Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Deep Well Locks the Fish Demon
Dayu took Ying Long to Tushan to marry his relatives. The pen %fun %Ge www.biquge.info has experienced a total of four days of Xin, Ren, Gui, and Jia. And in these four days, he defeated the world's first strange demon, "Huaihe Water King" Wu Zhiqi. Locked Wu Zhiqi into the Huaihe Shuijun Cave with a long chain, and retrieved the book of heaven that was snatched by Wu Zhiqi a few years ago from the Huaihe Shuijun Cave.
Dayu killed two birds with one stone this time, and happily returned to the base camp under Lianyun Mountain on the coast of the East China Sea. All four generals congratulated Dayu. First of all, I congratulate Dayu and Tu Jiao on finally becoming a family, and secondly, I congratulate Dayu on capturing the Huaihe Strange Demon Witch Zhiqi and clearing the biggest obstacle on the way to control the Huaihe River.
Dayu came to the water control site, and more than 20,000 people shouted in unison: "Dayu, Dayu, Dayu." Dayu snatched a wooden rake from the hands of the people and joined the ranks of digging the river to control the water. When the people saw Dayu coming to dig the river with them, they were more motivated. You can do many days of work in a day.
Since the defeat of Wu Zhiqi, the banks of the Huai River have presented a calm and peaceful scene. The breeze is cool, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the bees are flying and the butterflies are dancing, and the air is faintly moist. The people who were dizzy by Wu Zhiqi a few days ago especially felt the rare peace at the moment.
Dayu is digging the river and controlling the water on the construction site, sweating and digging the soil with 20,000 people. Suddenly, he saw a fast horse galloping from the north, and on horseback he rode a man dressed as a messenger. The fast horse galloped in front of Dayu, and the messenger jumped down from the horse and saluted Dayu. said: "I am a messenger sent by the princes of the Nine Rivers. After the Xia Bo Jiuhe River was controlled, the flooding of the Jiuhe River had subsided, and the people had returned to their homes and lived a stable life. I don't want to have another fish demon come out of the reverse river in the near future, and I will eat it whenever I meet people, and I have eaten dozens of people now. The people were panicked and had just returned home and had to flee. The princes in the Jiuhe area pleaded with Xia Bo to return to Jiuhe to eradicate the fish demon and eliminate the harm for the people. ”
Dayu was taken aback when he heard the report. He asked, "Is there such a thing?" The Nine Rivers Elephant and the Seal Pig have been driven into the Oriental Sea by me, and have been transformed into dolphins, walruses, and whales. Why is there another East China Sea fish demon now?"
The envoy of Jiuhe said: "It is true, the East China Sea Fish Demon was originally a group of Tianwu in the East China Sea. It has only recently escaped from the East China Sea to the reverse river, and it has drilled through a dark river under the nine rivers, often going back and forth between the nine rivers and the reverse river, and can run from the water to the shore to catch people to eat.
The fish demon was ten feet long and eight feet thick. Just one large fish head takes up more than a third of the body. Sometimes it turns into a shark, sometimes it turns into a catfish, and sometimes it turns into a blackfish. Covered in black, two eyes the size of a pair of millstones, a big mouth can swallow into a house, full of sharp teeth, like a piece of ploughshare, very terrifying. ”
Dayu said: "Water control is closely related to the elimination of demons, the removal of demons is to control water, and water control is to liberate the suffering of the people." Now the fish demon is making trouble and harming the people, because I am not completely controlling the water and eliminating the demon. Please ask the messenger to go back and report to the princes of Jiuhe, and say that I will leave immediately and go to Jiuhe to eliminate demons. Put them at ease. ”
The messenger of the Nine Rivers agreed, bowed his hand, and then jumped on his horse and ran off the road from which he had come.
Dayu looked around at the four heavenly generals, the four generals and the four little brothers. Dispatched: "Gengchen, Dazhang, Boyi, Shennongzai and Ying Long will follow me to Jiuhe to eradicate the fish demon. Yu Yu and Kong Lu stayed at the construction site to protect 20,000 people, and the four members of the Fan will lead the digging of the river to control the water, and the Pythagorean and Jiuzhang supervise the construction while surveying the river. I'll go to the Nine Rivers to eradicate the fish demon and I'll be back. ”
After the assignment was completed, he shouted into the air: "Where is Ying Long?"
As soon as the words fell, Ying Long appeared in front of him and replied, "Ying Long is here, waiting for Xia Bo's orders." ”
Dayu said: "I still need to be carried by the dragon to take me and Boyi and Shennongzi to go through the nine rivers, how about it?"
Ying Long said: "Ying Long obeys" and fell to the ground. In the blink of an eye, it grew a few feet long.
Dayu took Boyi and Shennongzi onto the dragon's back. Ying Long flew up slowly, flying faster and faster, rising higher and higher. In a short time, it flew over the top of Mount Tai. At this time, look at the majestic peak of Mount Tai again, like a screen rising from the ground, standing in the east of the land of China. Layers of mountains are stacked with greenery, and the clouds and mist are shrouded. The black pressure covers an area of thousands of miles.
After Mount Tai, after a while, it flew to the reverse river on the shore of the nine rivers. Ying Long began to gradually lower his height, and in the blink of an eye, he landed on the bank of the reverse river. Dayu, Boyi, and Shennongzi jumped off the dragon's back. Look at the reverse river.
This section of the "reverse river" was originally a section of the lower reaches of the Jiuhe River leading directly to the East China Sea. Due to the low subsidence of the riverbed, the seawater poured into the river, so the local people gave this section of the river a figurative name "Reverse River".
Dayu and the others were walking by the river. Suddenly, I heard a "bang" in the river, and a big black fish came out of the river. The whole body is black, the fish has fins under the belly, and wings on the back. He was covered in armor the size of a millstone. Twisting his huge body and swinging his fishtail like a sail, he flew towards the crowd.
When Gengchen and Dazhang saw each other, they didn't dare to slack off. Gengchen lit up the silver spear, Dazhang picked up a pair of copper hammers, and greeted the clouds. Dayu also pulled out the mountain god axe from behind. With it in his hand, he went straight to the fish demon. The fish demon saw that Dayu and the two generals in front of him had weapons in their hands, so they turned around to dodge, and opened their mouths to swallow the god farmer. “
The fish demon swallowed Shennongzi into his mouth in one bite. How do you know that Shen Nongzi held a dagger in his hand, and slashed in the mouth of the fish demon, making the fish demon's mouth full of blood. The pain was so painful that the fish demon "poofed", and spit out Shennongzi again. He turned around and fled back into the river. As soon as Shennongzi spit out of the fish demon's mouth and escaped death, he blew out like a river: "A fish demon wants to eat Xiaoye, and it is still a little tender, and if you spit it out a little slower, I will cut off its tongue." ”
Dayu shouted: "Ying Long chase quickly." ”
Ying Long agreed: "Ying Long understands", and jumped into the water from the air.
In an instant, the waves of the river were tumbling, and the turbid waves were monstrous, and the two waves, one before and one behind, rushed in the direction of the East China Sea. The two members of the sky will soar into the clouds and look into the distance, and they will disappear for a while. After about half an hour, the two waves rushed back to the reverse river from the East China Sea. Rushing to the confluence of the reverse river and the nine rivers, the waves suddenly subsided. After a while, I saw Ying Long come up from the water alone. flew in front of Dayu. said: "Report to Xia Bo, the fish demon went into the underground dark river, and the dark river seems to have been dug by the fish demon himself, and Ying Long did not dare to go deeper." ”
Dayu said: "Ying Long will come back first, and then we will find a way." ”
Dayu took out the "Summoning God Rune" from his arms and sacrificed it to the air, and shouted: "Dayu controls the water, orders the gods and ghosts, and the gods of the nine rivers come to see!"
As soon as the words fell, I saw a splash from the middle of the nine rivers, and then a god came out of the water, and the god did not take a step, but had already stepped on the water from the center of the river to the riverbank, bowed to Dayu, and said: "The water god of the nine rivers sees Xia Bo, I don't know what Xia Bo commands?"
The people looked at the god of the nine rivers. I saw that the river god had the body of a pig and the face of a man. It reminded everyone of the appearance of the seal at once.
Dayu said: "I used to control the water in Jiuhe, and now I have been away for more than a year. Don't you think that in the past few months, there has been another fish demon in the river, eating countless people, I wonder if the god knows about this fish demon?"
The Nine Rivers River God replied: "If you go back to Xia Bo, this god knows the details of this fish demon. This fish demon was originally a gang of Tianwu in the East China Sea. Tianwu went south to the Huai River, and the fish demon went north to the Jiuhe. That Donghai Tianwu has been eradicated by Xia Bo in the Huai River. I don't think this fish demon will live long. This fish demon drilled through the underground dark river from the bottom of the reverse river to the nine rivers, and often traveled back and forth between the two places. As long as Xia Bo dug a deep well between this dark river and installed a noose in the deep well, he didn't need too much effort, he could sit and wait for the fish demon to enter the trap, and at that time, he could be at his disposal. ”
Dayu was overjoyed and said: "Please also respect the gods and guide the location of the dark river" So the Jiuhe River God led Dayu and his party to a place, pointed to the ground and said: "Xia Bo dug down from here, but it is much deeper than the ordinary well." There is a depth of about 100 feet, and you can see the dark river dug on both sides. ”
Dayu thanked him and said: "There is Lao Zun God, Dayu has thanked him here, please go back to the house!"
The nine rivers river god said goodbye to Dayu, stepped back into the river on the waves, and sank to the bottom of the water.
Dayu ordered Gengchen to go to the princely states of Jiuhe quickly, requisitioned several craftsmen to dig wells, and brought digging tools and materials to dig wells.
Dayu ordered: "Start work, dig a well"
The craftsmen who dug the wells went to work. To dig a well 100 feet deep is not something that can be done in a day's work. Because the wellhead is narrow, it can only accommodate two or three people to operate at the same time. It is necessary to dig the soil again, and at the same time to install the wall of the well. The craftsmen had to work in shifts, day and night, and Shen Nongzi was in charge of supervising the work.
Dayu instructed Boyi to design a chain that could hold the fish demon, and let the princes of Jiuhe build it according to the map for later use.
In a few days, the well had been dug to a depth of 100 feet, and the two ends of the wall of the well happened to be connected with the underground river, like a crossroads. Shennongzi went down to the well to see, came up to report Dayu, and said: "Brother Dayu, the well has been dug and I don't know how to place the lasso?"
Dayu instructed: "Boyi and Shennongzi go down the well together, just like a hunter lassoe up and down the mountain, a rabbit, a roe deer." Pull the iron cable into a set and hang it on the dark river mouth by the wall of the well, and then pull this end of the cable chain to the wellhead and lock it on the stone at the wellhead. "After everything is in order, we can drive the fish demon from both ends of the dark river like the Yu people who hunt it, and drive it to drill the trap.
So Boyi and Shennongzi went to the bottom of the well again. The iron cable was pulled into a big sleeve, hung on the mouth of the dark river on the edge of the well wall, and then led one end of the iron cable to the well and locked it to the stone pillar at the wellhead.
Dayu shouted into the air: "Where is Ying Long?"
As soon as the words fell, Ying Long appeared in front of him, and replied: "Ying Long is here, I don't know what Xia Bo commands?"
Dayu said: "You can go in and go against the river again." Get into the dark river from the reverse river and drive the fish demon into the trap. If the fish demon is not on this side of the reverse river, you can drive it back to the side of the Nine Rivers. Until the fish demon gets into the lasso, it's done. ”
Ying Long agreed, "Ying Long understands!" and then took off into the air and flew in the direction of the reverse river. When I arrived at the reverse river, I plunged into the water, found the mouth of the dark river underwater, and got into it.
This underground dark river, do not enter do not know, until Ying Long drilled into the dark river to swim forward only to find that the water in the underground dark river is very clear, sometimes there are clear springs gushing out, and the four walls of the dark river are made of rocks, some of the rocky rocks, abruptly come out, there is a different world.
Ying Long continued to search forward for the traces of the fish demon. Suddenly, I found the fish demon hiding in a sand pit in the distance, sleeping soundly. Ying Long roared, and the rock walls on the four sides of the dark river shook directly, and the rock chips fell one after another. This roar woke up the fish demon. The fish demon opened his eyes and saw that it was Ying Long who appeared in front of him again, and he was so frightened that he turned around and fled.
Ying Long was in hot pursuit. While chasing, roaring. The fish demon didn't even dare to turn his head back, and rushed forward desperately. Running away, he suddenly felt a tightness in his neck, and he was strangled by an iron rope. The iron rope was stuck in both cheeks. If you want to enter, you can't enter, and you can't retreat. I wanted to break the rope and escape, but the more I struggled, the tighter the rope became, and the more I struggled, the more painful it became.
Dayu and others stood next to the wellhead, and suddenly heard the iron cable in the well "rattling" with an iron sound, and knew that the fish demon was trapped by the iron cable. The probe looked at the mouth of the well, and saw the fish demon rolling in the well, making a ghost crying wolf-like howl, stirring up the well water.
Ying Long saw that the fish demon had already gotten into the iron rope sleeve, and howled while struggling, which was unbearable. When he was done, he went back, got out of the reverse river, and flew into the air.
The fish demon struggled and howled in the deep well for hours. Gradually, he howled in his throat and could no longer struggle. Since then, he has been locked in a deep well, and he can no longer come out to cause trouble. (Now in Lulong City, Hebei, this deep well is still there, the iron cable is still there, if the iron cable is lifted up, the well water will immediately go up.) )
After Dayu locked the fish demon in the deep well, the water control project that was damaged by the fish demon was repaired and strengthened again.