"The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March." Matsuko said.

"Brother Yaozhi ascended to the heights, and there was one less person in the dogwood." I replied in response.

But I gained a 100% pure white eye of pine nuts, and I realized that I had confused the two poems, and when I was a child, my husband often criticized me for always remembering mistakes, and there were many stupid mistakes like this, such as "Ask where the restaurant is, Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City." ”

Another example is "knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing hearts, it is difficult to buy an inch of time." ”

Or "the little lotus shows its sharp corners, and a red apricot comes out of the wall." ”

There are many such examples, and I don't know why I have mixed them up, so that when I grow up, I also need to memorize some ancient words and phrases to study with the master, and this habit is still difficult to correct. So I put it all down to reading too many sentences in more or less combinatorial form. But at this moment, I was still a little embarrassed to be ridiculed by Songzi's pure white eyes, so I scratched my head and laughed a few times to try to resolve my embarrassment, but for some reason a sentence came out, Wang Wei's poem was really well written.

probably thought I was deliberately funny, so Songzi didn't correct me that the author of this poem was actually Li Bai, and probably even he felt that if he explained it specifically, it would lower his IQ. He just said that when he wrote this poem, he had actually called it "Yellow Crane Tower", and the words left by Lu Zu obviously knew that this place was called "Yellow Crane Tower" instead of "Yellow Bird Tower", but he couldn't guess this simple charade with us, so I think that the "hoof" here is talking about the Yellow Crane Tower of Huanghuji.

I said to Songzi, it seems that you haven't been idle in the past two days, taking advantage of Qin's lack of empty food and drink, you have also done a lot of research, you have already guessed it, right? Songzi said a little proudly, this is actually nothing, and thanks to what Lu Zuliu wrote in the book at the beginning, otherwise we would not have narrowed the scope directly to the two mountains of turtles and snakes. And this Huanghuji itself is a part of the Snake Mountain, according to the Southern Dynasty ancestor Chongzhi's "Shu Wei Ji" in the record, said that Huanghuji originally had a family surnamed "Xin" family, Xin opened a small wine shop here to rest his feet, one day a ragged man came here, said that he was thirsty and wanted to beg for a glass of wine. So Xin served him a glass of wine, and the man drank it and left.

But for half a year after that day, this ragged man came to the wine shop every day without stopping, still saying that he had no silver taels on him, but because he was thirsty, he wanted to ask for a glass of wine, and he did so every day, and Xin also gave this man a glass of wine every day. If you change to an ordinary person, maybe after five times, you will think that the other party is just a bastard scoundrel who cheats and cheats, but Xin did not refuse this person, but warmly entertained him. If you open your own wine shop and give food to others, it is a matter of accumulating merit, so you don't care whether the other party has money for alcohol or not. After eating and drinking for half a year, this ragged man said to Xin, "I owe you a thousand glasses of wine, and I have no money to pay it back, so I will use a little trick to help you in this business."

So the man took out a piece of orange peel from his bosom, drew a crane on the wall with the juice squeezed out of the skin, and then said to Xin, "After I leave, as long as the guests here applaud and clap, the crane will dance to the beat." Xin originally thought it was just a joke, but once the customer was happy to talk in the store, so he clapped his hands.

Strange things happened, the crane painted on the wall actually seemed to come to life, and the boiling water really danced to the beat. Word of this strange thing spread, and many people who had not been passing through this place also came to see it, and the business of the liquor store was much better, and those who watched it would also give some wine money for seeing the strangeness.

Ten years later, Xin accumulated a lot of wealth, and that day, this ragged man came again, Xin already knew that the other party was a god and not a beggar, so he respectfully said that he was willing to provide for this person at home, but this person laughed, took out the flute and played a song, attracting white clouds in the sky, and the crane on the wall became alive, and the ragged man sat on the back of the crane and flew away. In order to thank the god for his ten years of kindness, Xin used the money accumulated over the years to build a pavilion here, because Xin was the builder, so the people around called this building "Xin Lou", but after completion, because the original fairy was a crane painted with orange peel, so the crane was yellow instead of white, so it was named "Yellow Crane Tower".

Listening to Matsuko tell this mythical story, on the one hand, I was very fascinated, and felt that this story was too romantic, so that the romance was a little unreal. But on the one hand, I admire Matsuko's understanding of these things very much, which is due to years of diligent study and hard study, so that I have today's wisdom. At the same time, I also understand why Songzi is so sure, the so-called "fairy Weng painting the hoof" actually refers to the story he just said, so it is determined that the clue to this place is the Yellow Crane Tower.

So I asked Songzi and said, "According to your meaning, this Yellow Crane Tower has now been relocated and rebuilt as a whole, but as long as we can find its original base, we can find the place where the stone box was buried, right?" Songzi nodded and said, that's exactly what it means, but now there is a very critical problem that we haven't been able to solve, except for these four words, we don't have other clues, Lu Zu never expected that the old building would move elsewhere after a thousand years, not even like the early shadowless tower, we can also judge its location according to the legend and the light and shadow of the sun at noon, now if we go to the Yellow Bird Rock to find, this is not a small project, lucky we can find it in a few days, but if the luck is bad, a year and a half, There may not be any news.

We walked back while talking, but after hearing Songzi's words, I couldn't help but be a little depressed, we have time, but for many years to do it, basically it is not realistic, not to mention the possible changes in this, such as someone to maintain the bridge piers, then you will see that we are digging holes everywhere, in the current social environment, the most lacking thing between people is tolerance, maybe we also hinder the construction as the reason, as digging the corner of socialism The capitalist faction will be knocked down again.

When Songzi and I were at a loss, Qin Bukong suddenly said that he might have a way, because he had visited the local museum earlier, and among the items on display, there were old photos of the Yellow Crane Tower, and now the Yellow Crane Tower was actually rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty, and the real Yellow Crane Tower is said to have experienced several disasters in history, and the original building was built in the Three Kingdoms period, and there is no trace of it. However, even the last reconstruction until the late Qing Tongzhi period was built on the basis of the original site.

Speaking of this, Qin Bukong suddenly paused, as if he had thought of something. Matsuko and I both stopped and waited for him to say something more progressive. Sure enough, after a few seconds, Qin Bukong said, I remember that there are some photos taken by foreigners during the opening of Wuhan port in the exhibits, and the Yellow Crane Tower on the top is the old building before Tongzhi. But I went to see it several years ago, and I didn't connect the Yellow Crane Tower with us at that time, so I just glanced at it in a hurry and didn't look closely.

Matsuko hurriedly asked, so if we go to see it again tomorrow, will we still be able to see those photos at that time? Qin Bukong said that this is not necessarily, in a place like a museum, after a new collection comes in, some old ones with less relative value will be eliminated, which is not easy to say. I interjected, I think it should still be there, Wuhan's three major victories, the Yellow Crane Tower, Qingchuan Pavilion, Boya Tower, which is represented by the Yellow Crane Tower, "the first floor in the world", maybe many people don't know that Wuhan also has Qingchuan Pavilion and Boya Tower, but the Yellow Crane Tower must be known to everyone, so things about the Yellow Crane Tower, especially those old photos that have long been difficult to find, most of them will not be eliminated so easily.

So the three of us decided to leave early tomorrow morning to go to the Wuhan Museum to see the old photos taken by those foreigners.

The next day in the museum, we did not hang out, after all, there are so many things, if you want to look carefully, it is estimated that it will take more than half a day, we went all the way to the Yellow Crane Tower related exhibits, sure enough, as I expected, the old photos are still there, not only that, but there are even the Yellow Crane Towers painted by painters in different dynasties. Due to the construction of the bridge, in fact, the original appearance of the Yellow Crane Rock in the photo has been very different from the appearance we saw when we went to break through the "Fish" Pass earlier, but we can also distinguish the approximate location from some mountain trends on the other side of the river, in many old photos and paintings, we have found a few relatively more realistic ones, and a little comparison, we can calculate the approximate location of the old site of the Yellow Crane Tower.

And what makes us very excited is that the calculated location is near the bridge pier of the approach part of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, because of the construction of the bridge pier, it should have dug a lot of muck, but according to our recollections, when we first went there that day, most of those bridge piers were actually built by filling the river, in other words, it did not affect the location of the old site, and the old site, if expected, was when we first went to the river. The one we would walk around on the way to a weedy wasteland slope we passed.

This conclusion gives us confidence that at least the scope is greatly narrowed, and even if every inch of the slope is found, it will not take much time, and since we have locked the range, we know that when we get there, we will definitely encounter some moths, so that our inference is indirectly proved.

At the moment, it seems that we don't need to do much preparation other than going straight there, so every day I spent recuperating felt really long.