The red star shines on China 0 1 Let's go! Westbound quartet

It is said that climbing the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the dream of people all over the world.

If you don't want to, you are not the people.

At least, you are not normal.

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I didn't want to go to Tibet before. Isn't it Tubo (Chinese), Tubo (Turkic) and Tibet (English)? What is good about a lonely place? What kind of Shangri-La will I believe? I have lived in Jiangxi for more than 40 years, and I can't understand the local dialect. I don't know how many prefecture-level cities there are in this province. What are you doing in Tibet?

Then I found out I couldn't do it. People around you have either gone or vowed to go. If you don't go, you will be expelled from the people's team, which is too uncultured. You can't be a teacher without education.

I traveled to Xinjiang the year before last and chatted with chartered drivers on the way. He told me that because of those things, Xinjiang's tourism development can't go on, chartered cars have become more popular in recent years, and he himself is about to move to Tibet with his third son.

Why is Tibet tourism so popular these years? I don't understand. Since I'm too lazy to think about it, I might as well go and have a look.

I started proposing marriage last year, and many people around me responded. By the end of June this year, I found everyone very busy. The people who screamed before are now silent. Obviously, the plan can't keep up with the change.

With my temper of keeping my word, it is necessary to go to Tibet. If you can't find acquaintances, it's ok to keep company with strangers.

So I thought of looking for reference materials. I have a classmate who has a very good relationship. People call him Manager Lu, and I call him "Savage". Savage is a thoroughbred donkey, and he has traveled all over China before others know what traveling is all about. Many years ago, he traveled all over Tibet. In my opinion, when others go out to play, he is looking for abuse. He often carries dozens of pounds of luggage in the wild, regardless of his own business. He has a great reputation in the local tourism circle. I know nothing about that circle anyway. He said that if you were famous, you would be famous.

So I invited barbarians to dinner. No matter what bad restaurant, as long as he hears there is wine to drink, he will run away. The feelings of his old classmates are sincere.

Seeing the dining tables served, he nodded with satisfaction, immediately took out a Nokia walnut mobile phone worth 50 yuan, and yelled for a quarter of an hour in the voice of a brick-moving foreman, asking the guests next to him to pay the bill in advance. Savage is a decorative material, which is closely related to the construction industry.

After hanging up the phone, he told me: "There is a team, a Honda CRV and three people. They will leave in a few days. Will they go? "

Old classmates are frank in their work, and after drinking two glasses, they will be more agile.

"A few women? Is there a young and beautiful one? " I asked carefully.

"These three people are several years older than you." The savage replied.

"Why don't you ... let's see if there are any other teams?" I hesitated.

After repeated inquiries, the savage strongly recommended this team to me. He believes that this has many advantages: First, the network is reliable, and the formed team can rest assured. Second, the team has plenty of time and can adjust the itinerary as needed. Third, all three of them are old donkey friends with rich experience. One of them has been to Tibet. All three of them are older than me, and people like me who have no donkey walking experience can't stand it. Fourth, all three people are photographers, so it is appropriate to be with a fake photographer like me. Fifth, four people team up, and the cost of self-driving is the lowest.

Savage would also like to add. Seeing that he had used up five fingers of one hand, I immediately stopped anyone who knew enough about his counting ability: "Well, I will go as long as my wife agrees."

Obviously, my family is quite satisfied with the gender and age structure of this team. So, the next day I called the savage: "Go!"

Two days later, four people met. All three of them are acquaintances. They looked at me like a blind date for a while and then nodded. Decided to leave after a week, called to leave. Traveling is actually very simple. I will never go to those unreliable guys who screamed long before.

In China, "four" is a very auspicious number, such as four happiness parties, four heavenly kings, four Buddhists, the Gang of Four, eliminating four evils and stressing hygiene. Therefore, it is absolutely good for four people to travel.

I didn't know until I got to know each other. The donkey friends were afraid of getting pregnant and being asked for alimony, so they all called each other by their net names, never revealing their real names, and reported their age as act young. So after the first meeting, all three people told me strange and fancy screen names. For example, my classmate savage, whose net name is "sand lake foam wave", is short of water to what extent?

Let's briefly introduce the members of Westbound. According to the safety rules of donkey friends, try not to show your true colors, that is, you don't know who you have done bad things for.

The second surname is Xiang, 54 years old, and everyone calls him Xiang Gong. Xianggong is the owner of this CRV and a senior donkey friend. Xianggong is a professional driver with superb driving skills. You can think that his driving experience is older than his age. He is especially good at outdoor rock climbing and has strong endurance. Although he is not young, he is very sensitive, thin and short. There is nothing wrong with saying that he looks like a monkey.

The third surnamed Cheng, 57, is the oldest in the team. I call him Brother Hua. He is a member of the Blue Sky Rescue Team and participated in the Ya 'an earthquake rescue work. Brother Hua is too enthusiastic about public welfare. If there is no disaster for a while, he will be very anxious and ask everywhere why there are no earthquakes and floods. Brother Hua is of medium height, with the largest waist, and can eat sleepy. What do you think he looks like?

Fourth place: I am nearly 50 years old (2065438+04). Because I didn't form the good habit of cheating girls online, and I didn't mix in the circle of friends, I didn't have a loud screen name. They have to call me by my professional title, sometimes referred to as "Grant" for short, which is obviously a respect for knowledge. I am a follower. I have no experience in field trip. I just do some bookkeeping and notes, which is much easier than the sand monk.

This series is called Red Star over China, which is based on the title written by edgar snow after his visit to Yan 'an more than 80 years ago. That's a bad name. I couldn't think of a suitable title at that time, but it couldn't be called Journey to the West.

The planned trips are all in the west. If you ask me where I am going. I really don't know. Li Gelin, the commander in chief, described the itinerary to me before he left, but I didn't understand it either. Except Lhasa and Chengdu, other place names are too strange. It was named "Manji" because the itinerary was not completely determined and it was not clear when it would come back. After Li Ge pointed at the map for a long time, my feeling was: "This is a perverted tourist route. I have never heard of such a thing. "

It's far to the west. Let's leave now.

June 26th is the first day of the westward journey, leaving Jiujiang at 7 am. A group of people came to bid farewell, one driving a BMW and the other driving a Cherokee, hugging and kissing for a group photo. It seems that the wind is rustling and the water is cold. I don't know anyone, I can only stand in a daze.

Chengdu is the first stop of the westward journey, which needs to pass through Hubei and Chongqing. Jiujiang is opposite Hubei, and it takes more than ten minutes to cross the Yangtze River Bridge, even if the long-distance trip officially begins.

Xianggong is the first driver, I am the second, and Brother Hua is the third. Li Ge, as a master, obviously doesn't need to know how to drive, but he can give a verbal command.

Crossing the river in the rainstorm. Then visit Wuhan, sweep Jingzhou and wear Yichang. I didn't walk out of the rain area until Enshi, and I saw the clouds in the mountains. Compassion is a place with beautiful scenery and barren land.

Originally planned to rest in the suburbs of Chongqing and enter Sichuan the next day, but "xianggong" obviously played chicken blood and refused to stop and change hands. But I saw his eyes shining, like a golden eye, standing on a somersault cloud, holding a golden hoop. Wrong, he killed all the way by stepping on the accelerator and holding the steering wheel. At 2: 30 in the morning, I ran 1400 kilometers and arrived within the second ring road of Chengdu.

It seems that this long westbound road is not slow at all.

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