Chapter 3: There Are Mountains in the Mountains: 14. Singing in the middle of the night
In the middle of the night, I was woken up by Li Lili. For a moment, I felt like I was wrapped in a layer of ice. I turned my head to look at Li Lili on one side, who was already sitting on his knees wrapped in that thin sleeping bag, obviously too cold to sleep. Li Lili had put on all the clothes he could wear, but he was still too cold. The old cannon was still asleep, and nothing seemed to stop his dream. The old cannon used a low-temperature sleeping bag that I bought in Lijiang later, so there was basically no feeling of cold. Li Lili and I used the summer sleeping bags that the expedition team had prepared earlier. Originally, I also got a sleeping bag for low temperatures, but I added a juanzi temporarily, so I gave mine to her. I relied on myself to carry enough clothes to survive the winter, and I didn't take the cold of the plateau seriously. Unexpectedly, after a night's sleep, the sleeping bag was like a layer of paper, as if it had become a hole everywhere under the cold fingers.
The wind was whining outside the tent, and the cold was coming from nowhere. I scrambled to grab my sweaters, sweater, and down jacket from my backpack, and then I felt my body gradually warm up. looked at Li Lili, who was looking at me from the side, threw him a jacket, and said, "I'm sorry, that's all I can help." ”
Seeing Li Lili shivering and putting on my jacket, I took out two bottles of small Erguotou from my backpack, threw one to Li Lili, and said, "Try this, maybe it can help you top." ”
I twisted the cap and slowly poured it into my mouth, then swallowed it slowly. A fiery sensation slowly flowed from the throat to the stomach, and then from the stomach, from the blood veins to every corner of the body. Then, I carefully closed the lid of the small second pot head and put it back in the pocket of my clothes. Li Lili added a piece of clothing and drank a few sips of wine, which seemed to ease up a bit.
At this time, the lights shone brightly inside the tent. Not far away, there was an unknown singing voice, this song was like silk, like weeping, like a complaint, as if there was an indescribable concern, an indescribable sorrow. I felt that the singing outside had become a shadow, dragging on for a long time, faintly imprinted in my heart like a layer of light ink. I wonder if that song could be a soul drifting in the wind? I closed my eyes and felt myself walking on a dreamy path in the strange moonlight, and I walked around as I walked around. In the watery moonlight, the song echoes uncannyly. I was walking on the desert, the space was so suffocating that I couldn't and couldn't leave. The song made me feel as if I had lost my way in a dense forest, walking alone in the dark, constantly expecting the appearance of a person.
Singing outside the tent swayed. Li Lili seemed to have finally relented and said, "Who is singing in the middle of the night?" This voice made people's hearts seep panic. ”
I froze for a moment and said, "How would I know?!" ”
Li Lili said, "In this no-man's land in the middle of the night, how can anyone have the heart to sing? Could it be that we hallucinated in the extreme cold? ”
I closed my eyes and left myself in the dark. At this time, the wind outside was heard more clearly. The wind was not loud and blew around the tent, making a rhythmic sound. I suddenly felt like I saw the trail of the wind, the flowing lines shimmering and undulating like waves.
I said, "Don't you know that there is a poem in which a ghost sings in the middle of the night, describing this situation at this moment?" ”
Li Lili said, "Don't scare me, I'm cowardly. ”
At this time, the old cannon also woke up. The old cannon said that he had a dream just now. In his dream, he saw a wave of light, which seemed to come from outside the sky, and instantly overwhelmed him. Then wave after wave of light poured towards him, and all the light poured into the place where the light could not be seen, gathered there, and radiated there. It illuminates his whole body.
Li Lili said, "You are a full man, you don't know that a hungry man is hungry, and you drink sour plum soup in June." My only dream now is to have a fire. If there is a fire burning at this time, then the warm feeling is heaven. ”
The old cannon crawled out of his sleeping bag, but quickly slipped back into it. The old cannon obviously didn't expect that the night in the mountains would be so cold.
I said, "No, let's just light a gas tank to keep warm?" ”
When I was in Lijiang, Lao Pao and I took a gas tank from the expedition team, but there were too many things in my backpack, and both gas canisters were placed in Lao Pao's backpack.
Hearing this, the old cannon poked his head out of the quilt and said, "If you run out of gas from the gas tank, what will you do if you boil water for cooking or something?" ”
Li Lili said, "If people freeze to death now, who will boil water and cook with the gas from the gas tank?" Do dead people also need to boil water from gas jars for cooking? ”
I think what Li Lili said also makes sense. I said, "Otherwise, our brothers should also share blessings and hardships." The two of you might as well change your sleeping bag now, and each of you can experience what the other person is like at the moment, so you don't have to worry about the problem of gas tanks. ”
Li Lili said, "This method is good and fair!" As he spoke, he reached out to pull the old cannon out of his sleeping bag.
The old cannon didn't do it, and said, "Spare me, it's a big deal that I agree to bring you the gas canister." ”
Seeing that Li Lili and I couldn't resist me, the old cannon reluctantly sat up, gritted his teeth and took out a gas canister from his bag, and threw it to Li Lili along with the stove and windshield. All three of us sat up, making a small open space in the middle of the tent, and Li Lili attached the stove and windshield to the gas tank and lit the fire. A faint blue flame burned inside the tent, and before long, the three of us gradually felt the cold being blocked out of the tent, and the heat inside was slowly rising.
Li Lili roasted his hands by the fire and sighed, "This world is so beautiful. At this time, if there is a beautiful woman by the side, the world will be a better place! ”
The old cannon said, "Full of warm thoughts**." That's all it is. Are you thinking about the fake bride? ”
Li Lili said, "Which pot is not opened." And brothers, pour salt into people's wounds. How dare I think of her? If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be where I am now. ”
I said, "Heaven is pitiful." and thou shalt not live. ”
At this time, the singing outside was still wafting. Suddenly, there was a roar, "Who is so boring? Estrus! The three watches in the middle of the night are endless, and you don't let people sleep?! ”
The three of us looked at each other. Listening to this roaring voice, it turned out to be old ash.
The old cannon raised his head and sighed, "The tiger is mighty!" ”