Although this can be regarded as a breakthrough, it gave Hu Zongren and I a very ominous premonition. We all know that the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, according to convention, is the month with the most frequent ghost activities. And in this month
Among them, the period starting from July 14th to July 16th of the lunar calendar is the most serious. Regarding Ghost Month and Ghost Festival, although there are many traditional opinions, in Hu Zongren and I’s opinion, it is because of the time of year.
The yin energy of this month is the strongest, which is like a stimulant, which objectively leads to frequent ghost activities. Many ghosts that have been dormant all year round are ready to move in these few days.
Hu Zongren said, I really didn’t expect those old bastards to pick such a difficult day for me. They really took so much trouble. Master Tiesongzi also said, I guess this is when Mr. Situ called you and said,
The sooner the better. He knows that there will be a lot more ghost things starting from tomorrow, and the two of you can't be distracted to do other things at the moment, so you must hurry up and find the clues in this place within today.
Come out, if it were tomorrow, I'm sure there would be some trouble.
Sure enough, Jiang is still old and hot. Although Master Situ didn't say it clearly on the phone, he had already thought of this. But looking at this empty doorway, you can directly see the other end from one end, as far as you can see.
Everywhere where something could be hidden was clearly visible. I couldn’t help but go around to the back of the stone tablet next to the doorway, wanting to see if they had just carved some words on the back of the stone tablet, but
As soon as I bent down to check, I smelled the smell of urine in my nose. It was probably a drunk person who used this place as a public toilet. Master Tiesongzi shouted on the side, saying, "Don't leave."
Thanks for the trouble, I checked all these places carefully.
It's approaching lunch time, and the weather is starting to get very hot. The cicadas on the trees are chirping endlessly, which makes people feel even more impetuous. I'm the kind of person who finds it difficult to calm down and continue thinking about problems once I become impetuous.
, so I paced back and forth in the doorway. Hu Zongren suddenly asked Master Tiesongzi, if the other party really wants to hide something, would it be so obvious? Because if it is hidden so that everyone can find it, then
It was very likely that it was taken away by others? Master Tiesongzi clapped his hands and said, yes, why didn't we think of that? Those people who want to punish you spent so much time hiding things here, and their purpose is to let us
Find it without being discovered by others. Tiesongzi shouted to me, how many times have you walked back and forth there, my eyes are blurred, please come and help me think.
I never thought about it. As soon as Hu Zongren said this, I immediately thought that this was indeed true. So I began to analyze it quickly. Assuming that I was a passerby, usually when I passed by such a city gate,
If this is my first time here or I come here with the intention of sightseeing and seeking my roots, I will definitely stop here to read the words on the stone tablet and the mottled ancient city gate.
There won't be anything hidden. And if I were a person who lived nearby or passed by here every day, then I wouldn't look at the things here at all. And the people in Xuanyuanhui will definitely treat the first category
People think about it, because before we find what they have hidden, they don’t even want it to be seen by anyone. That is to say, unless they are like me, Hu Zongren and Master Tiesongzi who have made up their minds to come here.
Only those who are looking for something have a chance to see it.
And I immediately thought that the way we think is fundamentally different from that of many ordinary people. They probably infer the essence of things through the phenomena, but we do the opposite. We know the essence, and all we lack is
It's just a phenomenon. When I thought about this, I started to get a little excited. Because if my guess is correct, the Xuanyuan Society people even calculated that we will spend a lot of time looking for this place, and the length of this time is far more than
It attracts ordinary tourists or photography enthusiasts, and we will definitely look around. Since the poem mentions the gate of Dongshuimen, if it has nothing to do with the gate itself, his poem cannot be called poetry. In the end, it will have to be
Let’s despise it. Thinking of this, I am sure that this “door” may not be the purpose, but a necessary part to achieve this purpose.
So I ran to the bottom of the ladder and asked Hu Zongren and Master Tiesongzi to stand aside, leaving as much space for the door opening as possible for me. I was facing the door opening of Dongshui Gate, and kept moving back until I was behind me.
It was at the fort ridge that was reinforced with foundation stones for another section of the city wall that I stopped. Starting from where I stood, I looked through the city gate hole and looked as far away as possible.
At the end of the doorway, there is an abandoned semi-curved section of newly built antique city wall. I am very familiar with this section of city wall. It is the Jianghu restaurant opened by a friend of my friend. The newly built city wall is not very long.
Over time, the joints of the bricks were filled with cement, and almost everyone who passed through this door was a must-pass. If something was hidden there, someone with a slightly sharper eye would definitely be able to find it immediately, and
I haven't seen anyone with such a keen eye, which means this place is definitely not the place.
So I walked in the opposite direction, passed through the doorway, leaned against the newly built city wall, and looked through the doorway at the ridge between me and my back. The base of this ridge was a section of the old city wall at Dongshuimen.
, it is covered with moss, and because it is high above the ground, I see the city wall from a bird's-eye view. It is about one and a half people's height close to the ground, and it was a bare wall that the municipal government had done to prevent landslides.
The fort ridge is clearly visible at a glance, but the old city wall above the fort ridge has not filled the gaps. There were many gaps left for unknown reasons in the early years, and they were just a pass. The side facing me was only about three meters wide.
It is undeniable that if this place were me, I would feel more at ease hiding something here. So my excellent eyesight came into play again, and I began to slowly shift my position, and began to look for anything in the gaps.
A little clue. Sure enough, when I moved closer to my right hand side, from the angle, I could clearly see a red thing in the gap.
The place I was standing at the moment happened to be on the side of the wall near the city gate. There were spider webs, some dampness and garbage dumps. I calculated that whether it was from the direction of the pier to the Huguang Guild Hall, or from the direction of the Huguang Guild Hall,
Coming down, there shouldn't be many people who can walk around such a large radius to my current location, and the red thing in the middle of the dark green moss stone is quite easy to spot when you look carefully. After all, red and
The contrast between the two colors green is quite large. So I waved to Hu Zongren and said, look at that place. Does that red thing look like the red cloth bag we found in Hongya Cave before?
Master Tiesongzi and Fu Yunni also came over to take a look. Everyone looked very excited when they saw the red thing. Although we haven't taken it out yet, we all know in our hearts that our industry requires too many guesses and assumptions.
Requires luck.
After confirming that it was what we were looking for, I started to have a little trouble. The place where the red thing was hidden was about 5 meters above the ground, which means that the two Yao Mings together would have to stand on tiptoe to reach it.
There is a brick wall built by nearby residents. On the top of the brick wall are broken glass, beer bottles, etc., which are inlaid with cement at the top of the wall. This shows that the inside of the wall is someone's private property, and the glass is inlaid to prevent those
A thief who climbs over the wall to steal things. Originally, this is not difficult for anyone. He can just knock out the glass shards secretly. Especially when Hu Zongren and I most of the time, our professional attributes are not much different from those of thieves.
But the terrible thing is that the position of the saffron thing is almost three meters away from the top of the brick wall, and below these three meters is another five meters, which means that if any of us follow the wall,
If you climb down, if you don't pay attention, you will fall into a fool.
It was broad daylight, so it was probably not realistic to climb over the wall. I began to wonder how those Taoist priests from the Xuanyuan Society put this thing up there. There were only walls around here, and there was no chance of finding a way to get a foothold from the side.
No. At this time, Tie Songzi suddenly asked me, how tall are you? I said 1.75 meters. He asked Hu Zongren how tall he was, and he said 1.8 meters. I said you fart, you are obviously only 1.78 meters! He said okay
Maybe that's because he has shrunk a bit with age. Tiesongzi touched his pointed chin, which was bare and had no stubble, and said, "You said it must be more than 3 meters when you two are stacked up. Let's go buy it again."
A fork stick, isn't that enough?
The meaning of "fork stick" in Chongqing is a bamboo stick-like thing used to support the hangers for hanging clothes, so that the clothes can be hung higher, usually only about half the height of a person. But Hu Zongren and I haven't agreed yet.
At that time, Master Tiesongzi had already taken Fu Yunni on his arm and walked towards the small wholesale stores selling daily necessities on the roadside. I was stunned for a while, and then said to Hu Zongren, how can we stack them? Hu Zongren also
Before he could come to his senses, he stammered, probably... it's just me stepping on your shoulders... I said it was impossible and I would never allow others to step on my shoulders. This is my principle. Hu Zongren said,
Then you can step on me. I said Tiesongzi and your woman have forgotten that your face is relatively long. It needs to be reduced by at least half a meter! Hu Zongren said it is not that long, so let’s let them buy one more
root?
I nodded, because I felt that Hu Zongren was smarter than me at the moment. So Hu Zongren shouted loudly to Tiesongzi and Fu Yunni in the distance, buy one more one, buy some rope, and connect the fork sticks.
together!
After a while, they bought it back. So Hu Zongren and I had to endure the acrobatic looks from passers-by, while I stepped on Hu Zongren’s shoulders, and we both had to maintain balance as much as possible.
I stretched the two forked sticks connected together as far as possible. Because Hu Zongren kept swaying underneath, I almost fell down several times. After trying several times, I slowly mastered the trick and sewn the stones together.
He took out the red thing and dropped it to the ground with a thud.
I quickly asked Hu Zongren to squat down slowly until I thought I was a distance away from falling, and then I jumped down. The two of us had been working under the scorching sun for a long time and were already sweating, so we sat on the stone stairs panting.
At this time, Master Tiesongzi suddenly said, "Ah! Why didn't I think of buying a few more forks? Can't we stretch them longer? We can take them out while standing!"
After Hu Zongren and I heard this, our noses sore and we held our heads in pain.