I'm in Delingha tonight

The carriage gradually became quiet again, and the topic of suicide seemed too private to be mentioned no matter whether the answer was yes or no.

Chi Nian let go, staring at a small sachet hanging under the rearview mirror.It is very delicate, pink, with a few cherry blossoms embroidered on it with fine thread dyed gold powder, and "Omoru" written on the front.

Peace talisman?The color is soft enough.

"Is this an amulet?" Chi Nian touched it, trying to ignore the topic just now.

As soon as Xi Shan touched the tip of his nose, he was a little embarrassed to mention this thing: "Oh... this, a friend went to Kyoto on business at the beginning of the year, and went to the Golden Pavilion Temple to ask for it for me."

Chi Nian was very interested: "What do you want?"

Xi Shan: "Peach Blossoms."

Chi Nian: "..."

No matter how you look at it, you don't look like someone who will lack peach blossoms...

Chi Nian thought so, the two of them didn't get to know each other well, so it's not good to speak rashly, don't turn your head and pretend to be looking at the scenery.

He didn't speak, and Xi Shan, who had been working hard to liven up the atmosphere, couldn't make jokes about the problems involving himself, and the two of them almost fell to the freezing point of embarrassment for a while.

Xi Shan cleared his throat, turned on the car speaker and started playing a light rock song.

A popular song recently, the brisk and romantic melody is very suitable as the background music for chasing the sunset at dusk at high altitude.In the prelude to the electric guitar, Xi Shan added 300 taels of silver here: "Sad friends, I always like to make these inexplicable things, but it's not good to throw them away if I want to bring them back from a long distance."

Chi Nian didn't expect him to continue this topic, so he laughed: "Oh, that's it."

"Just put it in the car." After Xi Shan finished speaking, he nodded himself.

The way he was eager to explain clearly was more real than the nasty words just now, Chi Nian found it interesting: "So people begged you for peach blossoms because you have never had a girlfriend?"

"What kind of girlfriend..."

"You're very handsome. It's strange to be single." Chi Nian always spoke his mind very logically, and didn't notice that the tips of the other's ears were red under the broken hair.

The chorus is a little louder.

Xi Shan refused in a low voice: "No."

Chi Nian felt a little cramped, and imitated Xi Shan's accent to deliberately tease: "Yes."

His voice was already soft, but now it was like acting like a baby.The corners of Xi Shan's eyes under the sunglasses were slender and long, as if he didn't mind, but he stretched out his hand and twisted Chi Nian's face: "Don't learn from me."

This action broke away with one blow, and Xi Shan returned to the state of serious driving in the next second. The GPS showed that the salt lake was less than five kilometers away. Xi Shan turned the steering wheel and turned into the vast Gobi Desert again from the gap in the national highway without guardrails.

Only Chi Nian was left, blushing and pouted, insisting on pretending nothing happened.

A song reached its climax, like the music of a disco at the end of the century, making people unable to resist shaking their bodies to the rhythm even while sitting.Chi Nian nodded slightly, completely recovering from the despair of being trapped in the Gobi Desert an hour ago, perhaps because of the gag with Xi Shan just now, he regained his long-lost vitality.

It's been a long time since I had contact with my peers, and only after breaking up did I realize that in that relationship, the only person he could see and hear every day was his boyfriend. His social circle was extremely narrow, and he didn't even make many new friends during college.

However, the friends in his original social circle and junior high school classmates were either too involved in their studies, or they went abroad directly to be chic, and the time to get together was limited, and they could not see them a few times a year.

Speaking of which, how old is Xi Shan?

He looks a little more mature than him but he doesn't go anywhere in the society, his eyes are clean, but he doesn't look like a student who has never seen the world, so maybe 24?

But just working for two years, can I have time to play...

When secretly guessing Xi Shan's age, the scenery outside the car window became more and more open.

The contrast between the yellow sand and the blue sky, the Yardang landform that has been blown by the wind for thousands of years, the slope of the hillside, and the pond, I watched it for several days from the excitement at the beginning to the aesthetic fatigue.He was bored, and suddenly he was attracted by a bulge of water on the horizon. He couldn't help but sit up straight, and slightly opened his mouth and let out an "ah".

"Did you see it?" Xi Shan also began to jump for joy, "It's that lake."

Days of color.

It looks like it is about to fly to the white clouds.

That's a lake!

The water image swells, and the farther away it is, the higher it is. The pink sunset at dusk cannot reflect into the lake.Not long after the off-road vehicle drove off the national highway, Chi Nian opened the window and smelled a damp and salty smell first.

The night on the plateau is approaching, and there is a chill in the wind, but this salty smell is very similar to the sea, and the short blow to the face makes people forget that they are in a place with thin oxygen.Chi Nian looked at the rearview mirror, the two ruts where the car tires rolled were illuminated by the afterglow with full layers of light and darkness, and a light blue light was separated from the shadows.

The salt lake is also light blue, like a lost gem inlaid in the desolate and water-scarce Gobi.

When the off-road vehicle parked by the lake and looked at it again, the lake no longer appeared above the horizon, and the setting sun turned it into a mirror, and the clouds in the sky, the dimmed stars and the black ridges all became reflections in the mirror.

After unlocking the lock, Chi Nian couldn't wait to open the door and jump down.

After a few trots, the ground he stepped on was different from sand and gravel. He looked down, and said "wow" in surprise, and looked back at Xi Shan: "Is it all salt? White!"

Because of the wind, he couldn't help but raise his voice, and Xi Shan replied loudly: "Right! I don't know—"

Chi Nian stepped on it twice, then squatted down to touch it.

The grains were thick, and the sharp curvature of the edge nearly cut his finger.Chi Nian touched the white particles left by his fingertips, and the best way to tell if it was salt was to taste it...

But as soon as he raised his hand, it stopped in place.

How silly.

Chi Nian thought about it, and suddenly hugged his ankle and laughed in his knee.

Xi Shan bowed his waist and found a large black camera bag from the back seat. He carried a plastic bag in his other hand and put it on a rock beside him. He held another black box under his arm.

Compared with the camera bag that can be seen, Chi Nian is more interested in the other two things, pointing: "What is this?"

"Drones." Xi Shan opened the box and showed him.

"For aerial photography?" After getting an affirmative answer, Chi Nian touched the plastic bag and pinched something soft, "What about this? Is it for food?"

Xi Shan let him drive by himself.

Inside the plastic bag are naans wrapped in smaller food bags, piled up one by one, and the white skin occasionally shows a little golden brown and crispy.Normally, Chi Nian would not eat this kind of biscuit, let alone this one had been cooled, but he was so hungry that his own compressed biscuits were even harder to swallow.

Chi Nian raised his head and looked at Xi Shan with the bag on both sides of his hands, with an expression like a puppy begging for snacks: "Can I eat?"

"Eat." Xi Shan squatted down and fiddled with the drone, "There is roast lamb in it, and the taste may be worse when it is cold than when it was just cooked, just get used to it."

Chi Nian couldn't control it and swallowed.

The word "roast lamb" made him salivate irresistibly, his sense of taste awakened by itself, and he tasted a unique burnt aroma from the depths of his consciousness——

Sprinkled with cumin and paprika!Crisp and tough!Bite down and the fat will explode in your mouth!

And it's meat!

Because most of his savings went to buy a broken car, he has not eaten meat for several days.

Chi Nian picked a moderately sized one, opened the food bag and couldn't wait to take a bite.He also tried his best to restrain himself from eating too exaggeratedly like a starved ghost reincarnated. With Xi Shan's warning, he didn't expect too much from the "cooled" roast lamb, but he was almost moved to tears after one bite. .

The spicy and fragrant taste, mixed with the soft naan, still has the refreshment in memory when you bite into the burnt part.

The sky is changing gradually from pink to blue, the setting sun is about to sink into the col at the end of the salt lake, and the thick clouds are flowing slowly.The breath of the wind, the salty taste of the water, and the salt mine ground makes a "creaking" sound with some water stains under your feet.

He just stood there in the setting sun, and took another bite of the grilled mutton naan.

Ah... so cool...

Chi Nian sighed, and quickly ate a whole naan with mineral water, regardless of whether it was hot or cold.Xi Shan was installing the drone, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Chi Nian eating happily, and said, "Is that enough? If it's not enough, eat more."

"Hey, don't you want to eat?" Chi Nian looked at him.

Xi Shan shook his head: "Don't worry about me, just eat and it's over."

Chi Nian was suddenly embarrassed: "Not good... You bought it... By the way, where did you buy it? Is it expensive?"

Xi Shan asked him back: "If it's expensive, are you going to give me money?"

Chi Nian: "Huh?"

"I did it." Xi Shan solemnly began to count with his fingers, "I went to Golmud yesterday and bought a sheep and killed it. In the middle of the night, I cut the lamb, skewered it, burned charcoal, and baked pancakes. I didn’t go to sleep until after three o’clock at night.”

"..."

"So if you don't have enough to eat, you are sorry for my efforts."

Chi Nian: "No, you are lying to me, there is no such thing."

"Really? Am I lying to you?"

Xi Shan didn't admit it, but his tense expression suddenly collapsed. The corners of his mouth crooked into a smile, his sunglasses hung on his chest, he tore off his collar a little to expose his collarbone, and installed the drone's lens and SD card together.

The joystick controls the drone to rise and hang in mid-air. Chi Nian leaned over to look at it for a while, but still didn't get entangled in the origin of the mutton, and asked him: "Seriously, where did you get the naan?"

"There is a shop opened by a friend. I will need dry food for at least two days when I enter the no-man's land to take pictures from today. I have already greeted him-but there are only a few roast lambs, and they will be gone if I eat them all." ah."

Chi Nian got the exact answer, nodded, and looked at the small screen of the drone console.

When the water and the sky appeared without exaggeration, Chi Nian truly felt that nature is indeed born with magical skills and cannot be influenced by humans.

He looked into the distance again.

The light blue salt lake becomes a vast mirror, the light of the clouds, the light of the sun, and the folds illuminated on the ridge are all temporarily sealed in another way.The salt mine beach is a white line that draws the real and illusory borders of the Chu River and the Han Dynasty. The mountains support the sky heavily, and the whistling sound from the ancient prehistoric era is transmitted to thousands of years later through occasional tremors.

The surface of the water flickered from time to time, and the golden and silver lights seemed to fall into the lake like stars.Ripples sway, cutting clouds and setting sun into meandering waves.

Chi Nian raised his head, and in the blue sky in the east, a first quarter moon was hanging on the top of the mountain.