Chapter 62: The Ancient City of Xizhou (1)

After eating at noon, Liu Yunwen sat for a while and was about to go back to school. Chen Yajie tried everything to keep her and asked her to go back to school after dinner.

Liu Yunwen insisted on refusing, saying that she was worried today, and she was really embarrassed.

After all, it was her first time to come to the house as a guest, Chen Yajie understood her restraint and shyness, and did not force her to keep her, but said very sincerely that she could come to the house to play often on Sundays, and their whole family welcomed her at any time.

Liu Yunwen could see the sincerity and tenderness in Chen Yajie's eyes when she said this, and nodded very movingly and agreed.

Chen Yajie took Liu Yunwen's hand and sent her outside the hospital, her expression was like a mother who was about to send her daughter away, and she was reluctant to give up.

Wu Lanyun wanted to go back to school with Liu Yunwen, but she was bored staying at home, and wanted to go shopping with Liu Yunwen, but when she saw Wu Long proposing to send Liu Yunwen back to school, she stuck out her tongue and retracted it, and stopped talking.

Liu Yunwen didn't want Wu Long to send it, so she couldn't refuse, so she let him go.

Chen Yajie and Wu Lanyun returned to the house, and Wu Hui asked Wu Lanyun, "Where are you this fellow scholar?" In his heart, he was still wondering where the internal force in Liu Yunwen's body came from.

Wu Lanyun said: "She is from Wuma Town. ”

Wu Hui was stunned for a moment: "Wuma Town? "He is very familiar with Wuma Town, he has never heard of any martial arts master families, and now he knows the few martial arts celebrities in the Jiufeng Mountains, who has such profound internal strength?

Wu Hui let out a casual "oh" and asked casually, "Who else is in her family?" ”

Chen Yajie said on the side: "This is a hard-working child, I didn't let you ask her about the family just now for fear of hurting this child." So he told him what her daughter told her about Liu Yunwen's family situation.

Wu Hui listened and fell into deep thought for a while.

Wu Long sent Liu Yunwen back to school without driving, he had an extra mind, it takes about 40 minutes to walk from Yulongwan Community to Xizhou No. 1 Middle School, and it takes up to ten minutes to drive there. He didn't want to lose this opportunity to spend a little more time with her.

Liu Yunwen didn't think about it so much, at the gate of the community, she turned around and said to Wu Long, I want him to go back, I don't need him to send it, this is not far from the school, she walked back for a walk.

Wu Long was very well-behaved and smiled at her: "I know you want to take a walk and look around, so I didn't drive you." From here to your school, it is basically an old road in the ancient city, and there are many historical sites worth seeing, which is very helpful for you to understand the history of Xizhou. I'll send you back and I can give you some introductions along the way, isn't that good? ”

Liu Yunwen listened to Wu Long's words, but she didn't know what to say for a while. Wu Long seemed to see through her thoughts, she really thought so in her heart, but she never thought of asking Wu Long to accompany her.

Xizhou is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,000 years, with profound cultural heritage, and there are many ancient buildings and cultural relics left in the ancient city. Although Liu Yunwen said that she grew up in Xizhou, she is in the countryside, the local humanities knowledge is limited, Xizhou local history and culture know very little, very early in the ancient city to take a closer look at the idea of feeling the historical and cultural atmosphere of this thousand-year-old city, she has also been alone in the ancient city wall, ancient archway, ancient city building, ancient courtyard to see, that is just to see, their history is still unknown, the information does not know how to check, where to check.

Hearing Wu Long say this, she unconsciously aroused her curiosity again, she looked at him and asked, "How much do you know about the history of Xizhou?" ”

Wu Long smiled: "I don't dare to say that I know very well, but I should be able to meet your question, hehe." ”

Liu Yunwen listened to his words, smiled for the first time in front of him, and said, "You blow it!" ”

But she still believed his words in her heart. After half a day of contact with Wu Long, her opinion of him has changed a lot.

Wu Long was very happy to see Liu Yunwen showing a rare smile to him, and if he had won the lottery at this time, it would not have made him so happy now.

The ancient city of Xizhou is about 20 square kilometers, and although it has been destroyed by countless wars in history, it is still relatively well preserved. Now the three sides of the ancient city are already rising modern new cities, only the streams and rivers that surround the city are still flowing north day and night. Except for the remaining sections of the city walls on the south and east sides, which are still well preserved, the rest have been severely damaged, some by man, and some by natural collapse due to disrepair.

One-third of the area of the ancient city is now wasteland, which used to be the most prosperous area in the county, and every war in the past dynasties has not spared the destruction here, it is all destroyed and built, built and destroyed. If you dig a few meters down from any spot on this ground now, there will be broken bricks and charred embers below, and now this once prosperous land is overgrown with weeds. How to revitalize this ancient, once prosperous land has also become a problem that the government is thinking about.

The ancient county town once had four city gates. Now only the South Gate and the East Gate are intact. The east gate is in the campus of Xizhou No. 1 Middle School, and the north end of the city gate is no longer connected by a city wall, and is replaced by a new teaching building. If it weren't for the government's efforts to protect historical relics and monuments as much as possible, it is estimated that this ancient city gate would have been destroyed long ago. The south gate is in the center of the ancient county seat, and it is still the only passage for people to enter and exit the county, the structure is still quite intact, and there are many people who come in and out every day, which is very lively.

If Liu Yunwen wants to return to school from Yulong Bay, she must pass through the west gate of the ancient city. The ancient city walls on both sides of the west gate are still there, and they are also well preserved, according to Wu Long, the west city gate was destroyed in a war in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and has not been repaired since. The walls on the west side of the gate are higher than those on the east and south gates, both of which are eight meters high, but here they are ten meters high, and the footings are much wider.

Outside the foot of the city wall, there are many neatly arranged ancient houses, Wu Long told Liu Yunwen that these houses were all moved out of the city after being destroyed in the war, and now it can be seen that many of the eaves beams, wooden strips, and door panels in these houses have traces of being burned by fire, and some of the eaves beams are also attached to the black coke.

Although Wu Long does not have a comprehensive understanding of the history of Xizhou, he is still familiar with some basic things. He introduced to Liu Yunwen that Xizhou had already set up a county in the Han Dynasty, Tang was the state, and the Ming was the government, and it has always been an important town under the rule of the monarch. According to the records of Xizhou County Chronicles, the initial Xizhou city wall building was more than 200 years earlier than the ancient city wall building in Xi'an. At that time, the people of Xizhou only tamped the soil of digging the moat in the county seat Zhouzhou to form an earthen city wall, until the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the protection of the county seat for the needs of war, only began to overhaul the city wall.

Xizhou is located at the junction of the three provinces, guarding the traffic arteries from east to west, south to north, and its strategic position is very important. The outside of the city wall is full of standard square bluestone, each piece of bluestone weighs more than 150 catties, the city wall is eight to ten meters high, and the four city gates have reached six meters wide and twelve meters high.