Every year, as long as it is summer, a group of our friends basically soak in the river outside our village throughout the summer, catch some small fish, shrimp and grill with river mussels to eat.

To say that our river is also very famous is "the upper source of the Prince River", the origin of the Prince River can be traced back to the Warring States Period, the original name of the Prince River is Yanshui, Liang River, Liang Shui, the descendants in order to commemorate the Yan Prince Dan, he has hidden the Yanshui renamed the Prince River, this is the origin of the name of the Prince River.

Prince Dan of Yan, surnamed Ji, named Dan, the son of Yan Wangxi, the prince of Yan at the end of the Warring States Period.

He assassinated Qin Wangzheng to block the annexation of Qin, and once planned Jing Ke to assassinate Qin Wang in 229 BC, Prince Dan sent Jing Ke to assassinate Qin Wang in order to save Yan from danger, but failed.

So Qin sent an army to attack Yan on a large scale, and Wang Jia and Yan jointly resisted Qin, but they were defeated in the west of "Shui", and the capital of Yan was captured.

Yan Wangxi and Prince Dan led the army to retreat to Liaodong, and Qin sent a large army to pursue.

At this time, Prince Dan was hiding in Yanshui, and now the "geographical location" (Prince River) is accumulating forces to prepare for a counterattack.

However, Yan Wangxi was worried that Qin would send troops to attack Yan, so he killed Prince Dan and sacrificed his head to the Qin army for peace.

After the death of Prince Dan, in order to express their nostalgia for Prince Dan, "Yanshui" was called Prince River.

And the upper source of this prince river has the "Tang River", this Tang River in the Qing Dynasty period is a special cow, legend Nurhachi has a dog once saved his life, later the Manchurian people entered the customs, Nurhachi did the Taizu Emperor, the dog also died because of saving Nurhachi, Nurhachi felt the loyalty of the dog and ordered the Manchurian people not to eat dog meat customs.

It is said that the Qing Dynasty Taizu Nurhachi often came to the hot spring temple area to hunt, one of his long-term battlefield, often accompanied by the dog infected with scabies, a hundred doctors ineffective, occasionally run to the hot spring "itching", not a few days to change the skin, suddenly get rid of the disease. Nurhachi Dayue, called this spring "dog soup".

I remember that summer, when I was bathing in the big river outside our village with a few friends, I had forgotten about my "peace charm" and what my uncle told me.

I stripped off my clothes and pants and went into the water, and at that time, I didn't dare to go into too deep water when I could swim, and when I reached the depth of my neck, I began to prick my son and dive.

To say that in our village and even in our part of the place, because of the small Zhang on the edge of the reservoir, there seems to be no water from old to young, and the most of them can splash in the water a few times.

As I swam along, I suddenly found that there seemed to be a big fish swimming in front of me, and I thought to myself that this fish is so beautiful, it would be a pity not to catch it.

I grew up listening to my mom say, "Say what the ghosts in the water will turn into fish and shrimp to lure you", and don't catch them when you see them, because they will lure you into deep water, and then turn into ghosts and drown you alive, so that they can be reincarnated and don't have to soak in the water all the time.

If you want to say that this "stand-in ghost", I heard the old man say that it was three years to arrest a person, so that there would be drowned people in ten miles and eight villages every year.

I was very timid at that time, and I listened to my mother's words, but what the hell did I think I didn't believe it so much, after all, we hadn't seen it with our own eyes!

In addition, I was young at the time, and my "curiosity was very heavy", so I had never seen such a big fish at all, so I thought about it, but it seemed that something was really attracting me, as if it was saying come and catch me.

I hesitated for a long time and called out to a few friends, I said, "Hey! Come and see!" Xiaobei is younger than me, there is a big fish, this Xiaobei is a few years older than me, and he lives next door to my house, because of the special naughty, his academic performance is not good, he has been in the same class as him in a few grades.

At that time, we spent almost the whole day in the water, and when we were hungry, we would catch some fish and dig up some potatoes from other people's fields to eat.

Xiaobei and a few of them didn't know when they had swam across the other side, ready to break some corn to roast and eat, and a few of them didn't seem to hear me clearly when they heard me shouting.

Several of them spread their hands to the side of their mouths, "shouting me like a megaphone", this shouting method is particularly useful in the mountains and can be transmitted to a long distance, just listen to them shout "Come over the light rain, there is a melon and watermelon field here", I also want to go over when I hear the melon and watermelon!

Thinking of the watermelon and melon with the roasted corn, grilled fish, and baked potatoes, the words in my mouth suddenly flowed out, but at that time, it was raining, and the reservoir was also doing flood control and water release, and the water rose when I looked at it.

When the water is not rising, I can barely swim across the opposite side, but when the water rises, the surface of the river is several feet wide.

I really didn't dare to try it, and I saw that the water surface was "more than half a person high when the waves were turbulent", and the water surface had obviously expanded a lot.

I was in the middle of the river, but I couldn't swim forward, and I couldn't see the shore when I looked back, and the water seemed to be flooding my head all at once, and I felt that something was there, as if it was clamping the soles of my feet with pliers or something, and at the same time I was pulling my legs hard, and I screamed!

I panicked, "I suddenly felt as if I had lost a few points", and I didn't know when there was a black shadow in the water, which pulled me and sank into the water.

What is this? Is it really a water ghost?

At this time, the big fish could not be seen, and it struggled and fluttered desperately.

But the more the creep struggled with the thing's surprisingly powerful ego, the more ferocious it tugged at.

I don't know how much old soup I drank from this river water, Xiaobei and they hurriedly came to save me when they saw that it was not good, but the waves were too big for them to swim to my side.

I don't know how long it took to struggle, but in a trance I felt as if something pushed me hard, and suddenly the black shadow that grabbed me on the soles of my feet was gone, and I finally leaked my head out of the water, and it felt so good to breathe in the fresh air.

Hit by the current, "I have a tired body", I want to give up, "but my body is warm and I don't know where the strength comes from", and hurriedly used my "dog planing thirteen style even fluttering belt planing to swim against the rough waves like the opposite shore".

It's not so much swimming over, it's not so much being washed over by the waves.

When I rushed to the shore, I was already far away from Xiaobei and them, Xiaobei and a few of them hurriedly ran over to meet me barefoot early, and when I was almost exhausted on the shore, I had no energy at all, and a few friends hurriedly pulled me ashore.

I lay on the shore for a long, long time, the bud rice I ate that day didn't feel fragrant, the watermelon was not sweet, and the grilled fish had no taste, Xiaobei They saw that I couldn't keep up the spirit and asked me Xiaoyu, what happened to you just now, I said that I just found a big fish in the water and wanted to catch it and was afraid that it would run away, so I called you, but you didn't hear it.

I feel that my feet are caught by something, as if it is a "cricket", this cricket is an underwater animal that lives in fresh water, it is exactly the same as a lobster, roasted and eaten, we have a famous dish here, stewed tofu with crickets, or it may be a clam, and this clam is a river mussel, you must know that our river is rich in products when we were young, fish, shrimp, clams, crickets are everything.

But no one has ever been "caught by a cricket and clam"! Xiaobei, they looked at the soles of my feet, "it seems to be a little greener", and there is nothing wrong, so they persuaded me to say that it's okay, don't think about it, eat it quickly, it's raining heavily, the water is rising, let's go home quickly!

I didn't dare tell them the dark shadow in the water, because even I couldn't believe what I was seeing, so we walked all the way down the river, all the way back to our house.