Along the way

The day after Shu Ming's birthday, Xu Chengan contacted Shu Ming and asked him if he was interested in traveling together during the summer vacation.

Shu Ming was a little moved, but he didn't answer directly, but asked his parents first.When Shu's mother heard that Xu Chengan wanted to take Shu Ming on a trip, she agreed with both hands.Shu's mother hoped that Shu Ming would not be bored at home, and that going out more might make him more outgoing.But if Shu Ming travels alone, she is worried.Now, with Xu Chengan as his companion, Shu's mother was very relieved, and immediately expressed her support. Seeing that Shu Ming's attitude was not clear, she even persuaded him to go.

So Shu Ming expressed his intention to go with Xu Chengan, still thinking in his heart, Xu Chengan must have given his mother the ecstasy soup, right?

Xu Chengan told Shu Ming that the places he planned to go to were Qinghai and Dunhuang, and the focus was on Qinghai Lake. Shu Ming didn't learn geography well at the beginning. As for Qinghai, he only knew that Qinghai was in the northwest of China. No matter how much he knew... probably There is Qinghai Lake there.As for Dunhuang, they also want to get the Mogao Grottoes and the Feitian murals, and almost know nothing about the others.But it's not good to know nothing, Shu Ming humbly consulted Baidu, only to know that Kunlun Mountain and Qaidam Basin are both in Qinghai Province, but this time he won't go: Qinghai also has an important position in history.He used to think that the Qaidam Basin was in Xinjiang and the Kunlun Mountains were in the northeast.

All along, the itinerary was arranged by Xu Chengan, no matter how lazy Shu Ming was, he was too embarrassed to do nothing.But when he asked Xu Chengan if he wanted to help, the other party also refused.He said that arranging the itinerary is his pleasure, and Shu Ming can give suggestions and opinions after he arranges it, but it is better to let him do the arranging process by himself.But the deeper reason was that he had already seen through the people who traveled with him, and he definitely couldn't count on any of them when arranging the itinerary.Shu Ming couldn't understand Xu Chengan's special hobbies, but it's nice to have a friend with such hobbies.

After two days, Xu Chengan arranged the itinerary.In addition to them, Lu Yu and her boyfriend went this time - they only established a relationship last month, and the other party is a freshman student who has already confirmed that he will take over the position of the volunteer department head of the student union, but this depends on His ability, not the personal relationship with the backbone of the current student union.

Our departments are different, and the arrangements for summer practice are also different. After discussing with each other, we set a schedule for mid-to-late July. The entire itinerary includes eight days of round trips.Because it is far away, everyone decided to fly back and forth from Shanghai.Summer vacation is the peak tourist season in Qinghai, so even if you buy tickets nearly a month in advance, the tickets are not very cheap, and everyone understands this.Because the several scenic spots are far away from each other when going to Qinghai Lake, Xu Chengan decided to charter a car locally after comparing several transportation methods.He contacted a driver who chartered a car, agreed on a rough itinerary with him, and then booked a hotel.However, all the hotels booked were relatively small hotels. After all, there were not many large hotels on the Qinghai Lake side, and some of them were booked by travel agencies.

After the itinerary was decided, Shu Ming began to look forward to it.Qinghai is very different from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas where he has been staying, no, it should be said that there is a huge difference, whether it is climate, terrain, or culture and customs.After traveling with Xu Chengan twice, Shu Ming became interested in traveling as well.However, he was not sure whether the reason why he was willing to travel was because of Xu Chengan's existence; Xu Chengan was too thoughtful, he arranged everything properly, without Xu Chengan, Shu Ming might not have the idea of ​​traveling, after all He himself is too lazy to make those detailed plans, even if he wants to travel, he will definitely only report to a tour group to save trouble.

After finishing the final exam in early July, Shu Ming started summer practice.The practice of their Japanese department is very simple, that is, to listen to some lectures, complete some materials and oral translation exercises, read two Japanese books, write the main content and post-reading impressions; and then go to some large-scale activities as volunteers.Volunteer activities are the best, because there are not many things to do, the activities are more interesting, and there are money to be taken, which is very cost-effective.Xu Chengan's practice is much more perverted. They can rest after the exam in July, but they will organize a field trip to other places in August.Shu Ming used to think that their summer practice of studying civil engineering was to move bricks, so he was too naive, wasn't he... But judging from their investigation, it might be better to move bricks.

Soon to the agreed late July.Instead of creating a new WeChat group, they pulled the junior into the original "traveling the world in style" group.The younger brother is very good, and he will give out a red envelope to honor his seniors when he joins the group.The rest of the people in the group who don't go are envious, jealous and hateful, Xu Chengan is going to organize people to go out to hang out again, we either have something to do or no money, it's fine if we can't go, these few haven't created a new group, is this out of intention to show off ?Everyone expresses a mouthful of old blood, and must firmly block the group at that time!

A few days before departure, Xu Chengan instructed those who went with him to bring thick coats and sunscreen products.The only sunscreen in Shu Ming’s concept was sunscreen, but after talking to his mother, his mother quickly sent him sunscreen, sunscreen, and medical sunburn ointment, along with facial cleanser and toner, and asked Shu Ming to go Buy a hat.Shu Ming felt a little embarrassed. He always thought that skin toner and base cream were only things for girls. No, he hadn't distinguished these things before, but he still took all the things sent by Shu's mother. As for the hat, he I didn't know what type to buy, so I didn't buy it at all, and I'll talk about it when I go to the local area.

On the early morning of July [-], they rushed to the airport to wait for the plane.

After being promoted to the third year, Shu Ming went to the student union to help less. After all, the people in this class have gradually retired, and they don't work much by themselves, so naturally they don't often ask Shu Ming for help.This was the first time Shu Ming met Lu Yu's boyfriend.The junior is Xue Yan, he is quite tall, and his facial features are not outstanding, but the combination is quite pleasing to the eye.He is well-groomed, and speaks unhurriedly, as if everything is said after careful consideration.In short, he gives people a feeling of trustworthiness, which may determine that he is suitable to be a volunteer.Lu Yu's personality is very cheerful and even forthright, and sometimes very rowdy, which can be called a woman man.Shu Ming originally thought that Lu Yu's boyfriend should be as rowdy as her, and seeing Xue Yan as a calm person, his girlfriend should also be gentle and pleasant, so Shu Ming was a little surprised by the combination of the two of them. I thought the two people's personalities might not match well, but it's really amazing to see the tacit understanding and intimacy between the two when they get along.They've only been talking for less than three months, right?

Xu Chengan was also surprised by this couple: "You two, a perch, a snow geese, the one flying in the sky and the one swimming in the water, how did you hook up together..."

"Go, go, a dog can't spit out ivory." Lu Yu rolled his eyes.

"You expect single dogs to have ivory?" Xu Chengan didn't care.

Lu Yu no longer paid any attention to him, and shared an orange with Xue Yan.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow this level!"

Xu Chengan shamelessly put his head on Shu Ming's shoulder to watch Shu Ming play with his mobile phone, and Shu Ming passed the level in a short while.

"What?" He put away his phone, turned his head and asked Xu Chengan, the tip of his nose brushed against Xu Chengan's cheek, startled him, and leaned back suddenly.Xu Chengan was also taken aback, Shu Ming's sudden leaning back made his center of gravity unstable, and almost threw his whole body on Shu Ming.Xu Chengan hurriedly sat down, and after the two kept a safe distance, Xu Chengan said: "The two of them show off their love so much that my teeth ache, why don't we show off too?"

"Neither of us are in love, show off?" Shu Ming said angrily, this is a public place, why would a straight man cooperate with another straight man to sell rot?And the game just now was dead!

Xu Chengan smiled: "It makes sense." Then he peeled off a lollipop and stuffed it into Shu Ming's mouth.Shu Ming was stuffed with a lollipop out of nowhere, and his mouth was blocked when he wanted to complain, really depressed.Xu Chengan also peeled off the lollipop for himself, and said vaguely with the candy in his mouth: "It tastes good... well, it's a little sour." After a while, he asked Shu Ming again: "What flavor do you have?"

"Sweet." Shu Ming said, isn't it the candy you peeled?

"My lemon tastes a bit sour, how about we exchange it?" Xu Chengan stared at Shu Ming's mouth with malicious intentions.

"No." Shu Ming refused very simply, "I have eaten."

"Tut tsk, what's the matter, you despise me?"

"Yes." Shu Ming replied bluntly, making Xu Chengan speechless.But soon Xu Chengan approached Shu Ming unwillingly: "Change, let's change."

Shu Ming still refused.At this time, Xu Chengan saw two girls diagonally opposite them looking at them from time to time, laughing and whispering.

Xu Chengan purposely leaned into Shu Ming's ear and said, "There are two girls who have been watching us, probably rotten girls."

"Where are there so many rotten girls?" Shu Ming frowned.But in the next second, I felt that what I said was a slap in the face: my cousin is a rotten girl, Chen Xinran, a high school classmate who shares the same university with him, and her girlfriends are rotten girls, at least eight out of ten girls in the animation club One is rotten... It seems that there are more rotten girls around him.

"You don't know how scary rotten girls are! When I was working, sometimes I was on shift with another boy, and some girls asked us if we could stand together and let them take pictures... This is not the first time! So... trade sugar with me Bar!"

"...You just don't like to eat sour food, why talk so much."

"Hey, it's just arousing your sympathy. So let's exchange sugar!"

"No." Shu Ming doesn't like sour ones either.In the end Xu Chengan finished the candy by himself.Do you want to be so ruthless?Sure enough, it took a long time to get used to it.

After sitting on the plane for several hours, Shu Ming's legs were almost stiff, and he felt that the plane started to descend.He sat by the window and looked out. The plane shuttled through the thick and white clouds. Gradually, the clouds became thinner, and the land could already be seen below.Looking at it from this height, the land of Qinghai is covered with gullies—those are mountains.It seemed to be reddish-brown, deep as the wrinkles on the face of an old man who had suffered half his life and had been exposed to the wind and sun.

"It's about to land." Shu Ming said, Xu Chengan leaned over to look, and he could roughly see the buildings on the ground.

After getting off the plane and picking up the luggage, Shu Ming was in a daze, and he arrived in Qinghai.Hearing the noise in the airport, the locals speak with a little accent, and if you don't listen carefully, you don't know what they are talking about; some people are dressed in ethnic minorities.The skin color of the people here is a bit dark, and their facial features are different from tourists from the southeast like Shu Ming.Shu Ming took a deep breath, feeling that his oxygen intake was not enough.Fortunately, it didn't take long for him to adapt to the thin air on the plateau.

Before leaving the airport, everyone applied sunscreen again, and Lu Yu spread the silk scarf around his head and neck before going out to receive the torment of ultraviolet rays.If you don't do a good job of sun protection, you may not only be so dark that even your mother can't recognize you, you may have to go to the hospital for sunburn treatment.

The chartered driver they ordered picked them up and took them to the hotel they had booked.The master is a fat middle-aged man, surnamed Pan, let Shu Ming and others call him "Uncle Pan".The master is very talkative. On the way to the hotel, he started to introduce the customs and customs of Xining to them, and also introduced the delicious food.