Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 315 Departure

Chen Hui tapped his head and frowned, saying, "Don't move, don't move! I know for sure. This... isn't it 'The Arrogant Night Demon'? 'The Biography of the Southwestern Barbarians'? Right?" Xiao Hong smiled and nodded, giving Xiao Wei a smug look.

Chen Xiao looked at Chen Hui: "What do you mean?"

Chen Hui said, "Don't you know Ye Lang is arrogant? He says you're arrogant, but you actually know nothing, you're like a frog in a well. Damn it, why did you pinch me when he said that?" Chen Hui rubbed his arm and jumped up from the chair.

Chen Xiao turned and pointed at Xiao Wei, demanding, "What do you mean?"

Xiao Wei frowned and said to Chen Xiao, "Have you ever seen a mountain? Don't think that just because you've seen a few mounds, it's a mountain. Do you know what Phoenix Mountain looks like? You insist on climbing it. I told you, but you wouldn't listen. If you were alone, I wouldn't care about you at all."

Chen Xiao pouted, reached out and grabbed Xiao Hong, saying pitifully, "He insulted me."

Xiao Hong said, "Even I'm not sure I could climb up there. You're pregnant, it's definitely too dangerous for you."

Chen Xiao said, "I've climbed mountains before, I even went hiking last summer." Fengtian is a large plain area, and there are no mountains around the city, only some hills. Many city dwellers will enthusiastically go out of the city to "climb mountains" on holidays.

Xiao Hong glanced at Xiao Wei and twitched her face, saying, "Didn't you hear what Xiao Wei said? What you climbed was just a mound of earth, not a mountain." Back then, there was no internet, and there were few TV programs. Information couldn't flow between different places at all. People stayed at home and couldn't even imagine places they hadn't been to.

Chen Xiao pursed his lips, clearly not believing it. That's how people are; they always rely on their own knowledge to imagine things they haven't seen before, and what others say is useless.

Xiao Wei said, "Pack up and go to sleep. We have to drive hundreds of kilometers tomorrow."

The four of them packed up and went back to their rooms.

The next morning at 7:30, Xiaowei got up, tidied up, and went downstairs to buy breakfast. Xiaohong had taken the day off yesterday, so she stayed in bed a little longer today.

When Xiaowei returned with breakfast, Xiaohong had already gotten up and tidied herself up, and was hanging up her freshly washed underwear to dry.

The two ate breakfast while it was still hot and started packing their luggage. They were going to be gone for five or six days, so they needed to bring changes of clothes and such.

By the time the two of them finished getting ready, it was already 8:20. Chen Hui and Chen Xiao still hadn't made a sound, so Xiao Wei had no choice but to go over and knock on the door and call out, "Xiao Hui, get up quickly, it's 8:30."

A muffled reply came from inside the room. Seven or eight minutes later, Chen Hui, still sleepy and yawning, came out to wash up. A few minutes later, Chen Xiao came out with disheveled hair and glared at Xiao Wei hatefully.

After Chen Hui and Chen Xiao had finished getting ready and had breakfast, the phone rang, and Xiao Wei answered it.

Han San: "Are you all packed up? I'll leave as soon as I finish loading the truck here, I'll be there in about ten minutes."

Xiao Wei checked the time and said, "Okay, I'm all packed. I'll wait for you at the bridgehead." He hung up the phone, glanced at Chen Hui and Chen Xiao who were still eating, and sighed.

Chen Xiao asked, "What do you mean?"

Xiao Wei said, "Hurry up and eat. Third Brother has set off and will be here in about ten minutes."

Chen Xiao said, "Then let's wait a while. Driving yourself isn't like taking a train where you have to set a stop."

Xiao Wei frowned and said, "They're delivering goods in a big truck. They can't unload them in the dark. Can't you two hurry up and eat?"

Chen Hui nodded and hummed a few times, then tilted his head back and shoveled the food from the bowl into his mouth. He got up, took the bowl to the kitchen to wash it, wiped his hands, and came out to say, "So what do we do when he comes back? Does he ride in our car?"

Xiao Wei said, "No, I told him the four of us are going, and we'll probably come back by train, which is convenient anyway. He'll have to get back before us." Chen Xiao also finished eating, took the bowl out of the kitchen and threw it in the sink without washing it before going to the toilet. Pregnant women urinate frequently.

Xiao Hong was about to go wash the dishes when Xiao Wei stopped her and said to Chen Hui, "Go wash your wife's dishes." Chen Hui then realized what was happening, clasped his hands in a fist salute to Xiao Wei, and ran to the kitchen to wash Chen Xiao's dishes.

After Chen Xiao came out of the restroom, the four of them took their things downstairs, put their suitcases in the trunk, Xiao Wei drove, Xiao Hong sat in the passenger seat, and the car left the community and came to the main road, stopping at the bridgehead near the South Lake gate.

A few minutes later, a van pulled up, slowed down, and honked its horn next to Xiaowei's truck. Xiaowei glanced up and saw Han San waving his hand from inside the van. The van then drove off, and Xiaowei lowered his handbrake and followed behind.

After leaving Fengtian and crossing the Hun River, heading southeast for more than 30 kilometers, you enter the mountainous area, which is the territory of Beixi.

As the mountains on both sides of the road became increasingly steep, the road itself became winding and meandering, constantly climbing and descending. The cliffs, precipices, and towering boulders on the mountains left Chen Xiao breathless. Chen Hui, on the other hand, had traveled to distant places several times and had seen many mountains before.

Xiao Hong grinned and pointed to the barren cliff in front of the car, saying to Chen Xiao, "Want to climb it? Stop the car and I'll climb it with you."

Chen Xiao shook his head, looked at the cliff and said, "How are we supposed to climb this? This isn't even a mountain. There aren't any mountains like this."

Xiao Hong said, "This is a mountain. I grew up in the mountains and climb them every day, but it's not as steep as this one."

Chen Xiao glanced at Xiao Wei and said, "Is this all there is to Phoenix Mountain?"

Xiao Hong shook her head and said, "I haven't been there either, but the mountains get bigger and bigger as you go east. Phoenix Mountain is hundreds of kilometers away from here, so the mountains there must be even bigger."

Xiao Wei said, "You haven't studied history? Don't you know about places like Wugu City, Bisha City, and Hesheng City in Goguryeo? The Sui and Tang dynasties fought them so many times and lost so many people, but they still couldn't conquer them. Do you know about the Jingguan (a mound of corpses) of the Sui people in Goguryeo? It was all because of the terrain. The mountains were high and the cliffs were steep, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Wugu City is Phoenix Mountain, which was originally called Wugu Mountain. Just imagine how dangerous the terrain must be."

Chen Xiao stared in disbelief and said, "I've studied history, but I don't remember any of these things you mentioned. Where is that city of Beisha?"

Xiao Hong said, "I know, Dalian Jinzhou, Heishan, right?" She turned to ask Xiao Wei, who nodded and said, "Yes, it's by the sea, known as the first mighty city of Goryeo. Heshenggucheng was the capital, located on Wunu Mountain. It's the place where the Qing Dynasty started with wild boar skin."

Chen Hui exclaimed, "The capital of Goguryeo was at Wunü Mountain? Isn't Goguryeo the same as Korea? So this area originally belonged to Korea?"

Xiao Wei shook his head and said, "No. Goguryeo was a Korean ethnic group, but Korea is not Goguryeo. The place that is now Korea was Silla at that time. Both were states established by Koreans, but they are two different things from Goguryeo. Goguryeo was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty in its later period. You know the Andong Protectorate, right? The capital of the prefecture is Pyongyang. That's where the name Andong comes from."

Chen Hui said, "Then how come it later came to North Korea?"

Xiao Wei said, "Back when the Andong Protectorate was established, Silla hadn't been destroyed; it surrendered and gradually expanded. At that time, our local government didn't pay much attention to this harsh and cold land. Otherwise, the Qing Dynasty wouldn't have been able to rise to power. The Qing Dynasty occupied the entire Korean peninsula at that time, but in reality, Korea no longer existed."

Xiao Hong asked, "Then where did North Korea come from?"

Xiao Wei said, "Throughout Chinese history, Confucianism has always been the governing ideology. Those idiots were cunning and ruthless towards their own people, but pretended to be civilized towards outsiders. They insisted on preserving the Korean royal family and even granted them the title of king. Then the Russians came, and the Korean king turned against the Qing Dynasty and declared independence. The country's name was Daehan, and that's how Korea came about. Later, Japan drove Russia away, occupied the Korean Peninsula, and established the Government-General of Korea."

Xiao Hong asked, "Then how did it become two countries later?"

(End of this chapter)