Chapter Ninety-Five: Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo Go on a Trip
On the morning of the ninth day of the new year, Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo got up very early, there was a restaurant selling breakfast at the entrance of the alley of Zhao Hui's aunt's house, they asked for two bowls of wontons, after eating breakfast, they took the bus to the gate of Zhongshan Park in Beijing, after a while, a female guide with long hair and a short curly hair came to them with a small yellow flag and a group of tourists and asked: "Are you two tourists traveling to the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs?" Li Zhenguo smiled and said, "Yes, we just waited here for a while, and you guys arrived." The young female guide said with a smile: "Now everyone is here, the car is in front, everyone follow me to take the bus." Zhao Hui, Li Zhenguo and the tourists followed the tour guide and walked towards a bus parked on the side of the road. Everyone walked to the door of the car and got into the car one by one. Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo paid the tour fee, walked to the back of the car, and sat down in two side-by-side seats.
The car drove out of the city and on the suburban road. Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo sat in the car, looking out the window, Zhao Hui smiled and said: "The Great Wall and the Ming Tombs are world-famous cultural relics and monuments, the Great Wall is one of the eight wonders of the world, and the Ming Tombs is the world's most complete preserved ancient mausoleum complex. Li Zhenguo sighed and said: "Yes! The Great Wall and the Ming Tombs are ancient civilizations that we yearn for and are proud of! Zhao Hui looked at Li Zhenguo and said, "Hmm! Today is a special day! I will always remember this day. Li Zhenguo nodded and smiled.
At this time, the curly-haired female tour guide stood up from her seat, walked to the front, picked up the microphone and smiled and said to the tourists in the car: "Friends, let's liven up the atmosphere!" Who's going to sing a song to everyone. A young man in the front seat stood up and said with a smile, "I'm going to sing you a song, and the name of this song is 'Descendants of the Dragon'." The guide shouted, "Come ahead and sing!" The young man left his seat, walked to the front, took the microphone and stood up, and began to sing. There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yangtze River. There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yellow River. There was a dragon in the ancient East, and its name was China. There was a group of people in the old East, and they were all descendants of the dragon......" This young man sang very vigorously and attentively, and when he reached the second stanza, he said, "Sing with me!" And they all sang along with him. The atmosphere in the car was lively, and the second woman to sing was a young woman, who ran to the front and said with a smile: "I'll sing a song to everyone." After a few seconds of pause, she began to sing: "Heaven and earth are long, passers-by are hurried, the tide rises and falls." Grievances and grievances, life and death, a few people can see through the ......" She also sang very successfully, and the next one was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy who stepped forward to sing, he was a little shy, took the microphone and said: "I will sing a song "About Winter" to everyone, and I can't sing it well. He began to sing, "Gently I will leave you, please wipe away the tears from the corners of your eyes, in the long night, in the coming days, dear you don't cry for me......" Zhao Hui couldn't help but be moved when she listened, and said to Li Zhenguo: "I also want to sing a song, I want to sing "Seventeen-year-old Rainy Season". Li Zhenguo smiled and encouraged her: "Go and sing!" Why don't we both sing together! Zhao Hui said happily: "Okay! Let's sing in chorus. After they waited for the boy to finish singing, Li Zhenguo stood up and walked forward with a smile, Zhao Hui following behind. When they arrived, Li Zhenguo smiled and said to everyone: "Today my girlfriend and I will sing a song "Seventeen-year-old Rainy Season" to everyone, I hope you like this song. They smiled at each other and looked at each other's faces, and then began to sing, "When I was a child, there were many jasmine flowers in front of the door, exuding a faint fragrance......" Li Zhenguo raised his arm while singing, holding Zhao Hui's shoulder with his hand, and they sang emotionally, "In the rainy season at the age of seventeen, we had common expectations, and we used to hug each other tightly, and in the rainy season at the age of seventeen, I recalled the bits and pieces of my childhood, but found that my growth was slowly approaching......" After they finished singing, the tourists applauded, and some said, " Let's sing one more song! Two people should sing two songs. Zhao Hui thought about it, she looked at Li Zhenguo, Li Zhenguo nodded to her, and she smiled and said, "Okay!" Let's sing you another song, the title of which is "Holding Hands". Then they sang the song "Holding Hands" again, "Because I love you, because I dream of your dreams, I grieve your sorrow, and I am happy with your happiness......" When they finished singing, the people applauded again, and they smiled and went back to their seats and sat down, and listened to the other people sing.
Soon the car arrived at a factory that produced jade, and the tourists got out of the car and walked into the sales hall, which is the point of sale for Beijing's specialty blood-silk jade, all of which are sold at ex-factory prices. Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo were turning in front of the counter, and the salesman said to Zhao Hui with a smile: "Which one do you like, try to wear it." Zhao Hui smiled and shook his head, Li Zhenguo looked at Zhao Hui and said sincerely: "Put it on and try it!" Zhao Hui chose a jade bracelet, the salesman put it on for her, it was very beautiful, Li Zhenguo asked the price and paid, and they walked out of the hall happily. Back in the car, they saw that there were a lot of people who had already returned.
At noon, the tour guide took everyone to buy a boxed lunch at a place to receive tourists, and after lunch, they set off again.
When the car drove to the vicinity of the Ming Tombs Reservoir, the tour guide said to the tourists, "The Ming Tombs were built in the Ming Dynasty, in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, in Changping District, Tianshou Mountain, it is a world cultural heritage. The Ming Tombs have built thirteen emperor tombs, seven concubine tombs, and one eunuch tomb. Today, we can't visit so many mausoleums, so we will visit Changling and Dingling. ”
After a while, the car arrived at Changling. Under the leadership of the tour guide, the tourists got off the car, walked along the steps of the mausoleum to the underground mausoleum, and everyone listened to the narrator's explanation, "Changling is the largest building in the Ming Tombs, the earliest construction time, and the ground building is also the most well-preserved, it is the ancestral tomb in the Ming Tombs, and it is the joint burial mausoleum of the third emperor Zhu Di and Empress Xu of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo followed the tourists of the tour group to visit the Changling, then went up to the ground, returned to the car, and the car took the tourists to the southwest of Dingling.
The tour guide told the tourists, "Dingling is located at the foot of Dayu Mountain, and it is the mausoleum of Zhu Yijun, the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his two empresses. The construction of the Dingling Tomb began during the lifetime of Emperor Wanli, costing eight million taels of silver. Dingling is the only tomb that has been excavated among the Ming Tombs, and visitors can visit the underground palace of Dingling after a while. ”
The car quickly took the tourists to Dingling, we followed the tour guide through a cemetery, entered the entrance of the underground palace of Dingling, and walked down many steps, and came to the Xuangong of Dingling, the area of Xuangong is very large, composed of five palaces. Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo followed the tourists hand in hand into the innermost harem, they saw that there were three red coffins inside, and there were many mahogany boxes, and learned from the narrator's commentary, "The middle is the coffin of Emperor Wanli, the left is the coffin of Empress Xiaoduan, and the right is the coffin of Empress Xiaojing, and those mahogany boxes are used for funeral items." After watching for a while, the tour guide took the tourists down the steps and walked out of the underground palace of Dingling.
Leaving Dingling, the car drove away with the tourists in the direction of the Great Wall. Zhao Hui smiled and said to Li Zhenguo: "I'm going to climb the Great Wall soon, I'm so happy." Li Zhenguo smiled and said: "The Great Wall is a great project of China's ancient military defense, and it is the crystallization of the diligence and courage of the working people in ancient China. Zhao Hui nodded and said, "Yes!" Today we will climb the Great Wall together, and I am so excited! Li Zhenguo said "um" and said, "I'm also very excited!" They all laughed.
Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo looked out the window, the car had reached the foot of the Great Wall, and they saw a lot of people wearing colorful clothes climbing the Great Wall. The tour guide let the tourists off the bus and gave everyone two hours to climb the Great Wall.
Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo followed the tour guide to the entrance of the Badaling Great Wall. Once at the entrance, they began to climb up. Zhao Hui felt that the steps were a bit high, and the mountain was very steep, so she had a hard time climbing, and she fell behind after a while. Li Zhenguo walked in front, looked back at Zhao Hui, and said with a smile: "Come, I'll pull you on." Zhao Hui walked in front of him, and Li Zhenguo stretched out his hand and said, "Xiaohui, I'll pull you." Zhao Hui also stretched out her hand, and they climbed up together. After walking for a while, Zhao Hui felt that it was easier to climb up alone, so she said to Li Zhenguo: "Zhenguo, now that I am much better, let's climb up by ourselves!" Li Zhenguo smiled and said, "Okay! We climb up on our own. They each climbed up, Zhao Hui felt used to this kind of climbing, they quickly climbed to the highest point, there was a red sign on it, which said "not to the Great Wall is not a hero", Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo took a photo next to the sign, and also took a photo around. Standing on top of the Great Wall and looking at the winding mountains, they were really indescribably happy, and they had a feeling of "being at the top".
They lingered on it for a while, and then began to descend the Great Wall. At first, Zhao Hui was still not used to descending such a high step, however, after a while, she got used to it.
Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo quickly descended the Great Wall and walked to the parking lot.
They got into the car, found their seats and sat down. When the tourists arrived, the car started.
The car drove back, and as it passed the wax museum, the car stopped. The tourists got out of the car and walked towards the wax museum. Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo followed the tourists into the wax museum, where the wax figures were realistic and lifelike, and Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo took pictures while watching.
Coming out of the wax museum, the car drove towards the city of Beijing with the tourists. Zhao Hui and Li Zhenguo got off the bus at the Deshengmen bus station, ending their day of touring with great interest.