"My old friend bids farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west. Fireworks descend on Yangzhou in March." Song Zi read.
"I know from afar that when my brothers climb to a high place, there is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere." I replied in response to the situation.
But I received a 100% blank stare from Song Zi, and I realized that I had mixed up the two poems. When I was a child in school, my husband often criticized me for always remembering things wrong. There were many other stupid mistakes like this, such as " May I ask where the restaurant is? It's Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City."
Another example is "Knowing people but not knowing their faces, money cannot buy time."
Or "The little lotus just showed its sharp corners, and a branch of red apricot came out of the wall."
There are many such examples, and I don’t know why I memorize them so much that when I grow up, I need to learn from my master and recite some ancient Chinese sentences. This habit is still difficult to correct. So I attributed all this to the fact that I read too many sentences that were almost combined forms. But at this moment, I was still a little embarrassed to be laughed at by Song Zi with a pure white eye roll, so I scratched my head and laughed a few times to try to resolve my embarrassment, but for some reason I came up with a sentence, Wang Wei's poem was really good.
Maybe he thought I was deliberately being funny, so Songzi didn't correct me anymore about the fact that the author of this poem was actually Li Bai. Maybe even he felt that a special explanation would lower his IQ. He just said that when he wrote this poem, it was already called "Yellow Crane Tower", and the words left by Lu Zu clearly showed that he knew that this place was called "Yellow Crane Tower" and not "Yellow Crane Tower". Tower", but there is no need to guess this simple word puzzle game with us, so I think the "鄄" here refers to the Yellow Crane Tower in Huanghuji.
I said to Song Zi, it seems that you have not been idle these two days. You have also done a lot of research while Qin Bukong is not eating or drinking. You have already guessed it, right? Songzi said with some pride that this is actually nothing, and thanks to the content written in Lu Zuliu's letter, otherwise we would not have narrowed the scope directly to the Turtle and Snake Mountains. And this Huanghuji itself is part of Snake Mountain. According to the records in "Shu Yi Ji" written by Zu Chongzhi of the Southern Dynasties, it is said that there was originally a family named "Xin" at the head of Huanghuji, and the Xin family opened a tiptoe resting place here. In a small wine shop, one day a ragged man came here and said that he was thirsty and wanted to ask for a drink. So Xin served him a glass of wine, and the man drank and left.
But for half a year after that day, this ragged man came to the wine shop every day without stopping. He still said that he had no money on him, but he wanted to beg for a drink because he was thirsty. This happened every day, and Xin Shi also rewarded this man with a glass of wine every day. Ordinary people might think that the other person is just a bastard and scoundrel who steals food and drinks, but Xin didn't reject him because of this. Instead, he warmly entertained him. . If you open a wine shop yourself and feed others, it is a matter of accumulating merit, so you don't care whether the other party has money for drinks. After half a year of eating and drinking, this ragged man said to Mrs. Xin, I owe you a thousand glasses of wine and have no money to pay back, so I will do some small tricks to help you with your business.
So the man took out a piece of orange peel from his arms, used the juice squeezed out of the peel to draw a crane on the wall, and then said to Mrs. Xin, after I leave, as long as the guests here applaud, the crane will be reunited. Dance to the beat. Xin originally thought it was a joke, but one time a customer became happy talking in the store, so he clapped his hands and applauded.
A strange thing happened. The crane painted on the wall seemed to be alive, and the water actually danced to the beat. This strange thing spread, and many people who had not passed through this place came here to watch. As a result, the business of the wine shop improved a lot, and those onlookers would also reward some wine money for seeing the strange thing.
Ten years later, Mrs. Xin accumulated a lot of wealth because of this, and that day, the ragged man came again. Mrs. Xin now knew that the man was a god and not a beggar, so she respectfully said that she was willing to support this man at home, but The man laughed, took out his flute and played a tune, which attracted white clouds in the sky, and the crane on the wall became alive. The man in ragged clothes sat on the back of the crane and flew away into the sky. In order to thank the immortal for his ten years of kindness, Mrs. Xin used the money she had accumulated over the years to build a pavilion here. Because Mrs. Xin was the builder, people around her called the building "Xin Tower", but After it was completed, because the god originally painted the crane with orange peel, the crane was yellow instead of white, so it was named "Yellow Crane Tower".
Listening to Songzi telling this mythical story, I was very fascinated. I felt that this story was too romantic, so romantic that it was a bit unreal. But on the one hand, I admire Songzi’s understanding of these things very much. This is due to years of hard study and hard work, and I have the wisdom I have today. At the same time, I also understand why Songzi is so sure. The so-called "immortal painting a swan" actually refers to the story he just told. From this, the clue that this place is the Yellow Crane Tower is determined.
So I asked Songzi, what do you mean, the Yellow Crane Tower has now been moved and rebuilt as a whole, but as long as we can find its original base, we can find the place where the stone box was buried, right? Songzi nodded and said, that's exactly what it means, but there is a very critical problem that we haven't solved yet. Apart from these four words, we have no other clues. Lu Zu also never expected that the old building would be moved after a thousand years. Elsewhere, unlike the early Shadowless Tower, we can still judge its location based on legends and the light and shadow of the noon sun. Now if we go to Huanghuji to search, this is not a small project. With luck, we can do it in a few days. It can be found, but if you are unlucky, there may not be any news for a year or so.
We walked back while talking, but after hearing what Songzi said, I couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. We have plenty of time, but doing it for many years is basically unrealistic, not to mention the changes that may occur. For example, if someone comes to maintain a bridge pier, they will see us digging holes everywhere. In the current social environment, the most lacking thing among people is tolerance. Maybe they will use us as an excuse to hinder construction and treat it as digging holes in society The capitalist roaders in the corner of communism were defeated again.
Just when Songzi and I were at a loss what to do, Qin Bukong suddenly said that he might have a way to do this, because he had visited a local museum earlier, and among the exhibits there was something about the Yellow Crane Tower. According to old photos, the current Yellow Crane Tower was actually rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty. The real Yellow Crane Tower is said to have experienced several disasters in history. The original building was built during the Three Kingdoms period, and no trace can be found. But even the last reconstruction during the Tongzhi period of Wanqing Dynasty was built on the basis of the original site.
Speaking of this, Qin Bukong suddenly paused, as if he thought of something. Songzi and I also stopped and waited for him to say something more progressive. Sure enough, after a few seconds, Qin Bukong said, I remember that there were some photos taken by foreigners in the exhibits when Wuhan opened as a port. The Yellow Crane Tower above was the old building before Tongzhi. But I went to see it several years ago. At that time, I didn’t connect the Yellow Crane Tower with our incident, so I just took a quick glance without taking a closer look.
Song Zi quickly asked, if we go to see it tomorrow, can we still see those photos from that time? Qin Bukong said that this is not necessarily the case. In a place like a museum, when new collections come in, some old ones with relatively low value will be eliminated. This is hard to say. I interjected, I think it should still be there. The three major scenic spots in Wuhan are the Yellow Crane Tower, Qingchuan Pavilion, and Boya Terrace. Among them, the Yellow Crane Tower is the "No. 1 Tower in the World". Maybe many people don't know about Wuhan. There are also Qingchuan Pavilion and Boya Terrace, but everyone must know the Yellow Crane Tower, so things about the Yellow Crane Tower, especially those old photos that have long been hard to find, will probably not be eliminated so easily.
So the three of us decided to leave early tomorrow morning to go to the Wuhan Museum to look at the old photos taken by foreigners.
We didn’t wander around in the museum the next day. After all, there were so many things, and it would probably take more than half a day to look at them carefully. We went straight to the exhibits related to the Yellow Crane Tower. As I expected, the old The photos are still there, and not only that, there are even Yellow Crane Tower paintings painted by painters in different dynasties. Due to the construction of the bridge, the original appearance of Huanghuji in the photos is actually very different from what we saw when we went to pass the "Xie" pass earlier, but it can still be distinguished from the trend of some mountains on the other side of the river. For the approximate location, among many old photos and paintings, we found a few that were relatively more realistic. After a little comparison, we were able to calculate the approximate location of the former site of the Yellow Crane Tower.
What makes us very excited is that the calculated location is near the pier of the approach section of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. Due to the construction of the bridge pier, a lot of dirt should have been dug, but according to our memories, it was the first time that day that we When we went there, most of the bridge piers were actually built by filling in the river. In other words, they did not affect the location of the old site. If the prediction was correct, the old site was where we first went to the river. At that time, we would detour to a barren slope covered with weeds on the way.
This conclusion makes us full of confidence, and at least it has greatly reduced the scope. Even if we search every inch of a slope, it won't take much time. And now that we have locked the scope, we know that when we get there, we will definitely find it. Encountering some misunderstandings, this indirectly proves our inference.
At the moment, it seems that apart from going straight there, we don’t need to make too many preparations, so every day I spend recuperating feels very long.
