After getting off the road, I turned to a cement road that was probably built in the 1990s. There were many cracks on that road, probably because of the work of those big trucks when the bridge was originally built. The place where I got off the road happened to be on the north side of the Dafo Temple Yangtze River Bridge.
, walking to the left is Cuntan Container Terminal, and to the right is our destination. On the way, we met many aunts and uncles chatting together in twos and threes, many of whom were carrying children on their backs. Hu Zongren rolled down the window and asked them
, do you know how to get to a certain community in a certain village? The aunts probably hadn’t seen a man for a long time, so they rushed to tell Hu Zongren how to get there. Following everyone’s directions, we quickly drove to the mountainside.
In a place similar to a rural area, the rest of the road can only pass the width of the largest three-wheeled motorcycle, and if we drive there rashly and encounter a car that wants to meet, there is really no way. So after thinking about it, we decided to leave the car
Park here and then walk up the mountain. There are not many people in this place, and there are probably no police officers writing tickets.
Walking up the only mountain road, I could see a pagoda with a blue brick structure in the distance when I was halfway there. I told Hu Zongren that I had lived in Jiangbei for decades, and I passed by this area often.
, but I really didn’t notice that there was such a tower here. Hu Zongren said that he only learned that there was a tower here when he called the farmer to confirm the address, and the name was Wenfeng Tower.
There are countless Wenfeng Pagodas in China, and their shapes vary depending on the place and the meaning given by humanistic sentiments. There are many Wenfeng Pagodas in Chongqing. There are two that I am familiar with, and one is located in Dongquan.
Nearby, it is said that it was built together when the Baisha Zen Monastery was built. The other one is located in Huangjueya, Nanshan, Chongqing. It is famous because of a novel called "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes" and a novel called "The Fog City".
》movie. But I have never heard of this Wenfeng Pagoda.
When we found the farmer's house according to the address provided by the farmer, as soon as we turned into the yard, I couldn't help but feel it was a little funny, but I couldn't tell what the funny point was. I saw a man about 50 years old.
A man with dark skin and a tall and thin body is sitting in the middle of the yard, facing a small shed that looks like a chicken coop on one side. There is a hoe used for digging the ground across his knees.
That look was the same as when I saw Zhu Bajie waiting for Sun Wukong at the entrance of the cave in my early journey to the West. The only difference was that Zhu Bajie had plump breasts, but this farmer did not.
Probably sensing that we were coming, the farmer turned his head and looked at Hu Zongren and me. Hu Zongren waved to him, indicating that we were the people you called. The farmer quickly walked up to us and used his sleeves to
He wiped the bench he was sitting on before, then pushed the bench in front of us and asked us to sit down. That was too polite, which made me a little uncomfortable. He smiled and handed over a cigarette, and then felt a little uncomfortable.
I have the nerve to say, little brother, I smoke very lightly, so don’t worry about it.
"Glimpse" means bad in Chongqing dialect. I have never disliked cheap cigarettes, because when I had no money, I used to pick up cigarette butts. Seeing how polite this uncle was, I took them respectfully.
I ordered it and ordered it for myself to show that I didn't mind at all. After seeing us sit down, the uncle hurried back to his room, brought out a four-legged stool, placed it in front of us, and sat down.
Hu Zongren first introduced us, and then the uncle told us his surname was Yang. Hu Zongren pointed to the shack that the uncle had been staring at before and said, that is the chicken coop where you saw the figure that night, right? Yang
The uncle said yes, I have already told you the situation. From the time I called you to the time you came, nothing strange happened. I just sat in the yard and stared at the chicken coop! I asked Uncle Yang this
Why are you staring at the chicken coop during the day? He said he was afraid that thing would come and steal the chicken last night.
I smiled and told him, don't worry. If there is a ghost, he would never do these things two nights in a row just to steal your chickens. I noticed a big blue mark on his forehead.
The bag was probably left after I fell and knocked myself unconscious when I was escaping in a hurry the night before. So I asked Uncle Yang, you kept staring at us while waiting for us for several hours, how patient you are. Yang
The uncle smiled sheepishly. Hu Zongren asked him, can you carefully recall the appearance of the figure you saw last night, whether it was a man or a woman, an adult or a child. Uncle Yang shook his head and said,
It's hard to say this, because it was night, everything was dark, and the lights outside his house were not bright. The only thing that had some lighting conditions at that time was the flashlight in his hand, but the range of the flashlight's light beam was limited after all.
He only saw a crouching figure. He couldn't see it very clearly, but it felt like there was something like a black mist surrounding it. He thought about it and said, in terms of body size, he looked like an adult, at least not.
child.
Hu Zongren stood up, walked to the chicken coop, and then asked Uncle Yang where his specific location was and where you were standing at that time. Although I don't quite understand why Hu Zongren asked this, I guess he was trying to calculate.
distance, and made some assumptions based on his own Feng Shui knowledge. Uncle Yang stood in front of the chicken coop, set a position for himself and said, I was probably standing here at that time. Hu Zongren stepped into the chicken coop, and the chicken
They were angered by his rude move and spread out to express their dissatisfaction with Hu Zongren's illegal invasion. As he walked towards the center of the chicken coop, Hu Zongren asked Uncle Yang, where is the figure you saw?
Where is it? Uncle Yang said, it is almost where you are standing now. Hu Zongren stood still, and I took a closer look. It happened to be in the center of this square chicken coop. So Hu Zongren squatted down,
Asked Uncle Yang, was the size of the figure you saw then about the same as it is now? Uncle Yang quickly said yes, yes, yes, that's basically it, so at first he thought it was a chicken thief, so he grabbed the mud and smashed it.
Hu Zongren stood up and walked outside while avoiding the chicken droppings on the ground, causing the chickens to cluck and scream again. After Hu Zongren stepped out of the chicken coop, he said to me, look at these old men of yours.
Folks, my feet were covered in shit. I knew he was mocking my zodiac sign again, so I sarcastically said, you ate human shit when you were a kid, are you still afraid of this little chicken shit?
Hu Zongren turned to Uncle Yang and asked, before you encountered these things on the first night, was there anything else that made you feel particularly incredible? Uncle Yang asked confusedly what you were referring to? Hu Zongren said that he just heard it.
There was some strange noise, or something strange happened. Uncle Yang thought for a while and said, it seems that there was one thing. It was still summer at that time, and he saw a lot of black smoke coming out of the holes on the top of Wenfeng Tower in broad daylight.
This phenomenon was discovered, and the people around him began to spread rumors that Guanyin Bodhisattva had appeared, so people started to burn incense.
I laughed and said, Wenfeng Pagoda was owned by Mr. Kong a few years ago. What does it have to do with Guanyin Bodhisattva? Uncle Yang said that this tower has been here since he was a child. It was not sealed in the early years, so he even climbed it.
Later, after Jiangbei District was divided, the tower was listed as a cultural relic protection unit. It was just said to be protected, but no one actually came to protect it. The inside of the tower was hollow and there was nothing except the small windows on the top floors.
Except for the sealing, other parts have been sealed with cement. I am worried that the tower is too old and may be dangerous. You said there is not even a place to stay in the tower, so how can black smoke come out for no reason?
When Uncle Yang said this, I began to find it interesting. A year ago, Hu Zongren, Hu Zongren and Situ went to the Repaying Tower to look for things due to the conspiracy of Cha Wudao. Although the tower was not sealed with cement at that time,
But it was also locked, so we had the opportunity to pick the lock and enter the tower to look for things. So I immediately became interested in the Wenfeng Tower not far behind Uncle Yang’s house. If it is as he said, the tower is empty.
If there is black smoke coming out of the body, and it is impossible for anyone to enter the tower, there may be something wrong. In my opinion, the tower has the meaning of suppression. Uncle Yang's home is less than 100 meters away from the tower in a straight line.
In this place, if according to Feng Shui, it makes sense that their family has been suppressed, but just because there is a tower to suppress it, there should be no ghosts, unless the tower itself is not used for suppression when it is built.
, or the feng shui was broken by something else.
I told Hu Zongren my idea, and Hu Zongren also thought it made sense, so he suggested that we go to Wenfeng Pagoda to have a look. We asked Uncle Yang how to get up there, and he said just keep walking along the path outside.
Wenfeng Pagoda is on the top of the mountain. When the government said it wanted to protect it, it built a wall and made it a park, but now no one is inside it and it has long been deserted.
After that, Uncle Yang took us up the mountain. After walking for about ten minutes, we entered a gate that seemed to be a park, but it was already in tatters and could not look like a park at all. The ground was full of fallen leaves.
It looked dirty and messy. When we walked to the bottom of the tower, Uncle Yang pointed to a broken bluestone tablet on the ground and said, look, this was built by the government back then. I took a closer look, and it said "Tazishan Wenwen"
"Feng Tower, Jiangbei District Cultural Relics Protection Unit" was signed in 1992. I took a closer look at the tower. The color of the base was different from the top. The base of the tower looked more like it was made of big rocks.
Starting from the second floor, it looks like it was repaired with bluestone mixed with slurry. Just as Uncle Yang said, all the entrances to the tower are sealed.
Hu Zongren stood under the tower, pointed to the other side of the river, and then pointed to the Great Buddha Temple Yangtze River Bridge, which could be seen in the distance. He then held his chin and thought for a while, and then said to me, there seems to be something wrong with the Feng Shui here. Let's find it.
Ask someone about the origin of this tower. Who should I ask? This is my first time coming here from Jiangbei. Is there anyone who knows better than me?
Hu Zongren smiled and said, let's ask Mr. Situ, he is omnipotent!