Chapter Five Hundred and Seventh Heaven's Lord Does Not Make Beauty
Here, Xu Chenghou led his grandson to wash the ginseng seeds and spread them on a fork to dry, then eat and rest.
On the other side, Xu Shiyan and Li Chengrong took the train to Erdaobaihe Town with two translators and several foreign businessmen.
At this time, the environmentally friendly road from the west slope to the north slope has not yet been built, there are only firewood transportation roads between various forest farms.
This firewood road was built for logging and transporting wood down the mountain.
In order to facilitate transportation, construction is carried out wherever there is a clearing area, often in a roundabout way.
In the mountainous area, driving is too time-consuming and dangerous, so it is more convenient and safer to take the train.
Erdaobaihe Town falls under the jurisdiction of Antu.
Even though they are two neighboring counties, Erdaobai River is not too far from Songjiang River, but it has a different style.
This is an area inhabited by ethnic minorities, most of whom are Korean compatriots.
Therefore, there is a strong Korean style here. On the streets, especially women, most of them wear brightly colored clothes, with short tops and long skirts underneath.
Many people speak not Chinese, but the Korean language.
Even some newspapers and magazines are in Korean script, and even the signboards on both sides of the streets are mostly in two languages.
Even though they are all yellow-skinned people, they look similar in appearance, but if you look carefully, there are still some differences.
The foreigner looked here very curiously and had to ask.
Li Chengrong studied foreign languages for two years in the provincial capital. He has no problem with ordinary conversations, but answering this kind of question is a little more laborious.
Fortunately, there was a professional translator, and Xu Shiyan talked about the development and changes of the Chao clan.
The foreigner was very interested and asked questions one after another.
Xu Shiyan said everything he knew and could say, but naturally he would not talk about some sensitive topics.
It stands to reason that when visiting such an ethnic minority inhabited area, you must experience the special customs of the ethnic minority area, and at least taste the special food.
There are still many Korean delicacies, such as cakes, rice sausages, soybean paste soup, and cold noodles, but the most famous one is dog meat.
Xu Shiyan doesn't eat dog meat, and neither does anyone who hunts. For them, dogs are companions.
Moreover, Xu Shiyan is worried that many countries in Europe and the United States prohibit the consumption of dog meat.
He didn't know whether these people would eat or not, so he didn't dare to decide on his own, so he asked the translator to ask.
Sure enough, when those foreigners heard that they wanted to eat dog meat, they all refused.
If you don’t eat dog meat, there aren’t many Western restaurants here, so you can just eat whatever you want.
Fortunately, those foreigners just don't eat dog meat, but they can eat other vegetables.
It's a hot day, so everyone orders a cold noodle, roast beef, cakes, rice sausages, etc., along with Korean pickles, and that's it.
Cold noodles are made from white flour mixed with rice noodles or buckwheat noodles, starch, etc. They are pressed out with a machine and cooked in a pot.
After cooling with cold water, add the cool and refreshing soup, as well as beef slices, cucumber shreds, tomato slices, eggs, spicy cabbage, spicy sauce and other side dishes.
The soup is sweet and sour, cold and refreshing, and the sauced beef slices are also very flavorful. It is really comfortable to eat on a hot day.
Foreigners are still rare these days, and many people around are looking at them.
Xu Shiyan could only smile and nod at those people, signaling the world not to point fingers at those foreigners.
But it's hard to stop this, and Xu Shiyan can't do it either.
After all, this is a remote town, not a big city, so this is really unavoidable.
After eating, you must find a place to stay.
This is not a county town, and at present, the tourism industry has not developed to the level that it was in later generations. There are definitely no high-end hotels, only Chao hotels.
The house we live here is also very unique. The door is a sliding door and the house is a floor kang. You have to take off your shoes when entering the house.
Two people share a room. Xu Shiyan and Li Chengrong live together and sleep on the floor kang at night, which is quite good.
"I hope it will be a clear sky tomorrow, and we can see Tianchi when we go up."
Before going to bed, Li Chengrong said this.
He went to inquire about it just now, and said that it has been sunny in the past few days, and everyone wanted to go up and have a look at Tianchi.
But no one expected that when they woke up early the next morning, it was gloomy outside. It didn't rain, but there was fog.
When Xu Shiyan looked at the sky like this outside, he could only sigh, thinking that this time was probably in vain.
After breakfast, go to the designated place to take the bus.
Climbing Changbai Mountain in this era is different from that of later generations. There are no environmentally friendly vehicles, so it’s a waste of time.
Only big passengers can send people to the climbing point at the bottom of the mountain, and then tourists can climb up by themselves.
Tickets are not expensive, only five yuan per person.
Now that I'm here, no matter whether it's cloudy or sunny, I have to go up and have a look.
So a group of people got on the bus and slowly went uphill along the mountain road towards the mountain.
Sitting in the car, I can only see the continuous mountains and trees coming towards me, and then endlessly flashing behind the car.
People like Xu Shiyan and Li Chengrong, who have lived in the mountains and forests since childhood, don't think anything of it at all.
But those guests from out of town found it strange, and from time to time they pointed at the scenery outside the car window and exclaimed.
Some people were talking in low voices, hoping that the weather would clear up, or at least not rain.
The bus stop is still dozens of kilometers away from the climbing point. As the car goes higher and higher, the fog outside becomes thicker and thicker.
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By the time the car reached the climbing point, the mist had turned into drizzle.
Near the climbing point, there are hotels and restaurants, as well as a place specializing in boiling hot spring eggs. The construction is quite good.
But at this moment, everything was shrouded in misty rain and fog.
Looking forward from a distance, the high-hanging Tianchi Falls is also shrouded in rain and fog, and the water vapor below is transpiration, making it even more hazy and mysterious.
Xu Shiyan had prepared raincoats before coming, so he quickly took them out and everyone put them on.
To climb a mountain at this time, you have to go up along the Julong Hot Spring Group and walk up the stone steps corridor on the side of the waterfall.
Walk all the way to the Chengcha River and go up and down along the river to the Tianchi waterfront.
The stone steps in the corridor next to the waterfall are steep and difficult to climb. There are many places where you have to use your hands and feet to climb up.
It is difficult to climb a mountain on a sunny day, let alone a rainy day. There are moss on the stone steps and they are very slippery on rainy days, making climbing extremely dangerous.
Many tourists went straight to the hotel rather than risk hiking in such weather.
Under such circumstances, Xu Shiyan naturally refused to let those foreigners climb the mountain again.
But they were very stubborn and had to go up. In desperation, Xu Shiyan could only go forward with him.
Just after passing the hot spring, and walking further, you can hear the sound of the rushing water of the waterfall.
The water coming down from the waterfall was slightly bluish in color, rolled up into foam, and roared past under a small bridge.
After walking a little further, it started to become difficult to walk.
At this time, the rain seemed to be getting much heavier, and several foreigners began to hesitate whether to continue walking forward.
At this time, on the bare hillside in the distance, a lot of sand and gravel rolled down with a roar.
Changbai Mountain was originally a dormant volcano, and the main body of the mountain was volcanic ash with a loose texture.
On rainy days, some loose sand and gravel will fall.
Several foreigners were obviously frightened, so they no longer persisted and quickly turned around and went down the mountain.