Chapter 28 Mountains and Rivers Cone 8
Chen Wei and the others were inexplicably pulled by Zhao Yunlan, and were treated by Lang Ge's big fish and meat, and were arranged to the only five-star hotel in the local area.
The next morning, before dawn, three off-road vehicles were parked at the hotel door. As soon as the trunk opened, I saw the clothes, outdoor equipment, high-calorie food, medicine and tools inside, all of which were not unpacked, which was almost enough to sponsor a professional scientific expedition team.
Zhao Yunlan looked quite calm and did not feel ashamed of it at all. She asked Lin Jing to send a Chinese to the drivers, and then talked about it with Lang Ge who came to see him off.
Lang Ge was full of enthusiasm. Although Zhao Yunlan drank down with a pound of white wine the night before, he seemed to be filled with joy, and he was still energetic in the morning - except that his face was swollen like a pig's head.
He stretched out his bear's paw, patted Zhao Yunlan on the shoulder, and said reluctantly: "Good brother, I'm leaving now. I'm not well served you well. I really didn't let you eat and drink well. We are a small place, you must understand, don't be surprised."
Zhao Yunlan glared: "Look, are you seeing each other again? We came all the way to bother you, so you're not polite. You're just going to be excited first. Brother Lang, if you come to Longcheng in the future, I'll make a fuss and sell it. I'll keep blocking the car on the Second Ring Road for a night, and accompany you throughout the journey. Call Brother Xie and the three of us have a good meal."
After saying goodbye to Lang Ge, Zhao Yunlan turned around and asked Chen Wei in a low voice: "It's not easy to drive the winding mountain road, and the children's skills are not good. I'm not at ease. In this way, you take them with us. I'll drive one, Lin Jing drive one, Zhu Hong drive one, break up the students, and gather in Qingxi Village. Are you okay?"
Even the tour guide who received the money did not do his best like this. If Chen Wei opposes in front of others, he will seem a bit ungrateful.
But Chen Wei was not as thick as his face. Until he got on the car, he seemed very disgusted: "I was not considerate this time. I'm really troubled you. And I didn't know Mr. Lang at first, so I asked him to spend so much money. See if we want to send something to him after we go back..."
Zhao Yunlan waved his hand like a master: "It's okay, you don't have to worry about this, no one will accept any love for nothing. You will remember it in my account. You won't be polite to me."
Chen Wei: "..."
It happened to be a red light in front. Zhao Yunlan stepped on the brakes, turned her head and smiled at him, revealing two dimples. A thin layer of redness suddenly appeared on his face. Then he subconsciously glanced at the two students in the back seat with his afterglow, and found that they were all looking out the window excitedly, and then he seemed to breathe a little relieved.
Zhao Yunlan suddenly felt a sudden move in his heart, thinking that he could try to go further, so he raised his hand and pulled out the collar of Chen Wei's shirt that had nestled in a corner, gently flattened, and the bent index finger joint gently rubbed under Chen Wei's ear intentionally or unintentionally. The sound naturally lowered a little. When Shen Wei was caught off guard and had not reacted, he retreated safely.
"The collar is not done." He adjusted the rearview mirror, looked straight ahead, and sat upright.
This time Shen Wei's ears were red.
When the red light passed, Zhao Yunlan stepped on the accelerator again, focused on driving without looking sideways, and raised the corners of his mouth suspiciously.
Chen Wei turned his head out the window, looking as if he was shy, but Zhao Yunlan, who was facing his back, could not see it. Chen Wei's face turned over slowly cleared and became pale.
He seemed to be frowning all the time, and a deep line had almost formed between his eyebrows. Every time he could see some indescribable coldness on his gentle face, looking both lonely and distant.
Driving on the winding mountain road is a physical job, bumpy and dizzy. Six or seven hours passed, and the two students in the back seat were already asleep. Chen Wei didn't dare to close his eyes. Sometimes he had to pay attention to the driver, at least not to make him sleepy, especially the driver drank so much wine the night before.
The further you go, the narrower the road will be and the more turns you will be. Less than one meter next to the wheel is a cliff, and there is not even a guardrail. You can rush down directly if you are not careful.
Fortunately, the car supported by Lang Ge is really good, and Zhao Yunlan looks a bit unrestrained, but she is unexpectedly stable in driving.
As they slowly entered the mountains, the temperature became lower and lower, and they could even feel it in the car with air conditioning.
There was also thick snow on the roadside. Going further forward, people on the road became more and more rare, and ice and snow pushed away by ruts began to appear.
At this time, the three cars that were originally close to each other slowed down at the same time, and the distance between cars began to grow larger and larger.
Then Zhao Yunlan slowly lowered the gears and carefully braked the car.
The car behind him slowly stopped when he started to slow down.
"The road ahead is so bad, I can see the chains." Zhao Yunlan said as she reached out to open the car door, and then said to Chen Wei, "It's cold outside, don't get down."
Chen Wei ignored it and jumped down to help him. The wind in the deep mountains was so cold that it could make people beat him up. He was not afraid of the cold weather, but was afraid of the wind. Such a wind, not to mention the slim coat that Zhao Yunlan had for pretending, even a thickened down jacket could make him cool in a moment.
The two students sitting in the car woke up and quickly jumped out to help, but Zhao Yunlan coaxed them back into the car: "Don't cause trouble, hurry up and go in. As soon as you wake up, you get a blowout. It's not a joke to catch a cold in this place."
The two of them quickly chained the wheels. After a while, they felt that their fingers were about to freeze. Zhao Yunlan straightened his waist and looked into the distance. He saw the mountains one by one, and the huge glaciers and snow-capped mountains in the distance stood there white. For a moment, people felt that the sky was high and the earth was connected with the clouds rising in the distance, as if they had melted into the pale sky light.
After getting on the bus, Zhao Yunlan called the people in the car behind one by one, told me about the safety precautions for driving on ice and snow, and emphasized in particular: "We will enter the glacier area immediately. Don't make loud noises after entering, and don't honk the whistle. If there is an avalanche, no one will be on duty during the day."
The entire mountainous area was covered with ice and snow. The sun began to go westward, the sky became increasingly slim, and the sky became darker and the ruts gradually decreased, and a kind of desolate cold slowly floated.
The distant glaciers are getting closer and closer, and their figures are becoming more and more obscure. Only the corner of the tip reflects the cold light reflected from somewhere, and suddenly flashes and disappears.
Zhao Yunlan turned on the headlights, and at some point the chat with Shen Wei had stopped at some point in order to refresh his mind. Chen Wei did not dare to distract him from his heart. The speed of the car began to become extremely slow. When the wheels with chains ran over the ground, there was a subtle sense of thrill. When he looked out, he saw that the mountain wall was a few thousand meters long, and the vast white area was already unseen. Sometimes, mottled, gray-brown rocks were exposed.
Cangshan is covered with snow, and the sky is brightly lit.
Two students sat behind him were so proud that they didn't dare to go out.
It's finally dark.
There were two in the back seat, one was the female squad leader in red clothes, and the other was a boy with small glasses. The small glasses secretly asked Chen Wei: "Professor, can we come out of the mountain tonight? Can we find a place to live?"
Before Chen Wei could answer, Zhao Yunlan took it over: "It's okay, Qingxi Village is adjacent to the snow-capped mountains. It should be almost time to survive this period, but..."
Before he could say "but" anything, he felt a tiny light suddenly shook in front of him. Zhao Yunlan frowned, immediately downshifted, then carefully braked slowly, and finally stopped the car.
The female squad leader asked nervously: "What's wrong? Is there a problem with the car?"
Chen Wei waved his hand: "The car is fine, there seems to be light in front of you. Don't move, I'll go down and take a look."
Zhao Yunlan: "Did you see it too?"
Chen Wei looked at him, and both of them had a bit solemn expression.
The girl was very sensitive and instinctively felt something was wrong: "Is it... the street light?"
"There are no street lights on this road, you sit." Zhao Yunlan turned around and looked at her, "There are chocolate and jerky behind it. If you are hungry, take it yourself."
After he said that, he pushed open the car door and walked down, Chen Wei followed closely behind.
At this time, the wind had stopped at some point, but it was getting colder around it. It was not the coldness of the coldness in the ice and snow, but the wet and coldness that made people linger in the cracks of bones from the inside out. It was very quiet all over the place. The sound of the wind and the sound of the snow falling were gone for a while. People would subconsciously slight their steps when they stepped on the ground.
The light not far away was also cold, sometimes fainting, just like someone carrying a lantern, which reminded people of the white paper lantern used for funerals in the past for no reason. When they got off the car, they seemed to be closer than before.
Zhao Yunlan's narrowed eyes suddenly widened, then he opened the car door and stuffed Chen Wei into the car. He turned around to the others who stopped and got out of the car to check, waved his hand from a distance, made a gesture of "Return to the car, don't come out" and immediately got into the car and locked the car door neatly.
During this moment, the light was closer, and some figures could even be seen vaguely.
Zhao Yunlan turned around and said to the two students in the car quickly: "Shut up no matter what you see, don't put your face on the window, and don't make a sound."
It was too cold, and there was a layer of water mist on the car window. Only when the windshield wipers had just stopped, the view was clear. From a distance, you could see a man leading the way with a lantern in front, followed by a large group of people coming towards them. After careful look, these people were men and women, old and young, but they were all in rags, as if they had just returned from fleeing.
So many people...why are they walking in the driveway?
"Who is that?" the female squad leader asked in a low voice.
"It's not a human," Zhao Yunlan said softly, "It's the Yin soldiers who use the road."
The girl covered her mouth. At this time, she could see the faces of those people. They all looked dull and had all kinds of incredible wounds on their bodies. The most bizarre one was the person who carried the paper lantern in the head. He... or she had no face, with a very high hat on her head, covering her chin, only a pale chin tip was exposed, and her whole body was snow-white, as if it was pale.
His feet, shoulders, and his body was stiff, and he looked like a pale kite drifting from a distance along the wind.
He didn't look at the road, but he walked around Zhao Yunlan's car straight away. The moment he passed by, through the car window that was not clear, the girl saw the "paper man" stop for a moment and bowed to the car twice. Zhao Yunlan nodded slightly, as a gift, and the "people" continued to float forward, and the group behind him followed, walking along the mountain road.
It was not until these strange people were gone that Zhao Yunlan turned over and got out of the car, lifted the trunk, took out a flashlight from it, and said to Chen Wei: "There may be something wrong ahead. I'll go over and take a look. You can take care of these children."
Chen Wei frowned again unconsciously.
Zhao Yunlan shook his hand, feeling that his warm body temperature was being sucked by the other party in a crazy way, and inexplicably felt a little pity in his heart.
Chapter completed!