Old dog tell weird stories

Yellow River keel

About the Yellow River of various weird stories, I think we have heard, what the Yellow River water ghosts, the Yellow River ghost coffin, the Yellow River iron rhinoceros, crystal coffin, etc., some true, some false, anyway, a thousand strange, say what have.

I want to tell this time, is about the Yellow River "digging river" story.

This is an old Yellow River people to tell me.

At that time, I was doing a cultural survey in Kaifeng during the Song Dynasty, and I was tired of eating fried fish baked noodles, set of four treasures, fried mackerel head and tail, and steamed mackerel tripe, so I walked along the Bianhe River and found a random restaurant by the river for drinking.

There was an old man in the restaurant, his face was red and he wanted to drink more, but he didn't have any money left, so he was joking with the guys. I saw him talking funny, so I asked him to drink, until the evening, the old man embarrassed, told me this story.

The old man is the old Yellow River people, a lifetime of work in the Yellow River Commission, talking about the Yellow River, he also lamented, the Yellow River, of course, there are many strange and bizarre events, but most of all, he felt rare, or when he presided over the digging of the river, experienced a dragon bone incident.

He was in a trance, saying that the Yangtze River, the Yellow River is China's dragon veins, but no one has ever seen, but that time, he really saw a dragon bone locked in the bottom of the Yellow River, only to feel that the Yellow River really incredible.

He said, the Yellow River west from the Bayan Khara Mountains in Qinghai, out of Qinghai, in the Loess Plateau wrapped in a large amount of sediment, these sediments precipitated to the lower reaches of the Yellow River, some riverbed than the city walls, it became a hanging river, very very dangerous. So in the dry period of the Yellow River every year, it is necessary to organize local villagers to clear the dredging, commonly known as "digging river".

The Yellow River is a nine-year disaster, and has flooded many fields, animals, tombs and even entire ancient cities, so every time they dredge, they encounter many incredible things.

The place they went that time was called Mi, an ancient place name.

This is an ancient village, right by the ancient road of the Yellow River, this kind of place more sand, salt, flooding, depression, a year can not harvest a season of food, before liberation often the whole village out to flee.

They dug a half-meter-deep pit in the highlands of the river bank, which was covered with straw, a tripod, reed mats and linoleum, and a dim horse lamp, which was a communal shelter, and ate water from the brush pot, and the meal was "golden tower".

What is this "golden tower"?

The old man said, is the corn cob peeled out, the flesh inside ground into flour, with that steamed nest. The taste, bitter and astringent, and sometimes mixed with sweet potato leaves, swallowed all pull throat.

The good thing is that this section of the river is not long, digging for two weeks, only the last section of the river left standing water. The pool of water looks not much, but we used the washbasin to splash half a day, still not clean, and the river water is very strange, cold and biting, almost as if into the ice hole. A lot of people have been muttering, said the ancient road under the fear of the eye of the sea, do not dare to get.

No way, we urgently transferred a few pumps, pumping a whole day and night, to pump clean water.

After draining the water, the river only a small puddle, the puddle has a lot of big fish, in the water straight fluttering, we are hungry skin and bones, have been banging gongs and drums to catch fish, the results of catching fish shouted: no, the fish eye is red!

I also went over and found that the fish was a foot long, snow-white, like catfish without scales, and the eyes were really red, like rabbit eyes.

Later, my old leader (later promoted to a minister) told me that the fish was not the Yellow River, like the deep-sea sea fish. Many fish in the deep sea, have never seen the sun in their lives, the body is white, the eyes are red.

Of course, he said, a lot of very deep in the big grotto of fish, never seen the sun in their lives, the eyes may also be red.

Then he asked us to look around carefully to see if there are caves or something.

After looking carefully, he found a c***k in the deep pit, seeping water outward, he had someone use a pickaxe to shave a few times, a large area of mud sunken, revealing a huge mud hole.

That mud hole is very large, can simply run away from the train, inside I do not know how deep, looks eerie, fishy, and constantly flowing outward cold water, it seems that the fish should be flowing from this deep hole.

I think this hole is too odd, the Yellow River Road has been millions of years, the bottom of an ancient cave is sealed, it may be the nest of some fierce beast, or not move for the better, but the old leader went to disagree, but let people get a torch, he wants to personally explore the hole!

I had no choice, I also had to dare to follow him in.

The cave is almost half a room as big, the mouth of the cave is round, open downward, outward seeping eerie cold wind, very deep, can only let the villagers use baskets to hang us down.

The cave smelled fishy, the further down the more unpleasant, so I almost had to close my breath. Almost into a dozen meters deep, found that the further down the larger, to the bottom, has been more open.

At first, I was afraid that there was water below, with a torch to shine, only to find that there were many small holes leading to the bottom, the water flowed away along the small holes.

Look around, the hole scattered a few large bones, looks like cattle bones, and then walk forward, the ground is a layer of large and small bones, I looked at the heart jumping.

At this point, the old leader called me: "Little White!"

Turn around, I was so scared that I almost collapsed on the ground, because not far ahead, there was a pile of skeletons piled up like a small mountain, all human bones, shining with a torch, the mountain of bones in the gold flash, looks like people wearing gold and silver jewelry before they were born.

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That mountain of white bones ghastly, so that my body sweat hairs are erected, I thought the old leader said so, but he said in a muffled voice: Xiao Bai, you look down!"

Squat down and look carefully, the skeletal pile of bones under the really hidden a huge iron chain, about wrist thick, all the way to the depths of the ground, I do not know how long.

The old leader looked straight at the chain and said, "Pull it off!"

I thought he was crazy, such a wrist-thick iron chain, do not know exactly where it leads, pull it open?

But before I could say it, he had already squatted on the ground, towards the chain, although I reluctantly, kept counting him, but still made the best effort, it was difficult to tug a few points, tired and collapsed on the ground.

The old leader seems to have hit the evil, he sought a human leg bone, made a crowbar, the big thick chain wrapped up in a circle, you can hear a clattering sound of gears, the ground unexpectedly revealed a deep hole.

The deep cave cold, gusts of wind, as if a bottomless abyss, blowing my torch are dimmed a few points, I think this ancient cave more and more mysterious, could it be that this is the real Yellow River ancient cave?

The old leader shook his head and said that this should be an ancient tomb.

This tomb does not know how many years sunk in the water, the chamber were washed away by the water, which is full of mud, I and monkey trapped in the mud, walk a step are old effort, and finally saw a white jade coffin across the chamber.

The jade coffin material is very good, almost transparent, you can vaguely see what is lying inside. Monkey and I lifted a few sarcophagus cover, how can not lift, I was angry and annoyed, simply a cross-hearted, looking for a large stone, knock knock knock a few times will smash the coffin cover.

Poor that a good jade coffin lid, I thumped a few smashed a broken, jade coffin can not stop dripping water out, I was afraid that the coffin will not suddenly pop out a dead man looking for me to settle accounts, and then see nothing moving, gritted his teeth, with a torch to shine inside, see the sarcophagus in some snow-white shiny fish and shrimp jumping there, surprisingly not yet dead.

I was dumbfounded, the jade coffin is not even people!

And to the front of a closer look, found the coffin n***d, indeed, nothing, only pressed a large turtle the size of a manhole cover. Strange to say, the turtle shell is generally black and brown, this one is pure white, like jade carved into a fake turtle. Monkey and I was curious, even if pulled out what burial goods, but also to surrender, then saw the jade coffin lying in a large white turtle, but also found it interesting, will get it out, found that this is actually a white turtle shell.

The old leader knocked on the base with a bone, saying that the sound is not right, two people work together to move the coffin, and indeed that the following revealed a large dark hole.

I used the torch to the bottom of a light, to see clearly what is inside, could not help but shout.

The big hole underneath, sitting squarely on the end of a person.

Said big hole, in fact, only the size of a room, in the middle of the hole on a black stone, someone draped in a black animal skin, sitting there cross-legged, as if asleep.

A closer look, found that the person's flesh is dry, tight to the bone, is indeed a dry corpse. The dry corpse's two hands were in an odd position, as if holding something in both hands, to offer it to someone.

His hands were shriveled like chicken claws, but the nails were as long as the palm of his hand, crystal clear in the firelight, like jade.

I always felt that this corpse strange, and can not say where the strange, think for a while, the heart thump: this corpse is not right, he died so long, how the nails are still crystal clear? Does it mean that after his death, the nails have been growing?

I shone the torch again, only to find that not only the nails, the man's hair has also been growing, a thick layer on the ground.

I thought he was wearing some kind of animal skin, but no, he was wrapped in his own hair!

I was already very scared, because I think the man's posture, a bit like worshipping Buddha.

The old leader nodded and used the torch to shine in the direction of the man worshipping Buddha, not long, and stood still.

In that moment, my blood seemed to freeze, mouth wide open, for a while can not close.

After an unknown period of time, I stumbled out a word, and only one word: "Dragon ...... Dragon ...... Dragon ......"

In the place where the weird dry corpse's hands were offered, above the huge ancient tomb, hung several thick chains, chains firmly tied to the four pillars at the corners of the tomb, in the very middle hung up a huge creature.

That huge creature, is the dragon.

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The dragon was as thick as a train, with a head and a tail, the dragon's head was as big as a horse, showing a school of teeth more than half a meter long, with a hideous face, teeth and claws, not as majestic as the dragon on the yearbook, the calf-thick chain firmly hooped in the dragon's head, body, tail, claws, the whole dragon was firmly fixed in mid-air, as if looking down on all beings, ready to break the sky.

In that moment, I finally understood why the Chinese worship the dragon, the dragon sacrifice, that dragon although dead for an unknown number of years, the dragon bones were also firmly sealed with chains, but the death of the reverse dragon years, the dragon did not dare, the dragon's domineering, majestic, will be firmly suppressed us, not even dare to move a little.

After a long time, we slowly slowed down, no one dared to make a move, respectfully gave it three kowtows, and then retreated.

After that, none of us mentioned this matter again.

However, in the days of digging the river, the old leader often disappeared, and I do not know if it went there again, anyway, he spent his life to keep this matter quiet, death did not dare to say out.

Later, his old leader's official fortune, was soon promoted up, and finally has been to a minister, became a famous figure. He, on the Bianhe side of this bumbling, but a lifetime of worry-free food and clothing, several times a certain death situation, have magically avoided.

The old man squinted his eyes and lamented: "This is life! What is yours, is yours, not yours, you can not catch!"

I think, however, this may be related to his old leader missing a few days, and with the dragon.

Of course, if this old man was also brave, also to pay homage to worship the real dragon, is not the result is also different?

However, in that case, I could not have heard the story.

This may be the fate of the underworld, its own!