The villagers urged me to leave, explaining that if it should snow it might be seven or eight days before I could get away again, so impassable do the roads become. The weather in these hills is highly unpredictable, one moment bringing a vicious sandstorm, the next moment a blazing sun that threatens people and livestock with heatstroke.
村民們見狀催我快走，因為山區天氣變化無常，時而狂風大作黃沙滿天，時而驕陽肆虐人畜都中暑，萬一下場雪，地滑路險，說不定把我困在山裡七、八天。