Old dog tell weird stories

clam beads

This story happened in Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province.

Many people may have only heard of "Gaoyou duck eggs", but in fact this is an ancient city with many ancient ruins, such as the ancient Grand Canal, the ancient Yu Cheng stage.

However, our story today is not about the ruins, but about the treasure pearl.

To be precise, this is an old mussel that has become a fine, breeding pearl, a fist-sized night pearl.

This giant mussel has lived for at least a thousand years.

Because it is more personality, often in the obscure night out, the mussel shell open a slit, the light is shining, many famous figures in history have recorded, but also specifically selected some days to raft the lake, enjoy the giant mussel open light.

Song Dynasty very strict scholar Shen Kuo, in the masterpiece "Mengxi pen-talk" so recorded: Jiayou years, Yangzhou, there is a treasure beads, often in the rainy days, at the beginning in Tianchang County Pei Ze Lake, later went to the tile she Lake, and finally went to the new open lake, decades, many people have seen ...... this giant mussel has half a reed mat so big, the treasure beads have fist so big, brilliantly luminous, light said ten miles, from afar, like a fire in general.

Originally thought that this is a legend, is a metaphor for the ancients or something, but one year, I really saw the old mussel that became a spirit.

About ten years ago, I live in Shanghai Hongqiao side, there is nothing to do, a friend invited me to go fishing in Gaoyou Lake.

There are many fish and shrimp in Gaoyou, and many folk songs. Fishermen are holding small boats, casting nets on the lake to catch fish, picking rhizomes and catching river shrimp, often singing folk songs, which move people's hearts, this is life!

We rented a big boat with a canopy, with a silent old boatman, a lazy black dog and a big red rooster trapped in a knot.

There was also a small stove with a small pot set up on top, and the fish caught washed and dissected and cooked directly on the pot, with white wine, which is called out of the water fresh, the fish was fresh and delicious, together with the newly picked lozenges and fruits, beautiful as the gods.

I don't know why, but the boats around us seem to be afraid of us, showing a frightened look when they see us, and then avoiding far away.

The weather was getting dark, and I wanted to go back, but my friend told me about the famous old mussel carrying a pearl here, saying that the pearl was often seen during the Qianlong period, but few people have seen it since.

But he felt that people with a destiny will see each other, so he wanted to pull me to try.

I itself is interested in these things, so in the boat lit a lantern night fishing, waiting for the old mussels on the hook.

Not long after, the water floating, there is an object, the size of a water tank, along the water waves rushing towards us.

I also saw this time, that is indeed a large black tank, half of the tank in the water, half floating on the water, rolling along the waves, from afar, like a monster floating in the water. , , the

But friends say, this kind of tank shape is strange, let the boatman with the Penny will pull it up to see.

The vat has been floating on the water for many years, with a thick layer of scale on the outside and long green hairs floating around. I turned the jar over, found that the jar is quite light, the original jar mouth was sealed tightly, a little water can not penetrate, no wonder can float on the Yellow River.

My friend looked at it and said, "This vat is sealed by iron juice."

I looked, the mouth of the tank was filled with a layer of dark iron juice, I guess it is a sealing technology, what is so strange?

My friend, however, said that he had heard from the old man before that they were old cities here and the lake was old, from the Tang Dynasty onwards. So the old objects in this water is not like the ground, there are often some evil things, I do not know what dynasty. Before the liberation, it was dug up in the river bank bronze bell, iron rhinoceros, and then a lot of evil things happened, science can not explain, and finally only with iron juice to seal the ancient objects, re-sink into the river.

This vat is so strange, could it be something that sank into the Yellow River in the past?

The more he said, the more energetic, with the knife scraped the cylinder wall on the layer of green hair, the cylinder is revealed with a dense inscription, the text is very strange, looks like a tangle of water snakes, and like a pile of worms, but the water corrosion is too serious, can not see clearly. But even if we can see clearly, it is useless, we can not possibly read.

According to the broken cylinder research for half a day, also can not study what the door, and then use a Swiss army knife to pry the cylinder mouth of the seal iron.

The jar was soaked in water for a long time, the iron juice rusted to death, I heard a snap, the seal iron was pried off, the seal iron fell into the water, the jar in the water slowly played a turn, then from the jar came a giggling sound, sounded very strange.

My friend was startled and looked at the vat in surprise, and shouted, "This ...... vat has living things in it!"

The sudden eerie sound of strange laughter from the vat, in the empty lake far away, so that my body sweat hairs are erected.

The vat was sealed to death by iron juice, even water can not penetrate, and I do not know how many years on the river sealed, how can there be living things inside? Even if it is sealed inside a hunger and thirst of the king, suffocating also suffocated!

At this time, the sky has clouded over, overcast clouds, straight towards us, and the boat is floating in the middle of the lake, is simply no door to heaven, no way down.

I secretly screamed, the black clouds, the lake wind, it is haunted good weather, could this big lake really have ghosts?

Thought no matter what, do not be a confused ghost, so gritted his teeth, the tank pulled over, see no movement inside, before the stick into it, but get out a pile of white lime like mud, wrapped in some bright shiny particles, looks very strange.

Shovel these mud to the boat, with the Yellow River water washed a rinse, that white ash like mud, washed out a small pile of small yellow particles, weighed the weight, this is actually stuck together with the gold sand!

How can there be corn gold in this pot sealed by iron juice?

The jade gold sand stuck together was smashed to reveal something like moldy lime grains. My friend also came over, pressed his fingertips, and smelled it, and his face changed: this is bone scraps ah!

The more I looked at this weird vat, the weirder it was, I decided to hurry up and throw the vat underwater, regardless of everything to go ashore.

As a result, when pulling the vat outward with the boat, Penny a pick, but from the bottom of the vat picked up a small arm's length of iron chain, the chain wrapped with green hair, sticky blood clots, but also with a mass of small and large snails, has been extended to the water, I do not know how long.

Friends have been very nervous at this time, he tugged the chain with both hands and pulled hard, only to hear a thud under the chain, as if touching any organ, the chain was actually pulled out of the water by him.

The strange thing is that the chain began to rust very strong, the more down the new, pulling to the end, it is like being sandpaper polished, white and white, looks almost like a cut of silver, shaking my eyes are blurry.

Soon, those chains on the boat into a large plate.

Pulling and pulling, the chain suddenly did not move, at the same time, a very wonderful feeling from the chain to my heart, my cold sweat came out at once, sitting on the ground, not dare to move.

That feeling is very strange, how to describe it?

Like, like a very huge thing under the water has been staring at you, and suddenly smiled at you. Although you can not see it, but can clearly feel its presence.

And a bunch of chains coiled in the boat clattered on their own, falling into the water in a circle, and finally straightened again, pulling the vat in the water slowly turn around.

Then, you can hear a goo, a big bubble underwater, and then a large series of bubbles, and then around this lake like a pot, and constantly goo goo out of the big bubble, even the boat are swaying up, we are dead tight boat, careful to fall.

Along with the big bubbles of gurgling, the muddy yellow river water actually began to flush red, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

I do not know what this is the blood of something, even this section of the river are dyed red, just look at the blood-stained river strength, the guy must have at least a locomotive so big.

My scalp tingled, there is something under the water!

It's coming out!

We desperately call the old boatman, but he seems to be asleep, simply can not wake up.

The black dog was lying beside him, looking at us intently, we did not dare to do anything.

By this time, it was so dark that nothing could be seen on the lake, only the strong smell of blood and the huge creatures swimming back and forth underneath.

I just want to light up the lantern, but my friend scolded me, let me never light, big fish like to swallow the light, it saw the bright light in the dark underwater, will swallow the whole boat to the stomach.

At this point, a more mysterious scene occurred.

Originally dark and pitch-black night, suddenly there were several human shadows, and then there was a shadow of golden light, a few people turned around, was shocked by the underwater scenery.

It was dark to the extreme, underwater was extremely dark, but suddenly flashed a beam of bright light. The light was small at first, gradually cracked a c***k, golden light, slowly that light is getting bigger and brighter, a pillar of light rose to the sky. Only to see that the river underneath a thing as big as a desktop, shining, underwater as if by a round of red sun shining, everything underwater are clear, even the small fish swimming by the water plants can see clearly.

It was as if someone had lit a very high-degree lamp underwater, the light passed through the layers of water and reflected to the sky, as if a bright moon had appeared underwater as well.

My friend exclaimed, "The old mussel contains the pearl! The old mussel contains pearls!"

At one time, we two and surprised and happy, do not know what to say, happy is finally see the legendary miracle, scared is this underwater monsters, it is estimated that small life is difficult to protect.

The good thing is that the pearl, finally startled the old boatman, he did not even look at the pearl, a healthy step rushed to the cabin, a catch over the big red rooster, hand up the knife, the rooster's head to chop off, the chicken blood sprayed into the lake.

Then he poured the chicken blood in a broken bowl, whistled, the lazy black dog got up abruptly, picked up the blood bowl and jumped into the water, swimming toward the vat.

We watched the old boatman and the black dog's strange actions, with their movements, the water that made waves of evil objects soon calmed down, then soon the wind and waves calm, the old man regained his silence, said nothing.

My friend will come, then fluttered towards the old boatman kneeled down, said thank you old man to save lives, or just now we fed the king.

The old boatman said indifferently, this thing has nothing to do with us, the water to take something is directed at him, we just happened to catch up with it!

But when we sidetracked to ask what is underwater, he refused to say anything.

With the wind and waves calm, we also all the way back to shore safely.

When we got to shore, I looked back, the old boatman was still on board, standing there coldly, and the black dog together, like an eerie and quiet ink painting.

Really, until today, I still can't figure out the identity of the old man, as well as the strange jar, the golden sand, the dead man's bones, the iron chain, and the water monster and the giant mussel is really going on.

Perhaps, this will be left to the next person who has the right to know!