For a trip to the Northwest, Urumqi is the first stop. This trip was a solo trip, and I don’t mind strangers, so I always hope to meet people with compatible personalities so that I can experience the beauty and wonder of nature together. Unexpectedly, I really met such a compatible person on the road. I was still very excited, after all, I had already made plans for a solo trip. With her joining, this trip has been filled with more laughter.
La Sa Jiao Zhu Vs. Tian Shan Tong Lao
01 What kind of person you choose to travel with is what kind of journey you choose.
Qiong and I sat in a white Jinbei car, munching on the half-eaten bananas in our hands, and we smiled at each other. At that moment, we heard the words of another friend from the night before: “Tianchi is the pool where the Queen Mother washes her feet. The ice hasn’t melted, the flowers haven’t bloomed, and the grass hasn’t grown. You guys really know how to choose a time. You’ll regret not going, and you’ll regret going even more.” The smile between Qiong and I had a bit of a “picking flowers and smiling” meaning. Whether or not we could see Tianchi today might depend on fate.
The driver suddenly pulled the steering wheel, and we both retracted our smiles and twisted to the left at the same time, involuntarily turning our eyes to the front. The cars on the Hetan Expressway were connected head to tail, stretching as far as the eye could see. The driver held his phone in one hand and shouted: “Hey, do you guys have any space in your car? I have two more people here…”
Hetan Expressway
If I were traveling with a proper young man, I would have booked the tickets for Tianchi Scenic Area the day before, and been at the main gate of Urumqi People’s Park at 8:30 am the next day. I would have raised my hand when the tour guide called out my name, sat down quietly, and listened to the tour guide in the loudspeaker, spitting out a set of words.
The person who was traveling with me was a free-spirited woman, her name is Qiong, and her name suits her. Her skin is as white as jade, and her eyes are as big as an ox. Based on vague information and a lucky attitude, we wandered around and found the back gate of People’s Park at 9:30 am that day. The travel agency lady was dressed in red like fire. From the moment we met, she kept repeating: “The car just left 20 minutes ago. Oh, miss, you guys should have come earlier.” She was shining with red light, mumbling as she quickly arranged for the bill and payment, and pulled over a driver to quickly stuff us into a Jinbei car: “Go, chase the car.”
People’s Park
02 You can lock up the spring breeze, but you can’t lock up your heart.
We were having a smooth journey, but we had to add a performance of “Fast and Furious.” At the Fukan toll station, we snuck into the tourist bus going to Tianchi Scenic Area. As soon as we got on the bus, we were greeted with two white stares from the tour guide. She was wearing black and white clothes, like a border collie, and we were the lost lambs.
This kind of travel agency one-day tour bus runs back and forth between People’s Square and Tianchi Scenic Area every day. It has a nice name called “Direct Bus”. As the name suggests, it can also be driven within the scenic area. Unlike the scenic area buses, it doesn’t stop at designated stations. To put it bluntly, it’s called a “prison bus,” saving you the time of waiting for the bus, but also taking away your freedom to enjoy the scenery.
Kazakh Ethnic Village
At the first self-paying small scenic spot where the tourist bus stopped, Qiong first told the tour guide that she refused to visit, and then she disappeared. When I got off the bus, I stretched and she suddenly floated out and suggested that I climb over the fence next to it. She said that she had found a Mongolian yurt with pilaf and roasted meat waiting for us.
This behavior was a little unseemly, but I was secretly pleased. It’s clear that she is worthy of the title of “ruffian.” A ruffian will definitely escape. After finishing the roasted meat and having a bowl of brick tea, we were satisfied and wiped our mouths and got back on the bus. At that moment, the words “Do Whatever I Want” popped into my mind.
03 The beautiful scenery is not legendary, just like love is missing gossip.
The weather in early April, the spring, Tianchi did not have the amorous spring water rippling. The blue sky set off the dazzling snow mountains under the sunlight. In the sky, at the end of the light, there must be a palace hidden. Without flowers and grass, the blue and white ice surface and the white snow added a bit of sharp beauty to Tianchi. The tourists were taking pictures and making a lot of noise. The vast Tianchi maintained its aloof arrogance, and the snow-capped fir trees quietly guarded the vicissitudes of hundreds of years.
In April, Tianchi has no blue pool, Tian Shan Tong Lao is playing hide and seek;
The Queen Mother is afraid of cold feet, La Sa Jiao Zhu is running wildly;
Luo family has a daughter who shakes her jade hand, taking beautiful pictures in the world;
If there is a Piao Miao Gong in the world, there is nowhere else to follow.
Speaking of the Queen Mother, the tour guide made up a basket of stories. What shocked me was not the gossip about the Queen Mother and King Mu of Zhou, a heavenly fairy falling in love with a mortal, this kind of love is like spring water, like underground spring water, the temperature has not decreased for thousands of years. The question is, does the Jade Emperor mind this earth-shattering first love of the Queen Mother?
With the mind of a mortal to judge the belly of a fairy, I was curious and followed the vine to find out a new relationship. It turns out that the Queen Mother is not the Jade Emperor’s wife, but his mother, who is living in the Yaochi Fairy Palace in Kunlun Mountain. She has a title called Xi Wang Mu, and her corresponding husband is called Dong Wang Gong: the former ruler of the heavenly realm, the fallen ancient god “Dong Huang Tai Yi.” The Queen Mother is actually the empress dowager of the heavenly realm, not the empress!
Snow-capped fir trees
04 What you hear on the road is like a chance encounter, easy to miss.
Love is an eternal topic. Besides the gossip about the Queen Mother, I got another legend from the tour guide on the way back to the city, saying that the Kazakh people have the lowest divorce rate. The reason is that they believe that the partner they have in this life is the kind person who buried their body on the beach in the last life, so they cherish their marriage relationship even more.
After careful consideration, most Kazakhs believe in Islam. After looking it up, I found that the tour guide’s statement is related to Buddhism. The original words were very rhyming, and they were also similar to the popular “crossing the tribulation” of the previous period. Regardless of who said it, please see for yourself.
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