The rain finally stopped, the sun was shining, and the sky was very clear, but Lin Xue never moved back. After the heavy rains, trees, reeds and other plants begin to lush, birds, fish and other animals thrive here, this large river beach is full of life and bustle, from time to time some animals will come to "visit", so that their "little days" are rippling.

This morning, Yu Songyuan woke up on time, and when he got up, he saw Lin Xue sleeping soundly on her own top bunk, so he wanted her to sleep lazy. He opened the door gently, and when he was preparing for the event in front of the door with the general, Lin Xue had already gotten up. So, the three of them jogged together on the embankment for a thousand meters.

As soon as he returned to the wooden trestle, suddenly, the attentive Lin Xue excitedly shouted: "Wow! Brother Yu, look, look, wow, God. Pigs, there are so many pigs in the river! ”

Yu Songyuan raised his head and looked at the river, only to see a group of black dots on the downstream river, churning up and down between the surging currents of the river, going upstream, rolling in. The black dots are getting bigger and bigger, appearing and disappearing, and from a distance, it really looks like a herd of pigs running on a field where the seedlings are thriving, and like a group of black iron buckets rising and falling among the Lang flowers.

Lin Xue was still jumping excitedly and shouting: "Look at it, look at it, there are so many, wow, there can be thousands of tens of thousands of ......" The general was also extremely excited, running and jumping with her.

At this time, the vanguard in front of the fish was less than 200 meters away from them. I saw that among the schools of fish, the large ones were about 20 meters long, and the small ones were one or two meters long. Several heads and columns, one column after another, sometimes showing ridges, sometimes exposing all the ends, black and as long as three or four miles of spectacular queues, unhurried xiangshang swim through Lang forward, unstoppable.

Where the fish passed, the river surface rippled, the Lang flowers splashed, and the "shrimp soldiers and crabs" frequently jumped out of the water and passed forward, falling together, as if opening the way for their gongs, which was spectacular. Under the trestle bridge by the river, a large number of river fish rushed into the reeds, like boiling a pot, and jumped in panic from time to time.

Yu Songyuan said: "Girl, this is not a pig, this is a group of pseudo-killer whales, which the locals call 'Jiang-pig'." Every year in the year of the leap month of the lunar calendar, or in the late summer and early autumn peach flood season, when there is a huge tide, they will go upriver from the mouth of the Guan River and enter the Guan River. Such a large-scale one, which usually comes once every three or five years, has allowed us to catch up. ”

"And what about them going to enter the Guan River?"

"The Guan River is the only tidal river in our province that does not have a sluice in the main channel, a secondary waterway. Late spring to early summer is the time when whales mate and give birth. The water of the Guan River is deep and wide, the water quality is good, the sea and fresh water are mixed, and there is no culvert gate to obstruct it, so it is an ideal place for whales to come in groups to mate and give birth. At this time of year, they come in pairs. ”

At this time, the whale formation had reached directly opposite them.

I saw countless whales, or chasing and playing, cruising like arrows among the Lang flowers, or spewing out a column of water as high as a foot high. The largest is more than 20 meters long, and the smallest is several meters, forming a huge whale group with a length of more than 2,000 meters. Wherever the fish pass, the fountains rise and fall, the mist rises into the air, the river rolls in, and the waves crash on both banks, the scene is spectacular and breathtaking.

Lin Xue is still a child after all, this spectacular scene made her little hands red, and her voice was almost hoarse. The general was also stunned, waiting for the whales to pass, almost more than two hours. Lin Xue looked at the group of whales in the distance, and asked reluctantly, "Brother Yu, they are in such a hurry, where are they going?" ”

"Folklore has it that you go to the Dragon King Temple to worship the Dragon King."

"Worship the Dragon King, is there really a Dragon King? You lied to me. ”

"It's just folklore. The fish swim to the front of the Dragon King Temple, where the Guan River is exactly 90 degrees turn, the tide rolls over the temple, the big fish are affected by the current, will change to stand upright in the water, the upper half of the water is exposed, as if watching the temple. At the same time, it will spew out a column of water up to more than a foot in the air, like a big fish kowtowing to the dragon king. According to folk legend, there is a jade-pu-tuan at the bottom of the river, and the big fish kneels on it to worship the dragon king. When the fish pass the Longwang Temple, travel more than ten miles to the three-way mouth, the river is narrow and shallow, and it is generally at low tide, so they follow the rules and take advantage of the low tide and go east into the sea. ”

"Where is the Dragon King Temple?"

"The Dragon King Temple is located at a 90-degree turn on the north bank of the Guan River, and it was built in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning, the river master also cast twelve tall bronze figures in front of the temple, standing on the bank of the Guan River, to control the tide. Later, due to the frequent wars in the past 100 years, the lives were devastated, and by the time of the Anti-Japanese War, the Dragon King Temple and the twelve big bronze people were burned down by the war. As for the dragon king, of course it doesn't actually exist, it's just a beautiful haode folklore. ”

Lin Xue was stunned when she held her cheeks, and at this time, it had been more than forty minutes since the fish had passed, and the general jumped up excitedly. It turned out that the large group of whales had begun to happily return east to sea.

They hurried to look at the river, and saw a huge school of whales, like a large black cloud, and like thousands of horses, rolling from upstream, down the river, and then tumbling towards the sea. A large number of whales jumped out of the water one after another, and the sound of lapping Lang flowers resounded.

At this moment, many people on both sides of the river are already watching this spectacle, the local fishermen are cheering, and firecrackers are also lit, and the whales seem to be very spiritual, jumping more happily on the water.

Finally, the whales were gone, and the three of them were still unsatisfied, and Yu Songyuan was especially glad to see this spectacle. When I was a child, my father and my grandfather and other elders often told their four brothers the allusion of "Jiang-Pig worshiping the Dragon King", and today I was finally able to witness the whole process with my own eyes.

"Today is really an eye-opener, after your explanation, there are really a lot of stories about this irrigation river, and there are more cultural allusions?"

"Another example of Guanhe that has spread widely and has far-reaching influence is the legend of the Ersheng Temple and the Erlang God." Yu Songyuan said.

It is said that when Erlang Shendanshan drove the sun to pass by the Guan River, he accidentally dropped a stone and fell to the mouth of the Guan River, and then it grew into a small island, which is now Kaishan Island. Kaishan Island is very small, and it is located at the mouth of the Guan River. Shaped like steamed buns, with an area of only 0.13 square kilometers, the island is rocky and steep, steep and steep, with neither soil nor fresh water. It sits between the sea and the sky and the smoke and waves, the scenery is excellent, the island overlooks, there is a great artistic conception of "the waves Lang see like upside down, Penglai looks at the forest".

The hometown of Erlang God is at the mouth of the Guan River, and the Ming Dynasty called the Guan River as the Guan River, and the Guan River Estuary as the Guan River Estuary. Ershenggang, an important economic town in our county, is named after Erlang God and Ersheng Temple. It is said that on the opening mountain near the shore of Ershenggang, there was a splendid Ersheng Temple built in the past, which was dedicated to the god Erlang, and the incense was quite prosperous, and it was destroyed in the war at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

One of China's four famous novels "Journey to the West", the author Wu Chengen used to frequented here, and the hometown of Erlang God in his pen is at the mouth of the Guan River (that is, the mouth of the Guan River), "Dragon Officer of the East China Sea", "Erlang Temple", "Monkey King vs. Erlang God", etc., are all based on the landscape of Kaishan Island at the mouth of the Guan River as the prototype of life.

When they returned to the dormitory after the whales had gone, it was almost ten o'clock, and everyone was still excited.

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The college entrance examination is imminent, and when Yu Songyuan's studies are becoming more and more intense, and there is no longer time to hunt, the general spontaneously took on the heavy responsibility of hunting. Lin Xue often laughed and said that the general is a thief in the river beach, and he never goes out hunting.

The general only needs to go out for a short time almost every day to surprise them. Pheasants, ducks, geese, wild geese, fish, snakes, etc., really do not fall short. Yu Songyuan has always wondered, and one thing he has always wanted to understand is that the general weighs seventy or eighty pounds, how did it go to the water to fish, could it dive?

The eighteenth year of the female college has changed, and Lin Xue, who has been away from home for a year, was originally born beautiful, and the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in the flower season is the time to grow her body. I can eat enough, and my nutrition can keep up, plus I love sports, and aiqing nourishment, I turned out to be like a breath blowing, and I quickly grew into a tall, slim, and beautiful girl.

One Saturday night, just after they had finished eating, Zhuang Ba and Hu Bing came to them with one of their men. Zhuang Ba seems to be mixing really well, with suits and leather shoes, and he has the style of a small boss. Yu Songyuan had no choice but to spend a night drinking and chatting with them, and finally sent him back. When Zhuang Hu left, he left a Shanghai Phoenix 26 bicycle as a gift to Lin Xue.

This year, the rain is really heavy, less than a month before the college entrance examination, and it has been raining for a week of continuous heavy rain, making the whole shijie a country, full of rivers and rivers.

The Guan River was about five or six kilometers upstream in the county, when suddenly Xiangyou made a big bend of nearly 90 degrees and turned to the north. On the left bank at the big turn, there are six or seven tributaries radiating into the distance. The riverbed of the Guan River is steep and deep, and the tributaries are dense. As the tide rises and falls, the tributaries continue to converge, forming a roaring spectacle of falling water, which can be heard for several kilometers.

Among these tributaries, there is a small tributary called the small "Waste Yellow River", which is connected to the large waste Yellow River that flows through Liutao. At that time, there were many wooden bridges on the small waste Yellow River in the county section, one of which was low, and the river was flooded when it rose, and the locals called it "Water Flood Bridge".

At the beginning of June, a certain navy unit had already entered the period of sweeping up the spring conscription work in northern Jiangsu, and began to visit villages and households. On the morning of that day, Officer Liu, a Navy recruiting cadre who was visiting his home, had breakfast early and went to the countryside with cadres of the local armed forces department, but he encountered a dangerous situation on the "Shuiman Bridge" of the Yellow River.

When Officer Liu and the others waded across the bridge, the current was too fast, and the bridge board immersed in the water was too slippery, and a local young woman walking in front of Secretary Liu slid into the water with a tom and was instantly swept away by the turbulent river. At the moment of emergency, Officer Liu threw away the bicycle, plunged into the water with a fish leap, and clung to the young woman's clothes. The young woman struggled with all her might, and hugged Director Liu tightly, and both of them choked on a few mouthfuls of water. As a last resort, Officer Liu had to knock her unconscious with a punch before lifting her head out of the water.

The current was too fast to drag her to the shore, and the two were soon washed into the river by the muddy, rushing water. The water flow at the turn was more urgent, and Officer Liu was exhausted, and he used too much force just now, and his legs began to cramp again, and the pain was unbearable, and he was thrashing with one hand, and the situation was critical.

Before breakfast, Yu Songyuan was reciting English words on the abandoned trestle under the river embankment, and the general was at home to watch the house. Lin Xue sat quietly beside Yu Songyuan with a book in her hand, looking at the river rushing down under the wooden trestle bridge. She inadvertently looked up at the river, and saw that there seemed to be a person in the middle of the river struggling and thrashing on the water.

"Brother Yu, look, someone has fallen into the water!"

Yu Song stood up from afar, followed the prestige, and saw that more than 100 meters upstream, in the middle of the turbid river, two small black dots were revealed from time to time between the tumbling waves. Looking closely, it is clear that there are two people, who are drifting with the tide and are in danger.

He threw away his coat in a hurry, threw off the rubber shoes on his feet, turned back and shouted to the panicked Lin Xue, "Girl, you are not allowed to go anywhere, go back to the dormitory and have breakfast first and wait for me to go to work together." Without waiting for Lin Xue to react, he made a beautiful leap and plunged into the river from the high wooden trestle.

Lin Xue was frightened, and only had time to exclaim "ah", Yu Songyuan had already jumped into the river. She cried and lay down next to the trestle, searching for Yu Songyuan's figure on the water. But Yu Songyuan jumped into the river and was never seen again, only the rushing and panting river remained, tumbling and flowing eastward.

Her mind went blank in an instant, time seemed to stand still, and in an instant, she burst into a screaming cry of grief, she almost cried hoarsely, and Yu Songyuan did not appear from the surface of the river. She sat on the edge of the trestle, whimpering and staring at the river, only one thought lingering in her head, it was over, Brother Yu was swept away by the rapids......