Chapter 63 Concerned about Ying County Wooden Pagoda

When he wakes up in the morning and washes his face, Sicheng will suddenly say to himself: "It shouldn't be too difficult to go to Ying County. I heard that Shanxi has a good car road..." When he was eating, he would lose his head He said without thinking: "If I can survey and map the Yingzhou Tower, I think, I will..." Before he finished speaking, he laughed to himself.Of course, only Huiyin understood what he meant. What worried him the most was whether the wooden pagoda was still there.Even if it is still there, is it still the one built in the Liao Dynasty?I have had this kind of experience in past investigations: I ran hundreds of miles with great hardships, but what I saw was either a ruin or a fake built after the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

He was looking forward to seeing a photo of the wooden pagoda in Ying County. Just by looking at the photo, he could judge the age of the building. One morning, Huiyin took back the newspapers and letters of the day from the concierge, and a homemade kraft paper envelope aroused her curiosity.The sender's address on the envelope is: Baiyunzhai Photo Studio, Ying County, Shanxi Province. It turned out that Sicheng came up with such an idea.He first sent a letter to Ying County to cast stones to ask for directions, and the recipient's address was written as "Exploring: The Highest Photo Studio in Ying County, Shanxi".In the letter, he asked people from the Ying County Photo Studio to help him take a recent photo of the Ying County Wooden Pagoda.Unexpectedly, there was an echo from the "Highest Photo Studio in Ying County".

Huiyin handed the mail to Sicheng. She admired Sicheng's persistence, but she joked with a smile: "Amitabha, fortunately, you are not fascinated by movie stars!" Looking at the photos and letters, Sicheng excitedly said to Huiyin: "It's so lucky that the eight or nine hundred-year-old wooden pagoda is still in such good condition! Look at how interesting this photo studio is. They don't want to pay for taking photos, they just want to pay for the photos." A little letter paper and envelopes from Peking." It was early autumn and September, and the weather was so nice, neither too hot nor too cold.Huiyin put down the never-ending work at hand, and went to Datong with Sicheng, Liu Dunzhen and Mo Zongjiang from the Construction Society.

Huiyin hadn't gone outside like this for a long time.At home every day, I am used to the voices of the children, the servants’ detailed inquiries, and the mother’s nagging. Although I sometimes feel bored, driven by the inertia of life, my days are going well. Fast and calm.Now far away from everything that is familiar, I have started another life, which is full of freshness, excitement and beauty.In her opinion, Shanxi's "sky is transparent blue, and the white clouds are so flowing that people can forget many things, not to mention the mountains and rivers, small forts, villages, a corner temple reflecting the setting sun, and a tower! The scenery is so beautiful that it makes people flustered and heartbroken."

The natural scenery of Shanxi is beautiful, but the social life in Shanxi is backward and poor. When they arrived in Datong, they realized that they couldn't find a place to stay here.There is a thick layer of dust mixed with coal dust on the streets, and the garbage in the corners of the walls is swirling in the wind. Donkeys are the main means of transportation, and the carriage and horse shop is the only "reception station". "Who would have thought," Huiyin said, "this place was once the accompanying capital in the Liao and Jin Dynasties!" In desperation, they returned to Datong Railway Station, and unexpectedly met Li Jingxi, the station master.He studied railway transportation at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and was a classmate with Sicheng and Huiyin.Meeting old acquaintances in a foreign land, the tired group was very happy.

Li Jingxi took Sicheng, Huiyin and his party to his home, vacated a room, and arranged for them to live.Sicheng and Huiyin were unwilling to let their old classmates worry about the food of so many people, so they found the municipal government the next day.City officials ordered a restaurant to feed them.During their inspection in Datong, they ate here every day, and their three meals a day consisted of a bowl of noodle soup for each person.They surveyed and mapped the Huayan Temple and Shanhua Temple built in the Liao and Jin Dynasties.