What is Yellow River Niangniang?

Since ancient times, the Yellow River has many floods, and the people on both sides of the Yellow River worship the Dragon King of the Yellow River from time to time and worship the eight kings of the Yellow River.

During the flood season, the whole head of cattle and sheep is often thrown into the Yellow River, but the most terrible thing is the human sacrifice.

Some places are dedicated to the boys and girls of the Yellow King, and there are also places to worship the Yellow River Niangniang for the Yellow King.

This Yellow River Niangniang must be an untrained yellow flower girl, beautiful, young, kind, and able to sing folk songs, so as to relieve the boredom of King Huang, so that he will not be irritable and flooded.

After such a girl is chosen, she will wrap a layer of silk on her body, soak it in sesame oil, and then in front of the eyes of the whole village, she will be thrown into the surging water of the Yellow River in a special Yellow River estuary altar to complete the sacrifice to King Huang.

Think about it, such a young and beautiful girl was thrown into the Yellow River for no reason, and no one would be angry!

Therefore, the altar of the Yellow River Niangniang often has accidents.

It is common to see naked girls playing in the river, and it is also common to hear the murky folk songs in the water in the middle of the night.

The doors and windows of the houses were closed, and they did not dare to pass by there at night when there was something very serious, but no matter how they prevented, people kept drowning there, and the dead had hideous faces, big bellies, and fingernails full of river mud.

I once heard the old people in the village say that this ferry in Sanchawan used to have an altar for the Yellow River Niangniang, and it was not demolished until the founding of the People's Republic of China when the four old ones were broken.

When I was a child, as long as I was disobedient, my grandfather would scare me and say that he would throw me to the ferry to be a child boy for the Yellow River Niangniang, and I couldn't sleep all night.

This name has cast a huge shadow on my childhood.

Now that I hear my grandfather mention this, I am scared out of the white sweat.

But isn't the king of the Yellow River just a yellow flower girl, this Yingzi's belly is so big, and it doesn't match its taste.

While he was talking, two old men came in from the gate of the courtyard.

These two old men looked not much younger than my grandfather, their hair was gray, one of them was carrying a cigarette gun in his hand, and he didn't speak after entering the door, his face was gloomy, and his grandfather seemed to know them, and when he saw the comer, he quickly poked my leg with a cigarette stick and said, "Go, go to the entrance of the village and buy me a few packs of matches back." ”

I let out a knowing sigh and turned away from the courtyard, and as I passed by the two old men, I noticed that one of them had a fish tattooed on his neck.

The tattoo of this fish is also on the neck of the grandfather, called the sinking sand fish, and the grandfather said that this is the symbol of the Yellow River corpse fisher.

The sand fish is a fish species that has disappeared in the Yellow River for many years, the head is a bit like a catfish, with two big horns like a cow on it, it is not big, but it is particularly energetic, and it is said that it is specially used by the king of the Yellow River to pull the dragon when he patrols the Yellow River.

The corpse digger tattooed this fish on his neck, which means that we are doing things for the king of the Yellow River, and your Yellow River water cannot overflow our necks.

But the sand fish on Grandpa's neck doesn't seem to be the same as the person just now, and I can't tell for a while.

At that time, I also flickered in the afterglow, and I didn't look carefully, and when I wanted to look back, the two old men had already followed my grandfather into the back room.

I didn't see the neck of the other old man clearly, but according to this posture, it should also be the Yellow River corpse digger.

pondered while walking, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he had arrived at the old village chief's house unconsciously.

The old village chief now and now the door of the house is locked, and from time to time there are a few dog barks inside, which sounds very strange, as if it is biting something, but it barks very slowly, and it is very regular, almost every five or six seconds, as if it is clockwork.

Even the dog has become abnormal.

I was muttering in my heart, when I heard someone next to me: Do you know how to go to the house of the old white ghost?

As soon as I heard that I was asking my grandfather, I immediately turned my head and found a middle-aged man in a Mao suit dragging a passing villager to ask for directions.

The villager stretched out his hand and was about to point in the direction of my house, but as soon as he saw me, he immediately nodded at me, and the middle-aged man walked towards me.

"You're the grandson of the white old ghost?"

After the middle-aged man walked over, he looked me up and down, and said directly.

This man spoke with a bit of an accent, not like a local, and his skin was very dark, and he had a big bag behind him, and when he saw that I had been staring at him, he was not in a hurry, so he waited patiently.

I relieved myself and said, yes, you have something to do with my grandfather?

The middle-aged man nodded, "Take me to him." ”

He didn't seem to say a word on the way back, and when he was almost at the door of his house, he suddenly stopped and said, "Have you ever seen a little white flag?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked what Xiaoqi was, but looking at his eyes, I suddenly shivered, turned around and ran home, shouting as I ran: "Grandpa, run, the descendants of the Baonan barbarians have come to the door!" ”

The door was kicked open, and my grandfather was sitting alone in the yard smoking, and the two old men did not know when they left, and when they heard me call, they raised their eyebrows and were about to speak, but when their eyes fell behind me, their expressions were like that of a ghost, and they jumped up from the stool with a snort, and ran into the house with a crawling voice.

When I saw that this was the case, I opened my hands and feet in front of the middle-aged man and said, "Don't mess around, it's illegal to kill people in this society now!" ”

The middle-aged man didn't even look at me, and suddenly stretched out his hand and patted me on the shoulder, and I felt that my whole body was unloaded and soft, and I fell directly to the ground, and watched him walk into the house.

The middle-aged man closed the door after entering, and the room fell silent, and I lay in the courtyard in a hurry and couldn't move, so I could only shout at the top of my voice: "Come on, kill someone, help." ”

After shouting a few times, a large group of people came in at the door, and when I saw that they were all villagers in the village, I said anxiously: "Quick, someone wants to kill my grandfather, go and save him." ”

The villagers, as soon as they heard that someone was going to commit murder in broad daylight, they all rushed to the house, but at this time, the door was opened from the inside, and the grandfather walked out.

Looking at the villagers all over the yard, the grandfather waved his hand and said, "Let's all go back, play with the children, it's okay, go back." ”

Then he pointed at me and said, "The second baby will come in for a while." ”

Everyone dispersed in a hurry when they saw that nothing happened, and I also felt that my limbs had regained sensation at this time, and immediately ran to my grandfather to ask him if he was okay, and my grandfather shook his head and didn't speak, and after leading me into the house, I found that the middle-aged man was gone.

"Erwa, I want to go out to do something, if it's fast, I'll be back tomorrow morning, it's estimated that it will take two or three days to slow down, stay at home, don't run around, no matter what happens in the village, don't care and don't ask, don't go out, you know?"

My mind was full of the middle-aged man's affairs at this time, and I dealt with it casually, and my grandfather saw my thoughts and said: "That person is fine, he is not here to harm my grandfather, he will live in my house for a few days, and he will not be left alone, but you must remember my words, don't go out until the sky falls before I come back, you know?" ”

I nodded, looking at my grandfather's expression full of concern, I faintly felt that something was not quite right in my heart, grandpa went out when he went out, how to do it as if he was explaining the future, but seeing that grandpa didn't want to say more, I didn't dare to ask more.

Grandpa packed up some things and left, before leaving, he also deliberately locked the gate outside with a big iron lock, I stood alone in the yard and thought about it for a long time, and always felt that grandpa must have something to do with the two old men who came just now.

In fact, it is not difficult to get out, the yards in the countryside are just decorations, and the courtyard wall is more than one person high, and you can climb out with a single foot, but since grandpa has explained, there must be a reason for him.

After my grandfather left, the middle-aged man kept himself locked in the house and didn't come out, and he didn't even eat dinner, and I wanted to knock on the door several times to ask him what he was here for, but I gave up after thinking about it.

Late at night, I was lying in my room looking at the book that was on the corner of the table, when I heard a knock on the door.

The knock on the door was very soft, and it was very awkward to listen to it.

The heart said that this child didn't sleep in the middle of the night and came to make trouble, so he didn't plan to pay attention, but the voice was very persistent, and he kept knocking, and the people who knocked were upset.

I couldn't help but get up from my bed, but when I got into the yard, the knock on the door disappeared again.

At that time, the fire came up, and my heart said that I must see who it is, and I must give him a good beating tomorrow.

Thinking about it, I pushed the door open, although my grandfather was locking it outside, but the kind of courtyard door in the countryside was not closed tightly, and a crack with my hand could reveal an arm-thick slit, through the crack in the door, I didn't see the bear child, but I saw an old woman standing at the door.

The old woman's age must be eighty or ninety, her face was full of bark-like folds, her eyes could not be seen, her back was bent, she was holding a small crutch in her hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Son, is the Yellow River dry?" ”

I was taken aback, and I didn't react at once, and subconsciously said: No, the water is big.

The old woman nodded thoughtfully, sighed, and walked away with her crutches, and when she was completely out of sight, I closed the door again in a daze, and turned to go into the house, but before anyone had entered the house, I suddenly remembered who the old woman was, and my blood was cold.