I was indeed surprised, the Yinshan Gorge that the old ghost said was the most leg-grooming place along the river, in fact, there were very few people who had been there, and most of them were rumors. It is a mountain gorge about one hundred and thirty or forty miles away from the Lianggouzi, very deep, the legend of the Yinshan Gorge has a long history, many people say that the dragon king of the big river is in charge of the waterway, and the Yinshan Gorge is the place where the underworld Yama hoards the Yin soldiers, the yin qi is clear, even in broad daylight, the sun can not shine through the layer of gloomy and miserable fog floating in the canyon.

These words must be nonsense, the origin of Yinshan Gorge has a lot to do with the geographical location of the Yellow River. Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River Valley, from the beginning of the ancestors to the later generations, the Central Plains where the Yellow River Basin is located has been the cultural and political center of many dynasties and regimes, and the place where soldiers must fight. From ancient times to the present, the Yellow River basin does not know how many major battles have taken place. After each war, the floating corpses on the river surface are hundreds of miles, almost silting up the river, Yinshan Canyon does not know when it began, it is a place to throw corpses, thousands of floating corpses are collectively salvaged and thrown into the canyon, that is simply the heaviest corpse accumulation place. This kind of place, if there is nothing strange, it is called a strange thing. In the 36 side gates of the Yellow River, most of them were reckless before liberation, but almost all of them had ancestral rules, and they did not go to Yinshan Gorge to beg for a living.

"Baby, there's no place you can't go." The old ghost took me away and took his hand, and suddenly said to me seriously: "Practice your courage, do you know what you mean by what you said to the Song family's palm lamp today?" Lao Tzu wants you to make the big palm lamp of the seven gates. "

"I don't know." I shook my head, and although I could hear that the Seven Doors Palm Lantern seemed to be a majestic character, I still didn't understand the specific meaning.

"Talk while walking, and break into the Yinshan Gorge with Lao Tzu." The old ghost took me away, I still wanted to go along the waterway, so fast, but the flood season is approaching, the water is rising badly, most of the boaters have begun to close, there is no boat on the empty river, the water is turbulent, we have to continue to rely on two legs to hurry, the old ghost groaned for a while, and said: "Did your master tell you about the river?" "

"Yes." I followed the old ghost for two days, and I actually felt that he didn't look so gloomy in the stone coffin, so the fear in my heart slowly decreased invisibly: "But I didn't say much." "

"He doesn't talk about it, Lao Tzu will talk to you." The old ghost motioned for me to go faster, and said, "I don't know how the river is here, so you are not worthy of being a river girl." "

The old ghost began to tell me, but no matter how I listened to it, it seemed like a vain and boundless folk tale. The old ghost said that a long time ago, the Yellow River often flooded on a large scale during the flood season, flooding monstrous, diverted countless times, each time it was diverted, flooding the fields and crops, so the densely populated places along the coast, such as the ancient city of Kaifeng, would build river embankments to protect the land. In a small and remote village like our Panhe Village, where there are few people and little land, there is no ability to build embankments, so it is often all the villages within a radius of 1,200 miles to concentrate their forces to do something.

I don't know much about water conservancy, but I do know that the main reason for the bursting of the Yellow River is that a large amount of sediment brought from the upstream is deposited to the bottom of the water in the downstream where the flow is slow, and the water level is getting higher and higher over the years. Therefore, in the past, in addition to repairing embankments and rescuing during the flood season, the people also dredged the river before the flood season.

One year, while the river was being cleared of silting, something strange happened to a section of the river. The old ghost didn't say where the river was located, but only told me that there was a locust forest near the nearest village. The water in the river has dried up to a fraction of the normal water level, so it is reasonable to say that dredging is relatively easy, but no matter how much you dig it, it seems that the sediment at the bottom of the river will not decrease at all.

"Seven days in a row." The old ghost thought for a moment and said, "One person dies every day. "

People died very miserably, they all accidentally fell into the water in the dredging, the people on both sides of the river are generally good, but the people who fell into the water seemed to be unable to swim, and soon sank underwater.

Without being rescued, it won't take long for the person who sank to the bottom of the water to float up on his own, but when he floated up, he was already out of breath, and the face of the deceased was as if he had been scratched by something, beyond recognition, and the most important and unexpected thing was that when the body surfaced, his right hand was gone.

When I heard this, my heart pounded, and I immediately remembered the hand that had been dug out from under the wall of my grandfather's bedroom. But I swallowed my spit, and didn't interrupt the old ghost's story, this old thing has a bad temper, and I don't want to provoke him.

Seven days in a row, seven people died, the dredging thing has not made a little progress, the flood season is approaching, everyone is anxious, to the eighth day, everyone is worried about going to work, because they are all scared of the people who died in the first seven days, some people are faintly aware that there will be dead people on the eighth day?

But they all guessed wrong, and as soon as the work started on the eighth day, things went very smoothly. The people were overjoyed and enthusiastic, and people felt that although seven people died, as long as they could make all preparations before the flood season, and the village and fields could be saved when the flood came, it would be worth it.

Immediately afterwards, they dug up something at the bottom of the river, a very large thing, full of more than ten meters long, lying at the bottom of the river, as the sediment decreased, this thing gradually emerged from the bottom of the river, and people with good water properties dived down to look at it, and felt that it seemed to be a big pillar.

Originally, they wanted to dig out the things in the water, but the things were too big, and the estimated weight would be very amazing, if you want to dig, you must pay a lot of manpower and time, the flood season is coming, there are too many things to do, so people want to give up, after all, there are too many messy things at the bottom of the Yellow River, and they can't dig them out.

What happened later was a bit like myths and legends, but the old ghost told me a serious story, which made me feel like those things were true.

On the night that people gave up the idea of digging up the thing, at least half of them had the same dream when they went to bed at night. They dreamed that an old man with a long beard swam out of the river and told them that something at the bottom of the river must be dug up, otherwise there would be a great disaster along the river.

When I woke up the next day, people began to talk about this strange dream. It's not unusual for people to sleep and dream, but it's intriguing that so many people have the same dream at the same time. The residents along the river have always believed in gods and ghosts, and the patriarchs of many villages got together to discuss, thinking that this matter was not trivial, and that there must be a god secretly mentioning it, and it should not be taken lightly. So after discussion, they decided to dig out the things at the bottom of the river.

In order to dig up the things at the bottom of the river, they made a lot of preparations, rushed out a dozen large clay winch, and specially twisted a few strands of rope as thick as an arm. On the ninth day, the winches were all placed on the shore, and then someone went into the water to clean up all the sediment and debris around the thing in the water, more than ten meters long, a rope was set at each end, and then more than a dozen winches on the shore worked at the same time, dragging things out of the water little by little.

The excavation went relatively smoothly, at least there were no casualties, but at the moment when the thing was about to surface, the sky was overcast, and thunder began, all of which were very thick thunder, and they were all very thick thunder, and they were all cut down from the clouds, and the scene was so scary that the entire river surface and the river bank were almost covered by thunder. The thunder was very strange, as if it had eyes, and it was splitting the winch that was twisting, and a thunderbolt struck down, and the winch burst into a raging fire, and then the sky began to rain again, and the rain poured down, and the people who were drenched could hardly stand on their feet.

Such a scene can definitely scare ordinary people at a loss, but the more this is the case, the more it makes the people present at the time feel that the things at the bottom of the river are extraordinary and must be dug up. Many people braved the rain and the thunder in the sky to pull desperately, using the remaining winches to drag up the things at the bottom of the river little by little. The moment the thing came out of the water, the rain and thunder stopped instantly, and the gloomy sky immediately cleared.

It wasn't until this time that they discovered that the thing at the bottom of the river, which had begun to be mistaken for a pillar-like thing, was actually a statue more than ten meters high. The figure is carved out of a large log, covered with a layer of copper skin. At this moment, the people who had had had had that strange dream the night before were stunned, for they could clearly see that the bearded old man who had dreamed with them at night was almost exactly the same as this bronze wooden statue.

Is it dreaming?

Some people were suspicious, but they had already pulled the bronze wooden statue out of the water, and they felt that they had to at least get it up. So I continued to pull, but the bronze wooden statue could no longer pull when it reached the shore, and at this time someone found that several thick and scary iron cables tied the hands, feet and neck of the copper wooden statue. Then I found a blacksmith to cut these iron cables, which was a little unbelievable, and when the thick and terrifying iron cables were chiseled, they were bleeding outward one by one.

The faces of the group turned white, and they all felt that this thing was some evil thing locked at the bottom of the river. But it was too late to regret it, and the bronze wooden statue had already been transported to the shore. The patriarchs of some villages really couldn't let go of it, and discussed going to other places tomorrow to invite a great immortal to take a look.

The bronze wooden statue was temporarily shelved on the shore, leaving a few people to take care of it, and the rest went back to eat and sleep. At that time, the weather was a little hot, the caretaker drank some wine, and went to bed very late, when the sky was bright, one of them got up to relieve his hands, and after a soak of urine, he suddenly found that the copper wooden statue on the shore was more than ten meters long, and it was gone.

In the place where the bronze statue disappeared, there was an old man with a long beard and a shovel in his hand, just as they had dreamed of in their dreams.