I haven't figured out if this old man is bragging, and if he really has something to ask me, he will probably talk nonsense, so I want to test it.

"Good question, these words are not available to ordinary people." The old man grinned, showing a mouthful of yellowed teeth smoked by drought smoke, as if to praise me for being able to ask such a question, he groaned for a moment, held the tobacco pouch and pot, pointed to the river in the distance, and said, "A long time ago, there was still a wasteland over there, there was not a drop of water, and the grass did not grow. "

"Really?" As soon as I heard it, I was even more convinced of the words of the old ghost in my heart, and the vague scene I saw on the water surface of the ancient yin and yang well in the eye of the river. It's hard to believe, but it's impossible for everyone to lie. When the old man said this, he was obviously telling me that a long time ago, the Yellow River did not exist, I paused for a moment and said, "How long ago was that, you know so clearly?" "

"The old man's surname is Hua, and he has lived here for four or five generations." The old man said: "In the year I said, my father was still alive, he saw it with his own eyes, and told the old man, my father won't fool me, right?" "

"Probably not." I nodded, but my back was cold, how long ago was that? Can Hua Laohan's father see it with his own eyes? How old is that? What is the origin of this old thing's demonic spirit? I couldn't help but peek at the middle-aged man next to me and the young woman, one was stupid and the other was worried, anyway, it was indescribably strange.

"At that time, my father was still young, just by the river, and he came out to play every day." The old man smoked a cigarette and continued to talk to me.

He said that the great river appeared on the earth as if it had appeared overnight. At first, from the northwest direction, stretched out a huge crack, as if the sky was cracking, the crack was like a torn piece of paper, quickly stretched to the end of the earth, and then, the sky was dark and rumbling, it seemed that even the sun had been hidden, and it rained for a long time.

"After that, the water began to rise, and large swaths of water, as if they didn't need money, flowed from that side, overwhelming the world, and were about to flood this land into a sea."

The ocean was overflowing, and people at that time had no way to live and left their homes. As soon as the flood spreads, it seems that there is no end to it, and it will continue forever. The old man didn't say it so clearly, but I knew very well that once there was a flood, it would completely become a dead place, which was terrible.

"People can't live anymore, it's better to die, my family has no choice, my grandfather and my father are still dying here, living for so many years, I don't want to leave my home." The old man sighed and said, "After staying up for a long time, a large group of people came from over there, controlling the water, and wanted to gather all the overwhelming water. "

The story told by the old man was very strange, the water came and completely submerged all around, but there was only a huge crack in the ground, not a drop of water entered, and the water flooded over, all avoiding the crack. The old man's father refused to leave his homeland, and after the group of water control people came, he secretly watched nearby. The group of water control people had a leader, who was very capable and able to endure hardships, and led people day and night. After watching it for a while, Hua Laohan's father finally understood that they wanted to lead all the water into the huge crack in the ground.

The story is like this, put it in the mouth of today's people, no matter how long the process is, it is just one sentence, but the hardships and twists and turns when the incident happened cannot be clearly told in one sentence. The capable leader led the people for a long time, tried his best, and finally brought all the water that ravaged the earth into the rift.

Because of this, the land, which originally had no rivers, suddenly had an extra river, which has been flowing until today.

"The leader of the flood control often came to the river, and walked along the river, year after year, from a head full of black hair to a head full of white hair." The old man said: "Young man, who do you say can not be born, old, sick and die?" This leader is also dead in the end. "

When this leader died, a large crowd gave him a funeral, carrying a huge wooden statue, a heavy stone coffin, and a large ding. All the mourners went down to the river, carrying wooden statues, stone coffins, and large dings, and were swallowed up by the river. Hua Laohan's father witnessed all this, but he didn't dare to approach, even if the leader who led people to control the water died, his prestige was extremely high, and no one dared to blaspheme. Subsequently, the mourners surfaced, but they did not go ashore, and they committed suicide one by one in the river.

"Those dead corpses, not washed away by the water, just drifted in place, flickering and sinking." The old man looked at me and said, "Young man, do you know what these dead bodies are?" "

"What is it?"

"That's the earliest Zhenheyin soldiers!"

My mind suddenly lit up, and the little by little clues seemed to be connected by the old man's narration, complete and clear. There is no doubt that the person who controls the water is Dayu, a lotus wooden statue, a stone coffin, buried in the river, so the place where the river eye is connected is Dayu's tomb!

If I talk about it, many people may think that I am talking nonsense, everyone agrees that the tomb of Dayu is in Huiji Mountain in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. However, it was just an empty tomb, or rather a mound of clothes. The tomb of Dayu, which people worship, is just a symbol, a kind of spirit and cohesion.

"Where is that mouth?" I came back to my senses and asked Hua Laohan, the lotus wood statue, the stone coffin, I have seen it with my own eyes, but the mouth of the flower Laohan is unheard of, since it appeared with the stone coffin when King Yu was buried, it means that it is a very important thing, but why is it missing?

"The old man doesn't know about this." When he turned on the fire and smoked, I suddenly found that his old eyes were not as demonic as I imagined, they seemed to be a pair of ordinary eyes, but because he had seen all the changes and vicissitudes of the world, it was profound. He slowly held the cigarette pouch, glanced at the big river over there, and said: "King Yu governs the water and secures the world, is enshrined as the co-master of the Quartet, collects the gold of Jiu Mu and casts Jiuding, and later generations say that it is authority and glory, the old man does not think, Jiuding, there must be more than a little use, but what is the matter, the old man really doesn't know, and he can't fool you." "

I don't know why, after listening to these stories, my impression of Hua Laohan has changed again, I don't think he is so terrifying and eerie.

"She," I didn't know the young woman's name, so I pointed at her and said, "You taught her what she just sang?" "

"This is the old man's daughter-in-law, the drama you said, that's right, the old man taught it." Hua Lao Han smiled and said: "You should be very familiar, when the old man was young, he liked to play nearby, and sometimes he would go into the water to play, I don't know when, there were so many people in the big river, driving boats every day, coming and going in the river, while walking, while roaring songs, the old man likes that song, listen to it for a long time, remember it." The old man likes to listen to the play, so he specially told his daughter-in-law the words and asked her to make them into the play. "

I thought about it for a long time, and I actually wanted to ask Hua Laohan if he knew the secrets of the Seven Gates of Hejiazi, and if he knew what kind of responsibility the descendants of the Seven Gates would bear. But after thinking about it, I don't think Hua Laohan will know this, this is the biggest secret of the Seven Sects, except for people like the old ghost and grandpa, even Song Baiyi and them may not be clear.

"In the past few days, have you ever seen a little girl who is about the same age as me?" As I spoke, I told Hua Laohan about Qiqi's appearance, not expecting him to provide specific clues, just hoping for a little gain, and I have the hope and motivation to look for it.

"Young man." Hua Laohan showed a smile with embarrassment, and said: "You ask some things that the old man can't answer today, if you ask those people with names and surnames on the Yellow River beach, even if the old man doesn't know where he is, he can always guess where he might be, such a big little girl, the old man really doesn't know." "

"Think about it, aren't you all around here?"

"Bolt up, have you ever seen this little girl?" The old man turned to his stupid son and asked.

"Hey, hey, hey." Hua Laohan's stupid son couldn't say a word, only grinned silly, but after listening to Hua Laohan's words, he took the small stone in his hand and drew on the ground.

At that moment, I was a little surprised, because he drew a person's face on the ground, and that face was so vivid that it was Qiqi.

"Seen?" The old man looked at the painting on the ground and asked me, "Is this the person?" "

"That's her! Where did you see her? She's alone? Or how many people? Where are you going? I was very excited, and I was not afraid, so I squatted down beside the bolt and asked him hurriedly.

"Ahh

"Young man, things can be a little troublesome." After reading the bolting gesture, the old man turned to me and said, "The little girl you talked about passed by here, and the old man may have been napping at that time, and he saw it." The old man's son was a little stupid and couldn't tell a word, but he said that the little girl was carried by a sedan chair and stopped nearby. "

"Sedan chair?" I also felt a little surprised, although the Yellow River beach was still very closed at that time, but the sedan chair has been gradually eliminated since the liberation, except for the sometimes New Year's festival gatherings, or playing flower drums, the sedan chair is almost not seen. Who would use a sedan chair as a means of transportation?

"When did you pass through here?" I then asked, "Did you go north?" "

As I spoke, I drew on the ground with a stone and a stone, and I saw a boxy sedan chair and four vague figures, carrying the sedan chair.

"Young man, the stupid son of the old man can't say so much, the sedan chair is heading north." The old man said slowly: "Also, the bolt said that the four people who carried the sedan chair were not people. "