The next morning, it was just dawn, and the two of them had already used breakfast and started to set off.

After leaving the county town, the road continued to follow the Lengqu River. After walking for about an hour, a deep Grand Canyon appeared in front of me.

"This is the Nujiang Grand Canyon?" Chu Qian asked excitedly.

"Well, it should be the Nujiang Grand Canyon. The bridge in front is the famous Nujiang Bridge. But we can't walk through that old bridge anymore, we need to walk through this new bridge."

"Wow, the legendary Nujiang Bridge! Liu Mo'ang, drive slowly when crossing the bridge later. I will take a few photos in the car as a souvenir."

"Come on, it seems that the Nujiang Bridge cannot take pictures, right? I checked some information before going to bed last night. Many of the information said that the near to the Nujiang Bridge is a military-controlled area, and the bridge is not allowed to take pictures. Although the new bridge has been opened now, I don't know if I can take pictures. To be safe, let's not take pictures."

"Ah?" Chu Qian seemed a little depressed, "The new bridge has been opened, and the old bridge is not allowed to leave and take photos."

Old Liu shrugged, "Let's be safe."

"All right."

The newly built bridge is on the south side of the old bridge, which is much longer than the old bridge. Before getting on the bridge, there were armed police soldiers on duty on the roadside reminding them to slow down after getting on the bridge. This is convenient for Chu Qian. She can take advantage of the slowdown to see the old bridge in the north.

The west end of the old bridge came out of a tunnel, and the Nujiang Bridge was out of the tunnel entrance. The bridge spanned through the deep canyon, and the bridge deck was a hundred or dozens of meters away from the river below, making the bridge look even more steep.

As soon as he got off the bridge, Lao Liu saw an armed police soldier on the roadside raised his hand to signal to stop.

Chu Qian was a little confused, "I didn't take a photo, why should I stop the car?"

Old Liu was also a little confused, but he still turned on the turn signal and parked the car on the side of the road and fell down the window glass.

A lieutenant officer with a two-star hang on his shoulder came over and saluted Lao Liu.

"Hello, are you going to the direction of Chamdo or Zuogong?"

When Lao Liu didn't seem to be in trouble, he simply pushed the door open and got out of the car, "We are going to go along 318 to Zuogong, not to go to Changdu."

After crossing the Nujiang River and crossing the Yela Mountain Pass to Bangda Town, it was divided into forks. One road was along the Yuqu River north, which was National Highway 214. The other one also headed south along the Yuqu River, which was National Highway 318.

Hearing Lao Liu's words, the lieutenant officer smiled, "Can you still sit two people in your car? If you can sit down? I want to take you a ride? I want to send someone to Zuogong."

Looking at the lieutenant officer's dark face, Lao Liu said without hesitation: "Okay? Is there a place in my car? There is only two of me and my girlfriend in the car, so it's okay to sit two more people."

"Thank you so much. Oh, right? My name is Wang Zexiu, I don't know what to call you?"

At this time, Chu Qian also got out of the car? Old Liu smiled and said, "My name is Liu Mo'ang? This is my girlfriend Chu Qian. Qianqian. This brother Wang Zexiu wants to take our car to Zuo Gong."

Chu Qian nodded with a smile.

Wang Zexiu immediately waved to the other side. A woman in her thirties came over with two bags. Chu Qian hurriedly greeted her and took one of them.

The woman smiled and thanked her.

Wang Zexiu introduced: "Mr. Liu? Ms. Chu? This is Liu Min, the wife of our squadron instructor. She came to visit our instructor yesterday and went back today. However, our squadron leader and instructor received a temporary order to go to the county for a meeting in the morning, so our instructor entrusted me to send my sister-in-law back. I was waiting for the passing bus here, but I don't know what happened to this bus today? I have been waiting for a long time but haven't waited. I can only trouble you."

Lao Liu nodded. There are long-distance buses on the Sichuan-Tibet Line? He knows this. For example, from Basu to Zuogong, you can take the shuttle bus from Basu to Chamdo? Get off at Bangda and then go to Zuogong? You can get there from Chamdo to Zuogong.

Chu Qian smiled and said, "Brother Wang, are you polite? It is our glory to send the military wife home."

Several people laughed together.

Old Liu pulled the back door of the truck? He said to Bai Shi: "Be honest, don't scare people."

Bai Shi was waiting for an innocent little eyes and looked at her father: Dad, what do you mean? When did I scare people?

Old Liu ignored the cute Bai Shi and said to Chu Qian: "You and your sister-in-law will sit in the back seat later. With you here, Bai Shi will not dare to make trouble."

Hearing Old Liu's words, Wang Zexiu asked, "There are people in the car?"

"No, it's a dog I raise. I'm quite wild. I'm afraid I'll scare my sister-in-law."

Wang Zexiu glanced into the car, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on her face, "Mr. Liu, are you raising a Tibetan mastiff? Or a snow mastiff?"

"Hehe, what the elders in the family have left for me. Also, don't call me a gentleman, either Xiao Liu or Liu Mo'ang."

Wang Zexiu nodded.

After the four people got into the car, both Liu Min and Wang Zexiu were extremely interested in the white lion in the back seat. The white lion hummed twice at the beginning, but after Chu Qian patted its big head, the white lion became much more honest.

"Brother Liu, did you grow up on the grassland, right?"

"Well, I am a mountain guard dog from the northern Tibetan grassland. I have been caring for cattle and sheep since I was a child and have a wild personality."

"This is such a good dog!" Liu Min also praised.

The car steadily followed National Highway 318, and this section of the road was on the east bank of the Nujiang River. On the right is the Nujiang River, which is dozens of meters deep, and on the left is the mountain more than 4,000 meters.

"How many years have Brother Wang been in the army?"

"I have been a soldier for a long time. I was an soldier after graduating from high school when I was 18 years old, so I joined the soldier here. However, I was admitted to the military academy the next year. After four years of college at Chang'an Armed Police Engineering University, I took the initiative to apply to return here. After graduation, I stayed here for three years."

"Wow, Brother Wang, you have been a soldier for eight years. You have caught up with the War of Resistance!"

Wang Zexiu laughed loudly, laughing very happily.

"Brother Liu, are you driving home from the plateau?"

"No, I'm sending my girlfriend home. I drove an inn in Dangquka County, Sunshine City. When my girlfriend came home, I drove her down."

"Why don't you take a plane?"

"There is no way, the guy behind me will not do it. Moreover, Qianqian and I have never walked across the Sichuan-Tibet Line, so we took this opportunity to walk the Sichuan-Tibet Line."

Wang Zexiu turned his head and looked at the white lion sitting in the trunk, smiled and shook his head, "Sometimes, it's not a good thing for dogs to be too clingy. Our squadron only has a few dogs, all of which are good dogs, but they are too clingy..."

The car walked south along the Nujiang River for about five kilometers, and then began to leave the Nujiang River and prepare to climb the mountain.

Wang Zexiu smiled and said, "The next section of the road we are going to take is the famous Seventy-two turn! Are you two ready?"

...

Among the highways in China, National Highway 318 Sichuan-Tibet Line is undoubtedly a very famous road.

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also a highway that lives up to its reputation.

Although the Sichuan-Tibet Highway is only part of National Highway 318, the 2146-kilometer journey from Chengdu to Rikkong City almost concentrates all the scenery you can imagine except the sea view.

There are many attractions on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, including mountains, snow-capped mountains, glaciers, forests, cliffs, rivers, canyons, grasslands, lakes, Tibetan residences... Driving on this highway, the scenery is different almost every day.

There may be many different opinions on the scenery on this road, but the Seventy-Two Corners of the Heavenly Road between Nujiang and Yela Mountain Pass can definitely be among the best.

After crossing the Nujiang River from west to east, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway will start to climb from Gamagou, which is 2,880 altitude. The straight line distance from Gamagou to Yelashan Pass is only a little over six kilometers, but it will climb nearly two thousand meters. The slope is so large that it is the best of the entire Sichuan-Tibet Highway.

Such slopes are not possible unless there is an elevator.

Therefore, the ancestors who built the Sichuan-Tibet Highway back then used the primitive winding mountain road to climb this huge hillside.

The straight line distance is only a little over six kilometers, but because of the need to repair the Panshan Highway, the length of this distance of Panshan Highway actually reaches an astonishing thirty kilometers. You can imagine how spectacular the Panshan Highway is.

This is indeed the case. It is known as the "Seventy-Two Turns on the Road" here, which is enough to illustrate the difficulty and twists and turns of this section of the road.

Wang Erhu's Road Cruise Zexing can be strong enough, and this kind of difficulty is not difficult for this car.

Chu Qian chatted with Liu Min in the back seat, while Wang Zexiu chatted with Lao Liu in the co-pilot.

Climb up the winding mountain road, and you can encounter road construction areas from time to time on the road. Sometimes when the road construction is only open to traffic on one side, a convoy suddenly appears on the opposite side, so you can only stop and avoid the traffic coming from the opposite side.

However, the road conditions are generally very good. The hard-working road protection workers and armed police soldiers have been working hard on this mountain road for many years, ensuring the smooth flow of this sky road.

It took nearly fifty minutes to run for more than 30 kilometers, and then it arrived at the famous Tianlu Seventy-Two Gate Observation Platform.

The observation deck is located in the middle of a section of the east-west highway above the Seventy-second turn of Tianlu. There is a not-small parking lot here. At this time, at least fifteen cars were parked in the parking lot, which seemed to be tourists who were driving on their own.

The parking lot is on the north side of the road, and there is a wooden viewing platform on the south side of the road, where many tourists take photos and videos.

Liu Min took the initiative to say, "You little couple go down and take a look. The scenery here should be very rare for you."

Wang Zexiu smiled and said, "My sister-in-law and I are used to seeing the scenery here, and there is nothing to do with it."

Lao Liu parked the car and got out with the white lion. There were five iron racks at the foot of the mountain to the north of the parking lot, with four big red words and a red five-pointed star inlaid.

The red five-pointed star is in the middle, and the words "Tianlu [Biquge 5200 www.bqg5200.xyz]72号" are on both sides.

From the viewing platform on the south side of the road, you can overlook the Seventy-Two Turns of the Sky Road that has just been driven up. Although you can't see the entire Seventy-Two Turns, you can see the most important part.

Looking down from a high place, the winding Sichuan-Tibet Highway is like steps one by one, layer by layer, allowing vehicles to smoothly climb up and down this extremely steep hillside.

Anyone who sees such a road that is a miracle in the world will feel a sense of pride in his heart, and he will also sigh at the difficulty of road construction predecessors back then.

Lao Liu and Chu Qian also took photos and videos here like other tourists. Such famous attractions are absolutely impossible to miss.

After staying here for about twenty minutes, the group drove up.

After crossing the Yela Mountain Pass at an altitude of 4,658 meters, I began to go all the way down the mountain and arrived at Bangda Town not long after walking.

Bonda Town is not big, but its strategic location is extremely important. This is the intersection of National Highway 318 and National Highway 214. From here, it is National Highway 214, which can directly reach Chamdo. If it goes south, it is the section where National Highway 214 and National Highway 318 meet, which can directly reach Mangkang.

Because the viewing platform on the Seventy-Two Turning Sky Road had been staying for more than 20 minutes, Lao Liu was not tired, so he went straight to the south.

The more than 100 kilometers from the road to Zuogong from the country, the road always extends forward along the Yuqu River Valley. Just like the Lalin Expressway I walked before and the journey from Tongmai to Ranwu, the Yuqu River is always by the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. We will never leave you.

It was already past twelve o'clock when he arrived in Zuogong, and his military wife Liu Min's home was in the county town. Because he had called on the road in advance, Liu Min's in-laws had already prepared lunch.

Liu Min said that she would keep Lao Liu and Chu Qian for dinner, but it was hard to stop her affection. The two took Bai Shi to have a sumptuous lunch at Liu Min's house.

After dinner, they said goodbye to Liu Min's family and Wang Zexiu, and they were ready to move forward.

It's too early to stay in Zuogong now, and Mangkang is only 160 kilometers away. Even if you have to cross the Dongda Mountain Pass, Jueba Mountain Pass and Lawu Mountain Pass in succession, and even cross the Lancang River, Lao Liu and Chu Qian still decided to stay in Mangkang at night.
To be continued...