Chapter 5 Experiences in the Ancient City

Looking at the towering buildings everywhere, the streets are full of cars and people, and there are many traffic lights, for fear that something will happen. Slowly drove to the vicinity of the Xiangxianqiao antique market, found a hotel in a remote location, parked the car and went forward to go through the housing procedures, and asked for a single room, the price is really expensive, it actually costs 188? I haven't lived in a hotel for a few years, and the price has become more expensive, no wonder the house prices here are so high! I don't know when I can afford to buy my own house!

While sighing, he quickly found the room, put down his backpack and looked at the time, it was already six o'clock in the evening. Let's go out and find a small restaurant to solve the problem of dinner.

Walking on the street, there are many restaurants on both sides, I found a noodle restaurant casually, look at the menu on the wall, it's okay, the price is not expensive, the medium bowl of beef rice noodles is only ten yuan. After asking the boss for a medium bowl of beef rice noodles, the boss came over with a plate and a tea egg on it.

This is a gift, right? Ji Kai didn't say anything, he looked left and right, it seemed that he had all of them, so that's fine. Ji Kai cracked the eggshell, put the egg into the rice noodles brought over, and ate it like this. The portion is full and the taste is average, so it's better to keep eating, it's good to have it!

After eating about half a bowl of rice noodles and eating all the eggs and beef, I couldn't eat it anymore, so I sighed and checked out and left. Back on the street, the crowds of people and the flashing lights around made Ji Kai feel a little panicked. It's been too long for an otaku to live! I can't adapt to the life of a big city, forget it, let's go back to take a shower and watch TV and sleep!

When I returned to the hotel, I took a hot shower, turned on the TV and changed the channel randomly, but I didn't find any good programs. I don't think I have watched TV in the past few years! I have been reading novels on the Internet! I still have the excitement of my first language ability, coupled with the blindness of my future, I turned off the TV, lay on the bed and played with my mobile phone for a while, and then went to sleep.

Rongcheng is the provincial capital and sub-provincial city of Shu Province, the science and technology, commerce, financial center and transportation hub in the southwest region of China, an internationally important high-tech industrial base, a trade and logistics center and a comprehensive transportation hub, and an important central city in the western region.

The territory of Rongcheng has a flat terrain, a vertical and horizontal river network, abundant products, and developed agriculture, and has the reputation of "the land of abundance" since ancient times. It is also a famous historical and cultural city, according to historical records, about the middle of the fifth century BC in the ancient Shu Kingdom Enlightened Dynasty IX moved the capital from Guangdu Fanxiang to Rongcheng to build the city.

In 256 B.C., Li Bing, the Taishou of Shu County, learned from the experience of his predecessors in water control, led the local people, presided over the construction of the famous DJI water conservancy project, and built stone people to measure DJI water, making Rongcheng a real "country of abundance".

In the long history of thousands of years, she has not only left many places of interest to attract tourists from all over the world, but also spread all over the streets of the city, and the famous city is also very characteristic and interesting.

Let's take a look at the numbers in the name of Rongcheng Street first:

Yixinqiao Street, Erxian Bridge, Sanyuan Lane, Sidao Street, Wuzhao Road, Liulichang (homonym), Qijia Lane, Balizhuang, Jiusi Lane, Shilidian, Baishou Road, Qianxiang Street, Wanfuqiao. The street name actually contains numbers from "one" to "ten thousand", which is very interesting.

Now there are some very interesting terms circulating among the people of Rongcheng, such as: we generally say "it is convenient" to go to the toilet, and Rongcheng is "to relieve your hands".

Legend has it that I don't know whether it was Zhang Xianzhong in Shu Province at the end of the Ming Dynasty to plunder the population, or later because of the heavy casualties in Shu Province forced to drive the people from other provinces and cities to Shu Province, on the road because of the fear that the people would make trouble, they used hemp rope to tie the people's hands together, if there is a need to go to urinate, you must report, you will say: "Trouble to relieve your hands, I want to go to poop (urine)." Later, it gradually became that going to the toilet was called "relieving".

When the old people tell this story, they will say to children who do not believe:

"If you don't believe it, you roll up your cuffs and see if there is a trace on your arm, which was left when you tied your hands back then, passed down from generation to generation, remember that your ancestors came to Shu Province like this!"

At seven o'clock in the morning of the next day, Ji Kai got up early with anticipation because he slept for a long time, and hurried to the Xianqiao antique market without eating after washing.

The origin of the name of the fairy bridge is also very folk characteristics, legend has it that on the third day of the third lunar month, the folk rush to the temple fair, and the eight immortals come here to enjoy with the people. In the vicinity of today's Qingyang Palace Sanhua Building (the bridge is less than 300 meters away from the Qingyang Palace), people see He Xiangu scattering five-colored flowers on the Sanhua Building, and the address of today's Baihua Bridge is the location of the Yuxian Bridge in that year;

Later, a famous scholar from Shu Provincial University proposed another version of the myth and legend, "There was a bachelor who walked on the bridge of the river in the early morning...... A visitor stopped and stared at it, exclaiming, "This is the eight caves in the sky, the golden immortal, Lu Dongbin also came to watch the lanterns and enjoy the flowers...... Since then, the legend of meeting the fairy bridge and sending the fairy bridge has spread all over the world.

At this time, there are already small vendors on the roadside on the roadside to put all kinds of antique objects, from calligraphy, painting, porcelain, to villain books, coins, etc., it seems that it has been estimated that it has been a short time, I don't know if it is really when the "ghost market" opened, Ji Kai went to this kind of place for the first time, and his understanding of the "ghost market" is only limited to the description in the novel, and the eyes are myopic and the situation is not clear and he is not ready to determine whether there is really a "ghost market". Ji Kai estimated that these people would also set up stalls for a period of time, because when the time for work came, China's well-known special combat unit, the chengguan, would have to be mobilized, and it was estimated that there would be another chase battle at that time! Who told you not to set up stalls in the market! However, each has its own reasons, and it is not good who is right and who is wrong.

Whatever, while there's still time, let's take a look. Ji Kai took three steps and walked two steps, slowed down when he approached the stall, and stopped to watch from time to time. Well, this one is fake, that one is also fake. Ji Kai saw some things that were obviously old for people to work, such as "Amber", the beetles in it were modern "morning glory" insects, and there were many bubbles, who could this fool, it is estimated that the real cost is less than a dollar!

As for the other coins, it may be real, but they are very common and obviously worthless. Calligraphy and painting, but I know what is written on it, but I can't tell whether it's true or not. Ji Kai was disappointed, it was really as he imagined, the ability of language was not useful for antiques at all.

It's probably no drama today. Although I think so, I still have to continue to shop when I come here, so I should look at the strangeness. After shopping around the stalls outside the market, I walked into the Songxianqiao antique market.