Chapter 16: Tusi Mansion
Guan Hao explained to me the Tibetan text on the stone gate, the stone pillars on both sides are carved with scriptures, and the Tibetan text carved on the middle beam is the meaning of the copper money village, but the Manchu text is another meaning, introducing the origin of this ancient stone gate, which is the Qing Kangxi Emperor gave the Bawang Tusi at that time to the Anding Gate, hoping that the Bawang Tusi can guard one side and be safe forever.
Walking along Andingmen to the inside, it is a main street paved with stone bricks, this main street seems to be very deep, it seems to be as long as 1,800 meters, the street is full of broken wood, broken tiles, and the houses on both sides are wooden and stone structures, many of which have collapsed.
Keep walking inside, you will see that in the middle of the village, there is a super-large courtyard, Guan Hao said that this is Tusi Mansion. Although it is now dilapidated, and there is not much left of the paint on the wood, the atmosphere is still there.
Guan Hao stepped forward and knocked on the dilapidated door knocker, but after beating for more than a minute, no one answered the door, but Guan Hao hit it a little heavier at the back, and directly knocked the door open, and we didn't care about being polite and rude, and walked in directly.
As soon as you enter the courtyard of Tusi Mansion, you will feel completely opposite to the outside, although it is also very shabby, but it is very neat. It seems that the house is inhabited and uninhabited, which are two different environments. Walking along the stone bricks in the courtyard, there is a lobby in the direction of the gate, which should be the office of the Pawang Tusi in the past.
Guan Hao went to the wings on both sides of the lobby to look for it, but he didn't see the Dorjee he said. According to Guan Hao's understanding, Dorjee lives in the side wing of the lobby and rarely leaves this courtyard.
We first rested in the lobby for a while, and after waiting for a while, no one came back, Wen Mo couldn't hold back a little, and said to me: "This courtyard is so big, could it be at the back of the courtyard?" Let's stop waiting and find out. ”
Originally, I was also very anxious to hear Wen Mo say this, and immediately agreed, a few people passed through the back door of the lobby, and came to the back garden, there are two small courtyard houses on the left and right sides of the back garden, it is obvious that this is the pattern courtyard of the Qing Dynasty, and the doors of all the courtyard houses are locked, not like someone else. Further back is a large two-story wooden house, this wooden house looks old, not a Qing Dynasty building, the door on the first floor of the wooden house is also locked, there is a row of more than one room at the back of the wooden house, it should be a house for the next person, behind the house is a high courtyard wall and a steep mountain.
We looked around, no one was found at all, all the doors were locked, and I was ready to go back to the lobby to wait, but when I passed by a courtyard on the side, I found a problem, the lock of this courtyard is not right, the few rooms I just saw are old-fashioned trolley locks, only this one is a modern spring lock, which makes me feel very confused, and my heart said, is it possible that this courtyard is inhabited?
Thinking strangely, I came to the door and looked inside, just now I walked by, only to see if the lock was locked, and did not look at the windows, and all the windows in this courtyard I see now have been nailed by wooden planks from the outside.
I was having doubts, Wen Mo said right behind me, "The doors are locked, don't look at it." ”
After speaking, he pulled me on the shoulders and walked in the direction of the lobby, I saw that Long Jiu and Guan Hao had already arrived at the lobby, and were standing at the back door of the lobby waiting, so I didn't delay, and walked over closely. A few people ate something in the lobby, and no one walked around, waiting in the lobby.
At this moment, my mood is always a little uneasy, and I can't say what kind of mood I am in now, I desperately want Dorjee to be the master, but there is a hope that he is not, in short, my heart is very messy now.
In the lobby like this, I waited until it was getting dark, and I didn't see Guan Hao say that Dorjee came back, and Guan Hao said: "Don't wait, let's go to the wing room to rest, I don't know where Dorjee went, and he hasn't come back yet." ”
Now it's just like this, it's already dark, whether Dorjee comes back or not, we all need to sleep and rest. The urge to see the master during the day has gradually faded, because I don't know what I should say to Dorjee if he is really a master. Although I have a thousand words to say, I still can't believe the fact that the master is still alive, after all, I have thought in my heart that the master has left this world after all these years.
Although there are all kinds of signs that the master is still alive now, it is difficult for me to find a reason to explain, why he has not come home for so many years, why why he has not contacted us, if Dorjee is really a master, then I have more questions, so my heart is somewhat distorted now, and I hope that Dorjee is not a master.
Thinking about him living alone in this deserted village feels terrible, this kind of loneliness and loneliness is by no means something ordinary people can bear, the master is not a person who likes to be quiet, so the environment here and the master's character are in stark contrast, what kind of thing happens to make a person live here alone, it is incredible.
We followed Guan Hao to a side room on the side of the lobby, Guan Hao turned on the flashlight he brought, this is a room with a clay kang, a thick straw mat is placed on the earthen kang, and a rectangular old-fashioned wooden cabinet is placed on the ground, which seems to be for bedding and clothes.
The three of them didn't see each other at all, like they went to their own home, they lay side by side on the straw mat, without a little outsider meaning, I saw that they were so direct, I didn't just count the numbers, and directly opened the wooden cabinet on the ground, I wanted to find the bed and bedding, but found that the cabinet was empty, nothing.
Guan Hao got up and looked at it, and said, "I'll go to that side room to have a look, maybe the bedding is in that side room." ”
After speaking, Guan Hao walked towards the opposite wing, I didn't go with him, but lay on the straw mat and looked at the roof, the roof is all wooden structures, some places are covered with cobwebs, it seems that this room has not been cleaned for a long time.
Guan Hao walked back and didn't bring back the quilt, saying that there was no quilt in that room, I immediately sat up and said, "How can there be no quilt, don't you need to cover the quilt when you sleep?" I thought for a while, looked at Guan Hao and asked, "When you came here last year, did you have a quilt here?" ”
"Yes, there were still a lot of them at that time, and we had 7 photography enthusiasts, all of whom were covered with quilts."
Listening to what Guan Hao said, I immediately realized that something was wrong, how could I prepare so many quilts when I live here alone, and the current situation is that there is no quilt here, where are the quilts? I immediately thought of the spring-locked courtyard. I immediately said, "We have to go to that little courtyard and have a look." ”