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Chapter 218 Manzhouli

There are a large number of windmills on the way to Hulun Lake, and the strong winds in this area are used to the maximum. Ye Kai had to close the windows of the car.

Because it is a large plain, Ye Kai can see many different celestial phenomena in the sky at this time.

At the farthest point, within half an hour there will definitely be a rainstorm, showers.

The sky on the left continued to be clear, with a slight breeze, and it seemed to be very comfortable.And the section of the road I am driving now is constantly windy, and it will still be like this in the following time.

Ye Kai's eyesight can see farther in this empty grassland, it is like a human-shaped grassland weather forecaster.

"I saw the lake." Ye Kai said suddenly.

Monk glanced into the distance, but he couldn't see anything except the grassland, but he also said, "It's almost here, and it is estimated that we will be able to reach Hulun Lake in about 10 minutes."

Located in the hinterland of the HLBE prairie, Hulun Lake is known as the "Pearl of the Grassland" and "Kidney of the Grassland".

His Mongolian name is Dalai Lake, which means a lake like the sea.

The road gradually became not so easy to walk on, but they could already see the blue Hulun River from a height, and a section of the river bank diverged into Hulun Lake in a triangular shape, like a wolf's head.

"This is the Khan's hitching post," Monk said.

Ye Kai was a little curious and asked, "Is it Genghis Khan? What is he doing here tying his horse?"

"This is a legend. My grandma told me, but I can't remember clearly. I heard that the Khan's power is getting stronger and stronger, which caused dissatisfaction among the surrounding tribes, and united with other tribes to launch a surprise attack on the Khan. .

Khan hastily met the enemy and charged hard but still could not win.They had no choice but to order a retreat and set up camp at Fishing Lake, where the grass is abundant, which is now the tethering post. "

"But why is it called a hitch post?"

There are too many such places in China, such as the place where Cao Cao stationed troops, the place where Zhuge Liang stationed troops, and the big guys who have stationed troops for thousands of years can hold a football match below.

And there are even more members on the bench.

"There is a stone pile below. It is said that Khan tied his horse to it. Every morning, Khan stood on the top of the hill overlooking the northern grasslands, planning a plan to unify the grasslands.

And at this time, the eight horses, who had been through the battlefield, couldn't bear the leisurely loneliness, and they all raised their manes and hoofs, and for a long time, lines were drawn by the bridle on the horse posts..."

"understood."

As a legend, the authenticity of this incident needs to be verified, but in the eyes of the grassland people, perhaps these things are stories that actually happened.

You can hear it from Munch's mouthful of a khan.

The road became more and more difficult to walk. The original asphalt road turned into a dirt road without knowing it. However, this section of the road has been passed by many vehicles, and now it has become barren.

You can vaguely see a little trace of the road.

Is this how it went?Ye Kai was a little suspicious.

Monk scratched his head and said, "It's been a long time since I came here last time. The road must be right, but the road was not so bad back then."

After walking for a while, the road conditions were too bad, Ye Kai lost confidence and wanted to go directly to Manzhouli.

Just at this time, I ran into a jeep driving head-on, with Yanjing's license plate, it should also be a tourist here.Ye Kai lowered the window and asked, "Brother, how far is this road?"

"It's not far away." The big brother of Yanjing said with great enthusiasm, "After walking this distance, it will be a good road! Don't go back, it's hard to come here, it's a pity not to see it .”

He is also right.

So I regained my confidence and continued to drive on this dirt road.

May in Inner Mongolia is really cold. It is a different concept from May in the Mainland, and it is comparable to snowy areas.The dirt on the road was still frozen, and the car made a rattling sound when it drove.

It may have rained last night or before, and some small water stalls can be seen on the side of the road.

But at this time, they were all frozen and became pieces of ice.The sun is not strong, and it looks like it will take a few hours for the ice to thaw.

Sure enough, the road came to an end soon, and there was an endless asphalt road ahead. Walking along this road, you will soon reach the lake, which can be called a beach.

On the stele made of several pieces of gravel, the words Dalai Lake are written.

This pearl of the prairie is not as clear and bright as Ye Kai thought. Although it is also called a lake, it is basically a different concept compared to West Lake.

Ye Kai felt that Hulun Lake was more like a sea than the word lake.

The wind on the grassland makes the lake rush to the river bank in waves, just like the waves on the seaside, except that there will be no waves of several meters high.

The water of the lake is not blue either. Although it is clear, it reveals a very sharp temperament.

Ye Kai looked at the river and said, "Is this how one side of water and soil nurtures one side of people?"

The West Lake has attracted so many literati and poets. The misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the blue waves, the pavilions, the broken bridges and the snow, are so beautiful.Hulun Lake, located in Inner Mongolia, has raised the grassland peoples of the jungle.

If you don't get to the edge of the lake, you don't know how big Hulun Lake is, and you can't see the edge at a glance.

Walking to the river, Ye Kai touched the lake water with his hands. The temperature was very low, similar to that of glacier water in the snowy area, but the snowy area is running water and can be drunk directly.

There is a rock under Ye Kai's feet, and the waves are constantly splashing on this rock. The Hulun Lake shimmering under the sunlight, really looks like the sea.

In fact, when tourists come to visit here, the most famous scenic spot is a place called Golden Beach.

Why are you famous?

Because if you want to see Hulun Lake, the final location given to you in the navigation is the golden beach. If you don’t look for it carefully, you won’t be able to find this Genghis Khan horse post.

So there are not many tourists here, but the scenery is the same, with a lot of grassland, lake water, rocks, water birds and so on.

Ye Kai found a perspective and photographed Hulun Lake.

Under the close-up shooting, no one would think that this is a lake. Anyone who sees Ye Kai's picture of an inland lake will think it was taken by the sea.

Seeing Hulun Lake, Ye Kai found that he still prefers grasslands.

On the way to Hulun Lake, there are fertile water and grass, flocks of cattle and sheep, and countless wind turbines on the grassland that can't be seen at a glance.

Green has always been a very pleasing color, but in recent years, the vocabulary on the Internet has made the word green a taboo for Chinese people. The green of the HLBE prairie seems to have changed its meaning.

I don't know what these herdsmen who live on the HLBE prairie will think.

After wandering around Hulun Lake for an hour, Ye Kai took a picnic cloth from the car, greeted Monk and said, "Come, come and have something to eat together."

There is everything in the car, even a gas tank can be found.

This is what Ye Kai bought for emergencies. It is very small, and it is estimated that it can only be used for one or two meals at most. It has been burned for an hour, but it has not been used yet.

Fortunately, Ye Kai bought a lot of bread and snacks, enough for Ye Kai to eat for two or three days alone.

At twelve o'clock, the two set off again to Manzhouli, which is a city 88 kilometers away from Hulun Lake. Except for a section of Hulun Lake where the road is very poor, the other roads are asphalt roads.

Estimated to drive about two hours.

It is said that the sky corresponds to the earth, and what kind of earth there is, there is what kind of sky.

Ye Kai likes the sky in the snow area very much, but the sky in the grassland is no worse than that in the snow area. When he bid farewell to the fierce Hulun River and returned to the grassland, Ye Kai seemed to hear the singing of the grassland again.

Grassland songs all sound the same. Everyone calls this style grassland style, but if you listen carefully and savor it carefully, all grassland songs have a broad vision.

Can you hear the heroic feeling of grassland songs in the songs in the mainland?

Breaking away from the framework of love and love, most of the grassland songs express the Mongolian love for the grassland.And it sings affectionately, without any sense of disobedience.

You want to say that Ye Kai likes Rongcheng, let Ye Kai write a song about his love for Rongcheng.

In that case, I can only write about the hot pot in Rongcheng. If I want to write about other things, I can write about the commercial street in Rongcheng, the subway, dance halls, and bars in Rongcheng...

Where are these things not available?
So it's really hard to write a song that loves the place where you were born.

Two hours later, Manzhouli arrived.

The buildings here are very exotic, even if Ye Kai is very familiar with the architectural styles of various places, Ye Kai can't tell where the buildings here are.

Good at using various colors, one-third of the roof is colored, and it is a European-style spire.But if you look down, why is there a bit of Russian architecture?
China, Mongolia, Russia, Europe.

The combination of several architectural styles has become the most unique flavor of this border city. The streets are full of plaques and advertisements written in Russian and Chinese, making people think that they have gone abroad.

Ye Kai parked the car in a parking lot and walked down the street with Monk.

"It's unbelievable that China still has such a city." Ye Kai whispered to Monk.

Walking on the streets of Manchuria, Ye Kai thought for a moment that he was walking on the streets of Europe. The pedestrians on the street look very different from those in mainland China.

In fact, many of them are Chinese people, just mixed blood.

It looks like a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigner, but maybe someone else speaks more standard Mandarin than you, or speaks standard Mongolian 'Mandarin'.

There is an illusion that people with black hair and black eyes are all Asian tourists.

There are many mutton restaurants on the street, smelling the fragrance, Ye Kai wants to go in and try it.

I ate some snacks before, not a meal.

As we all know, snacks cannot be eaten as meals, so three hours later, and he was still driving, Ye Kai's stomach was protesting to his brain.

hungry hungry hungry hungry...

Ye opened his throat, feeling his mouth dry, and said, "How about we try the mutton restaurant here? I want to see the difference between the mutton here and the ones in the inland cities."

Monk was a little surprised why Ye Kai wanted to eat again, since he had eaten bread not long ago.

But he looked at the restaurant and said: "I have some friends in Manchuria, we can go to eat fresh mutton, these places must be very expensive, after all, it is a tourist city."

Manzhouli is really a landmark city in Mongolia. Too many people will come to Manzhouli to experience the exotic customs in China after visiting the prairie.

"It doesn't affect it, it doesn't affect it..." Ye Kai said, enthusiastically pulling Monk into a hot pot restaurant beside him.

I don't know why, but when I saw the food street, I always wanted to find a restaurant that was pleasing to the eye to taste it. If I just walked away, I always felt like I was at a loss.

The hot pot restaurant is much warmer than outside.

As soon as you come in, you can see that someone else's hot pot is rising with mist, and the hot pot is different from Rongcheng's. It is like Yanjing's mutton. There are two layers, the upper layer is red oil, and the lower layer is clear soup.

It was the first time Ye Kai saw such a two-layer hot pot.

In fact, this is Ye Kai's first time eating hot pot with a chimney.

It's not a formal meal time, and there are relatively few people here. Ye Kai found a place facing the street. He really likes to be able to see the scenery outside the window when eating.

The dishes he ordered were not many, but they were all that Ye Kai wanted to taste.There is another meal in the evening, so I can't eat too much at this time.

After 10 minutes, their pots also began to emit mist, and they immediately felt a strong enthusiasm. This kind of double-layer hot pot always feels more domineering than the traditional hot pot in the mountain city of Rongcheng.

The mountain mushroom here tastes good. The mutton is sliced ​​very thin, and it can be eaten after rinsing in a hot pot. The taste of the bottom of the red oil pot is actually Sichuan hot pot.

But the clear soup is the taste of northern hot pot. Although Ye Kai has never eaten it, it is very fragrant.

In addition to the must-order mutton slices, Ye Kai also ordered Indian flying pancakes and lamb kebabs, both of which were delicious, but it was a great pity that the stomach could not be saved. If you are full, you are full.

When he put down his chopsticks, Ye Kai was about [-]% or [-]% full, and he was a little bit full. It would be even better if there were more people around. Then he would order a few bottles of wine and finish eating and drinking. It would be a comfort.

Monk didn't care about that much. He ate the evening portion. Since he was on the table, he must be full.So a lot of food that Ye Kai ordered was resolved.

When everyone was full, Ye Kai asked, "Didn't you say you wanted to show me the lyrics when you left?"

"Oh yes!" He wiped his mouth, took out his phone, clicked on the memo, and handed it to Ye Kai, "There are only lyrics, which were written when I first came to the grassland, but after so many years of writing countless songs, there is no satisfy."

Ye Kai was the first person he met who could really play music.

Many songwriters write songs with full of enthusiasm, and they think it's good, but in fact, newcomers don't have much appreciation for the songs they write.

Maybe I think it is very good, better than many songs.

But if you show it to many musicians, there will be many mistakes, and the lyrics are the same.Ye Kai originally thought that Munch's song was similar.

But when Ye Kai saw the lyrics, he felt...

This is not lyrics, this is a poem, a modern poem.

"It's well written. You really haven't gone to college?"

"I haven't read it, and I don't think writing this thing really has much to do with academic qualifications," Monk said.

"really."

Ye Kai read it three times, and finally said: "Can you give me this song first? I won't be able to write a song for a while."

Ye Kai is not very familiar with prairie songs, so he has to study them carefully after returning home.

I thought it would be a very simple task that could be solved in a few minutes, but Ye Kai had to treat this word with caution.

Monk felt relieved, and said, "Great, Brother Ye, if there is any profit from this song in the future, I will give it all to you."

"It doesn't matter, writing music can't make money in the music industry."

(End of this chapter)