() Jiang Yang rested for a while, regained some vitality, and then started to escape again and look for fun everywhere.
It was interesting to see Jiang Yang jumping up and down on the stone road. He was the one who screamed, and then ran back like crazy.
"Brother Yangyang, snake! Snake!"
Before anyone else could get up, Lu Yang had already ran over.
On the stone slab was an aestivating non-venomous black-tailed snake. The temperature in the midsummer in Jinxiang Mountain at this height is not low. Some snakes like to hide and sleep under the cool stone slabs. Unexpectedly, they were disturbed by Jiang Yang.
Snakes can often be seen in Yaoquan, and Lu Yang knows the behavior of this thing. Generally, snakes rarely attack large animals such as humans, and will only bite when frightened.
At the foot of the mountain, Lu Yang had already found a branch as a crutch. He used the crutch to pick up the snake and threw it into the bushes on the side. The black-tipped snake slithered away.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
As Lu Yang stirred up the snake, Jiang Yang screamed in the distance until Lu Yang came back with a look of resentment on his face.
"Brother Yangyang," Jiang Yang stomped his feet and complained, "Why didn't you kill that snake? It scared me to death!"
"Jiang Yang," Lu Yang explained with a smile: "That's a black-tip snake. It's non-venomous and cannot be killed."
"Why not?" Jiang Yang didn't understand.
"A snake can eat more than a hundred mice and many insects every year," Lu Yang said without hesitation: "With fewer snakes, plants will suffer, and the ecological balance of this mountain will be destroyed. In the end, we humans will
Bad luck."
"Oh..." Jiang Yang seemed to understand but not understand.
"Sister Zhang," Jiang Jinghua suddenly asked after hearing these words: "Does this child Lu Yang usually like to watch?"
Zhang Shufen was smiling at her son showing off his knowledge. In this situation, his parents were certainly proud.
Upon hearing Jiang Jinghua's question, Zhang Shufen said modestly: "This kid is usually wild and doesn't read much."
Jiang Yuan also glanced at Lu Yang. Although this idea of ecological balance was not uncommon in this day and age, she asked herself, even the so-called good students in her school, I am afraid most of them would not think this way.
After a good rest, the group started on the road again. They walked a little slowly because they had to accommodate those who were in poor physical condition.
Sooner or later, with Jiang Yang wailing, he finally arrived at his first destination - the ruins of the Jinxiang Temple on the hillside of Jinxiang Mountain.
The Jinxiang Temple is said to have been around in the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that local herbalists were in danger while collecting medicine and were saved by Guanyin Bodhisattva. So they worked hard to build this temple halfway up the mountain to express their gratitude. This is the origin of the name Jinxiang Mountain.
However, at this time, the Golden Statue Temple has become a ruin. Several houses that were originally large in size now have only broken walls.
Everyone was tired from walking, so we rested here for lunch before we had the strength to continue walking.
Jiang Yang had long since lost his initial vitality, his face was covered with sweat, and he lay miserably on a broken stone tablet.
After all, they were getting older. Even though Uncle Wang and Uncle Chen had swapped their backpacks with Lu Jiangan, they still felt a little overwhelmed at this time. They sat aside to rest with Jiang Jingdong and Lu Jiangan. After all, Xu Wei had just been injured and sat down at this time.
Lower interest rates.
"Old...old road," Jiang Jingdong panted. There was a big difference between mountain climbing and fitness. He looked at his watch and asked, "How long does it take to get to the top of the mountain?"
"At our speed," Lu Jiangxin calculated and replied: "More than three hours are enough to get to Yunzhai. It will take another two hours to reach the top."
"That will be troublesome," Jiang Jingdong frowned and said, "It will be dark by then, and it will be difficult to come down even if you go up."
"We can only go to Yunzhai first," Uncle Wang suggested. "The weak ones will stay there. We can find the Miao guide to accompany them to the mountaintop forest farm for hunting. We can come back later."
"That can only be like this." Jiang Jingdong nodded helplessly.
Everyone was in a bad mood, but Lu Yang was the only one who was still alive and well. Seeing that no one wanted to move, he went to take out some particularly heavy foods such as cans from the backpack.
Most of the cans are military tin cans produced by Meilin, with various flavors. I don’t know where they were obtained. Anyway, Lu Yang had never seen them in Nanlong. The piles on Taobao in later generations were rare in this era.
After all, Jiang Jinghua and Zhang Shufen were both very old, so they didn't think much about it when they sat down. Only Jiang Yuan rested for a few minutes and came to help Lu Yang.
"Just open all the cans, no problem?" Lu Yang looked at the beauty beside him, with a smile as bright as the clouds on Jinxiang Mountain.
"Yeah." Jiang Yuan replied softly and picked up a switchblade.
Seeing Jiang Yuan's quick movements, Lu Yang felt relieved, so he went to find cooking utensils on Xu Wei's big hiking bag and brought a stainless steel pot, eliminating the need for the small oil stove.
Lu Yang found some dead branches that were resistant to burning and built a stove with stone slabs in the drainage ditch of Jinxiang Temple.
There was naturally no shortage of water sources around the Jinxiang Temple. Lu Yang found the spring, washed the pot, and returned with half a pot of water.
Lu Yang put the pot on the stove to boil water, and went to find compressed biscuits to cook thick porridge. Although it was okay to eat these foods cold, eating them warm would have a much better effect on physical recovery.
After the water boiled, Lu Yang put the compressed biscuits in, picked them up and set them aside to simmer.
Then Lu Yang took the opened tin can from Jiang Yuan's hand and placed it on the hot stone slab. The aroma soon hit his nostrils.
Young people always recover their physical strength the fastest. Jiang Yang could no longer lie down after smelling the smell and ran over in a hurry.
"Brother Yangyang, sister Yuanyuan, I'm hungry!"
"Well, let your sister serve it for you."
Lu Yang touched Jiang Yang's head, put down the hatchet, and found a pair of sharpened bamboo chopsticks in his hand.
At this time, Jiang Yuan had already brought over the washed bamboo cup and served Jiang Yang with the thick porridge that had been left for a while.
Not even waiting for the chopsticks, Jiang Yang swallowed it to try to see if it was not too hot. After finishing the drink, he wiped his mouth and handed the bamboo cup to Jiang Yuan.
Lu Yang came back after washing the bamboo chopsticks. Jiang Yuan had already filled ten bamboo cups with thick porridge. He handed over half of the chopsticks. The two partners, who were very in tune with each other for the first time, quickly arranged the chopsticks.
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"Yuanyuan is so amazing!" Zhang Shufen walked over and praised her generously.
"It's really amazing." Jiang Jinghua also praised with a smile.
"Most of it was done by Lu Yang." Jiang Yuan's face showed a trace of light.
"He's usually too lazy, but he's trying to show off in front of you today!" Zhang Shufen said carelessly, exposing someone's background.
"Mom!" Lu Yang carried the cans over and said with a wry smile on his face: "Can you leave some image for me?"
The corners of Jiang Yuan's mouth curved, and a rare smile fully bloomed in front of Lu Yang, which immediately stunned him.
"Go get it quickly!" Jiang Yuan lightly stomped her foot, cutting off someone's silly smile.
"Oh!" Lu Yang ordered, feeling suddenly very, very happy, and ran to transport the cans.
Jiang Jinghua looked at this scene with a smile, but didn't know what he was thinking.
By this time, everyone else had almost rested and gathered around to start having lunch.
This meal of sweet and thick porridge with compressed biscuits and canned fire was well received by everyone, with Lu Yang and Jiang Yuan praising them one after another.
After eating, Jiang Yang shouted to set off, and Lu Yang packed up the garbage and buried it in the mound next to the Jinxiang Temple ruins.
Then everyone started to set off. With the energy replenished by the hot food, everyone moved much faster.
Going up from Jinxiang Temple, the altitude is more than one thousand meters. Along the way, you can see the majestic mountains, steep rocks, and strange peaks and rocks.
The mountain road is getting steeper, and sometimes you even have to walk on a path cut into the stone wall in order to climb over the cliff.
After climbing over a huge cliff, the group's eyes became wider.
There is a small waterfall sandwiched between the cliffs in front of you. The falling water merges into a small stream and flows through the mountains. It rushes towards the cliff downstream to form a larger waterfall. Under the big waterfall is a large waterfall.
pool.
"We have arrived at Shizhong Waterfall," Lu Jiangan was walking at the front, still full of energy and said: "Everyone, take a rest and set off in twenty minutes!"
Jiang Yang was weak, but he didn't complain. Jiang Jinghua didn't care about him. Lu Yang supported him most of the time.
"Jiang Yang," Lu Yang walked to the waterfall and said loudly, "I'll do a trick for you!"
"Brother Yangyang, give me..." Jiang Yang's little face was covered with sweat, and he said hopefully: "Change into a horse..."
His voice was too low, and Lu Yang stood by the waterfall and didn't hear it.
"Hey!"
Lu Yang tried his best and shouted loudly. After waiting for a few minutes, he changed his name and shouted again.
"ha!"
"This kid is really lively and lively. He still has the energy to play tricks now." Jiang Jinghua gritted his teeth and persisted. He sat down and didn't want to move. He was very envious of Lu Yang's strong spirit.
Lu Jiangan, Zhang Shufen and others who knew the inside story did not answer, but just looked on with a smile.
"Ouch!"
As Lu Yang shouted, the water flow of the waterfall became smaller and smaller, and finally stopped.
But it only lasted for a minute or two, and then the water from the waterfall poured out as usual.
"This Shizhong Waterfall is one of the wonders of Jinxiang Mountain," Zhang Shufen explained under the astonished gazes of several unaware people: "Shouting in the right tone will cause the waterfall to pause for a short while."
"So magical?" Jiang Yang regained consciousness, ran to the waterfall, and started shouting.
"Ouch!"
"Why does it keep happening?"
"Ha!" "Woo!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "Hmph!"
"Ah haha, it's really broken. Brother Yangyang, am I great?"
With this episode, everyone's spirits improved a lot.
The group of people continued on their way, bypassing a cliff, and Fengyun Ridge was clearly visible in the distance.
It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and the setting sun was shining from the western sky, covering the stone cliffs without vegetation, and everyone seemed to be walking on a glorious pilgrimage road.
Lu Yang had been following Jiang Yuan silently. At this moment, he saw her eyes wandering to the stone cliffs on both sides, thoughtfully, and couldn't help but take a step forward and said: "The sunset of this golden statue is really spectacular."
"Well, it's not bad." Jiang Yuan glanced back at Lu Yang and whispered back.
The beauty's expression was still calm when she answered, but there was a hint of familiarity in her words, and the joy in Lu Yang's heart suddenly became more brilliant than the stone wall illuminated by the setting sun.
Lu Yang smiled and pointed to the magnificent wooden building looming among the clouds in the valley a few hundred meters away, illuminated by the setting sun.
