On Guo Zi's Nighttalk in the Chronicle of Urban Openness

We built the expressway from Chengkou to Kaixian County and settled in Liaozi Township, Chengkou County.

Liaozi Township is located in the south of Chengkou County and the middle reaches of He Qian. It is a township under the jurisdiction of Chengkou County, Chongqing, more than 50 kilometers away from the county seat.

Guo Zi has simple folk customs and simple villagers. A greeting of "turning around" (Guo Zi calls walking turning around) always seems to express love. In the landlord's house where we just moved in, there is an old lady in her seventies. Because I am one of the first six or seven people who moved in, I am familiar with her. Whenever I see her, she always pulls me "sit for a while, sit for a while", which makes me feel a little "home".

Qiganshan

Liaozikou, the resident of the township government, is 760 meters above sea level and belongs to a semi-high mountainous area. The project department is located close to the township government. The flagpole mountain tunnel we want to cross is 7600 meters long and the highest altitude is more than 2400 meters. The elevation of tunnel is about 40 stories higher than that of township government. In other words, from the standpoint of the township government, the tunnel is almost flying in the mountains. At present, from the entrance to the exit of the tunnel, it is necessary to bypass the flagpole mountain along the existing village road, which is about 30 kilometers long and takes about one and a half hours. Once the tunnel is opened, it will take more than 7000 meters, which is only a few minutes. Therefore, some people use the famous sentence of Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" to ridicule: "Looking at the village road, three miles of dust; Looking forward to high speed, 8,000 meters of clouds and the moon "-the eagerness of local people to look forward to high speed is faintly visible. "

He Qian, I'm sorry.

Since ancient times, rivers have flowed eastward, while He Qian has flowed westward, which is called "Heqian River flows backwards for three thousand miles". At the drifting pier of Heqian River, there stands a huge sign that "Heqian River flows back 3000 miles". I really don't understand. Go back 3000 miles. Where can I get it? Looking up the map, Heqian River flows through Xuanhan from east to west, and joins Houhe River in the east of Xuanhan County to form Zhouhe, with a total length of several tens of kilometers.

Looking around Heqian River, the river is clear and criss-crossed, and small fish are playing in it. Dangerous rocks stand on both sides of the river, rugged, lush trees and fragrant flowers. This is really a rare place to go. The local elders told me that once upon a time, the peaks of the canyon rapids fluctuated, and the slim sang late, and the sun rolled on those bronze spines, and the sound of slim horns was endless. It's exciting to think about it Now, the apes on both sides of the strait are gone, and the mast blown by the biting wind and rain has become a landscape that has disappeared frame by frame.

In Liaozikou, it is said that the Hong Kong-funded boss invested in the construction of a rafting dock, and elaborately made the gilded billboard "He Qian River Drift First", which is magnificent enough. In the traditional impression, there should be many "drifts", so there is a reason for the "first drift". You can inquire carefully and go down the river from Liaozi. He Qian is just a short paragraph. If there is a second drift, it is estimated that it will drift to another river. Because of its remote location, there are not many tourists, and now it is "peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze", only the dazzling bronzing plate is still standing in the wind, and a big lock on the door tells the loneliness.

"ghost lamp"

The project department we rented is part of a row of government-led Alpine resettlement houses, adjacent to Heqian River. There is also a village road that crosses the river and leads to another village. There are few people and cars there. When we are free, we usually cross the bridge to go there. My dormitory faces Heqian River, and you can also see the village road across the river. One night at nine o'clock, I was standing at the window doing nothing, and I happened to see a house across the river with flashing lights. I was just in a trance. I walked around and didn't see a house there, but I didn't take it seriously. The next night, I saw this scene again. The lights are flickering, just like in the Woods, but close to the village road. I am serious. No, I usually walk. In this area on the other side, there are really no residents and no houses. Driven by curiosity, I got up at six o'clock the next morning, and finally I had to find out. Facing the window, the position was easy to confirm, so I went straight over.

Coincidentally, the hostess of this land was planting sweet potatoes when she was picking potatoes. When I look closely, there is no house. I told my hostess what I saw. He smiled and said that there was no house at all, and there could be no night light or anything. I told her it was true. This is two nights in a row. She joked that don't mention ghosts to me. After a pause of two minutes, she suddenly said to me, Oh, I remember, maybe catching birds at night. Hang a few cages of flashing birds in the forest, turn on the lights, and the birds will come to meet the light and jump into the cages by mistake and get caught. We have the habit of catching birds here.

It suddenly dawned on me that it seemed like a lifetime ago.

Most of the forests in Polygonum cuspidatum belong to nature reserves, and the local government forbids hunting animals and birds on the mountains. Why are there so many birds? When I asked this, the hostess was embarrassed to say, yes.

It seems inappropriate to use "coincidentally" to describe it. Anyway, I haven't seen that strange and scary light since then.

Most of the teachings we can appreciate at present are random and chaotic. There is a folk saying that "you can't tell the difference", and Zheng Banqiao said that "it's hard to tell the difference". But things in this world are really hard to say, just like this "ghost lamp" thing, it seems that "truer" is more in line with God's will than "confused".

"Jiang Taigong goes fishing"

As an allusion, Jiang Taigong has heard about it for a long time, but why the straight hook can catch fish is unknown and has never been explored.

When I came to Liaozi, I heard that although Heqian River is crystal clear, it can produce a kind of "steel fish" no more than three inches long. A fish that never grows up in a crystal clear river, just think about it and you will know how delicious it is. It is said that this kind of fish can be caught without a hook. Chatting at that time, I had a flash of light. Isn't this Jiang Taigong fishing? You don't say!

After dinner at the weekend, several of us walked by the river and saw an old man holding a bamboo pole in his left hand, which was slightly thicker than chopsticks and less than one meter long. There seems to be something on his head, with a small bucket in his right hand and a bamboo pole stuck in the water. I don't understand. Villagers nearby told me that this is Jiang Taigong-style fishing, and this is how to catch diamond fish. I'm too curious to find out. The old man told me in detail while fishing: diamond fish has a silly characteristic, and it doesn't spill its mouth when biting. Wrap some rags around the bamboo pole head to make it smell, or directly put an earthworm on the head and swim in the invisible gap and grass of the steel fish. Because the fishing rod is small, once the fish is hooked, people will feel it. At this time, you can quickly stir up the pole head and put it in the bucket in your left hand, even if it is successful.

Hehe, I really learned a lot.

Life, with too much disappointment, is unwilling to let go, to give up, and to follow fate. This is human nature, so much reluctance must be its reluctance. Just like this fish, there is no defense. The result is definitely bad luck, hehe.