Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Ancient City of Pingyao
As soon as I arrived at the side of the road, a white Toyota overbearing came into my eyes - Wang Quan confirmed it on the phone, hung up the phone, and walked towards the Toyota car with me and Bing Cu Ling.
As soon as we walked to the side of the other car, the window was slowly lowered - I saw a fat-headed, round-bellied uncle with a hairstyle from the central support area sitting in the cab, turning his head and looking at us with a smile: "You little dolls are from Beijing, right?"
Wang Quan leaned on the window and said with a smile: "Yes, we are the revolutionary team from the capital, you are Uncle Shao Jie, right?"
I saw the uncle in the car window smiling at Wang Quan: "Yes, the old man asked me to pick you up," Then, the uncle paused, looked at me and Bing Cube Ling with some vigilance, and said to Wang Quan with a smile: "Seeing that you are about the same age as my son, I will call you nephew, I don't know who these two who came with my nephew are ......."
"We areβ" Just as I was about to answer, Wang Quan kicked me with his foot, and then laughed: "You see my memory, I forgot to introduce it to your uncle," Wang Quan turned sideways, looked at Bing Cu Ling, and continued: "This white little brother is my second uncle's cousin," and then his eyes rolled, and he looked at me with some schadenfreude and said, "This is my little sister-in-law." β
it! Is there a mistake! What the hell sister-in-law! My eyes widened at the boss, and his face suddenly boiled hot like boiling water, and he hurriedly explained: "You, you kid, don't talk nonsense......
"Haha, what's so shy, it's all in this age," just when I was about to make it clear, the uncle in the car laughed, and then said: "Okay, okay, since it's all my own family, we don't have to be polite, let's get on the train quickly, I'm tired enough to take the train all night, I'll take you to the family compound to rest and rest." β
"Hahaha. Then we might as well obey our fate!" Wang Quan laughed as he opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat. Seeing that this matter can't be washed away even if I jump into the Yellow River, I am so angry that I can't wait to tear this kid's hands apart!
I stared viciously at the back of this guy. It seems that there are 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in my heart: I am your sister-in-law?
However, Bing Cube Ling still didn't react, like a lump of 10,000-year-old ice, he opened the car door lightly and sat in the back seat.
I see that this guy is so calm, and it is not easy to attack in front of this Uncle Shao Jie. I had to get into the car and slam the door shut.
Uncle Shao Jie saw that we were all in place, so he started the car and drove towards Pingyao City.
Along the way, I silently cursed Wang Quan's guy in my heart: Is it possible to make up nonsense to be reliable? What is a little sister-in-law, is Lao Tzu that old? Take 10,000 steps back, even if it is your sister-in-law, you can't put me and that Bing Tuo together! However, Bing Cube Ling is also good-looking......
The thought of this makes my head dizzy. My face was also a little hot, I quietly glanced at Bing Cu Ling, looking at his cold face, I suddenly felt excited, and the charm in my heart immediately disappeared - if I spent my whole life facing this ice skater, I would be like a sculpture all day long, and I would talk coldly like a corpse, it would be a terrible nightmare!
Just as I was thinking about it, Uncle Shao Jie had already driven the car outside the ancient city of Pingyao.
Looking at the ancient city wall, I quickly shook my head. Throwing all those messy thoughts out of his head, his eyes widened, and he looked out the car window, at this time. Uncle Shao Jie's car was already driving closer and closer: what appeared in front of me was a tall and vicissitudes of ancient brick city wall. The walls of the city stretched endlessly, and at the top of the walls, at intervals, there were battlements, at the end of the walls. There was a small turret, and above the gate we were entering, there was a three-story tower.
Looking at this ancient but still magnificent city wall, I couldn't help but feel a little shocked in my heart, and the slut sitting in front of me looked at the ancient city wall outside the window, and was also amazed: "I said Uncle Shao Jie, this city wall has been around for a long time, right?"
Uncle Shao Jie said with a smile: "What's more, this city wall has a history of nearly 3,000 years, and it is said that the earliest is the period of King Xuan of Zhou!"
Just as Uncle Shao Jie was speaking, we had already passed through the city gate and drove into the ancient city of Pingyao.
As soon as I arrived in the city, my eyes lit up, and I began to look at the rows of buildings around me.
Looking at those quaint houses and neat brick and stone streets, it seems that every brick and tile has a legendary story. Looking at this ancient city that has been washed by the long river of history, I can't help but be more interested in this ancient city, and the royal power, like me, keeps looking out, trying to take in the beauty of the ancient city.
Probably looking at our strength, Uncle Shao Jie smiled and said proudly: "How is it, dolls?
Wang Quan and I nodded again and again, and I muttered with some excitement: "I have long heard the ancient poem praise the ancient city of Pingyao, 'Phoenix Bird Yunyi Place, and see the ancient platform', and when I see it today, it really lives up to its reputation." β
Uncle Shao Jie listened to me, and laughed: "You female doll really has some knowledge! Since you are all interested, then I will tell you about the ancient city of Pingyao," Uncle Shao Jie said while driving the car: "Our Pingyao City, not to mention has a history of more than 2,500 years, just now we came in, it is the West Gate, this city wall, it is said that it was not originally like this, but the rammed earth wall, the Ming Dynasty Hongwu period, only re-wrapped bricks into the current way."
In the Qing Dynasty, our ancient city became the equivalent of the United States."
"Wall Street. Wang Quan and I listened carefully, and blurted out at the same time, Uncle Shao Jie glanced at the two of us, and laughed: "Yes, yes, that's it! My memory is not good, let's go on, in the Qing Dynasty, this is probably a place like a financial center, and there are money village ticket numbers everywhere, but the most famous ticket number in the ancient city at that time was a one named 'Rishengchang', but it also declined later." His house has now been developed into a tourist attraction, and the most famous thing in the house is the underground vault, I heard that the vault was full of priceless treasures, and even the Empress Dowager Cixi borrowed money from his family!"
Hearing this, I couldn't help but be a little surprised: Although the Empress Dowager Cixi borrowed money without knowing whether it was true or not, it was impossible for this underground vault to be filled with sand, right?
"Ouch, it's far away, let's move on to the ancient city," just when I was still stuck in the previous story, Uncle Shao Jie touched his "bright top" and continued: "Our ancient city, there are still many magical places, and the ancient city of Pingyao also has a nickname, called 'Turtle City',"
"Turtle City?" Hearing this novel statement, I couldn't help but be curious, and hurriedly asked, "Why is it called that?"
Uncle Shao Jie continued while turning the steering wheel: "The reason why it is called 'Turtle City' is because from a high place we look at Pingyao Sound City, it is the shape of a turtle as a whole, and the layout and structure are also related to turtles, so it is called 'Turtle City'."
And about this 'turtle city', I also heard an interesting saying from the mouth of the older generation of the family, according to them, a long, long time ago, a 10,000-year-old sea turtle living in the East China Sea became a turtle, one day, it took its children and daughters to the Bohai Sea to travel, excited and careless into the mouth of the Yellow River, entered the Yellow River, it went upriver and then to the Fen River, one day after passing through the Pingyao boundary, saw the mountains in the south of here, continuous, just like the mirage that appeared in the sea. Day and night homesick hometown of this turtle immediately climbed ashore to climb back to the sea, at this time, was discovered by a local fairy, turtle with longevity and kindness to people auspicious happiness symbol, this immortal wanted it to stay here, for the benefit of Pingyao people, so it tied up one of its legs.
The body of the turtle is thick in the front and thin in the back, so the topography of Pingyao City is also high in the south and low in the north.
And in order to prevent this turtle from starving to death, the gods also built a sacred pond in Xiyuan Temple Village, more than ten miles away from the south gate, where there is water, grass and fish for it to eat.
I heard an old man in the family say that he had seen this 'divine pool' before!
It is said that it was in the fifties, and the old people saw this so-called 'divine pond', there is an artesian well in the pool, and the water keeps bubbling out of the well, and the water in the pond is also clean, and the aquatic plants are luxuriant, and there are many small fish in it. It's a pity that during the Yuejin, because of the deep well, it affected the artesian well, and then the divine pond disappeared......"
Just when Wang Quan and I were listening with relish, Uncle Shao Jie slowly stopped the car, smiled at us and said: "The story about our Pingyao, that is, I can't finish it for a day and a night, and I will continue to tell you when I have the opportunity in the future, okay, dolls, get out of the car, let's get to the place." (To be continued.) )