Over the Qinling Mountains
Zhang Yafeng
In the three years of high school, "strive to cross the Qinling Mountains" is the mantra of the teachers who cheer us on, and the teachers earnestly hope that we can go out of the mountains to grow knowledge and see the world. Qinling is like a high wall in front of us, which everyone is competing to cross, but not everyone can easily conquer, making people have both the excitement of anticipation and the slightest worry of failure.
In the college entrance examination that year, I entered the ranks of "turning over the Qinling Mountains". Before the start of school, with dreams and hopes, I had never been out of the county, bought a ticket to Xi'an alone, and followed a group of unknown people to squeeze the shuttle bus to register for university.
At first, I lay on the window of the car to admire everything strange and fresh along the way, maybe my eyes were open for too long, or the people in the car were too stuffy, and I slowly fell asleep. The car sometimes bumps, sometimes turns, and in a daze, it has to adjust the crooked neck and the sore waist.
"All off the bus! If you want to eat, grab a meal, and go to the toilet! I don't know how long it took, the car stopped, only to hear the master shouting hello.
Rubbing his eyes, he got out of the car with the flow of people, a private house on the side of the road, next to an open-air toilet, and a few early shuttle buses parked in the clearing. People eat, buy water, stretch, chat, smoke, untie their hands, go in and out, and it is very lively. From the words of others, I learned that it takes 7 hours to get to Xi'an one way, which is only a small and half journey, and if I don't untie my hands and replenish energy, it will be difficult to reach the end, so I hurriedly did so.
Starting again, the car traveled through the trenches of the Qinling Mountains, and in many cases it was on the road hewn into the mountain roots, and under the road was a narrow and turbulent river. The mountain roads that cannot be seen at a glance, the monotonous ditches, and the long time make people yawn again and sleepy. Amid the rising roar of the engine and the strong smell of gasoline, I felt the car climbing, slowly and sharply, swaying left and right. Suddenly a sharp brake, I was thrown on the back of the front seat, suddenly startled, found that under the car is a bottomless ravine, in the distance is an endless mountain, the nervous heart instantly mentioned the throat eye! I heard from the people in the car that they arrived at the top of Qinling Mountain. That scene is exactly as Bai Juyi wrote in "The First Exit of Lantian Road": "The absolute top suddenly goes up, and all the mountains look down; Looking down at tens of thousands of peaks, the peaks are like waves. Driving out of the Qinling Mountains, the eyes became much more open, and the endless plain made people suddenly feel that "the thousand peaks of the Yunkai Wuxia come out, and the road turns to the Bajiang River".
In this way, I completed my first "long journey". After signing up, the students couldn't wait to visit the new campus and the surroundings, and I went to see Zhou Gong beautifully. Later, when I went home and received my vacation during the winter and summer vacations, I was always suffering infinitely before I left, always dreaming that if I could have the kind of good road in the movie, I would suffer a lot less sin.
Fortunately, two years later, the Blue Highway was opened, and Shangluo-Xi'an was shortened from 7 hours to 4 hours. Finally, I don't have to climb over the mountains and be scared anymore! The car sped through the flickering tunnel, and it felt a lot smoother, and I was excited about the rapid realization of my dream. After a few years, the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway was completed, the road was opened in every mountain, the bridge was bridged by water, straight and wide, eight lanes in both directions, the shuttle bus passage time was 2 hours, and private cars have gradually become popular, only 1 and a half hours. I have been working for a long time, often travel back and forth between Western business, which is very convenient, sometimes I can come back on the same day of doing an errand, and I have the calmness and calmness of "sitting on the ground and traveling 80,000 miles a day, surveying the sky and watching a thousand rivers from afar".
On weekends or holidays, I occasionally revisit the road I used to go to college, and although the hero-level asphalt road has experienced many vicissitudes, it has become a popular route for urban people to check in for leisure because of its quiet and cool scenery. On the way, I will also tell my children about the unforgettable experience when I was in school, but the state of mind at that time was no longer painful and tormenting, just like the sky of Shangluo Natural Oxygen Bar, it had long been safe and relaxed, and the clouds were light and breezy.
Source: Shangluo Daily, copyright belongs to the author.