Chapter 5 Xinglong Mountain: Fairy Music in Qiyun Mountain

Early the next morning, the horn beeped downstairs. Guan Yuan turned over and got up, ran to the balcony and shouted at the handsome guy downstairs, turned around and came back, and saw her change her clothes quickly, then ran towards the bathroom and said to me: "Hurry up, let's go to Xiguan Bridge Gate to eat cold noodles, I'm afraid we won't be able to make it late." After living for more than 20 years, this is the first time I have given up sleeping in for a certain kind of food.After driving in Yeyu for 20 minutes, I admired from the bottom of my heart the people of Lanzhou's dedication to food.

Walking through the streets and alleys again, I saw the signboard of the restaurant on the side of a narrow road. In just a quarter of an hour, I regained my optimism.Here, even if you pretend to be full of negative emotions when you come here, after eating perfect food, you will still feel that life is infinitely beautiful! Better yet at the next destination. Guan Yuan told me that I was going to pick up another girl.Then we parked on the side of the road and waited for nearly half an hour.I was really glad that Lanzhou didn't have any police uncles who issued fines. When Cai Cai appeared half an hour later, Guan Yuan and I immediately felt that we were remiss as women.The person who only took 5 minutes to pack up and walk out the door is theoretically judged as a pure man.

Cai Cai is Guan Yuan and Ye Yu's other buddy and best friend.I looked up and down, and found that her big eyes were flickering, but her face was facing the sky.Although I was born as a woman, I really can't figure out why it takes so long to go out in an ordinary way?Could it be that God allocates more time to women? All doubts flew away the moment Cai Cai calmly smiled.She is small and petite, not like a girl in the northwest, but she is somewhat graceful and graceful like a little girl in the south.Ye Yu's car had been modified, and the pedals were much higher. Guan Yuan helped to pull Cai Cai up from under the car.

I asked, "Where are we going?" Ye Yu laughed and said that he was going to traffic people.Only then did I realize that he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, which is quite masculine.I like the way the three of them are together, laughing and cursing, each other has a leisurely meaning away from the city. The car left the urban area for a while, and after more than half an hour, we entered the mountains.I turned on the DV and began to shoot left and right with great interest. Guan Yuan, acting as a tour guide, pointed out the window and said: This is the famous Xinglong Mountain in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City!During the Tang and Song Dynasties, this place was called the "Dongtian Fudi". The temples and pavilions are very spectacular, and the incense is also very strong. It is a famous Taoist mountain. Lin Daoshi became a fairy and other magical legends.In ancient times, it was named "Qiyun Mountain" because "there are often white clouds and boundless", and you will see it when you go up later!Night Rain will drive us to one of the peaks.

I am from the south, and I get inexplicably excited when I see green mountains everywhere.I thought that the Northwest is either a plain or a Gobi, but unexpectedly, there are such lush mountains. This is the eastward extension of Qilian Mountains.Connecting Xinglong Peak and Qiyun Peak is a gallery-style wooden arch bridge called Yunlong. There is a couplet engraved on the bridge head: there are more clouds than Mount Tai, and the rain and rain make the common people happy;There is a very Zen legend about this bridge. It is said that the pilgrims disappeared due to the war at the end of Ming Dynasty, and the original bridge was washed away by the flood.Later, a wooden arch bridge was finally erected on the mountain. It looked pretty good, and it was named "Yingshan Bridge".The incense of Xinglong Mountain began to continue again.It is a pity that the bridge was destroyed by mountain torrents later.Liu Yiming was sad but helpless.One day, his apprentice Tang Tong was picking medicine and saw someone falling into the water, so he desperately tried to save him.After being rescued, it was found that the person who fell into the water was a blind and deaf old woman.Tang Tong changed the wet clothes for the old man, and made some hot food for her to eat.The old woman gave Tang Tong a piece of wheat straw, saying that she could use it as a bridge.Before Tang Tong could thank her, the old lady disappeared.Then, Tang Tong came to the river, and as soon as he put the straw, it became a bridge, which was never washed away by the flood again.

Ye Yu's technique is very good, all the way around the S-shaped mountain, there is no slowdown, and we don't get motion sickness.Between talking and laughing, we arrived at our destination. Guan Yuan already knew the terrain here very well. After Ye Yu stopped the car, she led us through the sparse trees to a small open flat land.Standing at this gap, you can vaguely see the outline of a city in the distance.But the mist is misty, could it be that the gods are looking down on our earthly life like this? There are many small square tables on the flat ground, we picked a seat near the gap and sat down.The boss greeted them warmly, Guan Yuan and Cai Cai ordered Babao tea, and I also ordered one.This is the specialty of Lanzhou. Longan, rock sugar, tea, and wolfberry are all put together and brewed with hot water.We dug out the dried longan and ate it before soaking it.In addition, I also ordered a sugar oil cake and a bowl of sweet embryos.

Tangyou cake is similar to the fried rice cakes we have eaten, but the rice cakes in the south are white, while the rice cakes in the northwest are made of millet flour and are golden yellow. When you bite into them, the surface is crispy and the filling is sweet.The sweet embryo is brewed with malt, just like the egg fermented glutinous rice that I ate before, it has a bit of sweet wine taste.When eating, stir the malt and water with a spoon, the soup will turn milky white, taste sour and sweet, and the malt is quite chewy.It is said that this is also the food used by the people of Northwest China to cool off the summer heat.

After a little taste of the snacks, Guan Yuan and the others began to ask the boss to get mahjong.The wind on the mountain is very cool, and I don't feel at all that it is the dog days. The mahjong in Lanzhou is very small, like the one I saw when I was a child. It is thin, less than two fingers wide, and a small square table is enough to set it down.We began to "build the Great Wall" against the mountain wind.I have seen Changsha mahjong, Chengdu mahjong, Guangdong mahjong, and Beijing mahjong. There are different styles of play, but none of them is like Lanzhou mahjong. You have to continue playing after you win the card. The other people's cannons are put on the front side until all the cards are drawn, and then the bill is settled.

To be honest, I am not very good at playing cards, and later I deliberately lit a cannon on the open.Before coming to Lanzhou, I had never met them by chance, and I kept eating and drinking with them. I felt very embarrassed, so I lost a little bit of mahjong, and it will be counted as tea money later! When I returned home from the trip, Cai Cai and Ye Yu were still teasing: "Sister Xiu, come to Lanzhou more often in the future, play mahjong with us, and give us some cannons!" Lunch was settled on the mountain, and I ate some potatoes, tofu skin and Malatang. While eating, Ye Yu thought about where to have dinner.Guan Yuan said, go eat beef noodles!When you come to Lanzhou, you have to eat beef noodles once!Ye Yu waved his hand to express his disapproval.

He looked at me with a smile and said, do you know how Cai Cai got its name?Cai Cai immediately disregarded her ladylike image and jumped up to fight Ye Yu who was opposite, Guan Yuan also laughed. While dodging her fists, Ye Yu said revealingly: "Because she is always the best at eating hot pot dishes! Haha. Let's go to eat hot pot at night! Let you see the extraordinary charm of Cai Cai." When it came to eating hot pot, Cai Cai also stopped, and said to Guan Yuan enthusiastically, "How about a beer fight at night?" Guan Yuan responded immediately and asked if I could have a drink.I said I can't.After graduating from university, I no longer touch alcohol. Because of skin allergies, I will develop red rashes and feel restless due to itching.

They were obviously a little disappointed, but they didn't force it, and they didn't disappoint. Facts have proved that the Northwest woman really has an amazing capacity for alcohol.I watched the light yellow liquid quickly slide into their mouths, like colorless and tasteless boiled water. The next day, Guan Yuan and I drove out of Lanzhou and officially started our trip to Gannan.