Cuoqin is the first county town they arrived in Ali. With an average altitude of more than 4,500 meters, it is the city with the highest altitude in Ali.
Come to town and refuel first.
The car slowly drove into the gas station.
Yu Jie jumped out of the car and yawned while doing chest expansion exercises.
Zhang Lin suddenly shouted: "What!" Then she quickly got out of the car and came to the refueling machine, shouting: "Twelve and seven yuan of gas?"
Yu Jie said: "Do you know what Ali is? What a fuss."
Ali is located in a remote area, it is difficult for vehicles to pass through, and the prices of everything are very high. The mainland is on the same level, the Holy City is on another level, and Ali is on a separate level.
"That's too expensive!"
Fortunately, she didn't say it in front of others, she just complained to her companions.
Even though there was still some gas in the tank, it cost nearly 500 yuan to fill it up. Zhang Lin felt very sorry for the money. As she drove away, she was still mumbling: "If I had known better, I would have put more gas in the car."
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It was a hard day yesterday, and several of us wanted to live a better life.
So I found a hotel that looked pretty good. There was a Lanzhou Ramen downstairs.
"How about eating this?"
"Okay, I don't want to eat anything too greasy."
We had a simple discussion and no one had any different opinions.
After sitting down, Yu Jie said: "Do you know where Lanzhou Ramen is opened?"
"Not from Lanzhou?" Chen Xing said.
"No."
Yu Jie pointed to the Lanzhou Ramen logo on the menu and said: "Did you see that logo? Halal restaurant. As long as the current Lanzhou Ramen restaurant has this logo, it is probably opened by people from Qinghai. And don't look at Lanzhou Ramen everywhere.
I thought it was a chain store because they share the same brand."
Zhang Lin said: "Who created this brand? Doesn't it count as infringement?"
"Is there any infringement? Do they dare to say that Lanzhou Ramen is theirs? Lanzhou people are the first to disagree, and Lanzhou is popular for beef noodles, not ramen."
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu can be used on Android and Apple.]
"So Lanzhou Ramen is not made by Lanzhou people?"
Hou Xiaoai said with a smile:
"I have been to Lanzhou. If you talk about Lanzhou Ramen in front of them, they will dare to get angry with you. It feels like we heard that Bangzi people registered the Dragon Boat Festival in advance. Now many of us don't know about Lanzhou.
For beef noodles, I only know Lanzhou Ramen."
Yu Jie tapped the table and said: "This is a perfect metaphor, damn stick man!"
Today is the most comfortable day they have had since leaving the Holy Land.
Everyone slept in the hotel in the morning and went shopping in the local market in the afternoon. Zhang Lin bought a Tibetan robe.
Tibetan robes are quite expensive, but the materials are very solid and should be very warm to wear.
There is a square in the center of Cuoqin, and many people come here to dance square dance every night. However, their square dance is different from the square dances usually seen in the community, but Guozhuang dance.
Dozens of locals, including men and women, some in their 40s and 50s, some in their twenties, and some in their teens. They formed a large circle around the street lamp in the middle of the square, and the sound came from the speakers.
Playing Tibetan songs and dancing lively.
Chen Xing asked the people around him: "Is it possible?"
Hou Xiaoai shook his head and said: "No, can you dance this dance?"
"I learned one in southern Yunnan, which is similar to this one."
The dance steps of Guozhuang Dance are actually very simple, and you can put your hands in your pocket without moving your hands, and just use your feet to follow them and move back and forth.
Chen Xing went up to play for a while.
Zhang Lin also found it interesting and ran up to learn from Chen Xing.
Chen Xing said: "You probably know how to do it after watching it for a long time. Just follow along first. It's very simple. And it doesn't matter whether you dance well or not. What matters most is the atmosphere."
Seeing that Chen Xing and Zhang Lin were having a good time, Hou Xiaoai and Yu Jie finally joined in.
In this kind of atmosphere where everyone is happy, listening to songs and dancing, no matter how big the troubles are, they will disappear, leaving only happiness. By the way, you can also exercise, which has many benefits.
In fact, this is why square dancing is so popular all over the country.
The next whole day was spent driving on bad roads, and Yu Jie smoked a whole pack of cigarettes at the end of the day. When he was about to arrive at the accommodation in Renduo Township at night, everyone just heard a pop.
The right rear tire burst.
Yu Jie got out of the car, took a look, picked up the sharp stones on the ground and said, "I knew it! It's only a matter of time before a tire blows out on a road like this!"
Zhang Lin rolled up her sleeves and said, "Let's change the tire. The spare tire we prepared is finally useful."
She took out the jack and assembled it. Of course, Chen Xing and Yu Jie did the hard physical work. He first used the jack to lift the car body, while Yu Jie took the wrench to remove the tire.
At an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, changing tires has become a fatal job.
As soon as Yu Jie unloaded two screws, he was panting like an old cow who had plowed several acres of land. He stood for a while holding his waist, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
Then install the plate screws.
As soon as he bent down and exerted force, Yu Jie's vision suddenly went dark.
Everyone saw that Yu Jie suddenly lost his strength and fell towards where Chen Xing was.
Chen Xing quickly hugged him and let him lie half back on the ground.
Yu Jie originally fell on his head. There were sharp stones on the ground. If Chen Xing hadn't happened to be in front of him, he would have at least suffered a bloody head fall.
Hou Xiaoai and Zhang Lin quickly joined in.
Chen Xing checked and found that the problem was not serious. It was Yu Jie who took a puff of cigarette. Originally, the oxygen content in the lungs was low, and then there was also less oxygen in the plateau environment, resulting in insufficient oxygen supply to the brain, and he fainted for a while.
That’s all.
But when this happened, Yu Jie's body could no longer support his travels.
He took off his clothes and put it on the back of Yu Jie's head, letting him lie down, and said to the two girls: "Please help him take a look. If he has any special situation, call me and I will change the tire first." p>
There are no vehicles on this road now. Chen Xing had to change the tires first and send Yu Jie to Renduo Township for further treatment.
"Don't you call 120?"
"It's better to call an ambulance than to send him there ourselves, and Renduo Township is also a small place, so there shouldn't be an ambulance."
People like Yu Jie who faint from lack of oxygen will wake up soon, but their bodies will inevitably be weaker and unable to continue to resist the thin oxygen at high altitudes.
This is called a serious injury in Chinese culture.
After changing the tire, Zhang Lin drove and arrived in Renduo Township half an hour later. There is no hospital in Renduo Township, only one township health center with two doctors and four nurses.
They are all medical staff who have lived in the local area for a long time and have rich experience in treating various plateau diseases. When Chen Xing and others came back from the hotel the next day, Yu Jie was already awake. His face was very pale and he was receiving fluids.
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When Chen Xing saw this situation, he asked: "What's wrong? Why are you still receiving fluids?"
Yu Jie's face turned even paler, and he said helplessly: "I'm a little dizzy. The doctor said it was high fever."
"Then you have no hope of continuing."
If he was just deprived of oxygen for a while and recovered well, he should be able to move up the mountain without any problems, but that would not be possible if he returned to altitude, and he would have to immediately return to a lower altitude to rest.
When we set off again, there was one less person in the team.
But Zhang Lin and Hou Xiaoai are not going to go to the mountains. They will only rest in Shiquan River for two days to see if anyone can take a ride, and then take the northern or southern route to drive back to the Holy City, so to be precise
, after tonight, this temporary team should be disbanded.
Chen Xing's departure point for Zhuanshan Mountain is set at Taqin. To get there, he must first go to Shiquanhe, Hou Xiaoai's destination this time, and then take a ride to Taqin.
But the two insisted on sending Chen Xing to the finish line.
On the afternoon of November 13, Chen Xing finally arrived at the small village of Taqin.
It is quite lively here, with shops and hotels. In recent years, because of Kailash’s fame, there are not many foreign tourists coming here, but there is an endless stream, and there are always guests in the hotel.
When they entered the village, they saw a girl standing at the entrance of the village, holding a sign asking for team formation.
Zhang Lin slowed down the car and looked at it for a while, almost making people think that the car was about to accept her. Then she drove away and said to Xiao Ai: "It's like playing a game in a team. Chen Xing, you are also alone.
Do you want to form a team?"
Chen Xing shook his head and said: "If I team up with that girl, I might as well go alone."
Hou Xiaoai said: "Then we also want to go?"
"Don't..."
Chen Xing was unwilling to let them go. Whether it was from the previous school or from the information slowly collected during this period, mountain climbing was not an easy task. It was a double test of a person's physical fitness and willpower.
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He himself couldn't guarantee that his journey around the mountain would go smoothly, let alone taking two people with him.
