Thunder outside the car window, it has been raining non-stop since last night, the yellow mud is rolling under the wheels, according to the road of Shen Laojiu's fingers, the next place to rest should be to change to the ferry, but the lightning and thunder in front of him, the torrential rain is like a note, can you really go up the river?

The lightning in the sky danced like a silver snake, and I gathered my mind to think about the origin of the Yellow River lady that Shen Laojiu said last night.

According to him, there was the Yellow River King at the earliest, but no one knows exactly when it was traced. At that time, there was a tradition of worshipping the king of the Yellow River on both sides of the Yellow River, and there were even many temples of the king, but they were gone when the four old ones were broken. And the Yellow River Niangniang seems to be the Western Zhou Dynasty from his memory, and it may also appear in the Western Han Dynasty.

Shen Laojiu said: "At that time, it has become a tradition to worship the king of the Yellow River, from ordinary sacrifices to boys and girls, more and more outrageous, on both sides of the ancient river sometimes you can see the original people who stayed on the altar, that is, specially used people to sacrifice, the Yellow River Niangniang is carefully selected out of the beautiful women who have not been killed. ”

There were some bumps in the car, and my head would often hit the window, Hou Jun pushed me and said, "Still thinking about the Yellow River Niangniang?" ”

"Nonsense." I looked at the heavy rain outside and said, "Do you think about what the demon coffin in that notebook is?" Could it be the Yellow River Niangniang? And it doesn't seem to be just one, it should be from ancient times to the end of the four olds, how many Yellow River Niangniang will there be at the bottom of the Yellow River? ”

Hou Jun shook his head and said, "Maybe there is only one demon coffin, and there is only one Yellow River Niangniang." It shouldn't be as terrifying as you think, otherwise would people on both sides of the strait still have a way to live in ancient times? ”

Shen Laojiu, the co-pilot, suddenly laughed, turned his head and said a few words of Shaanxi dialect, I turned my head and asked Hou Jun in confusion, "What did he mean, I didn't understand." ”

Hou Jun said: "Uncle Shen's words mean that our guess is not all right, and the sacrifice of the Yellow River Niangniang is not as we think, the wrapping cloth is thrown into the water, this intermediate process is very complicated, first to prepare the gloomy coffin, the silk will wrap the girl, and again to the Yellow River King to announce the sacrifice, and finally the coffin containing the girl into the water, if the coffin is swirling in the water, it means that the girl is not pure, the Yellow River King does not collect, if the coffin floats to the middle of the river, without a sound, directly sink to the bottom of the water, not a bubble, It shows that the sacrifice was successful.

Uncle Shen said that when he was a child, he had heard the things of the older generation, and he had also heard the sound of gongs and drums in the water, only to see a red reflected on the river surface and swim slowly and leisurely, when he went home he was seriously ill, and then he grew up a little more, and knew a little more, there is only one Niangniang of the Yellow River, I don't know if it is the daughter of a prince of the Western Zhou Dynasty or the Western Han Dynasty, the story says that she was born in the country and the city, beautiful and unparalleled, but somehow she was suddenly sacrificed to the king of the Yellow River, the princes were sad and indignant, thinking that since things could not be stopped, Then marry your daughter.

So he found a well-known and advanced warlock to build a mausoleum for his daughter, which was rumored to be at the bottom of the Yellow River, and specially built a black jade sarcophagus for this purpose.

But in the end, the prince died suddenly on the night after his daughter was sacrificed, and the warlock seemed to disappear from the world. Rumors about the Yellow River Niangniang also began to circulate, and it was impossible to verify where it was first. The folk sacrifice to the Yellow River Niangniang should have begun. ”

Shen Laojiu's words made me in a trance, and I seemed to see the Western Zhou Niangniang lying in the black jade sarcophagus in the rain curtain of the sky. Hou Jun saw that I seemed to be in a reverie, and couldn't help but say: "Uncle Shen also said that that lady has another name, I guess you won't be interested in thinking about it after hearing it." ”

I turned to look at him, "What do you call it?" ”

"Yellow River Ghost Mother!" Hou Jun said ghostly

In the afternoon, the rain stopped, and so did the extended van. We stepped on the soft loess and looked at the wide and rushing Yellow River, and suddenly there was a heroic feeling in our hearts.

"This is the Fish Maw Beach, and there are people there to pick us up!" Hou Jun said, pointing to a small river beach in front of him, "It's Uncle Shen's two nephews, and you also know that doing this business is generally family-style, and outsiders rarely come in." ”

When he finished speaking, we also walked to the river beach, and met a strong and tall man, with a long and pointed nose and thin lips, about thirty years old, Uncle Shen introduced, just call him Ah Yu, and another shirtless man in shorts who was busy on the boat had a scar on the left side of his face, I think it should have been very deeply injured, and the stitches were very sloppy, so after the injury was healed, it was like a big centipede crawling on the face, which made people feel very scary when they looked at it.

And this man also has the nickname of Scar.

"It rained early today, and the water is still too urgent." Ah Yu shook his head and said, "I still can't leave for a while, otherwise something will happen." ”

Shen Laojiu looked at the sky and said something in Shaanxi dialect, his voice was a little low, I didn't hear it. Hou Jun said: "He means that if you don't leave, you can only spend the night here, but it is also dangerous to spend the night on the edge of the Yellow River." “

I frowned and asked puzzledly, "This river is still quite high, so it won't be swept away by a big flood." “

When Ah Yu heard my words, he shook his head and said, "The problem is not the flood, but the fear that something else will come out, after all, there are many of us, and there is a lot of movement, so it is easy to provoke other strange things." “

At this time, the scar on the boat came over at some point and said in a rough voice: "You can actually try to sail at night, as long as you don't shout." “

In the end, it was Shen Laojiu who made the decision, he pondered for a while, pulled Hou Jun to the side and whispered something, we couldn't hear what to say from a distance, only to see Hou Jun come back and say with a somewhat unsightly face: "You must pass the Jiaziling during the day, if you go at night, there is a chance that the boat will capsize, of course, if you are lucky, it is another matter." Do you think we're spending the night here? “

When he finished speaking, he kept showing his eyes to me, and I looked in the direction of the corner of his eye suspiciously, only to see a bruised mark on the foot and neck under the scar's trouser leg.

I asked, somewhat overwhelmed, "Is that a fingerprint?" “

Hou Jun nodded secretly: "The water ghost did it." That's what Ah Yu is worried about, they spent the night here last night, and he didn't say it directly just now, because he was afraid of scaring you. “

Kelpie? I believe there are ghosts, and I have heard some stories of water ghosts, but if you want to say that you have not been in contact, now two questions are in front of us, which makes me a little hesitant, and now I get out of the boat and arrive at Jiaziling at night, Shen Laojiu said that it is best to capsize at night, and there is a chance that the boat will capsize at night. But if you spend the night here, you may encounter a water ghost, in case it picks the beautiful and incapable Zhao Anyi and drags her into the water, isn't it dead?

I pinched it and said simply, "Get out of the boat!" Great, we can lean on the other banks of the river and wait until dawn before we go. “

Shen Laojiu sighed and waved his hand to let Scar and Ah Yu untie the ropes and prepare to start the boat. From the trunk of the car, he took out two big red roosters and threw them into the boat, turned around and waved, and shouted: "Go up (the boat)!" “

After shouting, he grabbed a handful of rice from his pocket and sprinkled it into the river.

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