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Chapter 444: New journey, overnight in the ancient city

After saying goodbye to the three girls, Qin Yuan set off directly to the next city. Before leaving the city, he bought some supplies as usual and carried them in the backpack of his bicycle.

He has had good food and shelter these days. It has been a long time since he experienced the feeling of camping, so he plans to stay outside today.

After leaving YC city, he turned on the action camera and started today's recording.

"Good morning everyone! It is now 8:30 in the morning. After resting for three nights in Yinchuan, it is time to continue setting off.

This time we are leaving Ningxia and entering Gansu.

In fact, at the beginning, I wanted to cross the desert directly from Yinchuan and then enter Wuwei, Gansu.

But later I went to the desert and found that it was impossible to ride in the desert. If you wanted to cross it, you had to cross it on foot.

But I had Erha with me, so after thinking about it, I decided to forget it and take the normal cycling route.

The cycling route this time was all the way to the west, and finally arrived at WLMQ. The total journey was about 2000 kilometers.

But it doesn’t matter, I can introduce it to you. Let’s introduce BY City first.

My current location is only 10 kilometers away from Yongtai Turtle City. I plan to find a place to camp in the ancient city tonight.

Many people wonder why this city is named after metal?

Then there are the Yellow River Stone Forest, Zhuanglang Rice Terraces, Kongtong Mountain, etc. There are so many places to visit here.

As Qin Yuan spoke, he played the music on his mobile phone, which was the song "The Ordinary Road". Qin Yuan was humming the song while riding fast.

I plan to spend 30 days to complete this route. I believe that by then I will be able to show you some customs and customs that you have not seen before.

You must know that Inner Mongolia and XJ are notoriously vast, and Gansu can be ranked in the top three, which shows how vast the territory is.

The mountains include Qilian Mountain, the water includes Crescent Moon Spring, the desert includes Mingsha Mountain, the grassland includes Gannan, Danxia includes Zhangye, and the Devil City includes Yadan.

Half an hour later, the sun was setting, and the dim yellow sunset illuminated the sky beautifully, and under such sunset.

So you can look forward to it. Well, without further ado, let’s get started! ",

Except for the sea, you can find almost all the natural landscapes you want to see in Gansu Province.

The distance from east to west is almost 1600 kilometers. The longest span is second only to Inner Mongolia, followed by XJ.

It's very interesting to say that BY city is named after "silver", but the largest reserves of resources here are copper.

In fact, if he exerted his full strength, he could achieve 70 kilometers per hour, but he was still lagging behind.

The minerals in BY City are mainly distributed at the north and south ends. The north mining belt mainly produces coal, and the south mining belt mainly produces copper, lead, and zinc.

And I am currently in Jingtai County, Baiyin, Gansu Province. Everyone should be very unfamiliar with this place.

However, because my cycling route cannot cover all of these attractions, I will only be able to visit some attractions near the cycling route.

The reason why I came here is because there is an attraction worth visiting nearby. The name of this attraction is 'Yongtai Turtle City'.

That sense of grandeur comes from the building itself, that is, the visual impact brought by its grandeur.

This is completely different from other places I have been to before. Only after entering Gansu did I truly experience the vastness of the Northwest.

Okay, without further ado, it will get dark after 6 o'clock, so I have to hurry up and get to the ancient city. "Qin Yuan looked at the camera and finished the introduction, then moved on.

"It's getting late now, it's time to find a place to camp. Along the way, we are either in the desert or on the Loess Plateau, which is very desolate.

But the ancient city wall he saw at this moment, in addition to the visual impact, was more of a sense of historical vicissitudes from the mottled years.

But even so, when the time came to 5 p.m., he had already ridden 230 kilometers and entered Gansu directly.

This is a feeling that I cannot experience at all in other provinces. Of course, this is not meant in a derogatory sense, but to say that Gansu is really special.

The faster the speed, the greater the bumps. He was afraid that Erha would not be able to bear it for a long time, so he deliberately controlled the riding speed.

It is called BY City because there was a silver factory here in the Ming Dynasty, a mine for refining silver.

Anyone who knows geography should know that the shape of Gansu's territory is the strangest in the country. It is like a bone, with two large ends and a long and narrow middle.

This kind of grandeur was completely different from the ancient buildings he had seen before. Most of the ancient buildings he had seen before had been renovated.

Qin Yuan saw a vast and lonely yellow rammed earth city wall. The wall was about 12 meters high and hundreds of meters across. It looked extremely spectacular.

Later, everyone got used to it and called this place Silver, which led to the misunderstanding that there was endless silver mined here.

Compared with the bustle of other attractions, this attraction seems unusually deserted, especially now that it is dark.

Today's weather is very good, so Qin Yuan rides very fast, with an average speed of 35 kilometers per hour.

Because the ancient city wall in front of you is very dilapidated, it seems that it has not been repaired, and reconstruction is even more impossible.

So my first stop when I entered Gansu from Ningxia was naturally Baiyin. However, I did not go to the city center, but to the subordinate Jingtai County.

If we really want to follow the relevant naming principles, then BY City should be called Brass City.

However, although the distance is a bit far, there are not many provinces it passes through. This time it is mainly Gansu and XJ.

Of course, I'm just kidding myself, so don't take it seriously. BY city is close to Ningxia, and the city center is only 100 kilometers away from Ningxia.

This city wall seems to have traveled through hundreds of years ago, and then stands in front of the world, with a full sense of time.

Some people may not understand the wording. Since it is called BY City, does it mean there are many silver mines?
In fact, it is not true. BY City has a relatively complete range of minerals. You can find gold, silver, copper, iron, coal, etc. here.

And it is precisely because of this extremely long east-west span that the diversity of Gansu's natural landscape is unmatched by other provinces.

There were only a few lights on in the city, and there weren't many sounds, which gave people an eerie feeling.

Looking at such a scene, the scene in "Westward Journey" appeared in his mind involuntarily.

Yes, this place gave him the feeling at this moment that it was the place where Zhizunbao lived when he was still a bandit in Journey to the West.

When he thought of Westward Journey, he couldn't help but picture the spider spirit, the white bone spirit, the old black mountain monster and other monsters in his mind. Suddenly, the ancient city in front of him looked even more terrifying in his eyes.

In fact, the movie Westward Journey was filmed at the Yinchuan Film and Television Base in a previous life.

And now that film and television base has become a very famous scenic spot.

However, because the world he lives in now does not yet have the movie Westward Journey, that scenic spot naturally does not exist.

Looking at the Turtle City in front of him, he felt that if he really wanted to film Journey to the West in the future, it would be a good choice to place the filming location here.

While thinking this, he pushed his bicycle into Turtle City. Although Turtle City is an attraction, it does not require tickets.

Because there hasn't been much development here, basically everything remains in its original appearance, and many, many houses are abandoned.

In fact, a few decades ago, this ancient city was home to more than 1000 households, with a population of several thousand, and there were many trees around it.

However, due to certain historical reasons, large-scale steelmaking was required, and steelmaking required a large amount of wood, so it was in the context of that era.

People cut down all the surrounding trees and even demolished the temples in the city. The consequences of this caused serious damage to the ecology.

The desertification was so serious that it was impossible to live in the back, so the residents inside had to relocate to other places.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons. Collective relocation also involves economic development and other factors, which cannot be generalized.

“This place is obviously a scenic spot, but it feels very desolate to me. As far as I know, there are only about 20 families living there.

This is the result of turning this place into a tourist attraction. A few years ago, there were only a few real residents here.

Later, some people came in to do business, so there were a few more people, but even so, this is the most deserted scenic spot I have ever been to.

But this gave me a completely different experience. I just like this kind of scenic spot with few people, so I can walk around freely.

There are actually B&Bs in the ancient city, but I looked online and found that the living conditions are not very good and there is no way to take a shower.

So I stopped joining in the fun and just found a remote corner to set up my tent. Anyway, I just wanted to sleep for one night, so it didn’t matter. "

As Qin Yuan spoke, he continued to stroll around the ancient city while pushing his bicycle. Because it was already dark at this time, there were basically no tourists in the scenic area.

Even if there are, these tourists gather near several B&Bs near the city gate, where there are places to stay and places to eat.

At this time, almost no one would go deep into the ancient city. As for why, it is because not many people dare!
After all, this is a veritable ancient city, an ancient city that has been handed down in the true sense, so the buildings inside are all as they were before.

Since it is the original appearance, it naturally carries the life, old age, illness and death of countless generations, so many houses contain the lives of the past.

If this scenic spot is very lively, then naturally no one will care about these things, after all, the popularity is there.

But unfortunately, this place is not very popular, and not many people usually come here to play. Even if they come to play, they usually leave after dark.

So it was very quiet at night, and it was pitch black. Under such circumstances, naturally not many people dared to visit the ancient city at night.

But this actually benefited Qin Yuan. He had always been brave, and his physique and intelligence had been enhanced unparalleledly.

Therefore, it is impossible for things like ghosts and gods to scare him. If you really want to say it, he is now enough to become a god among ordinary people.

In the center of the city, Qin Yuan found a corner, and then set up the tent against the corner.

In fact, his original plan was to find an abandoned house, but he found several houses. Either the house was too dilapidated or there was too much dust inside.

You must know that the place he is currently in is the northwest. The climate here is already dry, and the dust in this place is serious.

So if the table is not wiped for a day, a layer of dust will accumulate, not to mention the dust in the abandoned house, which is simply invisible.

Qin Yuan just blew a breath, and it felt like lighting a fire inside would cause a dust explosion, so he didn't dare to stay.

So he just found a corner position, which would block a little bit of the wind, so there should be no problem sleeping.

“I’m staying here today, behind a corner, which can block the wind and make it a little safer.

I have to say that the weather in the Northwest is really dry! I feel like I'm going to have a nosebleed.

Fortunately, I brought enough water today, otherwise I would have died from dryness today, and the dust in this place is very serious.

Whenever the wind blows, it will bring up a burst of sand and dust. Under such circumstances, I don't dare to cook, otherwise I will just eat the sand.

So tonight I plan to cook a few packs of instant noodles in the tent to eat, which is convenient and fast, and I can go to bed after eating.

Wait until tomorrow morning to take a good tour of this ancient city, and then use a drone to take a bird's-eye view of it for you.

In this way, you will know the general appearance of this Turtle City and why it is called Turtle City.

Okay, now let’s boil water in a pot and then cook instant noodles. Qin Yuan said as he turned on the camping light and cooked noodles in the tent.

With the shelter of a tent, the sand and dust will be much better, and there is no problem at all cooking noodles.

After finishing the noodles, Qin Yuan took the mineral water bottle and walked towards the well more than a hundred meters away, preparing to fill it with water to wash the pot.

He walked with a headlamp and took pictures with a sports camera, and then began to introduce this ancient city.

“The reason why Turtle City is called Turtle City is because the shape of the city resembles a turtle, so it was named Turtle City.

This city is a large-scale ancient earth-built city where troops were garrisoned for defense during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has a history of more than 400 years.

It is a garrison city with an important military strategic position in Gansu during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is 30 square meters and covers an area of ​​more than square meters.

The ancient city is 520 meters long from east to west and 500 meters wide from north to south. There are semicircular moon cities built on the east, west and north sides of the city. Stone tablets and other cultural relics have been unearthed. There is a moat around the city.

Therefore, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is called a textbook model of ancient Chinese military fortresses.

But it is a pity that this place will probably disappear in a few years, so if you are interested, you should come and visit it as soon as possible. "

Qin Yuan continued walking towards the well as he spoke.

At this moment, he heard a rustling sound coming from an abandoned house not far away, which immediately made him nervous.

(End of this chapter)