Chapter 65. The secret in the cracks in the stone walls of the city
Although this was a breakthrough, it gave Hu Zongren and me a very ominous feeling. We all know that the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year is conventionally the month with the most frequent ghost activities. Among the months, it is most serious from July 14 to July 16 of the lunar calendar. Although there are traditionally many theories about the Ghost Moon and the Midyear Festival, in my opinion and Hu Zongren, it is because the yin qi of this month of the year is the heaviest, as if it is a stimulant, which objectively leads to frequent ghost activities. Many ghosts that have been dormant all year round are ready to move these days.
Hu Zongren said, I really didn't expect those old bastards to pick such a difficult day for me, but it was really painstaking. Master Tie Songzi also said, I guess this is probably the reason why Old Man Situ said that the sooner the better, when he called you. He knows that there will be a lot of ghost things from tomorrow, and you two can't be distracted to do other things at the moment, so you must hurry up today and find out the clues of this place.
Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, although Master Situ didn't say it explicitly on the phone, but he had already thought of this. But looking at this empty doorway, you can directly see the other end from this end, and everywhere you look, you can see everything you can hide. I couldn't help but go around to the stele on the edge of the doorway, to see if they had just carved something on the back of the stele or something, but as soon as I bent down to check it, I smelled a smell of urine in my nose, probably because some drunk people had used this place as a public toilet. Master Tie Songzi shouted on the side, saying that you should not bother, I have carefully inspected these places.
It was almost noon, and the weather was starting to get very hot, and the endless screaming of the trees made people feel even more impetuous. I'm the kind of person who has a hard time calming down and continuing to think about things once I'm impetuous, so I paced back and forth in the doorway. Hu Zongren suddenly asked Master Tie Songzi, if you said that the other party really wanted to hide something, would it not be so obvious? Because if everyone can find it, it's likely that someone else will take it? Master Tie Songzi slapped his face and said, yes, why didn't we think of it. These people who want to fix you have gone to such great lengths to hide things here, his purpose is to let us find them without being discovered by others. Tie Songzi shouted at me, how many times have you walked back and forth there, my eyes are glazed, you can also help think about it.
Why didn't I think about it, as soon as Hu Zongren said this, I immediately thought that this was indeed a truth. So I began to analyze it quickly, assuming that I was a passerby, usually when I passed through such a city gate, if I was coming for the first time or in the mood of sightseeing, I would definitely stop here for a while, look at the words on the stone tablet, look at this mottled ancient city gate, so there will definitely be nothing hidden in the door hole and on the stone tablet. And if I were someone who lived nearby or passed by every day, I wouldn't even look at the stuff here. And the people of the Xuanyuan Society will definitely take the first type of people into account, because they don't even want it to be seen by anyone until we find what they have hidden, which means that unless people like me and Hu Zongren and Master Tie Songzi have made up their minds to come here to look for things, they will have a chance to see it.
And I immediately thought that our way of thinking is fundamentally different from that of many ordinary people, who probably speculate on the essence of things through the phenomena of things, but we are doing the opposite, we know the essence of the Tao, and what is missing is just a phenomenon. When I think about it, I start to get a little excited. Because if my guess is correct, the people of the Xuanyuan Society even calculated that we will spend a lot of time looking for this place, and this time is far longer than the average tourist or photography enthusiast, and we will definitely look around, since the poem mentions the door of the East Water Gate, if it has nothing to do with the door itself, his poem cannot be called a poem, and in the end it will be despised by us, thinking of this, I am sure that this "door" may not be the purpose of the purpose, It is a necessary part of this purpose.
So I ran to the bottom of the ladder and asked Hu Zongren and Master Tie Songzi to stand aside, leaving as many openings as possible for me. I was facing the opening of the East Water Gate, and I kept retreating until I was behind me another section of the city wall that had been reinforced with the foundation stones, and I stopped. From where I stood, I looked through the gate and looked as far away as I could.
At the end of the doorway, there is an abandoned half-arc newly repaired antique city wall, which I am all too familiar with, which is the Jianghu restaurant opened by a friend of mine. It had not been long since the wall had been rebuilt, and the joints of the bricks had been filled with cement, and it was a necessary path for almost everyone who passed through this gate, and if something was hidden on it, a slightly sharp-eyed person would have found it at once, but I had not seen such a sharp-eyed person, which means that this place must not have been.
So I walked in the opposite direction, through the doorway, and leaned against the newly built wall, and looked through the doorway at the fortress between me. The base of this section of the fortress is an old section of the East Water Gate, which is covered with moss, and because it is high above the ground, I look at the wall from a bird's-eye angle. There is about a half-person height near the ground, which was treated by the municipal government to prevent landslides, a bare fort, at a glance, but on the top of the fort, the old city wall did not fill the gaps, and in the early years, there were a lot of gaps left by those who did not know what the reason was, and it was a transfer, facing my side, which was about three meters wide.
It is undeniable that if this place were me, I would have been more relieved to have hidden things here. So my excellent vision came into play again, and I began to slowly pan my position, and began to look for any clue in those gaps. Sure enough, as I panned closer to my right hand, I could clearly see a red object in the gap from the angle.
I was standing on the side of the wall near the gate hole, with cobwebs, dampness and rubbish heaps. I calculated, whether it is from the direction of the dock to the Huguang Hall, or from the direction of the Huguang Hall, there should not be many people who can walk around such a large radius to my current location, and the red thing in the middle of the dark green moss stone crack is still quite easy to find when I deliberately look at it. After all, the contrast between the two colors of red and green is relatively large. So I beckoned to Hu Zongren and said, look at that place, that red thing, doesn't look like the red cloth bag we found in Hongya Cave before?
Master Tie Songzi and Fu Yunni also came over to see, everyone looked very excited when they saw the red thing, although we haven't taken it out yet, but we all know in our hearts that we need too much guessing and assumptions in this business, and we need luck.
Once I was sure that was what we were looking for, I started to get a little stuck. This place where the red stuff is hidden is about 5 meters above the ground, which means that the two Yao Ming together have to tiptoe to not necessarily be able to reach it. On top of that is a brick wall built by nearby residents, and the top of the brick wall is made of broken glass slag beer bottles, etc., which are inlaid with cement on the top of the wall. This means that the inside of the wall is someone's private land, and the glass is inlaid to prevent thieves who climb over the wall to steal. Originally, this was actually not very difficult, just knock out those glass slags secretly, especially when Hu Zongren and I most of the time the attributes of the profession are not much different from thieves, but the terrible thing is that the location of the saffron thing is almost three meters high from the top of the brick wall, and below these three meters is another five meters, which means that if any of us climb down the wall, if we don't pay attention to it, we will fall into stupidity.
In broad daylight, it is estimated that it is not very realistic to climb over the wall. I began to wonder how those Taoist priests of the Xuanyuan Society had put this thing on it in the first place. There is no way to find a way to settle down from the side, except for walls and walls. At this time, Tie Songzi suddenly asked me, how tall are you, I said 1.75 meters, he asked Hu Zongren how tall he was, he said 1.8 meters, I said you fart, you are obviously only 1.78 meters! He said okay, that's because he's getting older. Tie Songzi touched his pointed chin that didn't even have stubble and said, you said that the two of you fold up, why do you have to be more than 3 meters, let's go buy a fork stick, isn't that enough?
The fork stick in Chongqing means that it is used to support the hanger for hanging clothes, so that the clothes can be hung a little higher in the shape of bamboo sticks, which is generally more than half a person's height. But before Hu Zongren and I could agree, Master Tie Songzi had already taken Fu Yunni and walked towards the small wholesale stores selling daily necessities on the side of the road. I was stunned for a while, and then said to Hu Zongren, how can we fold each other? Hu Zongren didn't come back to his senses, he stammered, probably... I'm stepping on your shoulders like this... I said no way, I would never allow others to step on my shoulders, that was my principle. Hu Zongren said, then you can step on me. I said that Tie Songzi and your woman have forgotten that your face is longer, at least half a meter! Hu Zongren said how can it be so long, so let's let them buy one more?
I nodded, because I felt that Hu Zongren was smarter than me at the moment. So Hu Zongren shouted loudly to Tie Songzi and Fu Yunni in the distance, you buy one more and come back, buy some ropes, and connect the forks and sticks together!
After a while, they bought it back. So Hu Zongren and I had to endure the acrobatic eyes of passers-by on the one hand, I stepped on Hu Zongren's shoulder, we both had to maintain balance as much as possible, I stretched the two forked sticks as far as possible, because Hu Zongren had been swaying underneath, I almost fell down several times, tried several times, I slowly mastered the trick, took out the red thing from the crack in the stone, and fell to the ground with a bang.
I quickly asked Hu Zongren to squat down slowly, until I thought I would not fall down a distance, I jumped down, and the two of us were busy working under the scorching sun for a long time, and we were already sweating, so we sat on the stone stairs panting. At this time, Master Tie Songzi suddenly said, Ah! Why didn't I think of buying a few more fork sticks, so that I could stretch it longer, and we could take it off while standing!
When Hu Zongren and I heard this, our noses ached, and then we hugged our heads in pain.