path pointed. I guess he must have known about the situation here, or he wouldn't have sent me here out of the blue. But I don't understand why he didn't come with me.

After walking for a while, you will come to a verdant pine forest. The breeze in the forest is light, the air is fresh, and there seems to be a fairy spirit floating in the dark. As I walked, suddenly, I heard a simple and clear song in the forest. This song seems to come from the long-forgotten barbaric era of mankind, and there is a kind of longing and sadness in the dream, which makes people feel sad and tearful.

With the singing, a woman came from a fork in the woods. This woman was wearing a pink-purple silk dress, with long sleeves stretched, and fluttering belts. She carried a small bamboo basket on her arm, and her walking posture was light and delicate, very graceful, reflecting a bright and dazzling colored light in the quiet and clear green forest. She didn't look like the Tibetan woman I remembered. Because the Tibetan women's clothes are bright and clear, they have national characteristics, and they have the same rough and far-reaching distinctness and femininity as their singing, rather than the gentleness and elegance of the woman in front of them.

I stood in the shade of a tree by the side of the road, waiting for her to come slowly. She is so beautiful and beautiful, so charming and delicate, which makes people feel that the world is suddenly bright. I can even smell a faint and faint scent of plain fragrance. However, what surprised me even more was the bulging of her hair bun, which was very similar to the hairstyle of an ancient woman seen in pictures of ladies and costume films.

At this time, she also saw me, and at first she was startled, then she stopped singing, smiled at me, and then lowered her head slightly, and hurried past me. I chased a few steps and asked earnestly, "May I ask this eldest sister, where is there a family living in this forest?" She stopped, turned around, bowed to me, and asked in a soft voice, "Where did Childe come from, and where do you want to go?" "The woman in front of me is not wary of strangers, but she treats her so politely, which makes me a little embarrassed. I said, "I came here from Xi'an, and unfortunately I got lost, so I broke into this place." ”

"Xi'an?" The lady-like woman frowned, shook her head again and again, and said, "I have never heard of such a region." "I know that not to mention the women in the primeval mountain forest, even many mountain people in the mainland may not know anything about Xi'an. So, I said, "Xi'an is far, far away from here." She was still puzzled and said, "The kingdom of heaven is only one or two hundred miles long, and the little girl has visited it all over when she was a child, but she has never heard of this name here." ”

"Heaven?" I am a student of geography at the university, and I love to travel, and I have traveled to most of China, so I know the regions and geography of China very well, and even if I have never traveled to it, I have heard of it, but I have never heard of this place. I wondered and asked, "You have said that this place is called the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have never heard of it." ”

The young woman looked at me carefully, looked at me suspiciously, and said, "I see that you are strangely dressed, extremely intelligent, and have a compelling aura, and you must not be an ordinary person in heaven. "But I also wondered about her, an ordinary person in the kingdom of heaven, who was so strange in her dress and etiquette, like an ancient person who was stuck in that era a thousand or two thousand years ago. So, I couldn't help but ask myself: what kind of customs is the Kingdom of Heaven, and why in today's era of information explosion, almost no one knows that there is a paradise called the Kingdom of Heaven between the Himalayas and the snow-capped mountains of the Gangdis Mountains. I think if that's the case, I'm afraid I'm going to go down in history. So, I said, "I'm not from heaven, Xi'an is thousands of miles away." ”

The heavenly woman was astonished and said, "Ten thousand miles away? I'm afraid that Childe has gone through a journey of several years. I said, "It's not that long, it's only ten days and a half months away by plane and car." When the woman of the heavenly kingdom heard this, she was even more amazed, and said, "Besides, the kingdom of heaven is surrounded by mountains, and the snow-capped mountains and ice peaks are unattainable. "I look like I'm suffering and depressed, I'm not even as good as a wandering flower child begging on the street, how can I still look like a god? I couldn't help laughing and said, "If I were a god, I wouldn't have gotten lost, and I wouldn't have almost died a few times." I came through a cave in a high mountain and flowing water. Besides, now I can't even find a place to eat, live, and rest. The woman of heaven smiled at me and said, "Whether you are a god or not, if you don't dislike it, how about going to the humble house to rest?" When she said this, she did not have that kind of vague and shy look of embarrassment, and the Tao was a kind of natural and peaceful sincere invitation. I couldn't turn down the invitation, and I had always longed for a place that felt like home. I gratefully said, "Thank you, big sister." ”

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