Everest

"It's Lausanne!" Shen Biwen was the first to react. He pointed to a snow slope in front and shouted: "It's right in front!"

The snow slope in front just blocked their sight. Hearing what Shen Biwen said, the rest of the people ignored their physical fatigue and accelerated their speed in that direction. After climbing over the snow slope where they were, they saw the depression in front of them. There were two figures, but it seemed that the situation was not optimistic. Luosang saw them immediately stood up, waved their hands vigorously, and said a few words, Shen Biwen's expression changed, and he rushed over first.

"What's wrong?" Yong Ke turned pale with fright when he saw Pei Lei lying on the ground with his eyes closed.

Pei Lei slowly opened his eyes, and blinked weakly.

Geng Aiqing breathed a sigh of relief, but what Shen Biwen said next made everyone's mood fall to the bottom again.

"Uncle Pei may have internal bleeding, so he can't move on."

Luosang nodded, his eyes full of anxiety.

"Luosang said that they have been here for more than ten minutes, and they can't move at all. He wants to take Uncle Pei back, but Uncle Pei is unwilling." Shen Biwen paused, "But his body is really I can't hold it anymore, the only way now is to take him back and get to a lower altitude as soon as possible."

After Shen Biwen finished speaking, everyone fell into silence.

Only Pei Lei didn't seem to hear what they said, smiled and said: "Xiao Shen, Xiao Geng, you are all here... Don't blame your uncle, I really can't wait any longer."

Geng Aiqing had a sore nose, half kneeling next to Pei Lei and whispered: "I don't blame you, I don't blame you, Uncle Pei, stop moving..."

"How can I do without moving?" Pei Lei seemed to have heard something funny, "This is the first time I'm so close to the top of Mount Everest, how close, it's right in front of me..."

Geng Aiqing followed his line of sight to look at the peak in front of him, just as a gust of wind blew past, the fresh snow that fell from the peak was carried up and flew up, like fluttering snowflakes, and near Mount Everest, you can I saw only a few figures moving up, very slowly.

"It seems that we can't be the first ones to reach the summit today." Pei Lei seemed a little regretful, "But it's okay, it's okay...cough cough cough..." Before he finished speaking, he began to cough violently, coughing up his whole body The body was trembling, Geng Aiqing and Lin Sheng held him down together, but they didn't know how to relieve his pain.

"Uncle Pei..." Lin Sheng called out in a low voice, his voice choked with sobs.

"I'll rest for a while, and I'll be able to leave after a while." Pei Lei whispered, "I know my body, and I can continue to walk."

"You can't move anymore!" Shen Biwen pointed to the road to the top of the peak, "These tens of meters can kill you!"

Pei Lei opened his mouth, and a layer of anxiety and vicissitudes surfaced on his face. After a few seconds, he whispered: "But I have already arrived here..."

Yes, it's all here.Who can be reconciled, there are only a few tens of meters away from the peak, and there are only a few snow slopes. Compared with the previous hardships, it is really nothing, but the reality is so cruel, and no one can do anything about it.

"You will die." Shen Biwen said softly.

Pei Lei looked at him, with some kind of unresolved entanglement in his cloudy eyes: "What is death?"

Shen Biwen did not avoid his eyes, and said seriously: "Death is nothing, but there are still people waiting for you."

Pei Lei's eyes lit up, and he struggled to sit up: "I still want my daughter to get a good grade in the college entrance examination!"

Shen Biwen stopped Geng Aiqing who wanted to support Pei Lei. Pei Lei just sat up, but he didn't know where the pain was coming from his body, his whole face was tangled up, and he fell down again.

Pei Lei lay on the snow and finally shed tears.

Yong Ke covered his mouth and turned his back, avoiding his desperate eyes. After so much effort, so many years of training, so much investment of money and energy, the dream that he insisted on for so many years is in front of him but cannot be achieved. Pain, who can really say empathy, everyone here is not qualified to empathize.

"Let's go." Pei Lei whispered, "I'm not going."

Before anyone else could speak, Pei Lei coughed twice: "I've already noticed that my body can't hold on... I'm old... I'm really old." He looked up at the road ahead, and he couldn't hide it in his words. "I won't move, you all go, if you can, please help my daughter to be safe..." As he spoke, he pointed to his chest, and Shen Biwen pulled out a photo from inside. It is a beautiful girl with a ponytail, and her smile has the same tenacity as his father.

Luosang said something to Shen Biwen.

Shen Biwen was silent for a while, nodded and said, "Alright, you stay here with Uncle Pei."

Uncle Pei was stunned for a moment, and glanced at what Luosang wanted to say, Luosang said a few more words.

Shen Biwen said gently: "Luosang said that he has been on the board several times, and it's nothing. It's just white and nothing to see, so he won't go."

Pei Lei wiped away his tears and smiled: "Alright, let's go, don't let me down! You must go up!"

The first one to set off was Yong Ke, she knelt beside Pei Lei with red eyes and gave him a hug, and kissed him on the cheek for the first time, Pei Lei patted her shoulder, followed by Lin Sheng, he He also kissed Pei Lei's face, and Pei Lei was amused by him: "You old man, what a kiss... Xiao Lin, remember to take more photos, come back and show me."

Lin Sheng nodded vigorously, and hugged the camera in his arms a little tighter. The camera can hardly work at this temperature. Only by keeping warm with body temperature can he take it out and take a few photos.

In the end Shen Biwen dragged Geng Aiqing away.

Geng Aiqing couldn't help crying while climbing. He almost used his hands and feet to climb up the 50-degree snow slope. Every time he moved, his arms and legs would be submerged in the snow. He looked back and saw Uncle Pei lying in the snow, he could always keep climbing forward.

Shen Biwen didn't talk either, but every time Geng Aiqing fell into the snow due to fatigue, he pulled him out forcefully.

At a distance of tens of meters, Geng Aiqing felt that he had climbed for centuries. When Shen Biwen patted him, he raised his head and found that they had reached the bottom of the last snow slope, and the summit of Mount Everest was just above.

"Soon." Shen Biwen said softly.

Geng Aiqing couldn't speak, he flung himself into the snow, feeling that he had never been so tired, several hours of climbing, no food, no rest, exhausted climbing, just for the scenery above?

At this moment, several people who climbed Mount Everest before slowly descended from the snow slope, their faces still had a hint of excitement and excitement of climbing Mount Everest, Geng Aiqing noticed that there were only two of them.

And what about others?

Shen Biwen dragged him to the side, he almost lost consciousness, the two people fell beside them, saw them and didn't speak, just gave them an encouraging look and walked quickly to the side, Geng Aiqing finally I noticed that there were still three people lying on the right rear of them. Those three people were all in sleeping bags. They seemed to be in extreme pain and did not reach the summit. A trace of envy, but Geng Aiqing knew that it was the greatest kindness.

"Shen Biwen..." Geng Aiqing said weakly.

Shen Biwen pulled him to his eyes, stared into his eyes, and asked him with his eyes.

"You don't want to die, do you?" Geng Aiqing asked softly.

Shen Biwen looked at him and nodded for a while.

Geng Aiqing bit her lip to regain her sobriety: "Do you want to be with me?"

Shen Biwen didn't answer, but seriously leaned over and kissed Geng Aiqing's eyes.

"Come on, you can't die." Geng Aiqing gritted his teeth and said, "My father knows about us, he will beat me for sure, you have to fuck me twice..."

Shen Biwen seemed to have noticed something, and a hint of disbelief finally appeared in his eyes.

Geng Aiqing even smiled: "Go up, I won't continue."

"you…"

Before Shen Biwen finished speaking, Geng Aiqing interrupted him: "I can't hold on any longer, I want to go back and go to Uncle Pei."

"Trust me." Geng Aiqing hugged Shen Biwen's head, and looked closely at him, "I'll wait for you to come down."

Shen Biwen looked at him and finally nodded with difficulty.

Geng Aiqing felt that he wanted to cry again, what the hell, he thought to himself, he hadn't cried a few times in the past twenty years, and he had cried enough after coming to Mount Everest. Being able to reach the top of Mount Everest, the common dream of all climbers who climb this mountain, seems to be nothing special now.

Shen Biwen pulled off his oxygen mask, kissed his lips, then said a few words to him very quickly, clenched his fists and continued to climb up.

Geng Aiqing wiped her eyes vigorously, turned around and retreated.

The two have been separated since then, but their hearts are tightly connected.

Shen Biwen thought about what it would be like to climb to the top of Mount Everest many times, what kind of mood he would feel, whether it was excitement or emotion, relaxation or loss, but he never imagined that it would be such a calm, Yong Ke and Lin Sheng climbed to the top of the peak first, and they didn't speak. Yong Ke stood on the top of the mountain looking at the direction of the sun, wondering what he was thinking, while Lin Sheng took his camera and tried his best to record it.

Shen Biwen took out the photo given by Uncle Pei from his pocket and placed it under a flag planted on the top of the peak, buried it with snow, and when he was tired, he suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

Before climbing Mount Everest, he never thought that he would let go of the idea of ​​death. That obsession has been with him for many years, and he spent many nights relying on that obsession. He once thought that only Only by leaving your life on Mount Everest can you gain complete peace.

The scenery on the top of the peak is beautiful. Standing on the highest point in the world, looking around, it seems that the whole world is under his feet, but he is not in the mood to appreciate it. In fact, his gaze has been looking at the people who are retreating under the snow slope. Geng Aiqing, his figure looks so small, it seems to be just a speck of dust on this white snow mountain, but he knows how brave Geng Aiqing is, he who chooses to give up is much braver than the stubborn self.

Shen Biwen, who originally expected to stay at the peak for 10 minutes, retreated one step after three or four minutes to prepare to go down the mountain.

Lin Sheng and Yong Ke were a little puzzled, after all, such an opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.

Shen Biwen didn't explain the reason. In fact, he didn't know how to explain it. He seemed to see Geng Aiqing waving to him when he could hardly see the figure in the distance. At that moment, he suddenly felt that he wanted to What I want is to return to him as soon as possible and give him the strongest hug in my life.

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