The sand and stones are excavated by excavators and roughly separated from the sand and stones. These are white river sand and pebbles, which are very high-quality building materials. They have always been sold well.
The shipping company basically has no other business and relies on this sand and gravel to support the entire company and dozens of people.
These people have nothing to do. They all like to wander around and see if they can find some good things in the sand and rocks at the bottom of the river.
That day, they really fished something good out of the river, a bronze jar, engraved with complicated and clumsy patterns. Although none of the people working on the ship could tell clearly what was so good about this bronze jar, they all estimated that
It's a good thing and valuable!
One said it was worth two thousand, and the other said it must be more than that, maybe fifty thousand.
After a few words, we started to quarrel. The main reason was that everyone had a share and said that they were the owners of this jar!
Wan Laizi stopped the man and asked, "What does the bronze jar you are talking about look like?"
The man made gestures for a long time, but he couldn't explain clearly.
Wan Laizi said: "The things in this river are evil, haven't you heard from the elders?"
The man became embarrassed. The people in the shipping company were all fishermen who lived on boats before liberation, and spent their whole lives floating on the water. They were deeply afraid of this big river, which is what some older generations call the big river.
There are also many taboos.
For example, you cannot turn over when eating fish. This is a taboo that exists all over the country. However, women cannot get on boats, which is a taboo that exists in many places, but it does not exist here in this small county!
Because at that time, many fishermen made their home on the boat. The whole family was on the water, and the boat was their home. It is impossible to say that women cannot get on the boat. However, there are still some sayings that have been passed down from generation to generation, and you must abide by them.
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For example, if something of unknown origin is fished out from the river, it is the treasure of the Dragon Prince. Mortals cannot greedily occupy it, otherwise they will be unlucky. They must send it back to the Dragon Prince.
Since the little fat man's family works in a shipping company, his ancestors must have been fishermen and they definitely know these taboos. But after so many years, people nowadays are no longer very particular about breaking down feudal superstitions.
Even the descendants of these fishermen have almost forgotten these things. When nothing happens, no one will remember it, especially when it comes to things that may be worth a lot of money!
Speaking of which, this big river is what the old people call it. It is the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, and its surface is several hundred meters wide.
Although Ding Li is not from the river (Note 1), he has heard his uncle talk about many things on the river.
Ding Li's uncle Shen Ye has very good medical skills, and he can easily cure many diseases that cannot be cured by big hospitals. But he does not like to treat people, but likes to fish. In the words of his uncle,
Wandering in the rivers and lakes, I put my wealth on a boat.
This was written by Uncle Ding Li himself. Ding Li couldn't tell whether it was good or not. He just knew that his uncle always said that he was from a scholarly family.
Ding Li thinks this is nonsense. His uncle's cousin's grades are not as good as Ding Li's, and he has no interest in going to school. He can't see how he is scholarly?
Ding Li is a local ghost. Despite his young age, he always likes to wander around. Although his uncle's family lives in the countryside, Ding Li often goes there to play.
People often come from other provinces, traveling hundreds of miles to seek treatment from Uncle Ding Li.
Uncle Ding Li shrank down on the wicker chair outside his body, hugged his knees and dozed off, not very willing to talk to others.
Anyway, his family doesn't have a medical clinic. Basically, he doesn't even charge for medical treatment, and often wastes the money spent on medicine.
Uncle Ding Li only likes to drink wine and eat fish. Ding Li estimates that this is the reason why his uncle likes fishing. If someone who knows his temper comes and brings him a few kilograms of good wine and some good fish, Uncle Ding Li will
Very happy....
Ding Li often drank and chatted with his uncle. Sometimes when he was happy, he would drink as much wine as he could until it was almost dark at night. Only then did he remember that he had not even finished the work in the fields.
What Uncle Ding Li likes to tell the most is the stories in the river, what fish are delicious, how to eat them, and how to catch them.
Then sometimes I would sigh: "There are dragons and snakes in the river!"
Ding Li didn't know if there were dragons and snakes in the river, but at that time Ding Li had seen carp whose head was as big as a door panel, let alone how big the body of the fish was.
Later, ten or twenty years later, Ding Li saw news on the Internet that Chinese carp had invaded the United States. It was said that Chinese carp had arrived in the United States because they had no natural predators, so there were more and more of them and they were getting bigger and bigger. In the photo that was distributed,
The fish are as big as a child!
Many people seem to be surprised, it is the first time they know that carp can grow so big. But for mainland China, these are common in the past, and such big fish can often be seen selling in small counties!
Ding Li heard about the real big fish from his uncle, who said that there was a fish as big as a house in another county near the small county.
That county seat is also on the bank of a big river, upstream of the small county seat, close to Wudang Mountain. When the reservoir was built in 1958, the county seat was already submerged to the bottom. In recent years, a very famous claim is that it is 70 meters clean and without water.
A pure water brand that draws water from a polluted water source invests in building a factory in that reservoir area and draws water from that reservoir area.
Ding Li has never understood what's so good about the water seventy meters below. Just thinking about the county town that was flooded below, Ding Li has no interest in drinking that kind of water.
I must have said so much that many friends have already guessed where the small county seat is. However, the author still cannot explain it clearly because many things involve real people and real events. To avoid trouble, it is better to be a little vague!
It is said that in the past, in that county, a fish as big as a house stranded on the shore and died. The locals thought it was the Dragon King appearing and built a small temple with fish bones.
Ding Li's uncle also said that when the weather is fine, you can see the underwater county town from wherever you stand, and the fish bone temple is also vaguely visible.
However, Ding Li later became short-sighted and could not see the old county town under the water several times, let alone the fish bone temple.
In short, Ding Li didn't know if there was anything evil going on in the river, but it was definitely more mysterious than he imagined!
Uncle Ding Li also said that when he was young, he followed fish frying in the river. In his words, it was called "catching fish". It seemed that it was a task assigned by the superiors to catch some strange fish in the river.
At that time, Uncle Ding Li somehow managed to get involved with the fishing team, so he released fish in the river, and then used a boat to pull more than a dozen fishing nets ahead.
When fish in the depths of the river are frightened by the waves and try to escape, they will get into the fishing nets themselves.
But something obviously happened that time. As soon as the bomb exploded, I saw a wave of water rushing out like a torpedo. The dozens of fishing nets laid out in front were not able to stop them, and they all had holes as big as basketballs.