In 2014, when the Spring Festival was approaching, business was getting weaker and weaker, and there were fewer and fewer businessmen and tourists in Lhasa, and they all went home for the New Year.

Master and I drove back, along the Qinghai-Tibet line, along with my college classmate, Brother Wei.

Brother Wei is a native of Qinghai and a mutual aid county in Qinghai. As early as when I was in school, I heard Brother Wei say more than once how energetic the barley wine in his hometown was, and in his words, "the sparrows who help each other drink three taels".

I have always had a good relationship with Brother Wei, and I was brothers who shared weal and sorrow in college, drinking and fighting together, staying all night in an Internet café together, and experiencing an internship in Linzhou County Hospital together, so I was ready to take advantage of this self-drive to go to Mutual Aid County to play and live for a few days.

Departing from Lhasa, I drove away at four o'clock in the morning. At 10 o'clock in the morning, I rushed to Naqu and continued north after eating in Naqu.

Brother Wei is a very talkative person, we are talking about the world, and he is even more non-stop along the way, from the customs of his hometown to all kinds of ghost legends, I am very interested in these and listen to them with relish.

Master is very knowledgeable about folklore, and he chatted happily with Brother Wei along the way. Listening to Brother Wei's stories of raising ghost babies and monks walking 800 miles at night made me feel very excited, because I had the experience of bone rubbing, and I still have some belief in these things, and Brother Wei told the story vividly and vividly, full of substitution.

At ten o'clock in the evening, we arrived in Golmud. When I arrived in Golmud, I drove for a long time, I was very tired, and I came to Ma Yihei barbecue (famous in the local area), and the servants got two catties of barbecue, and roasted some kidneys, and ate a meal to fill my stomach, because I had to hurry, I didn't drink. When I arrived in Golmud, I entered Qinghai, and I could see cool northwest men everywhere, remembering the story of the three horses in the northwest back then, in that era of war and chaos...... Well, let's go far, don't talk about this.

After a full meal and a little rest, we continued to walk from Golmud to Xining at 8 o'clock in the morning the next day, and then Xining went north, about 50 or 60 kilometers to Huzhu County, and when I arrived at Huzhu County, I arranged my accommodation, and it was already 10 o'clock in the morning.

Along the way, Master and I drove alternately, one driving and the other sleeping, driving for a few hours and then changing back, but we were not sleepy, but a little tired. Under the guidance of Brother Wei, we arrived at Brother Wei's house, not far from the county seat, and drove for more than 20 minutes.

Approaching the Spring Festival, the weather is relatively cold, Brother Wei's house is at the entrance of the village, and there are a few old people basking in the sun. Stopping the car, Brother Wei came down to greet the old men one by one. "Grandpa, Yao ('I') is back."

"Gazai, I'm back."

While talking, the door of Brother Wei's house opened, and it was Brother Wei's father who opened the door, I had seen Brother Wei at the wedding in Lhasa, and I was busy saying hello.

Brother Wei's father knew that Brother Wei drove back with us all the way, so he hurriedly welcomed me and Master into the house, asked us to sit down and rest, poured a bowl of nao tea for each of us (the scientific name should be boiled tea, Qinghai pronunciation is nao, very delicious), and greeted each other.

Brother Wei's mother was cooking mutton in the kitchen, and when she heard the movement, she came out of the kitchen, looked at her son, was very happy, and greeted me and Master warmly.

At noon, a sumptuous table was put on the table, and the mutton cooked by himself was particularly fragrant, Brother Wei's father took out a few bottles of barley wine and said, "Try the wine brewed by our mutual aid distillery, drink these bottles first, and then I'll get them." (Highland barley liquor, the degree is about 53 degrees, not the kind of highland barley rice wine, the kind of alcohol is generally more than ten degrees.) Drinking in a big bowl, eating meat, and the warm people of the Northwest made me feel very comfortable.

At the table, Brother Wei's father kept asking us: "Is it fragrant?" ”

Master and I both ate a mouthful of oil, and we didn't wipe our mouths while eating, and then replied, "It's fragrant, it's fragrant." ”

After lunch, Master and Brother Wei and I were basking in the sun at the entrance of the village, and there happened to be a few old men playing chess.

As soon as Brother Wei passed, the old man who was at a disadvantage immediately gave way and let Brother Wei come down.

Brother Wei was not polite, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them out to the old people, lit one himself, started playing chess with a cigarette in his mouth, and after a fight, Brother Wei had just finished smoking the cigarette, and the old man on the other side surrendered directly.

Brother Wei laughed, got up and said Grandpa, let's play, I'll take my friends around.

To be honest, Brother Wei is very good at chess, and I consider myself a chess enthusiast, but I have never won a car when Brother Wei asked me. In Brother Wei's own words, that is, "playing chess? Then there is Lao Tzu's ball. When I was a child, I didn't know what was written on chess, but I knew which child to go where."

Brother Wei took me and Master around the village a few times, and when we got tired, we found a corner to squat, smoking a cigarette and basking in the sun. Master suddenly asked, "Brother Wei, whose house is that house?" ”

Brother Wei looked in the direction of the master's finger, and then said: "That's the house of Lao Zhang's family in the village, Lao Zhang is almost forty this year, the old bachelor, he has never been married, he is lazy to eat, but this old boy doesn't know what's going on, there are a lot of balls, I don't see him working to earn money, and there are no relatives at home to help, so I haven't starved to death for so many years." ”

Master nodded and did not speak again.

I got up and told Brother Wei that I was too tired today, so I went back to the county seat to rest first, and then came back to Brother Wei tomorrow. Brother Wei knew that we were really tired, so he didn't keep it, so he went out to send us away, and didn't turn home until our car drove far away.

Back at the hotel, Master looked at the time, at five o'clock in the afternoon, asked me if I wanted to have dinner, I hadn't slept well for a day, and after a day's journey, I told Master that I wouldn't eat, just go to sleep, and get up and eat instant noodles when I'm hungry. After saying that, he fell asleep. The master didn't go to sleep immediately, but paced around the room restlessly, and walked a few laps before he slowly said to me, "Xiaoshuai, when you go to bed at night, if you ......?"

"What if? Boss, if you have something, just say it, I can bear you sleeping, snoring, talking in your sleep, and grinding your teeth. I said.

Master never said the rest of the words, but was still pacing back and forth, and it didn't take long for me to fall asleep.

Because I was really tired, although I went to bed early, I didn't get up at night, so I just fell asleep all the time, if it wasn't for the strange noise......