Chapter 62 Deep in the Qinling Mountains
What he said was really confusing, and even Li Heng couldn't fully understand what it meant.
However, this story is not bad to hear, even though it is a story with no ending and is commonly known as a "bad ending".
Since entering the Qinling Mountains, Li Heng has walked on the dense forests of the mountains and seen all the natural phenomena of these majestic mountains.
He did not go to the famous and famous peaks, such as Taibai Mountain and Zhongnan Mountain. Instead, he often traveled through the remote mountains and forests that were not very well-known and unknown to the world. From time to time, he passed by some ancient villages and old villages hidden among the mountains and forests.
village.
Whenever this happens, he will stop and sit in the lotus position in meditation, or chat with the elders in the village.
After all, every old man is a living history book. Although most of them have little education, after the changes of time and vicissitudes of life, decades of life accumulation have accumulated in their spirits and become a unique intangible "treasure".
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And Li Heng unearthed treasures one after another through conversation and communication.
This is the third day of his arrival. This small village called Luotang Village is located on the mountainside of Donglian Mountain. The whole village has only about a hundred households. Most of the people have moved away, and young people have also left the mountains for the city.
To earn money from working, the old people simply plant some camellias and fruit trees to make a living.
Li Heng also wanted to chat with the old man about stories and anecdotes from the past, but the old man opened his somewhat deflated lips and yawned, looking a little sleepy.
This is the case for the elderly, who can easily become tired and sleepy.
Someone behind me stopped him.
However, Li Heng did not take the usual route. The road out of the village and down the mountain was on the south side, but he carried his big bag and walked straight into the woods south of the village.
The old man stood up slowly and walked back to the kitchen next to his small courtyard. The kitchen made of adobe bricks and red walls was a bit dark.
Normality is the majority, and differentiation is the key.
For a creature that can bathe in boiling water and swim in an ice house, would an air-conditioned room make it feel particularly comfortable?
Li Heng walked to a tall tree, and using his hands and feet, he quickly jumped to the top of the tree. A branch that almost matched his body was his bed tonight.
He is able to detect these small individuals that are "different" from the ordinary.
"No, please eat slowly"
Li Heng looked back and saw a villager holding a bamboo rake and wearing a straw hat greeting him.
There are always some pampered people from the city who live too leisurely, talking nonsense about embracing nature and returning to primitiveness, and go to these deep mountains and old forests.
All the plants are growing wildly and wildly, spreading their branches, leaves and branches as much as possible to grab as much light and rain as possible.
"Are you chewing? If so, come and have a bowl."
What kind of donkey friends? They are almost as good as donkeys and horses, and each of them is so stubborn that they can’t even be persuaded to come back.
Even a thatch with special buds, a flower with a different color, a caterpillar with unusually long antennae... would all cause him to stop and observe.
What's the result? If you're lucky, the rescue team can still fish it out. If you're not lucky, the rescue team will just collect the body. If it's even worse, they won't even be able to find the body.
And this "burden" doesn't know that anyone misses him so much. He has walked several hundred meters in the forest. It is very difficult to walk in this old forest without any rules.
He reminded him kindly while raking the grain drying on the ground.
But these are nothing to Li Heng. He walks here as if he is walking on flat ground.
He has long been accustomed to this. After his physical strength has reached its current level, various environments are no different to Li Heng.
The villager sighed, lit a cigarette and held it in his mouth, shaking his head helplessly.
The so-called hardships and difficulties are nothing to him. What he really focuses on is observation and thinking.
With such conditions, it’s no wonder that people move out and move out.
"Oh, it's hard to persuade someone looking for death with good words~"
He filled a large bowl of grey, thick porridge made from an unknown source and ate it bit by bit with his toothless mouth.
I wonder what number this is?
With Li Heng's foot power, from the time he entered the forest in the afternoon to the time when the sun set, he was able to travel only half of the area in this deep mountain forest.
This place is really much more remote and backward than my hometown.
Along a village road paved with stones, he strolled through the village halfway up the mountain. He looked at the old houses that were mostly uninhabited. Some of the vegetable gardens were abandoned, and some areas that looked like they were originally pig pens were now abandoned.
Overgrown with weeds.
In his opinion, Li Heng was just another burden that added burden to the mountain rescue team.
Looking at the few things that can be called modern, there are only a few cement telephone poles crossing the village, and two old tricycles parked in front of the villagers' houses, which are still the kind with low-power diesel engines.
tricycle.
Li Heng bowed his hands to thank him, but did not stop and walked back into the forest.
"Why don't you go in the old forest? It's very chaotic and it's hard to leave. There are also some cunning old wolves. It's dangerous!"
"There are a lot of snakes and insects. If you get bitten, it's not far from the hospital."
So this primitive and natural space was filled to the brim and very messy. If you were not careful, grass leaves and wood stubble from unknown sources would scratch your skin, or fall into your neck, between your feet, or into your trouser legs.
What a mess of unknown little hairy insects, scratching and itching like red beans all over my body.
An environment that ordinary people find difficult and unbearable is nothing to him, and an environment that ordinary people find comfortable and enjoyable is even less important to him.
"Thanks for reminding me, I have my own sense of discretion."
Li Heng smiled and rejected the old man's kindness, then stood up and carried his luggage again.
It looks like we are going to spend the night in this dense forest again tonight.
These tricycles can be said to be the few vehicles in this village that can communicate with the outside world. The mountain roads are rugged and winding and the distance is far away. Ordinary batteries cannot carry them. If they stop burning on the mountain road, it will be fatal. You can’t even push them.
Walk.
Moreover, there are only one or two roads in and out of the village. They are paved with gravel and have a rammed earth surface. They need to be repaired after every heavy rain. Otherwise, the road surface due to water and soil erosion will be difficult to drive on.
"Hey! Go over there!"
The Qinling Mountains are high and forested. The middle section is mainly "mountain high", while the eastern section is "deep forested". It is often uninhabited for tens or even hundreds of miles and is actually covered by wild jungle.
At this moment, Li Heng's ear moved, and a slight movement could not escape his capture.
He immediately came down from the treetop again and followed the sound in the air in pursuit of it with light and agile movements.
At this time, the last remaining light of the setting sun is gradually buried in the mountains, and the curtain of night covers the vast land like a rolling curtain.
Li Heng came not far from the strange noise and gently peered through a gap in the bushes, using the last ray of skylight to see the strange scene.
I saw amidst the jagged rocks, dragons and tigers were fighting for their lives in this otherworldly place!
Chapter completed!