Horse hooves clatter and gallop through the snow.
A hundred miles of road is not very fast when there is ice and snow.
Fortunately, these horses are all good breeds with fast feet. From the morning to the sunset, we finally arrived at Guanyin River in Tiesha Mountain.
"Xu~"
Yue Guanchao tightened the reins. Song Siyuan saw him stop the carriage, opened the sedan curtain and walked down to the snow, picked up the map and said:
"Jade Ping Town has arrived!"
In front of them, they saw the Yuping Ancient Town located at the foot of the riverside mountain!
Observe carefully, you can see that the Guanyin River has long been frozen, and most of the rivers are closed by thick ice. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, you can see the ice surface rippling with golden light, and the rivers look like winding dragons resting in the mountains, embedded in the black ground of the white mountains. , Occasionally there are pines and cypresses exposed with rime, like scattered green beads dotting the mountain tops beside the river.
The golden dragon's tail just penetrated into countless wild mountains. To the east of the river is Guanyin Mountain and to the west of the river is Tiesha Mountain. Several small villages have sprung up along the river.
Yuping Ancient Town is located on the east bank of Longwei River. It is the largest village area near Guanyin Mountain. The overall outline of the ancient town looks like maple leaves and peach blossoms. Most of the houses are like chessboards distributed along the mountain roads and rivers. You can see ancient buildings like clouds and bustling pedestrians.
Everyone’s eyes turned to Guanyin Mountain at the end of the ancient town!
This Guanyin Mountain is different from the Tiesha Mountain peaks. Tiesha Mountain has many peaks gathered together, shaped like a blooming lotus.
The several peaks of Guanyin Mountain are distributed almost in a straight line, with undulating heights, alternating large and small, and the mountain body is continuous. One end is close to the Guanyin River, and the other end blends into other wild mountains. It looks like the "mountain" character Bishan where the brush is placed in the scholar's study room.
At the highest peak, huge horizontal seams can be seen diagonally splitting the mountain. There are ancient towers and temples that rise up the mountain and are built into the cracks in the mountain wall. These ancient pavilions seem to be suspended in the mountain. There are only a few mountain roads that wind into the mountain. Climb the way into the mountain.
Seeing the carriage stop, Sun Daqiao also got out of the carriage and looked at the town stretching to the hillside river and said:
"At the foot of Tiecha Mountain, on the bank of Guanyin River, the Yuping Ancient Town has come back again after more than ten years."
Sun Daqiao's words made Yue Guanchao sarcastic: "You are still worried about the past, so hurry up and find a place to live. I don't think Yuping Town is like a trading town. I guess there are no guild halls and inns like Songjiang Town, and the common people are all in trouble. I don’t know if they are willing to take us in.”
Cat Winter is a helpless way for people in the north to cope with the extremely cold weather.
The winter in the Northeast lasts from October to March and April of next year. Farther away in Xing'an League, there are only a few months of warm sunshine, and nearly half of the year is in extremely cold weather. Ordinary people in the old society cannot do anything. There is no way to work or farm. If there is a heavy snowfall and the mountains are closed and a white-haired wind blows, it will not even be possible to hunt. Most of them will prepare enough food for the winter before winter comes.
When the heavy snow comes, I will stay at home and heat the kang all day long without going out!
Ordinary people are no better than landlords. They are stuffed with grain and meat. All they can prepare is just a few meals for their own family. It is almost difficult to feed outsiders, especially for several people like them, who only have enough food for a few days. It's not easy to prepare. If someone really sees these people coming to stay, it would be better if they don't blow them out.
"Don't worry, eldest nephew. When I came to Tiesha Mountain, I was dressed in rags. Even if I asked people to take me in, no one would dare to take me in. I spent the night in the temple on the mountain and then set off the next day. Tiesha Mountain, I don’t know if the monk is still there, but if he is, maybe he can spend the night there.”
"Okay, since the sun is setting now, we can probably make it there."
It was a cold night in winter, so they did not dare to delay any longer and walked along the mountain road outside the town to the foot of Guanyin Mountain.
Although the mountain road was rugged and difficult to level, and the carriage had many twists and turns, it could barely get them to the Hengjiao Ancient Building. They stopped and dismounted, and walked along the stone slabs towards the mountain gate. As everyone walked into the mountain crevice, they saw things. More and more.
The horizontal gap is not narrow. Not only can the entire temple be accommodated here, but you can even see large shrubs on the temple and stone walls. This place has not been swallowed up by snow, but still retains evergreen vegetation.
If you look carefully, you can see the gray-tiled and red-painted temple hall sneaking out of the stone wall. The archway of the mountain gate has been in disrepair for a long time, and the eaves are mostly damaged. It can be seen that the beams and wooden beams are exposed under the tiles, which seems to be forever. A wound without a scab, eerie and dilapidated.
"Bang bang bang~"
Yue Guanchao knocked on the mountain door. After a moment, there was a rustling sound inside the door. As the painted wooden door opened, an old monk leaned out half of his body from behind the door.
"Who are you looking for?"
Yue Guanchao looked at the old monk. The old monk was not very tall, only reaching up to his shoulders. His body was neither dry, nor thin, nor fat, nor fat. His tan complexion was deeply wrinkled, and scars could be seen on the top of his head. He was wearing a dark gray cotton coat. The coat is a variegated cassock sewn from Baijia cloth, and the string of sandalwood beads in his hands has been soaked in pulp and is full of oil.
Then take a closer look at the old monk's facial features. He has thick eyebrows, one eye, fleshy ears, white eyebrows, and thick lips. The muscles in his Chinese character face have been slackened, and they have piled up on both sides of the nose to form two tear troughs. He looks like a man who has always been with the green lantern. The ascetic of the Buddha.
"Zen Master Gu Ming, I wonder if you still remember me!"
