The area of the courtyard is not large, except for the most central ancient tower, the remaining area around it is thirty or forty meters around. Li Rui drove the car to a distance of five or six meters in front of the tower, turned off the engine and got out of the car, and introduced the origin and structure of this ancient tower to Xu Da.

This tower is 36 meters high, is a thirteen-storey dense eaves pavilion type brick tower, the tower plane is octagonal, Sumeru pedestal, there is an octagonal brick pedestal below, the pedestal is three meters high, above is the lotus eaves seat that extends upwards and outwards, and then above is the first layer of the tower body, there is a plain pot door, after entering is a wooden spiral staircase, straight to the top of the tower, standing on the highest floor, through the small door, you can take in the whole Qingyang urban area in the bottom of the eye. Therefore, some cultural relics experts have verified that this is a military tower in the Jin Dynasty period, which was used to watch the enemy situation and be vigilant.

When Li Rui was in elementary school, he often came here to play with his classmates during the holidays, and he also tried to climb up with his classmates. After more than 900 years of wind and sun, the brick surface of each corner of the pedestal has been worn, revealing a lot of places for footing, so it is not too difficult to climb to the pedestal, but it is difficult to climb the lotus cornice seat on the pedestal. Because the cornice seat is stretched upwards and outwards (refer to the lotus seat where Guanyin sits), under normal circumstances, people can climb inward-sloping heights, such as pyramids, but it is difficult to climb outward-sloping heights, such as the outer convex rocks encountered when climbing, so this cornice-pedestal blocks many people. Only those with strong arms, great courage, and extremely high body balance can climb up.

Li Rui had just entered elementary school at the time, he was very short, and his strength was not enough, so he couldn't climb up anyway. More than ten years have passed, and when I came to the bottom of the ancient tower again, I had already entered the year of standing, and I couldn't help but sigh at the fast passage of time when I thought about it. Faster than time passed is the water of the Sangbai River, which has dried up eight or nine years ago, leaving an empty and dry river, recalling the wide river surface and the torrent of the river in the past, and the heart is even more lamenting. Childhood and the river are gone, never to return.

After his introduction, he said, "Let's find a clean ground under the tower to have a drink." Xu Da looked up at the tower and said lightly: "Since they are all here, of course they have to go up to the tower." Let's go up and drink. Li Rui was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "Go up to the tower?" Xu Da looked at him and said, "Why don't you dare?"

Li Rui really didn't dare, although with his current ability, climbing to the tower - in fact, the main thing is to climb to the lotus cornice seat, and then climbing is equivalent to climbing the stairs, without the slightest difficulty - no problem, but with the improvement of his status and status, marrying a delicate wife Qingman, After making a few lovely confidantes, and then attracting a good future in the future, I unconsciously began to spare my life, unwilling to take risks for this unnecessary action, but listening to Xu Da say this, I didn't want to lose in person, and deliberately laughed loudly: "How is it possible? How could I not dare, I just don't think there is ...... need"

Xu Da intercepted and said: "It's necessary, I want to drink with you on the top of the tower, the scenery on the top of the tower must be very good, right?"

Hearing him say this, Li Rui was also a little moved, he really hadn't been to the top of the tower, he hadn't experienced the beautiful scenery at the top of the tower, even if it was night, the top of the tower should have its own scenery, but he hesitated and said: "At night, the black light is blind, and it's not easy to climb up...... Besides, I haven't been up to the tower, so I'm not familiar with ......the environment."

Xu Da intercepted and said: "Won't you be familiar with going up and walking once?" In this way, I'll go up first, you go up and you hand me the beer, and then I'll pull you up again, and we'll go to the top of the tower together." ”

He said so, and Li Rui couldn't refuse anymore, so he gritted his teeth secretly and said yes.

Xu Da returned to the car, started the engine again, drove the car to the bottom of the tower and parked, jumped out of the car after turning off the engine, jumped on the front of the car again, stood from the front of the car to the roof of the car, walked two steps to the base of the ancient tower, jumped up with the brush, grabbed the lotus eaves seat with both hands, and stepped on the wall of the pedestal alternately a few times, and did not see how hard he worked, and he had already "swished" on the cornice seat, and had gone up to the first floor.

"Give me beer!"

He turned around and shouted at Li Rui.

Li Rui stared at him, he was shocked by his kung fu again, and thought to himself that he could also borrow the roof of the car to climb up, but it was definitely not as easy as him to climb up, and he would go up with two clicks like a monkey, and he estimated that he would have to climb for a while, mainly because the lotus eaves seat that protruded outward was too disgusting, and if he wanted to climb up, he had to use his feet to borrow strength on the wall of the pedestal, but once he borrowed strength, it would cause the center of gravity of the body to lean back outward, and it was easy to fall; , he is far worse than him.

He sighed, took out the two boxes of beer from the car twice, put them on the roof of the car, and then climbed onto the roof of the car, lifted the boxes one by one and handed them to Xu Da, who was squatting on the lotus cornice. Xu Da took it one by one, put it in the tower door, and said, "Okay, you come up, I'll pull you." ”

Li Rui remembered that there was a big bag of peanuts in the car, so he went down to get it again, returned to the car and handed it to Xu Da, walked to the pedestal, followed Xu Da's example, jumped up, grabbed the lotus cornice seat with both hands, stepped on the wall of the pedestal with both feet, and worked hard to climb to the cornice.

He didn't want Xu Da to look down on him, he didn't plan to borrow Xu Da's strength at all, and wanted to climb up on his own, so he used all his strength as soon as he got up, and he climbed very quickly, and his upper body quickly climbed to the cornice.

Xu Da said: "Okay, just put the leg piece up." After speaking, he laughed out loud, and said with pride: "Because of my identity and work, I have made very few friends, and I can't imagine that among the few friends, there is one who is willing to be born and die with me, and even take risks in order to drink with me, yes, Brother Li, you are really good, but it is nothing that you dare to risk climbing the tower for me, I didn't pay attention to it at all, do you know what I value you most?"

Li Rui didn't dare to reply, for fear that as soon as he spoke, he would vent the breath that the dantian had stopped, if he was really deflated, it would be difficult to climb up again, so he didn't answer, he took a deep breath, supported his arms on the eaves seat, and his body rose with strength, and his right leg came up with the right leg on the eaves of a lotus flower, and then he worked hard with his hands and feet, and finally climbed to the cornices with difficulty.

He gasped for a few breaths before asking, "What do you value the most?"

Xu Da patted his shoulder with his big hand and said with a smile: "What I value most is that you are not afraid of getting your clothes dirty when you climb the tower, and you can climb when you say it, which ordinary people can do, but the more ordinary people are, the more there is nothing to say, but with your current status, it is not easy for you to do this." ”

Li Ruiha laughed and said: "How can I have any status? Even if there is a little, it is bullshit in front of you, brother? You don't care about soiling your clothes, what am I afraid of? If you get dirty and wash, you will get it!" Xu Da said: "You mean that I am the son of the vice governor? Brother, you are not bad, the governor's son-in-law, we are half a catty." Li Rui shook his head and said, "No, it's your work identity." Xu Da sighed and said, "I no longer have a position, and now I am an ordinary officer." Li Rui was taken aback and said, "Isn't it? Why?" Xu Da patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, go to the top of the tower, and talk while drinking, I'm just annoyed by this." ”

The two of them got into the tower gate, and one of them carried a case of beer and climbed to the top of the tower. Xu Da walked in the front, holding a flashlight in his hand to illuminate it. Li Rui lagged behind, and the bag of peanuts was placed on the beer crate.

The first few floors of the tower are relatively filthy, there are feces toilet paper and various food bags on the ground, it seems that there have been many uninvited guests like the two of them in the past, but the more you go up, the cleaner the tower becomes. Of course, the cleanliness of this place is only relative, and compared to the filth of the previous layers, there are still a lot of cobwebs and birds' nests inside. In addition, the higher they climbed, the stronger the wind became, and when the two of them came to the top of the thirteen-story tower, they already felt a little walking in the wind.

The tower on the thirteenth floor is extremely small, equivalent to a small attic, and it is basically full for two people and two cases of beer, and it is only slightly more spacious when you sit down. In fact, when the two of them reached the top, they opened the beer crate and sat down with the paper under their buttocks.

The tower height of thirty-six meters (of course, the thirteenth floor where the two are located is less than thirty-six meters), it is nothing in the urban area, sixty or seventy meters or even more than 100 meters of high-rise buildings abound, but in the suburbs of the city, it is a very high existence, and the ancient tower is built on a side of the earthen hill, the earthen hill is more than a few dozen meters above the horizontal plane, so that the top of the tower has a height of seventy or eighty meters, such a height, in the suburbs of the city can be said to overlook all beings.

Inside the tower, the night breeze passes through the layers, and the wind whistles with the warmth of spring and the vicissitudes of history; outside the tower, it is pitch black, and all the sounds are silent. Looking at the west through the tower gate, in the dark and distant night, you can see the brilliant lights in the urban area, like a mirage, and like a fairy market at night, giving people a vague, distant, and unreal feeling. Of course, it also makes people feel more and more quiet and cold at the top of the tower.

"The dangerous building is 100 feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands. I dare not raise my voice, for fear of frightening the people in heaven. ”