"Grandma Qiu, what's going on with that well?" I asked.

Grandma Qiu put down the photo album and said slowly: "That well, it is a locked dragon well, and there is a dragon locked underneath, which holds the feng shui of our Jinpen Township, and it is the dragon king, so you can't bury it." ”

"Lock the dragon well?!" I frowned slightly, I had heard the name, but I didn't know anything about it.

I don't believe in dragons or dragons; Hu Lai told me with certainty. Dragons are something of myth and legend, and reality does not exist.

"Under this lock dragon well, there is a dragon rope, and the dragon is tied underneath, but you must not pull it, otherwise if you offend the dragon lord below, it is terrible, the Japanese went to the countryside to pull, and many people died." Grandma Qiu said.

After that, she opened up the conversation and slowly told us a story from half a century ago.

In the forties of the last century, Grandma Qiu was only a teenager, and as soon as she married into Jinpen Township, the Japanese came in, and a team of Japanese soldiers came to the township, led by a Japanese officer named Noda; They were very strange that they did not return to the county seat after harvesting the grain like ordinary Japanese soldiers, but stayed in Jinpen Township. The weapons are also different from other Japanese soldiers, other Japanese soldiers are holding long guns, they are holding short guns, and they rarely bully the common people.

After half a year, one night, the strange cry of a wild beast came from the mountain. There were also explosions, which lasted all night. The next morning, only three of the 50-strong Japanese soldiers returned, covered in blood, including Officer Noda.

A few days later, Officer Noda returned to the county town to recruit the gendarmerie, and more than 300 Japanese soldiers and traitors went up the mountain again, and the strange screams from the mountain that night were more intensive, and the explosion shook the mountain, and even the cannon was used, and at dawn the next day, there were less than 30 people who came back, all of them were wounded, and several of them went crazy directly.

No one knew what was going on on the mountain, because the traitors were all dead, and the Japanese soldiers were depressed and couldn't speak Lingnan, so there was no way to know.

The announcement of the maintenance association was that the Japanese would go into the mountains to fight bandits, but most people did not believe it, because fighting bandits would not have the creepy screams of beasts.

Officer Noda suffered two blows. His true nature was exposed, and he took the remaining Japanese soldiers to capture the strong men of the whole township to pull the dragon rope in the locked dragon well, and shot many villagers who accidentally angered him for this.

It was a very long, long iron cable, and after the whole township Zhuang Ding pulled it out for a while, he could no longer pull it, and the well was flooded with yellow water. The smell is stinking.

Officer Noda ordered everyone to use all their strength, and then the Japanese soldiers threw bombs into the lock dragon well one by one, and they shouted and shouted when they threw them, and their red eyes were crazy, but no one could understand what they were shouting.

Bombs work. With each bomb dropped, the rope was pulled out a little more, and at last the well was filled with blood, and a muffled roar could be heard underground.

But slowly, the rope could no longer be pulled, and it was useless to let the Japanese soldiers shoot frantically into the well and drop bombs. Eventually, the guns ran out of ammunition, and Officer Noda had to stop for a while. But he did not give up, but asked the villagers to make a large winch, which was pulled by seven oxen to prevent the rope from retracting again. He waited for the support of the county gendarmerie.

What no one expected was that that night, Noda and his thirty Japanese soldiers disappeared en masse, and along with them, the seven cows disappeared.

Some villagers heard the screams of the cows and people, but no one knew what was happening, and the ropes were retracted into the well.

Some people speculate that Noda left with the Japanese soldiers, and others speculate that it was the dragon lord in the well who climbed up at night and ate them all, along with the seven cows. There is nothing to say, and people are panicked for a while.

Afterward. The county gendarmerie came again, arrested some villagers and went back for interrogation, and then there was no more news, and no more. And the villagers who were arrested and interrogated never returned.

since. The well gradually fell into disuse, because no one dared to approach it, and slowly overgrown with weeds, covering the wellhead.

After more than ten years, Jinpen Township was flooded every year. Every year of flash floods, the villagers have a very difficult life, not to mention the collapse of houses, and many people are swept away by drowning, not to mention crops. As soon as the torrent passed several feet deep in the mud, all crops were lost, and people began to flee in large numbers because they could not survive.

The township also wondered if the dragon lord under the lock dragon well blamed the villagers for helping the Japanese soldiers to injure it, so he sent a lot of water every year, and also invited a lot of mages to do it, but it had no effect at all.

Until one day a Taoist priest came to the township, he saw the lock dragon well and said sins again and again, let each family prepare half a catty of blood food to throw into the well, but also kowtow to the well, begging the dragon king to calm his anger, and finally built a dragon king temple next to the well, burning incense and worshiping every year.

The result was really a bit of a good thing, and the waterlogging stopped that year, and then the wind and rain were basically smooth, and there were occasional flash floods, but they were not as serious as in the past.

As the days passed, the wind and rain slowly became smoother, and the older generation gradually withered. The villagers slowly stopped worshipping the dragon lord, and the result was nothing, and the wind and rain were still smooth.

People are like this, since nothing will happen if you don't worship, so let's save some meat, meat is precious in those years.

After coming and going, the Dragon King Temple slowly fell into ruin and collapsed, and even the traces of bricks and soil were completely removed when the four olds were removed.

Now, sixty years later, the past of the well has been completely forgotten, and the villagers only know that there is a spring there. The older generation still vaguely knew that it was a well, but they didn't know what had happened to that well.

The most important reason is that there is no accurate statement of that incident at all, everyone is passing on it by word of mouth, and no one knows who to believe, anyway, the Japanese soldiers did not understand a word of what they said.

But Grandma Qiu was convinced, because that night she heard the screams of people and cows, and the sound of chains falling back into the well.

……

Listening quietly to Grandma Qiu, I was a little shocked.

Regardless of whether the so-called Dragon Lord is true or not, but the Japanese really entered the mountain, and there is a clear record in the county chronicles that the Japanese once went up the mountain to suppress bandits.

But listening to Grandma Qiu's words, the matter of "suppressing bandits" seems to have another possibility; They are not suppressing bandits, but plotting something in Jinpen Mountain.

No one will carry a short gun to suppress bandits, it is no different from looking for death, and they stay in Jinpen Township for half a year.

What kind of terrain takes that long to explore? Nine Palace Bagua Array?

According to the records of the prefecture, the Japanese went up to the mountains to suppress the bandits, but they were defeated and many people died.

This shocked me a little, even the Japanese once set their sights on Jinpen Mountain? What's on the mountain? Is it to open the tomb and steal cultural relics? At that time, the cultural relics of the land of China were indeed scraped quite miserably, and all the good things were moved to that island.

"The Dragon Lord is under the well, we don't worship it, and we can't fill his old man's house, your grandfather was not born at the time, and now there is a big drought in the township, it must be the Dragon Lord who is to blame." Grandma Qiu sighed.

I don't know how to answer, I can't say that grandpa is bad, and it's not good to refute Grandma Qiu, so I can only laugh with it.

Before, Huang Mao and I discussed whether there was a drought in Jinpen Township, which led to an unprecedented drought, and Huang Mao said that it was possible.

But now from Grandma Qiu's mouth, it was my grandfather who offended the Dragon King by filling the well, and the Dragon King did not give rain, so there was a big drought.

Both versions seem to make sense, but there will only be one truth.

I'm more of a believer in the judgment of the Drought Fish. The reason is very simple, my grandfather did not fill the well only this year, but when I was a child, more than ten years ago.

If it offended the Dragon King, it took more than ten years before it remembered to condemn Jinpen Township. Don't let it rain? That's too sluggish, isn't it?

You must know that in the past ten years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and there have been basically no droughts and floods.

I think Grandma Qiu's statement is worth scrutinizing, she may be exaggerating some things, and people like to talk about strange things when they are old.

Despite this, I decided to ask the most important question on this trip, whether she was justified or not, it didn't hurt to listen, so I said, "Grandma Qiu, if that well is dug up now, will it rain in the sky?" ”

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