Old dog tell weird stories

Snake Wife

I experienced this story firsthand in Northern Thailand three years ago during the Midwinter Festival.

What can I say about the country of Thailand?

In a word, the country is odd.

It is a traditional Buddhist country, but the p*********y industry is legal, on the one hand is the treasure phase of the pagoda temple, on the other side is the light of the pornographic places.

If you want to say that this place is not traditional, it's the hammock on the bank of the Mekong River, the quadrangular electric poles (this is to prevent snakes from climbing up), the busy boatmen, the monks saluting the Buddha everywhere, the modest and polite villagers, the schoolgirls in white dresses.

You have to say that this place is traditional, but this place is very open, as long as the money, everything can be bought, even the wife can be rented. Many foreigners come here, in Pattaya to smoke m*******a, first rent a Thai girl, daytime as a guide, the night as a wife.

In addition, especially to say that Thai women are dark, short and ugly, but the sirens are tall, fair skin, which is the origin of Thailand without beauty.

Thai people believe in Buddha.

Believe in Buddha must believe in ghosts, or how the Buddha to remove demons?

Thailand, this place, ghosts and legends too much, what descend, raising little ghosts, ghost possession, ghosts hit the wall, many people who go to Thailand to travel people were also ghost bed, anyway, is not clean.

But I have to say, not a ghost, but a story of the water monster in the Mekong River.

At that time, I was on a mission in northern Thailand, to stay for three months. That place can not say the name, only that it is a small fortress at the junction of several countries, very barbaric, you have to walk a dozen miles to see a small market, there are some local people carrying wooden pots, which contains white python meat, crocodile meat, the rest, money can not spend.

After staying there for a month, it was boring as hell.

So, I hired a Chinese guide at a high price to take me out for a stroll and have fun.

The guide was slick and almost bored me to death, bragging to me all day long about how high the status of the Chinese, how beautiful the wives he married, and how he wanted to take me to the girls or sirens at all times.

I had no choice but to tell him to shut up and hire me a local to take me fishing in the Mekong River.

The guide left in disgust, not long after, led a young local over, said he was a local fisherman, know the neighborhood like the back of his hand, want to catch anything.

I sarcastically said, "I want to catch piranhas, do you?"

Unexpectedly, the fisherman said respectfully and fluently in Chinese, "Sir, if you want to catch piranhas, you need to walk two days up the mountain."

I was startled and said, "You, you speak Chinese?"

He nodded and said in English again, "Sir, I also speak English."

I was instantly interested in him.

We were in a place that was so barbaric that many locals couldn't even speak Thai, let alone Chinese or English.

I looked him up carefully. He was a typical Thai, dark, not very tall, with a straight back and sincere looking eyes.

After a few simple questions, I learned that this man had studied at the famous Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, and later returned to this small village because of his wife's poor health and the need for constant companionship, and usually lived by fishing and occasionally giving tours.

I was very happy with him, so I paid my chattering guide double the fee for the day and let him go back first, but I didn't expect him to storm out and refuse to leave, and threatened me.

I was already considering whether to call the police, but the young fisherman went over and spoke softly to him in Thai. The guide's face changed instantly and he apologized to us, then he ran away without looking back.

I was a little surprised and asked the fisherman how he got rid of him.

The fisherman laughed and said I told him that today was the Midwinter Festival and we were haunted and he ran away in fear.

I laughed out loud and just took it as a joke.

Later I learned that what he actually told was not a joke.

The fisherman was driving an ancient boat and we drove downstream, fishing at the same time. The Mekong River is fast flowing, the water is as muddy as mud, and the wide river is full of tangled water plants and looks wild and exciting.

The fish here are so good!

The fisherman picked up a stick, pulled a cane from a tree and tied it to the stick, and that was the fishing gear.

Then he caught a worm from the grass, tied to the end of the cane, even without hooks, thrown into the water, and immediately threw up a jumping fish to live!

This almost barbaric fishing method, I was very shocked.

The fisherman introduced to me that this section of the waterway is so dangerous that almost no one dares to travel by boat. According to the Global Wildlife Conservation Society, the Mekong River has the largest number of giant fish species in the world, the Mekong dog-eating giant catfish (this fish loves to eat dog meat), the Siamese giant carp (Cambodia's national fish, the average weight of six hundred pounds), stingrays, giant ancient snake fish, more than five meters long black fish, crocodile sparrow eels (eggs are highly poisonous), and even crocodiles.

Speaking of catching big fish, I came to be interested.

I stayed in Yichang for a while and saw the locals catching big fish in the Yangtze River.

People who have never caught a big fish can't imagine the beauty and power of a big fish.

The old saying, a pound of fish on the water, ten pounds of fish underwater, that is, a one-pound fish, underwater can have the power of ten pounds. So many big fish often have hundreds of pounds, there will be thousands of pounds of power, you use the traditional hemp net, simply can not net it, instantly to the fishing net to earn a rotten.

To catch big fish, you have to use a rolling hook.

Rolling hooks are hand-polished iron hooks, hundreds of hooks, a slip tied to a rope soaked in tung oil, tied to the floating rope, tethered to the lead pendant, let it suspended in the river bottom, a large fish passing, will be hooked by the rolling hooks.

They were hooked a big fish, with four boats to drag the fish, that big fish is one or two feet long, can not see what fish, underwater rampage, knocked over two boats (later died two people, missing a), ripped the rope, and went away.

Later people analyzed that the fish must have thousands of pounds, because they have a number of rolling hooks, the bigger the fish the better to catch, the bigger the fish struggle, the more hooks into the flesh, tossing and turning is not strong. So less than five hundred pounds of fish, absolutely can not run away.

The big fish not only easily run away, but also to turn around and knock over the boat, there are definitely thousands of pounds, suspected of hitting the water dragon king.

The fisherman said: this side of the Mekong River to catch big fish, but also relatively primitive, mainly fishing, catching a small boat with it, often to circle the whole day. If you can't pull up at night, you have to cut the line back, or the big fish will come over at night and overturn the boat and eat people.

I said: so, at night in the Mekong River is not very dangerous?

He nodded: It is indeed so.

I asked: Then do you dare to fish at night?

He nodded: I dare.

I asked: Why?

He said reverently: Because my wife will protect us.

This was the second time he mentioned his wife, and there was not only intimacy in his tone, but also a deep pride.

I nodded, thinking that it was because he loved his wife dearly, but I didn't realize that his wife really had this ability.

The boat flowed slowly down the Mekong River to a bay stream where the river slope eased and a good number of long-legged waterfowl were rivering up the slope, nodding their heads as they walked, and a small beast in the distance, unable to tell if it was a goat or a deer.

The fisherman said, you can go ashore here, rest and eat something, the current below is big, it is not good to stop the boat.

He knew the place well and tied the boat neatly to a tree stump on the shore, then took his hunting knife and led me to the shore to pick fruit.

When I got to the shore, I was shocked: so many fruit trees!

On the bank of the river there were patches of banana trees, a circle of bananas, falling to the bend of the branches, reaching out to be able to reach. There was a thick layer of rotten bananas piled up under the trees, half a meter high.

This guy!

And pineapples!

Pineapples are growing on the ground, like a small mine, yellow-orange, knotted, look distinctly delightful!

There are also mangosteen and durian.

Both of these fruits grow on tall trees, more than ten meters high, and are very difficult to pick.

The fisherman said that the locals have tamed monkeys that climb up the trees to pick the fruits.

Holding a large pile of fruit, we returned with a full load.

The fisherman said he had brought ingredients on board, so we could set up a fire by the river, grill the fish and eat it with the fruit, which was both nutritious and hydrating.

I was a little skeptical and said: I heard the guide say that you can not barbecue on the Mekong River, because many beasts will come to the river to drink water, smell the smell of barbecue will attack people, is that so?

The fisherman said: Actually, it is not true, there are few beasts by the river, and they are afraid of fire. The main reason for not barbecuing at the river is that you are afraid of the crocodiles in the river. The crocodile can lurk around you for hours, like a rotten log, it's hard to find, and when it storms up, even cows can be dragged under the water!

I was shocked and said: Let's barbecue on the river bank.

He laughed and said: It's okay, it's better to be on the river, it's easy to get water, and not easy to catch fire. Don't worry, my wife will protect us!

This is the third time he mentioned his wife.

I felt strange and said: You always say your wife will protect us, so where is she now?

He said: She is at home, of course.

I said: Then how can she protect us?

He smiled: She is there all the time.

I didn't say anything, I just thought of him as an infatuated little boy who offered his wife like a god.

On the way, I talked to him quite a bit and found him to be a very thoughtful man, but also very conservative.

He believes that the problem in Thailand now is cultural chaos, economic chaos and political chaos. The p*********y industry is well developed, men are either monks or sirens, incestuous, the economy relies mainly on tourism, the country has little dignity, and a few tanks driven into the streets can stage a coup.

When the Japanese hit Thailand, the King of Thailand even called on the people not to resist, are going to sit in the monastery chanting, sticking their necks out for the Japanese to kill, and when the Japanese are tired of killing, they will not kill.

But he was also strong enough to believe that family is much more important than career, like him, stay here, it's quite good!

Along the way, we caught a lot of fish.

There were tilapia, crucian carp, catfish, carp, pompano, blackfish, and many other fish that I can't name.

Of course, we didn't catch any piranhas or giant fish. The fisherman said that if we were to catch such fish, we would need to walk downstream along the Mekong River for two days, and there is a big waterfall, which is off the beaten track, where we can catch really big fish.

We were on a traditional Thai longtail boat, so we couldn't go there, but we had to rent a motorboat to get there.

Speaking of which, he hesitated and said: it's better not to go there, it's not very clean ......

I asked him: when you say unclean, you mean haunted?

He said: not only that, there are some very strange things under the water.

I got interested and asked him: Is it a water monster? Yes, is there a water monster in the Mekong River or not?

But he asked me: What do you think?

I said: worldwide, the most likely water monsters, is the sss River in South America, the Nile River in Africa, and our Mekong River. The watershed is wide, the river is deep, the tropical rainforest hot climate, with enough food and space to produce giant water monsters.

He nodded and said I was right, water monsters must be out in the rainforest. He read biology in college, the fundamental biology of evolutionary law, the Mekong River is very suitable for breeding giant monsters, first of all, the tropical rainforest to provide it with endless food, followed by open waters, the water can take up its huge body, in this environment, large fish, crocodiles, pythons, almost unlimited growth, and finally grow into the legendary creatures.

I said: So what's under the big waterfall, are these giant monsters?

He shook his head and folded his arms and said: No, there is the resting place of the naga, can not be disturbed.

I asked: What's a naga? Is it a water monster?

He got serious and said respectfully: She is our god.

I have also heard many legends about Naga in Thailand, which is a snake-like totem. In many temples in Thailand, there are some statues of big Buddhas recovering the eight heavenly dragons. The eight heavenly dragons here, carved in a hideous and terrifying way, with their teeth and claws open and spitting flames, are the Naga.

I asked him: Is Naga something similar to the Chinese dragon?

He nodded and said: In ancient Sanskrit, dragons and snakes are indistinguishable, so Naga is a dragon and a snake.

I said: China is a traditional agricultural country, depending on the sky to eat, hoping that the wind and rain, so the evolution of the totem "dragon" can call the wind and rain, and even the emperor also called himself "dragon son". Why should a traditional Buddhist country like Thailand believe in dragons?

He asked me: Have you ever heard of the Naga fireball?

I asked: Are you talking about the Naga Fireball, one of the top ten unsolved mysteries of all time?

He nodded: Yes.

I expressed doubt: legend, in the Mekong River at the bottom of the river, a fireball will emerge, how is this possible?

He said: this does not say legend, it is true. Every October, on moonless nights, we locals guard the Mekong River and wait for the fireballs to appear in the river.

I said: Is that the methane gas in the river? Because it was so hot, spontaneous combustion occurred.

He shook his head: methane gas is colorless and odorless, this fireball can obviously be seen, it is a light red color. And once the methane leaves the water, it will dissipate, this fireball will leave the water and will continue to rise to the air, and then slowly disappear.

I also found it very strange, asked: then what is this thing?

He hesitated for a moment and said: we locals believe that this fireball is the naga spewing fire.

I laughed.

He said: You are a Chinese, in your culture, the originator of human beings, Fuxi and Nuwa, they started out with the image of a human-faced snake body, is that right?

I nodded: That is indeed true.

He said: It is written in our Buddhism that Guanyin has 32 phases, one of which is Mahoraga (Mahoraga), which is the appearance of a human-headed snake, much like your Fuxi and Nuwa. In ancient Egypt, apart from the sphinx, there were actually quite a few snake-bodied sphinxes. Later I found out that in some places in Africa, there are also a lot of sphinxes with snake body totems. This thing, what do you think?

I said: Does it mean that in ancient times under the labor force, humans had a blind worship of snakes. For example, the venom of the snake can kill people, so that humans think he has a kind of magic, is the prototype of witchcraft.

He shook his head, calmly looked underwater and said: I think, Naga is real. Those fireballs at the bottom of the Mekong River are what they spit out. It is said in Buddhism that Naga can breathe fire, so they are likely to carry fireballs when they breathe.

I laughed: What about any explanation you have for the totem of the sphinx?

He turned around, looked at me, and said seriously: Sir, have you ever considered whether the offspring would be sphinx-like if the naga and human were to unite?

I laughed again.

If the human and snake combination, it can give birth to human-headed snake body offspring, then I'm afraid the world has long since become Azeroth continent.

Don't laugh, there really is such a thing.

There are quite a few.

I used to read an old Tibetan doctor's manuscript. This old Tibetan doctor is very famous, he is mainly responsible for the Zhongnanhai several old people's body conditioning