It was a good weather on August 4th. When I woke up in the morning, it was sunny outside. Everyone had breakfast, got in the bus and set off from home at 7:30, and headed straight to the gate of the west slope of Changbai Mountain.

It is about 30 kilometers from Donggang to Xipo Mountain Gate. The asphalt road just built last year is effortless to run, and it takes half an hour to reach the outside of the mountain gate.

Xipo Mountain Gate was built in 1998 by Hanwen Group. It adopts the style of a traditional Manchu horse-framed house. Some people say it looks like the mountain character in pictograms.

There are three characters on the top of the mountain gate. It is said that the chief designer wrote it himself.

"Come on, while the sun is not too strong now, let's take a photo here and leave a souvenir to prove that we have been to Changbai Mountain."

As soon as he got off the car, Jiang Yanzhe invited everyone to gather and take photos in front of the mountain gate.

As Chinese people, they have always been like this. They get in the car and sleep, get out of the car and pee, take pictures at the scenic spot, and don’t know anything when they go home.

So on the steps outside the mountain gate, they stood a few rows. The old couple of Han family led the children in front, Jiang Hanjun and others stood in the second row, and the young man stood in the third row.

This time I brought the driver, Jiang Yanzhe adjusted the focal length and gave it to the driver for how to use it. Then the driver took several photos in succession, and the last two long-range photos took the entire mountain gate into the whole mountain gate.

After taking the photo, Zhou Tiantian arranged for the elderly and children to go to the bathroom, and she and Jiang Yanzhe went to find the person in charge of the mountain gate.

The other party had already received a call from the leader, so he was very polite when he saw Zhou Tiantian and his wife, saying that the reception vehicle had been arranged and according to the number of people, he gave Zhou Tiantian a stack of different tickets.

"This is what the leader means. Our county has a certain quota of reception tickets every year.

The leader said? Mr. Zhou made great contributions to the development of the local economy? You come with your family and you can’t let you pay the expenses.” The person in charge said politely.

"The environmentally friendly car going up the mountain is ready? There will be a dedicated staff to lead it? I wish Mr. Zhou a happy time with his family."

Well, Zhou Tiantian was stunned now? She really didn't plan to take advantage of this.

But she has already taken out all the tickets, can she refuse? Should she keep them? What’s the matter of thousands of dollars? Let’s talk about it later.

"Then thank you all the leaders, thank you very much." Zhou Tiantian received the ticket.

There were special staff accompanying him out there, and everyone was gathered in the lobby, so they checked their tickets and entered the scenic area.

Are green and environmentally friendly buses used in the scenic area? Foreign vehicles are not allowed to enter? The bus has been approved to carry 42 people, and Zhou Tiantian and the others are 40, which is just enough to take a seat.

Under the guidance of the staff, everyone got on a bus parked at the back. The old man and the child were sitting in the middle seat? The young man sat in the side seat in the front.

At the prompt from the staff, they all wore seat belts? Then a tour guide was also equipped with a tour guide.

When the car started, the tour guide began to explain. From the history of the formation of Changbai Mountain, to the geological landforms, to vegetation and climate? The tour guide explained it in an orderly manner. It has made people gain a lot of knowledge.

"Don't say it, we have grown up at the foot of Changbai Mountain since we were young, but we have never had such a comprehensive understanding of Changbai Mountain.

How good are you listening to others' explanations? Come out to have a lot of experience." Zhou An and Han Caiying sat together, and the couple whispered.

"This is just to benefit from your daughter, otherwise you would be willing to spend 185 yuan to buy a ticket to climb the mountain? If our daughter had not been capable and capable, we would not have thought about it in this life."

Han Caiying looked at the tickets in her hand and found that there was no price on them, but she saw someone buying tickets just now, and each ticket was 185.

Their family is about forty people, how much does it cost? Will it be better for ordinary people to bear it?

"That's right, isn't it a blessing that you gave birth to three daughters for me? If you gave birth to three sons, what would we do?" Zhou An and Mei said with a smile and satisfaction.

"Wife, thank you for your hard work over the years. We will have nothing to do in the future. I don't plan to do it anymore.

Anyway, we have money, so we should eat and drink in the future. When we have time, we will go out for a walk.

You didn’t enjoy much happiness with me in the first half of your life. From now on, we won’t worry about anything. Let’s just enjoy my old age.”

Zhou Anhe is 60 years old this year. Although he is in good health, he is weak after all. He has put in great strength when he was young, and he still can't work hard now.

The places I bought in the past few years have been dealt with today. In recent years, as the forest logging area has shrunk, the nearby ginseng land has become less and less, and it is becoming more and more difficult to match.

Many people went to Dunhua, Huadian, and some even went to Heilongjiang to plant ginseng.

Zhou Anhe didn't want to travel so far, so he reduced the area of ​​ginseng planting. He planted at most 180 feet a year, and planted some fine ginseng. He did not ask for quantity, and it was too exhausting to find quality.

Of course, Zhou Anhe actually made a lot of money over the years. For several years, the Zhou family has raised large ginseng. The annual ginseng can be sold for fifty or sixty or seventy or eight hundred thousand a year.

In addition to ordinary ginseng, the income is quite large every year. Even if Zhou An and his wife do nothing now, it is enough to support their elderly care.

From entering the mountain gate to the main peak, it is only about twenty kilometers, but the altitude difference between these twenty kilometers of roads is 1,560 meters.

The drastic changes in altitude will naturally bring different landscape effects. This is what people often say, "A mountain has four seasons, ten miles of different skys."

From the coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest belt at the foot of the mountain, it goes to the coniferous forest belt, then the mountain birch forest belt, and finally the alpine tundra belt.

The four landscape belts have their own styles. Zhou Tiantian and the others are all natives. I don’t think it’s true that the two landscape belts below are common.

However, when the coniferous forest transitions to the mountain birch forest, some strange scenes appear. Pine trees and mountain birch trees grow in conjunction, and most of them are pine trees and mountain birch trees grow together and are entangled.

The pine trees are tall and well-behaved, and the birch trees are swaying and graceful, which makes it a bit like a couple tree.

Sure enough, the previous tour guide explained that this was called Songhualian.

The main reason is that Changbai Mountain has high altitude and strong winds. The root systems of these two plants are different in depth and cannot survive if they grow alone. They can only snuggle together like this, which is also the result of natural selection.

After passing Songhualian, you can feel the sharp rise in the altitude. It is very difficult for the car to go uphill. The road uphill has also become a zigzag shape, and there are many turns and it is very urgent.

These drivers who drive environmentally friendly cars are familiar with the terrain and have very good driving skills. They don’t seem to slow down any further when driving up. However, the people in the side seat in the front were injured and almost flew out by the car.

At this time, everyone finally understood why when they got on the bus, they had to arrange for young people to sit in front of them and had to wear seat belts.

"Good guy, it's a good thing I'm taking a car in the scenic area. If we drive up by ourselves, just these turns will make us confused."
Chapter completed!