Chapter 84: The Legend of the Three Pools and the Moon

Yang Xiuwen felt incredible.

It's winter, and there shouldn't be any other biological activity in the water except fish. It is clear that it is certainly not the fish that is fleeting. I probed carefully again, but found nothing.

Forget it, he didn't have time to think about it now, the boat was close to the shore of the island in the middle of the lake.

The rowing master said, "Guests, don't worry, I'll pick you up in an hour." ”

Following the bluestone path and through the lush golden laurel forest, there is a tall stone torii.

There are three big characters written on the archway [Huxin Pavilion], and a Jiangnan courtyard appears in the eyes of everyone.

The courtyard is hidden in tall bushes, looming and blending together.

The three of them came to a stone tablet in the [Imperial Tablet Pavilion], and Zhang Peng looked at the words on it and read "Worm Two". Scratching his head, he said to Yang Xiuwen, "What does this mean?" ”

Li Xiaotong, who was holding his arm, rushed to say: "I seem to know this, legend has it that when Lord Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he once traveled to the West Lake at night, and Ji Xiaolan and He Shen were around.

The local officials set up a singing and dancing banquet on the island in the middle of the lake, and the drunken eyes of the Qianlong Lord seemed to be in a fairyland on earth, and the palace was slender and dancing.

Under such a beautiful scene, Qianlong Ye improvised and wrote the word [Worm Two].

He Shen couldn't guess and asked Ji Xiaolan, and the answer Ji Xiaolan gave was [Fairyland on earth, the wind and the moon are boundless. The wind and the moon have no borders, that is, worm two. Xiuwen, am I right? ”

Yang Xiuwen looked at Li Xiaotong with a surprised face, gave a thumbs up and praised: "Amazing, I didn't expect you, a student of the Department of Political Science and Law, to know this." Zhang Peng also praised casually.

Li Xiaotong was embarrassed to be praised and explained: "No, once in the dormitory, the roommates accidentally talked about this story, and I remembered it, hehe." ”

The three of them went to [Yingcuixuan], [Pantheon], and [My Heart Seal Pavilion] in turn, and experienced the fun of changing scenery step by step.

Zhang Peng sighed with emotion: "This place is indeed like a fairyland on earth, it's worth the trip!" ”

Sitting on the stone bench on the shore, Zhang Peng looked at the three gourd-shaped towers in the lake not far away and said, "Xiuwen, aren't there myths and legends in these three pools reflecting the moon?" You see, there is West Lake, there is a broken bridge, how can it not be? ”

Probably tired of walking, Li Xiaotong leaned on Yang Xiuwen's shoulder, and Zhang Peng simply lay on the long stone bench.

Yang Xiuwen put Li Xiaotong's right leg on his lap and massaged her, and said to Zhang Peng: "You guessed it, Santan Yingyue does have myths and legends. But first look at what the three stone pools look like. “

Li and Zhang both looked at the stone pool in the water when they heard this, and after a while, Zhang Peng seemed to remember something and said: "It's a bit like the three legs of an incense burner." “

Yang Xiuwen looked at him and said with a smile: "It seems that you still remember the experience of Los Angeles, but this time you guessed correctly, it is the three legs of the incense burner." “

Changed the girl's left leg and continued to massage, and then said: "Legend has it that a long time ago, a black fish spirit secretly ran out of the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea, hid in the Qiantang River, and after evading the pursuers, began to make waves in the river.

Since then, there have been frequent floods on both sides of the Qiantang River, causing floods, and the people's farmland and rice grains have not been harvested, and the suffering is unspeakable.

Once, it took on the form of a human and entered Hangzhou to play, and suddenly there was a noodle shop on the street with a tempting aroma, and an old woman in a white dress was selling shredded meat noodles.

He walked over and ate six bowls in a row, but his stomach was unbearably swollen and he fell to the ground and rolled on the ground.

The old woman waved her rolling pin, turned into a whisk, and pointed at the black fish essence, and the noodles she ate came out of its body and turned into a golden steel chain that locked it.

It turned out that the old woman was Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Guanyin suppressed it under a large well, and the black fish spirit begged the Bodhisattva to let it go, promising not to do evil in the future.

The Bodhisattva said, "You have sinned so much that you have harmed sentient beings and cannot be forgiven. If you want to come out, unless you see the light at the wellhead. "The great well in which Guanyin suppressed it was surrounded by three huge locust trees, and the sun did not shine all day long.

Who knew that a new county order came to Hangzhou one year, and one day suddenly came to the interest, to inspect the streets and alleys, and found this big well.

Ordered someone to carry a lantern to investigate, but the light illuminated the wellhead, and the black fish spirit took the opportunity to escape.

In a panic, it plunged into the West Lake and drilled a deep pool of more than 300 zhang deep in the lake.

Usually hiding in deep pools, when hungry, they set off huge waves on the lake, overturning fishing boats, pleasure boats, and eating people. Since then, no one dares to swim in the lake to fish.

One day, Guanyin Bodhisattva returned to the South China Sea from Penglai, and when he passed the West Lake, he found that the demonic spirit was soaring to the sky, and the black fish spirit was rolling in the lake, setting off a monstrous wave.

Pinching his fingers, it turned out that the black fish spirit had escaped, so he went back to the Buddha, picked up the incense burner on the offering table, and buckled it down.

The black fish spirit just jumped out of the lake, looking for food, and suddenly saw Guanyin Bodhisattva in the air throw a bowl-shaped thing at it, and hurriedly drilled into the deep pool.

The incense burner is getting bigger and bigger, and the black fish essence is forever suppressed in the deep pool. Because the incense burner is buckled, the three legs are exposed to the water, which is now the three pools. . . ”

He spoke eloquently, Li and Zhang listened to it with relish, and the two seemed to hear the fluttering sound of the black fish essence under the incense burner. The "clang" startled the two of them, and when they turned their heads, the boat that picked them up had docked.