Old dog tell weird stories

giant turtle

Or the story of Fatty.

This story is about a large turtle shell.

This is not an ordinary turtle shell, is a large white turtle, a small half room so big, carved with odd symbols, the edge of the shell locked with a large copper chain, turtle nail feel very smooth, heavy, like a very textured ancient jade.

It is said that a large tortoise shell, although very large, there are also oracle bone inscriptions on it, it is not very rare. The reason for speaking about it is because it involves a secret matter, that is: long life.

Longevity, this is the ancient people, especially the emperor has been struggling to pursue things, although there is no trace, but there are traces, this trace, on this large turtle shell.

It was Fatty's tenth year as an antique dealer in Panjiayuan. After so many years of hard work, especially with the blessing of the Kunlun corpse, he finally had some accumulation and took a*****e in Panjiayuan, so he didn't need to work so hard.

With money and insight, he also began to collect some strange and bizarre things, like what the fossilized conch, Gabala Tantric apparatus, Zhenhe's copper rhinoceros, etc. This big white turtle shell, is what he collected at this time.

He said, this thing called soft-shelled turtle, is the world's largest turtle, can live for thousands of years, is the national protection of animals.

In ancient times, the dignitaries liked to keep this thing, "Dream of the Red Chamber" Jia House kept one, kept in the pool. Ancient books say it, "small like a seat, large also into a mountain, overturning clouds and rain, can do anything." In "Journey to the West", it was the giant softshell turtle that carried the Tang monk and his disciples across the river.

At present, Suzhou West Garden Temple still has two giant softshell turtle, a large and a small, was released during the Ming Dynasty, still alive, as big as a desktop, almost living for more than 500 years. Of course, those two than his large turtle shell, or much smaller.

I asked him, of course, the origin of this large white turtle shell, asking him why the shell is white, and what those oracle bone inscriptions mean?

He said that it came from Taihu Lake in Wuxi. There is a small island in Taihu Lake, called Soft-shelled Turtle, which means that in ancient times there were many giant soft-shelled turtles in Taihu Lake, but then gradually disappeared.

At that time, one of his fellows passing through Wuxi, found a villager on the edge of the Taihu Lake support a wooden frame, tied a giant white turtle, the following pile of dry wood, straw and other things to burn it.

The fellow saw the white turtle is very large, and the body is carved with words, know that it is not ordinary products, rushed to stop, ask what is going on?

Villagers said that they burned the giant turtle is also no way. Because this giant turtle has become a spirit, always harming people, if it does not die, I'm afraid the whole village will be suffering.

Villagers said that in recent years, their village out of the evil, always strange and strange death. And the death also looks odd, either in bed drowned by water, is scared to death alive, and every year there are a few, this is not out of the evil is what?

And just a few days ago, there is a seven-year-old child sleep well at home at night, suddenly disappeared, it is estimated that the demon was caught to go!

Later, they raised money to hire a master to catch the demon. The master took the compass to calculate, said the monster must come from the water, and then walked around the village, came to a pool of water, said the monster must be hiding in the pool.

The pool was originally connected to Taihu Lake, we also built a dam to separate it from the lake, and then got a few diesel engines, began to pump water down day and night.

Strange to say, the more the water is pumped, the pool of water but the more full, and later, even from the pool to spurt water, the water did not pass the river bank, to flood the village.

The master panicked and said, "Stop pumping, stop pumping! It is estimated that the pool is connected to Taihu Lake underneath! If you keep pumping, the Dragon King will get angry and flood the whole village!

The villagers listened, and hurriedly stopped the pumping machine, which is strange, the pumping machine stopped, the well to the outward spray of water also slowly stopped.

The master said, but also thank the Dragon King grandfather grace, hurry to kowtow, kowtow!

The villagers are confused to the ancient well kowtowing, kowtowing, the ancient well came out of a tank-sized white turtle, carrying the body of a child. We went up to take a look, it was the child who fell into the well a few days ago!

Our village chief was dumbfounded, asked the master: Great Daxian, you give us to calculate, this white Wangba in the end is bad luck?

The master of the fingers, said, the white turtle is a hundred years of the fierce thing, ambushed in the lake for thousands of years, has cultivated into a fine! These years, your village happened, all because of it, this evil thing if not removed, I'm afraid that the village sooner or later will not be safe!

That's why the village chief called the village people, the big white turtle on the edge of the lake, intended to burn it to death, to end future problems.

But it is strange, they have lit the fire several times, the Chai River like the water is wet, how can not be lit. Even if the point to find, it is also a moment to extinguish, it is estimated that you have to pour some gasoline to do!

The fellow heard him say so, rushed to persuade him, saying that the thousand-year-old tortoise, the tortoise, which has grown so large, it is estimated that there has long been a spirit! And the giant tortoise are the son of the Dragon King, they openly kill the tortoise in Taihu Lake, I'm afraid it is to evil the Dragon King, perhaps to send a flood to destroy your village!

Those villagers old fire, in fact, also fear, someone said, the white turtle is indeed carrying the body of the child up, but it does not mean that the child is it killed. Maybe it saw the child drowned in a pool of water, kindly carry the body on it!

Buddy looked at the momentum is good, banging the side drum, said he was a foreign hand herbs, see that the shell of the big white turtle is just the right medicine, want to take it away, to Beijing to do medicinal materials, so that this evil can no longer harm the village!

That Daxian repeatedly ignited the fire, seeing the villagers to bounce, also hurried to do the smooth push, said, God's will ah, God's will ah! I just calculated that the demon does not change to meet live and die, but far away, it seems, is the fate of this master!

The villagers heard him say so, thank you very much, not only a son did not want, but also set the car to send him to the station!

It's a pity that the big white turtle left Taihu Lake on the offensive, has not eaten or drunk, bleeding eyes and died.

I also lamented, saying that this thing is simply a living relic ah, if it is still alive it would be good, can be donated to the North Sea Park, later boating can also look at it!

Fatty also lamented that this is life, but the giant softshell turtle lived for so long, it should also be the fate of their own unwillingness to live, otherwise it is this head, if the struggle back to Taihu Lake, who can stop it?

I asked him, then what does the writing on its back mean in the end?

Fatty said, after the death of the turtle, he took the turtle to the Fayuan Temple to ask the old monk to look at it, did a puja, and then buried the turtle meat, leaving a large turtle shell.

He also invited many experts to see, but no one could see. Many experts shook their heads, saying that although most of the oracle bone inscriptions left in the Shang Dynasty, but not unique to the Shang Dynasty, can be said to have existed long before the Shang Dynasty, initially as a divination results recorded, so arcane and bizarre, and not so easy to decipher.

Later, a long time ago, the golden pot of old-timer also came over, carefully looked at the turtle shell, only to say some doorway.

Although the senior generation is very high, but is not popular, he is a partial business start.

He made his fortune by picking up human bones in the suburbs of the capital, using human leg bones polished into chopsticks, disguised as ivory chopsticks to sell!

The ivory was yellowish, but the chopsticks made from human bones were so strong and white that they looked better than real ivory chopsticks, and they sold better than ivory chopsticks, and now many big families use human bone chopsticks!

Later, after the Mawangdui Han tomb fire, he went to smuggle dried corpses, sold exclusively to Europe and the United States; also to the South Pacific to sell compulsions, to the sorcerer to provide stillborn children, anyway, what money to do what, so fat also very disgraceful.

But the old man does know a lot about these evil things, and he said out the origin of this white turtle shell.

He said that, according to legend, after the reign of Qin Shi Huang, a fisherman in the East China Sea found a small mountain of white turtle shells on the beach. The white turtle shell is not only huge, the turtle shell also carved a lot of ghost painting talisman, very strange.

The fisherman did not dare to hide it, and hurriedly tributed it to Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang took down the writing on the turtle shell and asked the court to decipher it, and finally found a foreign scholar called Cao Wen Gong, who was used to deciphering these strange words. Qin Shi Huang another he led hundreds of Confucian students to study, after he studied for several months, finally came up with a topography. After reading the topography, Qin Shi Huang was astonished, in order to keep the secret, he did not hesitate to kill the Cao Wen Gong along with hundreds of Confucian students, and afraid of Confucian secret will write down the matter, and even ordered the burning of the world's books. This is the truth of the legendary Qin Shi Huang burned books and Confucianism.

Fatty, of course, to ask him, that the white turtle shell is written in the end what word it?

The old guy said two words indifferently: become immortal.

He said that the topography of a dynasty recorded in the ancient times, the founder of this dynasty is called Fuxi, lived a total of 10,000 and 8,000 years. This huge white softshell turtle, it is Fuxi hand-fed. After the death of the white softshell turtle, Fuxi had the history of the dynasty carved on the turtle, is the text.

Fatty realized that this Fuxi lived 10,000 and 8,000 years, no wonder Qin Shi Huang believed in the East China Sea will have immortality medicine, but also go to great lengths to send people to find it!

Fatty asked him again: what is this white softshell carved on my armor?

The old man shook his head, said it would not know, after all, no one understands these words anymore.

Before leaving, he proposed that he wanted to top some of the turtle shell on the text, if you meet a destiny, it is not possible to c***k. Fatty also left a heart, only let him top half, said if he deciphered the half, come to him to get the other half.

Fatty lamented that it has been seven or eight years, the old man has not yet come, should not be successful in deciphering it!