When I first arrived at the company, the first task I received was to go to Fuxian Lake as a follower photographer for a weekend tour group. Early in the morning, I carried the machine and walked with the car. The car is a medium-sized business car, I, the driver of the car, and the tourists behind, a few pairs of young couples of the same age as me a total of 7 people, the vehicle is moving, the little couples are giggling, I and the master silently smoke, from time to time in dialect to communicate a few words, idle and bored, and can not talk about anything, because to the destination about 4 hours or so, I also gradually napped.

Suddenly, perhaps because the road was uneven, the whole vehicle was flipped up on tiptoe and bounced twice on the ground, and in my sleep I was lifted up, and I made a friendly contact with the roof of the car, and for a moment tears almost came out of my eyes. "Damn, I must fasten my seatbelt next time", the master, and the 4 young couples behind were also amused by my embarrassment, and suddenly the atmosphere in the car became lively, and my drowsiness was also taken away by the heavy impact without a trace. The atmosphere was lively, and we gradually chatted.

"Master, handsome guy (handsome guy is referring to below), listen to the accent you just spoke, you are all locals," asked the little girl sitting behind me in light-colored jeans and a white t-shirt with a ponytail.

"Hmm" Judging from my appearance, I am also the type of person who doesn't talk much, so I naturally responded to her simply.

"Yes, I've lived here for forty or fifty years," replied the master

"Master, you have lived here for so long, do you know what else to do here besides the lake, and what is delicious to recommend to us" The girl saw that I didn't react, so the topic turned to the master.

"Girl, I'll tell you the truth, I'm almost sixty years old, I used to stay in the submarine force, and after retiring, I stayed in this place for a lifetime, you ask me to mumble fun, muttering delicious, I can't say muttering fun and delicious, I'm here every day, and I don't have to mumble for a long time. In the past, the people who chartered my car to travel went to the water's edge to play with the water, eat fish, and drink alcohol. You young people, you have a lot to play, I don't need my old man to tell you."

"Wow, master, you've been in the submarine force! It's amazing" instantly in my eyes, and the eyes of everyone in the back row lit up, especially the girl who asked for the question, a typical nymphomaniac.

"Yes, like you in the past few days, the sky is also sunny, the sun is shining, the lake is beautiful, the visibility is very high, clear and green, we used to drive a submarine like walking in the jade, the most important thing is that there is an ancient city under the Chengjiang River, prehistoric ruins, underwater secrets, very beautiful!" Maybe every man likes to worship the sister paper, no mess how old he is, and the master seems to be opened to talk endlessly.

"Then master, can we take a submarine to visit, I'm looking forward to it," the girl asked

"That's not going to work, there's no chance, after we decommissioned, the submarine force here was disbanded soon after." The master responded

"Ah, what a pity, I really want to go down and see, don't you say?" the girl asked, turning to her friend

"Yes, we can't see it, master, you must have seen it, master, then you tell us what the ruins below look like" A man sitting next to the girl behind the girl asked, just got in the car and didn't pay attention, I glanced at it, and I have already defined in my heart that this man also belongs to the type of X, don't ask me why, he is about 178 tall, and he looks good, but a suit with running shoes looks like a unique temperament. Anyway, I think so, who still wears like this when they go out to travel.

Of course, just thinking about it, how could the master care about this. "In fact, in the depths of our Chengjiang River, there are a lot of dead people floating, they will not decay, they are all standing postures, they can't go, they can't go."

Hearing this, everyone present was stunned, and asked the master to explain it in detail, and he didn't say anything about it. Smoking a cigarette just says, you can't go, you can't go. I was instantly interested, and the look of the master was a little wrong, combined with my years of national education, told me that this was impossible,

When my master said this, I said hehe. The IQ of the people is also imagined to be too low, people fall into the water and drown, either eaten by fish, or soaked and swollen and disintegrate, or washed ashore, or entangled in aquatic weeds, and slowly become the nourishment of other creatures, of course, most of them must have been salvaged and buried. This master really dares to say nonsense, no matter how clean the water is, there are microorganisms, how can it not decay, still stand, and return Nima to the walking dead, in addition, it is not a large number of human beings falling into the water in groups every year, how can there be a lot of dead people. So I laughed, what century is now, how can there be these things in the 21st century, strange things can't deceive a new generation of people, especially like me.

After listening to the master's words, there was a discussion behind him: Do you remember the time CCTV came to shoot the program of underwater archaeology of Fuxian Lake more than ten years ago? The other two young couples who had just stopped speaking whispered. I remember, there seems to be such a show, but I can't remember what it is," the other replied.

Hearing this, I recalled a little, I did have the impression that it seemed to be during the May Day or Eleventh long holiday, CCTV spent a long time broadcasting underwater archaeology live, and the frogman found a large square stele when he went into the water very easily, and then a very thick long stone pillar, and at a glance he knew that it was the site of an ancient building. At that time, I was still excited to watch, but I couldn't remember what I found in the end.

At this time, the ponytail girl in the front row interjected and said: This is indeed the case. At that time, the purpose of the local government to invite CCTV to come over to do the program was to promote Chengjiang Fuxian Lake, develop tourism, and want to build a diving base in the future, with entertainment and culture. If you think about it, the water quality is so good, the visibility is so high, and it is inland, which can attract enthusiasts from nearby provinces and cities, as well as Vietnam and Thailand, to explore the ruins of ancient cities while diving. Obviously, the momentum of the show was very good, but then it seemed that the live broadcast was interrupted and ended hastily. Obviously, I feel that after the advertisement, I can see the divers entering the underwater ancient city when I come back, why is it not there later, did I suddenly find something, so I had to cut the back of the show?

I thought about it carefully, indeed, more than ten years have passed now, Chengjiang still has not built any so-called diving archaeological tourist attractions, or only rowing, swimming, eating fish, these traditional cheesy farmhouses. The local economy has not developed significantly, and farmers by the lake will still stand dangerously on the road and wave to traffic, trying to attract tourists to eat at the farmhouse. The house is old, demolished, and abandoned, and it feels like ten years have passed, and it has not brought much development to Fuxian Lake. There are indeed divers, but they are only in the shallow water, that is, the area where tourists can swim, and the divers only do very simple basic training.

Everything seems to have remained the same.

What has also not changed is that superstitious parents will still remind their excited children who have just finished the college entrance examination that they can go anywhere to play, and they are not allowed to go to Chengjiang to swim! Chengjiang's water ghosts' favorite stand-ins are you!

Strange to say, every year there must be all kinds of promising young people, although they are well versed in the nature of water, but inexplicably drown in the most unlikely way. When they came to Chengjiang happily, they never went back, and some of them couldn't even find their bodies.

According to legend, the place where the lake is located was originally an ancient city, and one day the sky suddenly cracked, the earth instantly tore open a huge mouth, and a bottomless abyss suddenly swallowed the entire city and all the living life in the city. The water swelled, and everything sank to the bottom of the lake overnight. How many unfulfilled dreams, how many unreachable tomorrows, how many people, how many regrets, pains, shocks, incomprehensions, all dragged into the cold water for no reason. The dead look up at the dark waters, but the living endure a thousand times the sorrow and despair of the dead.

The same devastating tragedy, the same traumatic trauma, year after year, like a curse, like a mirror image of a cycle, happens in unhappy families.

Although Fuxian Lake does not often show its dark and deep side, the wisdom of the people from generation to generation has hinted at the dangers and misfortunes that accompany it through its name.

We all call it ———— Chengjiang (in the Yunnan dialect, Shen Chen and Cheng are the same pronunciation)

The car drove along the road around the lake, almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and finally arrived at the target farmhouse, I forgot the name, XX fishing ground is still what star and what sand, poor memory, forgive.