Ai Ting was amazed because she saw an extremely beautiful lake.
Just among the green mountains, this lake suddenly appeared. The strong north wind brushed the treetops across the lake, causing overlapping ripples like fish scales.
Looking from their car, these water waves that should obviously be rippling seem to be stationary, as if they are too lazy to animate them, so they changed them to static textures.
There are eagles in twos and threes on the lake, lingering on the wind-swept lake. Every time it lingers for a while, it plunges into the water and disappears.
Although it is winter, the weather is sunny. The vast expanse of blurred bamboo forest is reflected on the water surface, like a piece of green emerald.
Green mountains and green waters, this picture is indeed super beautiful to Ai Ting who has stayed in Wutong City for too long.
But what Meng Fei felt first was that his hair stood on end, and then he felt a chill all over his body from head to toe.
This is so similar to the Jungle Reservoir in Rongdu. No wonder some people say that all scenic spots in mountains and rivers are similar.
As soon as he saw this, he thought of the military truck that suddenly appeared on the roadside, the machine gun spraying flames, the flying bullets, and the horror of escaping from the rolling vehicle and jumping into the bone-deep ice of the lake.
Fortunately, the roads in this area are clean, simple, without branches, and there are no suspicious vehicles parked on the roadside. The air is filled with a peaceful atmosphere.
Xiao Tu, a thin-faced male tour guide with long flowing hair and a ponytail, appeared at the right time and woke everyone up directly with the microphone in his hand.
"Our car will arrive at Tianmenyi soon. We will have lunch and change cars there. You can make some preparations and get ready to get off.
"Everyone can look to the right, which is our legendary Tiantong Lake. But, our destination for this trip is Tiantong Mountain..."
At this time, Mr. Fan Bufan, who was more entangled in details, asked.
"Excuse me, what is the relationship between Tiantong Lake and Tiantong Mountain?"
Although he is a young man, the tour guide is quite feminine. Xiao Tu stretched out his orchid fingers to comb the forehead of his hair, raised the corner of his mouth, and explained:
"Mountains and lakes are of course connected together. If seen from a high altitude, Tiantong Lake is an eye, then Tiantong Mountain is the real pupil."
After explaining the guest's question perfectly, Xiao Tu continued to introduce with a sense of accomplishment:
"The most distinctive feature of our Tiantong Mountain tourist area is the original ecology. Because this is a national park, there is no business.
"So as you can see, there is no other road except this one. Even building more roads here is prohibited.
"And this road leads all the way to Tiantong Mountain. We take this road to enter the lake and go up the mountain, and we also have to take this road back.
“Otherwise, like the revolutionaries in the early years of the Republic, we would have to climb over snowy mountains and cross grass before we can go out.
"Except for a few resort hotels on the mountain, there are only some mountain people who make a living by collecting medicinal materials and bamboo shoots. It is absolutely authentic and original."
In fact, Meng Fei felt a little speechless for such bragging. You already open resort hotels and package tours, but you still talk about original ecology?
It is possible that it was poorly managed after development and there were few tourists, and it was eventually forced to become an "original ecology".
"Since this road can lead to the mountains, why do we have to change trains at the station in front?"
While most people were silently enjoying the poetic scenery of distant mountains and rivers, only Mr. Fan was still relentlessly exposing the shady story of the travel company.
"Ahem, this is the original ecology requirement of our Tiantong Mountain tourist area." Xiao Tu replied in a well-trained manner.
“In order to avoid air pollution and maintain the original ecology of the environment, our entire tourist area is closed to foreign vehicles.
“From Tianmenyi to Tiantong Mountain, there are pure electric buses specially customized for our tourist area.
"And our buses are very famous. Have you heard of the 'sleep bus'? We are the earliest sleep bus line in the country.
“Many people who suffer from insomnia travel thousands of miles to come to us just to experience an hour and a half of comfortable sleep.”
"Oh? The car you have here can also cure insomnia?"
Fan Bu's interest was successfully diverted.
Meng Fei thought to himself that the one-way fare for this sleep bus, which was about 100 kilometers long and took one and a half hours, was as high as more than 200 green mango coins. Isn't it just to make money?
What nonsense are you talking about to avoid air pollution? Could it be that you just let in the pure electric cars from outside?
Before his thoughts could go too far, the bus had stopped. A piece of snow-white concrete appeared at the bottom of a steep mountain.
It looks like a rest stop on a highway, with gas stations, parking spaces, restrooms, restaurants and supermarkets.
A row of silver-gray, streamlined "sleep buses" that resemble silver fish in the lake are already waiting on the roadside. But this season, there really aren’t many customers.
Although the restaurant is simple, lunch does have a bit of a twist.
There were strange mushrooms that resembled beef liver in color and flavor, and a strange hay-like thing scrambled with eggs. There is also a green soup with green, translucent algae-like things floating in it.
Even the tea is very special. It tastes slightly bitter, but not as bitter as barley tea, but slightly bitter with a mellow fragrance. Meng Fei asked what the tea was called, and the waiter replied that it was called "buckwheat tea."
“Haha, speaking of the food here, the most famous one is the buffet barbecue on the mountain.
"All original ingredients, original charcoal, the salt is mineral salt from the mountain, and the dipping sauce is made from a kind of wild chive flower in the mountain. You can taste it when you have dinner today."
In the winter, while grilling the fire, watching the red meat sizzling in the charcoal fire, dripping grease, and then sprinkled with cumin, the fragrance is overflowing...
Even Meng Fei, who didn't have many requirements for food, couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Suzaku, who was sitting at the same table as Meng Fei, was picking up a half-chopstick-long fish from the plate, looking left and right, not knowing how to eat it.
Finally, she raised her neck and opened her mouth, put the whole fish in, swallowed it all, then carefully and gracefully wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue and said:
"I don't want to barbecue, I'd rather have something raw."
She missed the "empty meal" sashimi on the Polaris. From there to here, the gap is too big. Mo Sheng, who was beside her, added inappropriately:
"Tiantong Mountain's self-service barbecue is famous. But it is also famous for cheating people. Beef that costs 50 green mango coins per catty in the supermarket sells for 500 per catty on the mountain."
At this time, Xiao Tu narrowed his eyes and said mysteriously:
“I don’t tell most people.
“You can bring your own ingredients for the barbecue on the mountain. And the ingredients are exactly the same as those on the mountain. You can also buy them in the supermarkets here, and the prices are very cheap.
"In addition, there are drinks and beer. Don't say I didn't remind you, the prices here are less than one-third of those on the mountain."
