Hu Zongren pointed at me and said to Master Situ, bring it, just put it in the back of the car. Situ scolded him and said, since you brought it, why don't you bring it in, my leg has been broken, do you want me to go downstairs and see it myself? Hu Zongren smiled stupidly and said, if you come in with a coffin in this kind of store, people will not be able to scold your ancestors in their hearts, besides, we don't know that you are now an independent golden rooster.

Master Situ shouted angrily, and then two chopsticks flew towards Hu Zongren's acupoint. Hu Zongren said with a smile, okay, no kidding, I'll go and pick it up. With that, he hooked his finger at me, and I handed him my car keys. Hu Zongren went downstairs happily. After a while, he came upstairs with the coffin box in his arms.

After entering the house, I closed the door, and I asked Hu Zongren, did the waiter see you? He said that he saw it, can he not see it, and his main characteristic is that he is handsome. I said, didn't the waiter say anything about you? And why are you going to rob me of my lines? Hu Zongren said that the waiter's expression was very surprised, she probably thought that this was filled with ashes, this kind of bad thing, even if she wanted to ask, she would not ask, so I came up as if there was nothing wrong.

Hu Zongren put the coffin down in front of Situ to ensure that Situ could see it as soon as he turned around, so that it was convenient for his legs and feet. Before opening the lid of the coffin, I said to Situ, I have checked everything here, and the doll I mentioned to you before does have some supernatural reactions, but it is not a very violent kind, I think the talisman must have worked. After speaking, I opened the lid with Hu Zongren and let Situ see the contents inside. Fu Yunni also came over to take a look, and when she saw the incomplete doll, she exclaimed softly "ah".

After all, it's a woman's house, and she probably had a similar toy when she was a child. But it's hard for me to imagine that a strong woman like Fu Yunni would also play with dolls. However, I have been paying attention to Situ and Tie Songzi's expressions, when the coffin lid was just opened, I noticed that Situ's eyebrows tightened, but soon released again, I don't quite understand the meaning of this expression, I don't know if Lu Dao is pretending to be calm, or if he really thinks it's not a big deal. Master Tie Songzi was different, when he first saw the contents of the coffin, he first looked surprised, just like when Hu Zongren and I opened the lid and saw it for the first time, and then he shook his head slightly. His reaction is easier to discern, and even old-timers like Tie Songzi are shaking their heads like this, which shows that it must be difficult to do.

Situ said to Hu Zongren, you hand me the note under the villain's hand. Hu Zongren said, didn't you ask you not to touch the things inside, Situ said, there are so many people here, what are you afraid of. And that note was meant to be for you to read, so you wouldn't be so careful. When Hu Zongren heard Situ say this, he picked up the piece of paper and handed it to Master Situ. I walked up to Situ and said that if you look at the few words above, it can be said that it is a trick, but I don't understand it anyway.

Situ looked down for a moment, then flipped the paper over and looked at it carefully in the light. Then he sneered and said to me, this first sentence, the hole of Hongya Cave, don't even say it, there is really such a hole, but few people know about it. As soon as Situ said this, I was a little interested, and judging from his tone, he seemed to be confident in these sentences that looked like poems but were not poems. Seeing that Hu Zongren and I were interested, Situ was very proud, and couldn't help but shake his broken leg one by one, like a storyteller telling a story with Erlang. He squinted his eyes and asked me, what do you think the earliest Hongya Cave looks like?

I tried to recall it, when I was a child, I went from Jiangbei to the Liberation Monument to play, and I generally thought that it was troublesome to take the tram and detour, and I often took my friends to the Jiangbei City area to take the river cable car, directly under the Cangbai Road, and it didn't go far to the Liberation Monument. The cable car has not moved a single inch for decades, and at the bottom of the cliff where we got off is the Hongya Cave. At that time, I was not yet 10 years old, I only remember that there was an old street below, and there were people on the old street carrying a bamboo basket with a hammer and a chisel in their hands, while slowly shuttling through the old street, while shouting in a tone similar to beating the watch, shouting a few words, knocking on the chisel and hammer in their hands a few times, making a jingling sound. Hemp candy is a kind of snack that I liked to eat very much when I was a child, it is very sticky to my hands and teeth, and the sweetness of the sugar also reveals some aroma of wheat and sorghum. On both sides of the old street is a cliff wall, and on the other side is the houses of the common people, all of which are old houses, and they belong to the kind that seem to collapse a whole piece of land with a gust of wind. There were some teahouses, but most of them were people's houses, because I can still remember the cloth clothes hanging outside the door and dripping. Other than that, I wasn't very impressed with it. When I was a teenager, I also went to play in the neighborhood because of skipping school and school, and when I was a little older, the old houses there were all stilted buildings, which were dangerous houses. So two years before I left Chongqing, almost all the people there moved away, and they were surrounded by colored striped cloth to prevent landslides and collapses. When I return to Chongqing, it will almost become what it is today.

So I told Situ, and I remembered that it used to be a bunch of dilapidated houses, and the rest was not very impressive. Situ said that Hongya Cave was not inhabited at the earliest, it was just a cliff. There is indeed a hole in the cliff, and there is water in it to form a waterfall and flow out, and the very famous "Hongya Dicui" was named after this. Situ also said that the water source in the cave is said to have originated from the stream in the area of today's Jiaochangkou, and the water is very clear, but later due to the development of the city and the war, the water became sewage. It is said that if you walk along the cave all the way, you can go to the bottom of the monument of the liberation monument today, when the liberation monument was built, because too many people died nearby, the tragedy at the entrance of the field, the tunnel suffocated tens of thousands of people, the bombing of the eighteen ladders, and the legend of burying the dead in the far gate, resulting in the soul is too heavy, and there are always problems when the construction starts, so the secret invited someone to deal with it, in the foundation of the monument base, when pouring it also added the vajra robe, Buddhist scriptures and other things, it was completed, and then it blew up this secret cave passage, As a result, no one can really walk from Hongya Cave to the entrance of the competition, and the water quality has been affected somewhat.

Situ continued, you remember that the place where the cable car got off was Cangbai Road on the top of the cliff of Hongya Cave, and there was a row of forts there, right? I said yes, because I've been there for a long time, so I know that. Situ said that the fort there was built on the edge of the ancient city wall of Chongqing to resist Zhang Xianzhong. Because the defenders at that time misjudged that Zhang Xianzhong entered the city from Hongyamen, who knew that he made a detour to kill him from Tongyuan Gate, so the fort here did not even shoot a single cannonball, and the city was broken.

I asked Situ, Hongyamen? How come I've never heard of such a door? Situ cut sneeringly, and then said to me, you still say that you are old Chongqing, and you don't know enough about the city you live in than me, an old bone who has been away from Chongqing for decades. The ancient city wall of Chongqing was basically built in the Ming Dynasty, the city gate has a total of seventeen, nine open doors, eight closed doors, that is to say, these eight closed doors are only for the guards, do not let the people enter and exit from here, Hongya Gate is one of the closed doors, located between the Qianguo Gate and the Linjiang Gate, because the lower side is the cliff, the view is very good, and you can guard against the enemy from collapsing the river and invading the city.

Situ went on to say that from the beginning of the period of the capital, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, because of the war, many people who fled from outside the city could not enter the city, and began to wander outside the city, many people called Huazi were aware that the original hole in the Hongya Cave could shelter from the wind and rain, so this place once became a nest called Huazi in that period, until the government of the capital at that time began to help these beggars, only to build a simple road, it is precisely because of the road, slowly began to build sheds here to live, and the Jialing River will rise every year, When the water rises, it floods part of the cliff, so stilted buildings appear.

Situ's eyes began to blur, and he said that he still remembered that when he was a child, there were already many people living in Hongya Cave. But most of them were poor people, and there were those who specialized in fighting things for the rich at the docks, those who carried sliding poles (two bamboos tied to a chair, similar to a sedan chair) to carry the rich people in and out, and those who pulled boats in the river, and those who washed sand, coal, and clothes by the river. In general, all are the people at the bottom of society. Situ said that when he was a child, every time he walked around there, he felt that there was green smoke everywhere, the air was full of the smell of soapy water, and his ears were full of the sound of poor people laughing and scolding.

Hu Zongren interrupted Situ's recollection and said, is it a bit like the feeling of the pigpen city in Stephen Chow's movie. Situ thought for a moment, then laughed, and said that although it was not a single house, but an old street that was built along the edge of the cliff, it felt very real. Situ continued, and later, it was demolished and became what it is now, and an ornamental fake waterfall was also built, with "Hongya Dripping Cui" written on it, but despite this, the flavor of the rivers and lakes that was exclusive to Chongqing during that period is still there.

Hu Zongren asked Situ, what about the real cave? Did you blow up the inner hole when you blew it up? Situ pointed at Hu Zongren's nose and shook his fingers, and then said, I see that you are stupid all day long, this sentence is really to the point.

Situ took a sip of the teacup, then looked at me and said, the hole is still there.