In 2019, a 56-year-old uncle suddenly sold the mansion worth 20 million yuan that Shangri-La had lived in for more than a decade. The yard, the house, the furniture, the things that I saw, except for people and dogs, were all gone.
He just wants to take his faithful old dog Rhubarb and drive a modified MAN card motorhome to embark on a long-awaited journey around the Himalayas.
More than twenty years ago, a few friends pooled their money to help him build this Tibetan courtyard, and the study was filled with rare gadgets he had collected from all over the world.
Selling the house is indeed unwilling, the house has too many memories of him, but the most unwilling thing is that it is also loaded with good memories of him and rhubarb.
At the age of knowing the destiny, I should have enjoyed the pension life, but I only wanted to take an old dog to wander. Many people do not understand, why do you have to toss so much when you are old?
Perhaps only the old dog Rhubarb, who came out of no man's land with him and accompanied him many times into the wilderness, knew what this old man wanted.
The old man in front of him was named Zheng Yi, whose original name was Deng Xuezhi. Chasing rhubarb had to be his "daddy" and saying that rhubarb was the most important dog son in his life. However, according to the age of human beings, rhubarb is now eighty or ninety years old.
Rhubarb remembers that on the first day he came to his house, he dismantled a Suzuki egg motorcycle that he had collected very much.
Because he tied it to the iron pipe, it was very upset and began to wreak havoc. At night, it wanted to go into the house and sleep together, and the old man did not agree, and he angrily tore the curtain and expressed his dissatisfaction.
Nevertheless, the old man forgave it every time, knowing that it loved freedom and did not belong to the city in the first place. Rhubarb felt that this old man understood it.
Rhubarb is old and has a big temper, and old men begin to call it "Uncle Huang".
Once, when they were playing, suddenly the big black pounced on them and tore a mess. The old man kicked rhubarb in two feet in order to separate the two dogs.
When Rhubarb was young, he fought with wolves, but lost to a dog, which hurt his self-esteem too much. I wanted to protect the old man, but I was kicked by him, and the more I thought about it, the more aggrieved I became. So I found the darkest corner of a remote old house and hid.
When the old man was anxious to find it, he saw that it had not eaten or drunk for several days, and cried bitterly.
Rhubarb came home ignoring the old man, knowing he would coax it. Sure enough, the old man brought the shallot oil cake that they both loved to eat. Sure enough, the two have been together for a long time, and the tastes will become similar.
The feelings were so good, but the old man had also wanted to send it back into the wilderness.
Rhubarb first met the old man in 2012, in front of a glacier in the Purogangri Ice Field in northern Tibet. Rhubarb was hungry for many days, and suddenly a group of people appeared in front of it, calling it an "alien dog", and one of them was Zheng Yi.
Rhubarb, who had been lonely for a long time, looked at this "alien" curiously, thinking that he must have experienced an adventurous, crazy, and exciting boiling life in the first half of his life, just like the first half of his life.
Rhubarb later learned that he was a famous wilderness freelance photographer who had repeatedly gone deep into no man's land in Tibet to photograph wildlife and extreme scenery.
He is also known as the "spiritual leader of China's Harley", and once rode a Harley motorcycle from San Francisco on the west coast of the United States, along Route 66, through 18 states of the United States, and finally reached New York on the east coast of the United States. He has many titles, but has always called himself a "professional tramp".
He also has a name called "Zheng Yi Escapes from Mankind". He doesn't like to deal with people, thinks it's too fake, and is intrigued. But only those who can have common hobbies and are particularly real can become like-minded friends. Stars like Li Yapeng, Sun Nan, Hu Ge, Xu Wei, Yi Nengjing and others are his friends.
He especially likes to deal with wild animals, often going alone to cross, "enjoying the wilderness, enjoying life". Thus, there was this wilderness encounter between them.
Rhubarb crossed the slope of the earth, wagged his tail, and looked at him for a long time, and this glance doomed them to the rest of their lives.
The old man casually shouted it "rhubarb", although the name is earthy, but rhubarb also accepted, has been called until now.
The old man gave it a lot of good food, and although he was wary of humans, he agreed to touch it in order to show friendship.
When the car started, Rhubarb was suddenly very reluctant. It has always chosen to wander in the wilderness, never get close to humans, see its own shadow in the old man, and run wild in the ice and snow. Rhubarb chased for two days and two nights, more than 80 kilometers, and the car finally stopped.
With a "rhubarb", it plunged into his arms, which made the old man believe in his fate and make a major decision in his life to adopt rhubarb. The moment he put on the collar, Rhubarb knew that he was no longer a wild dog, and the pair of wilderness CPs was officially integrated.
Zheng Yi said: "In the beast group, it is more like a person. And I was in the crowd, and seemed more like a beast. "Species and evolution aside, perhaps in the depths of the soul, they are a kind, undefined, living out of themselves.
After this crossing, Rhubarb is taken back to Shangri-La and leads a carefree, slow life. But rhubarb is not happy, looking out depressively through the crack of the door every day, living in no man's land for a long time, it does not avoid cars, and is often hit by cars.
Tibetan dogs play with rhubarb, this kind of socializing, high-cold rhubarb has never been dismissive. When surrounded by dogs, he was never afraid, did not bark, and walked calmly. Maybe it never felt like a dog. From Rhubarb's eyes, Zheng Yi could always see the shadow of the wolf, and the wildness of its bones had never disappeared.
Rhubarb often lies decadently on the roof and stares into the distance, and Zheng Yi sees his fascination with wandering in Rhubarb's eyes.
Rhubarb belongs to wild beasts and belongs to no man's land. Zheng Yi decided to send rhubarb back to no man's land and return it to freedom and happiness.
Finally, in 2016, when Zheng Yi decided to go to northern Tibet to find the mysterious place ba mao qianzong that he had always wanted to reach the most, he found an opportunity to release rhubarb into the wilderness, but he would also respect rhubarb's choice.
On arrival at Lake Sikin Ulan in Coco Siri, two cars suddenly crashed into the lake. Fortunately, Rhubarb is fine, which makes Zheng Yi determined to stay rhubarb and be together for a lifetime.
At three o'clock in the morning, the rhubarb, which is never called, does not stop. Zheng Yi walked outside the tent and found that it was a pack of wolves. It's minus 35 degrees outside, but Rhubarb has been on high alert to keep wolves from getting close.
After 66 hours of extreme survival, Zheng Yi and Rhubarb identified each other. Zheng Yi regards Rhubarb as his "totem of the wilderness", and although the plan to return rhubarb fails, their story continues.
Rhubarb is really old, peeing on the roof, and has no appetite to eat. The rhubarb that accompanied him from birth to death, galloping in the wilderness, was slowly disappearing.
It is said that when the dog knows that the limit is approaching, it will find a place to wait for death. Zheng Yi said that when he is old, he will not wait for death in the hospital, and will take rhubarb to find their final destination.
After six years and seven searches, in 2017, they finally arrived at the center of bamu poverty.
This is a long-dormant volcanic crater, the birthplace of the legendary heroine of King Gesar, and the gate of paradise where wild animals in northern Tibet are waiting to die.
Legend has it that when the wild animals living in northern Tibet were about to die, they traveled long distances and gathered here, there was no predator of the weak, no conquest and killing, quietly waiting for death, and returning the flesh to nature.
He witnessed the tragic process of a blind wild yak to the end of its life. The former overlord of the plateau, feeling that time was short, wanted to take another sip of the sweet spring water of Dongdaquan, and walked alone, stumbling to the natural cemetery where wolves were infested. Suddenly, his legs fell to his knees and he fell down. This is the law of survival of nature, and it is also the burial place that Zheng Yi has been looking for, and the same is true for rhubarb.
The Ba Mao Poor Sect, the end of all living beings. Life is here, in the most equal form, to enter the cycle of reincarnation.
One day, when he and Rhubarb are old, they will come here together, which is the final belonging to the salvation of their souls.
Over the years, Rhubarb has been with Zheng Yi, accompanying him to go deep into the wilderness many times, escorting him, and seeing the scenery that can be enjoyed by the eyes of the very few eyes in this world.
"Forgive me for not being good at words, but only knowing how to accompany me."
Zheng Yi decided to sell the house, raise the cost of shooting a RV world travel documentary, and accompany "Uncle Huang" to see more beautiful scenery in the few days to come.
Zheng Yi said: "As a wildlife photographer, I used to think that the higher the species level photographed, the more special the behavior, the more precious the image. But now, for me, the most precious image is the bits and pieces of rhubarb. ”
One person, one dog, one world, one life and one spring and autumn. Living an undefined life and a dog life, it is this pair of old men and old dogs who understand each other to be happy.
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Editor-in-Charge/Qingbao