Chapter 21: Asahikawa Waterfall (Part II)

Japan is divided into four major islands: Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hokkaido occupies 5% of Japan's land area, but its population is only 6 million, accounting for 4.5% of Japan's total population.

Hokkaido is divided into four regions: Minami, Doyang, Hokkaido, and Doto, and Asahikawa City is located in the middle of Hokkaido, which belongs to Dohoku, and is backed by the peaks of the perennial snow-capped mountains.

When Meng Fan opened the map, he saw that Hokkaido was in a middle-high and low-lying area, and the Daisetsuzan Mountains in the middle of the country were running north-south, with towering peaks and snow all year round, and it was also the birthplace of the Ishikari River.

The Ishikari River is one of Japan's great rivers, and its water cuts deep into the belly of the mountain and flows rapidly down the southwest through the Kamikawa Basin, where the city of Asahikawa is located.

The Asahikawa Waterfall that Meng Fan is looking for this time is located in the suburbs of Asahikawa City, seventy miles to the east.

More than 70 miles away, less than 40 kilometers away, Meng Fansi may go back and forth for a day or two, just after this experience, when he rushed back, it happened to start school on Monday.

Taking advantage of the early hours, Meng Fan put on his black travel bag and started to hurry, he refused Chinosuke Kato's companionship, and righteously said that this was a personal spiritual journey.

Since it is a solo practice, how can the two of them go together?

In order to convince Chinosuke Kato that he is really practicing alone, isn't it? Meng Fan didn't even use his driver's driver to pick him up, saying that he would drive the No. 11 bus and go on foot.

At the Asahibashi Bridge, Meng Fan and Chinosuke Kato waved goodbye, and embarked on a long road alone.

At this time, it was just after 11:00 a.m., and there was a set of clean clothes, shoes and socks in the backpack, as well as a lot of food, including delicious rice balls, and most importantly, 30,000 yen "sponsored" by Chinosuke Kato.

With clothing, food, and money, Meng Fan was very confident, and after walking along the main road for more than half an hour according to the map, Meng Fan left Asahikawa City.

After another twenty minutes of walking, the tall buildings gradually shrank behind his head, and there were low-rise houses everywhere in front of him, and the green fields that appeared from time to time made Meng Fan realize that he had begun to enter the suburbs.

Beep beep –

The occasional honking of car horns sounded, and in the suburbs of Japan, traffic dropped suddenly.

Fields can be seen everywhere, occasionally farmers plough them, or pedestrians stroll through the countryside, with a light above their heads and soft light everywhere, very leisurely.

Meng Fan said that he walked to Asahikawa Waterfall, it was really not for the perfunctory Kato Chinosuke, the beautiful scenery in front of him was exactly what his heart wanted, what he liked was not the field cultivator, nor the idle tourists, but this calm and natural.

"Let's go! The stars in the sky are in the Beidou! Hehe....." Meng Fan's heart was moved, and he actually sang Chinese song, he has been speaking Japanese every day for a long time.

Singing back and forth, Meng Fan leisurely walked into the long national highway, according to the icons on the road, he has walked at least 10KM, and on the map, this national highway is nearly 40KM long, and Asahikawa Waterfall is in the middle and rear of the national highway, obviously there is still more than half of the road to go.

The road is still long, fortunately, there is plenty of time, seeing that it is nearly 1:00 at this time, the sun will reach the hottest period, Meng Fan hurriedly found a bush to rest.

After eating, continue to walk all the way to the northeast, only looking at the big snowy mountains in the distance seems to become an unchanging background, no matter how long you walk, it is not far or close, just there, unmoving.

Fortunately, Meng Fan's goal is not to walk up the snow mountain, otherwise Wangshan will run a dead horse, and he will drive 11 roads because he wants to climb the mountain.

"Well, this country of Japan is really not small, although Hokkaido only occupies one-fifth of Japan's land area, it is more than 80,000 square kilometers." After walking for another two hours, the sun rose to its highest sky, but the road was still unchanged in front of him, and Meng Fan couldn't help but speed up his pace.

Meng Fan thought that it was indeed good, Japan is really not small, but its two neighbors are relatively strong.

Russia, the largest country in the world by land area.

China is the third largest country in the world by land area

Japan is the 60th largest country in the world by land area..... Well, the name falls to Sun Mountain.

Japan: Damn, I blame me?

Compared with China and Russia, Japan is certainly smaller, but it is not enough than the top, and it is more than the bottom! Aren't there still many pocket-sized countries in Europe? Compared to those projectile lands, Japan is quite large.

Japan is an island country with scarce resources, and many industrial manufacturing needs to transport raw materials from abroad, but fortunately, their production level is among the best in the world, otherwise they will not have food. But Japan still has some materials that can be self-sufficient, but in Japanese politics. Under the policy of the government, these resources are well preserved and protected, and they are just deep forests that occupy mountains and mountains.

At 5 p.m., there was no farmland at either end of the road where Mon Van walked, but trees of high and low heights, and Hokkaido's forest coverage was very high, reaching more than 70% of Hokkaido's total area. When Meng Fan finally climbed a hillside, he looked back and saw behind him a series of protruding green hills, as if the earth was covered with a layer of turquoise blankets, and the emerald green waves were undulating.

This is the beauty of pristine ecology!

The beauty of time, the beauty of life!

Meng Fan, who had been walking for nearly six hours and was physically and mentally tired, drew a breath of strength from the beauty in his eyes, he rested for a moment and continued walking......

After a slope, another slope, the terrain is rising, Meng Fan's footsteps have become slow, in his original expectation, if the speed of 7 km/h is maintained, the distance between the two places is 40 kilometers, 6 hours, and at this moment should almost reach Asahikawa Waterfall.

The plan is beautiful, but the reality is brutal.

Normal people's walking speed is 4~7 km/h, but this refers to the speed on the flat ground, and human physical fitness is limited, it is impossible to maintain a high frequency of walking, so Meng Fan may be able to maintain a speed of 6-7 km/h in the first three hours, but in the second half of the climb, I am afraid that one hour can not walk three kilometers.

It's like everything in everything, it's easy to start with, it's hard to stick to it; But on the contrary, everything is difficult at the beginning, and if you can hold on to it once, you can succeed the second and third time.

Climbing up a slope, Meng Fan has a sense of conquest in his heart, climbing the second slope is a sense of fatigue, the third is surprise, and the fourth is boredom...... When he realized that the high slopes were endless, Meng Fan was already calm, and he was unwilling to give up, so he could only continue to persist in achieving his goal.

40 kilometers of road, 6 hours, a long lonely road extending the mountains, only the chirping insects and birds on the way, although the beautiful scenery is annoying, although the process is boring, but this is not a kind of washing of the soul and the test of will?

Although Meng Fan's body is tired, he knows better what he wants, his willpower, in this 40-kilometer journey, has been constantly exercised and beaten, and has become more resolute, but this kind of internal change, showing very restrained, Meng Fan has not noticed it for a while.

Time continues to pass.....

"It's finally here!"

When the clock hand crept to six o'clock in the afternoon, a fork in the straight road and a red street light divided the wide road in four directions.

On the sign standing on the side of the street, there are three big characters written on Kamikawa Town (Town), Meng Fan looked at the land under his feet and burst into tears!

My mother, I'm finally here, and I'm going to have blisters under my feet!

At this time, Meng Fan's stomach was already rumbling, but the food had been eaten, and he didn't have any more supplies except for half a bottle of water left.

The first priority is to find someone to buy some food and water, and coming to Kamikawa Town means that Asahikawa Waterfall is not far away.

"It's just, where should I go in Kamikawa Town?" Mon looked at the map in his hand in confusion, which showed that Kamikawa Town was next to the road, and Asahikawa Waterfall was within the jurisdiction of Kamikawa Town.

On the street signs, the three characters of Kamikawa Town are very eye-catching, but there is no direction number!

"Nima!" Meng Fan beeped the dog!

As a standard road idiot, if it weren't for the straight highway and there was no fork in the road, Meng Fan couldn't keep where to go at this time, and finally went all the way to the dark, and suddenly a four-character intersection appeared, how should he choose?

"Huh? There is actually a direction sign next to this Kamikawa Town, but the head has fallen off, and the light has left a vertical position, is this for me to continue to walk forward? ”

I don't know for what reason, a piece of the sign on the tin sign has been lost, and I can recognize it in the southeast and northwest, but I don't know how to get to Kamikawa Town.

"In this way, it can only be decided by the most scientific method." After waiting for a long time on the side of the road, but still no car passed by, Meng Fan decided to count the roads.

"One, two, three, four, five, go up the mountain to fight tigers......" Meng Fan counted as he pointed at the intersection and jumped to it.

"The tiger is not at home, hit the little squirrel!" As soon as the voice fell, the index finger pointed to the north-facing intersection.

Haha, sure enough, it's going forward, going north!

Meng Fan cheered and continued to move forward, when he suddenly heard the sound of "Ding Ding Lingling" in his ears.

Someone?!

Following the sound, I saw that there was an inconspicuous country road on the side of the road, and a figure rushed down the slope!

"Linglingling!"

This is a bicycle with a basket in front, Meng Fan squinted, there was a long-haired girl sitting on the saddle, the air flow in the opposite direction blew her dark black hair, as the distance approached, Meng Fan suddenly became surprised.

"Why are you here?"

"It's really you?!"

As the bicycle swooped down the slope and came to a halt on the gentle ground, Meng Fan and Michi Haruyuki asked the same question.

Yes, Michi Chunxue was not mistaken, there was a figure standing at the intersection of the hillside, I didn't intend to ignore it, but I suddenly felt a little familiar, and I rode over to take a look, it was really Meng Fan Xiaoer!

"Meng Fanjun, I didn't expect to see you here!" Michi Haruyuki said with a smile.

"Michi-san, you haven't answered me yet, why are you here?" When he met his classmates in other places, Meng Fan was curious, and the feelings of seeing his fellow villagers rose in his heart.

"Oh!" Michi Haruyuki pouted and said cutely: "My parents and I came to visit my grandfather in Kamikawa Town, and by the way, we are on vacation here." ”

Meng Fan was amused when he heard it, this girl actually has relatives here, but it was not in vain!

"But Meng Fanjun, what are you doing here?" Michi Chunxue glanced behind Meng Fan, glared as if she remembered something, and said, "Alone? ”

Meng Fan nodded and said, "I came here alone." ”

"From Asahikawa City?"

"Hmm."

"Si Guoyi (so powerful)!" Michi's eyes flashed with countless small stars in an instant.

Don't worship brother, brother is just a legend.

Meng Fan scratched his head, not feeling shy at all, and said, "Michi-san, do you have anything to eat, or drinking water, I came over and was dying of thirst." ”

"Yes, yes!" Michiki nodded and took out a bottle of mineral water from the backpack in the basket.

Meng Fan took it and thanked him, first drank all the water in his bottle in one gulp, and then drank most of the mineral water handed by Michi Chunxue, and his dry coughing body was quickly moistened by water, but Meng Fan forgot that he didn't make any effort when he unscrewed the bottle.

Mizhi Chunxue's face was slightly red next to her, she forgot to remind Meng Fan Xiaoer just now that she had drunk this bottle of water herself.

However, seeing that Meng Fan was in a hurry, Michi Chunxue was very obedient and did not mention this stubble.

"Thank you very much, Michi-san." It wasn't until the 550ml bottle bottomed out that Meng Fan stopped.

"Meng Fanjun, you are too polite." Mizhi Chunxue thought in her heart, this water is not 500 ml, Meng Fan Xiao Erjun is really a careless person.

"Meng Fanjun, you haven't told me yet, what are you doing here?"

"Oh! I've forgotten about it. Meng Fan patted his head and said, "I came to Kamikawa Town this time specifically to find Asahikawa Waterfall." ”

"Oh!!" Michi's voice rose suddenly, "Meng Fanjun, did you also come to see Asahikawa Waterfall?" That's a coincidence! ”

It turned out that Michi Chunxue went out today, just to go to Asahikawa Waterfall to have a look, but she didn't expect Meng Fan Xiaoer to stop at a conspicuous fork, as she said, the two really bumped into each other by coincidence!

"That's a coincidence." Meng Fan also nodded, the probability of this encounter is indeed pitiful.

Fate, it's all fate.

"Since you and I are going to Asahikawa Waterfall, let's go quickly, otherwise the sun will go down in a while, and the road will be difficult to walk." Michi Haruki looked at the falling sun, a little worried.

"Okay, let's go to Asahikawa Waterfall first, by the way, Michi-san, you should know how to get to Kamikawa Town, right?" After Meng Fan asked, he found Michi Chunxue's stunned eyes, and he immediately realized that he was asking this question too stupidly, and the little girl's grandfather lived in Kamikawa Town.

"Sorry, I asked a stupid question, let's go."

"Hmm." Michi Chunxue nodded noncommittally, and she didn't know which point of view she agreed with.

"Meng Fanjun, won't you sit up?"

Meng Fan had just walked a few steps, and suddenly heard Mizhi Chunxue's voice, and when he looked back, the little girl was waiting for him to get in the car, "Come, sit down, it's been a day, you should be very tired." After saying that, Michi Haruki also patted the back seat cushion.

Meng Fan was indeed very tired at the moment, but he shook his head and said, "No need, I'm fat, this is still a mountain road, you can't ride me." ”

Wow!

Unexpectedly, Meng Fanjun was so considerate, Mizhi Chunxue thought, and said, "Otherwise, you will ride me?" ”

Ride you?

......

What's wrong with today's children?

How big is that? Asking someone else to ride?

You're still underage, so lazy!!

For Michi Chunxue's lazy request, how could Meng Fan agree, he was tired enough to come over, how could he ride people again?

"No, I don't know how to ride." Meng Fan refused.

"Oh, okay then." Michi Haruyuki nodded, a little disappointed, but quickly said as usual: "Then you put your bag on my basket, there is still some distance from Asahikawa Waterfall." ”

"Okay!" Meng Fan is as good as a stream, in fact, the backpack weighs only a few pounds, but it can reduce the pressure of a pound is a pound!

"Meng Fanjun, I'll ride slowly, you can walk better."

"You ride, it's okay to be faster, I'll trot along." Meng Fan really can't wait to see Asahikawa Waterfall!

......

"Ling Ling Ling"

The wheels of the bicycle began to turn, and the beads in the front wheels made a centrifugal motion, and there were regular clanging sounds, and Meng Fan followed the car and ran towards the country road.

The wooden arrow of the direction number fell in the ditch beside the road, and it was so quiet that no one noticed it, and although it could no longer guide pedestrians, it inadvertently guided a love affair