When I was awakened by the bright and dazzling sunshine outside the window, I had already entered the Pingdu boundary. We looked at the scenery passing by on both sides of the road with excitement. In fact, there is no scenery. There is still a rustle like winter everywhere, there are no leaves on the branches and no flowers on the trees, but in spring, we really feel the ubiquitous and surging vitality. ...
At about nine o'clock, the bus arrived at Taohuajian Village, a small village at the foot of the mountain. It turns out that this village is called Taohuajian Village. What a beautiful name! Is the whole village surrounded by peach trees everywhere?
In the peach blossom season, clusters of pink are like a gentle ribbon, constantly ups and downs, and countless bees and butterflies dance around the ribbon, which is wonderful.
The bus stopped at Little Square in the village, and 49 of us walked down the hill along the clean asphalt road in the middle of the village. Innocent, blue, breezy, warm, without a trace of cold feeling.
The village is small, and the houses are neatly arranged, all with red tiles and white walls, clean and comfortable. In addition to the main road, the paths between villages are all bluestone roads, paved with square bluestone with pockmarked pits, which are thick and simple, and must have been painted from the mountains.
I haven't seen many villagers on the road in the village, and I may still enjoy the leisure of the New Year at home.
This road is very long. After a short walk, the village was left behind. There are large orchards on both sides of the road, because they are bare branches before germination, which is not easy to judge, but I think it must be peach trees.
Look closely, it doesn't feel like it. Each branch is a flower spore, with a sharp, round tip like a small shell. The surfaces of trunks and branches without buds are glazed blue, smooth and delicate. The surface of peach trees should be rough, and the color is different.
Obviously not a peach tree. Is it cherry? With questions, move on. This path, with a gentle slope, is easy to walk, just enough to move the muscles and veins of the body and avoid being unable to adapt to mountain climbing.
After the orchard, it is a neat wheat field, and the wheat seedlings have turned green, which is gratifying. After a wheat field, a large orchard appeared, and it was still a fruit tree. The same problem. Suddenly, I saw a big yard not far away. There was a sign hanging outside the yard, which read four big characters: Cherry Villa. It really is a cherry!
As we approached the foot of the mountain, several houses appeared sporadically. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the front line of the village is long enough.
I finally reached the foot of the mountain. I heard from a teammate that the path I just passed was 3 kilometers long. No wonder, after walking for so long, I began to sweat before climbing the mountain.
Under the leadership of the team leader, we began to climb the mountain. The hillside is very gentle, with soft soil and hay at the foot and few trees. Walking is effortless, but there is no scenery to enjoy.
The grass all over the mountain withered, except a cherry tree at the beginning of the mountain. There are almost no other trees, only a few sparse small pine trees, and the small crown is still green. I didn't see peach trees in my imagination.
There is no scenery to see, so walking on the ground is much faster, and there is not much time to reach the first mountain top. The mountains here are continuous, but the visual inspection is not high.
As we approached the top of the mountain, the slope suddenly became steep. If it is about 40 degrees below, it is about 70 degrees here. We stuck the trekking pole firmly into the soil, and held the small pine tree next to us with the other hand. After a while, we went up.
There is a small pine forest on the top of the mountain, and the crowns are crowded together, and the wind is much stronger. Walking through the pine forest, you can only hear the sound of the wind blowing loose the crown of the head. This is Songtao.
I was in the first half of the team, and at the front was a young and energetic team leader, about ten people.
When a dozen of us walked out of the pine forest and looked at the second hill, we suddenly found several small red and green figures crawling on the hillside near the second hill. I can't help but exclaim, how fast they climb!
Not to be outdone, we catch up with the top ten. There will be a slightly lower valley between every two peaks, so we all go down to the valley and climb another peak.
When we climbed the second mountain, we never saw our teammates in front. The slope is not big, there are not many stones, and the danger is very small. We always take our time, relax, have little rest and don't feel tired.
When we reached the second hill, we still didn't see our teammates in front. They were walking when we left. Looking up at the third peak, sure enough, they have basically reached the top of the mountain.
The second peak is covered with reeds, and a large area of pale yellow velvet rushes to the valley with the wind. Beautiful, beautiful. Take it back when the wind dies down. When the reeds stood up straight, the wind rushed at them naughtily, and they rushed in the direction of the valley, so they kept teasing each other.
A big reed was trampled down by a passing teammate and laid flat on the ground, clean and refreshing. When you step on it, you hear the cable ringing. I suddenly have an impulse to lie on this reed mat and roll it back and forth a few times, so that my whole body is submerged in this refreshing reed fragrance. It must feel beautiful.
Then we went to the third mountain, which was near and not high, so it was not difficult. When we reached the third peak, the vanguard troops had reached the summit of the fourth peak and were greeting us loudly.
There are too many people in the team and their physical strength is obviously different. Looking back, we saw that the last people in the team were winding along the first hill. We have our own goals, and we are also the goals they are chasing.
After several hills, except for the pine trees, there is almost no green. The bare hillside is yellow-brown, the stone is dazzling blue-white, the long thatch has withered, other unknown shrubs have withered, and even the occasional grasshopper like a gust of wind is the protective color of hay.
Look down carefully at the wild vegetables. There are almost no wild vegetables, but a little green will flash in front of us inadvertently, but there are still some faint green leaves poking around among the dead leaves at the roots of some hay, just like a newborn baby, which is delicate but contains great vitality.
Keep walking, walking and crawling. Sweat dripped on the face, and some teammates directly changed into short sleeves. When you are thirsty, stop to replenish some water. When you are tired, have a rest. Without the scenery, your eyes seem to have lost their function. I don't know how many mountains I have climbed. I guess about four or five. It's eleven o'clock now, and it's almost time for lunch.
We continued to chase after the vanguard, and when we climbed a mountain, we suddenly found something strange. No matter where you go, the pine tree is black, and its shape retains the complete shape of the pine tree. There are no leaves, branches and pine cones, but the color is black. Obviously, the whole tree has been carbonized and life has ended.
We stopped and looked around, very shocked. This mountain, including the next one, is as endless as the eye can see, and there is nothing green like pine trees.
When was there a fire on the mountain that burned at least two mountains? We shuttled through the dark forest with a heavy heart, and the grass on the ground was still yellow, indicating that the mountain fire didn't happen at least the year before last.
A teammate from a nearby hometown said that the fire was lost two years ago. As for the reason, it is unknown.
The roots of the hay still show a little tender color. Wildfire never completely devoured them, and they grew taller in the spring breeze. How precious this green is! I accidentally found a small green needle-like leaf on the small side branch of a black pine, and I was so excited that it was still alive! What amazing power!
On these two black hills, four or five pine trees were found in the darkness, exuding vitality. They have gone through the most difficult days with tenacious vitality, and nature will definitely give them a brighter tomorrow for these two mountains.
The place for lunch is not far away. The wind at the top of the mountain is too strong, so we need to go down to the valley. After dinner, we will go straight down from the valley.
There are two ways to get to the valley. One is to climb the last peak, which is also the steepest one, and go down along the edge of the peak. The pioneers have climbed the mountain, but they shouted at us that it was difficult to climb and suggested that we take another road.
The other way is to go straight from where we are, but there is no road and we need to drive ourselves. There are charred dead pine trees, other shrubs and vines everywhere. Just like those virgin forests, we need to cut a path with machetes, but we don't have machetes.
A male teammate volunteered, he opened the way and we followed. Then go straight on, the male teammate stumbled with his arms, legs and feet together, plus a trekking stick, and barely tore a small hole in the arrogant plant obstacle. In return, the male teammate's pants and knees were torn open.
We follow each other and crawl slowly, and our right and left hands should block the branches that suddenly rush in any direction. The top cover is ready, and my feet suddenly can't walk. I pulled it several times, but I couldn't pull it. Looking down, it turned out to be entangled in a vine only the thickness of the mobile phone data line. The strength is so great that I can't pull it, so I have to take my feet out slowly. It's really worrying to walk and get entangled in another one.
There are many sharp thorns on many branches. Sometimes I want to help, but I just grab a thorn and scream. The youngest player is a six-year-old boy, who has been running ahead under the leadership of his parents. He heard that he had been stabbed and cried several times in front, but he was still brave. After crying a handful of tears, he continued to run.
Finally, through this rattan array, a small piece of black pine forest appeared. Through the black pine forest, I have seen the tenth man sitting on a stone mountain to rest. That's where we eat.
I plunged into the black pine forest, only to find that this pine forest is just like the peach blossom array in Huang Laoxie, and there is no place to waste it. If you go this way, many black branches are blocking it, but if you go that way, it is still blocking it.
Break a few branches with your hands, and your hands will be all black at once. Arch up carefully, either the hat is hooked on the branch or the backpack is caught. Stick a head here and a head there, and everyone can only take care of each other. It took a lot of effort to finally get out.
Looking at each other, I can't help laughing at each other. White clothes and white hats are all black. Hands without gloves are black, so they can't tell the color directly. You can't be black if you can't see it on your face. I was still a human being when I entered the pine forest array, and I became a baked sweet potato just fished out of the firewood stove when I left the pine forest array.
We cheered and ran to the small stone bag and wiped our hands with wet wipes. Used wet wipes are horribly black. Anyway, it's probably past twelve o'clock, so hurry up and eat. Sitting on a stone, basking in the sun and blowing the wind, it's not very hot.
While eating, we looked at the passage that had just passed. The last part of the team, where we climbed down the valley, moved carefully along our footprints.
Experience is completely different from experience. When we are experiencing, we are the scenery of the vanguard. Here we come, the team behind us has become our scenery, and we have become people who look at the scenery.
We played for a while after eating, and the last team arrived. It looks the same mess, clothes, hats, backpacks, shoes, hands and faces, and everything that can be black is black.
The oldest teammate, 63, is very thin. They all call her Sister Tian. I am in good health. Although my face was flushed with heat, I didn't say a word. I should eat and drink. I should leave. It's unambiguous. At this age, I don't think I can climb the mountain long ago.
After dinner, have a good rest and go down the mountain. There are few stones, which are easy to walk, but they are too dirty. When you get off the stage, the dust will shout.
In the process of disembarking, our seven female players got separated from the team leader. I found that I didn't see the team leader, so I shouted around and didn't respond. Maybe we're a little far away.
The foot of the mountain is very close, and the seven of us can meet the team leader directly. There are two youngest cousins, in their early twenties. They lead the way and we follow.
After a walk, shout at the side to see if the leader can hear you. After a long walk, I finally gave it to the team leader. The team leader shouted which direction we should go, and he was waiting for us nearby.
I don't have much time. I finally saw it. It turned out that the team leader found that we didn't catch up, so he shouted loudly and heard nothing. I think it's one or two roads down the mountain, and it's going down soon, so we can gather on foot.
Soon I reached the foot of the mountain and walked on the village road, tired and hot. I feel like summer and have a terrible headache. The happiest thing at this time is to drink a coke with ice, but I can only think about it.
I met the eldest sister-in-law of a nearby family, and there was a faucet in her yard. We hurried to wash our hands and faces. The water is cold and comfortable. I really want to have a drink.
I asked my sister-in-law, can I drink this cold water directly? Sister-in-law said you could drink it. Someone asked her where the water came from, but I didn't catch it clearly, so I quickly picked it up with a bottle, as if I had heard my sister-in-law say that mountain spring water was ok to drink.
After drinking a mouthful of water, it was sweet and cold, and the coolness went straight down my throat to my stomach. Every pore in my body was screaming loudly: How cool! I knocked a few times and drank half a bottle of water backwards, regardless of whether my stomach hurts or not.
Enthusiastic sister-in-law took out Mazar again and let us sit in the shade to have a rest.
Then speaking of peach blossoms in Taohuaxi, my sister-in-law said that there used to be many peach trees, but they were all cut down and planted into cherry trees. The cherries here are still very famous.
In the cherry harvest season, people outside have booked out in advance, and some of them are not very beautiful, so people nearby come to buy them, and their cherries don't need to be sold at all.
There are really no peach blossoms in Taohuaxi, but when it comes to cherry blossoms in bloom, it must be spectacular, and the cherry blossoms are absolutely beautiful.
Koji Nakamura felt very long when he came, and it was even longer when he walked back down the mountain. He can't walk to the finish line, how can he build such a long road? Finally, when I saw our bus, I was so excited that I really wanted to whistle twice.
At about four o'clock, I finally left for home. Climbing for the first time in the new year, tired, hot, happy, quite enjoyable.