Hua Qiyan was stunned, as if she was trying to think about something, and then muttered: "I remember hearing your teacher mention this, but I can't remember it for a while. ”

Seeing that I was disappointed, Hua Qiyan added: "If you are in a hurry, I will ask my senior sister, her memory has always been better than mine, we were together at the time, maybe she can still remember." ”

But after she asked, the result was that even Aunt Jinyue had forgotten.

I looked at them and sighed, I always felt that the experience in Kaiyuan Temple was not so simple, the most important thing was that what I saw was true, but in the end, why did it become fake again.

After surviving the long day, ushered in the long night.

Huaibei and Jiang Boss sent people to Shihekou, dozens of kilometers downstream of Luoyan Town, to buy some soju and beef and mutton and set up a big table, which was regarded as a breeze and dust for everyone who came to the Yellow River Ancient Road for the first time.

From the beginning, I and Huaibei who first came to the ancient road and there are still red carp, and now there are Sister Yu, Mrs. Huo, Grandpa Ghost, Mrs. Huo, Grass King, Aunt Jinyue, Hua Qiyan, and Boss Shi.

Everyone sat there looking at the familiar faces, happy in their hearts, just as Huaibei said that day: Finally come to the elders, we juniors can be regarded as having a home here.

After three rounds of drinking, Huaibei wiped his sleeves and asked me: "Brother Bai, you must have some big plans for you, can you talk about it in advance, and if you don't find something real to do, I'll really be wasted here." ”

Sister Yu said: "There's really nothing to do, isn't there still 10,000 trees?" ”

I smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes, but now I just don't know what Bai Rushuang thinks about the town, and I don't dare to call you casually until I get her permission, in case I get angry with her old man and send me to plant trees, I might as well go back now." ”

"According to the time here, if you want to complete the Great Forbidden Mountain Forest Law, even if you borrow some means, it will take a month to complete it at the earliest, after all, it is easy to plant trees, but the area around Luoyan Town is full of deserts, after all, 10,000 green bamboos are not easy to find in this kind of place."

Aunt Jinyue said beside her.

Grandpa Ghost also said: "Mrs. Huo's condition still needs further observation, but as long as there is enough time, it is not impossible to bring the dead back to life." ”

"Time ......"

I nodded, and then looked at Zuo Shuhan, "Has the specific location of Luoyan Town been determined, in addition to here, are there any riverside towns with a similar size and population to Luoyan Town?" ”

Zuo Shuhan thought for a while and didn't speak, but took out a yellowed piece of rice paper from his arms, pushed away the food on the table, and spread the rice paper on it.

Seeing this, everyone stretched out their heads and leaned up, and saw that a black line extending from the northwest corner to the east was outlined by an extremely thick black ink on the rice paper, and a small thumb-sized ink ball was dotted at the far north end of the line.

Huaibei and Boss Jiang gasped together, glanced at each other, and then said in shock: "Before Luoyan Town, it was located in the northeast of the ancient road. ”

Then Zuo Shuhan pointed to the following Luoyan Town, leaning on a few smaller ink dots on the black line and said: "The scale of these towns is not as large as Luoyan Town, but they are all inhabited, more than nearly 100 people, less than 10 people, each town is separated by less than ten kilometers of waterways, the people of the town rely on ships to transport goods to make a living, but the terrain in this area is remote, few merchant ships pass by, and there is no big ferry, so the towns have basically gone after the catastrophe." ”

Then he pointed to the black spot closest to Luoyan Town and said: "Shihekou, the only ferry town near Luoyan Town that has not been affected by the disaster, the residents here mainly sell goods, mainly targeting the towns in the northwest, the population is roughly estimated to be close to hundreds, self-sufficient, and very few people leave to make a living outside. ”

Boss Jiang nodded at this time and said: "That's right, some daily things needed in the town on weekdays will be bought by boat to Shihekou, but I remember that the waterway that was only six or seven miles away from this used to be, and now it seems to be more than 20 kilometers." ”

Everyone let out a sigh in unison, and after Zuo Shuhan put away the sketch, I looked at Boss Jiang and threw out the most concerned question.

When did you die?

Boss Jiang's face stiffened, his deep eyes stared at me tightly, and he said after a while: "I remember that the year I died in the real sense was the twenty-third year of Guangxu. ”

"I still remember that day was the twenty-first day of the first lunar month, the Lingxun breached, the gate was about a thousand meters wide, the water was three feet deep, the affected area was more than ten counties, I was putting trees on the mountain with my father, the loud noise was like the sky falling, the flood broke through the embankment like a wild beast out of the cage, flooded the village and the earth, raised the eyes, a vast ocean, children crying, mothers barking, dogs biting, chickens crowing, clothes floating on the water, furniture, cattle and sheep, corpses, I really dare not see, dare not listen, countless houses have collapsed, some trees have been uprooted, In an instant, the fertile land of the village became a country, and in the end, even my father and I on the mountain did not escape this catastrophe, the water level rose and did not pass the top of the mountain, and the people of more than a dozen counties, none of them survived. ”

I couldn't help but sigh deeply after listening to it, I grew up on the edge of the Yellow River, and I never recognized this river as the mother river of China since ancient times, but I never recognized it as a "good mother".

Historically, the continuous diversion and flooding have brought countless devastating disasters to the people of the Yellow River basin, and even today, there are still a large number of floating corpses on the Yellow River.

In the more than 2,500 years since the Yellow River appeared in the history books, the Yellow River has flooded nearly 2,000 times, with an average of two breaches every three years and 26 major diversions, and tens of thousands of lives have been destroyed behind each breaches and diversions.

According to the record of "Lijin County Chronicle": "On the 22nd day of the 22nd month of the 22nd year of Guangxu (1895), after the Lijiawa River was decided, the tombs of Tianlu were all submerged, and there were even those who held the coffin and walked away without bones, and the victims were hungry and could not eat, and they could not wear clothes in the cold, and the sound of crying heard for dozens of miles,......

On February 28, the 18th year of the Republic of China, the embankment of Lijin Hujiatan overflowed and breached, the water potential was mighty, it was not blocked that year, and the flood came again in December, the nearby villages became Zeguo, the houses collapsed, the people and animals were frozen and starved and drowned, and countless people died, and the people who lived on the top of the embankment were hungry and cold, and they were miserable......

There is also the well-known explosion incident at the mouth of the Yellow River, and there are still tens of thousands of dead bodies left in the Yellow River that cannot be solved, leaving their souls to wander in the river all day long......

I remember that my grandfather once said that in northern Shaanxi, the Yellow River is not called the Yellow River, but is called the "Yellow Ghost", and every year there will be a huge "Yellow Ghost" witch ceremony, and it has also been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage, which shows how much hatred the people who live here in normal years are full of hatred for this moody ancient river.

After pondering for a long time, he raised his head and looked at Boss Jiang, and asked aloud: "In other words, the people in the ancient road are all unjust souls who died under the flooding of the Yellow River in history, preserved their memories and came here, and then reincarnated?" ”

Boss Jiang nodded, and shook his head again, "Most of them are like this, but not everyone can come here after death, just like me, I have been looking for so many years, but I have never found my parents." ”

"And with the discovery of estuaries that can connect to the outside world, more and more people have begun to set foot in this forbidden realm......"

Huaibei interrupted him and said, "Just like us." ”

Hearing this, an idea suddenly popped up and I couldn't help asking, "In other words, you don't have a body, and all you have left is a soul?" ”

Boss Jiang shook his head, "The first time I woke up, it was in the river, it was like being washed here by a flood, and there were already a lot of people here at that time, to be honest, I still don't know what kind of existence we have, after all, everyone is the same, no one can tell the difference between each other." ”

When I heard this, I moved my eyes to Grandpa Ghost, and I saw him wrinkling his eyebrows, staring at Boss Jiang for a long time, and said, "I don't know, but it's more like reincarnation with memories, maybe the first people who came here all had a physical body, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the term reincarnation." ”