Early the next morning, Xu He asked the housekeeper of the other courtyard to take everyone to the lake.

The housekeeper is an old man in his fifties, and he is said to be a housekeeper, but it is better to say that the Xu family is looking for an old man who looks after the yard in the local area.

In addition to looking at the house, the old man occasionally asked someone to sweep and maintain it, and he drove a boat in the lake to beg for a living on weekdays.

Lu Heng stayed up late last night to read Xu He's story, got up early in the morning and yawned repeatedly, and complained: "Why do you get up so early?" ”

The housekeeper smiled: "This distinguished guest, the crane boy explained, saying that he would lead everyone to see the fairy birds, morning and evening are the best time to see water birds, and you won't be able to see it if you get up late!" ”

Lu Heng stopped moving when he heard this, obviously listening to the old man's words.

When he arrived at a water swing, because it was still early, the old butler took out a piece of the stick, and then struck it with a wooden stick, and made a strange sound in his mouth.

Seeing this, Gu Hengbo asked curiously, "What is he doing here?" ”

Xu He stretched out his hand and "shh

When everyone saw this, they all looked curiously at the surrounding lake, but saw nothing on the murky lake.

Just when the two children and Lu Heng were about to lose patience, suddenly, a water line was drawn from the grass, and everyone looked fixedly, and a piece of [wood] appeared on the water surface for no reason.

The old housekeeper smiled: "Crane boy, this is what you are talking about, right?" ”

Only then did everyone realize that the things on the water were not wood at all.

It has a slender body, gray armor-like scales on its back, limbs, and a large tail, and it swims fast.

"Hey, Xu He, what's this ugly thing!" Lu Heng was a little scared, and while asking Xu He, he looked at the water curiously.

Xu He smiled: "Isn't this the big ray?" ”

Seeing this, the two children became excited before the adults, and Li Sikui was pleasantly surprised: "This is the dragon!" In the "Daya Lingtai" of "Poems", there is a verse of "Drum Pengpeng". It's no wonder that the sound from the mouth's mouth just now was a bit like the sound of a drum, which was to attract the big ray and make it think that there was a kind of person here! ”

In fact, the giant ray is a kind of crocodile alligator unique to China, and it is also one of the smallest crocodile species in the world, his existence is very ancient, but unfortunately in later generations, the ecology of the Yangtze River system was seriously damaged, and this rare animal was once on the verge of extinction.

However, in this life, these ancient creatures still inhabit the major water systems along the Yangtze River.

Just looking at the wildlife, if you don't have a story to match, it always feels like something is missing.

Xu He spoke at this time: "Have you heard the story of Zhou Ziyin, the minister of the Jin Dynasty, who eliminated the three evils? ”

As soon as these words came out, all the people on the ship were interested.

Xu He said: "This person in Zhou, the word Ziyin, is from Yangxian, Wujun (now Yixing, Jiangsu). When he was young, he indulged in wanton desires and brought disaster to the township. Later, he reformed himself, visited the celebrities Lu Ji and Lu Yun, and the prodigal son turned back, studied hard, and left a legend of eliminating the three evils everywhere. ”

Speaking of which, Gu Hengbo, who reads the most books, already knows what Xu He is going to say, but she doesn't want to ruin the fun, so she smiles and follows everyone to listen to the story.

Although Xue Xiaohou also knew about Zhou, he hadn't heard of any [three evils], so he urged Xu He to talk about it.

The story is very simple, that is, when Zhou was a teenager, he did not repair the subsections, and he liked to drive the field hunting, and the villagers felt that he was called the "Three Evils" with the Nanshan Tiger and the Longbridge Jiaolong.

Zhou Chu later reformed and decided to help the villagers solve the other two evils.

He first went into the mountain and shot the tiger to death, and then jumped into the water to fight the dragon, the dragon sank and floated, swam for dozens of miles, and fought with the dragon for dozens of miles around.

Just when the villagers thought that Zhou Chu must be dead and celebrated, who knew that Zhou Chu had killed Jiaolong and came back.

Seeing the villagers celebrating, he realized how much everyone hated him, so he changed his mind from then on, and finally became a famous minister in Eastern Wu and Western Jin.

Lu Heng looked at the old housekeeper feeding the big ray with minced meat and said curiously: "Xu He, let's feed the big fish, what are you doing here?" ”

Xu He said with a smile: "You think, everyone has never seen Jiaolong, and there are Yangxian people everywhere, how big is Yangxian in the water, could it be that Zhou killed the big ray at that time?" ”

Lu Heng was stunned when he heard this, turned his head to look at Xu He and said in surprise: "I thought it was so powerful that week, but I didn't expect that such a little guy could fight with him in the water for so long, fake, right?" You have no basis! ”

Xu He nodded, admitting that he was also speculating.

Because before the Song Dynasty, there were bay crocodiles in China.

For example, the description of crocodiles in "Liang Shu Funan Biography":

The crocodile is more than two zhang long, like a dragon, has four legs, the beak is six or seven feet long, there are teeth on both sides, sharp as a sword, often eat fish, meet the ground deer and people are also soaked, south of Cangwu and foreign countries have it.

This long-snouted crocodile with a "beak six or seven feet long" is about the same as the Gulf crocodile that still exists off the coast of Southeast Asia and northern Australia.

The bay crocodile is a primitive giant crocodile that is suitable for both brackish and freshwater use, and its distribution has historically been much wider than it is today.

Moreover, Yu Xi of the Jin Dynasty also mentioned in "Zhilin" that there is a long-billed crocodile in the south that eats people, and it mostly attacks the people on the boat in autumn:

There are crocodiles in the south, with beaks eight feet long, especially in autumn. Those who are on the side of the boat, the fish or the head eats people, so the people hold the side of the boat and resist it.

Autumn coincides with the peak of crocodile predation activities, and the bay crocodile is particularly ferocious at this time, so the tragedy of shipwreck murder occurs repeatedly.

Xu He recited these historical records for everyone.

But in the end, he still smiled and said: "Zhou is Lu Yun's student, I remember which book I read, [Lu Ji tastes Hua Fish], when the guests were full, Hua Hair Device, so he said: "[This dragon meat also]." The faith of the people, Hua said: "Try to wet it with bitter wine, it will be different." "And the five colors of light rise. The machine also asked the owner of the carp, Guoyun: "There is a white fish accumulated in the garden, the quality is very usual, and it is too beautiful to make a bream, so it is offered to each other." ”

Lu Yun's brother Lu Ji once ate dragon meat with Zhang Hua and others.

Of course, I didn't know it was dragon meat before, but Zhang Hua recognized it as dragon meat.

Lu Ji may also be there. Maybe just gossip a few words, when my students slaughtered Jiao everywhere, I didn't know what Jiao meat tasted like.

The relationship around is over there, if you treat the crocodile as a dragon, it is estimated that you will meet the laughter in the generous house.

"So......, who can tell you about such a thing?" Xu He said with a smile.

Gu Hengbo nodded and added: "Xiaohe said that everyone has never seen Jiaolong, but the ancients have seen it, "The Prince's Year of the Prince" said: Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty often traveled to Weishui, making the ministers fishing for fun. From time to time, there is a doctor Ren Xu, who catches a white jiao, [three zhang long, like a big snake, no scale armor, a horn on the head, two feet long, soft as meat, and teeth like the outside of the lips]. The emperor said: "Rodfish, fish and, and the like." Non-Zhenxiang also. \"Nai ordered the Taiguan to be a bream, with green bones and purple flesh, and a very beautiful taste. The emperor thought about it, so that the people who were in trouble could not find it again. ”

Xue Yongzhi said with a smile: "The two of you are on the side, and I can't interject, Xiaohe, I take care of everyone and you are your destined confidante!" ”

When Gu Hengbo heard this, he smiled slightly and kept silent.

Xu He smiled secretly in his heart, isn't it, a proper confidant!

Everyone watched the big dragon, and waited for the morning sun to rise, the red-crowned crane flew up to feed, and the scene of a group of birds flying together caused Lu Heng to scream again and again.

It wasn't until the bird disappeared that she said, "Xu He, what's so fun down there?" ”

At this time, the old housekeeper said: "The son confessed, saying that he asked the old man to lead the nobles to the fisherman's house for dinner today!" ”

Lu Heng suddenly burst into joy and said: "This is good, this is good, I have never eaten in a fisherman's house!" ”

Xu He smiled secretly, these princes' homes, they are used to fine clothes and jade food, and they are confined to a small world every day, although they have a worry-free life, but in terms of knowledge, there may not be many merchants who walk the streets and alleys.

So when he arrived on the island, he asked the housekeeper to arrange it as soon as possible.

But what he didn't expect was that it was just an ordinary sweet meal, but there was a big problem with eating!