Chapter 132: Turning the Mountain, Vultures, Rites of Life
Shen Xiaolong and Yeyoushen's new book began to be promoted almost at the same time, causing a lot of repercussions in the industry and readers.
Shen Xiaolong was the strongest rookie king last year.
And the Night Wandering God is the most high-profile newcomer this year, and it is not surprising that the throne of this year's newcomer king belongs to him.
The two of them bumped into each other and instantly became hot.
"Is it a coincidence that Shen Xiaolong and the new book of the Night Wandering God collided together?"
"Most publishers avoid this from happening! The current state of affairs does not seem like a coincidence. ”
"I heard from my friend who works at Daxia Publishing House that I wanted to avoid it at first, but Ye Youshen said that Shen Xiaolong was a worm."
"! Really fake! It's crazy. ”
"So this is the Night Wandering God's crazy provocation of Shen Xiaolong."
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A tavern in Kyoto.
Hu Liangzheng, editor of Daxia Publishing House, and Gao Ming, editor-in-chief, were drinking together.
Gao Ming: "How is it, the effect is not bad, right?" ”
Hu Liang: "You're still smart." But won't this make Shen Xiaolong unhappy? ”
Gao Ming: "The popularity of the Night Wandering God is not low, and the two of them rub each other's heat. With this gimmick, both books won't sell too badly. Besides, Shen Xiaolong is a worm, it is indeed said by the Night Wandering God. ”
Hu Liang: "It's all rumors, it doesn't matter what the night wandering god said." ”
Gao Ming: "Then it doesn't matter. ”
Hu Liang: "......"
It turned out that Shen Xiaolong and the Night Wandering God's new book were promoted before and after, which was intentional by Daxia Publishing House. This is a publicity project made by Daxia Publishing House.
Shen Xiaolong and the Night Wandering God are both to be held.
Shen Xiaolong can have interviews.
But I'm afraid that I won't attend such an interview at all! So how do you push out the Night Wanderer?
It is a good choice to be bound to Shen Xiaolong.
In this way, Shen Xiaolong and Night Wandering God both appeared on the same day.
Naturally, their new book is in the spotlight.
Everyone wants to see who is better last year's rookie king and this year's scheduled rookie king.
"Don't beep! Send the book quickly. ”
"Yes, both books are sent out to the master quickly, there is no shortage of money, buy both books and read them."
"I just want to know who is more awesome, Shen Xiaolong or Night Wanderer."
"The title of "Xingyuan" attracts me even more, and "Anxiety Relief Grocery Store" always feels faint, and I don't know what story to tell."
The reader's anticipation and curiosity are hoisted.
But the release of these two books has been delayed.
Instead, during the publicity period, book covers, printing progress, etc., were released one after another, and such warm-up work was done in the next few days.
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Wake up in the village of Talchin under Kailash.
As always, get life points.
I glanced at the time, it was only six o'clock.
It's not dawn yet.
But there are already quite a few voices outside.
He was "woken" by these voices.
He slept well last night, probably because he soaked in the hot springs yesterday afternoon. Therefore, I was not irritated by the movement of people outside.
Li Yan and Xu Lang also woke up early.
Li Yan: "It's only six o'clock, why is it so noisy outside?" ”
Xu Lang: "It should be the people who turn the mountain, they get up and start to turn the mountain." ”
Li Yan: "It's not dawn yet. ”
Zhou You: "You may want to leave early, and watch the sunrise by the way." ”
Turning mountains and rivers and pagodas, the believers are the same.
Talchin is the starting point and the end point of the transfer to Kailash.
There are a lot of tourists living here, and there are also a lot of pilgrims.
Kailash is considered the center of the world by numerous sects.
It is Mount Meru, the ashram of Shakyamuni; It is a sacred mountain that runs through the universe and passes through the Three Realms; It is an incarnation of Lord Shiva......
In the Tibetan language, Kailash means "god of the snowy mountains".
For thousands of years, countless people have come here from thousands of miles away, taking three steps and waiting for their bodies, to turn Kailash.
The way people turn the mountain is not limited to kowtowing, there are also people who walk on both feet and those who ride horses.
It is said that going around Kailash will wash away the sins of a lifetime.
Ten turns can avoid the suffering of reincarnation.
If you turn a hundred times, you can become a Buddha today.
And in the Year of the Horse, turning the mountain once can increase the merit by 12 times, which is equivalent to turning the mountain thirteen times.
Therefore, if it coincides with the Year of the Horse, there will be a lot of pilgrims and devotees of Kailash.
Li Yan: "Let's go to Zhuan Mountain too?" ”
Zhou You: "I can." ”
Xu Lang: "Then let's go." ”
So the three of them quickly got dressed and went out to join the ranks of turning the mountain.
The way to turn the mountain is almost the same for everyone.
From the village of Talchin, it goes around Kailash and back to Kailash, a distance of 53 km.
It's not a short journey.
It can take up to a day to measure with your feet at the earliest, and up to two days at a slower pace.
They set aside two days for the trip.
From Talchin, head west, through a wilderness, then north, to the valley formed by the melting glacier on the north side, and then follow the valley over the 5,700-metre Dolmala Pass into another valley, and then back to the starting point, forming a closed circle.
They set off at six o'clock, and there were already many people on the way.
After a while, the sun slowly rose.
The snow-capped tops of Mount Kailash are becoming clearer and clearer, reflecting a dazzling glow in the sunlight that makes it impossible to look at them directly.
The pyramid-like mountain of Kailash plunges into the sky.
It is like a majestic god looking down on the common people.
It gives a completely different feeling of traveling around than Everest gives about traveling.
Mount Everest is like a wonderful and noble goddess!
Kailash, on the other hand, is like a god to be offended.
Thou shalt not blaspheme.
Many people climb Mount Everest.
But no one climbed Kailash.
Because climbing it is like blasphemy.
There is a surprising awe of it in people's hearts.
Along the way, they saw many pilgrims, wearing leather robes and prostrate heads...... Religious and persistent.
Drink some water when you're thirsty.
Eat some dry food when you're hungry.
Today's weather was good, and they not only saw the Gangdis Mountains running east-west, but also the Namunani Peak in the southeast, and Abi Peak in the south.
In particular, the weather is very good, and the southwest of the Camela, which resembles a twin, is also in view.
Here is the feast of the "mountain".
[The first time to turn to the mountain, life point +1]
[Glimpse of the holy Kailash, life point +1]
Turning the mountain is not an easy task.
He tests his body and foot strength.
Zhou You has a special military physique, and in this place at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, there is no feeling of high anti-reaction, even if you are walking and turning mountains.
Xu Lang's foot strength is also good, after all, he is a person who dares to ride a bicycle to defend Tibet, and occasionally gasps, but he stops and recovers quickly.
But Li Yan was a little uncomfortable.
Stop-and-go.
However, Li Yan did not give up.
"How did I bring it up and turn the mountain...... I regret it. He often said this, but then he said, "It's all here, and it's all over the knees." ”
Probably he also wants to have a beginning and an end to achieve perfection.
Because Li Yan was high-spirited, they walked very slowly.
It's certainly not realistic to turn around in one day.
At sunset, they arrived at the temple.
They're going to settle down here tonight to rest.
You can see the mountains on the north side of Kailash here, and you set up a camera to take pictures of Kailash's starry sky.
The next morning, I got up early to take pictures of the sunshine here.
Kailash's sunny mountain is completely different from that of Mount Everest!
The pyramid-like snow top of Kailash is dyed by the morning sun into a fiery color, like a soldering iron, but also like a pyramid, brilliant and domineering in front of you!
It was like a god ascending the throne.
Vientiane early dynasty!
[Witness Kailash sunshine golden mountain, life point +1]
Li Yan: "We were so lucky that we even photographed Rizhao Jinshan again." ”
Xu Lang: "After meeting you, I found that the weather has been very good. It's weird. ”
Li Yan: "Probably Zhou You and I have our own European atmosphere." In Mount Everest, too, people squatted for several days without squatting until the clear night and sunshine of the Golden Mountain, and the weather turned clear as soon as we went. ”
Xu Lang and Li Yan were amazed there.
They don't know that the "initiators" are all around them.
The wonders of the Rizhao Golden Mountain disappeared, and they simply ate something when they traveled around, packed up their equipment and continued to move around the mountain.
The first day of the mountain was quite interesting.
But by the next day, it was a bit boring.
Because there are almost still those scenery along the way, mountains, mountains, mountains, and especially mountains!
Kailash Pochita looked at it twice and felt like that.
What really aroused their nerves was that after walking up the mountain to the east for more than an hour, they came to a ceremony platform (they didn't dare to write those three words, they were only harmonized yesterday, a kind of funeral ceremony venue in Weizang).
There were two monks simmering mulberry.
Mulberry smoke rises in the mountains.
You don't have to ask to know what rituals are going on here...... Someone died.
Tourists are not allowed to come near here.
Because such a ceremony is no longer allowed to be visited by tourists.
Zhou You and the others were stopped by an uncle named "Nima" from a distance.
Next to Uncle Nima, there was a beautiful girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a very old hat with a Tibetan style. She was thin, her skin looked dark, but there was an unmistakable stubbornness in her eyes.
He had his back to the ceremonial stage.
Sit with your knees crossed.
Alone.
It's a bit pitiful.
She seemed to have cried.
Mulberry smoke swirls in the sky, and occasionally a few wisps of smoke waft over, bringing a unique and special taste.
"What's that?" Li Yan suddenly pointed to a few small black dots on the mountain not far away.
"Vultures." Uncle Nima said.
As the mulberry smoke rose and drifted away, there were more and more small black dots on the mountain in the distance, and they quickly turned into a large group.
Where vultures flock, there must be animals that have just died.
Or someone dies.
And they are also one of the important participants in this ritual!
Hearing the name vulture, Li Yan was slightly stunned.
Because they already have some bad pictures in their minds.
Hearing the word vulture, the dark-skinned thin girl's body also trembled slightly, and she finally glanced back at the direction of the ritual platform.
Uncle Nima: "Why don't you go check it out?" ”
Girl: "Don't. Then he stubbornly turned his head again.
Uncle Nima sighed deeply, "Poor child. ”
Li Yan asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Uncle Nima: "The ceremonial stage is her only relative in this world...... Nor can it be said that it is a relative. ”
He glanced at the girl and continued, "Her name is Arda Dolma, and she is an orphan. It is said to be the child of a herdsman. Grandma picked it up in the grass when she was traveling. She had just been born. Seeing that she was pitiful, Grandma took her with her and raised her. ”
But Grandma was not in good health, and when Auntie Dolma was ten years old, she suffered a serious illness, and her health deteriorated after that. Diao took care of all the housework and took care of her mother. She's a very strong child. When she had no money, she tried her best to make money from tourists, and then went to the old doctor to buy medicine, and the old doctor always took less money from her, and she always said: Don't look down on me. ”
"At a young age, he has a stubborn bone."
"She didn't want to see Grandma leave her in this way, so she didn't look back."
So that's it......
Zhou You's eyes unconsciously looked at the girl named Ah Diao.
She was still sitting with her legs crossed.
Look into the distance.
Didn't cry.
I don't know what she's thinking.
Zhou You heard some stories about the nomadic herders of Weizang.
In the steppe herders, men can sleep with women in tents at night...... A nomadic woman may sleep with many men and have many children.
Many of these children have different fathers.
They won't get married.
But as a father, he will occasionally visit his children.
It's a wonderful relationship.
In that case, why was Agio Zhuoma abandoned? Probably no one knows the answer. But it sounds like this, she is indeed quite pitiful, and it is also admirable and pitiful.
Thinking about it,
Suddenly, a small black dot in the distance began to enlarge.
They're coming!
A vulture flew by.
Flew over Ah Diao's head, flew over the heads of Zhou You and others, and flew straight to the ceremonial platform.
Vultures are not good at flying.
But they are masters of the wind.
The vulture spread its wings more than two meters, and the second it swept over its head, Zhou You and the others felt a creep, and their hairs stood on end.
It has to be said that such a huge bird will give people a strong psychological shock.
Tall!
Calm down!
Strong!
No one has ever seen the corpse of a vulture.
Legend has it that before death, the vulture would soar thousands of miles into the sky and fly desperately high into the sky, until the sun and the air currents melted its body, leaving no trace in this world.
A flock of vultures pounce on the ceremonial stage!
Everyone knew in their hearts that they would complete the final step of the ritual and take Diao's grandma to the other side of the world.
At that moment, an indescribable emotion rose in Zhou You's heart.
Diao still stubbornly did not look back.
She may be in tears.
Or maybe not.
His face could not be seen.
The vultures perform a cruel feast on the ceremonial stage.
I don't know how long it took, but Ah Diao, who was sitting there with his back to the wanderers, found an eagle flute out of nowhere.
The eagle flute is a flute made from the longest bone on the vulture's wings.
The herders who live in the grasslands often play it as a way to relieve the loneliness of grazing.
This eagle flute was placed in swaddling clothes together when Grandma saw Ao Diao.
It was supposed to be her biological father's or mother's belongings.
Therefore, Ah Diao has a special affection for it.
Now Grandma is gone!
All she had left was this eagle flute.
The melodious whisper drifted with the wind to the other side of the mountain, to the distant sky.
On one side is the pecking of vultures.
On one side is the melodious sound of the eagle flute.
The two come together!
Give a different kind of psychological impact to travel.
Vultures, and eagle flutes made of vulture wing bones...... They seem to form a reincarnation-like ring.
You traveled quietly and listened to the sound of the eagle flute.
Although you can't see the vultures pecking at the ceremony table.
But Zhou You concluded that the sound of the flute did not fade until after all the rituals had ended.
Diao put away the eagle flute.
There is still a stubbornness in his eyes.
She didn't look back.
Didn't look at the ceremony platform.
Instead, he ran away from the place.
The Uncle Nima was afraid that something would happen to Ah Diao, so he immediately chased after him.
Zhou You, Li Yan and the others looked at the two figures in front of and behind them and disappeared into sight, and no one spoke.
At this time, vultures flew away.
Suddenly, Zhou You seemed to have a slight understanding of life and death.
The ritual of the chance encounter was only a small episode in their journey into the mountains.
When leaving, Uncle Duoji told Zhou You, Li Yan and others that they could put some clothes or parts of the body, such as blood and hair, on the ceremony table.
It is said to mean new life.
Zhou You thought about it for a while, took off his sunglasses and put them on a stone.
Then at about five o'clock in the afternoon they returned to the starting point, the village of Talchin.
Here they met the girl named Diao again.
She was selling souvenirs to tourists.
She also said that she was a good tour guide and guide.
Her eyes were still stubborn.
She didn't seem to be saddened at all by Grandma's departure.
But Zhou You knew that this kind of indifference, but buried that deep sadness and reluctance in the secret corner of his heart.
Night fell quietly, and when he returned to the hotel where he lived after eating, Li Yan suddenly said: "At the end of the mountain, I didn't feel redemption or relief except that I felt tired. So what's the point of turning the mountain? ”
Zhou You: "It makes sense because it doesn't make sense." ”
Li Yan: "??? ”
Zhou You: "People always have to do something meaningless in this life. ”
Li Yan savored these words carefully, as if this is the truth, some things are not meaningful to do, but meaningful to do......
I heard that Kailash is also divided into external and internal transfers.
They took the outbound route.
Turning inside they are not ready to go any further.
Li Yan wants to go to Zhuanhuan Lake, because Zhuanhu can be driven by car, and there are many hot springs near Mapanyongcuo!
The thought of being able to soak in the hot springs made Li Yan even more excited.
Since Kangbu Hot Spring, both Zhou You and Li Yan have fallen in love with this activity.
You don't have to think about anything when you soak in the hot springs.
Just soak in it.
Be silent, snooze, or chat.
Very relaxing.
Thinking of the upcoming encounter with the hot spring tomorrow, Li Yan quickly fell asleep in bed.
Zhou You took out the computer and wrote the script of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" for a while.
Because the historical process of Blue Star and the earth and the background of the world pattern are completely different, it is not possible to completely copy the script.
Some modifications are needed.
Make the context in which the story takes place more in line with the situation of Blue Star.
The medical community of Lanxing is divided into two factions, one is the oriental medicine practiced by the Xia Kingdom, the Tang Kingdom and other eastern continental countries, that is, traditional Chinese medicine. On the one hand, Western medicine is advocated by the Western Continent.
These two medical philosophies are in opposition to each other in the Star Federation.
Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
But what really dominates the medical field in Bluestar are the capitalists and chaebols engaged in pharmaceutical production, who raise the price of drugs and make the people of Bluestar unaffordable.
The Star Federation has rectified this chaos.
But with little effect.
The chaebols, especially the Western Continent chaebols, have formed a rather formidable force.
Zhou You's revised script takes place in the social context of the conflict between patients and high-priced drugs controlled by the chaebol......
Writing and changing, the speed of writing around is not fast.
After being sleepy, Zhou Yu closed the computer and went to sleep.
Next!
They traveled to Mapanyongtso, one of the three sacred lakes.
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