Chapter 114: Rumors of Mikawa Island
These days, Ren Xiang has made a fuss about avoiding water droplets, which has attracted the wind from all directions, and the lively nature will not be full of outsiders, and all kinds of strange stories and anecdotes of old sesame rotten grains in the local countryside have also been turned out by the locals and said. Among them, there are two of the most widely circulated, one is about the manifestation of the god of the three-pronged estuary, which is also related to avoiding water beads, so it is natural to take it out.
In the old days, Tianjin was still a fishing village, and there was no Tianzi Jindu, and the name was not obvious, but it was a group of poor fishermen who relied on water to draft and gathered together in Guzhai. At that time, the three rivers flowed into the sea, and there was no wharf by the river and sea, so naturally there was no need to build any forts on the river and sea in order to prevent pirates, and naturally there was no Mikawa Island that everyone sees today.
The reason why legends are called legends is that they are anecdotes, which are certainly different from official historical records. Different from the well-known reason for the formation of Sanhe Island, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the Japanese from building a fort fortress on the left bank of the Ji Canal, and then because of the widening of the Ji Canal, and want to retain the historical monuments of this fort fortress, so it had to dig up the connection between the foundation of the Beiying Fort and the land, so that an island surrounded by water was formed in the middle of the river, that is, today's Sanhe Island.
The legendary island of Mikawa was not formed in this way, and was related to a river god.
The river god or something, it has been widely spread since ancient times. Different from the land of the mountain gods, most of the fish, beasts, and spirits in the rivers have achieved successful cultivation, dominating the waters of one side, and there are good and evil. Regardless of whether it is good or evil, this kind of creature wants to transcend the avenue of proof, but it has to take the same road, that is, the common saying that the fish jumps over the dragon gate, goes out of the river and enters the sea, transcends the mundane, and transforms into a form, although it may not be able to cultivate into a dragon Jiao body, but it is an indispensable level for cultivation to go further.
This catastrophe is also weird, during the tribulation, that is, out of the river into the customs, fish and beasts and monsters are all lost, almost the same as ordinary beasts, a little careless, just in response to the old saying, the tiger fell in Pingyang was bullied by dogs, and the dragon swam shallow water was shrimp played, and suffered a catastrophe.
This catastrophe can be said to be the most difficult catastrophe in the life of the river god spirit, and it is very unentangled. However, the way of heaven shows the cycle of heavenly principles, and all things have their own rules, no matter whether the creatures of heaven and earth can understand the truth or not, they all follow the law.
In fact, not only this kind of spirit is unlucky to have such a funny calamity, but human cultivators who have cultivated to a certain stage also have the theory of the three decays of heaven and man, and they may be killed by opponents with lower cultivation than themselves.
But the way of heaven is like this, what can be helped.
The path of cultivation is not only to follow the path of heaven, but it is also to go against the situation, and if a person cultivates to achieve the Tao, he will naturally occupy more resources and deprive other living beings of the opportunity to survive, and some calamities are also normal.
One night, a big yellow croaker that has been cultivated for thousands of years gave a dream to the fishermen living in Guzhai, saying that he would borrow the road to enter the sea at dusk tomorrow, and asked the fishermen not to go down to the river to catch fish at that time.
Although the yellow croaker essence is close to cultivation, it still has the majesty of being a spirit, and it can command those fish and shrimp in the river that have not opened their spiritual wisdom to gather at the mouth of the three rivers. The fishermen went down to the river the next morning to pounce on the fish, and sure enough, they had a big catch.
It is also blamed that the yellow croaker essence is too careful, does not understand the world, if it quietly goes out of the river into the sea to experience the catastrophe, although there is a possibility of robbery, but there is also a great possibility of success.
This is good, it can be said that it is a move of success and a move of defeat.
With the simplicity of the common people at that time and the awe of the mountain spirits and sea monsters, it was just a dream to say that it was okay to borrow the way, and the big guy was afraid, anyway, if he didn't fight the fish for a day, he wouldn't starve to death, it was not a big deal, who would dare to risk offending the gods and monsters to go down to the river to fight the fish, and he would die if he wanted to eat.
But it wants to give benefits to the fishermen, and it wants to do so, which is affectionate, righteous, and bright. But the fishermen who have benefited will not think so. At that time, the fishing tools were simple, the quality was poor, the fishing nets must not be woven with high-strength and tough fibers, and the fishermen wanted to eat a long-term meal by the water, so they needed to maintain the fishing nets from time to time, and they could fish for three days and dry the nets for two days, and the fishing nets at hand were the best. That's it, if you want to get a harvest every time you go down to the river to catch a fish, it depends on luck.
That is, fishermen have a hard time. It was a good morning, and everyone went down the net and easily caught a catch that they usually can't imagine.
Capital is a good one, exhausting the vicissitudes of the world and the ruthlessness of people's hearts. To put it this way: as soon as there is a proper profit, the capitalist will be bold. With 50 percent of the profits, it will take risks; for the sake of 100 percent of the profits, it will dare to trample on all human laws; and with 300 percent of the profits, it will dare to commit any crime and even risk being hanged.
Not only capitalists, this principle is also valid in any corner of the world.
Fishermen easily pounced on the catch that they usually can't catch, under the temptation of such a big profit, coupled with the hardships of ordinary fishing, there is nothing to dare to do and dare not think about.
So everyone thought, if they can catch the yellow croaker essence, then they can catch as many fish as they want in the future.
In the old days, everyone would deliberately enlarge the fishing net, intending to only hit the big fish, and the small ones would continue to be stocked, and the follow-up would continue. Unlike now, fishing not only nets, but also the mesh of the fishing net is called a small one, but also electric fluttering and explosives, which are all methods of extermination. Speaking of using crooked brains, the ancients are not weak to modern people, there are no current conditions, but there are also poor tricks, and they thought of a way to roll the hook at the moment. It is to tie a hook to the hammer line at the bottom of the net.
In this way, once the big fish touches the fishing net, the hammer line will all gather under the pull, and the octopus will wrap the fish like an octopus, and then the hook will all be pierced into the meat, and the fish will still have the possibility of escaping.
The yellow croaker essence was robbed like this, and by the time the fishermen pulled it ashore, it had already lost its breath.
The fishermen found a fist-sized fluorescent pearl in the stomach of the yellow croaker, a peerless pearl, a water-repellent bead.
In fact, this bead is also the inner pill that has been cultivated after the cultivation of fish and beast spirits, which is the treasure of a lifetime of essence, except for a few species, the inner pill of other spirits will not have the ability to clear water. The water beads are generally different from the inner beads.
Although the fishermen did not catch live yellow croaker essence, they rejoiced when they harvested the pearls of immeasurable value.
But this joy comes and goes quickly.
Yellow croaker has been cultivating for thousands of years, pitiful and robbed, irreversible in the process of transformation through tribulation, and all the supernatural powers are lost and died in Xiaoxiao, which is called a grievance. But at this moment, he was already dead, and his transformation failed, and his supernatural powers recovered a little.
The yellow fish carefully called a hate, it was simply an endless hate, and the remnant soul rushed into the mouth of the three rivers with boundless resentment. Suddenly, the wind was fierce, the black clouds overwhelmed the city, the electric tongue in the sky danced wildly, and the thunder rolled, and everything was terrifying. The pouring rain fell, and the sky and the earth were white and devastating. The big waves on the river surface are empty, the white waves are like mountains, the river is agitated, the waves are ups and downs, and there is the power of the sky falling and the earth sinking.
In the boundless majesty, if the ghost cries and howls, all things are at a loss, and they are sorrowful and frightened.
At this time, the fishermen also knew that they had caused a catastrophe, and they had forgotten the danger by thinking about the benefits before, and they had blinded their minds, but at this time it was useless to regret it.
After three days of pouring rain and howling, the clouds dispersed, and then the fishermen found that there was a huge whirlpool in the center of the island, and it was so turbulent that something was caught in it, and it was immediately torn to pieces.
The fishermen of Guzhai are now blind, such a big whirlpool in the middle of the river is extremely dangerous, and the river is more turbulent than before, which is not conducive to fishing, which is simply cutting off the way of life for fishermen in this area.
At that time, people were very local feelings, not like now, there was no way to mix here, buy a ticket and take a car to go elsewhere, the same mixed food, it can be said that there is no living master here, there is a living master.
Run, run, run out to have a way. But at that time, people were not so chic, and they would rather die than leave their hometown.
Everyone also knows that this is the yellow croaker spirit resenting everyone for cutting off its way of life and taking revenge on everyone, but what is it?
The days of the big guy are getting worse and worse day by day, and they can't live anymore, and then under the guidance of a passing wandering magician, everyone built a temple with the spine of yellow croaker essence as the beam and rib for the purlin. To say that this yellow croaker is also big.
Everyone sacrifices and prays every day to atone for their sins, not to mention, after every sincere worship, they can catch enough fish to survive for a day. I don't know how, it was said that the Huang Niangniang Temple was effective, which attracted people from all over the country to come to worship.
After several years, the yellow croaker essence was worshiped by everyone, and the faith was added, and the yin spirit became a god, but it should be a blessing in disguise. So the whirlpool in the middle of the three estuaries disappeared by itself, and the yellow croaker spirit also knew what was good or bad, and in order to reward everyone, a small island was raised in the original position for the fishermen to return from fishing to rest.
This is one piece, and another widely circulated story is about the family of a man surnamed Hong on Wanyuan Street in the west of the city.
This family was originally a wealthy local family, and it was passed on to this generation of brothers, but in order to compete for family property, they fell into disarray. There are certainly many reasons for the fall, but among them, it is worth mentioning a stone, a strange stone.
Hongjiamenting covers a vast area, stretching over 100 acres, and this place is big, so it is natural to change the tricks to clean up in a beautiful and beautiful direction. The northwest corner of the courtyard originally had a small pond, some lotus flowers were planted in it, some swimming fish were stocked, the shore was planted with weeping willows and mulberry elms, in the summer heat, the top of the head was thick and lush, the blue lotus was graceful and graceful in the near place, the pink lotus was shy and pretty, the breeze blew, the light fragrance entered the nose, as if the distant faint singing voice was transmitted softly, not to mention the freehand, this refreshing alone made people want to moan comfortably.
This pond is also rare, no flowing water and not rotten, no matter the weather is dry and rainy, the water of the pond is clear and cold all the year round, but the fly in the ointment is that this pond is not big, the pond water is not deep enough, at a glance, you can see the silt at the bottom of the pond.