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Chapter 1008 Montenegro
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Because of the obstruction of the sheep, Liu Dong and the others had to stop temporarily. Soon, a man wearing a slightly shabby white sheepskin jacket with a bag tied around his waist, slightly ragged clothes, holding a tall shepherd's whip in his left hand, his skin
A dark-skinned middle-aged man with a simple and honest face full of age marks left the flock and strode over.
Adili probably knew each other, and after joking for a while, the shepherd looked them over, and then drove the sheep to make way for the group of people.
Because the road was not very wide, everyone had to get off the donkey's back and rely on their two donkeys to move forward.
During this period, Liu Dong kept looking at this simple herdsman family in the northwest. Like the herdsman he met accidentally in the Tianshan Mountains before, their life was not satisfactory, but at the same time Liu Dong saw a kind of satisfaction with life on their faces!
Although it’s hard, I live a very happy life!
Especially when he noticed the Uighur woman who served some goat milk and flatbread when everyone left, Liu Dong once again felt the ordinary happiness of ordinary people!
And this kind of happiness triggered a lot of thinking in his heart and made him mature as soon as possible!
This kind of maturity refers to ideological maturity rather than mental maturity!
"Hey, Xiaodong, what are you thinking about? So entranced!"
"Oh, it's nothing. I was thinking about some family matters occasionally!" Liu Dong replied with a smile.
"Haha, it's natural for young people like you to be homesick, but the most important thing for young people is their career. Especially at your age, you must be self-reliant and self-reliant!" Yang Shang imparted some of his life experiences.
"I know Uncle Yang, don't worry!"
Liu Dong did not talk about his own situation. Therefore, Yang Shang did not understand his current achievements, and even thought that Liu Dong stayed in the role of setting up a street stall in the Quancheng Antique Market. Because two years are very important to a person's life.
It is so short-lived that it is hard to believe that a young man who was originally inconspicuous can achieve earth-shaking changes in two years.
"Well! I've known you for almost three years. I'm not worried about your perseverance, perseverance, and ambition. Work hard in the future. If you encounter any difficulties when you return to Quan City, come to me. I'll help you if I can.
, I will definitely not refuse!”
Facing Yang Shang's caring eyes, Liu Dong felt deeply grateful and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Uncle Yang! I really encounter difficulties and need your help. I won't be polite!"
"Haha, that's good! Come on, keep up, we have a long way to go today!"
After smiling and patting Liu Dong on the shoulder, Yang Shang clamped his legs on the donkey's belly and caught up with the team in front!
"drive!"
Soon, Liu Dong also chased after him!
After the previous episode of encountering a shepherd, Liu Dong never met anyone except the eight of them. No matter how far he walked, he saw mountains full of mountains, all of which were still black and yellow.
The barren mountains. Moreover, mountains and rivers are connected, and the mountain roads become more and more rugged. If it is still a narrow path at the beginning, in the end there will be no road in many cases! You can only go from the relatively flat mountain valley bottom, or through the grass and rocks.
Find a way to get there.
Fortunately, among the eight people, except Liu Dong, who was here for the first time, the others were all experienced and would not get lost, otherwise they might still get lost in the mountains.
As night fell, it was extremely dangerous to travel in the mountains, especially in the dark, so when it was just getting dark, a few people found a flat mountain valley to set up camp!
Liu Dong, who had been wandering in the Tianshan Mountains for more than a month, was already very proficient in how to set up camp and set up tents, so he was very efficient. This surprised Yang Shang and others.
After everyone laughed and asked a few questions, they divided their work and worked together to prepare dinner!
The content of the dinner is very simple. In one sentence, it can be described as ‘a big bowl of wine and a big mouthful of meat’! Eight northern men gathered together around a bonfire. The atmosphere was warm and full of generosity between men!
However, the center of this discussion is indeed Liu Dong. The news that he obtained top-grade mutton-fat jade worth 45 million by gambling on stones is really hard not to envy, even jealous!
But even if I’m envious, no one will say anything bad!
There is a lot of humidity in the mountains, and there is a big temperature difference at night, so after dinner, after 9:30, everyone went back to their tents!
The night passed quickly. By the next day, when the sun had not yet dispelled the frost in the mountains, the group had already had breakfast, packed their bags and were ready to continue on the road!
Two days a day, and on the third day, Liu Dong finally saw the Jade Dragon Kashgar River that meandered like a jade belt again!
The Yulong Kashgar River originates from the Kunlun Mountains. After flowing into the Tarim Basin, it merges with the Karakash River to form the Khotan River. The river is 325 kilometers long and has many tributaries. The drainage area is 14,500 square kilometers. The river is rich in white jade, sapphire and
Black Jade has been the main river for producing jade in Khotan since ancient times. People mainly pick jade in the middle reaches, while the upper reaches are difficult to reach due to the dangerous terrain.
But Liu Dong and the others traveled deep into the mountainous area for more than three days and traveled more than 100 kilometers. They had already passed the middle reaches and were close to the upper reaches.
That is to say, only old people like Adili and Yang Shang who have been collecting jade in the Kunlun Mountains for more than ten years can walk in the vast mountains for so long and find the place accurately.
"We're just ahead! Let's hurry up!"
Adili, who was leading the way, looked at the Yulong Kashgar River in the distance and the surrounding snow-capped peaks and said excitedly.
"Uncle Yang, what is this place? I see everyone is very excited?"
"Haha, of course I'm excited. Have you seen the tallest mountain in front of you?"
Looking in the direction of Yang Shang's finger, among the towering mountains, there is an exceptionally tall mountain, far higher than his companions, and the majority of the mountain is above the snow line. At a glance
Go, as majestic and thick as a white giant.
After noticing Liu Dong's eyes, Yang Shang continued: "...that mountain was called Kalanguitak in ancient times, and is now called Black Mountain. It is one of the main peaks of the Kunlun Mountains, with a height of 7562 meters! Where we are going now
It is the Agjugai Valley at the foot of the Black Mountain. There is a tributary connecting the Yulong Kashgar River. Jade often appears in the river. Moreover, because of the complex terrain, high altitude, and sparsely populated areas, it is difficult for ordinary jade collectors to reach here.
So if our luck is not too bad, the chance of picking jade this time is still very high!"
"Is there such a good place?" Liu Dong's face showed joy!
"A good place is a good place, but there are also many dangers. I will tell you in detail when we get there. But Xiaodong, you have to be very careful and be careful in everything, otherwise if something goes wrong, your life may be in danger!"
Looking at the serious look on Yang Shang's face, Liu Dong understood that the other party must have experienced many dangers before, and might even have lost his companions, so he was extra cautious.
"Don't worry, Uncle Yang, I will definitely be more careful!"
"Yeah! Be careful!"
After a few more words to Liu Dong, the team became silent.
The fatigue of the long journey has made everyone lose interest in talking. They are more interested in how to conserve their limited physical strength and rush on their way faster.
At this time, the altitude where the eight people were was already quite high, almost no less than 5,000 meters. Everyone except Liu Dong was breathing extremely heavily.
The surrounding vegetation has also changed from the original shrubs, Elaeagnus angustifolia, and red willows to clumps of grass and a few short shrubs! It is a wild and inaccessible wilderness as far as the eye can see!
Liu Dong originally thought that Adili's "almost there" was only an hour or two away at most, but he thought that after half a day, he still had no intention of stopping.
Just when Liu Dong was about to step forward to ask, a series of loud "rumbling" sounds suddenly came from his ears! It felt like the roar of a summer thunderstorm. The sound shook the valley and still shook the eardrums across a long distance!
"Xiaodong, hurry up, it's just ahead!"
After seeing and hearing the roar, almost everyone, whether it was Yang Shang, Qiu Yuan or Adili, had a look of joy on their faces. The tired look on their faces changed and they led the donkey forward quickly with joy.
Seeing them like this, Liu Dong couldn't help but be confused, but after driving forward for a while, the roaring sound of the water became louder.
After they turned the foot of a mountain, a mountain river with a width of more than 20 meters appeared in front of Liu Dong. The river was turbulent, and it was mixed with some floating ice rolling down from time to time! There were large and small pebbles scattered on both sides of the river.
, reflecting the dazzling light in the afternoon sun!
Seeing the childish joy on Yang Shang's and others' faces, Liu Dong understood that they were in trouble this time!
"Crack, boom...!"
There was another thunderous sound that Liu Dong was familiar with, and this time Liu Dong, who was closer, felt it particularly strongly.
Looking in the direction from which the sound came, I saw a huge ice tongue hundreds of meters high on the snow-capped peaks leading up from the opposite river. Because the weather was getting warmer and the ice and snow melted, it could not bear the excessive weight and broke apart.
Come.
Huge house-like ice and snow fragments rolled down the hillside as if they were bearing down on the top of Mount Tai. The posture as if they were about to crush everything, accompanied by the roar that shook the sky, made Liu Dong, who was standing several hundred meters away, feel a little agitated.
Shocked!
Because the ice cubes will encounter some rocks or ice cubes that protrude from the mountain during their fall, the ice cubes will continue to break under the huge interaction force, and finally it will look like an avalanche, with hundreds of large and small ice cubes.
The rocks rolled down and then fell into the mountain rivers. Especially the largest ice block with a diameter of more than 5 meters set off huge waves of tens of meters like a 'Mars hitting the earth', making the whole place noisy.
The river filled the entire valley instantly like a rising tide, and the huge impact even caused many ice blocks that had just fallen into the river to be washed to the shore.
After the river reluctantly retracted and returned to its original state, both the valley and the river returned to the state they were in when Liu Dong first saw them, but the ice on the river bank reminded him that everything just now was so...