Mystery Leaks

Chapter 92 The Past Fifteen Years Ago

"Grandma Qiu, what's the matter with that well?" I took advantage of the situation and asked.

Grandma Qiu put down the photo album, and said slowly: "That well is a Suolongjing, and there is a dragon locked under it, which controls the feng shui of our Jinpen Township. It is the Dragon King, so we can't bury it."

"Longjing lock?!" I frowned slightly, I've heard the name before, but I don't understand what it means at all.

I don't believe that dragons are not dragons; Hu Lai told me with certainty that dragons are things in myths and legends, and do not exist in reality.

"Under the Longjing lock, there is a dragon rope, and the dragon is tied under it, but you must not pull it, otherwise, if you offend the Dragon King below, it will be terrible. Back then, the Japanese went to the countryside to pull it, and many died. Here you go." Grandma Qiu said.

After that, she opened up the conversation box and slowly told us the story of a century and a half ago.

In the 40s, Grandma Qiu was only a teenager, and just after she married into Jinpen Township, the Japanese invaded. A team of Japanese soldiers came to the village, led by a Japanese officer named Noda; they were very strange and unusual. The Japanese soldiers returned to the county after collecting and scraping the grain like that, but stayed in Jinpen Township.The weapons are also different from other Japanese soldiers. Other Japanese soldiers hold long guns, while they hold short guns. They rarely bully the common people. They live in seclusion and let the villagers take them up the mountain every day.

After going back and forth for half a year, finally one night, there were strange cries of wild animals and explosions on the mountain, which lasted all night.The next morning, only three of the more than 50 Japanese soldiers in the team returned, covered in blood, including Officer Noda.

A few days later, Officer Noda went back to the county to recruit the gendarmerie. More than 300 Japanese soldiers and traitors went up the mountain again. That night, the strange noises from the mountain became more intense, and the sound of explosions shook the mountain. Even the cannons were used. At dawn the next day, there were less than thirty people who came back, all of them were injured, and several of them went crazy.

No one knows what happened on the mountain, because the traitors are all dead, the Japanese soldiers are downcast, and they can't speak Lingnan dialect, so there is no way to know.

The maintenance committee announced that the Japanese would go into the mountains to fight bandits, but most people didn't believe it, because there would be no creepy screams of wild animals when fighting bandits.

Officer Noda suffered two blows, and his nature was exposed. He led the remaining Japanese soldiers to arrest all the strong men in the village to fasten the dragon-tying ropes in the Longjing.

It was a very, very long iron chain. After pulling it out for a while, all the strong men in the village couldn't pull it anymore. The water in the well was yellow and smelly.

Officer Noda ordered everyone to use all their strength, and then the Japanese soldiers dropped bombs one by one into Suolongjing. When they threw them, they shouted and shouted, their eyes were red and crazy, but no one understood what they were shouting. .

The bombs were effective, and every time a bomb was thrown, the dragon rope could be pulled out a little more. In the end, there was blood in the well, and muffled roars could be heard underground.

But gradually, the dragon rope could no longer be pulled, and it was useless even if the Japanese soldiers frantically shot and dropped bombs into the well.It was not until the bullets were exhausted that Officer Noda had to stop temporarily.But he did not give up. Instead, he asked the villagers to make a large winch and pulled it with seven cows to prevent the dragon rope from retracting. He waited for the support of the county gendarmerie.

No one expected that that night, Noda disappeared collectively with thirty Japanese soldiers under his command, and the seven cows disappeared with them.

Some villagers heard the screams of cows and people, but no one knew what happened, and the dragon-tying rope was retracted down the well.

Some people speculated that Noda left with the Japanese soldiers, and others speculated that the Dragon Lord from the well climbed up at night and ate them all, including the seven cows.There is everything to say, and people are panicked for a while.

Later, the gendarmerie from the county came again, arrested some villagers and sent them back for interrogation.And those villagers who were arrested for interrogation never came back.

Since then, Suolongjing has been gradually abandoned, because no one dared to approach it, and weeds gradually grew up, covering the mouth of the well.

For more than ten years, Jinpen Township suffered from floods and mountain torrents every year. The villagers lived a very difficult life. Not to mention the collapse of houses, many people were drowned and swept away, not to mention the crops. Once the mountain torrent passed through the silt several feet deep, all crops were lost, and people began to flee in large numbers because they couldn't survive.

The township also wondered whether the Dragon King under Suo Longjing blamed the villagers for helping the Japanese soldiers to injure it, so floods occurred every year, and many mages were invited to do it, but it had no effect at all.

Until one day a Taoist priest came from the village. After seeing the lock dragon well, he repeated his sins and asked every household to prepare half a catty of blood food and throw it into the well. A Dragon King Temple was built next to it, where incense is worshiped during festivals.

It turned out to be a little bit better. The waterlogging stopped, and then the weather basically went smoothly, with occasional flash floods, but it wasn’t as serious as it used to be.

The days passed day by day, and the weather gradually got used to it. In addition, the older generation gradually withered, and the villagers gradually stopped worshiping the Dragon King. In the end, nothing happened, and the weather was still smooth.

That's how people are, since nothing will happen if you don't worship, then save some meat, meat is precious in those days.

After coming and going, the Dragon King Temple gradually became deserted and collapsed, and even the traces of brick and soil were completely removed when the four old ones were removed.

Today, 60 years later, the past of the well has been completely forgotten. The villagers only know that there is spring water there. The older generation still vaguely knows that it is a well, but they don't know what happened to the well.

The most important reason is that there is no accurate statement about that incident at all. Everyone spread it by word of mouth, and no one knew who to believe. Anyway, the Japanese soldiers did not understand a word.

But Grandma Qiu was convinced, because that night she heard the screams of people and cows, and the sound of iron chains falling back into the well.

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After quietly listening to Grandma Qiu finish speaking, I was a little shocked.

Regardless of whether the so-called Dragon King is real or not, but the Japanese entered the mountain for real. There are clear records in the county annals that the Japanese once went up the mountain to suppress bandits.

But from Grandma Qiu's words, there seemed to be another possibility for the "suppression of bandits"; they were not suppressing bandits, but plotting something in Jinpen Mountain.

No one would bring short guns to suppress bandits, it was no different from seeking death, and they stayed in Jinpen Township for half a year.

What kind of terrain needs to be explored for so long?Nine Palaces Bagua Formation?

According to the records in the county annals, the Japanese went up the mountain to suppress the bandits, but they were defeated and many people died.

This shocked me a little, even the Japanese have been staring at Jinpenshan?What is there on the mountain?Is it for Kailing to steal cultural relics?Back then, the cultural relics in Huaxia land were indeed scrapped miserably, and all the good things were moved to that island.

"The Dragon King is right under the well. If we don't enshrine it, we can't fill his old man's house. Your grandfather was not born at that time, and now there is a severe drought in the village. The Dragon King must be the one to blame." Grandma Qiu sighed. road.

I didn't know how to answer, I couldn't say bad things about grandpa, and I couldn't refute grandma Qiu, so I could only laugh along with her.

Before, Huang Mao and I discussed whether there was a drought in Jinpen Township, which caused the unprecedented severe drought. Huang Mao said it was possible.

But now from Grandma Qiu's mouth, it was my grandfather who offended the Dragon Lord by filling the well, and the Dragon Lord did not allow rain, so there was a severe drought.

Both versions seem to make sense, but there can only be one truth.

I believe in Hanba's judgment, the reason is very simple, my grandfather did not fill the well this year, but when I was a child, more than ten years ago.

If it offended Lord Dragon, it took more than ten years to think of offending Jinpen Township and preventing it from raining?Isn't this reaction too slow?

You know, the past ten years have been smooth and the weather has been smooth, and there have been basically no droughts or floods.

I think Grandma Qiu's statement is worthy of scrutiny. She may have exaggerated some things. People like to talk about strange things when they are old.

Even so, I decided to ask the question I wanted to ask the most during this trip. Whether she has reason or not, it doesn’t hurt to listen, so I said, “Grandma Qiu, if that well is dug now, will it rain? ?”

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(End of this chapter)