Just like the ghost story just now, it is also an anecdote that his grandfather Wu Youqian experienced when he was young and worked as a river worker on the Yangtze River...
In the autumn of a certain year, a wandering Taoist priest who was said to be able to read Feng Shui came to the river workers. He said that there was an ancient tomb in a certain bend in the Yangtze River nearby, hiding a very valuable treasure. Ask the river workers
Are you willing to go get it with him?
If it were now, no one would dare to do such a thing. But in the troubled times of the old society, no one cared about it at all. If you don't go, it will be in vain!
So most of the river workers happily followed the wandering Taoist priest in his boat - Wu Youqian was certainly among them.
After sailing for about an hour, the river team arrived at a bend in the river.
The river made a big bend here, and then was sandwiched between two huge peaks, forming an S-shaped river bend.
After the boat stopped, the wandering Taoist priest held a compass in his hand, searched everywhere, and finally determined the location. He asked the river workers to use various salvage tools to start fishing for things in the water...
At first, only some river sand was taken out of the river. But gradually, some weird things began to appear in the river sand!
There were half-broken white jade bracelets, fine pieces of gold and silver, some broken bottles and jars, and some broken and weird bronzes... In short, all kinds of treasures were indeed salvaged from the river.
Everyone's eyes were straightened and their breathing became heavy.
Originally, most of the people who worked as river workers were from poor families and were at the bottom of society. Can you be excited when you first see so many old objects?
The wandering Taoist priest was also a little excited and loudly told everyone that all he wanted was a colorful bead. It was about the size of a human head and would shine on its own. The rest would belong to the river workers!
Although after hearing this guy's description, the colorful beads as big as a human head are very valuable, the river workers are still honest. After all, they are the ones who lead the way, so they should be given everything.
The salvage lasted for about an hour, and we did get the colorful beads that the wandering Taoist priests needed. Of course, there was also a whole boatload of gold, silver and jewelry!
It is enough to make the entire river engineering team prosperous and wealthy for a lifetime.
The huge harvest made everyone very happy.
Only one senior, gray-haired old river worker seemed a little worried. He thought for a while and said to everyone: "Brothers, the Taoist priest said earlier that he was looking for treasures in ancient tombs under water, so we will follow suit.
It’s here. But look, can an ordinary ancient tomb contain so many treasures? And it doesn’t look like it belongs to the same dynasty. So I think this is probably not an underwater tomb, but a filial piety from the River God.”
The so-called river god is, of course, the patron saint of each basin section of the Yangtze River according to folklore!
After all, the Yangtze River is the largest river in China, with a vast, large and deep basin, so the people along the coast always imagine that all kinds of gods, immortals, demons and ghosts live in it.
However, under the temptation of huge wealth, no one could listen to the old river worker's words.
Even Wu Youqian also laughed at him: "Old Zhaotou, you are too cautious. Legend has it that the river god in our area is bigger than the mountain and lives in a huge palace at the bottom of the river. Such a small boat,
We look at it too much, but in the eyes of the River God, he is just a piece of shit and has nothing to do with it, haha."
As for the Taoist priest who guided them here, he was holding the colorful beads the size of a human head and his eyes were shining with a look of obsession. He probably had no sense at all!
There was no way, Old Zhaotou could only sigh - of course he himself was very tempted by these gold and silver treasures. Once he gritted his teeth, he stopped caring about them.
Seeing that the sun hanging in the sky was about to set, the river crew immediately drove the boat back. As a result, on the way back, strange things happened one after another...
First, the river workers who had directly touched the gold and silver treasures began to vomit non-stop, with vomiting and diarrhea. They even vomited out yellow bile and still couldn't stop it!
Later, we even saw some tiny maggot-like things squirming in the vomit, and everyone was frightened. The wandering Taoist priest who took the lead had a solemn expression, took out a slender silver needle, and took out another
After the yellow talisman paper is lit, use the flame to burn the silver needle.
Then, each of them was pricked three times three inches below the right ear with a hot silver needle. These people spit out several mouthfuls of black blood before finally regaining their breath.
Seeing this scene, Wu Youqian was a little worried.
He came to the gray-haired old river worker and asked, "Old Zhaotou, do you think something will really happen? These things are really the treasures of the River God?"
Old Zhaotou also hesitated, nodded, and shook his head. Finally he sighed: "Oh, I don't know. But I think we have been deceived by this Taoist priest? Looking at him like that, he just wants to
Use our hands to get those colorful beads!"
Wu Youqian looked back at Tao Shu, who was holding colorful beads and smiling foolishly. He frowned slightly and agreed with the old river worker's opinion.
However... although they took advantage of the river workers, they did fish out a lot of gold and silver treasures! As long as they can go back smoothly, the entire river workers will have no worries about food, clothing, prosperity and wealth for the rest of their lives.
No one can resist this temptation!
It is no longer realistic for everyone to leave their gold and silver treasures behind.
However, I don’t know what happened that day, but it got dark very early! It was just before six o’clock, and the sky was as dark as if God had knocked over the ink bottle.
The river workers could only turn on the search light on the bow of the boat and drive the boat slower. Be careful not to hit anything dirty at night. After all, there are many taboos when sailing on the Yangtze River at night.
Old Zhaotou said to Wu Youqian with a worried expression: "It is a taboo to sail at night and not return! I am very worried."
At this time, as the sky turned completely dark early, the other river workers also became a little scared.
Because according to the ancient legends of the people who live by the river, at night, the monsters in the deep water begin to move! The giant python in the river, which is more than ten meters long, and the river louse king, who can suck human blood like a buffalo, can eat people.
Animal-like deep river water vines... all kinds of weird things in the Yangtze River will appear in the surging river water at night!
Legend has it that there is also a kind of wild dog that appears in groups in deep river areas at night!
According to the old people, it is a water monster unique to the section of the Yangtze River where Wu Youqian and the others live. It is a thing that looks like a wild dog, but it is wet and slimy and disgusting. It usually lurks deep in the middle of the river.
In the mud or river sand, dozens of them come out in groups at night, often attacking cruise ships on the river and eating the crew.