took Yuan Mengchen out of the dilapidated hotel and walked slowly along the market. Remember our address novel: Looking at the hustle and bustle around me, busy haggling and picking out the people I need, my heart was a little calmer. Yes, everyone is tired of living in this world, and who has not encountered pain, hardship, and fear? Compared with these toiling people in economically backward areas, their lives are already heavens better.

There is no hurdle in life that cannot be overcome, it depends on whether you have the perseverance to overcome.

Yuan Mengchen had never been in a hurry, and looking at the lively crowd, she finally became happy. Women may have an instinctive desire to shop, especially if they have money in their bags. She doesn't care if she can use it or not, the strange national costumes, buy. I have never seen a small object that I don't know how to use, so I bought it. When I saw a cute foal not far away that was only a few months old, my eyes lit up and I wanted to buy it, but I was pulled away by me. Horses can't be fed in the city, and besides, they can't be transported back.

The two of them hugged a lot of things that were completely impossible to use, and finally finished the whole street. We came to the Huaguan in Gaowa Village slowly.

The village hall is open to everyone free of charge, and it is not large, only a long corridor with a diameter of 18 meters. The two sides of the promenade are separated by glass, and there are 9 stone tablets and many pictures of the history of the bridge and the speculation of later generations.

I saw that the stone tablets with a blue body of 9 Yong were really densely painted with many figures of demons and evil ghosts, which gave people a sense of depression at first glance. And the character of Yang is indeed blurred and indistinguishable because of its age and improper preservation.

"Why does it look so scary, these things are carved on the bridge, does anyone really dare to walk on it?" Yuan Mengchen felt that those bluestone steles were terrifying, and his scalp was numb when he saw them, and he couldn't help shrinking back to me.

"Demons and demons were usually used to suppress some strange things in ancient times." I held my chin and analyzed, "It seems that the bridge of vain death is not only strange in name, but also a little difficult in its experience." ”

As he spoke, he walked to a monument in Zhengyang that had just been built, and recorded the history of the bridge in traditional Chinese and Mongolian, as well as the past and present life.

The stele reads

It is said that Gaowa Village and nearby villages have experienced the eastward tour of the Qing Dynasty emperors of the two dynasties in history, and the Vain Death Bridge, Yongying Bridge, and Nangui Bridge are the bridges that the emperors must pass through on their eastern tour. The two ancient bridges of Yongming and Southern Ghost have long been well known to the people of this village, but the bridge of vain death has sunk into the sea of history for a time due to many changes, and few people know about it.

Not long ago, when Gaowa Village was building a new national highway, the five-cylinder Qing Dynasty merit tablet that was accidentally discovered witnessed the exact location of today's bridge of vain death, making it see the light of day again. It was only then that historians knew that there was once a royal peace road here. The bridge was once connected to Gaowa Village and Xiawa Village, and was an important transportation place for timber transportation.

The bridge has now been rebuilt, the bluestone material of the bridge deck has been replaced with reinforced concrete, and the former high-lying bridge has also been restored to the original name of the bridge in vain. This road is the only way from Gaowa Village to Harbin and Jilin, and it can be extended to the end point as far as the north, Puyu Road in the Jin Dynasty.

According to the memories of the elders in Gaowa Village, this bridge was probably built in the Yongzheng period, formerly known as Anding Bridge, which means peace and tranquility, and is the only way for the Qing Dynasty emperors to tour the east. It is also a hub for timber transportation. Since there is no local stone production in Gaowa Village, all the stones used to build the bridge are collected from a stone mountain in Xiawa Village. The bluestone produced in that stone mountain is exceptionally strong and durable, and it is extremely suitable for building bridges and paving roads.

At the beginning of construction, the bridge was a three-hole stone arch bridge, with a large hole between and two small holes on both sides. The bridge is about 8 meters wide and 16 meters long, and the construction method is quite similar to that of Zhaozhou Bridge. Legend has it that when the bridge was built, strange things happened and many people disappeared from the bridge for no apparent reason. After someone bridged, he never got off the bridge again.

The panicked villagers finally invited a well-known local feng shui master. The gentleman walked back and forth on the bridge for a long time, frowning, and claimed, "When the bridge was repaired, it was stained with evil spirits, and it was necessary to carve the bluestone of the hundred ghosts on the bridge deck to suppress it." The name of Anding Bridge must also be changed. ”

Sure enough, when the Hundred Ghost Diagram was carved, no one was ever missing. And Anding's name was also changed to death by Mr. Feng Shui.

In 1927, the bridge was demolished, and most of the bluestones were used as milestones next to the newly built road in the village, or along the railway line to the north of Gaowa Village Station. Some were transported into Xiawa Village to be used as forest farms and stone quarries to pave roads.

After the bluestone bridge was demolished, a wooden bridge was built and the bridge was renamed Gaowa Bridge. After several changes, the high-lying bridge was also rebuilt into a cement bridge. When Gaowa Village was building a new national highway, the builders stumbled upon a five-cylinder Qing Dynasty stone tablet that recorded many major events in the Qing Dynasty, and the bridge was able to see the light of day.

The five-cylinder monument that witnessed the rise and fall of the bridge is now displayed in the stele gallery of the newly built Death Garden in Gaowa Village. This five-cylinder stele is a merit stele that records the construction of the bridge in vain in vain in the Qing Dynasty. From the five-cylinder stele is still vaguely recognizable, it can be concluded that the bridge can be traced back to the Yongzheng period at the earliest.

During the years of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng, there were great changes. According to the old people in the village, the five-cylinder monument was originally erected on the west side of the bridge in a row, and in 1953, when the Gaowa Primary School was built, the five-cylinder monument was used as the foundation. When the Gaowa Primary School was rebuilt, the five-cylinder monument that had been sleeping underground for many years could see the light of day again, but it was not preserved as a Qing Dynasty object, but was buried in the big ditch next to the primary school, and it was many years to sleep.

According to this stele record, Gaowa Village may be a thousand-year-old village.

When building the Garden of Death, the builders not only found the earliest five-cylinder stele dating back to the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, but also found more than 50 stone tablets of all sizes in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Shunzhi and Kangxi periods. After the completion of the stele gallery of the Vain Death Garden, the archaeological staff of the Provincial Bureau of Physical Resources visited the site to verify and spoke highly of the historical value of the stele. From these rare stone tablets, they deduced that Gaowa Village may be a thousand-year-old village. At present, these Qing Dynasty steles are waiting for archaeologists to carefully study and further examine the steles.

I finished reading the information on the side of the stele and moved my gaze to the lower side. The following is a detailed introduction to the history of a bridge of the same period, the West Ghost Bridge.

West Ghost Bridge, commonly known as West Stone Bridge, is located in Xiawa Village, 81 kilometers away from Gaowa Village. The bridge was built in 1641, the sixth year of Chongde in the Qing Dynasty. It is a relatively complete stone arch bridge in the local area.

The West Ghost Bridge is also a three-hole stone arch bridge with a total length of 37 meters and an outer width of 14. 5 meters, the road surface is 8 wide. 9 meters, the width of the bridgehead is 12 meters. There are 19 stone railings on both sides of the bridge, and the stone pillars at the end of the bridge are round carved lions, and the others are lotus-leaf columns. On each side of the bridge, there is a pair of beautifully carved large stone lions facing each other. The railing of the bridge is decorated with persimmon patterns and cloud patterns, and the drum stones outside the end pillars are carved with patterns such as deer, tiger, unicorn, rhinoceros, sheep, and butterflies. The north side of the bridge body has two dragon probe heads, and the south side of the bridge body exposes a pair of dragon tails, from a distance, it is the trend of two dragons carrying the bridge, the shape is vivid, and it has ingenuity.

After more than 300 years of ups and downs, the bridge deck was badly damaged, and in 1979, the Municipal Property Management Office spent three months repairing it. In 1988, the bridge was listed as a provincial property protection unit.

After reading everything, I looked at the nine old stone tablets for a while, and then walked out of the gate of the chemical hall. There is indeed a bridge not far from the museum, and the bridge is engraved with three big characters in vain to die bridge. But this bridge of vain death is no longer what it used to be. The flat bridge deck made of reinforced concrete shows a thriving situation, indicating that the economic situation of Gaowa Village is getting better and better.

But the old bridge is long gone, and the condition of the new bridge is no longer of reference value.

Yuan Mengchen was silent for a while after reading the record of the stone stele, and suddenly asked, "Ye is silent, do you say that there is some kind of connection between the bridge of vain death and the vacancy of the fifth class?" They can also make people disappear. ”

"Perhaps, the bluestone slab of that bridge was only demolished in 1927, exactly 83 years ago. It is consistent with the founding time of Nanxun High School. In addition, the bluestone slab of the bridge is recorded as a milestone for the national highway in part, which is another consistent place. I thought, "The milestone I saw with the word G1021375 written on it may be made of bluestone slabs from the bridge." ”

"Well, it seems to make more and more sense when you think about it this way." Yuan Mengchen jumped up: "Are we getting closer and closer to the truth?" ”

"I hope so." My face didn't show joy, I just looked at my watch and said, "It's almost eleven o'clock, let's go back to the hotel first to see if the guide is here." ”

There is money to be made, and the guide is of course coming quickly. Sitting next to the innkeeper was a young man in his early twenties from the Northeast, with a tiger's back and a height of more than 1.8 meters. He smiled shyly when he saw the two of us.

"This is your employer, show me the way." The innkeeper admonished.

"Got it, I'm familiar with that path." The shy Northeast man scratched his head, shook my hand, and stammered to introduce himself, "My name is Zhang Hu." ”

"My name is Ye Bu Si, and the beauty next to me is called Yuan Mengchen. You've been leading the way these days. I smiled slightly, this young man didn't seem to have been out of the village much, and his personality was still very simple, and he didn't hate it.

"Of course, I took your money, and I will definitely do things seriously. Is this your car? He looked at the SUV I was driving and shook his head, "The car can't go over, the snow is melting in front of me." The wheels will definitely slip and sink in the meadow. Ride my horse, you can get there in 6 hours at most. ”

"Can you only ride a horse?" Yuan Mengchen asked weakly. She has small arms and legs, and her body is very weak. It's no wonder that a horse doesn't get bumped to death after 6 hours of riding.

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