Dayu subdued the flood in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and the great cause of water control has achieved a phased victory. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The news of the news reached the imperial capital, and the government and the opposition in the imperial capital were jubilant. People rushed around to congratulate each other on the long-awaited news of victory.

At this time, Di Yao had already given the throne to Shun, and Shun took over the throne of Di Yao. Since then, it has been called Dishun.

Emperor Shun and the ministers of the imperial court were overjoyed when they heard the flood level recovery in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. I'm glad I didn't mistake Dayu. Emperor Shun immediately issued an edict to reward Dayu. At the same time, the four heavenly generals and Xuangong, Huang Ge, Changxin, and Zhuhai were also commended, as well as Boyi, Pythagorean, Jiuzhang, Shennongzi and Tu Jiao.

Dayu won the first battle, and after receiving the edict of commendation from the imperial court, he immediately led the little brother and the generals and generals to rush to the next water control target - Luo (ta) River.

The Luo River is a legendary river close to the banks of the Yellow River. This river originates in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, traverses the land of North China from west to east, with a total length of more than 1,000 miles, all the way to the east, and flows into the East China Sea.

The scenery along the Luohe River is beautiful, the land is fertile, the roe deer and wild deer are all over the field, and there are often tigers and wolves infested, and there are more mountain spirits and water monsters to make trouble.

Last time, when Dayu led Ying Long and the little brothers to survey the Nine Rivers, they did not survey the Luohe River, but only after the flood of the Yellow River was treated, they passed by here by the way, and they could be cured between a walk.

When governing the Luohe River this time, Dayu still adopts the principle of who benefits and who contributes. Ordered Chang Xin and Zhuhai to go to both sides of the Luo River with Chongbo's talismans and festivals, and requisition the people and grain and grass from the local vassal states. However, this time, only 20,000 people can be transferred. It is much less than the people and grain and grass used to control the floods of the Yellow River.

After Dayu moved to Luohe, he immediately led the little brothers and 500 soldiers to set up a camp. On the bank of the Luo River, they chose a high ground sheltered from the wind and the sun as the camp site. The fly in the ointment is that there are strange rocks and rocks all over the place. Dayu saw that it was too difficult for the soldiers to clean up these stubborn stones, so he asked the soldiers to retreat, and he carried the Yellow Emperor's mixed yuan gong, and waved the thirty-six axes of the dragon descending method, cutting horizontally and vertically. I only heard a "click, click, click" sound, and in the blink of an eye, a flat ground was shoveled. Five hundred soldiers stood behind and watched, and when they saw Dayu so brave, they all cheered.

In the evening, when the encampment was finished, the little brothers and the five hundred soldiers were tired of the day, and after they had eaten dinner, they all went into their tents to have a good night's sleep and a good dream.

In the middle of the night, suddenly the sky was covered with dark clouds, and with a "click", a thunderclap exploded, and heavy rain fell from the sky. The sky leaked, and kept pouring rainwater on Dayu's camp. When the rain on the hillside comes together, it becomes a flash flood, and the torrent keeps rushing down the hillside. The tents were also flooded. The soldiers and men hurriedly got up and poured water on the outside of the tent.

Just when everyone was busy draining the water, they suddenly heard a loud sound like a landslide and a crack, and with a "boom", a big pit cracked out on the camp in an instant, and a wave of air lifted the busy people into the air, and then fell heavily into a large pit more than ten zhang deep.

For a while, I could only hear "ouch", "ouch", "mom", "mother", "oh my God", crying dad and shouting mother. After the four heavenly generals were lifted into the air, they rose into the clouds and did not fall into the pit, and the rest of the mortals were not spared except for Dayu.

It turned out that when the ground just cracked and threw people up, Dayu was also thrown up by the air waves. But he immediately stabilized his mind, and when his body was thrown to the highest point and was about to fall, he took advantage of the situation and leaned his body outward. Not only did it unload the momentum of the fall, but it also moved away from the collapsed pit and landed on the edge of the deep pit.

Dayu probe looked into the deep pit, it was dark, the rain was heavy, and he couldn't see anything, and he could only hear a cry for help in the pit.

Dayu immediately thought of the four heavenly generals in his mind. The four heavenly generals can soar into the clouds, and the landslide should not have the slightest hair of the falling heavenly generals, so they have to quickly shout that the four heavenly generals will save people. So he shouted loudly: "Where are the four heavenly generals?" Gengchen, Xuan Yu, Dazhang, Kong Lu, and other four heavenly generals agreed in unison in the air: "The sky will be here." Dayu said: "Quickly enter the pit to save people." The four heavenly generals agreed: "Yes." So the four generals and Dayu, a total of five people, jumped into the bottom of the pit to find the person who fell into the pit.

Looking at this deep pit again, it is as if the earth has cracked a hole, which is more than ten zhang wide, a hundred zhang long, and three or five zhang deep. The torrential rain was still falling, and the torrents from the mountains were pouring into the pits, and the pits were filled with mud and water, and the people who fell into the pits were crawling from the muddy water to the shore. Because the deep walls of the pit are slippery, some climb halfway and slip back to the bottom of the pit.

Dayu touched a person who was struggling in the muddy water, grabbed her arm, and performed the "Ling Bo Treading Waves" footwork to lift the person out of the muddy water. Then with a move of "Flying Dragon in the Sky", he carried the man up and jumped to the shore. Gently placed her on a rock. The man suddenly shouted, Brother Yu. hugged Dayu, and then cried with joy and cried. When Dayu heard the voice, it turned out to be Tu Jiao. shouted: "Jiao Mei!" hurriedly comforted her: "Don't cry, it's okay this time, I still have to go down to the pit to save people, you sit here and don't move." As he spoke, he took off his coat and draped it on Tu Jiao's body.

At this time, Xuan Gong and Huang Ge also jumped up from the deep pit, and when they heard Dayu speak, they also hurriedly ran over.

Boyi, Pythagorean, and Jiuzhang also climbed up from the pit and came here, among the little brothers, only there was no Sanqi Immortal Divine Nongzai.

It turned out that after Shennongzi was thrown into the air by the air wave after the landslide cracked, after falling from the air, as soon as his body touched the soil, he suddenly got into the soil, listened for a while, and there was no more movement, and then he drilled up from the ground.

Everyone reunited after the catastrophe, especially affectionate, greeting each other, and telling that, although they were even frightened, they were all covered in muddy water, but fortunately they were not injured. Even if it's a little wounded, it's just a little flesh wound.

Dayu saw that there was nothing to do here, so he summoned the four generals to rescue the soldiers who fell into the pit with Xuangong and Huang Ge.

Looking at the five hundred soldiers, most of them fell into the pit. At this time, he was struggling to climb up the pit wall. Dayu and the four heavenly generals, as well as Xuangong and Huang Ge. Each of them used all his abilities to lift the soldiers who had fallen to the bottom of the pit one by one from the pit and put them on the edge of the pit.

The four heavenly generals showed their might, grabbed two or three people at a time and lifted them from the pit, and after putting them on the edge of the pit, they immediately returned to the pit to save people. Rapid exchanges. Xuan Gong and Huang Ge were responsible for receiving and settling down. While saving people, Dayu commanded back and forth on the deep edge, encouraging the soldiers to save themselves.

When people forget themselves, time flies quickly. Dayu only cared about saving people, and unconsciously, the rain stopped and the torrent passed. The red sun leaped out of the East China Sea again. The soldiers who fell into the pit have all been rescued, and the number of people has been counted, and there are no less. It's just that after a night of frightening and fatigue, everyone is listless and can't lift their spirits.

Some people say it's an earthquake, some say it's a flash flood, and some say it's a mountain spirit and a monster.

Looking at the deep pit that everyone fell into last night, it had already been trampled into a muddy pond by everyone. But it is vaguely recognizable that there seem to be holes extending outward at both ends of the deep crater rift.

After breakfast, Dayu led 500 soldiers to choose a higher and flat hillside to re-set up camp and set up a big tent.

It is said that Dayu ruled the water and stayed in the Luohe River at night, and the three more landslides and cracks in the middle of the night. Dayu's disciples fell into a deep pit in the middle of the night and were frightened. Everyone said: "This Luohe, don't call it Luohe anymore, just call it Tuxiao River." This incident reached the ears of the nearby people, so the people renamed the Luo (ta) river "Tuxiao River". It means that Dayu's disciples were horrified here. Since then, the name of the river has been called to this day.

After the camp was erected. Dayu stood on the hillside and sacrificed the "Summoning God Rune" and read in his mouth: "Dayu controls the water, orders the gods and ghosts, and the river god of the river comes to see." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a cloud of mist rising from the surface of the Tuxiao River, and a god appeared from the clouds and mist, and came to Dayu on the water. He said: "The god of the river and the river, see Chongbo, I don't know what Chongbo commands?"

Dayu and everyone looked at the god of the river, and saw that the god of the river had a human body and a horse face, wearing the clothes of the princes, wearing a crown on his head, and holding a wat board.

Dayu said: "I dare not have Lao Zun God for nothing, just because I was ordered by Di Yao, the water control came to the Tuxiao River, yesterday encamped on the high ground on the bank of the Tuxiao River, I don't want to just sleep until midnight, the sky suddenly thunderbolt lightning, heavy rain, and then a flash flood, followed by a landslide, my camp was collapsed, I and our soldiers were lifted into the air, after falling, and fell into a deep pit three or five zhang deep, my subordinates and little brothers were frightened, tossed all night. It wasn't until this point that it settled down. Therefore, please come and ask the gods what kind of mountain spirits and water monsters are causing trouble here?"

The water god of the Luohe River listened to Dayu's words and said: "Back to Chongbo's words, there is indeed a mountain spirit in the valley of this Tuxiao River, whose name is "Mu Swelling". This "Mu Swelling" has lived underground in the area of the Tuxiao River for tens of thousands of years. I don't usually make a monster. It's just stealing holes everywhere underground.,It's an out-and-out underground spirit.。 It doesn't eat people, it only eats some underground rhizomes and taro potatoes, and when it encounters people or other animals that alarm it, it will also cause local disasters such as collapse and subsidence." Dayu asked: "I don't know what that "Mu Swollen" looks like?"

The river god said: "The body of the "Mu Swelling" is huge, with a length of 100 zhang and a thickness of 3 or 5 zhang, like the shape of a big insect chrysalis, and it is impossible to distinguish where the head is and where the tail is. He had no hands or feet, and was covered in a thick layer of skin, invulnerable. On weekdays, I walk while digging holes underground, and the drilling speed is extremely fast. The head and tail of "Mu Swollen" can spray huge poisonous black water, which can poison people when it touches the body. The mild ones are swollen and painful, and the scabs are stupefied, and the severe ones die, and if the poisonous juice is sprayed into the eyes of a person, the eyes will be blind. ”

Dayu said: "Although this Mu Swollen does not take the initiative to attack humans, but when we control the water, it is bound to disturb the Mu Swollen, and we are afraid that we will not be able to hide if we want to."

If he causes another landslide for us. We don't want to go through it again. Therefore, we must first treat the swelling, and only in this way can we ensure that our water control is not disturbed. God, please go back, and wait for us to find a way to cure the swelling. ”

The god of the Tuxiao River bowed to Dayu and said goodbye and returned to the Tuxiao River.

Dayu turned around and said to everyone: "This Mu Swollen is an underground monster, hidden deep underground, and people are unpredictable on the ground. It seems that this time the heavenly general will be useless, unless Mu Swelling is lured to the ground. However, I thought of the best candidate, and if I wanted to understand the situation of Mu Swollen underground, he had to do it. Bo Yi took over the conversation and said: "I know, what Brother Dayu said must be Shennongzai." ”

Everyone turned their attention to Shennongzai. When Shennongzi heard that Brother Dayu valued himself like this, he immediately came to the spirit, jumped to the middle of the big tent at once, and said shamelessly: "If you want to kill chickens, you can use Boyi, but if you want to kill cattle, you have to use me" general ". The ground will be out of the horse, a top two. Boyi, lend me the sword hanging from your waist, and watch me slaughter this swollen and sweep away this scourge on our way to control the water. ”

Dayu said: "Shennongzi listens to the order, I don't need you to kill Mu Swelling, I only ask you to spy on Mu Swelling's movements, find out where it is hiding, and come back to report to me, this is the first work." ”

Shennongzai reached out and pulled out the dagger pinned to his leg and shook it. said: "Please Brother Dayu listen to my good news." With that, he twisted his waist and went into the ground and disappeared.

Shennongzi thought to himself as he walked: "If I were to kill Mu Swelling, I would really not be able to kill it, but it would not be difficult for me to find out where it was hiding." While Mu is not paying attention, it is also possible to prick a few holes in it, today I want to show my hand, let Boyi, Pythagorean and Jiuzhang take a look, my "earth immortal" is not a wasted name. ”

Shennongzi got into the soil and just walked out a short distance when he met the hole left by Mu Swollen when he walked. The tunnel winded underground, like a labyrinth, and after walking a short distance, he saw a fork in the road, and he was confused in this labyrinth. If you can't walk long, you have to get out of the ground to see where you are, and then escape underground to continue your search.

Shennongzi walked underground for nearly an hour, and when he got out of the ground, he didn't go far, and he was already in circles in place. So he decided not to look down the swollen tunnel, but to go straight to the bottom of one of the highest hills on the banks of the Tuxiao River.

Shennongzai was anxious, his feet were strengthened, and he walked for a while, and suddenly bumped into something rough and tough. When I touched it with my hand, it was like an elephant's skin, warm and warm. Shennongzai walked underground, and he had never encountered a place where he couldn't walk over, so he pushed his head forward hard, but the thing was elastic, and instead bounced Shennongzai's head back.

At this time, Shennongzai's brain suddenly flashed: Could it be that his head touched the swollen one. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Turn around and run back. But after running a few steps, he found that there was no movement behind him, so he turned around and returned to Mu Swollen. He pulled out the dagger from his leg, held the handle of the dagger with both hands, pressed the tip of the dagger against the swollen skin, and stabbed forward with all the strength of his body. But no matter how you try it, you can't get into it. As soon as Shennongzai's head was relieved, the dagger was bounced back. Mu Swollen only squirmed slightly.

Shennongzi scolded angrily: "What kind of broken dagger can't even pierce a broken elephant skin." While scolding, he took three steps back, and then rushed forward violently, and this time he finally stabbed in and did not bounce out. Shennongzai's heart was pounding, and before he could react, he quickly pulled out his dagger, turned around and ran backwards, and after running a few steps, he suddenly got out of the ground. Ran back quickly in the direction of the camp.

Who knew that he had just run a few steps, and he happened to collide with someone from the opposite side. Shennongzi looked up and saw that it was Xuangong and Huang Ge, one holding Chijian and the other holding Bijian, walking forward. While shining underground.

When Shennongzai saw that it was these two people, he made up his mind. So he said loudly: "Xuangong and Huang Ge, don't take pictures, I've already found Mu Swelling's hiding place." Come with me. So he led Xuangong and Huang Ge to the place where he had just drilled out of the ground, and Shennongzi pointed to the ground and said, "Mu Chuan is hiding under here." This time, you can take a picture."

Xuan Gong and Huang Ge took the red and bi two jians and shone them on the ground for a long time. I saw that there was indeed a thick and long thing underground, neither a vein nor a dark river, and it squirmed from time to time. The two concluded that this was indeed Mu Swollen. So Xuangong, Huang Ge and Shennongzi hurried back to the big tent together and reported to Dayu.

As soon as he walked into the big tent, Shennongzi shouted out of breath: "Brother Dayu, I found Mu Swollen Nest." The guy was sleeping in the lair, and I stabbed him with a dagger, and I thought that the guy would be seriously injured if he didn't die, maybe he was dead now. ”

Dayu said with a smile: "Good job, first give the Shennongzai brothers a credit." Everyone come over, let's discuss how to deal with Mu Swelling next. ”

Boyi said: "Brother Dayu, are we going to transfer all five hundred soldiers to besiege Mu Swelling?"

Dayu said: "Soldiers are mortals who are used to guard against hostile forces, and using soldiers to deal with spirits is undoubtedly sending them to death." Besides, we haven't figured out what kind of monster Mu Swollen is, so it would be too rash to act rashly at the moment. Therefore, let's go to the place where Mu Swelling is hiding first and investigate it for ourselves. The four heavenly generals, Xuan Gong, Huang Ge and all the little brothers, let's go, let's all go to Mu Swelling's hiding place and investigate in person. ”

Tu Jiao heard Dayu tell all the little brothers to go together, so she said: "I won't stay in the big tent, I will also go with everyone to see the excitement." Dayu said: "It's okay, but when the time comes, you have to stand farther away, don't be sprayed with poisonous water by Mu Swelling." ”

The group followed Shennongzi to the mountain. Shennongzi walked ahead with vigor. As he walked, he exaggerated the story of the dagger stabbing and swelling. In the blink of an eye, I came to the place where Mu Swelling was hiding. Shennongzi pointed to a big stone on the ground and said, "I got out of the ground from here after I stabbed Mu Swollen." ”

Dayu looked at the topography of this area, it turned out to be a relatively tall mound, and the place that Shennongzi pointed to was on a gentle slope with mountains and water.

Dayu instructed Shennongzi again: "Brother Shennongzai, I will drive you again, go down and take a look, where is Mu Swelling's body, where is the head, where is the tail, don't alarm Mu Swelling this time." If you find out, you will drill up. ”

Shennongzi agreed: "Obey." Twisted his body and escaped into the ground again.

said that when Shennongzi found Mu Swollen before, Mu Swollen was sleeping. Although Shennongzai's little dagger pierced into Mu's swollen thick skin, because Mu's swollen skin was too thick and too sewn, the dagger had just pierced the skin, and it took a long time before the information reached Mu's swollen brain.

Mu Swollen only felt as if he had been bitten by a mosquito in his sleep, slightly itchy, and slightly painful, so he twisted his huge body, and did not care, and continued to sleep on it, making its sweet dreams.

This time, after Shennongzi escaped into the ground again, he was more careful, he tiptoed close to Mu Swelling, walked from one end to the other, and saw that Mu Swelling was still sleeping there without waking up, so he quickly drilled up from the ground. Report Dayu said: "That Mu Swollen doesn't know whether I was stabbed to death with a dagger, or I didn't wake up from a deep sleep, anyway, I didn't move, here is the end of Mu Swelling, and the place where I walked forward more than 300 steps is the other end of Mu Swelling, and I don't know where it is the head, and I don't know which side is the tail." As he spoke, he walked back and forth.

Dayu took over the two jade jians from Xuangong and Huang Ge, and followed Shennongzi from this end to that end, while walking, he looked underground through the jade jian, and really vaguely saw that the underground is neither a vein nor a foreign body in the dark river, from this end to the other end there are 100 zhang long, there are more than 3 or 5 zhang thick.

At this time, Dayu can make a difficulty, Mu Swollen is hidden in the ground, everyone will not escape, only Shennongzi alone can get into the ground, but Shennongzai himself is not Mu Swollen's opponent, and he can't kill Mu Swollen at all.

The four heavenly generals said: "Although we can't sneak into the ground and bring Mu Swum out, we can dig three feet into the ground and dig Mu Swum out, as long as Mu Swollen comes to the ground, it will be easy to deal with." We dug up from the two ends of Mu Swollen and blocked his two ends to see where it went. ”

Boyi said: "We suffered a loss of swelling that day because it was at night, and there were thunderbolts and lightning in the sky and torrential rain, plus we were unprepared. It's daytime, it's not raining, and we're on guard, so I think it's feasible. ”

Dayu listened to the four heavenly generals and Boyi, all advocating digging three feet into the ground to arrest Mu Swollen. So he clapped the board and said: "Okay, according to the proposition of the four heavenly generals, we will divide into two places, one in the direction of the head and one in the direction of the swollen tail." After digging out Mu Swollen, everyone rushed up, whether it was a gun or a knife, just beckoned to Mu Swollen. ”

The four generals agreed: "Yes", so everyone divided into two places, some used blades as tools, and some used plows to dig, and in a blink of an eye, two deep pits were dug in the ground.