Dayu took Xuangong and Huang Ge down from Xiyue Huashan and came to Fenglingdu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fenglingdu is the largest ferry port on the Yellow River, and people on both sides of the Yellow River cross the river from here. The Wei River flows for thousands of miles from the west to Fenglingdu and joins the Yellow River. The Yellow River rushes from the north, receives the Wei River here, and then makes a big bend and flows eastward. Because of the flooding of the world at this time, the Yellow River has been more than ten miles wide from Fengling to the east, and there is no difference between the two banks.

Legend has it that this Fengling is the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor's minister, Fenghou, who died in the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, and the emperor buried him here at the crossing of the Yellow River. A very tall mausoleum was erected. People call it Fengling. Therefore, this ferry port was called Fengling Ferry.

The current imperial capital is in Hedong, and Chongbo Kun's water control is also in Hedong. So Dayu decided that he would also go to Hedong.

The means of transportation to cross the Yellow River is sheepskin rafts. The sheepskin raft is a unique river crossing tool invented by the people on both sides of the Yellow River. It is to peel the whole sheepskin into a leather tube, tie the limbs and head and tail with a rope, blow air into the leather tube, make the sheepskin tube bulge, and then tie several sheepskin tubes side by side on the wooden pole frame. And they made this kind of sheepskin raft.

A sheepskin tube is a raft on which a person can climb and paddle with his hands to cross the Yellow River. It can also be to connect several sheepskin tubes side by side, tie them into a small raft, and take several people across the Yellow River. It can also be a dozen or dozens of sheepskin tubes linked together to make a big raft, and a dozen or dozens of people can cross the Yellow River. Crossing the Yellow River on this kind of sheepskin raft is both stable and safe, and the wind and waves will not capsize the boat or sink to the bottom. For thousands of years, people travelling between the banks of the Yellow River have relied on this sheepskin raft to cross the river.

Dayu stood on a sheepskin raft and carefully observed the Yellow River. But I saw that the Yellow River was really a veritable yellow river, like a yellow dragon lying on the land of the Central Plains, rolling the river, rolling in the mud and sand and roaring to the east.

After crossing the Yellow River, I wanted to go to the imperial capital to find my father, but when I inquired along the way, they all said that Chongbo was controlling the water in the east and rarely came to the imperial capital. So Dayu and his entourage did not go to the imperial capital, but went east along the Yellow River, while investigating the water situation of the Yellow River, and looking for their father.

Along the way, I saw many embankments built by my father with "resting soil", and the nine-thousand-high embankment kept the surging flood water out of the embankment, and people said that the flood was about to be subdued, and people could live and work in peace and contentment. When Dayu heard this, he was also very happy for his father.

But the further down the river went, the less optimistic the scene became, and the water became bigger and stronger, and became more and more turbulent, rushing and roaring outside the embankment. Compared to the flood, the levee looks so thin and precarious.

Some of the dikes are a few miles long, some are tens of miles long, and some are hundreds of miles long. Once a dangerous section of the embankment bursts that cannot withstand the flood, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Dayu walked along the Yellow River to Dahe Village, and heard that Chongbo was here to control the water, and the three of them were very happy. Inquired all the way to the construction site of the embankment, and Dayu saw his father from a distance.

I saw that my father was dark and thin, with unkempt hair, a scorched beard, and tattered clothes, just like a man named Hanako. Commanding back and forth on the construction site, using "resting soil" to build embankments. I saw him grab a handful of "resting soil" and throw it into the water, and with a bang, a rose from the water, and as a handful of "resting soil" was sprinkled into the water, the embankment continued to extend forward. It was indeed amazing, and all three of them were stunned. Only then did Dayu understand that the secret method of water control that his father said was to build an embankment with "resting soil" to block the flood.

Kun also saw a young man coming from a distance, twelve or thirteen years old, with a graceful demeanor, and then he was still wearing filial piety, followed by two big men. If you look at it again, the young man is none other than his son Wenming. Only then did he put down his work and greeted him.

It has been eight years since Kun left his house to control the water. In the past eight years, he has never returned home, and when he left, his son Wenming was only five or six years old, and he was still a child. Now standing in front of him was a young man of twelve or thirteen years old. Handsome, burly, much like when he was younger.

Kun Duanxiang looked at his son, mixed feelings, and then saw that his son was still with filial piety, and then remembered that he received a letter from home a few months ago, saying that the woman died of illness. I was too busy to take care of it because of my water control business, so I didn't even reply to the letter. Now that my son has come to him, I suddenly feel that as a husband and a father, I owe a little to my family.

Dayu saluted his father and told his father what his mother had said before she died. Kun sighed and said, "Alas, I owe your mother too much. Now, I can only work hard to subdue the flood as soon as possible to comfort her soul in heaven. It's good that you're here today, so come with me to control the water. ”

Dayu introduced Xuangong and Huang Ge to his father again, and said: "These are my childhood partners, this is a monkey kick, now called Xuangong." That was a loach, now called Huang Ge. Xuan Gong and Huang Ge both saluted Chongbo, and they called "Lord Chongbo." Kun patted the two of them on the shoulder and said, "Okay, there is a new force for water control!"

From then on, Dayu took Xuangong and Huang Ge and followed his father to assist his father in controlling the water.

But after a few months of observation, Dayu found that his father only used one method of building a dam to control the water, which was "water to earth weir". My father said that every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, between noon and noon, people would be sent to the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, the south of Cuiping Mountain, the sun of the Lushan Mountain, and the shore of Xiangshui to steal the Emperor's "resting soil" and use it to build embankments.

Dayu believes that his father's concept of water control is very different from the water control methods taught by his two teachers. So he told his father, "My two teachers taught me to be "conformist" and not to compete with the flood. "It can only be dredged and guided, not blocked or intercepted. "But my father's method of water control is to block and intercept, and I am afraid that it is not a long-term solution. Moreover, when I came from the upstream the day before, I saw that the levee that my father had built looked so thin compared to the raging flood. If the water potential increases further, the embankment may not be able to be washed away, and the embankment will burst. If that were the case, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

Kun said: "Don't I know that we need to divert the canals? But if we want to do that kind of work, we have to dig mountains, and we have to dig ditches, and now that the people are suffering from disasters and food is still a problem, how can we bear the pain of labor in digging mountains and ditches? Moreover, such a large amount of work will take time to complete, and if it takes 30 or 50 years, it will not be possible for one generation to complete it." Now the people are looking forward to subduing the flood as soon as possible, living and working in peace and contentment, and living a good life for a few days. I can't wait that long. Besides, I'm getting older, so I can't wait a lot of time. I used the Emperor's 'resting soil' to build a dam to intercept the flood, which is the most effective, time-saving, and labor-saving method at present. This "resting soil" is a kind of sacred object, and when the flood rises, it also rises, and it can always restrain the flood, so you can rest assured. ”

Dayu couldn't convince his father, he was very anxious and helpless, he knew that his father's temper was conceited, so he had to give up.

One day, Dayu was instructed by his father to go to the lower reaches of the Yellow River to investigate the water potential, he led the Xuangong, Huang Ge and the two took a wooden boat down the river, and saw that the people were forced to live in high places by floods along the way. Some people hid on the top of a smaller hill when they first hid from the water, but then the water became stronger and stronger, forcing the people on the hill to the top of the mountain, and there was nothing to eat, and all the leaves and grass roots on the mountain were eaten, so they had to sit and wait for death.

Dayu's heart was broken when he saw such a situation. With Xuan Gong and Huang Ge, the two hurriedly rowed the boat forward and distributed the dry food brought on the boat to save everyone's lives. Then, with the big axe, he cut down the trees on the top of the mountain that had been eaten up of leaves, and tied them into wooden rafts with rattan, so that people could ride on the rafts and go to other places to survive. People were grateful to the life-saving benefactors and asked who they were, and Xuangong told everyone that this young man was the son of Chongbo, the minister of water control, and his name was Dayu.

On the way to investigate, there is another place, which is higher and very vast. There are more people who take refuge in the floods, and although the floods do not reach the places where people live, people also live in the water. It turned out that the rainwater on the mountain had accumulated too much and could not be drained, resulting in waterlogging. Dayu took a boat around the landing and found that it was a stone mountain blocking the passage for drainage. Only by splitting the rocky mountain can the waterlogging be eliminated. However, the tools used by the people were all wooden rakes and rakes, and they could not split the rocks, so they had to soak in water to live a hard life.

Dayu found the lowest place, transported the Yellow Emperor mixed Yuan Gong, picked up the mountain god axe, and used the 36 axes of the dragon to descend a "dragon leap in the abyss", an axe split, the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, the rocks pierced the air, split out a gap, waterlogging and vented out, and rescued the people who were soaked in the water. People thanked him and asked him his name, and Huang Ge said: "This young man is the son of Chongbo, whose name is Dayu." ”

People said: "This young man, looking at Wen Ya, who knew that he had such a divine power, and with only one axe, he rescued us from the dire situation, and he must be a god from heaven descending to earth." It seems that the person who can subdue the flood is this miraculous boy. ”

One day, after a rainstorm, a flash flood broke out, and Dayu's boat was traveling here, only to see the torrent sandwiched with mud and stones, rotten wood, rolling in. Xuangong was about to turn the bow of the boat to avoid the torrent, but at this time, he found that more than a dozen people were swept up in the torrent, and people were floating in the flood.

Dayu called Xuangong, Huang Ge and the two stabilized the boat, carried up the Yellow Emperor's mixed Yuan Gong, and carried out the Lingbo treading wave footwork, jumped on the waves, and stepped on the flood peak to rescue the people who fell into the water.

I saw Dayu stepping on the waves, lifting a person from the water, throwing it to the bow of the boat, and shouting in his mouth: "Catch". Xuangong and Huang Ge stood on the bow of the boat and stretched out their hands to catch it, and put it in the boat, Dayu kept rescuing and throwing people out with both hands, and Xuangong and Huang Ge couldn't stop catching it. In the end, even the puppy and kitten who fell into the water were rescued and put on the boat.

The three of them are in danger to save people, just like a child playing a game of throwing and catching a ball. The people were rescued in their dying, and it was really like a dream, and they pinched a handful of flesh on their bodies, and felt very painful, so they believed that it was true. Everyone believed that this young man who saved people must be a man of God sent by God to save him.

The three men carried the rescued people to a high ground and lowered them down. There are caves, springs, woods and wild fruits, enough to survive. The people asked, "Please keep your name on the man of God who saved us." Xuangong said: "This young man's name is Dayu, and he is the son of Chongbo. ”

Since then, Dayu often went to various places to investigate the water situation, wherever there was a flood, he had left his figure, Dayu always appeared when people needed him the most, and rescued many people.

People have legends about Dayu's rescue. It is said that Dayu, the son of Chongbo, the minister of water control, is the reincarnation of the god of heaven, and he is a god sent by the emperor to save the people and subdue the flood.