Chapter 397: Longtan Eagle Stream
"Of course you don't." Bai Baihe smiled and said: "Yingtan Stream appeared after the diversion of the Yellow River in the last years of the Song Dynasty, it turned out that we did not have this Yingtan Stream, but since the diversion of the Yellow River, Yingtan Stream has appeared, and Yingtan Stream also has a name, called Longtan Eagle Stream." ”
"Longtan Eagle Stream? Why is Dad called Longtan Eagle Stream? Although Win Lao still felt uneasy in his heart as he walked, he was also aroused by Bai Baihe's words at this time.
"There is a legend in Yingtan Stream." During the day, he took the lead in the front, and when he saw that the three of them were staring at him tightly now, waiting to hear him tell the legend of Yingtan Stream, he couldn't help but feel a little funny.
This scene reminded him of the same question that his father had asked him the same question more than 20 years ago when he had also taken him on the ancient Yellow River route.
Thinking of this Bai Baihe and thinking of the old father who was buried in the dragon's lair, a sadness suddenly rose in his heart, and he sighed lightly and said: "Because the earthquake in the last years of the Song Dynasty caused the Yellow River to be diverted, a deep pool that should have been buried under the Yellow River leaked out after the Yellow River was diverted.
This deep pool is about three kilometers away from us, the deep pool is about two hundred meters long and wide, the deep pool is on the beach of the Yellow River ancient road, as for why it is called Longtan Eagle Stream, it is because the legend that there is a Yellow River dragon living in the deep pool.
This legend is well-founded, I heard your grandfather say that in the last years of the Song Dynasty, because of the earthquake, after the Yellow River was diverted on a large scale, there were many strange things in the country, and we have frequent strange things here, but one of the most famous strange things is the story of the Yellow River Jiaolong coming out of the water to eat the giant eagle.
Legend has it that many people in our village saw this even back then, and it was a strange thing that happened in the early Yuan Dynasty, when the Yellow River was also diverted after the earthquake, and our village was affected by it.
Several drinking water wells dug in the village were also flooded by the earthquake due to the reverse flow of water from the wells, and several wells in the village were all out of water overnight, and some were even flooded by silt.
At that time, the villagers became anxious after knowing that the village was running out of water, so they organized their men to start looking for new water holes in other parts of the village, and then prepared to dig new drinking wells, but digging wells was not something that could be done in a day or two.
So during this period, some people began to go out of the village to find drinking water sources to replenish, looking for water sources to replenish the people, they from the extension of the village to find the Yingtan Stream on the Yellow River Ancient Road, at that time the Yingtan Stream was not called Yingtan Stream, just an unknown deep pool.
Although Yingtan Stream is on the beach of the ancient Yellow River Road, the deep pool is not as turbid as the Yellow River, but rare and clear. Strange to say, the villagers couldn't figure out why there was such a clear pool of water on the beach of the ancient Yellow River.
The villagers didn't dare to go up to fetch water when they found the deep pool, and although they had no water to use, they didn't make up their minds for a moment when such a strange deep pool suddenly appeared.
Later, one of them suggested that he should not rush to fetch water, but should first report the matter of this deep pool to the village chief and the old people in the village before deciding. Because they are residents of both sides of the Yellow River, they are well aware of the taboos of the Yellow River.
There were some things that they could not touch at will, so as soon as the man raised the issue, everyone immediately agreed, and in this way, the man hurried back to the village in a hurry, and invited the village chief and several clan elders in the village to come over.
Not long after, a group of people surrounded the sparkling deep pool, but no one dared to step forward to go around a scoop of water, when a group of people did not know what to do, your ancestor suddenly pointed to the deep pool and said: "There must be demons in the depths of the water, and there will be dragons in the shallows." I think there may be dragons living in this pool. ”
Your ancestor is the entrance to the dragon's lair of the Yellow River that he discovered, why did the Bai family learn about their mission again after the inheritance was cut off for almost a hundred years, and your ancestor's insight was also extraordinary, at that time he was the head of our village, and those villagers were even more frightened when they heard what your ancestor said, and they were even more frightened and did not dare to approach the deep pool.
When your ancestors saw that the people were frightened, they began to explain to them, "This deep pool should be a pool of water. "Saying that, your ancestors walked towards the deep pool alone, and the group of villagers who were still standing in place saw your ancestors walking towards the deep pool, and they also pretended to have the courage to follow.
Although they were very scared, after all, your ancestor was the village chief, and now that the village chief was on first, they didn't dare to stay behind to watch the play, so a group of people came to the side of the deep pool.
When your ancestor saw this, he began to say to the people behind him: "If this is a dead pool, then the Yellow River should have dried up after so many years of diversion, but now nearly a hundred years have passed since the diversion of the Yellow River, and there is still no trace of drying up at all."
That proves that this is not a dead pool, and this pool is bottomless and exudes a fishy smell, and I suspect that this pool is connected with the sea eye underground, and if this is the case, then it is unknown what is in this pool. ”
The words of your ancestors aroused the curiosity of a group of villagers, and they all came to the edge of the pool to observe the deep pool, but to their surprise, they could still see fish swimming in the deep pool.
This scene surprised the villagers who were accustomed to the boiling water of the Yellow River, and when the villagers saw that there were fish in the deep pool, their originally vigilant hearts began to gradually stop being so afraid.
Some of the young ones even reached out to catch the fish swimming in the pool, and the fish did not seem to be afraid of them, and the fish that were still a few meters below seemed to have intelligence.
They all swam back and forth less than a meter above the surface of the water to frolic back and forth, which even more irritated the villagers, but just when they wanted to do it, they were stopped by your ancestors.
"Don't touch those fish." Your ancestor was in a hurry when he said this, he scolded the villagers a few years ago, and then looked at the deep pool, and then slowly said to the people behind him: "Don't get close to this deep pool, don't hit the water first, you leave a few people to watch this deep pool, if you find that there are animals coming here to drink water, you go and get water, if you don't find any animals coming here to drink water, you immediately return and tell me." ”
Those villagers were also very happy when they found this deep pool, but they didn't dare not disobey your ancestors when they heard your ancestors say this, so a group of more than a dozen people went back, leaving only three people to watch not far from the deep pool.
But after three days, there was not a single animal in the deep pool to drink water, and the people who stayed next to the deep pool were also changed several times, and even the villagers who did not give up were squatting there at night, wanting to see if there were any animals coming to the deep pool to drink water at night.
But for three days and nights, I couldn't see an animal go to the deep pool to drink water, which made those villagers anxious, and some people couldn't help but drink the Yellow River water with the sediment of the Yellow River every day, so they went to your ancestors to theorize.
"But do you know what your ancestors told them?" Bai Baihe stopped here when he said this, but turned his head to look at the two brothers Ying Lao and Bai Shan with a smile.
"What else can there be, the ancestor is afraid... Ah. Before Bai Shan finished speaking, he was knocked on the head by a burst of white time river, and Bai Shan rubbed his head vigorously.
"Is the experience of your ancestors comparable to you?" Bai Baihe said and glanced at Bai Shan angrily, he found that Ying Lao was still thinking about it and was not in a hurry to speak, but stared at Ying Lao as if he was waiting for Ying Lao to answer.
"The old ancestor said that the water must be deep and demonic, and the shallows do not come out of the dragon, his old man is afraid, and the deep pool is demonic, and he is worried that the villagers will be persecuted if they come forward to fetch water." Seeing Bai Baihe staring at him, Ying Lao felt a little empty in his heart, but he still had the courage to say what he thought.
"Yes and no." Bai Baihe took the somewhat tired cloth bag that Ying Lao was carrying, smiled and said to him: "Your ancestor had a lot of skills back then, and his grandfather and father died tragically after the catastrophe in our village.
At that time, your ancestor was less than ten years old, and your ancestor was raised by his uncle, who later told him that our village had always had a mysterious mission.
His father and grandfather died because of this mission, but after all, his uncle was not of direct blood, so his uncle did not know the inside story.
Until your ancestor's uncle died, he didn't know what the family's mission was, but at that time, everyone in the Bai family had a skill, and your ancestor uncle was also a skill, unlike now, why only ordinary exorcism and running boats.
Your ancestor is naturally also capable of raising him from his uncle, although his old man does not know the mission of the family, but his ability can be regarded as one of the best in the Bai family.
It was with your ancestor's ability to find the dragon's nest that the entrance to the dragon's nest of the Yellow River was found, and the inheritance of our family was found again, but it is a pity that your ancestor suddenly disappeared two years after finding the dragon's den.
He didn't remember to pass on his skills to his descendants, leaving only a record of the dragon's lair and the mission of the inheritance of the family, and it was because of this that the Bai family was once lonely, otherwise the Bai family would not have fallen into this field now.
Although Elder Ying listened with relish, he couldn't help but pout and corrected: "Dad, you digressed, you haven't told us why the ancestors didn't give the villagers to fetch water." ”
Your ancestors said, "There are dragons and birds in the high mountains that do not gather, and there are dragons and birds in the deep pools that do not come." "This short sentence is enough to prove the insight and ability of your ancestors.
"What do you mean, Daddy?" Bai Shan is a straight man didn t understand him so he asked, he wouldn't say it like Ying Lao, he went back and thought about it for himself.