We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 17 The Ming Dynasty Jingtai Blue and White Ladies Pot of Pickled Salted Fish

After the contact was over, Banxia immediately pulled out the old and yellowed map from the drawer. This is a 2020 version of Nanjing City Traffic Travel Map. It is a twenty-year old map left by the teacher. I don’t know how many people have passed it. It was turned over and tattered.

  She spread the map out on the bed, then held a small lamp, moved closer and pointed the words on the map with her finger, looking for it bit by bit.

  She wants to find a place where there is enough evidence to prove that she lives in 2040.

On the map, the area filled with light pink is Qinhuai District. Qinhuai District is an irregular quadrilateral. A large oval green in the north of Qinhuai District is Purple Mountain, and the blue diamond on the west side of Purple Mountain is Xuanwu Lake. I found the place where I live—Meihua Villa, 66 Muyuanyuan Street.

On the map with a scale of 1:100,000, the Meihuashanzhuang community is only a small area as big as a fingernail. The Meihuashanzhuang is next to a straight north-south one millimeter wide and five centimeters long. It is Muifayuan Avenue and further to the north. Yuan Avenue and Zhongshanmen Avenue intersect. Zhongshanmen Avenue is a sturdy main road, two millimeters wide, filled with light yellow, winding across half of the map of Nanjing.

  Banxia’s fingers moved slowly on the map, starting from Meihua Villa, and along the road to the north, recognizing the place names one by one:

  Jiangsu Institute of Chinese Culture.

What is this place? It doesn't look like it can help, the next one.

  Haiyue Garden.

  No, this is a small community, which has been burnt to the point of being burnt, and only the ruined walls are left, which is now occupied by a large group of monkeys.

  Southeast Eye Hospital.

   is wrong.

  Mufuyuan Metro Station?

   is wrong.

  Weiqiao New Village.

   is wrong.

  Xia Mafang Ruins Park.

   is wrong.

   Provincial Earthquake Administration? Will there be evidence in the Seismological Bureau?

   still wrong.

  The girl knelt on the bed, tired on her stomach, straightened up to rest for a while, and blinked her eyes vigorously.

The light in the room is dim, and the only light source is the small energy-saving lamp hanging above the desk, and the small table lamp in her hand. The small table lamp has a blue plastic shell and a small solar panel on the base. Put it on The balcony can be fully charged in one day. It is a gadget that the teacher turned over from the garbage dump. Seeing that it can still be used, I kept it for use. This thing has a circle of LED bulbs, there are six in total, but only the ones that can light up are left. In the second half, it is difficult to read characters under such light conditions, especially the small characters on the map are only as big as mosquito legs, so it is not easy to see clearly.

  Banxia decided to change the route.

  Start from Meihua Villa, go south to Crescent Lake.

   Then to Jun’an Dongyuan.

  Next is Minghu Restaurant.

  Finally to Guanghua Road.

   got nothing.

Banxia breathed a sigh of relief. In the huge city of Nanjing, there must be enough evidence to prove that she lived in 2040, but unfortunately Nanjing is too big to be too big for many places. With her legs and a broken bicycle, Pinellia was at most 20 kilometers away from where she lived. No matter how far she was, she couldn't guarantee that she could go back and forth within a day. She didn't dare to spend the night outside, it was very dangerous.

  It would be great if there were cars. Maybe there are still one or two moving cars in a certain area of ​​Qinhuai District? There will always be a car that has escaped the search of myself and the teacher, and the battery is not taken away.

   Banxia thought silently.

  But she can’t drive if there is a car.

This world has experienced a period of chaotic days. At that time, she was still very young, so she was not deeply impressed. Looking back now, Pinellia only vaguely remembers the scarlet night sky, and huge black images of spiders wandering on the earth under the moonlight. During the inspection, the teacher took her to hide in Tibet. The humans she saw were fewer and fewer, and there was no last one.

   "Where can there be evidence..."

   Banxia went down and opened her eyes wide.

  The main road on the map is the main moving track of the girl. For safety reasons, Banxia can only move along the main road, not deep into the small lanes or residential areas.

  Start from Meihua Villa!

  Clover Garden Street!

  Zhongshanmen Street!

  Nanjing Museum!

  Will there be evidence in Nanjing Museum? After all, they are all old antiques. When there is no tableware, the teacher once went to the Nanjing Museum to find pots and pans. The pottery and porcelain placed in the glass cabinets. If they can be used, the teacher will move them back. For example, there is one. The "Jingtai blue and white lady outing in the Ming Dynasty" is now placed in the kitchen to marinate salted fish, and there is also a "Hongwu glaze red-year-old three-you-style plum bottle", which is now used for bacon.

There was also a silver jade garment. The teacher wanted to move it. She said that it was a pity that the baby was left there for mice to chew, but she didn't know what it could do with this thing, so she had to find a glass cabinet and put it in. Then he stood at the gate of Nanjing Museum as a door god, hoping to scare away the animals that broke in.

   But as far as the current situation is concerned, the motionless silver jade garment can't scare the animal away, and the animal only regards it as a sculpture unless it can walk.

  But it scared Pinellia when it walked.

  Do these things prove that she is in 2040?

  I'm afraid not, because they will also exist in 2019.

Next.

   "Ming Forbidden City."

no.

  Next one.

  "Zhongshan Hotel."

  Zhongshan Hotel? Pinellia carefully recalled.

  Oh, it turns out that the scorched foundation is Zhongshan Hotel.

  Nanjing General Hospital.

  Xi'an Gate.

  Pilu Temple.

  Banxia's eyes are about to look at the flowers, and I can't find a place to work.

  What kind of place will save a lot of evidence?

First, there must be a clear time stamp, and second, there must be a clear event record, and then the time and the event must be one-to-one correspondence. This is convincing evidence that she lives in 2040—only enough magazines and yearbooks Only with newspapers and periodicals can what Pinellia said is true.

  Where are a lot of magazines and newspapers? bookstore? No, the bookstore does not keep a lot of old newspapers from many years ago. There are only junk novels in the bookstore.

Banxia’s gaze moved slowly along the khaki main road on the map. It was Zhongshan East Road. She was very familiar with it. Banxia often sat on the steps in front of the Ming Palace, watching the buffalo and deer mighty. Pass through Zhongshan East Road.

  "Do you want to read a book? Reading more is good for you." The teacher's words echoed in his mind, "There are magazines, newspapers and other magazines. If you want to read, we will move a little back..."

  Banxia suddenly saw it, a line of small black imitated Song characters, it was quietly hiding in the complicated map, unremarkable, but Banxia knew that she had found it.

  Presidential Palace.

  No, under it.

  "Nanjing Library."

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  (Author Jun’s gossip: A classmate asked me about applying for a volunteer in the book: I love literature, but I was asked by my family to apply for a science and engineering volunteer. How should I choose?

  The author can only share a little personal experience here, for this classmate’s reference only:

If you are passionate about writing, then filling in any major will not affect writing. The literature majors in universities do not train writers. They train literary researchers, connoisseurs, and critics. The author himself is a science background, and there are a lot of online writers. Science students.

If you simply love literature, such as literature and art, comparative literature, etc., you have to study systematically in the literature major, and you have to communicate with your parents and family, but one thing is certain: learn a major that you don’t like , Will not be happy. )

  (End of this chapter)