At dinner, Mr. Zhang was very hospitable and invited us to come over for dinner, but we politely declined. Living here is already a big disturbance, how can you go to eat someone's dinner again?

After dinner, I walked around the yard and happened to see Zhang Laohan squatting under the eaves smoking dry cigarettes. So, I went up and talked to him.

"Uncle Zhang, when I came, I saw that the water and grass near our Longxi Lake are fertile, and the crops are growing well, so it seems that this year is a good year again." Facing Zhang Laohan, I opened my mouth first.

"Hmm~" Zhang Laohan nodded, "Let's pray for nothing else in Dragon Village, it is a good weather every year, thanks to the blessing of the Dragon King!" ”

"Lord Dragon? Uncle, what age is this, why do you still believe in this in your village? I asked.

"Don't you dare to talk nonsense......," Uncle Zhang hurriedly said, "If it weren't for Lord Long, where would we be now?" ”

I asked curiously, "What do you say all the time?" ”

At this time, Tanzi and Xu Yunshu also walked out, and they also came over when they saw me chatting with Uncle Zhang.

Uncle Zhang glanced at the two of them, took a deep puff of cigarette, and then opened the conversation: "Legend has it that a long, long time ago, our village was not called Longxi Village, but Bangmao Village. ”

"Bangmao Village? Hehe...... "The jar laughed. I knew what he was laughing at, so I glared at him and told him not to get in the way.

Uncle Zhang ignored the jar, and continued: "When this place was called Bangmao Village, there was no pond here at all, and at that time, people also made a living from farming, although they couldn't catch up with the current situation, but they could barely fill their stomachs. But one year, there was a great drought in the world, and the red land was hundreds of miles, and there was no harvest. All that remains of the land near Bangmao Village is dry sand, and no matter what is planted in the field, nothing grows......

"So what are you doing here? Why don't you move out of here and live somewhere else? Jar interjected.

"It's easy to say, in ancient times, it was difficult to leave the homeland, not that when it came to life and death, no one wanted to leave their homeland." I explained to the jar, "Don't say a word, don't always interrupt!" The jar immediately closed his mouth.

"Uncle, leave him alone, you go on!" I said to Zhang Laohan.

Zhang Laohan smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, everyone has a time when they are curious, and it is inevitable to interject and interrupt." Then he continued: "Later, a fortune teller said that if we want to get rid of the drought here, we must build a dragon king temple, worship the dragon king in it, burn incense and pray sincerely every day, so that it is possible to ask for rain and make Bangmao Village better again." The villagers built the temple according to the request of the husband, and they also prayed every day, not daring to be sloppy, but there was still no rain. Later, the gentleman said that it was our people here who offended the dragon lord, and the dragon lord was angry and asked us to sacrifice nine boys and nine virgins as sacrifices before we were willing to rain to save the village......"

At this time, Xu Yunshu couldn't help but interject and said, "You actually want nine boys and nine virgins as sacrifices?" This fortune teller is not a good person! Did you not say yes in the end? ”

Zhang Laohan smiled bitterly and said, "I promised......"

"Promised? So who can give up their children? Xu Yunshu asked.

"What if you can't bear it?" Zhang Laohan said, "In order to survive, the villagers gathered a total of 18 children with nine boys and nine virgins, and sent them to the Dragon King Temple. But when I went again the next day, the boys and girls were gone. In the cage where the sacrifices were placed, there was an extra crystal sarcophagus. The villagers all talked about it, saying that the dragon lord had taken the boy and the girl away. But some people say, what is this crystal coffin for? So, someone couldn't help but open the crystal coffin. As soon as the coffin was opened, a lot of water immediately gushed out, and the area around the Dragon King Temple suddenly became an ocean, and the deep pool appeared like this. ”

"I see!"

"After the emergence of the pool, the people in the vicinity lived on the water here. However, the water in this pool is also very strange, it does not increase or decrease, the water does not recede in dry years, the water does not rise in waterlogging years, and the fish and shrimp are full of ponds all year round. Zhang Laohan said, "Some people say that the crystal coffin is a dragon corpse, so there is a dragon town here, there is no drought and flood, so this pool of water is called the dragon mound pool, and because of the nine boys and nine virgins, it is also called the eighteen ponds......

"Dragon Tomb Pond? Isn't it called Longxi Pond? Xu Yunshu asked curiously.

That was the name of the first county magistrate after the liberation, he felt that Longzuan Lake was not good, and said that since there was a dragon resting here, it would be better to change the name to Longxitan. Therefore, the name Longxi Lake has been used. Zhang Laohan said.

"There is such a legend! It's interesting...... Uncle Zhang, are there any other legends about this Dragon Rest Pond, we are quite interested......" I asked with a look of interest.

"Other legends ......" Zhang Laohan thought for a while, "There are no legends, but don't you listen to the truth?" ”

"Really? The real thing is better, you always say come and hear it! "I'm even happier because the legend says that this thing is very old, and most of it is ethereal, and it has no useful reference value, but what really happened can still be used for reference, and maybe it will help us on this trip.

"That was after the founding of the People's Republic of China, about sixty-two...... Well, in '63, there was an earthquake here...... It's not very serious, but it's quite obvious. After the earthquake, the water in the pool, which had not changed for thousands of years, suddenly changed. The water in the pool was clear, but it became muddy, like mud in a mud pit. It lasted for more than a month before it gradually returned to its original state......"

Xu Yunshu was slightly disappointed when she heard this, and she explained to Zhang Laohan: "Uncle, there's nothing strange about this, there was an earthquake, and the mud under the water is surging, and it must be muddy for a while......"

"But when I went to the pond to fish, I couldn't catch a single fish......

"Maybe because the pool water is muddy, they all ran to the bottom, right? Isn't that anything strange? ”

Zhang Laohan took a puff of cigarette and said, "I also understand what you said, but what is difficult to explain is what happened later......

As soon as we heard that there was something going on, we immediately pricked up our ears again.

"Although there are no fish in the pool, some people catch antiques after the net!" Zhang Laohan said slowly.

"What? Antique? The jar jumped up first, "How can there be antiques in the pool?" ”

"And it's not one, and then there are several more that have been fished up one after another...... This is not the strangest thing, what is even stranger is that the people in the village took this antique for identification and found that these antiques are treasures of the Ming Dynasty royal family......"