Ten people were heading to Yunnan together. Even with He Bei's car's generous capacity, it couldn't possibly fit that many people. After some discussion, they decided to buy another car in Shenzhen, so that two vehicles would be just enough to hold all ten of them. He Wenjie and Hedong took a spin around a used car market and eventually bought a used SUV worth less than one hundred thousand yuan.
Their destination this time was Lijiang. The whole journey from Shenzhen to Lijiang was over two thousand kilometers. Even taking the highway the entire way, it would take at least two days at the fastest. But since they originally wanted to take their time and enjoy the scenery along the way, they stopped and went as they pleased, spending most of their time driving on provincial highways. It took them a full seven or eight days to cover that two-thousand-plus-kilometer stretch and finally arrive in Lijiang.
By the time they reached Lijiang, Hedong had already rented a guesthouse for everyone. Everyone was exhausted from the journey—even though they had been riding in cars the whole time, the fatigue was real. Hedong planned to let everyone explore Lijiang freely for two days first; partly to help them shake off the exhaustion of the trip, and partly to let them get used to the high-altitude climate so they wouldn't run into physical problems when the hiking started in a couple of days.
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