In Lu Min's another novel, Time Upside Down, she looks like Subei: "If you can fly over this area of Subei like a sparrow, you will be surprised to find that the fields here are not green, not Huang Cancan, nor black, but, hey hey, it's white ... endless greenhouses, white, the end of this family.
Dongba is Lu Min's fiction. Even if there is such a place as Dongba, we can't get there. However, there is no doubt that Dongba is in Dongtai. Then, take a look at the place where "Dongba Series" represented by Lu Min's "Wind and Moon Scissors" and "Inverted Time" took place.
Where can I go from Shanghai to Yangzhou to stay, but I don't want to visit Slender West Lake, Geyuan and Heyuan again? Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Zhenjiang ... I have no choice, but I want to go to Dongtai. This choice is also because I don't know much about the geographical situation in northern Jiangsu. I think Dongtai and Yangzhou are both located in northern Jiangsu. How far can it be from Yangzhou to Dongtai? In fact, Shanghai, Dongtai and Yangzhou are equilateral triangles! The consequence of not doing our homework in advance is that when we left the Tiaozi Mud Wetland in Dongtai and planned to go to Crowne Plaza Yangzhou, we were startled by a navigation: 200 kilometers.
Yes, we went to the Tiaozi Mud Wetland in Dongtai. However, before going to Tiaozi Mud Wetland, we also went to Anfeng Ancient City in Dongtai. Before we arrived in the ancient city of Anfeng, when our car was driving on the land of Dongtai, we didn't have a chance to see the clean tailor raised by Dongtai like Master Song. However, the description of the land of Dongtai in "Inverted Time" has a panoramic view: "The fields here are not green, not Huang Cancan, nor black, but, hey hey, they are white ... endless greenhouses, white. Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a running wild animal, like a undulating and silvery river ... "Yes, Dongtai is a vast land in winter, and plastic greenhouses are everywhere, so I imagine if we stop and walk into a plastic greenhouse at will, can we hit such a scene? "The greenhouse is supported by three layers of film. As long as there are some sun flowers in the sky, the temperature inside will be as high as 20 degrees, and people who work will have to take off their clothes once they enter, so men and women will not avoid it. Because the height is limited, you have to kneel, or bow your waist, or simply crawl around ... urea, pesticides, fermented soil, struggling seeds, sweat, lack of circulating air ... These smells are mixed together, stirred in high temperature, and drilled into your nose, ears and eyes, and everyone's face is wrinkled with smoke ... "Read it again and it was announced by Lu Min in words on the land of Dongtai.
It is said that it is speeding. When we reach the township road, the speed limit is 40 kilometers. Although it is difficult to see a few motor vehicles, we only dare to turtle on the vast township road at a speed of no more than 40 kilometers. However, this rural road is really flat. For Dongtai people, even if they go far by bike, it is also the link between Jiangsu, China and even the whole world. Seeing the rural roads extending in all directions, I can't help but "think back to that year": what would Subei be like when there were no rural roads radiating in all directions?
In this way, it was lunch time when we arrived at Anfeng Ancient Town. I believe that every place has its own food, so I look for lunch around Anfeng ancient town. Looking around, I went into a fish soup noodle shop. In fact, as soon as I stepped into the store, I regretted it. There was no one else in the store except the proprietress! From my experience, I can guess that their fish noodle soup is not delicious. It's impossible to quit. The proprietress's eyes are fixed on us. Then try the famous fish soup noodles in Dongtai. Cheap is really cheap, a bowl of fish soup noodles with shredded pork with cabbage and a bowl of fish soup wonton, 15 yuan. But rough is really rough. The so-called fish soup noodles, that is, the noodles are cooked and picked into the fish soup that has just turned hot in the microwave oven road, and the smell is full. Shredded pork with cabbage covered on the noodles, to borrow the sentence that Chen Xi described his daughter-in-law's needlework in "Good Eight Company on Nanjing Road", is thick-needle hemp thread. Where can I see the fine taste of Su-style noodles? As for the fish soup wonton, it is also thick-skinned wonton with soy sauce-colored stuffing and thrown into a bowl of fish soup. However, we are hungry and feel that the fishy noodles and wonton are not bad. Eating noodles and wonton, we chatted with the proprietress. My teammate in honest and frank started with this sentence: "Business is hard to do. Look, there are no guests." Angered by him, the proprietress replied breathlessly with a smile, "Although there are few people now, there are too many people in the morning to be busy at all." I thought to myself, of course, a person is too busy. "Your husband must come and help in the morning, right?" "He is too busy to come. We have several helpers, so I asked them to go back to rest. My husband went fishing. " I thought I was smart, so I showed off in an ostentatious manner: "Oh, your fish soup is cooked by fish caught by your husband." The proprietress is unhappy again, and her voice is enlarged: "He fishes for fun. There is not enough fish for us to catch! Our store can earn more than 1000 a day. " "That's quite a lot." The teammate pointed to the shop: "The house is your own again." The proprietress gave him a white look: "The house is borrowed, and the rent is 1 10,000." I looked around the house and asked incredulously: "One month's rent 1 10,000?" The proprietress smiled: "One year!" I nodded: "You will earn the rent in half a month." The proprietress smiled again: "Business is not good every day." I said with emotion, "If only the house were your own." Who knows, the proprietress held her head high and proudly said, "Next door is her own house, so she can't do it." At this point, we also ate up the noodles and wonton, so we asked her if Anfeng ancient town was fun. The proprietress replied, "You foreigners go to play, and we never go."
The proprietress's words made us somewhat disappointed. Perhaps, the Anfeng ancient town was really created by the local government to "seduce" us foreign tourists.
The ancient town used to charge tickets, right? We don't need tickets when we go anyway. Is it the early winter season? From the gate of the ancient town to the end, we didn't meet any tourists except us. On the contrary, the ancient town presented a different landscape in our eyes: the ancient buildings in northern Jiangsu were like this!
What is it like? The blue bricks and tiles are the appearance of the old houses next to each other on both sides of the ancient town street. How to define the architecture of Anfeng ancient town? The ancient town of Anfeng, which originated in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, was rich for a time in the Ming Dynasty because it was among the famous salt fields. Salt merchants from south to north were willing to leave their wealth here, so the merchants of Jin and Hui built houses here to collect money. Of course, they will let craftsmen integrate the characteristics of their hometown buildings into their houses to quench their thirst for homesickness. Soil and water support one side, and local craftsmen will naturally blend the architectural style formed to cope with the local geographical and climatic conditions into the houses under construction. Therefore, more than 30 Ming and Qing buildings that we can see preserved show the unique style of the integration of merchants' homes in Jin and Hui and local architectural schools in Huai and Yi. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those who can gather in the ancient streets are either rich or expensive. Therefore, as long as we are careful when walking along the ancient streets, we can see who led the coquettish in Anfeng ancient town in those years: Bao's Building and Wu's Ancestral Hall, the former was built in 1850 for Bao Zhiyuan, the ancestor of Bao Yungao, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty; The layout of the building is orderly, the building is exquisitely built, and the carvings are simple, which can best reflect the Wu ancestral hall in ancient times and northern Jiangsu. It is the ancestral home of Wu Jiaji, a patriotic poet in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Wu Jiaji? Since the Book of Songs, there are so many poets who can list the history of ancient Chinese literature. Compared with them, Wu Jiaji is really not a master. However, there was a famous poet in the ancient town of Anfeng, and he was Zheng Banqiao. Although he is only a passer-by in Anfeng Ancient Town, the ancient town has left his traces forever. There is a Zheng Banqiao Life Museum in Dabei 'an, which is on the bank of the ancient salt river. Although the furnishings in the museum are too simple, the article specially written by Zheng Banqiao for this place has added weight to the ancient town of Anfeng.
When you leave Anfeng Ancient Town, do you go directly to Yangzhou? Or go to the Tiaozi wetland to have a look? When navigating, we found that it was 200 kilometers from Anfeng Ancient Town to Yangzhou, so we simply gave up our plan to enter Yangzhou in the evening and went to Tiaozi Wetland.
When I arrived at the Tiaozi Wetland, I felt for the first time that the winter of 2020 was coming. I joked with the little girl who sold tickets in the scenic spot: "It's too cold here. Look, there are few tourists." The little girl was very wronged and replied, "It suddenly cooled down today. I received many guests yesterday. " The last sentence greatly inspired us, and we did not hesitate to buy a ticket and take the scenic car ferry to go deep into the Tiaozi wetland.
Silver mud, what a strange place name! Why is it called this name? Originally, Tiaozi Mud was located in the coastal area in the northeast corner of Dongtai City, and it was named because its harbor was shaped like a strip. After we came down from car ferry in the scenic spot, we went to the depths of the wetland park along the seawall. The sea was muddy yellow. Looking at the sea, we looked back one by one to watch the photos of birds with different shapes and colors taken by people in Tiaozi mud in spring, summer and autumn. I really don't believe that so many beautiful birds have ever flown here. The sea breeze is getting stronger and stronger, so that we have to struggle to move forward, and it gets dark when it is dark. We are afraid that after enjoying a cup of coffee in that beautiful cafe, we will not be able to catch the bus that ferried us back to the entrance, so we began to retreat. After all, I was unwilling to continue to overlook the direction of the sea, so I saw several white birds trembling on the beach.