? one

Daxiangling is located at the junction of Yingjing County and Hanyuan County, Ya 'an City, Sichuan Province. Its average altitude is over 3000 meters, towering into the clouds, shrouded in fog all year round, covered with snow and ice in winter and spring, which is a very difficult journey on the ancient tea-horse road. Yang Shen (Anren, Yang Sheng), the top scholar in the Ming Dynasty, was relegated to Yunnan. He once entered Yunnan through Xiangling Ancient Road, leaving a famous sentence of "Sakamoto lost its history and seized Menghuo Bridge seven times". After the ancient road was abandoned, there were few pedestrians and it was in disrepair for a long time, making it more difficult to walk. However, with the rise of outdoor sports, this ancient road hidden deep in the mountains has attracted many hikers with its rich cultural and historical background and great difficulty in crossing.

On September 17, a group of four of us also embarked on a journey through Daxiangling. Because there is no guide, according to the homework done in advance, we choose to cross from Hanyuan's "sheepfold gate" to Yingjing.

? At 8 o'clock in the morning, we took a bus to Hanyuan Jiuxiang. After breakfast, we added dry food and drinking water and hurried to the "sheepfold gate".

At about nine o'clock in the morning, we set out from the "sheepfold gate". The first part of the road passes through a pepper forest. Zanthoxylum bungeanum forest is located in a historic site named "Wang", where ancient soldiers were stationed and managed, and the stone foundation is still visible.

After passing the pepper forest, the ancient road slowly ascends along the mountain forest beside the river beach. Not far away, the cultural relics protection department set up a stone tablet on the roadside, engraved with the words "Nine-fold slope section of the ancient tea-horse road", which is an important symbol. Not far from the stone tablet, there is a cross road, take the road up the hill on the left.

? Not far, after a mountain stream. The water in the stream is not very big, but the stone surface inside is very slippery, so you must be careful when stepping on it.

? After crossing the stream, I walked not far along it, and the road turned left and came back. At this time, I need to wade again. On the next trip to the top of the mountain, there are basically no forks in the road, only a few places will have forks, but even if you take the wrong road, deeper and deeper bamboo and weeds will help you correct your mistakes quickly. As long as you go back, you're on the right track.

? At an altitude of about 2200m, people will have asthma. At this time, you should walk slowly and let your body gradually adapt to the influence of rising altitude. Soon, you will have nothing to do.

? Out of the arrow bamboo forest, I entered the alpine meadow. Looking back, the fog hovering in the valley cleared away. A striking white house appeared at the bottom of the valley. The ancient city of Qingxi and the "sheepfold gate" are vivid. The valleys on both sides are lush, but the plants are not high, which is in obvious contrast with the tall shrubs below, and has typical alpine plant characteristics. The top of the mountain is beautiful. We walked for more than two hours.

? The first tall transmission tower passing by on the road is also a landmark. After coming here, I walked slowly up a wet grass and soon reached the "Caoxieping" pass. It reached the highest point of this ancient road, about 2850 meters above sea level.

? You can't find the sandals left by the people who trudged at the "Caoxieping" pass. On the open grass, only a few piles of short stones are seen, forming a closed square, which shows that it is a small house. Near the stone house, there is a small stone tower made of stones, like the "Manidui" built by people before, but the image of the flying flag has become a long memory. Several yellow weeds growing in the cracks between the stones on the pile are swaying in the wind, which makes people feel a little sad.

two

? We replenished some energy at the top of the mountain, rested for a while and embarked on a journey down the mountain.

The high Daxiangling blocked the hot and humid airflow and formed abundant rain on the north slope. One side of Yingjing is shrouded in mist, and Shan Lan floats across the hillside like a veil and unfolds around Hanyuan.

As soon as I set foot on the downhill slope, the vegetation was obviously lush and rich. Near the top of the slope, all kinds of plants similar to water peanuts are planted on both sides of the road. The short stem is white and transparent, but the leaves are mottled red and look pink. The mountain on the right is shrouded in clouds, and the low mountain in front is misty and rainy. The further down, the more trees there are. The stream roars in the distant mountain stream, but it can't be found.

The four of us are lonely in the depths of the mountains, but there is a joy of conquest in our hearts. To tell the truth, none of us expected to reach the top of the mountain so smoothly. If there are no accidents, today's trip will be very smooth and will shorten a lot of time.

? After walking down the mountain for about an hour, we came to a landslide. The landslide is not wide, about 10 meter, but it is very long and steep. Mudstone flows down from the high mountain top and goes straight to the invisible slope bottom, forming a landslide zone of at least several hundred meters. Fortunately, the debris washed down peeled off the surface of the soil, exposing hard rocks, which just gave us a solid support, and we successfully passed this long landslide.

? The landslide pulled out a long hole, stripped the soil on the mountain surface, and exposed the bright red granite at the bottom, which looked like a different kind of scenery from a distance. After the first landslide, each of us turned around and patted left and right, full of interest. It never occurred to me that I was about to face a life-and-death test.

? "Oh, so hanging! ……"

Suddenly, Lao Zheng, who was ahead, let out a scream and shrank back. "Look at your foot, how did you get it!"

? When we looked forward, everyone's hearts suddenly tightened.

? In front of us, there are two landslides formed by adjacent mudslides. The landslide is steep and long, the surface is bare residual soil, and there are no traces of people walking. If you leave in a hurry, once your feet are empty, there is nothing to catch. If you roll down, you will be seriously injured if you don't fall to death. In this remote mountain, there is no signal on the mobile phone, and it is futile to wait for rescue. Even if you get injured, you may lose your life.

? Everyone was stunned there.

? Risking your life is definitely not the way.

? We had to go back and catch the young trees at another small landslide that we passed in front. The weeds carefully descended into the river ditch and walked down among the overturned stones. However, if you keep walking in the river ditch, you will get farther and farther away from the road halfway up the mountain. Once the stream flows over the cliff, we have no choice. The most important thing now is to find a place to climb the ancient road halfway up the mountain.

? But when I stopped to take a closer look, I gasped. The steep slope to climb ahead is also formed by the previous mudslide. Although some plants have grown, the soil is soft and some places are vertical cliffs, so it is impossible to climb by hand.

? Everybody, look at me. I'll look at you. Although I didn't speak, my anxiety was empathetic.

? There is no other way but to have a try.

I approached the steep slope and grabbed the small tree to climb up. The soil on the slope is so soft that it is difficult for my feet to exert force, so I can only lift my whole body up by the strength of my hands. Miscellaneous trees and vines crisscross. Sometimes, I have to bend down and get under them; Sometimes, we have to cross them. When passing from above, because the whole body has to be supported by hands, the whole body is in a suspended and extremely unstable state. Once, I failed to hold up my body, and my body fell heavily, and I fell straight down, and I was about to roll down. In my hurry, I caught a small tree. When I climbed to the middle of the steep slope, I met a strange tree growing obliquely downward. It bent the branch and extended it, so I couldn't climb it. At that moment, I almost gave up. But at this moment, I can neither go up nor turn back. Fear and despair weighed me down.

Fortunately, I didn't give up.

Fate is so strange. When you feel you can't hold on, it opens a window for you to catch your breath and move on.

? When I passed the strange tree with my hands dangling and curled up, several small arrows suddenly appeared on the slope. Pulling the arrow bamboo along the way, I finally climbed to the ancient road halfway up the mountain.

? Everyone climbed up the ancient road along the route I stepped out.

? We crawled on the ground, sweating and exhausted.

? Unexpectedly, just a few meters later, a steep ravine formed by a landslide appeared, and there were strange stones in the ravine. The mountain torrents washed out the ditch. If you want to go down to the bottom of the ditch, you must jump down the slope. It's not as dangerous as it was just now, but it's no joke to fall.

Everyone didn't want to go, but they had to go back the same way, back to the most dangerous landslide that had just climbed from the bottom of the ditch. This is really a dilemma.

Because of the long rest time, my heart is calmer than the three of them. I carefully looked at the landslide and found that only one step was really dangerous. I can only jump on tiptoe in the narrow foothole on the slope, but the shallow foothole can't support my whole body weight. If you can't stand in the ditch, you will fall in, not down.

? Knowing this, I got up the courage and walked over. In the first few steps, my right hand can also catch some weeds around me, helping my body center of gravity inward and be more stable. The most crucial step, I hesitated for a moment, but at the moment when my right foot stepped out, I had no choice, and my whole body soared with the outstretched right foot. My right foot tiptoed gently in the shallow footwell, and before my foot tried hard, my whole body leaped forward with this force and finally landed firmly at the bottom of the ditch. It is easy to reach the bottom of the ditch. I grabbed the little tree and climbed up the ancient road on the other side.

? Maybe my success gave us great encouragement. Although the three companions behind me hesitated for a long time, they finally defeated themselves and started to act.

Although I stand not far from them, there is nothing I can do. Every step they take, my heart beats nervously, especially the key jump, and my heart is almost in my throat, more nervous than before.

Fortunately, there was a close call, and all three of them went well.

Two successful crossings also gave us some confidence. Although there were seven or eight landslides and rocky beaches in the future, they all passed carefully.

On the other hand, on a steep slope that didn't look so dangerous, I, an old driver, went down because I didn't hold on to the branches. My foot slipped and my hand loosened, and my whole body slipped down. Fortunately, the soft mud and stones piled thick and stopped not far away, otherwise I would have rolled off the cliff. At that time, the soul was scared away, lying on the ground and not coming back for a long time.

three

? Actually, the scenery in the mountains is good.

Lin Nakakoji, sometimes arrows and bamboos get in the way, sometimes trees cover the sky. The flat places are connected by stone slabs, and the water nests are shallow, and traces of ancient roads can be faintly seen. On both sides of the road, unknown flowers, yellow or red, are swaying in the grass. Countless nameless wild fruits hanging on the branches seem to make your mouth water. The unknown big bird, flying from the bushes, immediately surprised people and longed for it.

? The chaotic floodplain washed out by the flood can be seen everywhere with bright granite, which has a unique view.

In the mountain stream, the stream is gurgling, the green water is like washing, flowing through the crevices, and sinking like hair.

……

But we have no time to appreciate it.

? four

There are so many landslides that we didn't expect in advance. Although there was no danger when crossing, it took a lot of time.

After a dense landslide section, the ancient road twists and turns in the mountains, all the way down.

The weather was bad when I went out today, and it began to rain. Although there is shade, the rain can't directly rain on us. But no one can escape the dew on the trees and weeds on both sides of the road. I walked at the front, and my pants were picked up like they were soaked in water. I have never done it. Lao Zheng wore a pair of jeans, soaked, tightly wrapped in his thigh, forcing the heat out of his body, and even took off a thick heat when he was resting.

? Fortunately, I prepared a firewood knife when I went out. Shortly after going down the mountain, we used it to cut off branches and made a crutch for everyone. When going downhill over the hurdles, you can share part of your body weight and keep your body balanced. But even so, I still fall down from time to time.

? Occasionally, a ray of sky appears overhead, but it is foggy and gloomy.

? The road is just ahead, but it has no end.

After walking through one mountain after another, we are still wandering in the mountains. Walking on the edge of the cliff, the mountain stream below the river rumbled, thinking that this water flow would be artificially intercepted somewhere to generate electricity, and going somewhere along it, I had a little hope in my heart. Can walk, can walk, but the sound of water becomes if there is no, and gradually disappears in the ear. When you meet a stream, walking among rocks to find the way washed away by water also gives people an expectation of finding something. I can walk through one stream after another, but I haven't waited for the desired result.

The last landslide was too dangerous to cross. At this time, it is already past 3 pm, which is also the time when we originally planned to walk to the first power station.

? Sitting on the side of the road, everyone is very anxious. When we were desperate, we found a mineral water bottle that people used to indicate the direction on the branch of the road, and a red ribbon to remind us on a dwarf tree.

? We finally found the way down the mountain again.

In the depths of this inaccessible mountain, a trace of life will also give birth to a trace of warmth and expectation. A bottle and a red ribbon are the deepest and purest love between people here and now. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a matter of life and death. In view of the old bottle, we changed it for a new one.

The road to avoid this landslide is an almost vertical steep slope, but it is covered with weeds and small trees, which is easy to climb. There are many moving stones scattered on the slope. If the people walking behind accidentally touch them, they will easily bump into the people below when they roll down. Seeing this, we distanced ourselves and walked by one by one. Even so, we should use our hands and feet to walk slowly down. In some dangerous places, stick your hips on the ground to slow down the decline of your body and walk down bit by bit. After walking through the landslide, everyone's ass was smeared with mud and turned into a big face.

? But it's also worth the effort.

Down the steep slope, through the rubble pile formed by this landslide, and then onto the main road, we actually walked onto a diversion culvert of the power station. Although its surface was covered with lichens and mosses, it was recognized by Lao Zheng.

"There are cement pipes here!" LaoZheng first cried in surprise.

? "Yes, yes, this is the water diversion pipe of the power station. There should be a power station near here! " Yuan Gong used to work in the electric power sector. He stood on it, looked at it and made an authoritative judgment.

After listening to his words, everyone's faces suddenly filled with joy.

? "You can't go straight along the weir here. If you meet a fork in the road, you must go left. " I remember asking a friend in advance, and he reminded me not to go the wrong way here.

Everyone hurried along this culvert, and sure enough, it was not far from going out. A downward road appeared on the left, and we walked down without hesitation.

The later road is getting smoother and smoother. Although everyone has no time to take pictures and rest. But because I have a goal and hope in my heart. No matter how hard and tired, no one complains. Lao Zheng, who has been walking at the end just now, has surpassed everyone and walked in the forefront.

five

? After walking for another 40 minutes, we came to a river beach. Wade across the river and find the way to the bottom of the river.

? Because Dr. Zhang's physical strength is too overdrawn, he moves slowly. Here, we made an adjustment. Mr. Chen and I sped up and walked first. We will contact the driver to pick us up where there is a cell phone signal ahead, and we will follow us with Dr. Zhang.

But no one expected that victory would come so quickly.

Old Zheng Gang and I didn't walk for a few minutes before we came to a river beach. We saw a gray iron building in front of us, and the roar of machines echoed in the valley.

? "Power station! Power station! ……"

? We both cried excitedly like children, jumped off the beach and ran to it quickly.

In a short time, and dr. zhang also arrived at the Daguan Power Station. At this point, the time is already 5 pm.

In this way, after nearly 8 hours of arduous trek, we finally crossed the most dangerous Daxiangling section of the ancient tea-horse road.

We asked the staff of the power station to take a group photo of the four of us with the mountain we just climbed as the background.

? At this moment, it is shrouded in heavy rain and fog.

In the photo, each of us has a calm and confident smile on his face.

At this time, I recalled those scenes when I was struggling to cross the river. I suddenly remembered Fitzgerald's famous saying in The Great Gatsby: So we moved on, sailed against the current and were pushed back until we went back to the past.

? This is not just like us today, sailing against the current, crossing the Jedi, surviving, but also going back to the past.

? So, let's move on, move on. ...