Lock the dragon well.

As soon as we heard the name, our faces changed.

Lock the dragon and lock the dragon, is there really a dragon in this pond?

I suddenly remembered that when I was pulling the chain at the bottom of the water, the chain suddenly trembled violently, as if there was some living creature tied to the other end!

And what kind of monster is that creature that chain is as thick and thin as an adult's arm, and can drag such a heavy chain to tremble?

Could it really be a dragon?

I hurriedly asked, "Officer Jiang, is the lock dragon well really used to lock the dragon?" Could it be that we are all wrong to blame Lao Huang, there is really an evil dragon in this dead man's pit? ”

Jiang Yongguang shook his head and said: "It's not so evil, although the lock dragon well is called the lock dragon well, it is not really used to lock the dragon, but to control the water." ”

"Flood control?" I wondered.

"That's right, it's water control." Jiang Yongguang replied, "The ancients believed that dragons could travel through clouds and rain and control the water potential. In some places where floods occur frequently, they will specially invite experts to come and build a dragon lock well, which means to lock up the evil dragon, control the floods, and no more floods. ”

I was stunned, this was the first time I had heard that building an ancient well could cure water.

Jiang Yongguang continued: "Although the most locked dragon wells were built in the Ming Dynasty, this allusion can be traced back to ancient times. You must all know that Dayu controls the water, this lock dragon well, it is rumored that it was invented by Dayu, so it also has a full name, called Yu Wang lock dragon well. ”

I smiled and said: "Dayu didn't rely on Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick to control the water-Dinghai God Needle?" In Journey to the West, why do you still need to build a lock dragon well? ”

The corners of Jiang Yongguang's mouth twitched, glanced at me, and said, "Don't interrupt, this matter has nothing to do with Sun Wukong." ”

Then he continued: "There are locked dragon wells all over the country, and this lock dragon well often has a mysterious story. If you are interested, you can check it yourself, there are many on the Internet. However, the most famous is the Beixinqiao lock dragon well in the capital, which is a real god. ”

I hadn't been to the capital at the time, and I didn't know where the Beixinqiao was, but judging by the name, this place should be on the north side of the capital.

Xiao Liang and Uncle Mei had never been to the capital, and both of them asked curiously, "What's wrong?" ”

Jiang Yongguang said: "This place in the capital is not next to the big rivers, and there are no floods, but people who live in the capital know that every summer, especially in mid-July, the capital will rain heavily, and the city will be flooded, and even people can drown." It is said that the situation was more serious before the North New Bridge was repaired to lock the dragon well. ”

"Since the construction of the lock dragon well in Beixinqiao, the flooding in the capital has subsided for many years, and the Ming and Qing dynasties are not so serious, and the people are rarely drowned. But later, when the feudal superstition was broken, I don't know who moved this lock dragon well, good guy, that summer, the capital rained like a note! Monstrous floods! ”

Later, I invited a master to come and see, and the master repaired the lock dragon well overnight, which calmed the flood, and the next summer, there was no more such frightening rainstorm. Because of this incident, the subway in the capital was built later, and they all bypassed this lock Longjing. ”

After listening to Jiang Yongguang's narration at the time, I was skeptical, and I only felt that what he said was the same as the story that Lao Huang told us at the dinner table yesterday, more or less exaggerated.

But many years later, I went to the capital in person and took a few subway trips in Beixinqiao, and I knew that what he said was true.

This subway not only bypasses the lock dragon well, but even the layout of the subway station is very particular, friends who know feng shui can go to the field to see, or search for pictures on the Internet to see, what this layout means, insiders know at a glance.

At this time, Jiang Yongguang asked us again: "By the way, do you know who built the lock dragon well of this Beixin Bridge?" ”

We shook our heads and said we didn't know.

Jiang Yongguang said: "There are two theories, the first is that the person who built this lock dragon well is the feng shui master Liu Bowen. ”

"Liu Bowen again?" I was surprised, "It's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?" ”

"It's not a coincidence." Jiang Yongguang pointed to the lock dragon well in the dead man's pit and said, "Isn't this the site where Liu Bowen slashed the dragon vein?" If there is also a lock dragon well built by Liu Bowen here, doesn't it prove that we are in the right place? ”

I slapped my head and said, "Really! ”

Jiang Yongguang continued: "It is rumored that Liu Bowen couldn't bear to see the flood, so he specially built the lock dragon well and built a bridge over the lock dragon well. At that time, the evil dragon was locked in the well, so he pleaded with Liu Bowen and asked him when he would let himself out, Liu Bowen said, when will this newly built bridge be old, when will you let you out, the dragon king agreed, and Liu Bowen backhanded the bridge with a name - called Beixin Bridge, which will never be old. ”

I said in my heart, I didn't expect Liu Bowen to be a sixth child!

But at this time, Xiao Liang shook his head and said: "No, after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he set the capital in Nanjing, and waited until Zhu Di usurped the throne later, and then changed the capital from Nanjing to the capital, Liu Bowen was a person from Zhu Yuanzhang's period, he should not have lived in the capital, how could he build a lock dragon well in the capital?" ”

Jiang Yongguang praised with a smile: "It is worthy of being a college student, and I really found a loophole in this story, that's right, Liu Bowen lived in the era, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was still in the south, and it was indeed unlikely that he would build a lock dragon well in the capital." So there is another version about the lock dragon well, it was not him who built the well, but another person. ”

"Who is it?" Xiao Liang asked.

"The black-clothed prime minister - Yao Guangxiao." Jiang Yongguang said.

After he said the name, he glanced at us, as if to ask if we knew this guy.

Xiao Liang nodded immediately, obviously having heard of Yao Guangxiao's name, and Uncle Mei also nodded, it seems that he has also heard of it.

Only I, an illiterate person, don't know him, but listening to his powerful and domineering name "Prime Minister in Black", it is estimated that he is a very awesome character.

At this time, Jiang Yongguang said to Xiao Liang: "Come, Xiao Liang, you can introduce this Yao Guangxiao to everyone." ”

Xiao Liang was not frightened, and immediately said: "Yao Guangxiao, also known as Monk Daoyan, is the main strategist of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and the mastermind of the Battle of Jingjing. It was he who persuaded Zhu Di to rebel, seize the Ming Dynasty from Zhu Yunwen, and help Zhu Di sit on the throne. Therefore, he was the most respected person in Zhu Di's life, and he was the first and only person in the Ming Dynasty to enter the ancestral temple as a civil servant. ”

Jiang Yongguang nodded approvingly after hearing this, and said: "That's right, Yao Guangxiao can be said to be the person who changed the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also the person who laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, Yao Guangxiao is also a feng shui master, and the pattern of the 49 cities of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the capital was designed by him. Even today, the capital is still using the layout left by his old man. ”