Chapter 83: Divine Bricks

Lin Zi suddenly stopped, pointed to a city brick and said, "Look, there are words on it." I crouched down and looked closely, and there were words, "It looks like a person's name." Then look carefully, and find that the existing bricks have the word "age" on them, and a few of them are kiln bricks left over during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. I said to Lin Zi: "Girl, you are more careful than me, how many times have I been here over the years, and I haven't paid attention to it." "Going further, we also found a city brick in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, which clearly reads, "Chen Fu, Liling County, Changsha Prefecture, promoted the official history of Chen Fu, August of the seventh year of Hongwu." "At that time, which kiln was responsible for firing had to be held responsible for life, and the kiln bricks were engraved with the name of the official in charge of manufacturing, so that if there was a quality problem, the person responsible could be traced immediately.

It seems that the people of the Ming Dynasty have a deep understanding of the harm of the "tofu slag" project, and the management work is better than we do now. Speaking of which, this is not a new idea, as early as the Warring States Period, the names of the craftsmen were engraved on the weapons made by the Qin State, and the heads were killed if there was a quality problem. I don't know why, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the people of the old Star City called the big green bricks of the ancient city of Tianxingge "Divine Bricks", and some of the people spent money to buy the city bricks left by the demolition of the wall at that time to repair the house and lay the ground, and some of the city bricks were simply stolen by the people. After more than 600 years of wind and rain and the baptism of war, the blue kiln bricks of the Ming Dynasty can be intact, the so-called absorption of the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, but also a little divinity.

Climb to the highest floor of the attic, the front of you is open, and immediately there is a feeling of "extreme eyes Chu Tianshu", and it is natural to think of the eternal swan song of Huang Zhaomei, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, "The clouds and mountains on all sides are in the eyes, and the fireworks of thousands of families are always concerned". Now there are more high-rise buildings around, and the clouds and mountains on all sides are seen less, if you come at night, you can experience the "ten thousand lights are always related", which is also a very beautiful picture.

Huang Yue said that I was on the city tower with my head held high and read aloud the famous sentences, which was very great. When I was feeling good about myself, there was a flock of pigeons that didn't seem to be very friendly to me, hovering low in the air, passing over my head again and again, whistling past me like a bunch of mischievous street thugs on skates or skateboards, which was a demonstration. One of them threw a piece of bird poop**, and hit the wooden handrail of the fence with a "poof", which was so dangerous that it almost landed on my head, and what was even more odious was that a guy on the eaves was still laughing "cooing". I thought you were still laughing, and if you laughed again, I would go to the vegetable market tomorrow and tie up a few of your fat relatives and go home to braised them.

Having said that, the majestic ancient pavilion and the smart pigeons, in the sky and on the ground, the movement and stillness are suitable, and there are many good sentences and celebrity anecdotes that have been handed down. In the spring of 1960, Mao ** and Zhou Enlai walked by the Xiangjiang River in Xingcheng, looking at the head of Orange Island from afar, Mao Yixing flew away, and his mouth occupied a couplet: "Orange Island, Zhou next to the boat, Zhou Xingzhou is not good", this linkage is relatively quiet, the artistic conception is far away, three broken sentences, two "thimbles", "Zhou" and "Zhou" are homonyms, and it is not easy to deal with them. Zhou Cai's quick thinking, familiar with geography, within a hundred steps to get the next link: "Tianxing Pavilion, pigeon in the pavilion, pigeon flying pavilion does not fly." Mao was a little surprised: "Have you ever seen this couplet?" Zhou said, "No, it was the pigeons on the Tianxing Pavilion Teahouse that inspired me." Mao ** said: "The warriors are the same clan, the poets rhyme, and the world is the same." There was once a couplet made by a famous master of the Ming Dynasty on the Tianxing Pavilion, and the content was roughly like this. What Mao said was the wonderful couplet of Li Dongyang of the Ming Dynasty on the attic column: "The water and land continents are boats, and the boats are not moving; Tianxin Pavilion perches on pigeons, and pigeons fly pavilions do not fly".

I have the impression that pigeons have always been indispensable on the Star Pavilion since I was a child, but the pigeons in the past didn't seem to be so "annoying", at that time they were more alienated from the living, and most of them were carrier pigeons raised and trained on the rooftops or balconies of nearby people. And now these "arrogant" guys in front of people, like most of the attractions in the country, are raised by the park management office, and there are also pigeon food peddling on the side, and tourists can buy a pack to feed them for a few yuan. Eating too much is of course excreting more, and they have the habit of defecating in the open all day long and without natural predators, which has become a new problem on a global scale, so that many places in Europe have to take birth control surgery to control their numbers, otherwise the guano in the square will be unbearable.

Huang Yue on the side bought a bag of food and poured it on the palm of his hand for the pigeon to peck, and he seemed to be much more patient than I was when he was attentive. It is no wonder that since Huang Yue was a child, their family has been feeding pigeons for many years, mainly because his father has this hobby, of course, he has also been affected and has feelings for pigeons. Later, his father was very ill and gave the pigeon away because there was no one to take care of him, and he cried a lot. Now, when feeding the pigeons, it is natural to think of his father again and fall into the memories of the past. Just when Huang Yue was thinking about things, the phone rang, and it was Wang Jian who urged us to go to the "Chili Fried Meat Restaurant" for dinner, so we hurriedly went down the city tower and said goodbye to Tianxing Pavilion.

At the dinner table of the "Fried Meat with Peppers" restaurant, everyone asked Zhou Xiaomin what she had gained from visiting Tianxing Pavilion today, and she said that she was most impressed by the general's artillery.

Don Juan said: "I didn't expect girls to be interested in guns as well." ”

Zhang Xun took on and said: "Girls like dolls when they are young, and boys like guns when they are young, and when they grow up, they exchange things that they are interested in, hehe." ”

Xiao Min looked at the strange visitor with crossed eyes. We are all used to it, and we know that Zhang Xun has always been open-mouthed regardless of the occasion.

I diverted the topic and asked Qian Cheng: "Qiu Qian's belly is getting bigger and bigger, have you thought of the name of your cub?" ”

He said: "I haven't thought about it, I haven't given birth yet, so I'm not in a hurry." ”

I said: "Others say that you should choose your name as soon as possible, call the baby's name through the belly every day, and talk to him to communicate, scientifically speaking, it is early education, and those who believe in superstition also say that this is conducive to coming into this world smoothly." ”

He said: "That's the case, then I'll think about a few, but it's not a matter of a day or two to choose a good name, and I heard that it has to match his birthday." ”

I said: "You can take a nickname first, I'll help you think of the nickname of my cub, your cousin is not the most comfortable with mahjong terms, if you want a boy Qiu Qian, you can touch his stomach and call him a chicken, and if you want a girl, call her two pieces......"

Everyone felt that the name was level, vivid and catchy.