After crossing this beam and walking into that ditch, the mountains and ditches in front of me are innumerable, and this kind of place will make people feel hopeless for half a day, as if they will never be able to go out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The fragmented terrain, with its endless ditches and ridges, is not only on the Loess Plateau, but also on the Songshan Mountains between the two capitals, as are these low earth mountains.

Xu Ping rode on his horse and looked up at the mountains in front of him. This mountain ridge is not high, at most it is dozens of zhang, and the mountain is very gentle, you can ride a horse straight up. This mountain is not terrible, and it can even be cultivated directly into terraced fields, and the soil layer is extremely deep, as long as it can be watered, it is a good field. The terrible thing is that there are endless mountains of this kind, and there are countless more in front of them, and it seems that they will never be able to finish.

Not long after entering the mountain, Xu Ping asked the guide who led the way, and asked where the village in front was, and the guide said leisurely that he had climbed over the two hills in front of him. The mountain looked at the reins and could rush up, Xu Ping only felt that the two villages were not far away, where did he think that he had walked for more than half an hour.

Later, Xu Ping learned to be obedient, and didn't ask about stupid things like climbing over a few mountains, but directly asked how many miles there were. This inconspicuous hill goes out after six or seven miles of road, which is completely different from the concept of flat road. If you look at the map, it is obviously less than ten miles in a straight line, but in fact, it is less than twenty or thirty miles.

When Guo Jian first talked to Xu Ping about the introduction of Luoshui into Bian, he said that the diversion of Luoshui should be in Shakou Town, and neither Xu Ping nor others had any objection to this. For no other reason, it is the closest place to Bishui County.

The mountainous terrain between Bishui County and Shakou Town is fragmented, and it can only be dug hard by brute force, and the shortest route in a straight line is the best route. After really seeing it here, Xu Ping really understood this. It's good that you don't have to bother finding the best route, just dig straight through.

Lu Fang frowned beside Xu Ping and looked at the endless hillsides and ditches in all directions, and couldn't help sighing: "Straight thief, this ghost place is even stranger than the terrain of our Yongzhou, it seems that you can't finish walking!" ”

Xu Ping smiled: "In Yongzhou, there is nothing wrong with walking along the river valley, but here you can only go around in circles along the river valley, and if you are not careful, you will get lost." Yongzhou is most afraid of walking up the mountain, but here it is just the opposite, the most afraid is not to go up the mountain only in the ravine, the geography is different. ”

After speaking, he took the reins of his horse and led the people towards the opposite mountain.

The road here sometimes follows the river valley, and at some point winds and winds up the mountain, which is the most suitable route for the local residents for thousands of years, and outsiders are not at all scratching their heads. The terrain here is already so difficult, what is the more fragmented northwest like, Xu Ping feels a headache when he thinks about it.

When they arrived at the top of the mountain, under a big plane tree, the guide pointed to the front and said, "Official, if you go over the two hills in front of you, you will arrive at Shakou Town in Gong County." We're in a hurry, we should be able to get there by noon. ”

"Okay, let's go to Shakou Town first to have a look, and first sort out the route of the water diversion."

The guide touched his head, looked at the ravines around him, and said to Xu Ping: "Official, do you really want to dig a canal here?" Look at these big and small ditches, how can the canals get by? Little foolishness, but I can't think of it. ”

"How's it going? Of course, it is to open the mountain and block the ditch! These ravines are washed out by the flash floods of the past years, and they usually seem to be nothing, but when they encounter a big flood, they all rely on them to discharge the flash floods! The straighter the river canal here, the better, the shorter the better, the most afraid is that the water accumulates here, and when the mountain flood occurs, no weir can stop it! ”

And there's the hard thing you don't know which ravines are flooding and who knows which clouds will rain? This kind of thing is simply impossible to prevent, and the best way to deal with it is to shorten the distance and cut the river so that when the flood comes, it can flow out of the mountain quickly.

Seeing that it was not far from Shakou Town, Xu Ping instructed everyone to rest on the top of the mountain, where there is a large pine forest, just enough to avoid the sun. Speaking of which, the mountains here are all dirt mountains, the soil is deep, and the trees on the mountains are luxuriant.

Chen Youzhong, the county lieutenant who accompanied him all the way, stepped forward and said: "Official, there have been tigers and wolves hurting people in this area recently, so let's hurry up and go directly to Shakou Town in front to rest." ”

Xu Ping turned over and dismounted, and said to County Lieutenant Chen: "What tigers and wolves are you afraid of, we have nearly 100 people here, and all the beasts have been cleaned up, which can be regarded as eliminating harm for the place." Take a break and cool off. ”

Chen Youzhong promised to arrange the accompanying archers and guides.

Xu Ping looks young, but now he is the Longtu Pavilion to be controlled, the Marquis of Yongning, in the eyes of Chen Youzhong, he is a big man on the top. was ordered to follow Xu Ping out, Chen Youzhong was cautious all the way, for fear of making a mistake. Fortunately, although Xu Ping was ambitious as a young man, he was not domineering, and it did not make Chen Youzhong feel difficult.

A few people watched as the horses were scattered on the grass on the hillside, and the others went to the pine forest at the top of the hill. Liu Xiaoyi's immediately took the chair with him, and found a ventilated place to stand it up early, so that Xu Ping could sit.

After a while, Chen Youzhong walked over with a basket in his hand, and said in front of Xu Ping: "To be made, these are some locally produced melons and fruits, although they are not very sweet, so they can quench their thirst and go to the summer." ”

Liu Xiaoyi took it, found a place with a mountain spring and a stream, washed it, and brought it back to Xu Ping.

Xu Ping looked at the basket, except for the half-ripe peaches and apricots, some melons and fruits could not be named. These are really grown and eaten by the farmers themselves, and they don't look good, and the melons are small, and they look crooked, and they are almost not upright and round.

There is basically no business in this mountainous area, and it is even more impossible to grow melons and fruits to sell, and the delay in selling them is far worse than doing some farm work casually. Naturally, I don't pay attention to eating by myself, I just plant as much as I want, and eat whatever I bring, it's just a meaning.

The transportation is inconvenient, and the vegetables and fruits that should be eaten fresh are meaningless to the mountain people. If it is autumn, the persimmon trees full of red persimmons are all over the mountains, and no one picks them, so they fall to the ground and turn into dirt.

It's not because the mountain people are lazy, but it's useless to pick them, a few trees in front of the house and behind the house to eat are enough, and the ones on the mountain can't be exchanged for money.

In the depths of these mountains, there is a paradise that some literati yearn for, a few acres of land in a house, farming and planting is enough for a family to eat, and there are green mountains and green waters to look at. There are all kinds of game and all kinds of wild fruits in the mountain, and you can make a tooth sacrifice if you have nothing to do. But that's all there is to it, except for satisfying yourself, there are very few things that can be exchanged for money. (To be continued.) )