Chapter 17: Shangri-La

"I didn't mean anything else, I was stupid and I said the wrong thing." I realized that I said something I shouldn't have said and quickly apologized, rubbing my hand against Shen Qian's back.

"You're stupid? Aren't you lawyers just eating with your mouth, you just have a careful eye. Yes, I admit that there are many people who pursue me, but do you know how many men I have rejected for you? Take your hands away, and don't touch me. ”

"Yes, I'm careful, Sissi, don't be upset, I was wrong." I couldn't make out her expression, but her body was starting to loosen, and I tickled her with my hands up and down.

Shen Qian laughed out loud, turned sideways, and her depressed expression began to soothe. Lonely men and widows, long nights, natural flowers before the moon......

The next day, we got up early to make rice noodles early, and we set off early. I found the phone number I remembered yesterday to contact the eldest sister of You Hai, where as long as it involves money, I must bargain hard. If I hadn't been prepared and had an approximate price in my notebook, I would have been the only one who would have suffered from the price. Of course, in terms of bargaining skills, Shen Qian is more suitable than me, she dares to take out the posture of a shrew and scold the street. Facing the eldest sister, I still can't let go of my hands and feet in the face of a man. She spat and flew together, and did not give in at all, making the eldest sister who asked for the price depressed. "See, learn to do it, this is bargaining." Shen Qian's jokingly boasting made me love her more and more, and at the same time, it deepened my understanding of her more deeply.

We took a cruise to Erhai Lake, and there were two scenic spots on the way, Tianjing Pavilion / Guanyin Pavilion and Jinsuo Island to stop for a while. Most northerners who lack water have no concept of the sea, how big is the sea? The endless Erhai Lake is very fresh to me and Shen Qian, and the vast Erhai Lake can always make people feel comfortable. At noon, we had lunch on Jinsuo Island, where the Bai people lived, and discussed the itinerary for the afternoon. In the afternoon, we were only allowed to choose between Cangshan, Xizhou Residence and Butterfly Spring, and Shen Qian finally decided to go to Cangshan. Take the big cableway to visit Cangshan like a horse and a flower, except for taking pictures, I don't dare to stop more. Looking at the lush scenery at your feet and the mountains in the distance, the mood has always been beautiful and happy.

In the evening, we returned to Foreigner's Street to pack our bags and after checking out, we took a sleeper bus on the night shift to Shangri-La, the second stop of our trip. Shangri-La is a place mentioned by American Hilton in his novel "Lost Horizon", which inevitably adds some mystery. In order to develop tourism, the people of Yunnan changed the original Zhongdian County to Shangri-La County after the guidance of experts, which is subordinate to Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The Shangri-La range indicated by our usual tours is also very light, such as Meili Snow Mountain, Haba Snow Mountain, Tiger Leaping Gorge, etc. Not only is the area high in altitude, but it is also not easily accessible, which I have seen from travel and geography magazines. We were lying on the sleeper in the car, and I was playing in front of Shen Qian, who had no intention of listening, fiddling with the photos taken in Dali in the past two days.

"Yuan'er, the photos you took are getting more and more presentable, give me a compliment. Look at this one, the scenery, the proportions, and the expressions are good. Shen Qian flipped through the photos and handed them to me from time to time.

"Hmm...... People are beautiful no matter what. ”

"Your mouth is so sweet, smeared with honey?"

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At noon the next day, I entered the Songzanlin Temple, known as the Little Potala Palace, and the sacred and majestic momentum made people can't help but become pious. The architectural style of Songzanlin Monastery is a Tibetan-style watchhouse building, with earth, stone and wood structure. There is an oval-shaped city wall on the periphery of the temple, and the main hall is majestic and gorgeous, and the murals in the hall are brightly colored. This is a Tibetan Buddhist temple, unlike the monks and tour guides in the tourist route, they always try to cheat tourists out of their money, except for the entrance fee. Asking the living Buddha to touch the top and bless the little lama in the main hall are both experiences that Shen Qian and I have never tried. The little lama presented a bracelet, and we politely returned the appropriate incense money.

Shen Qian and I strolled along the stone path outside the temple and chatted. "Sissi, do you believe in Buddhism?" I asked curiously. "It's hard to say, people should always believe something. You've been carrying it with you since you were a child, has it brought you any good luck? Shen Qian rubbed Guanyin around her neck and asked me. I was serious and straightforward, saying, "The greatest good fortune it has brought me is you, and I don't even know how to treat you." ”

Shen Qian smiled: "I will say sweet words all day long, but I am not allowed to say these things to other girls." ”

"How can I be, you don't know who I am."

"That's not good, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs." Shen Qian's expression and tone were very serious.

"That'...... I swear, if I, Qin Yuan, have disloyal behavior towards you Shen Qian, I will be thundered in the sky. I stumbled in a hurry, and I put up three fingers and immediately expressed my position.

"Okay, I believe you, I'll tease you."

"Ahem, I'm in a hurry for a long time. I swore by it, shouldn't you say the same? ”

"I didn't force you, why should I show it?" Seeing that the situation was not good, Shen Qian laughed and slipped away.

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Other famous attractions in Zhongdian County include Bita Sea and Baishuitai. One is a plateau meadow, a green meadow beside the lake, which is beautiful. One is the phenomenon of erosion forming a unique natural wonder, which is a fresh picture. In the evening, with the tourists, we chartered a car to the Jinsha River and crossed the river by boat. Around the seat of the Dagu Township Government, stay at an inn called Snow Inn. After a tiring day, we rested early. The next day's itinerary is Tiger Leaping Gorge.

Tiger Leaping Gorge is on the way from Lijiang to Shangri-La. After the turbulent Jinsha River flows through the first bay of the Yangtze River in Shigu Town, it suddenly turns around and goes north, squeezes through the gap between Haba Snow Mountain and Yulong Snow Mountain, forming the most spectacular Grand Canyon in the world, the narrowest place in the canyon is the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge landscape, according to legend, the tiger can step on a boulder in the river and jump over the Jinsha River. Yao Maoshu's expedition used to drift here, and although the heroic ambition was not rewarded, this place became famous. At the end of the Dayun River, the river surface of hundreds of meters wide suddenly shrinks into a torrent of about ten meters, and two huge stones stand across the bank, and according to legend, the tiger jumps across the river from here. The endless flow of Yunjiang water rumbled into the ground from below, and it only took about a minute to rush underground, and it was already a foreign country when it saw the light of day. The midday sun illuminates the dark abyss of the sinkhole, and the crashing waves flash into a rainbow of seven colors. Any falling object will turn into powder in an instant. The beauty buried in the wilderness shook my heart more than the famous mountains and rivers. The gusts of wind passed, as if the tiger had just jumped over, and left the majestic roar at the bottom of the stream."