Jiang Shuo felt very strange. There were clearly endless mountains in front of him, so why did Li Zhuer say to take the water route? But the two had a tacit understanding for a long time. Li Zhuer didn't bother to explain, and Jiang Shuo didn't ask.
After the two entered the mountain, they walked eastward for a day. On the second day, they saw a small river flowing down from an unknown snow peak.
There is a small Tubo village near the river. The mountain people are simple and simple. They didn't know that the Han and Tibetans had been fighting for years, but they were still very enthusiastic towards the two of them. Li Zhuer did not understand Tubo language, so she pointed at the river and gestured for a long time, trying to ask where the boatman was, but the Tubo mountain people had no idea and just shook their heads.
It was the first time Jiang Shuo saw Li Zhuer in such embarrassment and he couldn't help laughing. He asked Li Zhuer in Tubo. Li Zhuer was quite surprised and said, "Looking back, you can still speak Tubo?" ap...
Jiang Shuo said: "After I fell into the glacier, I met Mahayan, a Zen monk from Tianzhu. He has been preaching in Tubo for many years, so he can speak Tubo dialect. I learned it from him... But I don't think Tibetan people can row. I have seen that all the Tubo people are herdsmen on horseback, but I have never seen a boatman."
Unexpectedly, after listening to Jiang Shuo's words, the Tubo villagers nodded repeatedly and asked the two of them to wait. After a while, several villagers brought a small boat from nowhere.
If they hadn't put this "small boat" on the river, Jiang Shuo would hardly have believed it was a boat, because it looked more like an uncovered "coffin". The boat was wide at one end and narrow at the other. The narrow end of the ruler is only about three feet, the length is seven feet, and the depth is more than three feet. The whole body is dark, and I don't know what it is made of.
As I got closer, I realized that this was indeed a small boat. The outside was covered with cowhide, and it was dark. I don’t know whether it was due to age or paint. The inside of the leather shell was made of willow mortises and tenons to make trusses, which formed the interior of the kayak. The frame, with thinner wooden strips as rafters, is shaped like dense ribs, which can both support the hull and carry passengers.
The Tubo villagers made Jiang Shuo and Li Zhuer sit on the rafters in the boat, and then they pushed the kayak to the waist-deep middle of the river.
The next moment, the two of them realized why they didn't see the boatman. They only listened to the Tibetan people shouting in unison, which seemed to be a blessing. Suddenly, they let go and let the kayak flow down the river without anyone taking care of it...
There were two wooden oars in the boat, both cut from a whole piece of wood. Jiang Shuo and Li Zhuer each held a wooden oar for paddling. The Tubo people on the bank shouted to Jiang Shuo in Tubo language, telling them to just take care of themselves. Let the boat go along the current, and when you reach your destination, someone will carry the boat back upriver.
The cowhide boat went down the river. The river meandered all the way east through the mountains. When they encountered small villages and towns of Tibetan people in the open valleys, the two of them landed ashore to rest when they were tired and hungry. Li Zhuer skinned a few wolves while hunting. The leather tubes were just used to exchange food with the mountain people, and the clothes of the two were also changed into the style of the Tubo people. The Tubo clothes were loose, and when they wiped their faces with dirt, they looked no different from the Tubo mountain people.
If you miss Sutou, you can simply let the cowhide boat drift downstream, and the two of you will take turns keeping watch. Anyway, you don't need to paddle to go with the current. You just need to look in the direction and don't hit the rocks in the water.
After walking like this for three days, I saw a large town in an open mountain valley ahead. The river was to the west of the town, and there was another river in the northeast. In front of the town, it converged into a big river, turned to the southeast, and became wider and wider. Turbulent.
This small town has a city wall made of wooden pallets, and there are Tibetan soldiers standing guard. The river intersection is full of kayaks, and some people use long poles to pick up the boats on the shore. Jiang Shuo thought that he had arrived at the place, and just wanted to get up to pick up the pole. Unexpectedly, Li Zhuer pressed his shoulder and slammed the long pole with the wooden paddle in her hand. The kayak slid into the rapids in the center of the river and accelerated downward.
The Tubo people on the shore thought it was a mistake in their operation and screamed, but the kayak had already entered the river and was farther down the river. The Tubo people didn't know how to operate the boat, so naturally no one came to catch up with them.
Jiang Shuo and Li Zhuer did not know that the name of the river they were walking on was "Angqu", and the river that merged into it on the east side was named "Zhaqu". "Qu" means "river" in Tubo language, and the name of the confluence of the two rivers is "Zhaqu". "La Chu", this river has a more famous name, "Lancang Water", the largest river in the southwest.
After that, the mountains on both sides of the Taiwan Strait became higher and higher day by day. There were many white-headed Cangshan Mountains, and many high mountains were covered with white snow. But I felt warmer and warmer, and my breathing seemed to be much smoother. It seems that the mountains are higher and the water is lower. That’s it.
This big river flows all the way from the high place of Tubo to the low place of Nanzhao. The terrain becomes steeper and steeper day by day, and the river becomes more and more rapid day by day. The kayak drifts
The speed of the trip was also getting faster and faster. After two days of rafting, the river was already rumbling like a dragon roaring and a tiger roaring. The cowhide boat traveled through the rapids and almost capsized several times.
Li Zhuer said: "I heard that the mountains where Tubo entered Nanzhao looked like they had been cut into several sections by a giant axe, so they were called Broken Mountains. The rivers in the mountains had great height differences, and they were like wild beasts roaring and roaring. They were also called Nushan Mountains. Look at the scene here, We should have entered Nushan Mountain, and Yuben City is south of the highest peak of Nushan Mountain."
Jiang Shuo held a wooden oar in his hand and barely managed to keep the boat from hitting the jagged rocks on both sides of the bank. His whole body was soaked by the river water. The scene in front of him couldn't help but remind him of the scene when he crossed the Sanmen Gorge of the Yellow River, but at that time it was upstream, and now it is more dangerous to go down the river.
However, he was unafraid and laughed loudly: "Back then, Governor He named me Jiang Shuo, and the nickname goes back to it. General Pei said that he was afraid that it would become a prophecy, and I would travel Shuo all my life. As a result, I walked along the Han River, the Jiang River, the Tongji Canal, and the Tongji Canal. It’s true that the river fruits all flow upstream. This is my first time to go down the river, it’s so fun!”
As he was talking, he suddenly noticed that the hillside on the right bank was covered with white snow. The peaks here were all covered with snow. This was not surprising, but in summer, the hillside near the river was lush and lush. Only this hillside was covered in ice and snow. It cascades down from the mountains to the river bank. .
While Jiang Shuo was wondering, Li Zhuer said: "Yuben City is not far ahead. The great master described this wonderful scene in his book. I thought it was impossible. I didn't expect there to be such a low-lying glacier."
Before Li Zhuer could finish her words, she heard a loud noise like the earth was shattering. The glacier on the hillside actually began to slide. The ice and snow mixed with the sand rolled down, like a gray-white city wall collapsing.
Jiang Shuo couldn't react in time. The wooden oar could only change the course slightly, and the rocks in the water could still be dealt with. How could he avoid this overwhelming dragon of ice and snow? The cowhide boat suddenly rushed into the gray snow dust. The two of them could not see or hear. The boat rolled violently under the threat of glacier fragments and was finally torn into pieces.
Jiang Shuo could only protect his head with his hands, curled up his legs into a ball, and shrunk his body as small as possible. Amidst the rumbling sounds, he felt that he was buried in ice and snow, pressed into the water, and thrown into the air, rolling around. Went almost unable to breathe.
Fortunately, Jiang Shuo's aura was much longer than ordinary people's because of the magic protection. After the roar around him gradually stopped, Jiang Shuo felt that he was in darkness. He only relied on intuition and jumped up suddenly, but suddenly fell into the water. It turned out that He had been turned upside down before, but he didn't know it yet.
But thanks to the fact that he broke through the snow barrier and fell into the water, the top was covered with a thick layer of ice, snow and mud, making it impossible to exert force and breath. If he fell into it, even if he had extraordinary skills, he would be suffocated and die.
Jiang Shuo was born in the south of the Yangtze River and has good water properties. He held his breath and let the river float downstream. When he saw the light, he jumped out of the water. When he looked back, most of the water in Lancang had been blocked by glaciers.
Jiang Shuo followed the current for several ups and downs, and returned to the collapsing glacier. He saw that the glacier mixed with sediment was no longer white and clean, but turned into gray and black, mixed with rocks and trees, and dirty It was so dirty and chaotic that it was impossible to tell where he was buried just now, let alone Li Zhuer's shadow.
Jiang Shuo was digging around in the mud and snow, but where could he find Li Zhuer's shadow? While I was anxious and worried, I heard another roar under my feet. It turned out that the Lancang River was blocked by a glacier. It was like a giant dragon that had been touched by its scales. It became more and more violent. Under the push of the rapids, the glacier in the water was completely destroyed. Solve, break into pieces.
The Lancang water at this moment is like a paintbrush covered with thick ink being thrown into the water, and the gray-yellow color quickly dissolves in the water.
Jiang Shuo had nowhere to stand, so he jumped up and down on the ice blocks still floating in the water, looking for Li Zhuer everywhere. Suddenly he saw a large robe floating in the water, Jiang Shuo hurriedly flew over and lifted it up.
Fortunately, the two of them changed into Tibetan clothes. Li Zhuer's Tibetan robe was loose and floated up in the water, and Jiang Shuo noticed it.
Jiang Shuo carried Li Zhuer on the water like a dragonfly, stepping on broken ice and broken trees. Finally, he jumped onto the river bank and laid Li Zhuer flat on the ground. When he saw her eyes closed and her face pale, he couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.
But he was relieved when he found that her breathing was still there and her pulse was weak but not chaotic. He helped Li Zhuer sit up and massaged her back with his internal strength for a long time. Li Zhuer finally spit out a few mouthfuls of river water and woke up leisurely. Jiang Shuo didn't dare to be careless and pinched her hands one by one.
Check your feet for injuries.
After Li Zhuer woke up, she suddenly saw Jiang Shuo holding her foot. She shrunk unconsciously, and her originally pale face turned crimson. Jiang Shuo couldn't help but blush when he thought of what Ge Ruliang told him that day about the defense between adult men and women. He scolded himself for Meng Lang and said, "Sister Zhu'er, don't misunderstand me... I just checked to see if you were injured. You can move your hands and feet..."
Li Zhuer moved her hands and feet and said, "It's just a little sore. It doesn't seem like there are any broken bones or muscles..."
Jiang Shuo then felt relieved and looked at the Lancang River. The mud and rocks sank to the bottom, the ice and snow melted, and the river water became clear again. It was as if nothing had happened before. Looking back, he looked back at the glaciers pouring down from the snowy peaks on the hillside. The position of the glacier in the sliding water seems to have been frozen here hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Just as Jiang Shuo was about to sigh, Li Zhuer suddenly jumped into his arms and pressed him onto a boulder by the water. Jiang Shuo panicked and said, "Sister Zhuer, what are you doing?"
But Li Zhuer lowered his head and whispered: "There is someone!"
Jiang Shuo was startled, and after a moment of concentration, he noticed someone's voice. In terms of internal skills, Jiang Shuo's skills were far more advanced than Li Zhuer's, but every time, Li Zhuer was the first to notice someone approaching, because she was always vigilant. There was no time to relax. Thinking of this, Jiang Shuo couldn't help but feel ashamed.
This boulder is very different from the small pebbles on the shore. It must have been washed down from the mountain peak by the flowing glacier at some time. It is as huge as a screen. Jiang and Li are leaning against each other, hiding behind the boulder, but they obey the orders of the mountain. Two people came down quickly.
These are obviously two martial arts practitioners. Although they are completely different from the methods used by Central Plains warriors to move their energy and energy, their auras are deep, their strides are huge but their landings are steady. They are obviously masters of martial arts.
The two were walking and chatting, but Li Zhuer couldn't understand what they were saying. Jiang Shuo whispered in her ear: "They are from Tibet."
Li Zhuer raised her hand and pressed it gently on his lips, signaling him not to speak yet. It seemed that the person who came here was not weak in martial arts, and she was afraid that the two of them would find out if he spoke.
The boulder could barely cover the two of them, so the two were close together. Jiang Shuo had grown a lot taller over the years, and Li Zhuer was almost a head lower than him. Her hair was completely soaked, and she pressed against the Jiang Shuo's nose made him feel wet.
Fortunately, the two Tubo people did not reach the shore and did not notice them. They just stood on the slope and talked for a long time, then turned and headed up the mountain.
Li Zhuer pressed Jiang Shuo to prevent him from moving, and waited for a cup of tea to make sure that the Tubo people were indeed far away, then took two steps back and asked Jiang Shuo: "Looking back, you can speak Tibetan language. What did they say?" Kan Shula
Jiang Shuo changed his expression and said, "Sister Zhu'er, General Pei and Kong Kong'er are not in Yuben City, I'm afraid they are in this mountain."
