Chapter Thirty-Nine: The March to the Mountains

Ge Zhuang didn't quarrel with the old man for the first time, and ate a meal of hot noodles cooked by his aunt in the morning, and when we left, he pressed the passbook under the shelf bed in Ge Zhuang's room.

In the afternoon, I took the initiative to contact Fujino Eagle and told him that he could set off at any time, as for the equipment of the inverted bucket, I was preparing it after I arrived in Jilin, anyway, this time we are not going to a real ancient tomb, and there is no need to prepare so many things.

The equipment we carried was as simple as possible, and in the early morning of the same day, under the arrangement of the Fujino family, we got on the train to Jilin. This went to 3,000 kilometers, almost across most of China, the traffic was not particularly developed in those years, in addition to me and Ge Zhuang, the Fujino family also brought more than a dozen bodyguards, these people look very strong, presumably some hard stubble, but Ge Zhuang and I are not worried, as long as we go down the underground tunnel, the advantage in numbers is basically not a problem.

Because of the relationship of identity, Ge Zhuang and I were invited into = soft sleeper, this is the first time I have sat in such a good carriage, I have also taken a train when the Sichuan-Tibet railway was repaired, and it is a special train (the officers who escort mortals are afraid that there will be chaos if we are prisoners of labor reform and ordinary passengers together, so when the labor camp went to the Sichuan-Tibet line to dig the railway, the whole train was full of prisoners), but the environment was not good, and the smell of foot sweat in the whole carriage was the smell of sweat.

Not long after getting on the train, the attendant pushed the dining car by and asked me and Ge Zhuang if we wanted to drink something, Ge Zhuang yelled that he was hungry, what can he do with just drinking water, and he didn't care if he was full, the attendant said that if the two of them wanted to eat, they could go to the train special dining car, and the things in it were all self-picked, and Mr. Fujino had already paid.

Anyway, the food is all from the Fujino family, and there is no need for me and Ge Zhuang to pay for it, so we followed the flight attendant to the dining car, and it happened that Fujino Kenjiro was also dining, and when he saw us, he immediately stood up and nodded to us, saying that the two of you also plan to eat something?

Ge Zhuang said that you are not talking nonsense, Lao Tzu is not here to eat, to chat with you little Japan?

Since he knew that his grandfather died at the hands of Kenjiro Fujino's grandfather, Ge Zhuang's attitude has been very polite, Kenjiro Fujino didn't say anything, smiled and asked us to sit down, and took the initiative to chat with me for a while.

The journey was long and boring, and although the Fujino family contracted a few carriages, it was impossible to cover the entire train, so there were still quite a few people dining nearby, and we tried to avoid touching on some sensitive topics after getting on the train, and just talked about some trivial things in life.

Kenjiro Fujino said that he had studied abroad and met Lu Chuan when he was studying in the UK, but looking at the appearance of Ge Zhuang and me, it seemed that he was very unfriendly to Lu Chuan, and asked us if we had any grievances, and he could come forward to be a peacemaker and mediate between us in the middle.

I sneered and said no, whatever that kid does, one day I'll make him suffer.

Everyone is at odds with each other, and they say politely, but it's just to make their faces look better, and Kenjiro Fujino knows that since the incident of inspecting the warehouse, I have a lot of opinions about him in my heart, so I didn't stay long.

I underestimated the distance of this journey, I didn't expect me and Ge Zhuang to stay on the train for two days and two nights, the third day of departure in the early morning, the train stopped in Changchun, we immediately got off, the Fujino family has booked a hotel in the city, we took a shower after entering the main stay, slept beautifully, and then set off on the fourth day, took a bus to Yanbian.

Jilin is located in the central part of Northeast China, in the geometric center of Northeast Asia composed of Japan, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia and Northeast China. It is bordered by Heilongjiang Province to the north, Liaoning Province to the south, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the west, Russia to the east, Tumen River and Yalu River to the southeast, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the river.

Yanbian belongs to the Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the streets and alleys are full of exotic customs, although everyone reads "Marxism-Leninism", but the way of life of the Korean people, after all, is different from our Han people, all the shops on the street are written with double slogans.

We couldn't read Korean characters, and when we went to dinner, we made a lot of jokes, and Kenjiro Fujino paid a guide named Assi to make it easier.

Axi is a farmer in his thirties, according to him, his ancestors are also Han, but the family moved to Yanbian to live at a very young age, so he is very familiar with the folk customs of the Korean people, and is also proficient in Korean characters.

Jilin also belongs to the northeast, the air is dry, and the winter is exceptionally cold, one or two degrees during the day, at night, it is said that the lowest temperature can reach more than 30 degrees below zero, Ge Zhuang and I are southerners, can not bear the cold, bought a thick cotton clothes, walking with both hands, or can't help but shiver.

But after going to Axi's house, it is much warmer, people in the north will build a kang at home, the bed is built with bricks, the bottom of the sleeping kang is hollow, connected to the firewood stove of the boiler, the economic level of the motherland is not developed enough in those years, and many remote places are not connected to the heating, so all the northerners who have been a little older must have slept on the kang.

One side has one side of the custom, Yanbian people like to eat sauce, but also spicy, this is no different from the southwest of our country, around the kang at night, boil a pot of hot water, and then use green onion burritos, dipped in sauce and wine, but also have a different flavor.

After eating and drinking, we asked Assi about the exact location of Longxingling, Axi said that you didn't find the right place to play, Longxingling was barren decades ago, poor mountains and bad waters, what is there to play? If you really want to travel, it is better to go to the Zhenwu Temple on the Vermilion Bird Mountain and Xuantian Ridge to play and see, it is lively over there and the scenery is pleasant.

The northerners are enthusiastic, and Assi is an honest man, drank some wine at night, guarded the bonfire, and his face was red and fluttering under the firelight, pulling us to gossip, Ge Zhuang and I talked to him about a lot of Korean customs, and knocked on the side, roughly inquired about the exact location of Longxingling, early the next morning, everyone gathered and set off, and continued to move towards Longxingling.

In the early morning of the next day, we purchased equipment and utensils for entering the mountain in the county town - mountaineering bags, mountaineering shoes, dry food products, wolf's tooth flashlights, hunting knives, respiratory masks and other tools, as well as some ropes, first-aid kits, etc., the most indispensable thing is the sapper shovel, but Yanbian did not sell it, so Ge Zhuang and I bought a few folding shovels instead of using.

Of course, the person in charge of the checkout is Kenjiro Fujino.

The barren mountains are far away, and it was my first time to come to the north, and I discussed it with Kenjiro Fujino, so I continued to spend money and asked Assi to be a guide.

The winter in the Northeast was very cold, and the old forest was full of snow, so we all changed into spike shoes, and Assi led a little black dog in front of us. We suddenly entered the mountains and forests from the bustling city, and listened to the clear birdsong on the branches of the trees, and people's hearts were suddenly quiet.

The old forests of the Northeast are covered with snow everywhere, and the trees are covered with ice shuttles, which look white and crystal clear from a distance under the reflection of the sun's rays.

Ge Zhuang was most annoyed to walk the mountain road, and after advancing for one or twenty kilometers, he stopped holding on to a big tree, gasping and saying to wait, he was tired enough to climb the mountain, and he would rest for a while and then walk. As he was talking, Ge Zhuang suddenly screamed violently, very sadly.

We hurried to take a closer look, and found that the trunk was full of small black ants, densely gnawing along the tree, he was busy complaining just now, and he didn't want to provoke a lot of ants crawled up to his elbows, biting his hands all over the bag.