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Chapter 49. The Cave of Hongya Cave

Hu Zongren pointed at me and said to Master Situ, "You brought it here and put it in the back of the car." Situ scolded him and said, "Since you brought it, why don't you bring it in? My leg was broken. Do you want me to do it again?"

Go downstairs and see for yourself? Hu Zongren said with a silly smile, if you come in with a coffin in a store like this, people will scold your ancestors in their hearts. Besides, we don’t know who you are now.

The independent shape of the golden rooster.

Master Situ yelled angrily, and then two chopsticks flew towards Hu Zongren's Tanzhong point. Hu Zongren laughed and said, "Okay, stop joking, I'll go and hug him." After saying that, he tickled me.

I handed him my car keys with my fingers. Hu Zongren went downstairs happily. After a while, he came upstairs holding the coffin box.

After entering the room, I closed the door and asked Hu Zongren, had the waiter seen you? He said yes, could he not see you? My most important feature is that I am handsome. I said, didn't the waiter say anything about you? And you

Why do you want to steal my lines? Hu Zongren said that the waiter looked very surprised. She probably thought that there were ashes in the head. She would not ask about such an unlucky thing even if she wanted to, so I just came here pretending to be fine.

Already.

Hu Zongren put the coffin down in front of Situ, making sure that Situ could see it when he turned around slightly, so that it would be easier for his legs and feet. Before opening the lid of the coffin, I told Situ that I had checked everything in here, as I mentioned to you before.

There was indeed some supernatural reaction inside the doll, but it was not very violent. I felt that the talisman must have worked. After saying that, I opened the lid with Hu Zongren and let Situ see what was inside.

Fu Yunni also came over to take a look. When she saw the mutilated doll, she exclaimed with a soft "yeah".

After all, it’s a woman’s house. She probably had a toy similar to this when she was a child. But it’s hard for me to imagine that a strong woman like Fu Yunni can play with dolls. But I have been paying attention to the expressions of Situ and Tiesongzi.

When the lid was just opened, I noticed that Situ's eyebrows tightened, but they soon relaxed. I didn't quite understand the meaning of this expression. I didn't know if he was pretending to be calm or if he really thought it was no big deal. Tiesongzi

The master was different. When he first saw the contents in the coffin, he looked surprised at first, just like when Hu Zongren and I opened the lid and saw it for the first time. Then he shook his head slightly.

.His reaction is easier to discern. Even seniors like Tie Songzi are shaking their heads like this, which shows that it must be difficult to do.

Situ said to Hu Zongren, please hand me the note under the villain's hand. Hu Zongren said, didn't you ask not to touch the things inside? Situ said, there are so many people here, what are you afraid of? And the note was originally

Even if it’s just for you to see, I wouldn’t be so careful. When Hu Zongren heard what Situ said, he picked up the piece of paper and handed it to Master Situ. I walked over to Situ and said, look at this.

A few words can be said to be pretentious, but I didn’t understand them anyway.

Situ looked down for a while, then turned the paper over and looked at it carefully in the light. Then he sneered and said to me, the first sentence, Hongya Cave, don’t tell me, there really is such a hole.

It's just that few people know about it. As soon as Situ said this, I became a little interested. Judging from his tone, he seemed to be confident about these sentences that looked like poetry but were not poetry. Situ saw me and Hu

Zong Ren became interested and felt very proud. He couldn't help but shake his broken leg, like a storyteller with his arms crossed. He asked me with squinting eyes, which is the earliest Hongya Cave in your memory?

What does it look like?

I tried to think back. When I was a kid, when I went to Jiefangbei from Jiangbei, I usually found it troublesome and detoured to take the tram. I usually took my friends to Jiangbei City and took the cross-river cable car, which was directly under Cangbai Road.

Not too far away, we arrived at the Liberation Monument. The cable car across the river had not moved at all in decades. Under the cliff where we got off was the Hongya Cave. I was less than 10 years old at the time, and I only remember that there was an old road underneath.

Street, there are people on the old street carrying bamboo baskets on poles, holding a hammer and a chisel in their hands, walking slowly through the old street, shouting "Ma Tang~Ma Tang~" in a tone similar to the clock,

After shouting a few words, I hit the chisel and hammer in my hand a few times to make a clanking sound. Sesame candy is a snack that I liked to eat when I was a child. It is very sticky to the hands and teeth, and there is some wheat in the sweetness of the sugar.

, the aroma of sorghum. There are cliffs on both sides of the old street, and people's houses on one side. They are all old houses, the kind that look like they could collapse with a gust of wind. There are some teahouses, but

Most of them are from other people, because I can still remember those cloth clothes hanging outside the door that kept dripping water. Other than that, I don’t have a deep impression of it. When I was a teenager, I also skipped school because of skipping school.

I visited the area and when I got a little older, I realized that the old houses there were all stilted buildings and were dilapidated. So two years before I left Chongqing, almost all the people there moved away and the surrounding areas were surrounded.

Colored strips of cloth to prevent landslides from collapsing, etc. When I return to Chongqing, it will almost look like the folk culture street it is today.

So I told Situ that I remembered that it used to be a bunch of shabby houses, and I didn’t have a deep impression of the rest. Situ said that there were no people living in Hongya Cave in the earliest times, it was just a cliff. There was indeed a hole on the cliff, and there was a cave inside.

Water formed a waterfall and flowed out. The famous "Hongya Dicui" at that time got its name from this. Situ also said that the water source in the cave was said to originate from the stream in the Jiaochangkou area today, and the water was very clear.

, but later due to the development of the city and the war, the water turned into sewage. It is said that if you walk along the cave, you can reach the foot of the current Jiefang Monument. When the Jiefang Monument was built,

Because too many people died nearby, the Jiaochangkou massacre, the tunnel that suffocated tens of thousands of people, the bombing of the 18th Staircase, and the legend of dead people buried in the Tongyuan Gate, there were too many wronged souls, and we always encountered problems when starting construction.

, so we secretly hired someone to handle it. During the pouring process, we also added carefully measured Vajra cassocks, Buddhist scriptures and other objects to the base of the stele, and then the secret cave passage was blown up, so that no one could really

You can walk from Hongyadong to Jiaochangkou, but the water quality has also been affected to some extent.

Situ then said, you remember that the place where the cable car got off is Cangbai Road on the top of the cliff of Hongyadong, right? There is a row of forts there, right? I said yes, because I have been patronizing many delicious food there for a long time, so I still think about this.

I understand. Situ said that the fort there was built next to the ancient city wall of Chongqing to resist Zhang Xianzhong. The defenders at that time misjudged that Zhang Xianzhong entered the city through Hongyamen, but who knew that he would take a detour and go through Tongyuanmen?

They fought in and the fort here destroyed the city without even firing a single shell.

I asked Situ, "Hongya Gate"? How come I have never heard of such a gate? Situ made a mocking sound, and then said to me, "I'm sorry you said you are from Chongqing. You are dozens of years older than me who left Chongqing."

You are not old enough to understand the city you live in. The ancient city wall of Chongqing was basically completed in the Ming Dynasty. There were a total of seventeen gates, nine of which were open and eight were closed. In other words, these eight gates were closed.

The gate is only for the garrison, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter or exit from here. Hongya Gate is one of the closed gates. It is located between Qiansi Gate and Linjiang Gate. Because there is a cliff below, the view is very good, so be careful if you can go far away.

The enemy collapsed the river and invaded the city.

Situ went on to say that since the period of serving the capital, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. Because of the war, many refugees from outside could not enter the city, so they began to wander outside the city. Many beggars realized that the cave in Hongyadong could provide shelter from wind and rain.

So this place became a beggar's den during that period. It was not until the then provincial government began to help these beggars that a simple road was built. Because of the road, people slowly began to build shacks to live here.

The Jialing River rises every year. When the water rises, part of the cliff will be submerged, so stilted buildings appeared.

Situ's eyes began to blur. He said that he still remembered that when he was a child, there were already many people living in Hongyadong. But most of them were poor people. There were dedicated laborers who helped the rich carry things at the dock, carrying sliding poles.

(A chair is tied to two bamboos, similar to a sedan) There are sedan bearers who carry the rich in and out, trackers who pull boats in the river, and those who wash sand, wash coal, and wash clothes by the river. In general

Generally speaking, they are the people at the lowest level of society. Situ said that every time he walked around there when he was a child, he felt that there was smoke everywhere, the air was full of the smell of soapy water, and his ears were filled with the laughter and curses of the poor.

the sound of.

Hu Zongren interrupted Situ's recollection and asked if it felt a bit like the Pig Cage Walled City in Stephen Chow's movie. Situ thought about it for a while, then laughed and said that although it was not a whole house, it was a winding road.

The old street was built along the cliff, but it felt very real. Situ continued, and later, it was demolished and turned into what it is now. An ornamental fake waterfall was also built.

It says "The cliffs are dripping with greenery", but despite this, the flavor of the rivers and lakes that was unique to Chongqing in those days is still there.

Hu Zongren asked Situ, what about the original real cave? Was it also blown up when the inner cave was blown up? Situ pointed at Hu Zongren's nose and shook his finger, and then said, I see you all day long

Silly, this sentence really hits the point.

Situ picked up the tea cup and took a sip, then looked at me and said, the hole is still there.


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