Chapter 22 Yalong River War (5)

The cliffs on either side are dry earth and crumbling stones.No plants can grow on it.Even without the impact of repeated explosions, in the winter rain, many rocks will be washed down to form rockslides and mudslides, which will block the muddy torrent below the canyon, and then the water will wash the rock wall on the other side, cause more severe rock avalanches.Day after day, the canyon became wider and longer.At this time, Meiyun City and Hu Yi City were only a few hundred yards away from the cliff.They cursed at each other across the abyss, saying that the other had cost them pastures and fields and cattle and money.Virtually all disputed areas have been buried under mudslides, and there is no point in carrying out bombings; however, the force of habit is enormous.

The war never ceased, until one terrible night, half of Meiyun City collapsed in a violent shock, and slowly slid into Yalong Grand Canyon.The explosives that caused this disaster were not placed by the super engineer Hu Yi, but by Mei Yun's chief engineer.Of course, for the traumatized Meiyun people, it was all Hu Yi's fault: without Hu Yi, how could they have misplaced the explosives.But many of Huy's residents made a detour through Yalong Canyon to help those who might have survived the mudslide.Acts of honesty and generosity will not go unrewarded. The two sides signed a truce, and real peace finally came.From then on, although the relationship between Mei Yun and Hu Yi was still tense, no one used the method of explosion again.At this time, they had no livestock or pastures, so they had to rely on tourists to survive.The advantage of Meiyun is that it is located on the west edge of the Grand Canyon and has a unique scenery, so it can attract thousands of tourists every year.

But more tourists choose to stay in Huiyi, because the food there is better, and it is not far from the east edge of the Grand Canyon. On the east edge, you can see half of the ruins of the ancient Meiyun City that cannot be seen on the west edge.There is an exclusive winding path on both sides of the canyon, so that tourists can ride donkeys down to the deepest part of the canyon to see the Yalong River that has become clear again.But there were no more cows to drink in the river, and no more fish. Tourists start their picnic on the grassy banks of the river.At this time, as part of the entertainment, the guide Hui would tell the legend of the hundred daughters of the god Bull, and the guide Meiyun would tell the myth of the shining cloak of the goddess Taff.Then they would ride their donkeys slowly up the hill and back into the light.