Chapter 0741 Snow Mountain (I)

This man and a mastiff acting as if no one else was there, watching these Tibetans dumbfounded, they used to always think that only the herdsmen living in Tibet can make the most sincere friendship with Tibetan mastiffs.

Now this tacit understanding between Zhuang Rui and the white lion obviously subverted their cognition, but the Tibetans are the most favorite people who can get along with the Tibetan mastiffs, that village chief, who is already too old to walk, tremblingly walked to Zhuang Rui’s front and bowed deeply.

“Hey, old man, I can’t afford it!”

Zhuang Rui hurriedly dodged to the side, Zhuang Rui really couldn’t afford to have such an old man bow to him.

“Xiao Zhuang, just accept this salute from the old man! He said that your white lion is a messenger of God, and for you and the white lion to have such a deep bond, that is a friend to all Tibetans.”

When the old man saw Zhuang Rui dodging away, he hurriedly said a few words to Gyatso, who translated the original text for Zhuang Rui.

Zhuang Rui is firm resignation, said with a smile, “No way, no way, how can there be a salute to a friend, just let your friend drink a few more cups in the evening.”

“Yagi (Tibetan meaning good), Yagi …….”

After the old man heard Gyatso’s translation, he gave a thumbs up to Zhuang Rui, then turned back to the villagers and spoke loudly, of course, Zhuang Rui still couldn’t understand a word.

However, the crowd that had originally gathered around, after hearing the village chief’s words, immediately let out yells from their mouths and dispersed, their faces filled with excitement.

“Big brother Gyatso, what are they saying?” Zhuang Rui looked at Gyatso beside him with some bewilderment.

Gyatso smiled and said, “The village chief said that the most honorable guests have come to the village, and that they are going to kill the sheep and greet us, er, to be precise, greet you, with the grandest of ceremonies.”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment after hearing this, turned his head to look at the not very many sheep on the hillside, and whispered to Gyatso, “Big brother Gyatso, pay attention to how many sheep they slaughtered, keep a count, and when we leave, I’ll leave some money for them.”

Zhuang Rui knew that for the herdsmen, every sheep is their most precious property, easily is not killed, only in the New Year festivals or sacrifices to ancestors, will kill so one or two.

And this small mountain village surrounded by mountains, due to geographical restrictions, there is no way to large-scale grazing, these sheep are even more precious, the villagers every year oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, all count on these sheep to exchange it!

“Xiao Zhuang, we Tibetans treat our guests, we won’t charge them, if you do that, the host will get angry.” Gyatso shook his head, he himself was a Tibetan, how could the host still charge for entertaining guests!

Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly at his words, “Brother Gyatso, wouldn’t it be fine to give to stay when we leave? We have enough to eat and drink, but this village can have a lot less income.”

“Right, big brother Gyatso, I just said that I want to subsidize the children to go to school, did the village chief agree?”

Zhuang Rui heart is still a little confused, Suo Nan in to the village chief said he wanted to subsidize the children to go to school, the village chief did not have such a big reaction, just and the white lion made out a little bit, actually won the respect of the villagers, this thing is really incomprehensible.

“Agreed, he asked big brother Suo Nan to thank you!”

Gyatso seemed to see Zhuang Rui’s doubt, and then said, “Gifts between friends, represent our friendship, but it’s not that with money, you can buy their respect.”

Zhuang Rui seemed to understand and nodded, these simple Tibetans, obviously have their own standards for measuring things.

With the descent of the night, the entire small mountain village became boisterous, the villagers, who were all wearing dirty clothes, changed into beautiful Tibetan robes of various colors, tied a white hatha around their necks, carrying scriptures and various delicacies on their backs, and started a procession along the village.

In front of the procession is two village girls dressed as “Ram” (i.e., nymphs), while the small lama Balsang and Zhuang Rui, was invited to get on the horse, which is only the most honored guests, can enjoy the treatment.

The other ordinary villagers were on foot, and although the village was ruggedly built along the mountains, their footsteps remained fit and light.

Behind them, some people carry incense burners, others carry bundles of “Tibetan sang” people shake their hands of colored arrows (used to attract good luck, praying for good fortune to come), everyone like New Year’s Eve, a joyful atmosphere.

In the middle of the team, by a few Tibetans respectfully carrying a large Buddha, some people specializing in its cloth mantle, so as not to direct sunlight, Buddha surrounded by Tibetans clusters, flags and banners fluttering, lit Zangsang burned smoke rising, both solemn and lively.

Although counting the playful children and mountaineering team members, the procession of a total of only more than a hundred people, but the atmosphere is still very warm, and finally the crowd playing with the torch made of Zangsang, around the village of the Mountain God Temple after a circle, back to the threshing floor.

At this time the preparations for the bonfire party have all been done, more than ten clean whole sheep on the iron bars, hanging on the rack above the bonfire, a few Tibetan women, is next to busy.

Big bowl of barley wine was the old village chief short in the hand, starting from Zhuang Rui, one by one to honor the past, can sing and dance Tibetan girls, wearing beautiful costumes, in the field of singing and dancing up.

The firelight printed on the faces of all the people, are joyful smile, a altar of barley wine was carried up, in this atmosphere, there is no need to use language to communicate, pick up a big bowl, a big mouth to drink, is the best communication.

The next day from the drunken Zhuang Rui woke up, for last night’s memories, seems to be only “barley wine and roast lamb”, he did not even know how he went back to sleep in the cabin.

“Wooo…… wooo!”

Zhuang Rui just sat up, before he had time to survey the room he slept in yesterday, he heard the whimpering sound of the white lion under the bed, if it wasn’t for the fact that he was now naked and only wearing a pair of shorts, I’m afraid that the white lion would have pulled on the pants leg and pulled him under the bed.

“What’s wrong, White Lion?”

Although at home there is the habit of running early in the morning with the white lion, but on this plateau, Zhuang Rui is lazy to move, although not worried about plateau reaction, but at an altitude of four or five thousand meters to run, not inevitably a little shocking.

The white lion naturally can not open his mouth to tell Zhuang Rui what is going on, can only use the big head on top of Zhuang Rui, urging him to get up quickly.

“Is it that you want to go find your daughter-in-law?”

Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered this ballast, he never treat the white lion as an animal, Zhuang Rui believes that yesterday’s words, the white lion absolutely understand.

Sure enough, after Zhuang Rui said this, the white lion humanely nodded up its big head, a pair of bright eyes, dryly gazing at Zhuang Rui.

“You brat, you don’t know how to be subtle.”

Zhuang Rui laughed and scolded, picked up the clothes at the top of the bed and put them on his body, and when he got up, he found that Peng Fei was also sleeping in this room, only that he wasn’t as drunk as he was, and this would be snoring with a stream of hollers!

“Ah! Comforting!”

Bringing the white lion out of the wooden house, Zhuang Rui stretched his waist, living in this beautiful place like a landscape painting, although it didn’t have any modern electrical appliances, it had a different flavor of the countryside.

“Big brother Suo Nan, good morning!”

Zhuang Rui saw Suo Nan come out from another wooden house and hurriedly greeted him.

“Hehe, it’s not early! It’s going to be noon.”

Suo Nan couldn’t help but laugh after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, yesterday Zhuang Rui was the most popular person in the village and drank the most wine, while they, who were originally guests of the Tibetans, didn’t drink much, and he was the one who framed Zhuang Rui back yesterday.

“Bad, I was thinking of going up the mountain!”

Zhuang Rui looked at his watch, it was actually already more than one in the afternoon, no wonder the white lion was in a hurry like that.

“You can just turn around at the foot of the mountain, I said I’ll let you excuse yourself to climb the mountain, but I’m not really letting you climb, this little bit of equipment is not there, how to go up the mountain?”

Suo Nan was a random excuse, he didn’t think Zhuang Rui really wanted to climb the snowy mountain.

“Hey, big brother Suo Nan, I can’t go if I don’t want to! You ask the White Lion if he agrees?” Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly.

“Oh, I see, dare I say your Tibetan Mastiff is in heat!”

Suo Nan laughed, but there is no professional mountaineering equipment, to climb the snowy mountain as high as 5800 meters, is a thing that is almost dead, frowned and thought for a while, Suo Nan said: “Let’s go to the mountaineering team to see, or you and they go up the mountain together!”

Plateau mountaineering, the first weight is physical fitness and endurance, Zhuang Rui that perverted body, the people have seen, as long as in the mountain when pay attention to the point, generally no big problem.

Only after arriving at the mountaineering team where they live did they find that, in addition to the sick Wen Qiuqian and the twin sister Wen Qiuyu who took care of her two, the rest of the people had already gone mountaineering in the morning.

These people from the mountaineering team were just supporting cast yesterday and didn’t drink too much, plus Wen Qiuqian’s illness had already delayed her for two days, so early in the morning, under the leadership of the local tour guide, they started to climb Chawaduoji Zhiga Mountain.

“Xiao Wen, why don’t you lend me your climbing equipment?”

Zhuang Rui saw that in the house there were hiking poles, gloves and hiking ropes and other objects, suddenly his eyes lit up, he already had a pair of hiking shoes with bottom spikes, with these things, Zhuang Rui felt that there was not much of a problem to climb up this snowy mountain.

“Things can all be lent to you, but Brother Zhuang, climbing alone is so dangerous!”

Wen Qiuyu nodded and spoke out to advise Zhuang Rui.

Don’t look at the altitude Zhuang Rui and they were at right now, there was only a difference of more than a thousand meters from the top of the mountain, but I’m afraid that it would take at least a day to ascend to this height of more than a thousand meters, and the fierce beasts on the snowy mountains as well as natural phenomena such as avalanches could endanger the lives of the mountain climbers.

“Xiao Zhuang, wait for a moment, I will go and call Gyatso, let him accompany you up the mountain.”

Suo Nan saw Zhuang Rui’s attention has been set, his own estimation is unable to persuade, at that moment returned to go to find Gyatso, because he knew that Gyatso had once done a period of time of mountaineering guide.