Chapter 39: The Legend of Luban
I immediately drove to the Weihe River in the west of Linqing City. When I arrived in Linqing City, I inquired about it after a little inquiry, and it was not far from the city center.
We walked all the way along the Wei River, and soon saw the Linqing Pagoda on the edge of the Wei River.
Linqing Pagoda is not big, and this place is quite deserted. Seeing that the Linqing Tower is not as simple and vicissitudes as we imagined, but a little new, like the building of recent decades.
I was a little skeptical that I had made a mistake, so I asked a nearby villager about it. The answer given by the villagers was also surprisingly consistent, saying that this is the Linqing Tower, and there will be no coarseness.
It doesn't matter if it's or not, if you find it, you have to look around. We walked around the Linqing Tower, but we didn't find anything.
This nine-story tower looks very ordinary, not as majestic as imagined. Traces of modern architecture are evident.
When I found some remnants of cement and broken bricks in the neighborhood, I was almost completely hopeless, this is definitely a building from recent decades, and it could not have been repaired by the people of Panmen. Because it is rumored that Luban was repaired in the 39th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, there was no cement at that time.
Could it be that we found the wrong clue?
At this moment, we saw a snack truck selling Shandong pancakes parked in this deserted square, and I immediately went up to say hello to the aunt.
"Auntie, why is this Linqing Tower Square so deserted, can you sell pancakes here?"
The aunt laughed: "You are from out of town, young man." ”
I quickly said yes.
Aunt said: "There are not many people who come to our place to travel, only the locals here will pass by here when they get off work, and no one plays in the square, it is a bit biased here, it is rumored that when the four old days were broken, a lot of classical books were burned here, and people said that the classical books were haunted, so the ghosts cried wolves in this square every night, and no one wanted to play here." ”
As soon as I heard the word ghost crying wolf, I immediately became interested, and asked my aunt with a smile, what kind of society is it now, and there are ghosts?
Auntie said that you can't believe it, just a few days ago, there was a person who fell into the river and drowned. This Wei River is not big, it was salvaged for three days and three nights, but it was not salvaged, and in the end, guess where the body was found?
I shook my head.
"Also, in the corpse mutilation case that happened here a few days ago, how many pieces did the murderer divide the victim's body into?"
I was taken aback and looked at my aunt with a look of horror.
"This is a haunted water ghost, do you know what the eyewitnesses claim, what the water ghost looks like?"
I gasped, so many bizarre things had happened in the seemingly peaceful Linqing Tower.
Auntie said I don't know, I don't know, why don't you buy a legal evening newspaper quickly?
As he spoke, he took out a stack of newspapers from the big canvas bag: "It's all expired newspapers, three yuan a copy, do you want one?" ”
Grass, feelings are for newspapers. I couldn't cry or laugh, I felt like I was being tricked by my aunt. I bought one anyway, though. I returned to Linqing Pagoda and deserted and asked me what I had gained. I threw the Legal Evening News to the desertion: "Read it yourself." ”
I deserted and searched around, but I didn't find any useful information, and I knew that the aunt was fooling me, like a murder case, and a haunted ghost, etc., how could it be in the newspaper? This is a violation of national laws and regulations.
Tang Yiyi asked me next, what are my plans next? I said otherwise, let's stay here tonight, usually strange things happen at night, maybe we can find some clues.
I've said this sentence countless times, and Tang Yiyi was annoyed to hear it, but she still nodded stubbornly. In fact, we all know in our hearts that this is nothing more than self-comforting rhetoric. But even if it's a rhetoric, most of us find important clues at night.
I thought to myself that this ancient pagoda may have been repaired in recent years, but this should be the site of the original Linqing Pagoda built by Lu Ban and his apprentices. Maybe Lu Ban's descendants are still staying here.
The descendants of Luban are the people of Lumen.
Gradually it was time to get off work, and sure enough, many young people passed by here, but no one stayed here, they all left in a hurry.
I noticed a few old people playing chess not far away, so I simply walked up to watch it. Soon he had a hot fight with those uncles.
I took the opportunity to ask the uncle: "The scenery of this Linqing Tower Square is good, why is no one resting here?" ”
The old man suddenly became alert and asked, "You are from out of town, young man?" ”
I said yes, I'm here for a tourist.
Uncle suddenly smiled: "Young man, who haven't we met?" So you don't have to lie to us. Did you come here for the things under the tower? ”
"There's something under the tower?" I asked inexplicably.
The uncle said, "You really don't know? ”
I couldn't cry or laugh: "Uncle, I really don't know." I only know that this ancient pagoda was built by my ancestors, so I came here to take a look. ”
The uncle immediately became interested: "Are you a descendant of Lu Ban?" ”
I said: "My father told me that our family is the descendants of Luban, and my family still enshrines Luban's tablet." ”
"Impossible." The uncle said: "When Lu Ban was in the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, he had already ascended to heaven with his apprentice's family. ”
I was dumbfounded: "Uncle, you are all old yellow calendars." ”
The uncle suddenly said angrily: "Young man, I don't like to hear what you say, what is the old yellow calendar?" This incident is really recorded in the "Historical Records". ”
I said in my heart that this is not nonsense, "Historical Records" was written by Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty, this Linqing Pagoda is a thing of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of years later than Sima Qian, Sima Qian unless he has the ability to predict, otherwise it is impossible to write this Linqing Tower.
As soon as the uncle's chatterbox opened, he immediately chattered: "You don't know, these hundreds of years ago, after Na Luban took a hundred apprentices to build this Linqing Tower, he told the apprentices to invite the apprentices to eat dumplings. ”
"Then Lu Ban asked a group of apprentices to go to the big willow tree to cool off, leaving only one apprentice and lighting a fire for him."
The little apprentice wondered in his heart, the dumplings of more than 100 people, just the two of them have to wrap them in the Year of the Monkey. After the little apprentice boiled the water, he asked Lu Ban for water and noodles and prepared to make dumplings. ”
"But who is Luban? Immortals from the sky, do you want to eat dumplings and still use buns? Just let the little apprentice turn around, he squatted on top of the cauldron, guess what he was doing? ”
I was speechless: "? ”
Uncle said, why don't you have any logical ability at all? The little apprentice was also puzzled, so he secretly turned his head to take a look, but he didn't expect Lu Ban to pull dumplings, one by one the dumplings were like big ingots, and they came out, making the little apprentice very disgusting.
Lu Ban's apprentices all said that they were fragrant when they ate dumplings, but the little apprentice was disgusted in his heart and didn't eat a single dumpling.
After the disciples ate the dumplings, they flew into immortals, and only one little apprentice did not become immortals. Lu Ban told the little apprentice that he had not yet reached the fire, and could only wait in the world for another thousand years.
The little apprentice said where can I live for a thousand years?
Lu Ban let the little apprentice take a sip of soup, saying that after drinking this soup, he could live for a thousand years. After that, Luban flew into the sky. Only the young man was still in front of the Linqing Tower.
I suspect that Uncle is here to disgust me on purpose.
"We are the descendants of the apprentice who did not ascend to immortality." I was full of nonsense.
"Cut, uncle is not a fool." The uncle laughed: "Okay, I won't talk nonsense with you here." It's getting late, I need to hurry home. ”
After taking two steps, the uncle suddenly turned his head to us again and said, "I advise you not to stay here at night, this is haunted at night." ”
"Haunted?" I immediately asked the uncle to explain the details, but the uncle didn't listen at all, and left in a hurry with the little maza.
I think it's worth staying and taking a closer look. Uncle said that this place is haunted, and it must not be out of nowhere. I have a vague feeling that something big is going to happen tonight.
Tang Yiyi is a gourmet, popularly speaking, he is a foodie, before coming to Tang Yiyi, he gave Linqing food to Baidu on the Internet, what eight batches of fruits, Linqing roast and sell coarse grain pancakes all tasted once.