I didn't sleep all night last night, and I didn't have much energy all day, plus I drank some wine at Lao Wang's house just now, and I lay down in bed. I felt sleepy and fell asleep in a daze.

When I woke up, it was already dawn, and I was dazed when I heard a commotion outside.

Who the hell runs to the embankment in the morning, and the people in the village don't exercise in the morning. Yawning, I opened the door and saw several neighbors, some carrying buckets and some basins, all running in the direction of the Yellow River.

My curiosity sparked, and I hurriedly shouted to the woman closest to me, "Auntie, what are you doing here?" ”

The woman turned to look at me and saw that she was smiling all over her face, as if she had won the welfare lottery and was in a hurry to claim her prize.

"You're a river ranger here to guard the embankment, aren't you? There are a lot of fish in the river, let's go catch them! After saying that, he turned around and twisted his ass. The strand trotted to catch up with the people in front.

Catch fish? With such a big water, even if there are fish, it's not easy to catch! At this time, two people came up from under the embankment, one of whom I had met, and it was a neighbor of Wang Yujue's house.

"Uncle, you're also going to catch fish?" I hurried in front of the old man.

"That's right! Someone has grabbed half a bucket. After the old man finished speaking, he wanted to go on.

I hurriedly blocked him again: "How can you catch fish in such a big water!" ”

The old man changed the bucket to the other shoulder, and grinned: "Actually, I don't understand, they all say that there are a lot of white carp in the Yellow River early in the morning, and ...... And they are all stupid fish, one by one they all jumped into the mud, it's just nothing! ”

After speaking, the old man smiled at me and ran straight towards the Yellow River.

After that, more than a dozen neighborhoods passed one after another, all of them holding pots and buckets in their hands, and they all went to catch fish without asking.

Although the Yellow River is the second largest river in our country, but the river water is turbid, there are not many fish, but there is a kind of red tail of the Yellow River carp, I heard that this kind of Yellow River carp was also supplied to the imperial court in the Qing Dynasty, is the favorite dish of the Empress Dowager Cixi, but in recent years, the number of Yellow River carp has gradually decreased, even if it is perennial fishing, it is only every three or five can meet one, as for the white carp, let alone see, I just haven't heard of it.

But there are many wonders in the world, and there may be such a fish out of nowhere.

On the same day, I borrowed a bicycle from the neighborhood, and I walked along the Yellow River dam for more than ten miles. This section of the dam is very strong, but I found a very strange thing: in the entire area of ten miles, there are five or six villages, but only this area near Hewang Village is where neighbors gather to fish.

I couldn't help but wonder again: Is there a problem with the fish, or is there a problem with this section of the river on the edge of Hewang Village?

At noon, I wanted to make instant noodles by myself, but I didn't pay attention to my meal, but before the water was boiling, I heard Lao Wang's daughter-in-law standing outside the door and shouting to me: "Brother Xiao Liu, go to my house and drink fish soup!" You are such a blessed child, I have not seen this good fish for many years! ”

As he spoke, the old Wang's daughter-in-law walked in.

"Auntie, are you talking about that white carp?"

"Yes! Your Uncle Wang didn't catch it, but a few neighbors sent a few, each of which was more than a catty, and it was snow-white, I have lived for fifty or sixty years, and I have never seen a fish of this color! ”

I'm not welcome, I followed Lao Wang's daughter-in-law back home, and there was already wine on the table, and there were two middle-aged men sitting in addition to Lao Wang.

"Xiao Liu! Let me introduce to you, this is Gangzi and Xiaobin, both of them are fishermen who eat the river by the river, this fish is sent by them, both of them are dark, and they nodded at me with a smirk, which is regarded as a hello.

The people in the village were honest and honest, and the four of them were eating big carp and drinking small wine, and soon the atmosphere came up.

"Uncle Wang, you ...... ...... about the Great White Snake you talked about last time"

Lao Wang smiled and shook his head: "I drink two cups, but the amount of alcohol is too bad, I take a nap as soon as I drink, I didn't finish talking last time, and this time my uncle will continue to talk." After saying that, he drained the wine in the glass in one gulp, and his expression became more serious.

Lao Wang said that when the "husband" dug up the white snake 30 years ago, he happened to be there, and he also saw the white snake more than ten meters long and the thickness of a bucket.

He remembers that the winter was particularly cold, the Yellow River had long since dried up, and the riverbed was like a turtle's shell, with cracks everywhere and everywhere.

The section of the river assigned to Hewang Village happened to be near their village, and it was very cold that day, and only a dozen people went to work.

They chatted about the old widows in the village. Woman and daughter-in-law, while in the bed of the river. After digging for more than an hour, one of the villagers went down with a shovel, and a hole suddenly appeared in the riverbed in front of him.

The neighbors who live on both sides of the Yellow River know such a common sense: digging a hole in the river mud, there must be a hibernating Wang Ba in it, not necessarily one, often the bigger the hole, the bigger the Wang Ba, a look at the appearance of this hole, more than a dozen people suddenly lit up.

In the eighties, Wang Ba was also a valuable thing.

A few shovels stabbed in a mess, and the entrance of the cave suddenly became like steamed steamed buns in the countryside. The lid of the pot at the head is so big, and the bottom is black and rumbling, and the space is very large, and it doesn't look like a nest where animals like Wang Ba hibernate in hibernation.

Everyone was also confused, pushed a few times, and finally Chen Jianguo, nicknamed "Chen Daring", was pushed out, he dared to poke into half of his body, only glanced out, and suddenly frightened the ghost and wolf howled, and the person rushed to more than ten meters away.

The others were taken aback by his actions, and they all subconsciously took a few steps back and asked him what was in the hole.

Chen Daring was so frightened that he peed his pants, and said that there were a pair of green eyes and a pungent fishy smell inside. As soon as these words came out, everyone was like being burned by fire. The strands are the same, and the Qi brush jumps to more than ten meters away.

A few minutes later, a white snake head emerged from the hole, the size of a loudspeaker on a telephone pole, spitting blood-red letters.

At this time, everyone was even more frightened, and ran out of thirty or forty meters, although they were afraid, they were all curious, and they just watched from a distance. The white snake slowly crawled out of most of its body, its whole body was snow-white, with scales larger than an adult's fingernails, shining in the winter sun, and the snake's body was as thick as a bucket.

The white snake shook his head and glanced at a dozen people not far away, and slowly shrank back.

Everyone, including Lao Wang, just watched the entrance of the cave, both afraid that the snake would crawl out again, and faintly expected it to come out, but after waiting for more than an hour, the white snake never showed up again. It should have been like this, after all, the ancient and mysterious Yellow River is a god-like existence in the eyes of these neighbors, and the snake is an animal that the people in the village are particularly in awe.

But it happened that there was a young man named Li Si in the village, who had worked outside for several years. Rural people of that era. Most of them are old-fashioned, as long as they don't starve to death, most of them would rather guard their own one-third of an acre of land and enjoy the days of their wives and children on the hot kang, rather than go out to find work, so this Li Si has become a well-informed and capable person after returning from work.

What happened later, Lao Wang didn't know at first, and he didn't know until something more evil and terrifying happened.