There weren't many people on the bus. The ticket collector was a burly woman who was cursing and complaining that she wasn't making any money on this trip.
It's impossible not to make money!
It's just that I earn less.
If it weren't profitable, this privately operated bus company would have shut down long ago.
The mountain road is rugged and difficult to travel.
The bus was also moving very slowly.
The bus took more than two hours to travel, and it wasn't until it was completely dark that it finally stopped in a village.
This village is called Panshang Village.
Panshang Village was the bus's final stop, but it was the starting point for heading to Paishitou Village. After the three of them got off the bus, Bai Yejin and Zhou Xuelan stared wide-eyed at Lin Yifeng.
Because Lin Yifeng told them that they still had five kilometers of mountain road to walk.
"Shall we leave now?"
It was dark, but the moonlight was bright enough that Lin Yifeng's face could be clearly seen even without turning on the lights.
Zhou Xuelan asked Lin Yifeng timidly. Even for a fiery and energetic girl like her, the thought of carrying a urea bag and walking five kilometers of mountain road in complete darkness made her feel scared!
"This is a rural area; there are no guesthouses here."
Lin Yifeng didn't care: "If you don't want to set off tonight, then the two of you will have to sleep on the streets with me."
“Although it’s June now, it’s very cold in the mountains. I suggest that you two sleep on my left and right sides, one on my left and one on my right, so that we can keep warm together and not freeze to death.”
"screw you!"
Bai Yejin blushed and pushed Lin Yifeng's arm away. She thought of the time when the two of them slept in the same bed a while ago. Although they did not have a physical relationship, how could they sleep without touching each other?
Zhou Xuelan rolled her eyes.
She sensed that Lin Yifeng had become somewhat unrestrained after graduation.
How dare they say such things in front of Bai Yejin?
Sleeping is impossible.
Not to mention the discomfort of sleeping on the streets, the temperature in the mountains alone could make a person sick from the cold in the middle of the night.
Lin Yifeng took out a flashlight he had prepared beforehand from his bag and handed it to Bai Yejin and Zhou Xuelan. The three of them packed their luggage and, encouraging each other, set off on the road to the stone-picking area.
The mountain road was rugged and difficult to travel.
The best way to travel on this kind of road is to get a mountain bike, put on thicker tires, and travel through the mud.
Alternatively, you could get a diesel tricycle, which would be slower, and that would also work.
But right now, the three of them have neither mountain bikes nor diesel tricycles, so they can only carry urea bags and walk to Paishitou Village.
If girls in later generations saw that Lin Yifeng was in such a condition, and asked him to carry a bag of urea for five kilometers along a mountain path, they would probably have given up long ago.
But this was in the 1990s.
This was an era when women held up half the sky.
Both Zhou Xuelan and Bai Yejin followed Lin Yifeng silently, walking step by step towards the stone.
Five kilometers—even someone who doesn't exercise much in later generations could walk that distance in over an hour on flat ground.
But this was a mountain road, and the group was carrying large and small bags.
Lin Yifeng, Bai Yejin, and Zhou Xuelan walked for nearly four hours, stopping frequently, before finally arriving at the entrance of Paishitou Village.
"Phew~~"
"We've finally arrived!"
"Oh my god, I'm exhausted!"
Upon hearing Lin Yifeng mention the village entrance, Zhou Xuelan plopped down on the ground without any regard for her image, panting as she spoke.
This energetic and fiery girl actually said she was tired.
It is clear that Paishitou Village, deep in the mountains, is really difficult to reach.
"I'm so tired."
"I feel like I have blisters on my feet!"
Bai Yejin rubbed her ankle. The road to Paishi Village was really difficult to travel. If it weren't for Lin Yifeng, she probably would never have come to Paishi Village in her life.
"Be content. This road may be terrible, but at least it's still a road, a road made by people walking on it."
"There are still some villages deep in the mountains, where there isn't even a path for people to walk on."
"The mountain path was full of weeds and rocks; that kind of path was truly difficult to walk on."
The road to the rocks was in terrible condition, but at least it was still a road.
There are other villages in the mountains, but they don't even have roads.
"Is there an even more difficult road ahead?"
"Are there even harder villages to access?"
Bai Yejin and Zhou Xuelan were shocked, while Lin Yifeng chuckled: "Moreover, we are in Zhongyuan Province. Although we are shooting stones in the mountains, they are still mountains in Zhongyuan Province, so the situation is relatively better."
"If you go to Sichuan and enter places like the Liangshan Mountains, you'll know what it means to be difficult to travel."
"The mountains over there are real mountains, mountains that sever people's hopes."
"There are no roads in the mountains over there, only a wooden ladder. If you want to enter the village or leave the mountains, you have to climb the wooden ladder like rock climbing."
"What if you accidentally lose your grip on the wooden ladder..."
Lin Yifeng pointed to the ground: "It's a bottomless abyss. If you fall in, not even your screams will reach you!"
Although both are located in the mountains, the mountains where the stone was shot are much stronger than those in Sichuan.
At least they had a path, and the mountain peaks weren't very steep, so there were very few sections that required rock climbing to get through.
But what about Sichuan...?
That's a mountain that's truly impossible to cross without rock climbing.
"and..."
Lin Yifeng looked at the quiet and dim Paishi Village not far away.
He said in a low voice, "For many people, going into the mountains is easy."
"But if we want to get out of the mountains..."
"Disaster!"
"It's just too difficult!"
Yes, it is very difficult to leave the mountains. The mountains not only isolate people from each other, but also sever hope.
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