In the early morning of Yucheng, as usual, most of the people who get up early are locals, with deep facial features, lush beards, wearing local loose robes, wrapping their heads with cloth, and the aroma of baked buns and naan, and the sound of tinkling iron coming from the alley, which constitutes the liveliness of this exotic town.

The Taoist had already packed up and left the city.

It was still a Taoist in an old Taoist robe, carrying a bamboo cane and a jujube red horse full of bags, and the girl behind him turned back into a cat at the entrance of the uninhabited alley, turning her head to look around as she walked.

It didn't take long to get out of the city gates.

There are fellow camel caravans all the way out of the city, and there are also camel caravans coming from afar, but they don't know how early they get up and hurry, and the camels on both sides are connected to the dragon, and the heaven and earth are full of tinkling sounds.

This is probably an echo of the Silk Road.

The Taoist stopped and looked back.

The walls of the jade city are yellow, and the buildings on the head of the city are also yellow, as if they have been weathered by wind and sand, and they are old and yellow, and it is not obvious from the appearance that it has gathered hundreds of years of prosperity on the Silk Road.

It's really only a few hundred years now.

Most likely, it is less than a thousand years.

But I don't know how many years will go from here.

I don't know if I'll ever see this castle again, or if it'll be the same after many years.

“……”

Song You shook his head, retracted his gaze, and looked forward.

Out of the city there was a high mountain, like a wall, and there was a gap in the gable, and the road under his feet led up and down to the gap, and from there he climbed over the mountain. The weather was so good that you could see the head all the time, and the distance seemed to be compressed in the line of sight, but the road seemed to be exceptionally steep, as if it went straight to the sky.

Caravans walk on the road, the farther away they get, the smaller they get.

"Let's go." The Taoist raised the bamboo cane and said, "Sanhua Niangniang still has a few days to catch the rats here, and after a few hundred miles, I don't know if there are any more." ”

"It's a rabbit."

"Good, good."

"You can eat it too."

"I don't want to eat the rabbit here."

"And the fruit!"

"It doesn't matter what the fruit is." As he walked, the Taoist said, "There is fruit on the mountain here, and there is fruit on the mountain ahead, and it is autumn." ”

"Oh yes......"

The cat took small steps and turned its head to stare at him.

Swallows flapped their wings and streaked across the sky.

Turning over the mountain in front of you, it is a continuous green mountain, the trees have become a clump on the mountain, the cattle and sheep are like small black dots on the mountain, and the camel team leads the direction of the Taoist.

The grassland is full of small holes, inhabited by rabbits and mice.

Sanhua Niangniang's original intention does not change, every time the Taoist stops to rest, if it is close to the grassland, it is necessary to catch rats, if there is a wild fruit tree nearby, the swallow comes to inform her, even on the top of the mountain, she has to carry her own blanket and run over, pick enough for the Taoist to eat at least a day or two back, if there is a stream, must go fishing, if there is a forest, must go hunting.

In the evening, when a place to sleep in the open is chosen, he takes the swallows to chop wood, and picks the greasy larches, and uses a decapitating sword to cut them, and the trees will break off with a slight wave.

At the turn of sunset, the land of the Western Regions was dark, the sunset reflected the sky into blood, a group of camels walked in the silhouette of dusk, and there was another Taoist behind them, a red horse, and a cat figure that raised its claws but stopped and turned its head to look into the distance.

The morning is cool, the green mountains are also more beautiful, thousands of horses gallop on the hillside, like a torrent, and the Taoist and his party also walk on the ridge of the green mountain.

Walking in it, when the heart is open-minded, the heavens and the earth seem to echo with majestic songs.

The cat makes the process gentle.

And so it went for about ten days.

Ten days later, Song You took the jujube red horse and gradually ascended to a pass on the Tianshan Mountain.

Locals climb over the Tien Shan Mountains from here.

At this time, some places under the mountain have begun to yellow leaves, the top of the mountain is snowing, I don't know if it is snow all year round, in short, now it is not a thin layer, Sanhua Niangniang feels that the weather is too cold, shrinking in the blanket and hanging on the horse's back, with the horse moving can not help shaking.

Until you reach the top of the pass.

Song You looked into the distance and suddenly saw the Tianshan Mountain behind the so-called Tianshan Mountain.

At this time, the Tianshan Mountains stood at the foot, and there were many snowy peaks on the left and right, with no end, like a line and a wall, dividing most of the Western Regions into two halves. Today, there are few clouds, through the heavy shading, looking through the gap between the sparse clouds, you can see that the color of the earth below is slightly yellow, it is a rolling grassland, and at the end of the grassland, there is a snow-capped mountain higher than the Tianshan Mountains.

The snow-capped mountains are towering into the clouds, sitting on the green and yellowish grasslands, the lower half is mostly dark and almost black stones, and the upper half is mainly snow-white, far away, but still huge in sight.

As if feeling that the horse was not leaving, there was a movement in the blanket, showing the traces of the cat writhing the chrysalis inside, and the gray-white fabric highlighted her plum blossom feet several times, and I don't know how this little thing was sleeping in it, and the movement was not small.

After a few times, she poked her head out, sleepy-eyed, and turned her head to look left and right for the first time.

"Is it there? It's cold! ”

"Nope."

The Taoist glanced at her and replied calmly.

"Then why don't you leave?"

"Stop and look at the scenery."

"Hmm......"

"The mountain is already in front of you."

"How long did Sanhua Niangniang sleep?"

"It's been half a day."

"It's been so long......"

The cat scratched at the blanket again, looked down at the snow on the ground, and jumped out of the blanket with great difficulty, but with a pop, it fell straight into the snow.

"Let Sanhua Niangniang also see ......"

The cat muttered as she got up, looked up at the mountain in the distance, and walked on the snow, but she fell backwards and almost fell to the ground several times.

"Sanhua Niangniang be careful, the snow is soft."

"It's not that the snow is soft, it's that the sand has entered the legs of the three flower girls." The three-flowered cat has a serious expression, but it doesn't really care, "If you enter the sand, you will not be able to walk steadily." ”

"Where does the sand come from this mountain?"

"It's a lot of little dots, in the feet, sometimes when you wake up, they will be in it, and as soon as you walk, they will shake in it."

"Oh......"

Song You lightly withdrew his gaze from her: "My legs are numb." ”

"Will people too?"

"Yes."

"Will you too?"

"Very little."

"Why?"

"Because I sleep more honestly."

"Hmm......"

The cat shook its head and continued to walk stiffly until it reached the feet of the Taoist, then stopped, and stared up at the mountain in the distance.

"Is that the mountain?"

"yes."

"It's so tall and big."

"yes."

The Taoist has already felt its spiritual charm.

There was a chill in my face.

Even if nothing happens, the hundreds of miles of land under the mountains ahead will probably be colder than other regions with similar latitudes and altitudes.

"What a debt on the ground!"

"Snow is naturally cold." Song You said to her, "Sanhua Niangniang is not wearing shoes, so let's go back to the blanket." ”

"Sanhua Niangniang also stopped to look at the scenery." The cat shook her head, in order to learn from him, regardless of the cold of the ice and snow under her feet, but she was also relaxed, turned her head to look, and found a protruding stone on the mountain that was not covered by snow, walked up stiffly, and climbed up with difficulty, "That's fine." ”

"Sanhua Niangniang is smart."

"If only we were like swallows, we had a pair of wings, and this kind of mountain would not have to be climbed hard, and we could fly over it with one wing, and our feet would not be cold."

"Is Sanhua Niangniang's legs still numb?"

"There are still a lot of small points, and there are a few less." The cat felt it carefully, and although it was uncomfortable, it didn't care, "After a while, they will run away." ”

"I have a solution."

"Meow? What's the meow method? ”

The cat looked up at him, her eyes lit up, and she wanted to learn something more from him.

"Which leg did Sanhua Niangniang get into the sand?"

"The one in the back, the one on the right."

"If you put sand in your body, you have to shake it off, and if you put sand in your legs, you have to stomp your feet." Song You said to her as he raised his right foot to signal, "Like this, raise it high to make sure you don't have any distractions and worries in your heart, take a deep breath, and then step on it hard while they are not paying attention." ”

As he spoke, he stepped into the snow.

Bang, step out a footprint.

"That way, those little bits will run clean." Song You paused as he spoke, "Of course, the snow is soft, it's not okay, but the stone under Sanhua Niangniang's feet is just right." ”

"Meow like this?"

The cat lifts its right foot.

"There are no distractions in the heart."

"There are no distractions in my heart~"

The cat stared at him with a serious expression.

"Take a deep breath."

"Take a deep breath~"

The cat's abdomen rises and falls.

"Stomp!"

"Da ......"

The three-flowered cat on the stone suddenly opened its eyes, and its pupils were dilated, and the wonderful feeling of this moment made her feel that her whole leg was full of small dots that shook violently, and even reached the point where these small dots were about to be shaken out, and many holes in her legs would be drilled out by them.

"Let's go."

The Taoist looked calm and walked forward.

"Dingding......

The red horse glanced back at her and followed with a step.

The three-flowered cat stood in place, and after the sluggishness in his expression faded, he stared at the backs of the Taoist and the horse, and couldn't help but be silent, and thoughtful in the silence, as if he had really gained something.

Then he hurriedly limped after him.

Three more days later—

The group went from one snow-capped mountain to another, looking at this place at the pass of the Tianshan Mountains, and now looking back at the Tianshan Mountains at the foot of this mountain, seeing the way they came, the huge gap between the two mountains, and then they knew how far they had crossed in the past three days. Obviously, I have traveled thousands of mountains and rivers, and the journey is worth 100,000 miles, and I actually have a slight sense of accomplishment in my heart.

The mountain is known locally as "Kareira", which probably means the god of ice and snow.

Song You could still see its true face in the distance, but when he got closer, he couldn't see it at all, and he only felt the biting cold in the mountains, the thick aura, and the mysterious spiritual rhyme.

……

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