Chapter 31: Dusk, the Story of the Bird Tower (2)
One in the south and the other in the north, the distance between the Asuka Tower and the observatory can be described as long and winding. To get to the Bird Tower, it's a long journey through the city's main axis. Sitting on the double-decker bus in the ancient city, looking at the endless traffic in front of him, and looking at the bustling crowd on the street, Ziyun felt the vitality and vitality of the city for the first time.
"Could it be an offering in the Bird Tower, let's go back!" Ziyun and Zhiqiu sat side by side in the front row of the double-decker bus in the ancient city, Ziyun carefully held this beautiful stone in his hand, and sighed and said to Zhiqiu.
"If you want to say that you want to worship, let's be religious, this is not what we take, it's the pagoda for us to be destined for!" Zhiqiu likes this city, the ancient city is a mysterious city, her mystery, from her inclusiveness, in a unique way to accept many cultures from all over the world, those foreign friends who came from the mountains and rivers, injected a lot of fresh blood into the culture of the ancient city, making it novel and diverse, many monks came with the scriptures, engaged in translating and preaching, adding new content to the religious culture.
"It seems that this first love of yours is still very greedy!" Daewoo used his mobile phone to look up information about the Bird Tower, but his mouth was not idle at all.
"He is too obsessed with meteorites, and the incident was caused by me, but it has achieved his hobby and obsession, maybe it is a kind of providence, as if there is a force that attracts us, step by step let us enter the Bird Tower!"
"Flying Bird Tower, formerly known as Bodhi Pagoda, was built in the Qin Dynasty, is the earliest tower found in the ancient city, is a hexagonal seven-story stone tower, according to legend, it is a point building dedicated to the collection of Buddha bone relics," Zhaoyang quickly looked at the information about the Flying Bird Tower with his mobile phone.
"There is such a mysterious pagoda, it stands silently between the many treasure temples in the ancient city, it is a rare sacred pagoda in the millennium, this pagoda is not only mysterious and unique, it has a unique magical power, every full moon night, the birds on the tower gather, the long song does not stop, it is called the bird tower..."Zhaoyang quickly flipped through the mobile phone.
"Bird Tower, isn't it already..."Suddenly, Zhaoyang shouted in surprise, Ziyun snatched the phone, and motioned to Zhaoyang not to talk.
"It's a mysterious pagoda, a magical pagoda, around the tower, there is such a magical story, it can be said that it gave me a subversive understanding of the world, and it also made Zhiqiu indulge in it all his life, unable to extricate himself..."
"That fire has something to do with you!" I said, leaning on the other side of the stone, and suddenly said something, causing Ziyun to turn his head in surprise.
"How do you know?" she asked me aloud, "do you know about the fire? Of course it has nothing to do with me!
I sighed, of course I know the Asuka Tower!
When I was very young, I heard a story: there is Bodhi under the Bodhi Pagoda, suppressing the thousand-year-old fish. This fish endangers the people because of the wind and waves, and when the fish moves, it will cause an earthquake and bring disaster, and as a result, it is pressed under the tower by the Buddha.
It was in the Flying Bird Tower, a babbling little milk baby slowly began to run around from the difficult crawling, and the tower gave him the company of each other!
It was at the Bird Tower that I got to know the reliefs, the lifelike elephants and firebirds carved in the stone!
It was at the Bird Tower that I carefully placed the willow bracelet that my little sister next door gave me in the hole of the tower, and then started to go to school!
It is in the Flying Bird Tower, how many times have I walked under the tower, experienced the vicissitudes of history, looked for the traces of a thousand years ago, and the ears seemed to sound the bursts of Zen sound of the year, and I felt the first Buddhist saying in my life, "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform", so that I can truly understand the inner world!
It is a pagoda made of bluestone! After thousands of years of war, Wei Wei towered, and it stood tall after many earthquakes!
However, just ten years ago!
Ten years ago, after a heavy rainstorm, the Bird Tower suddenly caught fire and was burned to ashes!
Of course, I remember it vividly:
At 3:47 a.m., Uncle Wang next door woke us up with a shout, and I saw through the window that there was a raging fire coming out of the top of the Bird Tower!
At 4:10 a.m., the fire brigade mobilized four fire squadrons and more than 100 firefighters from the north, south, west and east to fight the fire.
At 6:15 a.m., I saw a press release written by Uncle Wang's son next door: "After more than 2 hours of intense fighting, the open flame of the Flying Bird Tower has been completely extinguished, and the tower body has been completely burned, but fortunately, the fire has caused no casualties." At present, the losses caused by the accident are being counted, and the cause of the accident needs to be further investigated. "I lay on the window with tears streaming down my face and was silent for a long time.
Ziyun was silent, and suddenly he turned around and cried bitterly, "That tower, we didn't burn it! That tower, it's not Bodhi!" she said with tears in her eyes.
"What's that?" we asked in unison.
"It's a meteorite!