Dear friends, have you ever been to Xinjiang or are you a native of Xinjiang?

As a man who grew up in northern cities, I once fantasized about traveling, adventuring, and eating local food all over the world.

Xinjiang is a very beautiful province in western China. Over there. You can enjoy a variety of beautiful scenery, such as the famous snow-covered Tien Shan, the mysterious Kanas, the ever-standing rows of poplar trees on both sides of the road, the endless plains, and the unique orchards.

And it's not just the scenery that is stunning, in Xinjiang, you can also taste delicious pilaf, lamb skewers, authentic natural raisins, and large and sweet cantaloupe. Meantime. Listening to the chanting of the Quran, watching the magnificent landscapes of nature, and enjoying the hospitality of the locals, you will feel relaxed and feel the beauty of being away from the hustle and bustle.

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And our next story also started from Xinjiang.

The beginning of the matter is not scary, and it is a bit charming and romantic.

This happened a year after the Divine Comedy.

Many, many things have happened in the past year, and there are three things worth recounting.

First, my mother's condition is not improving, but it is still stable, and I can adapt and get used to it. And since the Divine Comedy, I've had half of my bank balance, but I think it's worth it. Because maybe I can get more people my age to avoid tragedy. In addition, my father was still in a cell, but his life was not difficult, and although the conditions were good, he was the only one, and my father later wrote me a few letters telling me. It turns out that people are not afraid of the harsh environment. It's the kind of loneliness that goes all day long.

I think he must have felt a lot of guilt in his heart, for my mother's guilt, for my guilt, maybe he didn't think he was a good father. But in my heart, I feel that his figure will always be as tall as when he was a child. Because, he has held up the sky for me for 25 years.

That's right.

There is something I need to report to you, unconsciously, from the beginning of the Zhang Dawei incident, to now, five years have passed. After more than five years and so many strange things, I think I have matured a little, but the emotional aspect is still blank. Time flies, doesn't it?

Second, Li Mengzhu, who has not been heard from for a long time, finally wrote me a letter. The letter is long, and if it were written in its entirety, it would take up too much space. So I only pick out some important ones, it turns out that when Li Mengzhu was leaving, she asked Wu Qing to convey to me the sentence, which means that maybe she will go for a long, long time, and she can see that the relationship between me and Xiao Qicai is not as simple as a childhood sweetheart's playmate. She said don't wait for her if possible, if I walk with Little Colorful together, she will bless us. It wasn't until that moment that I realized that Li Mengzhu was also very important in my heart.

It's just that sometimes we go too fast, and we experience some dangers that ordinary people can't imagine, but forget how to enjoy and deeply experience that feeling.

Later, I thought about it and asked myself, if there was no Li Mengzhu, would I be with Xiao Qicai? The Clipper Craftsman.

To be honest, I don't know. But I always feel that there is a distance between me and Xiao Qicai, and this distance is innate. Being friends and being lovers are actually two different things. Some people feel good when they are friends, but not necessarily when they are lovers.

If I really walked together with Xiao Qicai, would I still feel like this now? I don't know, maybe love happens in an instant, but suddenly disappears in the trivial flow of time.

How long will you wait for someone?

How long will you protect your original innocent feelings?

In this fast-paced society, how many people are willing to calm down and ask their hearts?

There is no doubt that Li Mengzhu is my first love, at least, I have to wait for her to come back and give me an answer, which is also my explanation to myself.

Third, for more than a year, the mysterious masked man did not appear in my life again. I've always been curious about this person, and I always felt that this person knew me and knew me very well, but I didn't know who he was, and this feeling tickled my heart and I wanted to find out right away. So obsessed.

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With three things out of the way, let's move on to the story this time.

Maybe it's because there are too many things entangled in my heart, so at that time, I organized a trip to Xinjiang with Xiao Qicai, Du Lei, Uncle Yu Mubai, Feng Tiansong, and Shen Xiaoxi, during the Spring Festival holiday.

It took us more than three days to make a trip to Kanas first. (It is located in the north of Burjin County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, is an inland freshwater lake, the lake water comes from the glacial meltwater and local precipitation of Kuitun, Youyi Peak and other mountains, is a Quaternary glaciation formed by the Alpine lake, in 2009 by the "China National Geographic" magazine named "China's most beautiful lake".) ）

The beauty of Kanas always gives people the feeling of being in a dream, it is a place that is fully close to nature, and it seems that it has never been passed by human footprints, and there is no pollution, so it is not unreasonable to call it the "Pure Land of the World".

It's hard to fully express its beauty even with the best photography techniques, which are hard to describe, but everywhere, and just as even a random photograph is beautiful. Kanas is a place that you have to be there yourself to understand its beauty.

We stayed there for three days, and when we came back, we felt like our minds were empty. Before leaving, Yu Mubai and Du Lei said at the same time that after being in Kanas for a long time, they actually felt like they were one with nature, just like finding a paradise in the world, and never wanted to return to the hustle and bustle of the city.

They said they wanted to stay there forever and not leave.

However, this is clearly unrealistic.

People still have to eat, drink, and make money to live, and it is impossible to live in the "Pure Land" forever, unless it becomes the form of brain waves that exist alone, and swim between the green mountains and green waters forever. However, when that time really comes, will it be happy? Maybe you might feel lonely.

On the morning of the fourth day, we drove back from the Altai Mountains, and there was a dense rain on the road, the weather was gloomy, and it was a little dark and dark outside the window, and at first there were several loud thunders, which shook the eardrums of everyone in the car, and they were buzzing.

Then I couldn't hear the thunder, I just saw lightning, and I heard the sound of the roof of the car being poured by the heavy rain, and it seemed that the rain was mixed with some hail.

After driving along the current road for a while, the thunder disappeared completely, and the rain fell a little, but it became foggy. The scenery on both sides of the road gradually became a little blurred.

However, everyone except me was tired, so I sat in my place and closed my eyes. At that time, in the co-pilot's seat, sat Feng Tiansong, who never slept, this guy was very bored to chat with me, but I kept yawning.

Because it was Feng Tiansong who drove when he came, this guy said nothing on the way back and refused to drive, in his original words at the time, "MD Even if Lao Tzu doesn't sleep, you can't always bully me, I won't drive back." Jiang Xiaohe, you can open it. You drive, I'm more assured! ”

The car continued to drive forward for more than 30 minutes, Feng Tiansong was about to reach out and hand me a cigarette and let me take a few puffs of spirit, but then he suddenly remembered something, the hand holding the cigarette froze in mid-air, and said, "How long have we been driving here?" ”

I looked at my sleeping friends in the rearview mirror and yawned, "Forgot about." It seems like a long time, do you want to say that I drive slowly? ”

Feng Tiansong said, "I remember that it didn't take so long when I came, and it seemed that it would be half an hour to reach its destination." ”

I said, "It's normal, my speed must be slow on this rainy day, and if I go back, it will take 1~2 hours to take it." ”

Outside the window, the rain gradually stopped, but the weather was still dark and dark, and I couldn't help but keep the high beams on.

Feng Tiansong got up at this time and handed me the cigarette, and said, "Even if you drive slowly, even if it rains heavily, there is no car on this road, don't you think it's strange?" ”

I was a little distracted by his words, and said, "Like...... It's been so long, and I really haven't seen a car approaching from the opposite side or behind. With that, I couldn't help but take two more puffs of my cigarette.

Feng Tiansong looked at the time for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, "You have been driving for 2 hours and 13 minutes, but you haven't seen the iconic street sign back, I think something is wrong." ”

I stared at the road in front of me, slowly slowed down the speed, and finally stopped on the side of the road, so as not to disturb the sound of Xiao Qicai and their sleep, Feng Tiansong whispered, "I thought about it carefully, there was a fork in the road just now, and I seem to have made a mistake." I don't know where to go! ”

Feng Tiansong also thought about it and said, "It seems that this is indeed the case." Luckily, there's more than one way up the mountain, otherwise I thought something strange was going to happen again! ”

I smiled, "You're just scaring yourself." I've lived a peaceful life for more than a year, do you think I'm too peaceful? ”

Feng Tiansong waved his hand and didn't say anything. Then let me turn around.

Next, I turned the car over and drove for about fifteen minutes, and Feng Tiansong and I both felt a little uncomfortable.

At first, I thought it was my delusion, but after I confirmed with Feng Tiansong, Feng Tiansong finally couldn't help but say, "We drove in the wrong direction just now, did we keep driving downhill, why did we pick the head and come back, or did we drive downhill?" It's supposed to be uphill. ”

I said, "Indeed...... We seem to be driving downhill all the time. ”

Feng Tiansong looked out the window. It's still terribly dark, and if you don't have your phone and watch, you probably wouldn't be able to tell what time it is. Sometimes on cloudy days, people's judgment of time comes from the tools made by human beings themselves.

At this time, my thoughts had just turned here, and Feng Tiansong said decisively, "Pick the car back and see if it's downhill or uphill!" ”

"Good!"

The second time I picked my head and drove forward for about ten minutes, Feng Tiansong and I felt that it was still going downhill. This feeling is getting stranger and stranger, and Feng Tiansong and I can't help but feel very confused about the current situation.

At this time, we frequently picked up Xiao Qicai and woke them all up, Xiao Qicai rubbed her eyes and asked in a daze, "Why haven't you gone back yet?" It's been almost 3 and a half hours, and you're driving too slowly, aren't you? ”

I hadn't spoken yet, but I saw that the tip of Feng Tiansong's nose had begun to sweat slightly.