There is no emergency lane on the Linla Expressway, except for the service area where you can park, there is an emergency parking area not far from the road.

These emergency parking areas, which are separated by about two or three kilometers, not only allow vehicles to stop, but also serve as observation decks.

It's like the parking area where Lao Liu is parked now is a good viewing platform.

At this time, the Linla Expressway has run from the south bank of the Niyang River to the north bank, so standing in the parking area across the highway, you can still clearly see the five towering castles more than 300 meters away and Xiuba Village on the hillside.

Xiuba Village is no different from the other Tibetan villages you see on the road, all of them are exquisite two-story buildings.

The village is not very large, with only about 20 or less than 30 households.

Exquisite two-story buildings are arranged in an orderly manner on the hillside, surrounded by greenery, and behind it is a mountain with an altitude of more than 5,000 people.

On the west side of the village, there are five castles of different heights, the highest of which is about 50 meters high.

Because of the distance, it is impossible to see these ancient castles built at the end of the Tang Dynasty, but the general shape can still be seen clearly.

In fact, these castles are similar to modern water towers or old-fashioned chimneys, except that they are not round and look boxy.

"According to information on the Internet, the original function of these castles was similar to that of beacons, which were used for ventilation and reporting. And there are other ancient castles in this vicinity, but these five ancient castles are the best preserved......" Chu Qian found information about the ancient castle of Xiuba Village from her mobile phone as usual, and began to explain it to Lao Liu.

Actually, this method is quite good. If you don't have specific information and no guides, you won't know what these five castles are about. But if you look at it in combination with the information, you will know more and have a more intuitive understanding of the castle.

After staying here for about ten minutes, taking some photos and a few small videos, the two of them continued their journey.

After this time, it never stopped, and after more than 40 minutes, it drove to Bayi North Interactive.

Because it was already more than twelve o'clock, Lao Liu planned to get off the highway here and enter the urban area of Bayi, and continue to move forward after having lunch in Bayi. Of course, getting off the highway from here means that from here all the way to Ya'an, the easternmost part of the Hengduan Mountains, there is no highway to go on this road, and the whole journey is a two-lane Sichuan-Tibet Highway.

After getting off the highway and crossing the Niyang River Bridge, the car drove into National Highway 318.

"Yo, the trees on the side of the road are old, right?" Lao Liu exclaimed as he looked at the old willow trees on the side of the road while driving.

There are still six or seven kilometers from the highway to the city, all the way along the 318 national highway, and you can see the old willow trees on both sides from time to time. In some places, these old willow trees can be connected in a string, and the thick body of the tree looks stunning.

"I guess they were all planted when the Sichuan-Tibet Highway was being built. Chu Qian was also very interested in these decades-old willow trees, took many photos with her mobile phone, and also recorded some small videos.

"Those old-timers are amazing. Lao Liu sincerely praised the old-timers who built the Sichuan-Tibet Highway back then.

After entering the city of Bayi, the two of them were going to choose a big meal according to some restaurants they found on the Internet, but after they went, they asked, and the main dishes of these restaurants were either stone pot or Sichuan cuisine......

Lao Liu can eat spicy, but he can't control numbness, so Lao Liu can't say how much he likes Sichuan food. On the contrary, he likes Hunan cuisine and Hubei cuisine?

As for Chu Qian, she has even fewer dishes to choose from.

She was born and raised in Hangzhou, and she grew up eating Hangzhou cuisine. Although she can still eat some Shanghainese cuisine, Suzhou cuisine and even Cantonese cuisine, and even Jingbang cuisine and Shandong cuisine can deal with it, Sichuan cuisine is really not her cuisine.

In her words, she complained: "The reason why Miss Ben eats snacks all day long here is because the food here is too unsuitable for my taste......"

Well, girls who love snacks will always find one reason or another.

But Tibetan cuisine and Sichuan cuisine are really difficult for Chu Qian.

Seeing Chu Qian's embarrassed appearance, Lao Liu naturally would not make a choice from these restaurants.

The two of them walked around the city for more than an hour before finally finding a Northeast restaurant near the Bayi Hotel.

The restaurant is not large, it is the most common kind of two-story store building on the street. However, the business of this restaurant is really good, and the small façade is full of customers.

Because of the white lion, the two of them couldn't eat inside. But the proprietress is not bad, she and Lao Liu moved out of a table directly, and the two of them and a dog just sat at the door to eat.

Anyway, the sun is just right at noon, and it's still a little hot to bask in the sun and eat.

"Well, this chicken stew with mushrooms is delicious!" Chu Qian ate beautifully.

Not to mention, this small restaurant is not a big one, the master's craftsmanship is really good? Even a girl like Chu Qian, who is used to eating Hangzhou cuisine, praised the food here.

Especially the chicken stewed hazel mushroom made by the boss and chef made Chu Qian full of praise.

"This boss is definitely an authentic Northeast cuisine chef, and these ingredients should also be obtained from the Northeast, otherwise they wouldn't be able to make such an authentic Northeast cuisine. "For Northeast cuisine, Lao Liu is very familiar with it, and he can eat authentic Northeast cuisine in one bite.

"Come, daughter-in-law, you can taste this white meat, the taste is quite authentic. Lao Liu invited Chu Qian to try another representative dish of Northeast cuisine, boiled white meat.

Chu Qian looked at the white meat slices in the soup pot with a frightened expression, "I don't eat this, it's too scary." ”

For a girl who loves beauty, the dish of boiled white meat is indeed a bit scary. The big slices of pork belly entangled with sauerkraut in the soup bowl are the size of a baby's palm.

People who love meat are guaranteed to swallow their tongues when they see this dish, but if a girl who loves beauty and is afraid of fat sees this meat, ten out of ten will not move a chopstick.

"Haha, daughter-in-law, you don't know this, this dish is scary to look at but absolutely delicious! You take a small bite, if it doesn't fit your taste, then don't eat it." Really, there are some things that you should not refuse to try, because if you refuse, you may miss out on a delicacy that will make you remember for a lifetime. ”

Chu Qian still shook her head desperately, "I don't eat it, it's too greasy." ”

"Can I still hurt you? You just need to take a small bite, and I didn't let you eat more. ”

"No, I still don't want it......"

Chu Qian refused very simply at first, but looking at the spicy food her boyfriend ate, she couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva after a while, and then gestured with her hand to a shape that was not much bigger than a fingernail and said, "Then why don't you get me a small piece for me to taste, it must not be too big, just such a small piece......"

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"Oops...... Hold on to death......" On the co-pilot, Chu Qian covered her stomach and coquettishly, "It's all your fault for letting me eat so much ......"

"Auntie, let's not bring such a wronged person, okay? My mouth grows on you, and I can't control how much you eat in your mouth, why do you blame me?"

The white lion also seemed to feel that what his mother said was wrong, and snorted at Chu Qian twice, causing Chu Qian to give the white lion two white eyes bigger than the Milky Way.

"It's your fault, if you hadn't asked me to eat that white meat, if you hadn't brought me to this restaurant, if it weren't for the food you ordered so much to my taste, would I have eaten more?"

When faced with an unreasonable woman, especially if this woman is still the person you love the most, then your best thing to do is to shut up immediately.

You can't make her really angry, and you can't make her find all kinds of reasons, and you have to coax her! Therefore, you are born in an absolute position of failure, and you will never take advantage of arguing with such a woman.

"Then why don't we get out of the car and eat?" When I looked at the map just now, I saw that there is a World Cypress King Park not far from here, why don't we go in and eat and take a look at the World Cypress King?"

"Well, I heard Nana talk about the big cypress tree, but unfortunately I didn't see it when I came last time. ”

"The last time you came to patronize and hike, did you have the heart to see other places? Speaking of this, I really convinced you, you dare to enter the no-man's land of the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon alone as a girl, where did you get so bold?" said that it was okay to say something else, but when it came to this, Lao Liu was really a little scared.

Especially after experiencing the danger of being besieged by heavy snow for several days, Lao Liu was even more afraid of this girl's move to enter the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon alone.

"It's not as dangerous as you think. When I say it's a no-man's land, do you believe it? I walked in 20 or 30 kilometers, a two-day round trip, where can I go deep into the no-man's land? Not only is it not a no-man's land, but there is also a road. I also met several villages along the way. When I tell you about hiking in no man's land, I just brag about it...... Okay, it's not okay if I'm wrong......" Chu Qian pouted and admitted her mistake.

"In the future, you must not do this kind of secondary two thing, it is too dangerous. Well, if you really want to do it, tell me to go together. Lao Liu raised his eyebrows at his girlfriend.

A smile suddenly bloomed on Chu Qian's face, "Liu Moang, you are so good to me." ”

The place where they ate was on the side of the 318 National Highway, and not long after driving along the 318 National Highway, they entered an area similar to a small processing factory, and there were small steel factories on both sides of the highway, which became a large area.

There is a sign in front of you, follow the signs to turn left into a quiet small road, and at the end of the road, you will arrive at the World Cypress King Garden.

The car was parked in the parking lot, Lao Liu tied the dog leash to the white lion, Chu Qian led the white lion, and Lao Liu ran to the ticket office and spent sixty yuan to buy two tickets.

There were two Tibetan staff members chatting happily at the place where the ticket was checked, and one of them saw Chu Qian holding a white lion, and he was not allowed to enter without looking carefully, for the simple reason that large pet dogs are not allowed to enter in public.

On the contrary, another older Tibetan seemed to recognize the identity of the white lion, and asked Lao Liu with some surprise: "Could this dog of yours be a snow mastiff?"

Lao Liu folded his hands and Tashi Delek, "Yes, this snow mastiff is a snow mastiff from the grassland pasture of northern Tibet, my child." ”

The white lion roared twice in response, and immediately made the two Tibetan compatriots stand up respectfully and fold their hands.

At this time, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and there were basically no tourists in the park, otherwise Lao Liu would not have come out with the white lion.

"Is this dog really the patron saint of the ranch?" asked the older Tibetan compatriot.

"That's right, the white lion is a real mastiff that can drive away Tibetan wolves and protect cattle and sheep!" Lao Liu said proudly, "In the pasture, the white lion is a guardian dog that can bite the Tibetan wolf to death, but when I am here, it is very well-behaved and will never disturb tourists, I can guarantee this." I opened an inn at the foot of Nianqing Tanggula Peak, and there are many customers coming and going every day, but the white lion never disturbs the tourists. ”

Lao Liu lied a little, the white lion who returned to the inn basically stayed in the pasture during the day except for coming back to sleep at night, and of course it couldn't disturb the tourists.

The two Tibetans folded their hands again and smiled at the white lion, and then let the two of them and one dog in.

After entering the door, there are steps, and after going up the steps, there is a wooden plank road to connect them.

Thick cypress trees stand in a staggered manner on the mountainside, even the thinnest giant cypress must at least have the thickness of two people hugging. There are also some giant cypresses that are individually encircled, and the diameter of the breast height is casually one or two meters.

After walking along the wooden plank road for a while, I descended to a relatively wide square, and a large and astonishing giant cypress stood on the north side of the small square.

"My God, how can this tree be so thick?" Chu Qian was directly stunned by this big tree with amazing thickness, and Lao Liu was no better.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Lao Liu has never seen such a thick and tall tree in his life!

Although Lao Liu had seen the big banyan tree in Yangshuo when he traveled to Guilin before, the big banyan tree was too short, and people could only praise it when they saw it, "The crown of this big banyan tree is so big ......"

But this giant cypress in front of him, ten people saw it, and it was estimated that ten people would mutter, "!" in their hearts.

The wooden boardwalk encloses the giant cypress in a C-shape, leaving only a gap on the side facing the square.

But at the base of the cypress there is a fence made of stones, and this stone fence is covered with layers of hata, and I don't know how many hada are laid here.

A few tourists were taking pictures under the giant cypress, but Lao Liu didn't dare to come forward because he was taking the white lion, but came to the south end of the small square with Chu Qian and began to photograph the giant cypress.

The giant cypress is really tall, and it is estimated that it must be at least more than 50 meters high. Standing at the southern end of the small square is the only way to bring the giant cypress into the camera.

When the tourists under the tree were almost gone, Lao Liu Cai and Chu Qian approached the giant cypress with the white lion.

Only when you get closer can you more clearly appreciate the sense of oppression brought by this big tree.

This is really too "", how much heaven and earth aura can raise such a giant tree?

The diameter at breast height of this giant cypress must be at least about six meters, and when a person stands in front of this giant cypress, it is like a cigarette butt standing in front of a wine bottle......

In front of the stone fence, there is a round stone about 80 centimeters high, painted with white paint, with five big characters written in red paint "World Cypress King", next to it are a few lines of small characters - the age of the tree is 3233 years, the chest circumference, the height of the tree is 50m, and the date of measurement is 2015.6.

Chu Qian folded her fingers and calculated: "This is the data measured in 2015, so by this year, won't this tree be 3237 years old......?"

Lao Liu smiled bitterly: "Don't forget it, you just invited Qin Shihuang and his grandmother over, and they are not as old as this tree......