The courtyard is not large in size. Except for the ancient tower at the center, the remaining area around is 30 to 40 meters in radius. Li Rui drove the car five or six meters away in front of the tower, turned off the engine and got off, and introduced the origin and structure of the ancient tower to Xu Da.

The tower is 36 meters high and is a thirteen-story dense eaves and pavilion-style brick tower. The tower is octagonal and the Sumeru-shaped base is octagonal brick-built base below. The base is three meters high. Above is a lotus eaves extending upward and outward, and above is the first floor of the tower body, with a plain pot door open. After entering, there is a wooden spiral staircase that goes straight to the top of the tower. Standing on the highest floor, you can see the entire Qingyang urban area in your eyes through the small door. Therefore, cultural relics experts have verified that this is a military tower from the Jin Dynasty, used to observe the enemy situation and guard.

When Li Rui was in elementary school, he came here with his classmates a lot during the holidays, and also tried to climb up with his classmates. After more than 900 years of wind and sun, the brick surfaces of each corner of the platform base have been worn out, revealing many places for footsteps, so it is not difficult to climb to the base base, but it is difficult to climb to the lotus eaves on the base base. Because the eaves extend upwards and outwards (see the lotus eaves where Guan Shiyin sat), under normal circumstances, people can climb to a height that is inclined inwards, such as a pyramid, but it is difficult to climb to a height that is inclined outwards, such as the bulging rocks encountered during rock climbing, so this eaves blocked many people. Only those with strong arms, super courage, and extremely high physical balance can climb up.

Li Rui was just in elementary school at that time. He was very short and had insufficient strength, so he couldn't climb up anyway. When he could climb up later, he devoted himself to his studies and had no time to come and play. More than ten years passed, and when he came to the ancient tower, he was already in his thirties. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but sigh at the speed of time. The water of the Sangbai River was faster than the passage of time. It had dried up as early as ** years ago, leaving only an empty and exhausted river channel. Recalling the vast river surface and the torrential river water, he lamented even more in his heart. His childhood and the river water have disappeared and never returned.

After he introduced, he said, "Let's find a clean floor under the tower to drink." Xu Da looked up at the tower and said lightly: "Since you are here, of course you have to go up the tower. Let's go up to drink." Li Rui was shocked and said in a lost voice: "Go up to the tower?" Xu Da looked at him and said, "What? Don't you dare?"

Li Rui really didn't dare. Although with his current ability, climbing onto the tower - in fact, it was mainly to climb the lotus eaves, and then climbing would be equivalent to climbing the stairs, without any difficulty - it was no problem, but as his status improved, he married his wife Qingman and made several beloved confidants. With his bright future, he became attracted by his future. He began to cherish his life unconsciously and was unwilling to take risks for such unnecessary actions. But when Xu Da said this, he was unwilling to lose in person, so he deliberately smiled: "How is it possible? Why can't I dare not, I just feel it is unnecessary..."

Xu Da said in the intercept: "It is necessary, I want to go to the top of the tower with you to drink. The scenery on the top of the tower must be very good, right?"

After hearing what he said, Li Rui was a little moved. He had never been to the top of the tower and had never experienced the beautiful scenery at the top of the tower. Even if it was night, the top of the tower should have a view. But hesitantly said: "It's dark at night, it's not very convenient to climb up... Isn't it convenient? Besides, I have never been to the tower and I'm not familiar with the environment..."

Xu Da said in the intercept: "Isn't it familiar to go up and walk it once? In this way, I'll go up first, and you hand me the beer, and then I'll pull you up and let's go up to the top of the tower together."

He said so, and Li Rui couldn't refuse any more. He gritted his teeth and said ok.

Xu Da returned to the car, started the engine again, drove the car under the tower, stopped the engine, jumped out of the car, jumped onto the front of the car, stood from the front of the car, took two steps to the front of the ancient tower base, jumped up, and grabbed the lotus eaves with both hands, and pedaled the wall of the base several times. He didn't see how hard he used, but he had already "whispered" on the eaves and had already reached a level.

"Give me beer!"

He turned around and shouted at Li Rui.

Li Rui stared at him, and was once again shocked by his kung fu. He thought to himself that he could also use the roof of the car to climb up, but he would never be as easy as him. He would go up like a monkey. He probably had to climb for a while, mainly because the lotus eaves protruding outwards were too disgusting. If you want to climb up, you must use your feet to leverage the force on the base wall. But once you leverage the force, it may cause the center of gravity of the body to fall backwards and easily fall down; but if you don't leverage the force, you have to rely entirely on the skill of both arms. You must have the tough arm strength of the rock climber to climb up easily. Obviously, Xu Da has that arm strength, and he is far inferior to him.

He sighed, and took out the two boxes of beer from the car in two times and put it on the roof. Then he climbed onto the roof and raised it one by one to Xu Da, who was squatting on the lotus eaves. Xu Da took it one by one, put it into the tower gate, and said, "Okay, come up, I'll pull you."

Li Rui remembered that there was a large bag of peanuts in the car, so he went down to pick it up again. After returning to the car and handing it to Xu Da, he walked to the base, imitated Xu Da, jumped up, grabbed the lotus eaves with both hands, stepped on the wall of the base with both feet, and tried to climb up the eaves.

He didn't want Xu Da to look down on him, so he had no intention of using Xu Da's power to climb up on his own, so he used all his strength as soon as he got up, and he climbed very quickly, and his upper body quickly climbed to the eaves.

Xu Da said, "Okay, just put the leg on." After saying that, he laughed loudly and said with great enthusiasm: "I have made few friends because of my identity and work. I didn't expect that among the few friends, there is one who is willing to live and die with me, and even takes risks to drink with me. Good, Brother Li, you are really good, but it's nothing that you dare to take the risk of climbing towers for me. I didn't care at all. Do you know what I value most about you?"

Li Rui did not dare to reply, for fear that the anger that was yelling in his dantian would be discharged as soon as he spoke. If he really was venting, it would be difficult to climb up again, so he did not answer. He took a deep breath, stretched his arms to the eaves, and his body took advantage of the force, and his right leg was on the eaves accurately, and then he used force to climb onto the eaves.

He gasped for a few breaths before asking, “What do you value most?”

Xu Da patted his shoulder with a big hand and smiled, "What I value most is that you are not afraid of getting dirty when climbing the tower, and climbing as soon as you say it. This is something that ordinary people can do, but the more ordinary people are, the less there is. On the contrary, with your current status, it is quite difficult for you to do this."

Li Rui laughed and said, "How can I have any status? Even if there is a little bit, it's a bullshit in front of you, brother? You don't care about dirtying your clothes, what am I afraid of? If you get dirty and wash it!" Xu Da said, "You mean I am the son of the vice governor? Brother, you are not bad either. The governor's son-in-law, we are half a dozen." Li Rui shook his head and said, "No, it's your job identity." Xu Da sighed and said, "I have no position anymore, I am just an ordinary officer now." Li Rui was shocked and said, "No, right? Why?" Xu Da patted his shoulder and said, "Let's go to the top of the tower, and drink while saying, I'm just annoyed because of this."

The two of them crawled into the tower gate, each of them carried a box of beer and climbed toward the top of the tower. Xu Da walked in front, holding a flashlight in his hand illuminating it. Li Rui landed behind, and the bag of peanuts was placed on the beer box.

The first few layers of the tower are relatively dirty, with feces and toilet paper and various food bags on the ground. It seems that many uninvited guests like the two of them have come uninvited, but the more they go up, the cleaner the tower is. Of course, the cleanliness here is only relative. Compared with the filth in the first few layers, there are still many spider webs and bird nests. In addition, the more you climb, the stronger the wind will be. When the two of them arrive at the top of the thirteenth floor tower, they feel a little like walking in the wind.

The space inside the tower on the thirteenth floor is extremely small, equivalent to a small attic. The two of them plus two boxes of beer are basically filled, and they are only a little spacious when they sit down. In fact, after they reach the top, they took the beer box apart and sat on it with the paper under their butt.

The tower is thirty-six meters high (of course, the thirteenth floor where the two are located is less than thirty-six meters), which is nothing in the city. There are many tall buildings of sixty or seventy meters or even over a hundred meters, but in the suburbs, it is extremely high. Moreover, the ancient tower is built on a ground hill, and the ground hill looks dozens of meters above the level. In this way, the top of the tower is 70 to 80 meters high. Such a height can be said to be a view of all living beings in the suburbs.

Inside the tower, the night wind passes through the layers, and the whistling wind brings the warmth of spring and the vicissitudes of history; outside the tower, it is pitch black and everything is silent. Looking at the west through the tower gate, in the dark and distant night, you can see that the lights in the city are brilliant, like a mirage, and like a fairy city at night, giving people a sense of confusion, distantness, and not real. Of course, it also makes people feel the tranquility and coldness of being on the top of the tower.

"The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands. You dare not speak loudly, for fear of shocking the people in the sky."
Chapter completed!