Zhen Demon Well, this word I remember mentioning when I was a child when I heard my grandfather tell stories.

The so-called demon well, is to suppress the monster in the ancient well, or the legend of what monster is hidden in the well water, for the Chinese people, this kind of story should not be unfamiliar. It's almost everywhere throughout the ages.

I even remember when I was seventeen or eighteen years old, when I traveled to Beijing with my family, I heard from the mouth of the tour guide that there were legends similar to the 'Demon Well' and 'Lock Dragon Well', and these legends and stories seem to be common all over the country.

There are even some places where there are legends about these "wells", such as Yuzhou has a "Yu lock Jiaojing", Jinan has a Shunjing, Huaiyin Turtle Mountain and a "Guishan Zhiqi Well", these various wells have long become a tourist attraction for tourists today, but where is there any monster or dragon in it? It's okay not to even have a hair? To put it bluntly, it's just that these legends are rumored to be true and false, but who knows what's going on?

As soon as Jia Erye's three words 'Town Demon Well' came out, Bai Long blurted out: "The Town Demon Well you are talking about, is it the same thing as Beijing Lock Dragon Well?" ”

Second Master Jia nodded, but the third brother and I laughed on the side, after all, we have also heard this story, because we both traveled to Beijing, and we always passed through some specific tourist places. It is inevitable that local tour guides in Beijing will tell us tourists these little folk tales during casual conversation......

The so-called demon well, the ins and outs are like this.

It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen and Yao Guangxiao, who were rumored to be as divine as the great Confucian Wang Yangming, locked a troublesome dragon in the sea eye of Beixinqiao in Beijing, and also built a deep well tube on the sea eye and tied a long big chain. On the top of the well, a temple with three large halls was built, the temple was Yue Wang Temple, and the temple was dedicated to Yue Fei and Yue Pengju, who helped Liu Bowen and Yao Guangxiao to catch the evil dragon.

Legend has it that the evil dragon spoke when he was locked in the eye of the sea, and asked Yao Guangxiao, "Yao Guangxiao, do you want to lock me up for a thousand or ten thousand years?" When exactly will I be able to come out? Yao Guangxiao replied: "When this bridge is old, build the wings of the bridge." It's the day you get ahead. ”

Since then, this place where the evil dragon is trapped has been called Kitashinbashi, and Kitashinbashi has never had any bridge wings. After that, Yao Guangxiao locked Longzi in the heel of the sea under the Chongwenmen Bridge, and Longzi also asked: "Yao Guangxiao, do you want to lock me up for a thousand or ten thousand years?" When exactly will I be able to come out? ”

Yao Guangxiao said: "As long as you hear iodine when the city gate is opened." It's time to come out. ”

The so-called iodine, is the ancient city gate when the city gate "dot", in ancient times, the city gate of the capital is hung with a "point" of the hour, when the bell and drum tower in the center of the city are heard "fixed" and "bright" bells, the city gates are closed or opened.

But as a result, Yao Guangxiao also pitted the dragon, and since then, Chongwen Gate has opened the city gate and closed the city gate is no longer playing iodine, but has been changed to a bell, so until now there are old people in Beijing who often say: "Beijing City Nine Gates Iodine Bell", this bell refers to Chongwen Gate, and later I heard that the Zhenhai Temple built on the north side of Beixinqiao was established to suppress these two evil dragons that were "pitted" by Yao Guangxiao and Liu Bowen...... Brother Huan above.

Whether this story is true or false now no one knows, but then because of this lock dragon well. Another story was derived, which was also told to me by the tour guide during the tour.

It was during World War II that the Japanese devils invaded the city of Beijing, and after hearing the legend of the local locked dragon well, they didn't believe it, thinking that how could a dragon be locked in a well? So as soon as I loaded -b, I lined up in front of the lock dragon well, and went to line up to pull the iron chain tied to the well, and as a result, it took nearly 20 days to pull, but the iron chain was still missing, and the more I pulled, the louder the sound of the iron chain in the well, the Japanese were scared later, and many people did not dare to pull it anymore, and then there was no way, they could only go back to the iron chain in the well again, and as soon as the iron chain was smoothed back, the strange sound in the well was immediately gone.

When the tour guide told me this, it seemed that in order to increase credibility, he deliberately lowered his voice and told us that his grandfather was next to the well at the time, and that his grandfather had seen the Japanese soldiers pulling the chains in the dragon well.

Later, in 1968 after the liberation, the Red Wei soldiers in the 22nd in Beijing did not believe in this, and dragged the iron chain in the wellhead of the lock dragon well, and when the result was pulled, the situation was almost the same as the time when the Japanese soldiers dragged the iron chain, no way, the Red Wei soldiers were so frightened that they hurried back like the Japanese soldiers at that time, and the iron chain was smoothed back, and then later, the Beijing Municipal Government ordered the well to be sealed, and the specific reason for sealing the wellhead was not clear. I'm afraid that only those high-level leaders at that time knew it in their hearts......

Seeing me sitting in the car laughing, the white dragon glanced at me and asked me what I was laughing at?

Anyway, there is still a distance from the coal mine, and it is idle to be idle, so I briefly said what I knew about the lock dragon well, and I thought it was just to have a good time, but after I finished speaking, Jia Erye sneered and said: "Boy, do you think this thing is fake?" Aren't you connected to the people of 749? Then why don't you ask the people at 749, or ask them to help you check the information of the year? ”

"Second master, you, what do you mean by this?"

Jia Erye sneered and said: "If you think it's just a folk tale to coax children, then you are wrong, after the Cultural (Harmonious) Revolution, 749 and the inspection team of the Cultural Relics Bureau have set up a special team to investigate the matter of the lock dragon well in Beijing, at that time, the 'night watchman' had just been established, and I was also one of the investigators of the Cultural Relics Bureau in this case......

"So, did you find out what you did later?"

I asked in surprise, but Second Master Jia smiled and said, "The investigation must have been found out, but this is a state-level high secret, if you know too much, you will have to save your life......

I quickly shut up, shook my head and said, "That's still not good, but what does the demon well in the coal mine have to do with the Suolongjing in Beijing back then?" ”

"There is no connection, but there are similarities......"

"For example?"

"For example, both wells are indeed locked up with monsters that are not yet acceptable to human civilization and have never been verified...... What is the former, it is inconvenient to say more, while the latter ......"

Seeing that Second Master Jia was suddenly speechless, I hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with the latter?" ”

But Jia Erye shook his head and said: "When I went down the mine five years ago, I did see half of it, but what is it, five years, I have found a lot of information, but there are really not many clues......

"Half of the face? Why half-faced? I asked again.

"Because that thing doesn't seem to have any intention of coming out of the well, or rather, because of some kind of power that we don't know yet, it's trapped in the well, after we went down into the mine, we found the collapsed ancient cave in the well, and after entering, we also found the well in the ancient cave, and the iron chain on the ground, and the first reaction of the other team members at that time was to drag the iron chain up, to see what is down there, maybe there is a treasure, fortunately, I have experienced the incident of Beijing Lock Dragon Well, Sure that there must be some living creature down there, my words, of course they didn't dare not believe it, but they didn't dare to believe it either, so after a while, everyone withdrew from the ancient cave, but pulled the chain to the entrance of the ancient cave, and wanted to drag it from a distance to find out......"

"And then? And then you dragged the monster out again, did you? ”

"If not, how could I have seen half of it?"

Jia Erye sighed, and said: "At that time, as soon as the monster appeared, everyone was frightened, and they didn't wait for the monster to escape, so they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran back, fortunately, we were far away and ran fast, so we lost our lives, otherwise, it is estimated that we will not be able to get out......"