The night sky is very clear tonight, and you can see the stars scattered all over the mountainside.
At the table outside the convenience store, Yang Fan put down his backpack, took out his coat from it and handed it to the Liu sisters.
Climbing mountains makes you sweat, but when you take a break, the night breeze is a bit cool, which can help you stop sweating quickly.
Sweating in the north does not feel as sticky as in the south. It makes the body feel relaxed and not uncomfortable at all.
If you were in a mountain city and sweated so much without taking a shower, anyone would feel uncomfortable all over.
"Put it on first and then eat." Yang Fan also put on his coat, although the sweat on his body had not yet evaporated.
When it is steamed dry, it will feel frozen.
While putting on her coat, Liu Qianqian said to Yang Fan, "Yang Fan, look at her boyfriend."
Yang Fan looked at the couple at the next table.
The girl's legs are placed on the boy's legs, and the boy is massaging the girl's calves carefully.
"No need to feel sorry for him." Yang Fan retracted his gaze, picked up a slice of watermelon cut by the proprietress, and handed it to Liu Yueyue who had put on her coat first.
Liu Yueyue happily took the watermelon.
The couple next to them grinned.
But when he saw Yang Fan also gave Liu Qianqian a slice of watermelon and tucked the messy hair off her face behind her ears, he couldn't laugh anymore.
Why did I think before that the beautiful girl with a gentle voice was a couple with this guy
Now, I feel that this rather domineering beauty and this man are a couple.
It really feels unreliable.
"Do you have enough watermelon?" Yang Fan asked the couple at the next table: "If not, you can share this plate with us. They can't eat too much, otherwise they won't want to walk."
"No, no, we've eaten enough just now, thank you." The girl quickly declined Yang Fan's kindness.
Yang Fan smiled and took the watermelon slice handed to him by Liu Yueyue.
It has a cool taste when you put it in your mouth. The sweetness is not the sweetest watermelon Yang Fan has ever eaten, but it is not bad either.
Seedless watermelons are more expensive than those with seeds, but they are indeed more enjoyable to eat and you don’t have to spit out the seeds from time to time.
"It's really sweet and rare." Yang Fan was very satisfied.
After all, the conditions on the mountain are not as good as those at the foot of the mountain. Watermelons on the mountain are generally stored longer than those at the foot of the mountain, so their flavor is lost.
Liu Yueyue and Liu Qianqian didn't say anything, they just focused on eating.
They all ate in a very ladylike manner, and when there were outsiders around, they even tried to hold back the sound of "ah" from letting out the pleasure.
"Would you like to climb together later so we can look after each other?" Yang Fan asked the couple next to him before finishing a slice of watermelon.
"Okay, but I don't know if you are in a hurry. I don't have enough physical strength, so I may not be able to climb fast." The girl said happily.
The boy didn't say anything, it was all up to his girlfriend.
If it's a hill climb, the boy might have so much energy that he wants to do something else.
But this was climbing Mount Tai, and he and his girlfriend were no longer in love.
He wouldn't think that Yang Fan and the other three were light bulbs that would affect his interest in dragging his girlfriend into the woods halfway.
When they were in love, he often did this and his girlfriend enjoyed it.
"It doesn't matter. We're not climbing fast. It's mainly because I'm holding you back with a big bag on my back." Yang Fan said with a smile.
This is indeed the case. No matter how active and how much she runs around, Liu Qianqian knows her limits.
If they continued to climb, the one who would hold them back would definitely be Yang Fan, who was carrying the weight. He had already started using the trekking pole that was inserted into his backpack.
The Liu sisters don't need that, as they prefer to keep their hands empty and they only have one trekking pole.
The two and a half couples were talking under the starry sky. In the sky, an airplane was flashing and flying across the sky at a very slow speed.
It’s so late, I wonder where the people on the plane are going or how they feel.
Not long after, Yang Fan and his three companions left the shop with the couple and set out on the hiking trail again.
You can walk on the hiking trail without a flashlight, but the light is indeed dim in some places, which can provide a suitable place for couples who want to kiss or something.
However, when they reached halfway up the mountain, few couples would think of doing this anymore.
Mount Tai is not as steep as Mount Hua overall, but it is more difficult to climb than Mount Hua because it is longer and has more steps.
On the way, Yang Fan and his party listened to the talkative Li Ai talking about a lot of her own stories. This girl was very generous and had no ulterior motives.
She said she had two older sisters, and the fate of the eldest sister was regrettable.
Before her eldest sister married into her husband's family, her husband's mother had been paralyzed in bed for more than ten years.
"Lu Chao, after we get married, if I become paralyzed for a few years, you must quickly find a way to kill me quietly. Remember?" Li Ai said to her boyfriend as she was resting at the foot of the Eighteen Bends, preparing to climb up in one go.
"How dare I marry you if you are like this?" Lu Chao said weakly.
"Oh, so you don't want to marry me anymore?" Li Ai grabbed her boyfriend's face but not his ears.
Lu Chao turned his face away: "I can marry you, just don't ask me to kill you all the time."
"I mean if I were paralyzed." Li Ai slapped her boyfriend on the shoulder.
"Don't be such a pessimist. How can you curse yourself?" Lu Chao complained.
Li Ai stopped talking to her boyfriend and said to Liu Qianqian who was sitting next to her: "After my eldest sister got married, she and her husband took care of her mother-in-law for seven or eight years before her mother-in-law died."
Li Ai said this without any burden in her heart.
She has been to her eldest sister's house and has also met her eldest sister's mother-in-law who is paralyzed in bed.
It is said that there are no filial sons by the bedside of a long-term patient, but my eldest sister and her husband take good care of my mother-in-law.
On the contrary, my father-in-law rarely takes care of my mother-in-law's eating, drinking, defecation and urination, and he goes out to drink when he has nothing to do.
Li Ai felt that it was because her elder sister and her husband took such good care of her mother-in-law that her mother-in-law was paralyzed for so long before dying.
"The death of your eldest sister's mother-in-law is a relief for both parties," said Yang Fan.
Li Ai agreed with Yang Fan's words and nodded: "I think so too. If it were me, I would be so old, my son would have started a family, and I would be paralyzed in bed. Even if there is hope of recovery, I definitely don't want to live that long."
Yang Fan did not agree or disagree: "When that time comes, people may be afraid of death, want to live, and want to see miracles."
"What if there's no miracle? Wouldn't the whole family be devastated?" Li Ai said.
"As long as you're alive there's hope. Don't be so pessimistic and let yourself be influenced by your elder sister." Lu Chao pulled his girlfriend's sleeve.
Li Ai said gloomily, "How can it not have an impact? My eldest sister's mother-in-law died less than a year ago. I thought she was starting to have a good life, but her father-in-law had a cerebral hemorrhage and is paralyzed in bed. It's been two years now and he can't take care of himself."
Lu Chao already knew about this and was not too surprised.
Yang Fan and the Liu sisters are different. Sister Li Ai is really miserable, marrying into such a family.
The most important thing is that Li Ai's brother-in-law's family is an ordinary family. The son and daughter-in-law have to take care of the eating, drinking, defecating and urinating of the parents-in-law, but there are no servants to serve them.
If you were a wealthy family and paid to hire someone, it wouldn't be that bad.
After chatting for a while, the five of them stood up again and tried to climb up.
The road section before Zhongtianmen is mostly manageable for tourists, who can walk, stop, chat and laugh.
The road from Zhongtianmen to the waterfall viewing pavilion is relatively flat, and tourists can relax and relieve their physical strength during this period.
Starting from the waterfall viewing pavilion, the real test begins. A short section of mountain road has one turn after another, and it is all a mountain trail.
Climbing a short mountain road may only take 20 minutes, but you have to stop to rest, drink water and eat.
The most despairing section starts from the Eighteen Bends. People who have climbed Mount Tai have the most profound memories of this section, with endless steps and a road that seems to have no end. During the day, you can't see the top when you look up, and at night you wonder why you haven't reached the end yet.
The first half of the mountain road in Taishan is not too steep, and one can walk upright relying on one's strong physical strength.
Only after passing the dragon gate can a person's physical strength and will be reflected.
Li Ai sat down on the steps when he was only halfway up the Eighteen Bends, not wanting to go up any more.
Liu Qianqian hugged Yang Fan's legs and panted: "Yang Fan, why is this place steeper and more tiring than when we were kids? How long will it take? I can't stand it any longer."
In the dim light, Liu Yueyue's face was also rosy.
She was the most tired, so tired that she didn't want to speak.
Liu Qianqian is definitely not as tired as her sister, otherwise she wouldn't be nagging.
But her patience is not as strong as her sister's, and she acts like a spoiled brat at every turn.
Li Ai and Lu Chao sat on the other side of the hiking trail, looking at Yang Fan and the Liu sisters on this side.
Both of them are a bit confused.
Looking at the interaction between Yang Fan and Liu Yueyue, they think they are a couple.
But looking at the interaction between Liu Qianqian and Yang Fan, they felt that these two were a couple.
With their intelligence, it is hard for them to imagine that Yang Fan and the Liu sisters are in a relationship.
This unscientific.
"It's not that the Eighteen Bends are harder to climb now than before, it's that you were young and fearless back then. Now that you're older, the feeling is naturally different." Yang Fan also panted, sat down, and put his trekking pole aside.
He was the most tired, carrying such a big mountaineering bag, weighing twenty or thirty kilograms.
Normally it's no big deal to carry it for a while, but when carrying it up a mountain, especially a place like Mount Tai, now it's more difficult to carry it for a while than to carry 50 or 60 kilograms normally.
Liu Yueyue was considerate and took on her cell phone, camera and jacket to reduce Yang Fan's burden.
"I'm only seventeen years old." Liu Qianqian started pretending to be young again.
Liu Yueyue couldn't help but scolded, "Stop talking. It's fine if you're wasting your own energy, but you're also wasting Yang Fan's energy."
Liu Qianqian curled her lips and stopped talking.
After resting for a while, Yang Fan stood up and picked up his trekking pole: "Let's do it in one go. The more we rest, the less we want to move. Let's climb to Nantianmen first."
As he said this, he took the lead and climbed up.
Liu Yueyue and Liu Qianqian followed closely behind.
"Let's not go up yet." Li Ai was determined not to leave and stayed with her boyfriend.
"Yeah." Yang Fan just looked back, unwilling to wave his hand and waste energy, and continued to climb.
We just met by chance and walked together for a while.
We parted ways without leaving any contact information.
After Yang Fan and his group walked away, Lu Chao boldly guessed, "Ai Ai, do you think Yang Fan is dating these two sisters at the same time?"
Li Ai said weakly: "You wish for it. Do you have any idea about my second sister?"
Lu Chao waved his hands quickly: "No, your second sister is married, what can I think?"
Li Ai's eyebrows stood up: "You mean if my second sister hasn't gotten married yet, do you have any idea?"
Lu Chao said with a bitter face: "I didn't mean that."
Li Ai snorted coldly: "I am a woman. I would rather be single for my whole life than share a man with other women. Do you still think that the two sisters are willing to date Yang Fan at the same time?"
Lu Chao thought about it and nodded: "Yes, I'm not that generous. I would rather be single for the rest of my life than share a woman with others."
After saying that, he silently added in his heart, "The months when you were away, I accidentally went to the brothel but that doesn't count."
That's just human nature, not sharing the same woman with hundreds or thousands of men.
"But they all look like Yang Fan's girlfriends. What's going on?" Li Ai was puzzled.
After walking, stopping, taking photos and worshipping Buddha for four and a half hours, Yang Fan and his three companions finally reached the top of Mount Tai.
Head raised to the sky.
The three of them at this time were tired and sleepy.
Maybe because it is summer vacation, there are slightly more people on the top of the mountain than usual.
Yang Fan walked to the left side of the scenic area and looked for an open space to set up his tent.
The scenic area allows tourists to stay overnight on the mountain, not in hotels, but sleeping on the floor, and no one cares.
Although there are many tourists climbing the mountain at night looking forward to the sunrise, the top of the mountain is still quite vast, and the tourists are scattered, keeping their distance and resting in a corner.
Many people wrapped themselves in military coats rented on the mountain and fell asleep on the ground.
There were very few people setting up tents. Yang Fan didn’t see any. He didn’t even see anyone bringing their own sleeping bags.
They probably think that buying sleeping bags and tents and carrying them up the mountain is not only tiring, but the expense is also better spent on staying in a small hotel on the mountain.
Yang Fan could certainly afford to stay in a hotel on the top of the mountain, even the most expensive one, not to mention the Liu sisters.
But they chose not to do so.
Before coming, the two sisters had fantasized about sleeping outdoors, lying on the grass, and looking at the starry sky.
The weather is pretty good tonight, and the starry sky at the top of the mountain is clearer and cleaner than that seen from the mountainside.
Before setting off, Yang Fan learned about the weather here.
Tomorrow is a great day to watch the sunrise. The next few days will not be the best, and we may not even be able to see the beautiful sunrise because the sky will be gloomy.
So they stayed in Jeju for less than a day before rushing to Mount Tai.
"Yang Fan, it's cold!"
The Liu sisters glanced at the hotel opposite the top of the mountain, then looked away, shivering.
"It will be ready soon." Yang Fan fixed the tent, threw the sleeping bag in and spread it out.
The Liu sisters had already wrapped themselves in coats, but their coats were from the autumn series and were not very warm.
The temperature of around ten degrees on the mountain is equivalent to the normal winter temperature in the south.
The two sisters, who had stopped exercising, were now so cold that they hugged each other to keep warm.
"Okay, that's enough." After spreading out the sleeping bags, Yang Fan said to the Liu sisters who were standing outside the tent hugging each other tightly.
The two sisters let go, and Liu Qianqian took the lead. She took off her shoes outside the tent, then stepped into the tent and was the first to get into the sleeping bag.
Liu Qianqian was right to take the lead. At this time, Liu Yueyue, as an older sister, would definitely let her younger sister go in first.
If Liu Qianqian still tries to play the role of Kong Rong giving up his pear, she will definitely be slapped by her sister.
After her sister lay down, Liu Yueyue quickly got in as well.
At this time, it doesn’t matter if it’s uncomfortable to sleep with clothes on.
The longer you stay frozen, the more dangerous it is.
"Wow, it's so warm. Yang Fan, come in quickly. It's so comfortable." Inside the tent, Liu Qianqian urged Yang Fan.