With the Portuguese GPS, their next journey was very smooth. The only bumpy road was when the tire was punctured by an ice pick. Xiao Zhi took out professional tools from the car and replaced the spare tire in a short while.

The two drove on, and the temperature was getting lower and lower. Even when the sun was at its best at noon, the temperature was below zero.This low temperature is not because the altitude has risen again, but because they are getting closer to a large glacier.

Although it is very cold, it is not completely useless. The ground is very frozen, so you don’t have to worry about getting stuck in the car. There is ice in the potholes, which makes the ground very smooth. Their speed is faster than the two days when they just left Shuanghu. too much.

It’s just that it’s hard at night. Once there is no sunshine, it will quickly drop to minus [-] or [-] degrees. There is no way to stay in the car. They have to set up a four-season tent outside the car every night to resist the severe cold, and they stay in the tent all night. Light the stove.

Every day before going to bed, Xiao Zhi would boil a lot of hot water, then fill several hot water bottles and stuff them into his and Tashi's sleeping bags, but even so, he would still wake up from the cold at five or six o'clock the next day.

This morning, Tashi woke up earlier than Xiao Zhi. As soon as he woke up, his hands and feet felt cold, and he didn't want to be in the sleeping bag for a moment. body.

They didn't even dare to take off their jackets when they slept. Tashi gently hugged Xiao Zhi through his clothes and sleeping bag, and kissed him several times on his eyelashes, the tip of his nose, and his lips until Xiao Zhi couldn't bear it anymore. The corners of his mouth were turned up, and the corners of his eyes were full of laugh lines.

"You've woken up a long time ago, haven't you?" Tashi pointed Xiao Zhi's nose with his finger.

Xiao Zhi finally opened his eyes with a smile on his face. He had indeed woken up when Tashi slipped out of his sleeping bag, and kept his eyes open on purpose, waiting for Tashi's early morning wake-up service.

"Thirsty? Hungry?" Xiao Zhi asked, stretching out his arms from the sleeping bag to wrap his arms around him.

Tashi shook his head, put all his weight on Xiao Zhi's body, put his face against Xiao Zhi's chest, and said lazily: "I don't want to move, just wait a little longer."

He seldom stays in bed like this in this world, reminding Xiao Zhi of that little lazy cat in previous worlds, he couldn't help but smile, and patted him on the back like putting a child to sleep.

Tashi was relieved by his pat, rubbed his face up, his cold face touched the warm skin of Xiao Zhi's neck, and he snorted contentedly.

Xiao Zhi was a little embarrassed. Although he was not easy to get dirty in this dry and cold area, he was not Tashi's physique who didn't like to sweat. feel dirty.

Tashi's fair face was pressed against his dirty neck, Xiao Zhi disliked him very much, moved uncomfortably, and wanted to separate from him, but Tashi chased him up again, and stuck him again, muttering: "Don't Run, kiss." She also kissed him on the neck without hesitation.

Xiao Zhi smiled lowly and twisted his neck: "Dirty."

Tashi also laughed, and hugged him even tighter, "It's not dirty, it smells good, it doesn't have the smell of soap, it's all about you."

Is it all his taste?Does it smell like sweat?Xiao Zhi laughed so hard that his chest trembled, he brushed away Tashi's hair hanging down his cheeks, looked down and asked, "Why are you so clingy today?"

Tashi raised his head and looked back at him, as if a little embarrassed, he whispered, "Today is my birthday."

Xiao Zhi's heart suddenly warmed up, and tenderness rose inexplicably.

Tashi looked at Xiao Zhi and smiled embarrassedly.Tibetans generally don't celebrate their birthdays, and it was just because of Xiao Zhi that he suddenly had this small thought.

Tashi bit his lower lip, and continued: "I remember that when you celebrate your birthday in the Mainland, there will be gifts..." He looked at Xiao Zhi with anticipation in his eyes, but he tried his best to restrain himself, for fear that the poor conditions here would make people feel uncomfortable. Xiao Zhi was in a dilemma.

Seeing that Xiao Zhi didn't speak, but just looked at himself, he hurriedly said, "I'm just asking casually, I don't mean to want a gift."

Xiao Zhi looked into his dark eyes, and felt that even if Tashi wanted stars and moons, he had to find a way to get one from the system mall.

"What gift do you want?"

Tashi's eyes lit up, and he whispered, "Birthday cake."

Xiao Zhi was very surprised, he didn't expect it to be such a simple thing, "Why do you want a birthday cake?"

Tashi suppressed his joy and replied: "I have lived in the interior for several years, and I have seen others eat it. It seems delicious."

Xiao Zhi suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, and asked tentatively: "When you celebrated your birthday in the mainland, your biological father..."

Tashi lowered his eyes slightly, "I don't celebrate my birthday, he has another wife and children."

No wonder that little Tashi ran back to Tibet from the inland alone... Xiao Zhi felt a pain in his heart, although it was the suffering of the former Tashi, he still couldn't help feeling distressed.

He put his arms around Tashi's waist and hugged him up, and when their faces were touching, he kissed Tashi's cheek earnestly, and said softly, "I'll make you a cake."

He didn't have any flour or eggs at hand, and he couldn't make a cake out of thin air. Xiao Zhi directly used local materials, crushed the cream-flavored compressed biscuits in a packaging bag, mixed them with melted ghee and brewed milk powder, and put them in a bowl. Flatten the bottom, the tent is so cold, the ghee recondenses quickly, turn the semicircle upside down, and the cake embryo is ready.

Because when the bottom and the bowl were separated, part of it stuck to the bottom of the bowl, and a good semicircle became uneven.Xiao Zhi stared at it for two seconds, and decided to overcome his obsessive-compulsive disorder and make do with it. After all, time and ingredients are precious.

When the ghee was cooling, Xiao Zhi melted the Portuguese chocolate in a small pot, and then poured it on the cake base.The hot chocolate congealed almost immediately, and the expected smooth chocolate surface became a layer of thin, thick and irregular chocolate layers.

Xiao Zhi was very dissatisfied with this ugly cake, so he opened another can of yellow peaches, carved the yellow peaches into a heart shape with a Tibetan knife, wrapped them in chocolate, and gently put them on the ugly cake...

Hmm... still very dissatisfied...

"It's so beautiful!" Tashi exclaimed in surprise from the side, looking at Xiao Zhi with eyes full of hope, little twinkling stars almost appeared in his eyes: "Can I eat it?"

Xiao Zhi nodded with a smile, took Tashi's hand, and said softly, "Tashi, happy birthday, Tashi Dele." The little dissatisfaction caused by the unsuccessful cake just now, after seeing Zhaxi Xi smiled in surprise and then all dispersed.

Xiao Zhi used a Tibetan knife to divide the cake into four pieces, and each of them took a piece and tasted it first.The cake looked ugly, but fortunately it tasted good, Tashi seemed to really like it, he ate the first piece in twos and twos, and ate the remaining two pieces under his instigation.

After eating the last piece, Tashi even licked the biscuit crumbs in his palm, then regretted it, and said to Xiao Zhi: "You should stop me, you only ate a little of such a delicious thing."

Xiao Zhi wiped away the biscuit crumbs from the corner of his mouth with his thumb, put it to his lips to suck it away, and said with a smile: "I see that you like to eat it, and I am happier than myself."

Tashi could see that he was speaking the truth, and he was very sweet in his heart, and asked again: "Are the cakes you sell there as good as the ones you make?"

Xiao Zhi couldn't help laughing, "Where is this? When we get home, I'll make you a really delicious cake, okay?"

Tashi nodded vigorously, his emotions were very high, since Xiao Zhi promised to make him a cake today, he has been very happy.

The two ate some dried meat and tsampa in the tent, and put away the sleeping bags in the tent.The sun had already risen, and the outside should have warmed up visually, so the two opened the tent.

"Xiao Zhi!" Tashi was about to crawl out of the tent when he suddenly saw something and whispered in surprise.Xiao Zhi hurriedly leaned over to look outside, and was instantly stunned.

Standing on a hill not far away is a burly wild yak, but it is not the usual black, but has bright golden hair, with a bit of the majesty of a lion.But its horns and hooves are white, full of holy mystery.

"The golden beast, I thought it was a legend." Tashi murmured, completely fascinated by the golden yak.

Xiao Zhi was also very surprised. He also read about the golden yak in the books he bought in the system mall. It is said that there are only a few hundred of them in existence, and they only live in Qiangtang above 5000 meters. He did not expect to see them for real.

The golden yak seemed to have noticed them, looked at them twice, turned and left.Tashi was so excited that he almost wanted to chase him, but Xiao Zhi hurriedly pulled him back.

Liu Jingwen wrote in his notes that the three most terrifying animals in Qiangtang were wolves in packs, bears with their cubs, and wild yaks alone.Wild yaks will not attack easily unless they are frightened. Alone wild yaks are the most vigilant and the easiest to be frightened.

Xiao Zhi hugged Tashi's waist, afraid that he would jump out on impulse, and persuaded: "Let it go, it has its place, and we also have our destination."

Just now Tashi's head was hot, and he gave up chasing the cow when he was dragged by Xiao Zhi. He turned around and took Xiao Zhi's hand, almost dancing with excitement: "Do you know? Daughters are the most precious dowry. There has always been such a legend on the plateau that whoever can see the golden wild yak will have good luck and live a happy and safe life!"

Xiao Zhi kept nodding his head when he heard what he said, and said with a smile: "This legend must be true. Seeing the golden wild yak on your birthday must be more efficacious. We named Tashi really well, so we are really lucky. "

Tashi was so excited that his face was flushed, but after being teased by him, he calmed down a bit, and he was extremely embarrassed by his excitement just now, "It's not just me, you also saw it, and you will have good luck in your life."

Xiao Zhi hugged him and kissed him again and again, "You are my good luck."

After making out for a while, the two set out on the road again. The good omen of seeing the golden yak made them feel comfortable all the way. They didn't travel far, and they met a group of black wild yaks.

Because these wild yaks are in groups, there will be no phenomenon that a single one will be frightened and take the initiative to attack, so the two of them didn't take it seriously at first.Until the cows found their car and ran away one after another, two cows stood in place for a while, and then rushed towards them with their waists bowed and horns pouted.

At the moment it was Xiao Zhi who was driving, at first he thought it was their car that suddenly appeared and startled the herd, so he hurriedly braked and then backed up to show that he was not aggressive.In the end, the two cows chased after them, as if they were trying to make things up for them.

Wild yaks are much bigger than domestic yaks, and they can overturn a small pickup truck when they get really angry. The Portuguese people chatted before and said that one of their jeeps was smashed by wild yaks.Xiao Zhi didn't dare to be careless, so he turned around and drove for several kilometers before throwing the wild yak away.

"What's the situation? Why is he so aggressive?" It was the first time that Xiao Zhi was chased by two bulls and ran for his life.

Tashi also couldn't figure it out, "The two cows just now weren't the most aggressive cows, they looked like cows..."

The two looked at each other suspiciously for a while, Xiao Zhi suddenly remembered some stories he had seen on TV before, and suddenly had a guess: "Could it be that someone driving a jeep killed their cubs?"

Tashi suddenly realized, and then fell silent. After a long while, he said: "We Tibetans don't kill cubs." Even Tibetans in pastoral areas who live on cattle and sheep only slaughter old and sick cattle during the winter festival. Sheep, no one will kill their young.Especially in this uninhabited Great Qiangtang, people all acquiesce that this is the chassis of animals, and people are just passing by, and they will not kill easily.

Even Xiao Zhi didn't use a gun when he encountered wolves and wild yaks, and when he didn't threaten his life, he only chose to deter or flee.It's not that he has no ability or courage, but that he respects the life here and the true master of Qiang Tang.

Non-Tibetans who hunt and kill animals in no-man's land can only be—"poachers." The two said in unison.

As if to test their hypothesis, they saw a split head of a wild yak in a clearing the next day, judging from its size, it was still a calf, with dried skin and large bones next to it.Only the meat was taken, it seems that those poachers did not have enough food.

There was also an empty petrol can, a broken kerosene stove and a flat tire scattered around, all signs that the poachers were not doing well.

Xiao Zhi parked the car aside, the two got out of the car, and Tashi recited the sutras for the calf.

Xiao Zhi dug a large expanse of snow beside the tires, exposing the frozen ground under the snow, and a rut was clearly visible.

Thanks to the low temperature and heavy snow here, these traces were not blown away by the strong wind.Xiao Zhi followed the ruts and pointed into the distance: "They went in this direction, which happened to be the direction indicated on the map."

Tashi fixedly looked at the blue sky without a cloud in the distance, and silently recited Rinpoche.

They will come down to clear the snow after they start walking for a while, and make sure that the ruts of the poachers are still there.Later, I found out that the ruts were going in the direction on the map, so I stopped delaying and continued to move in the direction indicated by the map.

On the third day, they saw an off-road vehicle parked by the lake. Like them, it was also a Wrangler. The wheels were sunk deep in the mud and tilted badly. There was no one in the vehicle, and it had apparently been abandoned.

Xiao Zhi and Tashi got out of the car and walked over, but at the same time they found something was wrong, there was no one in the car, but there seemed to be something moving at the other end of the car.

Under the gaze of the two, a pair of small brown furry ears popped out of the front hood of the car first, and then another pair of bigger ears appeared.

Xiao Zhi's hair was going to stand on end, he was really afraid that something would happen, they actually ran into a female brown bear with cubs at such a close distance!

Brown bears are extremely powerful in combat, and a female brown bear with cubs is one of the most ferocious animals on land.They were so close in the two compartments, the female brown bear was obviously frightened, and the female brown bear, who was eager to protect her cubs, might launch an attack at any time.

Xiao Zhi protected Tashi behind his back, and slowly drew out the Tibetan knife, while applying to the system to use the grenade/bomb.The system was chattering again, because Tashi was still at the side, and he couldn't just take out the goods now.

Tashi also held the knife tightly, staring at the brown bear, and slowly retreated step by step with Xiao Zhi.

The female bear was also very anxious, with the lake behind it and the cart in front, if it wanted to move the ground, it would definitely meet Xiao Zhi and the others face to face, so the possibility of a fight between the two sides was almost [-]%.

Xiao Zhi began to sweat on his forehead, desperately urging the system to process his application in his mind.At this time, the female bear slowly appeared from behind the car, and she poked her head out to carefully observe Xiao Zhi and Tashi.The two bears on both sides looked at each other, evaluating each other's combat power and offensiveness, it was like a psychological game.

During this process, Xiao Zhi led Tashi to retreat slowly.

The female bear stared at them closely, and took two steps forward. He stopped, watched Xiao Zhi and Tashi slowly retreat more than ten meters away, then turned to look at the bear cub behind him, and suddenly sprinted to one side. , followed closely by the cubs.These two brown figures, who were a bit naive when they ran, disappeared behind the hill not far away.

Both Xiao Zhi and Tashi breathed a sigh of relief, it was hard to believe that they escaped so easily.

Xiao Zhi grinned: "Tashi, the good fortune of the golden yak has appeared."

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