Once you have eaten and drunk enough in the basin, you have to cross it and continue in a southwesterly direction. By this time, I had already felt quite wrong, and I could not find the source of the changes in my body. It is impossible for my body to be sick, and the extreme heaviness and exhaustion have not been around for a long time, which makes me think that the change may be related to the old shepherd, but I don't know the specific reason∵ basin and climbing the snowy mountains are completely different concepts, and I am faintly worried in my heart, with this state, can I cope with the upcoming challenges?

"Drink saliva, drink saliva and go." The old man handed me a jar of hot water, and I saw that the water had a very faint yellow, and there was a faint medicinal fragrance between the smoke rising. Looking up at Lao Fuba, his eyes were open in a daze, pretending not to know anything, but I noticed that his sparse beard, which had been pulled by Jin Dashao, seemed to be missing a strand of beard. I knew he was worried about me, so he secretly pulled his beard to boil water.

"No, you don't"

"What do you say? What a rambling thing, drank it. Lao Fuba couldn't help but stuff the jar into my hand, touched his beard casually, and said, "Don't worry about me, the beard is like water in a cotton sleeve, as long as you are willing to squeeze it, there will always be it." ”

I was moved in my heart, and I didn't know what to say, so I raised my head and drank it with my head in the jar, to be honest, the water boiled out of these ginseng whiskers didn't make me feel relaxed, but my heart was warm, as if I had more strength. Pack your things and keep walking. This month should be very hot in the mainland, but close to the snow-capped mountains, and located in a remote plateau, the temperature has been dropping, I don't know how many rivers I have walked before and after, Lao Zang, who led the way in front, pointed and said that the river in front of me was frozen.

It was a pool of water with a radius of about twenty or thirty meters, and the surface of the river was half frozen, and the shore was white, which was a rare spectacle even in this place. The cold smoke slowly flowed on the surface of the river, and the whole river seemed to be covered in a layer of fog. The river was not big, and it was not a necessary way to go around, but the anomalous situation made the three of us stop and observe in place. However, the flowing smoke could not be dispersed, and there was not much vegetation on the bank of the river, and after looking at it for a while, it was still in the clouds.

"What's that!?" Lao Fuba opened his mung bean eyes, looked hard for a long time, and suddenly jumped to his feet and shouted: "What is that!?" Is it a person!? ”

Lao Zang and I both looked in the direction of Lao Fuba's finger, and when we looked at it, our hearts jumped. Faintly on the bank of the river, there seemed to be a person, although he could not see the other party's face clearly, but his posture was graceful, like a flawless cloud, wrapped in white smoke looming. It looked like he was standing on the shore, and he looked like he had just come out of the river, gently swaying his waist-length black hair.

"It's a woman, taking a shower?" Lao Zang turned around and asked us in a low voice.

The shadows in the smoke were like that, but I didn't think so, it was an accident to meet people in this place, and it couldn't be a woman who had just come out of a bath in the river. We watched for a long time, but we couldn't see why, so Lao Zang had the courage to shout over there: "Who is it?" To put it mildly, we are passing. ”

There was no response there, the white smoke was still flowing, and Lao Zang closed his mouth after shouting a few times. At this time, the white smoke stretched out, and my vision became a little clearer, and my eyes moved, and I felt that the figure in the white smoke disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by a white flower that did not seem to be stained with a trace of dust and smoke.

"That's it! Is that! Is that! When Lao Zang saw the flower, his tone suddenly sluggish, and he stammered and couldn't say a complete sentence, and the whole person poked at the flower like a wooden stake, pointing to the flower on the bank of the river, with a look of joy on his face.

"Why is the girl taking a bath gone?" Lao Fuba looked very unwilling, and felt that the flower revealed after the white smoke dissipated was very stunning.

"We are developed, developed" Lao Zang was obviously extremely excited, and stomped his feet back and forth a little abnormally, I quickly grabbed him and signaled him to calm down first. Lao Zang drank a few sips of cold water, wiped his mouth, forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said to us tremblingly: "If you are not mistaken, it is the Buddha Snow Lotus"

Snow Lotus, which has always been a treasure medicine that grows in the Snow Peak area, has many legends about Snow Lotus, especially in the plateau area, Snow Lotus has been given a deified color. Legends are legends, but the real snow lotus is a treasure in Tibetan medicine, especially for women, snow lotus has the miraculous effect of rejuvenation. And the Buddha seat snow lotus that Lao Zang said is a different species in the snow lotus, the green leaves under the petals are clustered, like a small round Buddha platform, the white snow lotus blooms on the Buddha platform, and the white skin is not a little variegated. It is rumored that this Buddha seat snow lotus is the reincarnation of a bodhisattva.

"You wait, I'll pick it, pick it" Lao Zang drank water, temporarily controlled his emotions, and then lightly put down his luggage and made a silent gesture to us. In the legends of some areas of the plateau, although this kind of sacred object is only a flower, it already has a spirituality, and if you dig it with great fanfare, it is likely that people have not approached and have already scared the flowers away. This is the same as picking ginseng in the deep mountains and old forests of the Northeast.

It was a rare miracle medicine, not only Lao Zang wanted to get it, I also wanted to dig it out, I hid behind Lao Zangba, Lao Zang quietly walked all the way along the edge of the river, we are not very far from the Buddha seat snow lotus, as long as Lao Zang's hands and feet are nimble, you can definitely pick it off.

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Just as Lao Zang was about to approach the snow lotus, the white smoke that dissipated around him suddenly became thicker, and the entire river was firmly wrapped in smoke, and the visibility suddenly dropped to the minimum, and it was almost impossible to see the human figure. The sense of crisis in my heart rose sharply, and I immediately lost what I was holding, and shouted over there: "Lao Zang!? Lao Zang!? ”

In less than a minute, Lao Zang didn't seem to be able to hear us anymore, and no matter how much I shouted, there was no response. I didn't want him to have any accident because of this, and after shouting a few times, I was about to walk towards the river, but the old man stopped me, saying that he was better at dealing with these than I was. Before I could say anything more, the old man had already slipped into the thick fog by the river.

Immediately after, the thick fog by the river began to surge one by one, and a faint floral fragrance drifted to the tip of the nose, the fragrance was elegant and light, but smelling in the nose, it made me feel as if a heart was burning, and the fire was burning hot. There were shouts, explanations, and a mess of ping-pong sounds in the thick fog, and I clenched my fists, trying to go over and help at any moment.

"Big sister, don't be like this" Lao Fuba's voice was heard most clearly in the thick fog, but before he finished speaking, he followed with a sigh of relief, as if he had been beaten.

I couldn't hold back any longer, so I pulled my feet and ran in that direction, and as soon as my footsteps moved, the thick fog by the river suddenly dispersed, and my vision was immediately clear. I saw Lao Zang, who was the first to go, standing on the shore blankly, half of his clothes off, shirtless, and still muttering: "It's hot, it's hot."

The old man was even more miserable, his eyes were blackened, and his nose was dripping with blood, he covered his nose with one hand, while still muttering and explaining to others.

Opposite Lao Zang and Lao Fuba, there was a woman, that woman didn't seem to be much different from the shadow we saw before, she was very delicate, and suddenly she looked like a fair girl, but after a closer look, I realized that she should be very old, and the corners of her eyes and forehead were fine and dense wrinkles. The woman looked at Lao Zang angrily, and at the same time clenched her fists to warn Lao Zang not to come any further.

"Big sister, I'm a good person, you heard me say, we are all passing by" The old man crackled and had a nosebleed, and his eyes were dark, but he was very patient and kept explaining to the woman. I suspect that this woman is the Buddha Snow Lotus who has been enlightened, she has a deep wariness and hostility towards Lao Zang, but Lao Zang is originally an old mountain ginseng, so that Snow Lotus feels a kind of familiar cordiality, Lao Fenba has been very open among middle-aged and elderly women, full of sincere and honest explanations, and after coming and going, the woman's expression eased a little.

I looked towards the river again, and I was afraid that something might happen again, so I walked slowly towards them. Lao Fuba tried his best to explain, sweating profusely, and finally let the woman eliminate her hostility and slowly lower her fist. But when she looked up at me, her face changed, and her lowered fist was raised again.

"Who are you!? Don't come here! The woman shouted at me, slightly alarmed, warning me to stop immediately.

"Big sister, he is also a good person, with me, you relax, you are a good person, no one will do anything to you." Lao Fuba hurriedly explained to the other party, for fear of causing misunderstanding.

"He's not alone!" The woman's vigilance is very high, and she may have some good impression and trust in Lao Fuba, but after seeing me, the woman couldn't be calm, took a few steps back, pointed at me, and said to Lao Fuba: "You let him stop!" ”

I stopped, only to feel strange, this must be the first time I have seen this Buddha Snow Lotus, but the other party's reaction after seeing me was so fierce that it made me feel uneasy.

"Big sister, you're dazzled." Lao Fuba wiped his nosebleed, rubbed his dark eye circles, and said, "The three of us have walked all the way together, how many people are there, don't you know?" ”

"There are four of you!" The woman pointed at Lao Zang, then at Lao Fuba, and finally turned her finger to me and said, "He still has a person on his back!" ”