Chapter 54 The Coming of Parting

In the next two days, they had a lot of fun with Daban. Daban carried them around the whole lake, and the other side of the lake is on the border with Russia and other neighboring countries. The scenery on the shore is very beautiful, and it may be difficult to find a second one except for them to sit on the fish for sightseeing at such an angle.

This trip to Karas had a perfect ending. It not only formed a deep friendship with the young man who drove the boat, but also had close contact with the big fish in the lake. The time of farewell has come. Zhou Xirui and others bought five sheep and carried them to three corners. Now as long as the boat arrives here, the big spot will soon swim over.

They fed the big spot and its fish with a goat. The big spot pulled its head up on the side of the side of the boat. Zhou Xirui gently touched its head and said to it that he wanted to leave. Strangely, the fish seemed to understand and leaned reluctantly against the boat. It made everyone very sad and came to touch its head. Xiaopei was even more reluctant to give up, and tears fell down. When they disembarked, the two Tuvan young men who drove the boat gave Zhou Xirui a big hug and welcomed him to come back next time. They also gave each of them a totem necklace, saying that they could bless them a safe journey.

When she just got off the boat, Lisa greeted her. She knew that Zhou Xirui and the others were leaving and brought a bottle of pine wine brewed by her father as a souvenir for Zhou Xirui. This is her treasure, and she has never been willing to drink it. Zhou Xirui asked her with concern, "Aren't you going back to Russia?" Andrell won't come back!" Lisa said, "I'm used to the life here. My heart will be much calmer here. Maybe I will leave one day, but not now. Dear friend, thank you for accompanying me to find him. I hope you have a safe journey. I hope I haven't left the next time you come.

Driving slowly around the lake, the sadness of parting surged into his heart. Zhou Xirui looked at the lake with nostalgia, and Xiaopei lay in front of the window to search for the big spots in the lake. Zhou Xirui knew that she loved Daban the most, so he comforted her that he could come to see it next time.

On the way back to Urumqi, Xiaopei and Atso felt that they were still not satisfied. They came here for a few days and proposed to explore another place? Zhou Xirui didn't think about going anywhere. He thought that it would not be very easy for Karas to find the water monster. At least two months to find out, he didn't expect that there would be no danger, and he would find the answer in a week. He smiled and told the two, "Where do I want to go, hey hey?"

Returning to Urumqi, Zhou Xirui lay relaxed and took out the book of the mystery of the world. I casually found the legend about the Qinghai Lake water monster and the record of the population that saw the Qinghai Lake monster in recent years.

The book says that Qinghai Lake is located in the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, covering an area of 4583 square kilometers. It is the largest inland lake in China. Qinghai Lake is about 3196 meters above sea level and 32.8 meters deep. Surrounded by mountains, the lake is clear and blue. The more you go to the heart of the lake, the less the buoyancy of the salty stagnant water is, and almost no one dares to go. Once a sailboat tried to advance towards the center of the lake, but after a few miles, the ship sank, and no one dared to take the risk.

The book also states that in mid-June 1955, a small group of PLA soldiers accompanied a scientist to conduct a scientific investigation in Qinghai Lake. One day, 10 of them took two land and water cars and drove from Haixing Shandong to the other side. From 11 p.m. to 12 p.m., the weather is hotter than usual and the water is calmer. When marching about 17 or 18 kilometers, squad leader Li Xiao'an found a black and yellow thing more than 10 meters long and about 2 meters wide at 80 meters in front of the right, and its top was basically level with the water surface. At that time, Li Xiao'an thought he had encountered a sand dune with moss, so he reminded the driver to pay attention. The river hill is getting closer and closer. When it is about 30 meters away from the soldiers, it can be seen with the naked eye. Just as people are talking about it, they suddenly see the "dune" flashing up, about 30 centimeters out of the water, and then immediately sinking and disappearing.

Zhou Xirui turned over and said to Acuo, "Let's go to Qinghai Lake next." Acuo replied happily, "Okuo!"

The next day, the three went to order a plane ticket to Xining. On the third afternoon, they arrived at Caojiabao Airport in Xining. As soon as they got off the plane and inquired that there was still 151 kilometers away from Qinghai Lake, they immediately strolled around the city and bought some necessary items. The climate here is very different from that of Urumqi. Especially on rainy nights, it is very cold. They learned that Qinghai Lake is also a scenic spot now, so there is no need to bring a tent. But you should prepare clothes to protect yourself from the cold and wear thicker clothes in the morning and evening.

Zhou Xirui bought two sets of thicker clothes for himself and the two of them, bought some snacks and a box of mineral water, and rented an SUV. Move up the things you need to bring on this road and park downstairs in the hotel. Everything was ready, so I took the two of them to the Halal Yixin Mutton Hand Grab Restaurant and ate a meal of authentic hand-grabbed mutton. These three people were all very fond of mutton. Only after eating this meal was round and they returned to the hotel with satisfaction. Xiaopei took out the camera and played back the video with Daban. Everyone watched it to each other and began to miss the time in Kanas.

Life is like this. You won't feel the passage of time during that time, and you will even have the illusion that the days will continue like this forever. But in a blink of an eye, after those people and things have gone far away, you will realize how precious those days are and have become treasures in your memory.

The next day, the three hurriedly ate breakfast and went on their way. Xining happens to be the season when rape flowers bloom in August. The golden yellow mountains on both sides of the highway makes people feel comfortable. Atso said, "The rape flowers are flying." Zhou Xirui felt that it was very appropriate for him to describe it with the word "flying". There are some temples scattered on both sides of the road. Occasionally, the three of them went in and looked around. The unique smell of wax, fireworks and mildew in the temple easily brought people's thoughts to a distant era.

I happened to meet an old lama to talk. When the lama heard that they were coming to see the water monster, he was very interested to talk about such a story recorded in the scriptures: "Qinghai lived in Mongolia and saw things in the sea, cow-body leopard head, white black text, red and green hair, surfing, as fast as a quail, and when he saw people near the shore, he sneaked in. I don't know why it's in the water.

The lama also said that in 1947, a Turkish lama named Qi Shisan from the Tibetan Temple in Huzhu County went to Tibet to pay a pilgrimage through Qinghai Lake. At the moment when the sun was about to set, a monster four or five times larger than a yak surfaced and cut the waves and swam to the shore. It was like a dragon but not a dragon. The head garden was hornless, and his eyes flashed. . One day in the spring of 1949, Ma Sanwa, a Han farmer in Fei Village, Harazhigou Township, Huzhu County, was forced to go out to search for gold. When he was resting and dining on the shore of Qinghai Lake, a large dark "roundwood" floated on the lake, about ten feet long. Later, the slowly sliding "roundwood" stretched out his long neck, with The snake-like head and scales showed a black-like luster in the sunlight, floating towards the middle of the lake and disappearing in a blink of an eye.

The three of them listened to the lamas tell these magical stories and couldn't wait to say goodbye to the lamas and continue to Qinghai Lake. The car drove into the lake area and looked at the lakeside of Qinghai. The green mountains were surrounded by distant mountains; the clear lake was shining; the green grass beach, and the sheep were like clouds. Qinghai Lake is surrounded by vast grasslands, which makes people relaxed and happy.

Zhou Xirui did not drive into the scenic spot. He drove along the lake ring road for more than an hour and saw a Tibetan residence in a secluded place by the lake. This is a tent sewn with cowhide, which seems to be much simpler than the Mongolian tent, with a black and pointed roof. There are some colorful prayer flags flying on the top, some empty fences beside the tent, and cattle and sheep leisurely gras by the hillside lake in the distance. The sky is the kind of clear blue, reflected in the lake. It looks like the water and the sky, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

Unconsciously stopped the wheel, drove the car and turned outside the big tents. Inside, an old Tibetan mother came out and shook her hand and looked kindly at the guests from afar. The three didn't know what the old mother meant in Tibetan. He wanted to tell the old mother that he wanted to live in these days and took out money to point to the tent and the money. But the mother thought that Zhou Xirui was going to buy her tent and shook her head with a smile.

At this time, a Tibetan girl came over, about 20 years old, strong and plump, with black skin and two touching plateau reds on her face. The girl asked them enthusiastically in Chinese where they came from? What are you doing here? Zhou Xirui briefly said his intention. The girl pushed away the money in his hand and turned back to tell her mother their intention.

Mom greeted them into the tent with a smile and sat on the wool blanket. There was a smell of sheep in the tent. Zhou Xirui was a little uncomfortable, but when he saw his mother so enthusiastic, he was embarrassed to show it. Looking around, half of it was covered with wool blankets, and there was a fire pond near the door, next to which was a pile of dried cow dung cakes. Grandma washed the boiled water with butter tea, brought it to them, and said a few words in Tibetan.

The Tibetan girl sat next to Zhou Xirui and told them that her name was Ciren Yangzong. He also told their mother that "Welcome guests from afar. Please treat this place as your home. You are welcome to stay here as long as you want." This moved Zhou Xirui very much. The Tibetans were so hospitable that they didn't even accept money. Where to travel now, it's all about money. How humane is there? He immediately decided to live here as a base for finding lake monsters. Acuo and Xiaopei also nodded in favor of it.

Yangzong has been sitting next to Zhou Xirui, looking at him with hot eyes and asking them what they are doing here? This made Zhou Xirui, a veteran of love, also feel a little embarrassed. He avoided the girl's eyes and said, "I'm here to investigate what kind of creature the water monster is here?" Speaking of water monsters, Yangzong told Zhou Xirui that his father rowed to pick up waterbird eggs on a small island in the lake not long ago and saw them. The three of them suddenly got excited and immediately asked what it was like.

Yangzong smiled mysteriously. Seeing that Zhou Xirui was so interested, he deliberately said, "When Dad comes back later, you can ask him yourself!" Do you want to go there with me to drive back the sheep?" Xiaopei heard that it was interesting to drive the sheep: "Okay, okay, Yangzong, let's go with you." Zhou Xirui also wanted to go to the lake and nodded and said, "Okay, we'll go with you."

The three and Yangzong came to the lake. This is a gentle slope. There are golden rape flowers on the slope. There are a large number of cattle and sheep in the flat place below, and the grass on the ground is very lush. There were several tall horses in the sheep. Acuo and Xiaopei, who had never seen the horse, suddenly became excited and looked around. Yangzong hurriedly called him to stand away and shouted that the horse was fierce for fear of kicking people.

Xiao Pei ran back to take Yangzong's hand and begged her to ride a horse. Yangzong couldn't resist and took her and Atso to the lake one by one. The two were very happy to ride on the horse, but Atso felt a little embarrassed to sit on a girl behind. Finally, Yangzong invited Zhou Xirui to ride up. He wanted to postpone it but was pushed on the horse by Yangzong and Xiaopei. Yangzong quickly turned over and rode behind him.

The horse galloped up with the reins, and Yangzong lay tightly on Zhou Xirui's back. Zhou Xirui was a little uncomfortable with the two people getting too close and wanted to move forward, but Yangzong was simply like a snake, entangling him too tightly. After waiting for the horse to return to the same place, Zhou Xirui quickly slipped off the horse. Yangzong followed her step by step. The gentleness in his eyes made Zhou Xirui feel that he just wanted to hide.

In the evening, Yangzong's father came back, which was a bold Tibetan Chinese character. Seeing a distinguished guest coming from afar, he quickly dragged out a fat sheep in the sheep pen, quickly killed the sheep and cut the sheep, let his mother stew the internal organs of the sheep, set up the whole sheep, lit a fire in the open space by the lake, and roasted the whole sheep.

When it was dark, Yangzong invited Tibetans from the surrounding tents to the bonfire. The custom here is that guests want to drink by the bonfire together.

When the moon rose in Qinghai Lake, the Tibetans jumped into the enthusiastic pot village, and the three were also invited to join. Just because they couldn't, it was funny for the three people to jump up, which made Yangzong laugh.

Zhou Xirui is a little uncomfortable with the smelly mutton soup, but the roasted mutton is extremely attractive. Yangzong affectionately cut a leg of sheep for Zhou Xirui, which made the other two laugh at her bias. She was embarrassed to cut two large lamb chops for her two. She smiled and pointed at Xiaopei's head and said, "You greedy." After saying that, Yangzong peeked at Xi Rui next week.

She stretched her long sleeves and danced in front of him and sang Tibetan folk songs. Although she couldn't understand what she sang, the high and distant voice was enough to take people's thoughts to the high snowy mountains and the blue and deep Qinghai Lake. At this moment, everyone's hearts were intoxicated.

After eating and drinking, it was late at night, and other Tibetans said goodbye and went back to sleep. With the light reflected by the lake under the moonlight, the three sat around Dad and begged him to talk about the situation of encountering the water monster. Dad laughed and said, "That time I went to pick up bird eggs, but it scared me!"