"Jiang Chao? What river tide? Hong Tao asked the traffic police to say that he was blind.

"Qiantang River tide, tomorrow is the fifteenth, the city is inspecting it in the past few days, and you will probably have to be stuck here for several hours tomorrow and won't be able to get out." The traffic police answered Hong Tao's question while getting out of the car.

"Oh...... Okay, you go slowly, let's go to Haining. Only then did Hong Tao understand that tomorrow was the fifteenth day of the lunar month, just in time for the rising tide of the Qiantang River.

"Hong Tao, what do you say? How much is the fine? Give them as much as you want, don't bother with them, I'm just troublesome, we should go and change a military license plate before we come out. Boss Liu felt that he had a bit of an identity, and he didn't want to talk to these policemen, and he didn't come out of another car since the police showed up, but just made a phone call to Hong Tao, telling him how much he would be fined and how much he would be fined, and quickly sent the police away.

"There is no penalty, people are also kind, tomorrow the Qiantang River is high, there are too many people to see the tide, I'm afraid we will be blocked here." Hong Tao picked a good one and explained it to Boss Liu.

"Oh, tomorrow is fifteen? Our life is very good, you have to find a hotel, let's stay one more day, and then go to the reservoir after watching the tide, don't say it, I really haven't seen it. As soon as Boss Liu heard that there was a Qiantang River tide, he was also interested.

"The police said, I can't see anything when I look at the tide here, I want to go to Yanguan Town, Haining, I looked, dozens of kilometers away, should we go for a trip?" Hong Tao said the policeman's meaning again.

"It's necessary, let's go, let's go now, this broken West Lake is gone, it's full of people, it's boring." Boss Liu also doesn't like to visit these man-made scenic spots, and when he heard that there was a tide to see, he was about to leave immediately.

Said to go, Hong Tao still led the way in front of the car, from Hangzhou City to the Hangpu Expressway all the way to the east, even checking and asking. Soon arrived at Yanguan Town, arranged food and accommodation, and waited for tomorrow noon to see the tide.

At half past 10 o'clock the next day, Hong Tao did not buy a ticket to enter the tide viewing park to see the tide as the hotel waiter said, but drove an RV along the riverside road to a place called Jiuli Bridge, where the road is very close to the river, and you can see the river water while sitting in the car.

The reason why Hong Tao did this was not to be stingy with the dozens of yuan in ticket money. Rather, they are afraid of being swept away by the tide. In his memory, there had been several such situations in his previous life, because there were too many people watching the tide, they were all crowded by the river, and as a result, a big wave slapped over, and several people were swept into the river.

And the place chosen by Hong Tao can not only see the tide, but also have a distance from the river. No matter how big the tide is, it won't be photographed here, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, the small life is still the first. And both motorhomes have an escalator at the back door for people to get up and down. It's also a good idea to sit on the roof of the car and watch the tide.

According to the waiter in the hotel, today's tide time is 11:45, and Hong Tao and they parked the car and raised the roof of the car. Then one by one, I got on the roof of the car and found a comfortable position to sit on my own, as long as I was careful not to step on the glass sunroof of the roof.

"Hong Tao. Why hasn't the tide come yet, it's too hot here! "Erin just sat for 5 minutes, and she couldn't help it, in fact, she didn't blame her for having a lot of things, today's weather was called a stuffy, and as soon as she came out of the air-conditioned car, it was like a crab entering a steamer.

"Don't worry, don't worry, it's just half past eleven, and I have to wait for more than ten minutes." In fact, Hong Tao couldn't figure out whether this time was accurate or not.

"Here we are...... Here ......" Suddenly Boss Liu stood up and pointed into the distance.

I saw a faint white waterline on the water surface at the mouth of the Qiantang River in the east, which didn't seem to move, but it seemed to be moving, and the distance was too far to see clearly.

After 2 minutes, Hong Tao finally confirmed that this white line was the tide of the Qiantang River, because not only could he see that this white line was slowly moving to the west, but also he could already hear a sound of "swish, swish", a bit like rain.

"It's coming, it's coming, it's the white line." Hong Tao also stood up, and then told Old Gale in English that they should pay attention.

In fact, there is no need for Hong Tao to warn, at this time the tide has become a white dragon, blocking the entire river, the sound is getting louder and louder, Harrison has put the camera in front of his eyes, using the magnification power of the lens, to observe the tide.

"Oh God...... What a big wave, Pavey, can you see that? Harrison seemed to see something in the camera, and then asked Pavey, who was standing alone under the car, if the big fat man couldn't climb up, but everyone agreed that he wasn't fit to get on the roof if he didn't want to collapse the roof.

"I see, Captain, do you think this looks like a trumpet?" Pavey was also holding his camera below.

"Oh, it's so spectacular, it's hard to imagine why all this water is swimming upstream?" Old Gale didn't use the lens of the camera to see, in fact, the tide had already rushed to a few hundred meters away, and with the naked eye, he could see that the white dragon had divided into several sudden tideheads, and you chased me and tried to move upstream, as if something was pushing them behind.

"Hong Tao, is there a reservoir under this river? Open the floodgates on time to release water? Erin was also confused by the sight before her, and she couldn't understand why the water was flowing to a high place.

"Silly girl, there is the sea below, where is the reservoir, this is the effect of the moon tides, plus the estuary of this river has a unique flare shape, so the sea water will pour in, and these are the sea water that rushes in." Hong Tao hugged Erin in front of him and told her the general reason for Jiang Chao.

As he spoke, the tide had already rushed past the position of the waves, and it was no longer the sound of rain at this time, and the tide slammed on the embankment on the shore, making bursts of thunder,

"It's not going to rush up, is it?" As the tide passed, the huge energy made the entire ground shake, and everyone standing on the RV could clearly feel that in the face of this roar of nature, Erin was a little scared, and involuntarily shrank back, as if a big wave dozens of meters away was about to rush over.

"It's spectacular, it's beautiful!" Old Gale praised while taking pictures with his camera, he didn't say much, only when he saw something that really moved his heart, he would praise from the heart.

"Tao, can I stand on the shore and take some pictures?" Pavey, who was under the car, was also excited, holding his camera and planning to climb over the road.

"That's a good idea, you're swept down by the waves and plugged the river back, so the waves can be bigger?" Harrison had been holding his camera and filming wildly, not having time to make small talk, and only then did he squeeze out a sentence when he heard Pavey's question.

"Don't go, Pavey, every year there are people who are swept down by the tide and die, let's watch here." Hong Tao hurriedly called the big fat man, although he has good buoyancy and good water quality, but this is the tide, and a fish thrown in it may not be able to live.

With the passage of the tide, the wind rises on the river, and it is said that the wind helps the fire, and the fire borrows the power of the wind, and now it has become the wind helps the water potential, and the water borrows the power of the wind. The waves that hit the embankment turned into mist with the help of the strong wind, and the low sound also turned into a roar with the help of the wind.

"The wind is up, let's go, the tide is over." Hong Tao stood on the roof of the car and no longer had the stuffy feeling just now, but felt a little cold.

"Is there a tide every year on this day?" Old Gail listened to Hong Tao's introduction just now, and he still didn't understand it.

"Every month on the fifteenth and thirtieth of the month, once at noon and once at night, and every year on the fifteenth day of August, when the tide is the biggest, more than double the size of today, that is the best time to watch, but you may not be able to catch up." Hong Tao once again said the approximate time of Qiantang Chao, but in fact, he didn't know very well, so he could only say a rough idea.

"But it's not the 15th today?" Old Gale still had questions.

"Let's get in the car first, let's go find a place to eat first, this time is calculated according to the Chinese calendar, which is called the lunar calendar in our place, which is a little different from the Gregorian calendar." Hong Tao didn't understand the difference between the Chinese calendar and the Gregorian calendar, so he had to use eating as an excuse.

That night, everyone stayed in Yanguan Town, and Old Gale's interest in the Chinese calendar did not diminish in the slightest because of the meal, so Hong Tao had to go to an Internet café in the town to find information on the Internet, and then print it out, and bring it back to explain to him. (To be continued......)