Old dog tell weird stories

At the end of the 90s, I went to Beijing from Xuzhou and changed trains in Sanmenxia, where I stayed for half a day and heard one of the most true stories about the Yellow River water monster. Sanmenxia is a famous dangerous beach in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, with heavy water and turbid waves, the water was muddy, no different from the yellow mud. I was bored, walking alone along the river embankment, the Yellow River turned a few bends, the water is slowing down, in front of a bay stream, slanted with a hug thick old willow tree, the old tree hung a three-foot-long apricot yellow flag, unfolded in the wind, the big book: "Yellow River carp, sorghum old wine". In this old willow tree, sitting under an old river worker, in that mending the rags general fishing nets. Hot sun like fire, the old willow tree is a cool breeze, but also set a rough wooden table, a wine jug, a plate of cooked beef. This is very old-fashioned, also in response to the scene, I will sit down at this small table, want a plate of cucumber, beef, a large carp, drink a sea bowl of sorghum wine, also listen to the old river workers told a story about the Yellow River water monster. The old man is 70, 80 years old, a look at the old Yellow River people. Old Yellow River people have a characteristic, hair are yellow color, can not wash off. The old man had experienced the Yellow River events, large and small, he sat down on the ground while weaving nets, while telling me about the Yellow River tragedy that I personally experienced. In '38, the Japanese occupied Kaifeng, Henan Province, and forced Zhengzhou. In order to stop the Japanese, Chiang Kai-shek blew up the Yellow River embankment at Huankou in Zhengzhou, flooding 44 counties in Henan, Anhui and Suzhou provinces and killing 800,000 to 900,000 people. The old man witnessed the catastrophe back then. He said that before the dike bombing, there were many strange things, toads lying in the old willow tree slightly, bats came out during the day to fly around, groups of snakes ambushed on the road, wagons ran over are not fleeing. Later, when the dike bombing, a few times in a row with dynamite, did not blow up. Every time you blow up, the Yellow River will automatically turn up the silt at the bottom of the river to plug the gap, a few times in a row are unsuccessful. And blow up the embankment when the river water flowing out, not muddy yellow, but like thick blood. There are a lot of people on the Yellow River petition, said the Yellow River dike bombing, the sky is angry, people are unacceptable, are kowtowing to the Yellow River dike, the result of talking, the river dike suddenly broke itself. The water rushed over and swept the people away at once. He was swept away by the Yellow River for several miles, and then easily climbed up an old tree to escape with his life. Later in the old tree stayed for a few days and nights, peel the bark, eat worms, with the bark of the tree to tie themselves firmly to the tree, before they did not fall into the water to feed the king. The Yellow River broke the third day, the water monster showed up. He said, at that time he was hungry and drowsy, heard the river water gurgling, half of the Yellow River water like a pot, bubbling up, and then saw the bottom of the water to reveal a few tank so big head. The head is as big as a horse's head, black, can not see clearly. Its eyes were red, like hanging two red lanterns, red. The thing's body was all under the water, I don't know how big it was, but it was definitely big. It went all the way down the water on the surface, its body hitting the trees, so many trees were stopped and broken, and many old houses that were flooded followed by the collapse of the water. It just went all the way downstream, and finally went to nowhere. I was more interested in this water monster, invited him over for a drink and asked him to tell me more about it. He ate a knife fish, took a sip of wine, squinted his eyes and recalled that the thing looked a bit like a doughnut fish (old turtle), but how could this doughnut fish be so big? He gestured, when the water flooded the house to the roof, it could collapse the house under the water, how big was the guy? He told me with conviction, the old Yellow River, called this thing for the Iron Head Dragon King, is the river god, the real body of the Yellow River King. Next, he told me many stories of the Yellow River Dragon King, are very interesting. Unfortunately, I drank too much wine, dizzy, mostly forgotten, only remembered this story about the Yellow River water monster. Although I do not know whether what this old river worker said is true or not, but that Yellow River carp with sorghum wine does taste very good ......