Chen Xu and Han Zhimin deeply thanked Orion, and took out money to thank him in person.

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"I think you're from out of town, do you want to go to our village and rest for the night?"

Chen Xu and Han Zhimin thanked and expressed their willingness.

Arrived at the original ecological village of tourism, Xinghua Village.

Han Zhimin happily hired a tricycle from the side of the road, and walked through many villages along the way, Chen Xu saw a strange phenomenon in front of a stream, a driver master of the old village tourist village drove a herd of cattle and sheep, originally he could pass through the pontoon bridge connected by iron cables on the stream, but he did not do so, but walked around the winding foothills and walked a long mountain road to the opposite side of the stream to drive the sheep.

Chen Xu asked the driver what the hell was going on, the driver walked on the frame, holding the bullwhip in his hand from time to time to make a "shh When I walked to the edge of the river and saw this clear and blue river, there were no children swimming in the water, the young ladies of the peasant family did not wash their clothes here, and the local villagers avoided this stream like a plague. ”

Chen Xu and the others asked what was going on, why did these villagers want to be like this. The driver said: "Recently, I learned what was going on from a gray-haired old man, and I remember that day I drove a tricycle on the road in the dust, and he also told me not to take this road again when I took passengers to the town, and then he said that the stream was crystal clear and the water was like a mirror, and the young men in the village came back every morning to fetch water so that they could pay for the day's water consumption, and the village girl often washed clothes here. There are also village children in the spring and summer season will go to the other side of the stream to fly kites, when they are tired of playing, they often jump into the stream to swim, touch the fish, fish for crucian carp, dig river mussels, pick sweet potatoes, support boats, float tiles, cut wild vegetables, catch loaches with big fish, play lotus villagers are countless, there are often bonfires lit on this river in the past, singing and singing, egrets flying, dragon boats swinging, drums sound, become the most lively scene in the village, the villagers are happy here, they forget the machine, But this Murakami appeared and saw one thing, and everything changed. ”

"The old man told me in tears that hundreds of years ago, the village found a thing that is still memorable, there is a pair of men and women in the village, the man is called Dong Yong, he and another woman named Liuniang in the neighborhood are in love, love is dead and alive, and each other has made a heavy oath on the opposite peak of this stream, no matter to the mountain peak, the sun, the moon and the stars are not rotating, the heaven and earth are nothing, the mountains and rivers have become dry and can not be separated, but sad things are often hidden behind, This woman named Liuniang originally had the son of the big squire who opened a big pharmacy in the village in his childhood, and the parents of both sides agreed and established a document to prove it, and the parents of both sides wanted to form a family with each other, so as to develop their power in the local area, and the people present at that time were also the patriarch of the township.

But the son of the big squire himself is an idle, innocent gentleman, when he grows up, the sixth mother is smart and sensitive, how can he like this rich child who eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and then she finds all kinds of reasons to prevent her from this marriage made by her father and mother, when she was twenty-one years old, she met a young man who taught in a private school in the countryside, this young man was rich and knowledgeable, and was originally the son of a poor peasant family, but in order to raise funds for the examination in Beijing, Only came to the village next door to teach, soon, Liuniang deeply liked the hard-working and brave, proficient young man of Hanmo, and swore on the mountain to stay together, carved poems on the Taibai stone as evidence, hoping to get the blessing of the sky, but it backfired, after Liuniang's parents knew, they strongly opposed to being with this young man with four walls, seeing that he could not change his parents' decision, in the night when the wind was blowing high and the moon was full of forests, the two of them fled hand in hand, and escaped from Baojing Town. After being found by the patriarch's minions and arrested, the next day, the patriarch summoned the peasants of the whole village to the ancestral shrine in the village, first separated the six mothers from the young man, and used the family rules of the clan to announce that the young man from the countryside was a girl who came to the village to deceive the cardamom and wanted to abduct them. And then on trumped-up charges to sink the young man into the mirror stream, although Liuniang in her parents, did not embark on the same desperate road as the young man, but Liuniang learned that her beloved was killed by the villagers, first the liver and intestines were broken, day and night weeping with blood, after half a month, then alone to the mountain that once carved poems with the young man for the alliance, thinking of her former and the young man in love with the scene, and then took a piece of black charcoal on the Taibai stone carved eight lines of poetry" "Eagle Love" is only in love to get double flights, and the ends of the world are affectionate. In the end, there will be a sea breeze and thunder, and the wings will fly across the ocean, and the liver and intestines of the dead party will be broken, but this life will be upside down. Even if the sun shines on the poor bones, the ghosts stay together and the sorrow is sweet. ”

The driver couldn't help but cry when he said this, and Chen Xu and his two friends were even more sad, but Zhang Kundan, who has always been straightforward by nature, asked: "Uncle, how do you remember this matter so clearly, have you memorized it, or have you deliberately changed such a story to arouse our compassion." ”

The driver said: "Although the driver master has not read many books, I can't recognize many words, but I have a unique pastime in my life, that is, every time I use a tricycle to solicit customers to the city, when I spend the night there, I like to go to the bamboo building, the Washer, the theater to listen to the play, over the years, I heard some wonderful stories once and never forget, always aftertaste like drinking wine, after listening to the driver master tell the story, I can also tell it to other people word for word." ”

Chen Xu covered his nose and cried, shook his head and sighed: "Uncle, is that story over like this, what does this have to do with some strange phenomena that we saw when we came here?"

The driver said: "Oh, the next thing I want to talk about is a little thrilling, speaking of which I want to be more sorry for the lover who loves each other in this place, after the young man drowned in this Mingjing Creek, one night hundreds of years ago, the wind came suddenly, the torrential rain poured, there was a flood under the Ganjiang River, the flood was about three or four zhang so high, the flood was under the governance of the local Taishou, although a lot of animals and farmers were drowned, but the water receded after half a month of water control, and everyone thought that there was nothing to do. When the government and the people have raised their hands to celebrate, some farmers have worked in the fields for a day to swim in Mingjing Creek but were dragged into the water by some extremely vicious and cruel crocodiles, chickens, ducks and geese, pigs, dogs and sheep, the elderly and children in several nearby villages are frequently lost, and later someone saw a few crocodiles on the bank of the stream driving a group of goats on the grass, only to understand that there are crocodiles in this stream, and they dare not touch the clear water of this stream, and the elders in the village are even more false. It is said that the crocodiles in this stream are the spirit of Liu Niang and his lovers, specially to harm people and animals, in order to vent their cruelty. ”

Zhang Kundan and Han Zhimin, who have always been bold, heard that there was a murderous crocodile in the driver's stream, and they were also disgraced at this time, and they sat down with their hands and sighed. Only Chen Xu asked with an unchanged face: "Uncle, so the crocodile has been suffering for so long, can't the local officials think of any countermeasures to reduce the hidden danger?" ”

The driver said: "The first person to treat these crocodiles was Liu Wengong Liu Taishou, who had treated the flood twenty years ago, but he finally failed to eliminate the crocodiles in this stream, and he was helpless in the face of this situation. The children in the streets and alleys sang songs while playing: "Liu Wengong, the virtuous minister has long been famous for his meritorious service, the innocent official has a good reputation, he cured the flood, and saved the city of Nanchang. ”

The driver touched Zhang Kundan and said: Slowly, let me say it myself, I live in the city and countryside near Nanchang City, and I have heard of the deeds of this Liu Wengong at a very young age, I remember that he served as a Taishou in Ganzhou, an official of the Ming Dynasty, he was still recommended by Wei Zheng, who was known as "a beautiful minister, a virtuous and virtuous minister", to benefit the people, but because he could not cure the crocodile in the stream, resulting in an endless stream of crocodile injuries, Emperor Taizong was a gentleman and a virtuous minister, Fu has eight directions, attaches importance to the rule of officials, assesses the political performance of local officials, and later heard that he can enter the court as an official, but because of the "immediately take merit, Wu Biao three armies" known as Wei Chi Gong participated in his performance, he failed to deal with the local crocodile plague, the saint did not let him go to Beijing as an official, but transferred him to Yizhou in Shu to become the local Taishou, and Yu Chi Gong Li from the military merits, brave and fearless, fundamentally did not put the local crocodile plague in his eyes, thinking of the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan Road, want to visit the mountains and rivers here, On the day of enjoying the wind, he asked Emperor Taizong to serve as the minister of Jiangnan Province and said that he wanted to go to the Mingjing Creek under the jurisdiction of Changyi City to eradicate the crocodile, and later he was nostalgic for Xiushui Qingfeng, thinking of his will to the imperial court, so he came to the stream to drive away the crocodile, and then many parties failed to kill the crocodile in the stream, so he had to build a dam here, and said to the court that the crocodile had been driven to death, and the crocodile was eliminated. ”

The driver took the gourd inside the wine; Splashed on the cow's waist, gave the cow a cool off, turned his head and said to the three young men: "Yes, what the little brother said just now is right, Wei Chigong did catch crocodiles in this Mingjing Creek, and there is still a custom in this Nanchang City, every Chinese New Year's Eve, in this festive atmosphere, the local city residents will post the murals of Wei Chigong descending crocodiles on their own gates, and some people have begun to respect him as the "door god", although Wei Chigong has merit in treating "crocodile suffering", However, because he lied to the court that the crocodiles in Mingjing Creek had been eliminated, the local officials did not dare to report the crocodile problem to their superiors over the years, and the crocodile is more rampant than before, and each inaugural official does not take the disposal of crocodile as the scope of performance evaluation, but only follows the practice of the previous official, strengthens the embankments on both banks, and strictly prohibits local villagers from farming the fields by the stream, but these practices are indeed detrimental to the livelihood and stability of several nearby urban and rural residents. ”

Chen Xu listened very attentively, although he grew up in Shaozhou, Lingnan, and didn't know about the crocodile disease in this place, but he was still thinking about where these crocodiles came from, so they would cause trouble in the local area for so long, and when he said goodbye to the driver, he was still thinking about this problem.

Chen Xu was walking halfway with his two good friends, he took out a piece of dried meat from Han Zhimin's cloth coat, Zhang Kundan asked strangely: "Sir, are you hungry, do you want the three of us to find a small shop in front and walk down to rest." ”

Chen Xu smiled: "No, I have another use for this fast-dried meat, you wait and watch." With that, he threw a piece of dried meat high in the air and into the middle of the stream in the embankment.

Han Zhimin looked at him from the side and said angrily: "Sir, what are you doing here, even if you don't eat it, you don't like this piece of dried meat and forget it, why do you have to throw him away." ”

As soon as Han Zhimin finished speaking, Chen Xu said with the embankment in his hand: "Look at the situation." "The three young men looked over together, only to see a big crocodile leaping out of the water about three or four feet, you see about five or six meters long, the scales of the whole body in the sunlight like pieces of iron armor made of battle clothes, the fangs on the mouth of pouring blood are like a sword blade to the sky, the two big eyes are like rubies that shine in the mountains at night, a long black tail is like an iron nail board for building a wall, the whole momentum makes people's spine break out in cold sweat, scalp numb, timid people see that they have already three souls fluttering, seven souls are insignificant."

The least daring of the three belonged to Han Zhimin, seeing such a scene, he was already a drunk man who drank a thousand glasses of wine a day, like a puddle of mud sitting on the ground and couldn't move, and said in surprise: "Oh my God, is this a crocodile or a demon, I have never seen such a behemoth when I grow so big, no wonder I just came to my uncle's place, and I heard someone saying that there is a stream in Ganzhou called "Evil Creek", which is inhabited by animals like hell and evil ghosts. The scene just now is really "soul-snatching, pushing the heart"

Chen Xu and Zhang Kundan laughed while slowly helping Han Zhimin to a pavilion in front of him to rest, Chen Xu proposed: "After we rest here for a while, we will go around the green grass beach and go to the peak on the other side of the stream, and see if there are any poems carved by the pair of lovers that the driver told just now on the mountain, okay." ”

Han Jimin pounded his numb knees and said: "Of course what the driver said is true, is it necessary for him to make up lies to deceive us, what if we encounter danger later?"

Chen Xu said: "Since we have come to this side of the stream, as long as we bypass a small area, it is convenient to have a glimpse of the remains of this man in the world, isn't it a meaningful thing." ”

Zhang Kundan and Han Zhimin couldn't resist Chen Xu, so after resting for a while, they walked to the mountain, where Chen Xu really saw the remains of the man who had made a poem with Liuniang, in a piece covered with moss, moss, tender grass growing next to it, and a few lines of poetry were engraved on the stele of wild flowers:

Xiao Zhi asked for tears about the rain, and the untoned twilight had a time

The heavenly rooster is willing to perch on the toad stone, and the Shoushan silkworm consumes a sequence of light

The dream of the third world is chiseled by the gold chisel, and the jade pendant is a hundred years old

Cultivate sincerity under the Bodhi tree, and the peach blossom cave is harmonious

When the three of them saw this, they knew that what the driver said was true, Chen Xu reverently scrubbed the soil on the stone plaque, Zhang Kundan walked alone under the eucalyptus tree of two hundred meters, and when he saw another scene, he immediately beckoned Chen Xu and Han Zhimin to come over and take a closer look.

It turns out that the rock of the eucalyptus tree is carved with the statue of Liuniang and the young man, the two carvings are like life-size figures, carved lifelike, the woman's eyes are clear and the face is beautiful, and the man's posture is handsome, polite. Let people see their two lovers love each other, happy when they are together, young people raise their eyes to look, how many days and nights watching, the river is endless, rushing in front of the stream, Liuniang's expression is quiet and tranquil, holding the lover's hand, people look at their eyes, they are like walking on a cuckoo sound, cool breeze, bright moonlight, starry mountain road, and lovers are watching the sky like piles of coral clouds and brilliant glow. ”

The three of them looked reverently, but it was not difficult to find that the feet of the two stone statues reached their knees, which had been smashed by many people with hard stones, and the temple commemorating Liuniang next to the statue was even more unbearable.

Chen Xu heard a loud song from the stream at the foot of the mountain in the distance: a sail of Hunan bamboo dark clouds and water, smoke out of the old house and half of the sky, the deep path is lonely and unattended, at four o'clock the secluded spring is startled by the wild fruits on the mountain road and the crows are calling, the woodcutter returns with a song and leisurely, and a woodcutter comes to play while walking

The small bamboo tube is singing a mountain song leisurely.

After passing by this temple, I saw a few young people watching the stone statues next to them, so I put the two loads of firewood on my shoulders on the ground, and the whole person leaned on a flat pole between the two bundles of firewood and grass like a horizontal board, picked up the wine gourd and drank the wine, wiped it to the side of my mouth after drinking, and asked Chen Xu, who was standing in front: "Young man, why have I never seen you in my life in the town, and you should be from other places." ”

Chen Xu said: "Old Ah Weng, the three of us are indeed from other places, and we just want to go to Panyang Lake to see the scenery." ”

As soon as the driver heard that this group of people was from other places, he panicked: dare to love these people don't know what to do, since the crocodile came out of Mingjing Township in Baojing Town, the residents of several neighboring cities and villages dare not come here, these young people don't know that there is a crocodile here, and dare to come to the top of this mountain. “

The driver said, "You three young people came here from the pontoon bridge in the stream, or from a bend in a grass bay under the stream. ”

Chen Xu saw his surprised expression, guessed what he was thinking, and said, "Old Ah Weng, don't worry, the three of us have already heard that there are fierce and abnormal crocodiles here, so in order to avoid burying the crocodile's belly, we chose the second road to go up to the top of the mountain." ”

The old uncle holding the mobile phone twisted his jaw and his beard like autumn frost, and sighed: "So that's the case, even if you have the courage and strategy, yesterday morning I went up the mountain to chop firewood and heard someone say that a foreigner from Qinzhou washed his hands in the stream, was dragged into the water by a crocodile and eaten, and now there are still two pools of blood on the side of the stream." ”

Han Zhimin and Zhang Kundan stood next to him and patted their chests, glad that the three of them saw the local town government leaders accompanied by the warning signs set up on the shore, and did not rush into the water. ”

The woodcutter said: "These two statues were originally hundreds of years ago, Liu Taishou Liu Wengong built here, hundreds of years ago he was here to control the crocodile can not achieve good results, so that the crocodile eats the incident occasionally, the local elders have rumored that there was no crocodile here before, are two lovers Liu Niang and the village teacher fell in love with each other and died of grievances, grievances alarmed the gods of heaven, only to let their spirit turn into a crocodile in the stream, to the villagers for revenge, The old squires asked the Taishou to erect a statue here to appease the resentment of the crocodiles in the stream, and as for these statues, the temple would become so dilapidated because of the resentment of the families of the villagers who had been killed by the crocodiles in the stream over the years. ”

Obviously, the three young people did not believe that these statements were true, under the persuasion of Chen Xu, Han Zhimin and Zhang Kundan lived in the broken temple and cooperated with Chen Xu to find out why there are crocodiles breeding and breeding here in Mingjing Creek, a few days passed, Chen Xu and Zhang Kundan Han Zhimin walked all over the villages next to the mountain peaks, and visited the few old men who lived in mud tile houses left in the ancient villages, explored the terrain on the mountain, and explored the changes that occurred here due to the change of time, and later Chen Xu and two friends were on the crust on the reverse bow bank slope of Mingjing CreekFish bones, shells, aquatic weeds, fossils left by spiral swirls, dried vertebrates of shellfish, and neat and orderly reticulations were collected from limestone and cliff edges, dry pools, concave trenches, and open caves, from which Chen Xu concluded that this area was once a direct stream of water leading to Mingjing Creek.

Later, Zhang Kundan brought Chen Xu and Han Zhimin into a valley, saying that he had found a peach blossom spring-like landscape village, Chen Xu looked at this village on the mountain, and saw that the house planning of every household was orderly, the chickens and dogs in the fields smelled each other, the good mulberry and beautiful bamboo swayed in the wind, and the gold-like sunlight was smeared with fish scales.