Chapter 121: The Copper-Headed Arhat
The scene I saw in front of me was familiar, and the sixth sense told me that something was wrong in the Yellow River again!
Hurriedly brought the door to the door, greeted a few people, and waved to these neighbors from a distance.
"Fellows, what's going on?"
As soon as the words came out, I noticed that these neighbors were all smiling on their faces, which was different from the previous encounters, and this time it seemed like a good thing.
"Yo! You're back again? ”
"It's not going to rain two more times, I'll still contract our part of the river."
Several people nodded, grinning and continuing towards the village.
"Nothing happened, did you?" I asked again.
"Ao-nothing, a big catfish rushed up from the river, estimated to be four or five hundred catties! A few of us can't lift it, go back and call someone! ”
"Ahh How can there be such a big fish in the Yellow River? ”
The person who replied to me was a middle-aged man, I just looked familiar and knew that it was a neighbor of Hewang Village, but I couldn't name it.
"Why not! I used to catch a truck head in the Yellow River! ”
I secretly said in my heart: nonsense, but I have to pretend to smile politely on my face.
That's not! As far as I know, the fish in the Yellow River is more than 10 catties even if it is big, but there are reports that in the eighties and nineties of the last century, a catfish of more than 100 catties was caught in a certain section of the river in Henan, which caused a lot of sensation in the society, even if this report is true, it is only more than 100 catties!
How big is a fish of four or five hundred pounds? I imagined in my mind that the meat of the fish was soft, not heavy, and how it could be the size of a cow, so it can be seen that the words of several people are a bit exaggerated.
As for the freshwater fish in other waters, I later checked the information separately.
Comparatively speaking, freshwater fish are generally smaller than saltwater fish, but there are also "big people".
Take the giant catfish – there are giant catfish in many parts of the world, and many places even call them "man-eating monsters", the largest of which I know is the Mekong catfish. This fish has a smooth skin, no teeth, grayish-white abdomen, and the largest can grow to more than 300 kilograms, which can be described as a giant among freshwater fish.
Salmon is a very ferocious cold-water fish, generally hidden in deep water, in the Heilongjiang River basin in China, but has not been found in the Yellow River so far.
As for the truck-sized Wang Ba, I searched on the Internet, and there are really a lot of related news reports, as well as pictures, but at first glance, they are made by computers. I just wanted to go back to the dam house, and then I thought about it, they can't talk nonsense or get it wrong, Li Guozhi and Lao Wang have said that anything strange can happen in the Yellow River.
Thinking of this, I suddenly became curious, turned around and walked towards the Yellow River.
The river rose a lot higher than before, and the yellow waves turned to the sky, roaring westward.
Sure enough, there were a few people standing on the riverbank, all of them pinched their waists and looked at the river beach, and swept along their line of sight, and they saw a behemoth lying in the river beach, half of its body was in the mud, it was a big fish, and it was really not less than three hundred catties.
There are such big fish in the Yellow River!
From a distance, it was a black fish with a large head, so large that it took up half of its body.
There are also giant catfish in the Yellow River? I quickened my pace with confusion.
"Young man, come to guard the embankment again! Just in time, there's catfish to eat tonight! A fat villager greeted me with a smile.
"Is it braised or hot pot! Catfish seems to be more suitable for eating hot pot......" The thin man beside him said next.
My curiosity swelled again, and I ignored them and turned to look at the huge stranded catfish.
Catfish?
Looking at the front, the appearance of this fish is very strange, in addition to the black body, the head is strangely large, and there is a ring of flesh protruding from the neck, and there seems to be a layer of patina on the meat ring, which looks strange.
Although I don't say how much I know about fish, I have seen and eaten a lot of catfish, and I have never seen such a catfish, which immediately aroused my curiosity.
After waiting for ten minutes, more than a dozen villagers ran from the embankment, some with sticks in their hands, some with shovels, and rushed towards the river, all smiling, as if they had picked up a big ingot.
A few people rushed to my side, and a few greeted me.
The big fish is not dead, but it is stranded like a whale, gurgling and spitting blisters in its mouth.
I hurriedly stopped in front of everyone: "Don't you think this fish looks weird?" ”
A few people glanced at it a few times, and they all nodded, still with smiles on their faces, probably not taking my words seriously, and thinking about whether it was steamed or braised at night.
One smiled and said: "Maybe the catfish has grown so big, and they are all so ugly!" ”
Another slurred, "Can this still be eaten?" ”
As soon as these words came out, he was instantly scolded back by others.
"It's terrible to be uneducated! The older the catfish, the more fragrant it is......"
Who knew that he hadn't finished saying this, he heard a sneer behind him, I looked for a voice, and saw that the person who snorted coldly was a half-bald black thin old man, and I recognized it at the second glance, this person was Wang Yujue's neighbor, and I heard the young man in Hewang Village call him Zhang Laohan before.
"What are you laughing at, Uncle Zhang?"
A young man turned to him and asked.
"Do you still want to eat copper-headed Arhats? It's tired and crooked! ”
This caused everyone to turn to look at him.
"Zhang Laohan, what nonsense are you talking about! What to eat Arhat, we're talking about this big catfish! ”
The other two responded.
"That's right!"
"What can eating fish have to do with arhats!"
Zhang Laohan snorted coldly twice: "This is not a catfish at all, but a copper-headed Arhat!" ”
I realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Zhang, do you mean that the name of this fish is Copperhead Arhat?" ”
Zhang Laohan nodded: "Yes!" The copper-headed Arhat is the son of the Dragon King of the Yellow River and appears once every twenty years, and only after successive heavy rains. ”
I was convinced of his last sentence, and when he said this, he almost burst into laughter in an instant.
Before, in Niutou Village, the villagers there said that the appearance of the double-headed six-eyed stone statue was the cause of the Yellow River Niangniang, and at this time there was a son of the Yellow River Dragon King.
My first reaction was: The incident in Niutou Village was taken revenge by someone pretending to be ghosts and gods, and now what Zhang Laohan said is also made up by ignorant villagers. Where is there any dragon king of the Yellow River, let alone the son of the dragon king, he is about to become a "Journey to the West", and he almost has a third prince. Before Lao Wang told that when the white snake was dug out, the villagers also said that it was the son of the dragon king, it seems that in the minds of the villagers, this dragon king of the Yellow River is still a big radish, and there are many kinds of sons!
When I was stunned, I didn't expect Zhang Laohan to suddenly kneel down with his hands folded and kowtow three times towards the huge black fish.
"Uncle Zhang, you...... What are you doing here? ”
"Zhang Laohan!"
A dozen or so villagers were also apparently surprised.
"If you want to live, help me send the copper-headed Arhat back to the river, or ...... Otherwise, you're in trouble! ”