Tianlu Mountain has a winding ancient post road, which leads directly to the outside of the mountain.

At the entrance of this ancient post road, there is a stone gatehouse made of granite stones, and there is a stone tablet more than a foot high at the intersection not far away, and the words chiseled on it are: right, towards Enping; On the left, towards Kaiping. This ancient post road is an important passage connecting the mountainous area of Xinzhou with the south seashore of Enping, Kaiping and Yangjiang.

"The mountain bell rings and the horse gang comes". Historically, the caravan from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and other places has walked back and forth on the ancient post road carrying the materials of slowing down, and the sound of horses' hooves and the melodious camel bells of "jingling" have broken the silence and tranquility here, bringing a unique style to Tianlu Mountain.

When the great writer Su Dongpo was exiled to Hainan from Huizhou to Guangzhou, it was originally traced to the Xijiang River to Wuzhou, Guangxi, and went to Leizhou by boat along the Nanliu River through Rong County. Therefore, this ancient post road has added a strong cultural color.

There is a lawn of dozens of acres on the mountain, which is the local famous "Jiema Pass". The pick-up is the junction of the silver bureau and the horse gang to exchange goods, and it is also the place to welcome the high-ranking Beijing officials.

Not far from Jiema'ao, there is a large alpine meadow called Heaven Ping, also called Heaven Polder, which is a prosperous trade distribution center and a place for selling martial arts, doing big dramas and gathering bandits.

Every customary polder day, people on the east and west sides of Tianlu Mountain will come up the mountain separately, and the towering Heavenly Ping will become crowded and lively. This summit has become a great wonder on the South China Mountains.

On this day, the mountain people on the side of Lidong and Luodong came to Paradise Polder with the fungus, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, mountain herbs, etc. and the game obtained from hunting; Vendors from Enping, Kaiping, and Yangjiang brought seafood such as squid, octopus, and salted fish, as well as bean curd and other items to the top of the mountain.

People in both places were haggling with each other, exchanging the goods they had brought with them, and then returning to their homes with what they had exchanged.

For many years, on the heavenly polder on the top of Tianlu Mountain, people from the two places have done business and exchanged goods there.

For generations, there have been many stories about soldiers, officials, merchants, robbers, and bandits on the Horse Pass and the Heavenly Polder.

In addition to selling the original liquor with the fragrance of sauce, Su Huaicheng's winery often goes into Tianlu Mountain, a treasure house of southern medicine, to pick some mountain herbs and go back to soak all kinds of medicinal wine.

On this day, Su Huaicheng went up the mountain to collect medicine, and heard the sound of "teaching life" echoing in the canyon in the middle of the mountain, and hurriedly rushed over, and saw a group of people and some horses gathered on the side of the ancient post road over there.

They were dressed in a very different way from the Lingnan people, and it turned out that they were a group of horse gangs from the north.

Su Huaicheng asked the reason, only to know that the gang was walking on the ancient post road just now, and a big boar suddenly jumped out of the grass on the side of the road, and the horse ridden by the gang leader was so frightened that it galloped on the ancient post road. And the leader of the horse gang overturned and fell to the cliff by the ancient post road.

Those peers looked down on the edge of the cliff, and saw dense primeval forests and countless artemisia grasses below. Because they were not familiar with the terrain here, they had no way of knowing whether the leader who fell under the cliff would live or die, so they had to shout "help" on the side of the mountain.

Su Huaicheng had used a rope to go down the mountain many times to collect medicine, and after learning the situation, he went up and comforted: "Don't panic too much, wait for me to go down the cliff to have a look." After speaking, he tied the rope he brought with him to the big pine tree next to the post road, and slid down the rope to the cliff below, and finally found that the leader of the horse gang was named Chi Erhanyan, about forty years old, with a wide mouth and a big face, and a burly figure. This time he was blessed with a great fate, and when he fell off the cliff, he was held up by a pine tree sticking out of the cliff, but he was scratched by a pine branch on his face, hands and feet.

Su Huaicheng tied the rope to Chi Erhanyan's body, and shouted to the horse gang on the cliff to pull him up: and then when the rope was lowered again, he pulled the rope and climbed up the mountain.

Su Huaicheng saw that Chi Erhanyan was injured, so he picked some mountain herbs not far from the roadside, put them in his mouth, chewed them and applied them to his wound to stop the bleeding and relieve the pain.

At this time, the sunset has received the last rays of afterglow, and the vast curtain envelops the peaks and trees of Tianlu Mountain.

Su Huaicheng saw that the caravan had not yet eaten, so he invited them to the Zuiqianqi Wine Shop at the foot of the mountain.

Su Huaicheng gave everyone the camellia produced in Tianlu Mountain, and everyone praised it after tasting it.

Su Huaicheng also killed chickens and cooked rice to entertain the gangs.

After a while, the steaming wine and food were brought up, and the aroma was overflowing and mouth-watering.

The caravan is from Saibei, and they all drink with sea bowls, and this time they came to the winery, and they drank openly.

After three bowls of Chi Erhanyan put down his stomach, he handed the big bowl to Su Huaicheng and shook it, and praised it: "The wine you brew is both mellow and fragrant!"

Su Huaicheng: "The wine we make is based on the southern fragrance type and has the northern flavor type, mainly with the spring water flowing from the rock crevices of Tianlu Mountain. When the villagers go up to the mountains to work, they drink the water directly from the mountain springs. ”

Just then, the cry of a baby was heard outside.

"Oh, there's a baby crying, is he hungry?"

Su Huai tried to laugh: "That's not a baby's cry, it's the cry of a baby fish." ”

"I've only heard that the baby fish is a rare fish in the world, but I've never seen it. ”

Su Huaicheng: "Those baby fish are raised in the pool in the mountain behind our winery. ”

After hearing this, Chi Erhanyan and the other horse gangs became interested: "You take us to see and see?" ”

"Okay." Su Huaicheng took Chi Erhanyan and his party to the side of the winery pool.

The pond is made up of several large rocks with green moss on them, and the spring water gushes out of the cracks in the rocks and flows into the pool, where the water is so clear that several baby fish about a foot long are playing in the water.

Chi Erhanyan was surprised: "Yo, it turns out that these baby fish still have legs!"

Su Huaicheng: "I caught these baby fish from the top of the mountain and stocked them, and they require good air and water quality in their environment. I stock the salamanders here to test the quality of the water. ”

"You use the water in this pool to make wine?"

"Yes, it needs to be further filtered when used," Su Huaicheng nodded, "In order to prevent water pollution caused by poisoning or other factors, these live baby fish can be used as proof." ”

"You're so thoughtful, it's no wonder that the wine from your brewery is so mellow." Chi Erhanyan said to Su Huaicheng with emotion, "I fell off the cliff this time and became a blessing in disguise. I know you because of chance, and I get such a good enjoyment. ”

"Enjoy?" Su Huaicheng was touched by the words in his words, "You can have a new enjoyment tonight." ”

Khirhanyan: "What new enjoyment?"

Su Huaicheng pointed to the mountain: "There is a waterhole in the mountain not far from our winery, and there is a hot spring coming out of it, you go there to soak it, and you are guaranteed to get rid of fatigue soon." ”

After hearing this, Chi Erhanyan and the others shouted: "Great, great"

Su Huaicheng: "Let's rest and be quiet for a while after dinner, and then I'll take you there to soak in the hot springs." ”

On the night of Tianlu Mountain, the breeze comes slowly, stroking people's cheeks.

At this time, the bright moon is in the sky, the sky is full of stars, and there is the artistic conception of the great poet Wang Wei's pen "the bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone is upstream".

In the waterhole on the mountain not far from Su Huaicheng Distillery, there are alders and various flowers and plants growing around, and the warm spring water "Guka" and "Guka" live on the ground.

There are a few dark green fireflies flying back and forth around Shuizhang, adding a bit of mystery to the night in the mountains.

Chierhanyan and the caravan soaked in the hot springs in the pool, and their fatigue disappeared, and their whole body was very comfortable. They looked up at the moon and stars in the royal blue sky, listened to the song of the pine wind and the song of grass and insects, and a kind of poetry and painting surged in their chests.

After soaking in the hot springs and returning to the Zuiqianqian Wine Workshop, Chier Hanyan expressed his gratitude to Su Huaicheng on behalf of the horse gang and paid Su Huaicheng in person. But Su Huaicheng and Li Jinfeng politely declined.

"When we meet strangers, your family is so affectionate to us, and you don't accept the money, we don't know how to repay it."