On the way, I looked at the "New City Gate" standing proudly on the left and asked Uncle Wu suspiciously: "Where does this gate lead, why is there a city gate in the city?" ”

Uncle Wu said: "Tiancheng, do you know, since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army entered the customs, the vast majority of the Qing army is Manchu, and the way of life of the Han people is very different, after the Qing army occupied Xi'an, it established its own Manchu city in the northeast corner of Xi'an Mansion, and drove out all the Han people in the city, and only allowed Manchu people to live. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This full city, there is the "new city gate" in the west and the "Xihua gate" not far in front, there are bell towers, end shoes gate, fence and earth gate in the south, the Han people want to enter and exit the city must be approved and strictly inspected by the local officials of the Qing Dynasty, and they are not allowed to enter with any weapons. When the city was just built, the policy of entering was very strict, and it was necessary to go through three checks before and after, after hundreds of years, the degree of integration between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty was very high, and now it is not so strict, and people who have a little relationship or have a head and face can enter freely. ”

I sighed, "Pathetic! This kind of deliberate estrangement and national integration is really a big regression in history! ”

Uncle Wu said with a smile: "That's not it, people are selfish, and they will do whatever it takes to protect their vested interests!" ”

While talking, we have come to the bell tower, this bell tower happened to be built in the center of Xi'an Mansion, was built in the Ming Hongwu 17 years, and has a history of hundreds of years.

According to historical records, the original site of the bell tower is opposite to the drum tower on the current West Gate Street, and it was only moved to the current position in the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. And there is a rather mythical folklore in this, the legend that the Guanzhong area was originally a vast ocean, Wutai Mountain is just a few scattered islands, and then encountered the earth cracking, the sea water flowed eastward, so a very large underground dark river was formed, there was a big fish in the original sea, unwilling to leave, so it hid in the dark river, every year on March 15, the big fish will swim to the surface of the dark river to breathe air, so that the Chang'an city built on the dark river will shake the mountains, and the small houses will be destroyed, The big river gushes out and kills countless people.

The words show that during the Wanli period, Chang'an City moved more violently, so invited the famous old Taoist priest at that time, the old Taoist priest pinched his fingers and found out the dark river spring, that is, the location of today's bell tower, everyone dug the spring, lured out the big fish, trapped it with iron chains, and then used a thousand catties of boulders to sink the big fish to the bottom of the dark river, and quickly moved the bell tower of Guangji Street to the spring. Since then, there has been no ground movement in Chang'an City.

The legend is a bit mysterious, but it adds a bit of mystery to the bell tower. This bell tower is built on the square pedestal, is a brick and wood structure, the heavy building has three layers of eaves, the form of the four corners of the roof, the eaves are covered with dark green glazed tiles, the top has a gilded treasure roof, the gold is brilliant, it can really be described as a work of ingenuity.

In the face of such a magnificent building, it is inevitable that the heart will be full of poetry:

A grain of dust in the endless sea, and the vast sky is full of stars.

Looking back on the three thousand years of the Han and Tang dynasties, the Yuan and Ming dynasties were brilliant for more than a few years.

The bell and drum lie in the middle of the city, and the dragon and phoenix are auspicious and condensed.

The carved beams and paintings are ghostly axework, and the heavy eaves and arches are magnificent.

I read it out casually, Uncle Wu stood next to me and kept clapping his hands, so I said a few random words, Uncle Wu was a little embarrassed to be like this.

I suddenly noticed where the beggar was, and I was looking for something in a hurry, and I asked curiously, "Beggar, what are you looking for?" ”

The beggar turned his back to me and replied, "I'm looking for pen and ink, and I'm going to write down all the poems of my son!" ”

As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly stopped and said, "You're not doing nonsense, we still have business, let's leave quickly!" ”

After the doorway of the bell tower, Uncle Wu pointed to a five-storey building in front of me and said, "That's our Wenbao Zhai!" ”

I take advantage of the situation to look, not far away Wen Bao Zhai stands on the south side of the road of Nanmen Street, from the side of the past is a five-story antique imitation Tang Dynasty building, more than double the size of Wen Bao Zhai in Wubao County. Golden glazed tiles, vermilion wooden doors and windows, the windows of each floor and every room are hung with a big red lantern, on which are written in italics "Wen Bao Zhai" three big characters, these lanterns flutter back and forth in the breeze, very spectacular!

We followed Uncle Wu for a while and came to the door of Wen Bao Zhai, the door of Wen Bao Zhai is really magnificent, four vermilion doors are two people high, two pairs of majestic stone lions stand at the door, the lion's head is covered with curly hair, open its mouth and raise its neck, its four claws are strong and powerful, and its demeanor is domineering, look at the style and shape of the lion, it should be the Tang Dynasty, just a pair of stone lions at the door is a valuable treasure, and I don't know how many human treasures are hidden in this Wen Bao Zhai.

Next to the gate is a couplet:

Shanglian said: The bag Hua Tianbao laughed and talked about the good feng shui of the ancient city, and the outstanding people of Chang'an City Lingyu Yuqionglou are beautiful.

The next link said: The treasures of the rare world are few treasures in the world, and the treasures of Wenbao Zhai are genuine.

Horizontal criticism said: Who else is me.

After reading this couplet, I looked at Uncle Wu in surprise and asked, "Won't this couplet be too ostentatious?" ”

Uncle Wu said with a smile: "Dare to write like this, I'm afraid there is only our family on the boundary of Xi'an Mansion!" ”

After speaking, Uncle Wu took everyone into Wenbao Zhai.

As soon as he entered the interior of Wenbaozhai, a man who seemed to be the leader of the guys hurriedly ran over from the counter and said to Uncle Wu: "Big shopkeeper, you are back, it's been almost half a month, and there is no news at all, I'm really worried about the dead guys!" ”

Uncle Wu said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, I've been delayed on the road for a few days, it's not safe!" Oh yes, what's going on during this time? ”

The guy replied: "It's not a big deal, but I don't know why the green gang comes to look for people every now and then, but how can they shout at random here, and every time they can't talk a few words and leave!" ”

Uncle Wu said: "That's good, everything will be fine when I come back now." Oh, you look at my memory, so I'm busy talking and forgetting about the distinguished guest, Zhang Jishi came to see the young master! ”

At this time, this note saw my side and said in a daze: "Young master? Could it be that the master is the young master of the family in Wubao County? ”

Uncle Wu said, "Isn't that who else?" ”

Zhang Jishi reacted at this time, and was about to salute in a hurry, I quickly stopped and said: "Zhang Jishi doesn't need to be polite, those who don't know are not guilty, not to mention that I don't know you!" ”

Zhang Jishi said embarrassedly: "Every time the master comes, he talks more or less about the young master, but he has never met. ”

As soon as I heard this, I was a little panicked, I was most afraid that others would say these polite words, so I didn't know how to answer, so I quickly poked Uncle Wu.

Uncle Wu smiled and said to Zhang Jishi: "You go and settle this batch of goods first, and it's not too late to tell you about the heroic deeds of the young master after dinner!" ”

After Zhang Ji said goodbye to me, he took the guys to hurry up, and I took a serious look at the internal layout of Wen Bao Zhai. The interior decoration of this Wen Bao Zhai is as antique as the appearance, the roof is carved with beams and paintings, and all kinds of painted dragons and phoenixes dance, which is quite poetic and picturesque.

Entering the gate is facing a more than ten zhang yellow rosewood counter, such a large size of yellow rosewood is also rare in the world, here should be used for weekday checkout.

A large area on the north side of the entrance is laid out as an antique corridor, with all kinds of antiques and antiquities, which are scattered and ancient.

There are more than a dozen tea tables in the area on the south side of the entrance, and the tea table is placed with a sea of tea and tea sets, which seems to be a place for guests to rest and negotiate prices on weekdays. In such a large space as the hall, the fish, insects, flowers and plants placed are very particular, and they are all arranged according to the direction of the five elements and gossip.

I looked at these and asked Uncle Wu, "These are your masterpieces, right?" ”

Uncle Wu said embarrassedly: "Tiancheng, you are too exalted to me, although I know a little bit about it, but all this is from the hands of the master." ”

It dawned on me that this was indeed my father's style, and it was completely the same style as the layout of Mujia Village's house.

Suddenly, I asked Uncle Wu suspiciously: "There is no guard in such a big building, what if I encounter bandits or robbers?" ”

Uncle Wu said with a smile: "Tiancheng, don't underestimate this emptiness, there is a saying that the most unsafe place is the safest place, and in the same way, the safest place may also be full of dangers, and we are hiding murder here!"

If you want us to open the door to do business, if there are many big men standing in the bright place, everyone will shudder, who wants to do business! Our Wen Bao Zhai has more than 300 first-class masters stationed all year round, either bright or dark, or in the building as a buddy or outside to sell things, as long as someone dares to rob or steal, these masters will immediately appear in front of them, making it difficult to fly.

Besides, this hall is also some small merchants and hawkers on weekdays, and the transactions are also not into the stream, the real good things are upstairs, the higher the floor, the more precious the things, and we are trading upstairs when there are distinguished guests. I'll take you up and see how we're defending when I'm somewhere in time.

And every floor of our floor is densely organized, as long as we find someone misbehaving, immediately activate the machine bracket pin spring, so that those people will not come and go. Therefore, Wen Bao Zhai can be based in Xi'an for a hundred years, and it has its own rules of survival, and people outside are more or less afraid, so the safety issue can be assured. ”

I nodded in response to Uncle Wu.

At this time, I suddenly found that there was no one missing, as if the beggar was gone, and hurriedly asked Uncle Wu if he had seen it, Uncle Wu helplessly pointed to the antique exhibition gallery on the north side and said: "Where is it, as soon as I came in, I plunged in, and this will not come out yet!" ”

I reluctantly walked over and took a look in the corridor, and sure enough, I found the beggar, the beggar was lying on the ground, looking intently at a white marble Buddha statue, I deliberately "cough" twice, and the beggar realized that I was already looking at him.

The beggar quickly got up and said to me embarrassedly: "Childe, the things here are so good, I have never seen such a good baby in my life!" ”

I deliberately teased him and said solemnly: "Do you want to make a fortune with one or two more things?" ”

When the beggar heard this, he immediately panicked and explained incoherently for a long time.

In the end, I finally couldn't hold it back, laughed and said, "Look at you kid, I'm joking!" ”

The beggar was much more relieved and hurriedly hid behind Uncle Wu, who looked at me helplessly and couldn't stop laughing.

Uncle Wu saw that there was nothing to do at the moment, so he said to me: "Tiancheng, I'll take you to the backyard to have a look, it's still big inside!" ”

I nodded excitedly, my curiosity about emerging things was really innate. I followed Uncle Wu, passed through three gates, and came to the backyard, when I saw the backyard for the first time, I was really dumbfounded! What is the "backyard" of this backyard, it is simply the same size as the back garden of the dignitaries and nobles, I don't know how many times larger than the front place, from a distance, the west, north and south sides of the backyard are built five-storey houses, the building of the backyard is connected with the main building in front of it into a structure of the word "back", the courtyard is besieged in the middle of the patio, the ground part of the patio artificially excavates a small lotus pond, which rockery and flowing water, ducks and goldfish are all available.

I walked around the pond, and the yard was full of people, all of whom were doing everything, fetching water, washing rice, washing vegetables, chopping wood, and lighting fires.

Uncle Wu pointed to the house on the west side and said, "The first floor of this house is our Wenbao Zhai's kitchen and dining place, and the second floor and above are used by the handymen and guys to rest at night. The houses on the north and south sides are storerooms on the first floor, and guest rooms on the second floor and above, which are also used for lodging. These three-sided five-story houses, each floor of about 20 rooms, a total of nearly 300 rooms, greatly guaranteed the normal life of Wen Bao Zhai.

I sighed in my heart, where is this still a store? This is simply a self-sufficient little kingdom, as if it has formed a unique survival system of its own. It was only at this time that I slowly came into contact with the real Wen Bao Zhai.

I quipped, "Isn't there an underground chamber or something in such a big place?" ”

Uncle Wu said with a wicked smile: "Tiancheng, I can't hide anything from you, your thoughtfulness is comparable to that of a dozens of years old!" ”

I smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm just talking casually!" ”

Uncle Wu said: "Tiancheng, you come with me!" ”

I followed Uncle Wu straight to the main building.

In fact, I am not talking nonsense, such a big business, there must be many rare treasures, even if this place is guarded as solid, but sometimes bandits in order to survive or revenge, come to a fish to die and break the net, a fire is enough to make everything here turn to ashes, there must be a copper wall, water and fire invulnerable, as solid as a rock to store those and Bi Sui Zhu.

I don't think my father knew this, he should have been prepared, so he asked Uncle Wu like that, and I guessed it. While thinking about it, Uncle Wu had already led me to the hall in front of me just now, and led me straight to the second floor from the stairs on the other side.

As soon as I arrived on the second floor, I felt that there were two pairs of eyes secretly alert observers, but I couldn't see anyone, and it seemed that this Wen Bao Zhai's defense really deserved its reputation. This second floor is divided into many small rooms, each room is given a different name, what "weeping thorn", "nine dragon jade", "Luo Shen Fu", "fish intestine", "Lan Tingxu", "and Shi Bi" and so on, all with the treasures of the world throughout the ages to name, really well-intentioned.

I followed Uncle Wu to a room where "a hundred birds and a phoenix" were made, Uncle Wu opened the door, I followed in, and the door was closed. The placement and decoration of this house is no different from the previous one, and it is all unique. At this time, Uncle Wu walked to the treasure compartment in the wall, turned a vase with his hand, only to hear the squeak of the spring of the machine's pins, and suddenly a sense of weightlessness followed, and then it fell rapidly, and after a while, it came to the ground and stopped. It's so clever that it's not easy to move the whole room back and forth on and off the floor.

After the sound stopped, Uncle Wu pressed a relatively hidden button on the side of the door, and the door opened instantly, presenting in front of me was a brightly lit Yongdao, both sides of the road are made of whole stones, and the stone and the stone are bonded with a mixture of gypsum and glutinous rice, this "mixture of gypsum and glutinous rice" was often used as the main adhesive for the royal construction of tombs in ancient times, very strong, and the shovel was helpless against it.

Following Uncle Wu, after going around a few times, I came to a huge stone gate, the stone gate was carved and hewn with a whole boulder, I tried it with internal force, it was very thick, and it was almost impossible to open it by external force. The area around the stone gate is made of huge boulders that are larger than the road just now, and it looks indestructible.

Uncle Wu walked around the small square on the ground in front of the stone gate, saying that it was "nonsense", which was from the perspective of ordinary people, and I knew that Uncle Wu was walking in the direction of the five elements and gossip just now, which means "sincerity, gold and stone are open", and then Uncle Wu came to the stone gate, took out a golden key from his waist, and inserted it, and suddenly the stone door slowly rose from the bottom to the top, I was very excited to watch from the side, and the moment the stone door was opened, I was going to rush into it to see what this treasure house in the world was like!

Who knew that I hadn't taken half a step, Uncle Wu grabbed me from behind and said, "Tiancheng, don't worry, don't dare to venture here!" ”

I hurriedly retreated in a panic and said, "No, with such a huge gate opened, is there still danger ahead?" So how do we get in? ”

Uncle Wu smiled slightly, took out another key from his waist, and inserted it into a place similar to a round hole in the stone door frame on the side of the opened stone door, and the stone door that rose up immediately flipped over, and the side door next to it actually opened. It turned out that this stone gate turned out to be a "door within a door", and I rushed into it with the same excitement as I did, and then was killed by the mechanism inside, which is really a unique and exquisite design.

I followed Uncle Wu and asked, "This door is from the hands of the world's first craftsman 'Zhu Concrete', right?" ”

Uncle Wu smiled: "You know a lot, you can't hide anything from your eyes!" ”

After entering through the side door and walking a short bluestone road, I was presented with a long straight corridor, and on both sides of the corridor were lined up with small rooms that were full of gold and splendour, without any oil lamps, and were already very bright.

Seeing that I was so stunned, Uncle Wu explained to me: "The treasures placed in each room here are extremely precious, in order to prevent fire, no open flames will be used, the house is covered with gold paper, and then put some fluorite, so that you will look brilliant!" ”

I nodded my head again and again, and asked Uncle Wu: "There are so many treasures hidden in this underground dark room, which is naturally secret, but it is difficult to ensure that someone digs a tunnel to come, so people really don't know it?" ”

Uncle Wu laughed and said: "Tiancheng, you are really different, you are in danger, these things have been thought about when the master built the secret room, from the time we just entered the stone gate, the entire secret room is surrounded by two layers of boulders ten zhang wide, and the middle of the boulder and the boulder are all filled with iron juice, even if you use gunpowder, it will not help!" ”

I asked, "Is the Chamber of Secrets just such a corridor?" ”

Uncle Wu said: "The other one is exactly the same as this one, just on the opposite side." ”

Only then did I roughly understand the overall structure of the secret room, the whole secret room is a "back" character, we came in from directly below, and then the corridors on both sides were stored with treasures, and in the middle was a dead place full of mechanisms, this kind of construction method that defied common sense was really novel. According to the thinking of ordinary people, it takes a lot of effort to open the stone door, and naturally walks straight inside, but the secret room that goes straight into is a dead place full of organs, and if you walk in, you will never come back, and the more institutions, people will feel that the treasure must be inside, and the truth can really be said to be "construction is not important, intentions are not strange".

I suddenly asked Uncle Wu, "The top of this secret room is the patio in the backyard?" ”

Uncle Wu replied in surprise: "You can also see this?" ”

I laughed and said, "According to the direction and walking distance we just came in, it should be about the same, I'm just guessing!" ”

Uncle Wu said: "Your guess is right, this is the patio above, and the boulders around it are the deep foundations of the houses above, so no matter what, our Wenbao Zhai's defense and guards are seamless!" ”

I nodded heavily.

Uncle Wu saw that the time was almost up, so he said to me: "Tiancheng, it is estimated that the above has been arranged, let's go up and rest and prepare for dinner!" ”

At this moment, after I finished reading Wen Bao Zhai's impregnable defense, my heart was relieved, but the matter of the Green Gang lingered in my heart......