Old dog tell weird stories

catch a scaly fish

About five or six years ago, I still live in Shenzhen, every year in May and June, we have to go to Nanao fishing blowpipe boy.

The squid is the squid boy. Guangdong people call the squid blowing tube, small squid is blowing tube boy.

Every year, from the end of May to the middle of June, after the beginning of summer to the beginning of mango, there will be a lot of squid in some shallow bay streams.

So at that time, everyone would rent a fishing boat, call a few friends and go fishing in the bay streams of Nanao. When the boat's light shone on the water, the blowpipe boys would come in groups, and when the hook was thrown into the water, the bait was not even used, and then it was mentioned, and a blowpipe boy was hung on the hook.

However, be careful when pulling the blowpipe boy, this thing will spray ink, you will be accidentally sprayed all over you, oil stains, like a Mongolian robe.

Fishing to the latter part of the night, the boatman will have those blow tube boy washed clean, steamed, barbecue is suitable for both, then drink some white wine, after a full meal, blowing the strong sea breeze, smoking in the cabin, sea chat, is indeed a rare relaxation.

People who like this kind of life are generally freedom-loving, adventure-loving, and have some life experience, so in fishing, also made a lot of interesting friends, but also heard a lot of strange and bizarre stories.

The story about the water monster was told to me by a friend.

That night, the weather was not good, first it rained, and the wind blew, few people went out to sea. The two of us fished for a while to blow the tube boy, there is no fish hooked, simply let the boatman docked by the reef, where smoking and chatting.

The topic of water monsters came up.

He said he was a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and lived on the edge of Hongze Lake. There are often floods, each time a flood, everyone climbed the trees, to the dike. One year, the flood came especially fast, the dam broke and directly collapsed the house. At that time, an eight-year-old child was still sleeping in bed when he was suddenly thrown into the water. He struggled desperately in the water, looking to be washed down by the waves, when behind him slowly drifted over a piece of wood, he rushed to pick up the wood, riding up.

Strange to say, that the flood erupted, the water has everything, a mass of cauliflower snakes, the corpses of various animals, underwater do not know what things scurrying, turning up huge waves of water.

But whatever it was, it avoided him from afar, as if he was hiding some kind of giant monster there.

The child filled a few mouthfuls of water, and did not think much about it, is dead holding that a large piece of wood, followed the water slowly forward.

Later, walking to a hillside, the big wood underneath but a sudden bounce, he bounced to the hillside.

The child was startled, looking back, the wood before and after hanging two red lanterns, bright and dark, that is not at all what the wood, that is clearly a water monster!

This kind of story, in fact, quite common, I heard at least a dozen, just want to dry laugh a few times, with a little, the man said indifferently: "That was a few decades ago. Back then, that eight-year-old child, that's me."

He said, I don't know if I was blessed by this water monster, I later entered Tsinghua University as the third place in the province, and after graduation, I was assigned to the SASAC. Because of the early understanding of China's policy, so the first batch out to the sea, earned the first bucket of gold, and later in the public-private partnership made a fortune, earned a lot of money.

I have money and time, idle, I began to study the water monster.

I first hired a lot of experts in this area, and spend money to buy information from various sources, and soon obtained a large amount of first-hand information.

I found that there are water monsters in various places in China, such as the Yellow River "Iron Head Dragon King", the Yangtze River "go Jiao", the Changbai Mountain Tianchi water monster, Xinjiang Kanas Lake "Sea King Beast", the Qinghai Lake water monster, etc., are many witnesses, but the state has been destroying evidence, never admit its existence.

The situation I experienced back then, very much like Hubei, Sichuan, the local circulation of the "walking jiao".

Go Jiao is a folk saying, folklore, deep in the old forest lurked a lot of snakes, these snakes cultivated to a certain number of years became Jiao, Jiao similar to the dragon, but no horns, Jiao to cross the Dragon Gate, the head after the birth of the horn, is the dragon.

This dragon generally in the big flood outbreak, will come out of the mountains, while the sky is broken when the floods leap over the last dragon gate, soaring into the dragon, called "go jiao".

I went to Hubei, Sichuan and other places on a field trip, many flood-prone mountain areas, some large old stone bridges, many are inserted upside down with a large knife, knife about Ying feet, the tip of the knife facing down, towards the surface of the water angrily open.

This knife is a statement, specializing in the s*******r of the evil dragon.

The dragon came out of the mountain, is just shed the last layer of snake skin, the last layer of snake skin molted, will result in an overlapping layer of dragon scales, in its dragon scales are still long out, it will be in the floods, flooding houses, overturning boats, the dragon knife is to take advantage of the dragon scales have not yet grown, when it crossed the bridge a knife will be cut off the dragon.

But the dragon is not stupid, it knows that there is a knife under the bridge, so after encountering the bridge, refused to pass from the bridge, the tower body a bend, the bridge hole to block the bridge, the bridge hole can not pass the water, the water soon diffused over the stone bridge, the dragon will pass from the stone bridge. Also because of this habit of the dragon, resulting in many bridges to drain the floodwater is not conducive to flooding hazards more.

This is not a legend, he said.

In 1998, China suffered a 100-year flood, he also organized a strong team has been rushed to Qinzhou, Hubei, to see with their own eyes go auger.

Unexpectedly, he not only saw the walking auger with his own eyes, and even witnessed a horrible catch auger event.

There is a small mountain in Qinzhou, the mountain was flooded half, the mountain from top to bottom cracked a dozens of meters long, more than ten meters wide large c***k. The c***k was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, about a few dozen meters deep, with some wood piled up densely at the bottom, looking like a monster's lair.

The most bizarre thing is that the large c***k is piled with wood, there are dozens of layers, layers and layers, the middle revealed a circular channel, the monster tied with a rope, sliding down the channel, he touched the wood and rocks at the channel, are very smooth, there is a layer of slippery and sticky saliva, fishy and smelly, there is a slightly smaller cave to the right of the nest.

This is the auger cave.

This time the great flood, there really auger into the flood.

After they determined, they set up a special iron boat to go along with the flood, along with the flood, will be able to find out of the world of the dragon.

They passed many stone bridges along the way, many stone bridges collapsed, some intact, the monster went to the stone bridges to see, stone bridges are full of silt, fishy smell, the bridge is dry and clean, it seems that the dragon is from these stone bridges past. The stone bridge could not withstand the weight of the dragon before it collapsed.

After they walked along the flood for a long time, they finally saw the auger, but this auger was captured and taken away.

I was astonished: "Someone else dared to capture it?!"

He nodded and said that after they followed the flood for a long time, they arrived at a large water bay, which used to be supposed to be a large expanse of good land, but now it's all become a lake and a swamp, and this large water bay has a lot of soapbox trees piled up in a certain direction.

The team of knowledgeable people said, can no longer go forward, there are high people in front of the arrest.

He explained that when walking auger, auger most afraid of soapberry trees. Because the soapberry tree more thorns, the dragon just molted, the skin is very tender, if the thorns, the back will not be able to ascend to heaven, will certainly die.

A few people piled up in a large tree, peeking into that, you can hear a whimpering sound from the depths of the water.

Know how to explain, this sound is a simulation of the buffalo call, the dragon most like to eat buffalo, hear it will break through.

Sure enough, the distant water surface turned a huge splash, splash out to reveal a huge whirlpool, that there is something underwater!

Waves swirled away, an object stepped on the waves, a black and brown head in the water when hidden, looks like the size of a buffalo, then like hitting something, low roar up, in the big water whirlpool, obviously very angry.

He was a little nervous, afraid that the auger was trapped.

People who know how to say, it's okay, this auger cultivation for hundreds of years, are going to become a fine, what still do not understand, just turn around and go!

But the head of the auger did not turn around and go, but rather follow the floodwaters continue to go forward, rushing hard into the soap pod circle.

People who know how to do it also wonder: "According to the auger will not rush in. The bottom of the water is covered with cattle urine stained with cow hair rope, tied to all the palm of iron hooks, auger into the iron hooks all into the flesh, the auger even if they have the ability, can not run away!

Experts raised the binoculars to look carefully, and suddenly realized: "No wonder! Look carefully, the auger has a child on its back, it wants to send the child to shore, you have to rush out!"

He picked up the binoculars to see, the augur really carrying a child on his back!

He could not help but remember his own experience back then, his eyes were red, at that time, it was desperate to lead the crowd to save that auger. There was no way out, and finally the people who knew how to knock him out, and carried him back.

This matter, has always let him haunted.

Think about it, in that case, what can catch the auger, what people dare to catch the auger, and is not just money can do?

He said, later, I formed a rescue organization, participated in the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004. That 100-year tsunami, many deep-sea gargoyles washed out of the water, that is the world's research institutions a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The vast majority of ocean gargoyles live in the four to five thousand meters of the trench, where the darkness, human detection ships simply can not reach that depth, the sea monsters can not come up.

So the first ones to rush to Indonesia for relief were actually researchers in chemical suits who arrived there desperately trying to salvage the bodies of deep-sea gargoyles so they could get first-hand information.

It was there that my money came in handy. I had plenty of money, and in a corrupt country like Indonesia, the best way to get started is with money, which works better than the name of the state.

Soon, I rented a full set of military equipment and started salvaging sea monster bodies offshore, and soon gained a lot of first-hand material.

Later, there was a top in the name of the Chinese Academy of Sciences organization wanted to cooperate with me, I also let them come up.

This organization is a god, do everything a serious, and a large number of coded language and code, I also pretend not to know.

There is a young man in the organization, with long hair, very serious, carrying a weirdly shaped sword on his back, which has no scabbard, wrapped tightly in apricot-yellow cloth, never taken out, and never left his body.

This man is very odd, he does not talk to others, does not smile, and does not even eat much.

He just sat on the deck, silently looking at the vast sea, occasionally drinking some wine.

We stayed there for two months, we all got acquainted, before leaving, I bought them a drink, we were slightly drunk, I talked about what happened in '98, they still knew.

They said that they actually did not mean any harm, just wanted to capture the auger, put a monitor on it or something, but the auger was too strong, at the last minute, and finally hit the head on the mountain, the top of the head of a horn to all broken.

He lowered his head and drank hard, he lowered his head and smoked hard, his fingers shook badly, a big cut of ash rustling down.

Later, he asked in a low voice: "Where is the boy?"

The man pointed to the silent teenager on the deck: "That's him."

"The horn on the head of that augur?"

"The one on his back is!"

He raised his head, looked at the boy, and thought he had turned into a dragon.

After telling the story in a hoarse voice, he took a hard drag on his cigarette: "The weather sucks! See you tomorrow!"

Later, I still went fishing in Nan'ao often, but I never saw him again until I left Shenzhen.