Chapter 51. Amazing Coincidence Thank you @wickedqixi's crown)
After finding the general direction, I changed to the leftmost lane, and then turned to the garage in Hongyadong. The garage in Hongyadong extends directly to the edge of the cliff near the river, which means that we parked our car.
Above our heads, there are the viaducts and roads hanging by the river. After parking the car, we took the elevator to the fourth floor, because there is a relatively large terrace on the fourth floor near Chaotianmen. If we are lucky and there are no calculation errors,
If so, we should be able to see the hole in the cliff wall from the terrace.
According to my past habits, the first thing I do after getting off the elevator is to go straight to the major food areas. Grilled and oily big meat skewers, sprinkled with chili oil and cumin powder, just thinking about it will make me salivate.
As well as a variety of hot pot dishes, handmade hot and sour noodles, sweet and spicy chicken wings and Japanese food, I am full of praise, especially the hand-rolled sushi with salmon fillet and crab roe sauce, wrapped in seaweed and topped with cheese.
, is a necessity that every time I go there, in addition to eating two on site, I also pack two to take away.
But that day, I didn't stop at all for these delicacies, not because I had something important to do, but because if I bought one, I would be too embarrassed not to buy one for Fu Yunni and Hu Zongren, which would cost me three dollars.
The amount of money is not worth it.
After getting off the elevator, I walked to the commercial street and then walked in the direction of the theater. It was only a hundred meters away and I could walk outside the theater. And the open space outside the theater was the terrace I mentioned. I walked as much as possible
When I reached the corner of the terrace, I was disappointed to find that I couldn't see anything at all. The location of the entrance that I originally calculated was exactly blocked by the several floors of buildings on top. I was a little unwilling, so I talked to Hu Zongren
Tell Fu Yunni that I will go inside and ask the business owners here to see if they know anything about the entrance of the cave. If anyone knows, I will ask where is the closest place to the entrance of the cave.
Hu Zongren agreed, then he and Fu Yunni would continue upstairs, because the restaurant also had a terrace. So we split up, and I asked around among the merchants on the fourth floor, and got rid of them by the way.
I can also eat some of them alone. But I have been asking for a long time, but I have found nothing. The operators here come from all over the place to rent stalls, and I think the reason why they chose to rent a shop in this place is just to see
Due to the huge number of tourists here, most people don't know the history or original appearance of this place. I finally asked an old man who was painting sugar paintings on the edge of the covered bridge. He said that there is a hole here, but
You can't see this place. I heard that you have to go to a certain office of the management of Hongyadong on the ninth floor to get a glimpse of a small corner. He used to go to this management office to pay the management fee. The old man who painted the sugar paintings was still there.
He said that the hole could not be accessed, and there was probably nothing inside, except for a small stream of sewage flowing out of it.
Although this is the answer, it is better than asking nothing at all. At least this is the most valuable clue I got after wandering around for a long time, although it does not change anything. So I called Hu Zongren
, asked him if he could see it from the ninth floor, Hu Zongren said that he still couldn't see it. The ninth floor was full of larger shops, bars, etc. A house was built where the fourth floor terrace was originally.
The Japanese restaurant was completely blocked and nothing could be seen. I had no choice but to ask Hu Zongren and Fu Yunni to wait for me on the ninth floor, and I took the elevator up myself.
After meeting up with Hu Zongren and the others, I also checked the terrain carefully. This floor is the highest one in Hongya Cave. Going up further is Cangbai Road. I ran out of ideas for a while. I knew the entrance to the cave.
It was very close to us, but we couldn't see it because it was blocked. I asked Hu Zongren, what should we do now, let alone enter the cave, we can't even see it. Hu Zongren said to me, let's go to Cang
Look down at the side of Bailu's fort, maybe you can see it. At this time, Hu Zongren pointed at my mouth and said in surprise, why is your mouth so red? There are also chili noodles. I told him that it is already getting late.
Who cares about the chili noodles? Let’s go now!
After walking from the passage to Cangbai Road, we lay on the row of antique city walls and stretched our necks to see what was going on under the cliff, but we couldn't see anything. There were security guards patrolling and many people talking to us.
We took a group photo with the ancient fort, so we didn’t dare to climb over the city wall to take a look. But at this moment, Hu Zongren pointed to the parking space in the row below and said to me, do you know how to get to that place?
I looked in the direction of his finger and saw the terrace on the fourth floor of Hongyadong from a distance. Between the terrace and the viaduct by the river, there was a corner that was lower than the viaduct. It was a small dam. There was a parking lot on the dam.
It was full of cars. I thought about it carefully. Based on my understanding of this area, the only way to build the parking lot to this location, apart from the garage where we parked before, is the river channel in the other direction, and that
The location of the river channel obviously shouldn't be here. In other words, it should be the garage where we park. I don't know which direction to go around to get to this small dam.
This is undoubtedly an important discovery, so I happily pointed to the viaduct and said to Hu Zongren, look there, we parked there now, and then saw the hole in the cliff wall through the telescope, since we are standing here now
From the angle, we can see the location where we parked before, which means that the location of the cave entrance should be not far from our feet at the moment. And the location where we stand and the small dam where we parked and the location where we first parked on the viaduct happened to be exactly the same.
A straight line means that if we find this small dam, we will definitely be able to see the hole there.
Hu Zongren also smiled happily and took my words and said, if we can clearly see the location of the cave entrance, we can calculate the height of the cave entrance from the top of the cliff or how far it is from the houses, and we can find a way to get in.
Right? I nodded, and Fu Yunni praised Hu Zongren. I can’t tell that you are quite smart. Did she forget that I came up with these theories? So we returned to Hongyadong again.
On the ninth floor, you can take an elevator directly to the garage on the first floor below.
With a specific goal, it is much easier to find. When we parked, we did not find that because the passenger flow was too large, the management had expanded the original garage, and the expanded part.
There is no cover from the garage roof. I asked an old man inside the toll booth who was listening to the radio. I asked him which areas of the garage were open-air. He said that if you walk along here and go inside, there are
There is a curve to the garage on the next floor, but don't go down, walk next to it, there is a place that looks like a garbage dump, you can see it when you walk out from there.
Following the direction directed by the old man, we quickly found the garbage station. The garage was originally dark, with weak lights at best, but after turning around the garbage station, it was bright and a strong river breeze hit our faces.
When I came here, I saw the Taotao Jialing River in front of me. Several huge bridge piers had been erected on the river not far away. This was a newly built bridge in Chongqing called Qiansimen Bridge. It had just started construction not long ago.
It was widely reported in the news a few days ago that with this bridge, the traffic pressure from Jiangbeicheng to Yuzhong District and Nan'an District will be greatly alleviated and the speed will be much faster.
I told Hu Zongren the name of the bridge. He smiled and said, does this bridge connect Hongyadong and Jiangbeicheng? How could it have anything to do with the train in Nan'an District? We people in Nan'an District are not so lucky. I don't know.
Hu Zongren glanced at him and said, "How long have you been married?" and then you called yourself a citizen of Nan'an District. The news also said that there was another bridge built at the same time as the Qiansimen Bridge, right on the Yangtze River. Isn't this a quick trip to Nan'an District?
Already? Another kind of bridge is called Dongshuimen Bridge...
When I said this, I was suddenly stunned. Then I looked at Hu Zongren. Hu Zongren seemed to have discovered something, but we both looked at each other and said nothing. After a long time, Fu Yunni
Then he asked both of us what was written on the note in the coffin? I stammered and said, the cave of Hongyadong, the gate of Dongshuimen, the rock of Hutouyan, and the city of Jiangbei City.
Hu Zongren said, what a fucking coincidence, right? Once the two bridges were repaired, they directly connected the three places in this poem. Do you think it has anything to do with this bridge? I
I frowned, because I really didn’t know. But if it was a pure coincidence between them, I felt unwilling to believe it. I couldn’t figure it out, so I wrote it down secretly for the time being, planning to ask Situ later.
So I said to Hu Zongren, let's stop guessing and ask Master Situ when we go back. Now let's look for the entrance of the cave first.
So we walked along the small driveway, and after dozens of meters, we finally came to a small dam. This dam was about 500 square meters. At the end of the dam was a row of prefabricated houses made of colored steel plates. It was probably
The workers’ dormitory here. The dam was full of cars parked head to head. When we looked up, the top of our head was the Qiansimen Bridge where the deck was about to be built, and facing the cliff at a 45-degree angle above us.
On the wall, although some vines covered a small part of the hole, the hole looked very clear.
The entrance of the cave is not very big. There are a lot of water stains on the earth-yellow cliff because of the thin flow of water flowing out of the entrance. Judging from the distance, the location of the entrance of the cave is far from the Cangbai Road city wall on the top of the cliff.
The location is about ten meters. If you want to enter the cave, rappelling down from the city wall will be a good choice, but you must avoid the hawk-like eyes of the patrolling security guards and have enough courage.
Okay, I personally definitely don’t have the courage, because although I don’t have a fear of heights, I still don’t dare to try something like this that could cause me to be shattered into pieces if I’m not careful, especially since I know that if I go, there will be someone pulling the rope.
If it's Hu Zongren, then I wouldn't even dare to do it.
In addition, in the corner of the Japanese restaurant near the cliff, about twenty meters above and to the left, you can also see the entrance of the cave. However, there is definitely no way to get past this distance, but at this moment we are sure that in
In that restaurant, as long as you find the right angle, you will definitely be able to observe the hole more clearly.
But a new problem came again. When we were on the ninth floor, the door of the restaurant was always closed. There was a sign on the door like "Stay tuned for renovation", but since it was a public place, we definitely didn't dare to open it.
If we leave the door open and let the gypsum dust fly everywhere, if the decoration workers are inside, then what kind of reason should we find to get in, and then go out of our way to observe the entrance of the hole?