I sat down on the circle chair tremblingly, and the two palanquin drivers didn't wait for me to sit down, they squatted down, put the sliding rod on their shoulders, and lifted me up as soon as the sliding rod bent! I slammed off the ground, panicked, grabbed the armrests of the chair with both hands, and my body stiffened with fright!

Lao Qian held up the chair, smiled and comforted me: "Sir, don't be afraid, you can't turn over the ......!" ”。

The two palanquin drivers looked at each other and smiled, and walked up rhythmically with the sedan chair, and as the two sliding rods shook rhythmically up and down, I also bounced up and down in that chair! Lao Qian saw that I was still nervous, so he smiled and said to me: "We all have this kind of sliding bar here, and we are not as particular as the sedan chair you have in Beijing...... In fact, our sliding bar is no worse than the sedan chair in the north! It is not only light and easy to lift, but also ventilated on all sides, very cool! Even if it rains, it won't get wet, do you see? There's a tarpaulin on top! ”。

When I heard him say this, my mood suddenly relaxed a lot. looked up at the top of his head, and sure enough, there was an oily rain cloth on the top of the circle chair, but it was not raining at this time, so he couldn't verify the words of the old money! I felt a little uncomfortable sitting down, so I moved my ass carefully. When I saw the slider carrying me out of town, I asked Lao Qian, "Lao Qian, where are we going?" ”。

Lao Qian grinned and said: "Let's go to Tongling, after Tongling, and then go further, we will go to the place!" ”。

I asked again, "How long will it take to get to Tongling?" ”。

Lao Qian rolled his eyes and said, "From here to Tongling, there are about two hundred miles of mountain roads, if we go quickly, it will take about three or four days!" ”。

I was taken aback, I didn't expect the journey to be so far. When I came out of Beijing, I was ready for a long journey, but I never dreamed that I would have to walk so far on this damn slide bar!

Seeing that my face was cloudy, Lao Qian had already guessed my thoughts, and he giggled and said, "Don't worry, sir, four days will pass in a blink of an eye!" Besides, the scenery along the way is beautiful, and you won't get bored when you sit in a chair! ”。

Lao Qian said that the scenery here is good, but he didn't say nonsense. Although they are not as majestic and tall as the northern mountain ranges, they have another charm! The hills here are endless, undulating and endless, as if there is no end. Every mountain is like a delicate and agile strange woman, they are thousands of postures, varied, Zhong Ling Shenxiu! The path between the mountains, paved with bluestone slabs, is only about a meter wide, and it coils between the hills, like a ribbon dancing in the hands of all fairies!

The mountain road is not only narrow but also slippery, and the stone pavement is wet, as if it has just rained! I asked Lao Qian, and he said that it hadn't rained at all, but the fog in the mountains had made the ground wet! The two palanquin men are barefoot, shirtless, walking on this stone pavement, whenever someone comes head-on, the two sides will turn sideways to be able to stagger by! At this time, I have to hold on to the circle chair, for fear of falling off the chair and falling into the mountain stream! Fortunately, the two sedan chair drivers had a lot of strength and were very familiar with this mountain road, so they didn't throw me off my seat!

The eighteen bends of the mountain road, we went around and around, walking on the stone road, and soon disappeared in a verdant green! We walked for two days in the mountains, and there were very few pedestrians on the road, and sometimes the trail was very steep, so I jumped off the pole and tried to walk a few miles on my own. For me, a foreigner, the mountain roads here are beyond our control! The vegetation on the roadside grows luxuriantly, and there is an occasional spring flowing down from the mountain! When they were tired of walking, they would sit on the rocks in the river to rest, and I would stand on the shore and look out into the distance, looking up the river!

The river glowed phosphorrescent in the sunlight, and I couldn't see anything clearly, but there was a strange big bird in the bamboo forest on the bank, crying loudly! Lao Qian took out a pebble from the water, loudly scared the strange bird in the bamboo forest, and then threw a stone at the place where the bird called!

The stone passed through the bamboo leaves, threw it into the bamboo forest, and frightened the big bird into the air! I blamed Lao Qian and said, "The bird is calling so well, what are you doing with it?" ”。

Lao Qian said to me very seriously: "Sir, I don't know, that bird just now is not a good bird, we will be unlucky to ...... after listening to its call!" ”。

I know that in this desolate and remote place, the candle flame of modern civilization has not yet shone in, and people's minds are still wild and ignorant, I smiled and sighed that the beautiful scenery in front of me was broken by old money! The palanquin bearers rested, they drank enough of the spring, smoked enough hookah, and regained their strength, so we continued on the road again!

For the first two nights we spent the night at the mountain people's house, and on the third day, we missed the night due to the rush to travel. The two palanquin drivers said it didn't matter, go two more miles ahead, and there would be a broken temple there, enough for us to rest for one night!

I have no choice with Lao Qian, and now I can only listen to the sedan chair man! The palanquin man saw that Lao Qian and I were not very happy, so he said to us: "The temple is on the side of the road, and it is very clean inside. ”。

Lao Qian and I glanced at each other, and we both felt that the two palanquin drivers in front of us were a little suspicious. Old Qian secretly gave me a look, which meant that I should be careful! Although I live in the north and don't know much about the customs here, I have read in the newspaper that this area is often infested with bandits because of the high mountains and dense forests! Could it be that these two palanquin drivers are bandits pretending to be can't be? But now that the matter has come to this, can there be a way back?

When I was hesitating, the two palanquin drivers couldn't help but say, carry me away, and after walking a short distance, I saw a broken temple! The broken temple is blue bricks and black tiles, and the side halls have collapsed, leaving only one big hall!

They carried me to the gate of the ruined temple, dropped the sedan chair and said to me and Lao Qian, "Let's spend the night here tonight, and we can rush into the city tomorrow!" ”。 Lao Qian and I saw that it was getting late, and we couldn't leave if we wanted to, so we had to follow the two of us into the broken temple!

There are several statues of mud fetal gods in the broken temple, and the ground is paved with square bricks, the place is not big, but it is enough for four people to rest! The two palanquin bearers brought their own dry food, they took out the dry food, divided it with me and the old money, I saw that they were eating a kind of coarse bread and a handful of red peppers, and immediately lost their appetite, I thanked the two palanquin men for their kindness, and stared outside! At this point, the sky outside was already as dark as ink!

To my surprise, the old money did not refuse, he munched on the coarse bread while sizzling, his face was dripping with hot sweat, he didn't eat enough, and winked at me: "Oh, it's so spicy, sir...... You really don't want to taste it? ”。 I told Lao Qian that I had stomach problems and couldn't eat spicy food! Lao Qian sweated on his neck, and said with regretful words: "You...... If you don't eat, you should be hungry at night, and money can't buy anything to eat here! ”。

The two palanquin men sat far away, eating while winking at each other, looking at the old money. After everyone finished eating, they lit a candle and placed it in the Buddhist shrine, and the dim candlelight illuminated the faces of the people in a daze. The Buddha statue in the main hall was wide with angry eyes, glaring at us uninvited guests, as if we were uninvited guests, and they were not welcome!

The two palanquin drivers said hello, spread their clothes on the ground, turned over and lay on them, and after a while they snored, gritted their teeth and farted, and so on! Lao Qian and I both sat against the pillar, and we couldn't help but admire the two of us when we could fall asleep in such a place! Although Lao Qian has been running outside all year round, he has never stayed overnight in the wilderness! So he didn't want to lie down for fear of soiling his clothes!

I saw that the ground was wet, and there were some suspicious bugs crawling around, and I couldn't help but feel creepy, and I was most afraid of this kind of multi-legged bugs living in a humid environment from the bottom to the big! I stood up and crushed a few bugs with my feet, and though I had crushed them to pulp, they still shook their untold ......! I felt a wave of disgust and nausea in my heart, and I didn't dare to sleep even more! Lao Qian and I stayed up until the second half of the night, and he couldn't keep an eye on Lao Qian, so he staggered to me with his eyelids and said, "Sir, I really can't stand it...... I'll be confused for a moment......! ”。 After saying that, he wrapped himself in his clothes, leaned against the pillar and fell into a deep sleep!

The night is as cool as water, the candles in the Buddhist shrine have long been extinguished, the moon has turned to the west, and the clear light of the ground is sprinkled obliquely, and the trees and grass blades outside the temple are all glowing white by the moonlight! I was drowsy, dazed, and worried about the two palanquins. I cheered up and stabbed Lao Qian, who moved his body, clicked his mouth, and muttered vaguely, "Who...... Who's going to let people sleep? ”。

I saw that I couldn't wake up Lao Qian, and I was sleepy, so I simply leaned on the pillar, wanting to squint for a while, and comforted myself vigorously in my heart, saying that if those two palanquin drivers were really bad people, they would have attacked us a long time ago, so why wait so long? I was thinking about it when I suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps outside the door!

I was taken aback, and my sleepiness was immediately gone. I thought to myself, who had the courage to travel at night? My eyes widened and I stared at the temple gate! The sound of footsteps flickered, and after a while, a young woman appeared at the gate of the temple!

The woman wore an old cardigan coat and carried a small blue cloth bag in her hand, and walked into the hall step by step! As soon as she entered the hall, she was startled by the two palanquin drivers lying on the ground, and when she was about to turn around and go out, I stood up from the ground!