After escaping the blizzard, we set out on our way again, and found Anin's horse team at the bottom of a slope, as well as the mysterious snow-capped mountain in the shadow of the underwater tomb, which appeared at the end of our vision. Just as we asked the guide how we could get there, Junko shook her head and said we would never be able to get there.

"Why?" I wondered, didn't you say that you would go up to each of these 800 miles of snow-capped mountains? Why can't this one go again?

Junko explained: "That mountain is called Sansheng Snow Mountain (pseudonym), and only a very small part of this mountain is on our side, and it is all on the border of North Korea above the snow line to that side, and we can't cross it. ”

The fat man was stunned for a moment and asked, "Three Holy Snow Mountains?" Was it the first snow-capped mountain that the logistics unit of the Volunteer Army climbed when it was building the post-war lifeline when Commander-in-Chief Peng resisted US aggression and aided Korea? ”

Junzi nodded and said: "Yes, it is that mountain, more than 2,400 meters above sea level, over this mountain, it is the hilly area of North Korea." ”

When I heard this, my heart was broken.

Anyone who has served as a soldier or is interested in modern Chinese history knows that the three saddest borders in the world are India and Pakistan, Esèlie and Lebanon, and the other is the 14-kilometer-long border line of Sansheng Mountain.

In fact, China and North Korea have always been friendly countries, familiar people know that on the western slope of Changbai Mountain, you can easily cross the border, and there are not too many checkpoints, in about 96 years when China's Changbai Mountain forest area was depressed, there are many people who often cross the border to dig a kind of called ' Alpine Rhodiola 'Chinese herbal medicine to make money, although the North Korean soldiers also arrested, but the Chinese ran away, fought guerrilla warfare, plus many people who came to steal herbs brought tobacco and alcohol, and they could also use tobacco and alcohol to get out if they were caught, so for a period of time, this border line on the western slope has existed in name only.

Only this section of the border of Sansheng Mountain is still very tightly blocked. The reason is unknown, but it is said that this section of the border is the old border between China and North Korea. Above the snow line is the border of North Korea, and in order to quickly transport strategic materials into North Korea during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a lot of temporary strategic passages and underground fortifications were built on the mountain, and both sides could quickly dispatch troops through these passages, so it was impossible not to take strict precautions.

Now that our food reserves do not allow us to bypass the very high elevation of the border, the only way to catch up is to take a straight line from the Sansheng Pass directly across the Sino-North Korean border and into the snow top.

Then our trouble is not some mysterious tricks and zongzi, but the very real bullets of the Type 81 automatic rifle and the regular army with few platoons and many companies.

Several other people also knew more or less about the situation in Sansheng Mountain, and they all looked sad, and we exchanged glances, thinking about what to do next?

Pan Zi comforted us and said, "Don't worry, there must be a way to sneak across the border." Junko, who has been a soldier here, must know. We can convince him to take us over and give him more money when the time comes. ”

As he spoke, he went to ask Shunzi, but he didn't expect Shunzi to shake his head resolutely and said: "No, it's impossible, there are only a few roads that can go up the mountain over there, all of them are high posts, a searchlight of ten meters, and there are all military restricted areas from the foot of the mountain, although there are not many people, but the sentry posts are very dense, don't talk about the border, it is impossible for you to get close to our own sentry on our side." The order I received when I was in the service was that when I saw any stranger coming into view, I would immediately shoot you in the sky, and if you didn't retreat, the second shot would hit you directly in the leg, without a single reason. ”

The fat man asked: "Then let's buy some fruit and bring it with us, and pretend to be ordinary people to come to condole?" ”

Junko smiled: "Boss, you're too good at telling jokes." Of course not, firstly, this is not a place where you can fish in mixed waters, and secondly, where to find fruits here, in the ice and snow, we carry fruits above the snow line of Changbai Mountain, which is more suspicious than empty-handed. ”

The fat man snorted and said, "What should I do then?" This broken line can't be killed? I don't believe it. The Macedonian defense line has been broken, can this still be as strong as the Macedonian defense line? Don't you fucking think you have less money? Just say how much you need. ”

Junko scratched her head in embarrassment: "Oh, it's not a matter of money or not, if there is a way, I will still have trouble with money?" If you wanted to go to North Korea, you would have said that I would not take you on this road, but now that you are here, I really have no choice. ”

There is no room for negotiation in what Junko said, and we were all a little surprised, but this area is not rich, and this border is not a big crime, if there is a way, Junko should not hide it from us.

Monk Hua didn't have any opinions, so he walked to the four sides of Chen Pi'a and asked the old man what he thought.

In fact, it is a question of continuing to walk or going back, if you continue to walk, you must be like Shunzi said, detour to other border lines, the time may have to be doubled, and the last few days have to be hungry to climb the mountain, if you don't continue to walk, you will go back to rest and recuperate, and start again, that is to say, these days have been in vain, and all kinds of hard work have been in vain.

I myself tend to continue walking, I don't know the purpose of the third uncle's deployment of such an urgent operation, and Aning's team has put a lot of pressure on me, and my brain hopes to be able to see the third uncle as soon as possible. Of course, at that time, I had such an idea, completely unaware of the pain of climbing a snowy mountain in hunger.

Chen Pi Ah Si sighed, obviously did not expect this matter to be so troublesome, these old ladles of Changsha, in their own line of business with one hand to cover the sky, kill people and set fire to anything, but as soon as they encounter the matter related to the official, they wilted, so the poor do not fight with the rich, the rich do not fight with the officials, he thought for a long time, and did not speak, and his brows wrinkled tighter and tighter.

I was a little anxious and glanced at the stuffy oil bottle to ask his opinion, but he didn't participate in our discussion at all, just looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Discussed and discussed, and no one could come up with a way to come up with a solution, and when we were at a loss, Ye Cheng on the side called us.

We stopped talking and looked down the mountain, and found that Aning's horse team had begun to move forward again, and looking at the direction they had set off, the target was undoubtedly the Three Holy Mountains.

A lot of supplies were unloaded from the horses and discarded in the snow at random, presumably to reduce weight and speed up the movement, and the snow below looked like a mess.

Ye Cheng said strangely: "It's strange, don't these guys know that the border line is ahead?" What do their guides eat? Be true to what Junko said. Carrying so many weapons on his back, isn't it practicing live ammunition for others? ”

I shook my head and said it couldn't be, I knew the habits of their company, there must be local guides, and maybe more than one. Such a professional private inspection company is best at research and public relations, and they definitely know the form here better than us, and they must have set a fixed route before they came, and they will not change it easily.

The fat man doubted Junko's business ability, so he asked him how to explain this? Whether there is a road that others know he doesn't know.

Junko squinted her eyes and said, "There is only one possibility to go like this." That is, they want to go around from the mountain pass in front to other mountains, and then spare that section of the border line, and then turn to Samsheng Mountain in North Korea, although the risk is also great, but it is much better than attacking the border defense line. Their team is larger than ours, and if there is enough food, or if the North Korean side opens up the joints, they do have the strength to make a long journey. ”

"What then? Do you want to keep up with them? Ye Cheng turned his head and asked Chen Pi Ah Si.

Chen Pia Si shook his head and didn't speak. Suddenly pointed to a snow-white hill on the other side, on the edge of the Three Holy Mountains, and asked Junzi, "What kind of mountain is that?" ”

Junzi picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and said: "That's the Little Holy Snow Mountain, that mountain is in our country, the Three Holy Mountains and the Little Holy Mountain, plus the Big Holy Mountain on that side, commonly known as the Five Saints." ”

Chen Pi Ah Si asked again: "From here, can you go up to this little holy mountain?" ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone was stunned, they didn't know what the old man wanted to do, and Junzi was also a little strange, and said: "The problem is no, I arrived in one day, and it is far away from the sentry, the scenery is good, but the road is not very easy to walk." ”

Chen Pi Ah Si patted the snow on his pants, stood up, and said to Junzi, "Okay, just take us there." ”

Everyone was confused, and Monk Hua immediately reminded: "What's wrong?" It's a waste of time, old man, to get there, we don't have food for so long—"

Chen Pia Si waved his hand, pointed to the continuous mountain range, and said: "The mountains here are stretching cotton, covered with snow all year round and looking around on three sides, it is a rare three-headed old dragon, the big feng shui said that this is the so-called 'group of dragons sitting', these three mountains are dragon heads, very suitable for group burial." If this heavenly palace is on the cliff of the Sansheng Mountain in the middle, and the two small dragon heads on that side should have a burial mausoleum for the queen or the near Cheng. ”

The three-headed dragon has a very peculiar pattern, and the three heads must be connected. Otherwise, the three dragons will fly to the sky, the dragon will have no direction, it will be a mess, and the descendants buried here will be killed by brothers, so if there is a burial mausoleum, there will inevitably be a secret road under the mausoleum that communicates with the main mausoleum of the middle heavenly palace.

There are many tombs of three-headed dragons in history. For example, the burial of the three sons of the Warring States period excavated in 87 is that the three related tombs are divided into three hills of the same mountain range, and the two ancient tombs on both sides originally had a tunnel with a diameter of about half a meter leading to the main tomb in the middle, but unfortunately when the excavation was carried out, these roads had collapsed, and the archaeological team did not know whether these roads were really connected, or just a decoration symbolizing xìng.

We followed his hand and saw three snow-capped mountains lying at the end of heaven and earth, and the surrounding snow-capped mountains

There is no difference, and I don't know where Chen Pi's judgment comes from.

After Chen Pi Ah Si finished speaking, he glanced at the stuffy oil bottle and asked him, "Little brother, am I right?" ”

The stuffy oil bottle reacted to the other person's question for the first time, and glanced back at Chen Pi Ah Si, but didn't say anything, and turned back to continue to look at the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

We don't know Datou Feng Shui, and we feel a little mysterious in our hearts when we listen to it, but since the old man said so, and the stuffy oil bottle seems to agree, then it's best not to doubt this set.

When we went down to the bottom of the mountain, where Aning and the others had stayed, we saw discarded luggage scattered all over the ground in the snow, many of which had been swept over, and there was no food left in it. Obviously, all the equipment has been re-screened, and some useless or repetitive things have been discarded.

The fat man even found a few robbers, but all the bullets inside were returned and taken away, leaving only an empty gun. The fat man was good at this gun, and he picked up a handful and wanted to take it away, but he was stopped by Shunzi, saying that you are carrying a gun, and it is not easy for you to talk when you meet the border guards here.

After the flat slope where Aning had stayed, and behind the mountain valley, we saw the footsteps of the Aning horse team extending into the depths of the valley.

We've cleaned it up here as well. Junko led us to the small holy mountain pass in the other direction. Soon, we walked into a world of white sè, and what we saw was the snow and hardship in the sky

See bare rocks and ice picks.

Changbai Mountain is probably the only snow-capped mountain in the world that you can walk up to. Compared with the glaciers of Kunlun Mountain, the environment here is much better, there is no kind of huge ice cap with cracks, and there is no need to worry about sudden fracture under your feet, but the glaciers of Changbai Mountain are also typical ancient glaciers, and the coherence of the mountains is not good, what ice erosion landforms, mortar holes, giant ice cirques, and bottomless ice wells. Anyway, I haven't learned the snow-capped mountain landform well, and I can't tell the truth, I just know that there is no road in front of me when I often walk, and I have to go around or lie down from the side, and it is also thrilling to walk.

There was nothing to say all the way, and it seemed that it would take us a few hours to reach the distance in a straight line, but we actually walked for almost a day to get there. When we arrived at the valley of Xiaosheng Snow Mountain, it was already evening that day.

We camped in a snow cave on a snowy slope about five or six hundred meters above the valley and ate something hot. The starry sky at high altitude is incomparably bright and clear, and Chen Pi Ah Si uses a compass and cooperates with the astronomical compass in his heart to roughly determine the route of the next day.

The people who walked all the way were sleepy and tired, but it was still early, and the fat man pestered Junko and asked if there were any hot springs around.

Junko also thinks about the hot springs, but he says that the altitude here is too high, and he doesn't come often, so it's a little difficult to find the hot springs, if you feel bored, you can walk around and look for them, and by the way, you can also go to see the place where the ancient ancestors were buried, more than a kilometer away from where we camped.

The inverted bucket always has a special affection for the corpse, and it is idle anyway, and we are all curious when we hear that there are dead people.

Chen Pi'a Si was physically exhausted, Monk Hua took care of him, and the others followed Shunzi to the left side of the camp

Walking through the valley, after walking for less than half an hour, I came to a cliff, below which was where the ice valley was, and it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

Junko found a good place to stop, and threw a cold firework down.

I saw that in the ice at the bottom of the ice valley, there were indeed many black shadows curled up in a ball, dense, some of which could clearly see the shape of a person, and some of them only had small black dots, and there were even some traces of sacrifice around the ice valley.

Junzi said that in ancient times, the villagers in the mountains were popular for ice burial, and in the early days of liberation, there were still people buried in this ice cliff, so now sometimes some old people come here to worship. The glaciers here are thickening year by year, so if you look at the innermost corpses, the little dots that are barely visible, I am afraid they are thousands of years old, and the outermost ones are decades old.

I roughly counted the black spots I could see, and found thousands, obviously this frozen cemetery has accumulated an unknown number of dead people over thousands of years, like this ice valley, there should still be in the small holy valley, then this snow-capped mountain is not a king-sized tomb mountain.

"Among these corpses, will there be the Dongxia slaves who were building the Spirit Palace at that time?" The fat man asked suddenly.

"I don't have to." The stuffy oil bottle looked at the depths of the ice valley, the fading cold light, and didn't know what he was thinking.

The corpse was buried in the ice, and it was impossible to dig it up, we looked around, it was tasteless, and went to look for the hot spring, but it really found us a small place, a few people washed their feet and faces in the hot spring, and returned to the camp warmly, and told the situation that the monk was envious.

On the snowy mountain, it is strange to say, people are sleepy as soon as they are warm, people are also sleepy when they are freezing to death, dinner is noodles, sleepiness hits after the end, the wind rises outside, we all enter the sleeping bag early to rest, Shunzi guards the first shift, we have a lot of people, there is no need to rotate people in a day, today's rotation is Shunzi, Lang Feng and Panzi three people.

I was very tired, and soon fell asleep, full of thought that I could sleep a sweet night, but I didn't expect to sleep for an hour, Monk Hua, Fat Man, Lang Feng, and Pan Zi began to snore at the same time, one after another, like a symphony, I woke up with a nightmare.

I couldn't sleep anymore at this time, and it was uncomfortable to lie down, so I climbed out of the tent and said to Junko that I will change with you, I will come to your class, and you will go to sleep for a while.

Junko was smoking a cigarette by herself, looking at the huge black mountain body in the moonlight on one side in a daze. When I heard that I was going to change shifts, I shook my head and said no, I took our money, and it was not good if I couldn't do this.

I said to myself, so I took out my cigarette and asked him to borrow a fire, and then I added some fuel to the stove and started a small talk with him.

Chatting with the guide was a long thing, and I told him a lot about the tombs, and he was very interested. He also told me a lot of local customs and interesting stories about the mountains and forests, and I didn't feel sleepy at all.

Later, we talked about this expedition. Junko told me that he was a frontier guard for seven years, but four of them were in reserve, and before joining the army, he was a herb picker, so he was very familiar with the snow mountain, and his comrades-in-arms called him 'Ah Lang Cai', which means the son of the snow mountain. So we can definitely rest assured that there are not many people who can bring people in like the mountains here, and he is one of them.

I doubted in my heart, and my heart said why did you faint before you entered the mountain, this must be bragging, but looking at what he said, it was useless to dismantle his platform, so I listened to his words.

Chatting and chatting, there were more topics, and we felt that the distance between us was also shortened, and at this time, Junzi suddenly asked me: "Boss Wu...... Actually, what did you do in the mountains, can you tell me? ”

I listened to it for a moment, and I didn't know how to answer for a while, and the two of them fell silent again.

Our purpose, how can I say it, is that we are here to find Genting Heavenly Palace, can you believe it? It's not okay to say that it's to rob the tomb, and it's clear that it's not to be a tourist, it's really hard to say, I thought about it for a long time, and finally sighed: "What do you care about this, I can't say." ”

Junko seemed to anticipate my reply and smiled, "It's okay, I'm just asking." ”

I felt uncomfortable in my heart because I didn't want to lie to him, so I casually changed the subject and talked about something else. I asked him why he became a snow-capped mountain guide since he used to collect herbs.

Picking herbs in Changbai Mountain is very profitable, and it is much more comfortable than being a thankless guide, and this is also the reason why there are so few guides in the snow mountains now.

Junko took one look at me and suddenly said something that made me almost vomit blood.

He said: "I am not a professional guide, I have been picking herbs since I left the army, it is rare to take people up the mountain a few times, and I will not go so deep, I usually turn back on the side of the girl's lake, and this is the first time I have brought a team in." ”

I laughed, "No kidding. ”

"Really, Mr. Wu, I'll tell you the truth, this season, no professional guide will take you into the snowy mountains, if I don't bring you in, you will only come in by yourself." He smiled at me: "It's too dangerous, if it weren't for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, in fact, we would have died, and it would have been a miracle to be able to get here without a shortage of them." But don't worry, although I haven't brought anyone in, but I've walked through it many times, and I'm very familiar with it, and nothing will happen. ”

His expression was very serious, and at first glance he wasn't joking, I cursed in my heart, and said strangely: "Then since it's so dangerous, you still bring us here?" Is that all you need to do with this money? ”

Junko glanced at me meaningfully and said, "Money is also a factor, and there is another reason...... It's because of my father, he'...... Ten years ago, he disappeared, when he also took a group of people into the snow mountain, and the route you want to take, but in the end the whole group of people disappeared into the mountain, I vaguely remember, the tourists who were looking for him at that time, and your dress is very similar, it is also in winter, and you have to go up the mountain, so when I saw you, I suddenly felt that I must follow you, first, I don't want you to die in it like my father, second, I have a very naïve idea, maybe the purpose of your entry into the mountain, It's the same as it was 10 years ago, so maybe I'll know what happened to my father. Of course, this is just my imagination. He smiled self-deprecatingly: "My father may have just encountered an avalanche and buried him in this snowy mountain." ”

I realized, "That's why you asked us what the purpose of going into the mountain ......?" Junko nodded embarrassedly

nodded: "Hey, you don't understand, the feeling of knowing that my father is sleeping in this snowy mountain, but I can't see it." ”

I didn't expect Junko's heart to be so delicate, and I couldn't help but be a little impressed, I used to think that he was just an ordinary tour guide with a flamboyant tongue.

However, the tourists who disappeared when they entered the snow-capped mountain ten years ago were dressed up very much like us, so they also came to look for Genting Heavenly Palace? I chuckled inwardly. But then he denied his idea, no, it can't be. In Changbai Mountain, there are too many places where a person can go missing, there can be no such coincidence, his father may have encountered some accident and died in the mountain.

Junzi saw that I didn't speak, thinking that the question he asked just now was a bit excessive, and said to me: "Boss Wu, I see that you are different from others, so I told you this, I hope you don't talk about these things to others." I'm afraid they'll have concerns. ”

I said in my heart that I would definitely not say that you are the first time to bring people here, and if you don't say what Chen Pia will do to you, the fat man will probably beat you to death.

So he nodded in agreement, and at this time, Lang Feng from the second class walked out of the tent, yawned, and was surprised to see the two of us chatting. Junko packed up her things, put urine in the snow and went to sleep. Lang Feng and I had nothing to say, so we also said hello and went back to sleep.

In the deafening snoring, I was half-asleep and half-awake, dreaming of Junko's father ten years ago, a bearded Junko leading a group of people up the mountain.

The next day, before dawn, I began to continue to go up the mountain range.

Judging by yesterday's Junko's question, he should have known that we were not ordinary mountaineers, and I knew that we were not good at disguise. At the very least, no tourist would be so desperate to travel. But we can't control so much, anyway, he is a tour guide of Changbai Mountain, and he has long been aware of receiving all kinds of mysterious teams, the poachers here every year, the Korean national pilgrims, the smuggling medicine pickers, there are not a thousand but eight hundred, everyone has a secret, what do we do, let him guess.

The road above the mountainside is even more difficult, the road is oblique in many places, and there are snow-capped mountains overhead, which are very prone to avalanches and cannot speak loudly. The snow on the road is too thick, thousands of years of snow layer, the bottom is almost empty, sometimes people cover in the snow, not to the chest, no one can help themselves can not get out, we can only carefully use long ice picks little by little to hit the foot socket, as if walking in a minefield.

The fat man has the fastest foot, which is related to his previous experience of snow exploration, he walked all the way, because of the altitude sickness, our tongue began to numb, except for Chen Pi Ah Si accidentally modified the direction of travel, and finally only the sound of gasping around was left, and the whole world seemed to be quiet and seemed to have no life.

After crossing the snowy road on the mountainside, we walked into an icy belt with huge snow slopes on both sides, where there is no sunlight all year round, the snow is frozen soil-like, the slope of the mountain is getting steeper and steeper, and the temperature is extremely low.

We continued upwards, one by one, staggering as far as we could, and began to use icicles and ice hammers to climb up the steep slope.

This small holy mountain is not among the sixteen peaks of Changbai, so we didn't pay too much attention when we came, but it is not a nameless small peak, this peak is far away from the opposite big holy peak, forming a valley in the middle, standing in front of the three holy snow mountains, like two guards guarding the door, this landscape is called the heavenly soldiers guarding the fairy gate.

From the perspective of small feng shui, the two mountains of Xianmen are in the dragon plate, swallowing all directions, if it is not on the border of China and South Korea, there have always been disputes, this must also be a place where the tombs of the nobles of the palace are accumulated. Along the way just now, even my level can see the strange trend of the mountains here, but with a strong dragon energy, we are more confident in the assumption that there is a tomb on the mountain.

Climbing the steep slope is different from walking, the physical exertion is greater, Chen Pia Si climbed for a while, the physical strength reached the limit, and he couldn't climb anymore, Lang Feng had to carry the old man, and we walked more slowly.

After another three hours of trekking, we finally reached the slope, by which time I had completely lost my mind, and relied entirely on conditions to follow the fat man.

The fat man was the first to arrive, and his physical strength was as good as if he had reached the limit, and after stepping on the snow on it, he was a little delirious, and pretended to step on a footprint hard, and said to us with open hands: "This is just a small step for me personally, but for Captain Touching Gold, it is a mother's leap." Then he fell into the snow and did not move.

I almost collapsed, my legs began to weaken involuntarily, people began to slide, Panzi tried to pull me up, but I couldn't use my strength after a few pulls, and he himself rolled to the ground.

I struck the snow hard with my ice axe to jam myself, and the others fell to the ground, gasping for air and looking around.

This snow slope is a huge area, and there is almost no dividing line between the left and right, if there is no Chen Pia four to guide the way. You don't feel anything special. The snow cover is very flat, with only a few black sè bare rocks protruding from the ground. The Three Holy Snow Mountains are on our left side at this time, much closer than yesterday, the top of the Holy Mountain is covered with white snow, the whole huge mountain like a monster stands majestically, the white top black rock, it seems to be more steep than the other peaks around, due to the relationship of the sunset, a strange light blue mist envelops the whole mountain, the fairy atmosphere is ethereal, and the scenery is very shocking.

Ye Cheng gasped and sighed with emotion: "It's so beautiful, no wonder they say that Penglai Wonderland is not as good as Changbai, and it is worth it after climbing for so long." ”

Several people are rough people, but they are also intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of the sunset around them, especially in this snow-capped mountain, the feeling of standing under the zenith is even more impressive.

Just when I was about to take out my camera and take a picture of the scene here, suddenly the fat man patted me and asked me to look at him.

I looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that the stuffy bottle on the side had already knelt down, and bowed his head very respectfully towards the Sansheng Snow Mountain in the distance. The originally expressionless face revealed a faint, very sad expression.