"Strangers Met in Namco" (10) and then to Namco (I)

It's time to leave again.

On the journey to Namtso again, he and she were a little nervous.

The two only met for the first time last time, but today, the two are in an ambiguous relationship with no tomorrow.

But no matter what, I am happy to be able to travel together again.

At least she decided to have fun.

"I have a request."

"any request?"

"Last time I went to Namtso alone, all the pictures I took were landscape pictures. This time, I'm going to take pictures with you everywhere."

"I want to take pictures of you too."

"No, I want to take a picture with you."

"It's fine, it's fine."

She laughed, and he laughed, but they were all a little sad.

The two did not make it clear that these will be parting photos.

He didn't break his word. In every photo, if there is him, there must be her, and all their photos are taken together.

They have already taken a lot of photos before arriving in Namtso.

"Will the memory card not be enough?"

"Don't be afraid, I backed up the photos I took earlier in the morning, and now I still have a lot of space on my memory card."

"You've been planning to take a lot of pictures."

"From the moment I decided to go to Namtso with you again, I reminded myself to handle this matter well."

She answered him with a smile. He didn't know what to say, he just hugged her. At the moment of hug, her eyes were red. She held him for a while to keep her tears from falling.

It was noon when we arrived at Namtso. The weather that day was as good as last time, and the scenery was still the same, but the mood for the two of them to revisit seemed a little different. After putting down their luggage in the tent, they dragged their hands freely around Namtso and took pictures.

The sun was too strong at noon, and they finally decided to go back to the big tent to rest for a while, and then go out after the afternoon sun subsided slightly and the number of tourists decreased. In the tent hall, there are also many tourists resting.

"If you want to take a nap, you can go to bed now. We'll be out when you wake up."

"Why don't you try taking a nap together again."

she laughs.

"After graduating from kindergarten, I no longer have the habit of taking naps."

"Habits can be cultivated."

Half pushed and half on the ground, he pulled her back to the room for a nap. It was a double room with two small single beds. The room was huge, and they both sat on their own beds packing their luggage.

"It was freezing cold last time I slept here. So I brought my sleeping bag with me this time."

"Are you going to use it now?"

"There's the sun outside now, it's not too cold, so don't use it for now."

"Then let's sleep."

"Okay, let me try it."

As before in the big room, he squeezed into the small single bed with her.

The two looked at each other face to face.

This time, without hesitation, he kissed her lips.

She wanted to run away, but her body's instinctive reaction called her closer to him.

In the afternoon, the sun subsided a little, and the two walked to the lake holding hands again.

"Last time when you took a nap, I wandered around here by myself for almost two hours."

"You took a nap with me today too."

She blushed and said nothing.

"Okay, let me walk with you for two hours today."

The two of them strolled around and took pictures, and the time passed quickly.

They sat by the lake and looked at Nyenchen Tanggula Mountain in the distance.

"Nianqing Tanggula Mountain," she read. "How come it has such a nice name? It's like a poem."

"Have you ever heard the story of Nyenchen Tanggula and Namtso?"

"I don't have the impression, you can listen to it."

"The last time I came to Namtso, the tour guide of my group said that in Tibetan mythology, Tanggula and Namtso were a loving couple."

"That's good."

"But Tibetan mythology is not so 'fairy tale'. There are several stories about their derailment circulating, Nianqingtang Gula derailed, and Namco."

"So cruel?"

"But they end up coming back to each other too."

"What is this? 'Defend the traditional values of marriage'? Or support 'eat each other and go back to the original spouse'?"

He laughed.

"I remember one of the legends is that the husband Nianqing Tanggula accidentally met the beautiful girl Yang Zhuo Yongcuo and fell in love with her, forgetting the wife at home. Namtso cried and cried every day, and eventually turned into a lake, and Nianqing Tanggula became a lake. It was too late to regret turning back, so I turned into a snow-capped mountain guarding Namtso."

"So Yanghu is the only one left alone in the distance? Why is there such a sad story in such a beautiful snow-capped mountain and lake view?"

"Is it very sad? The two fell in love and turned into snow-capped mountains and lakes. Isn't it the happiest to be together for a long time?"

"So even if they both cheated, they won't be separated. I think it's very sad. If they really love each other, why are they trapping each other like this? The reason why they become mountains and lakes is not love, but only responsibility. ”

"Responsibility to each other is already a virtue, isn't it?"

"Virtuous, but sad."

Before he could respond, she stood up.

"It's a little cold, why don't we go back to the tent."