At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Fang Guozhen, the general of the rebel army, was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang and floated into the sea.
When the ship of the general surnamed Yan was about to land, a hurricane suddenly blew on the sea, and when it was about to destroy the ship, a dragon flew out of the sea, and everywhere it passed, the wind died down, and the sea returned to calm.
The general surnamed Yan was grateful for the dragon's life-saving grace, so he named the place where he settled Hailong Village, and also built a dragon king temple in the village to worship the dragon.
On the ninth day of the fifth month of May every year, that is, the day when the dragon saves his family, the clan will hold a large-scale temple fair to commemorate the ancestors' desperate death, and at the same time express that the villagers do not forget the saving grace of the dragon.
Since the ancestors of the Yan army settled here, the villagers have been fishing for generations, and as long as the fisherman goes out to sea to see this dragon, it means that he has handed in good luck.
Because after the dragon disappeared, fishermen could reap a lot of fish by going to the place where it appeared, so the dragon has always been respected by the villagers.
"That's a good thing."
Qi Lu then asked: "But uncle, what I don't understand is that this has anything to do with the custom of not welcoming strangers in the village."
"Actually, the people in the village are also hospitable, but it's just that you didn't come at the right time today."
Qi Lu asked: "How do you say this?"
"Since 30 years ago, there has been a ritual of atonement every 10 years, and for seven days before the ceremony, villagers are strictly forbidden to talk to outsiders in the village.
Villagers and households in the surrounding areas who are aware of our customs will deliberately refrain from coming to our village during this time to avoid embarrassment to each other.
According to the old man, if someone talks to a stranger during this time, it will cause the wrath of the dragon, which will bring bad luck to the village. ” It turned out that what was going on, no wonder the village was deserted, and I ignored it when I asked someone to ask.
Qi Lu hurriedly got up to apologize to Yan Jun, and at the same time wondered why the old man would take the initiative to greet him, wasn't he afraid that a villager would poke him in the back of his back Yan Jun's face looked sad, and he muttered, "Xiao Qi, you don't have to apologize.
In the past, the dragon benefited the villagers, but now it is a man-eating demon."
Qi Lu was taken aback, and he hurriedly asked, "Uncle, why do you say that?"
The old man sighed and told him in detail why.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the whole country was breaking the feudal superstitious thoughts, and the people of Hailong Village strictly kept the secret in secret in order not to let the outside world disturb their ritual of sacrificing the dragon.
In this way, there was no peace, but an incident occurred more than 30 years ago that completely shattered the tranquility of Hailong Village.
It was a rare dry season in a century, and someone dug a well at the head of the village, as if digging through the sea, and blue water came out of the well, but the water was very sweet and did not have the salty taste of seawater.
When everyone was rejoicing, a strange fish corpse floated out of the well.
The corpse resembles the corpse of a legendary mermaid, with its upper body resembling a human, but its head has no hair, and its forelimbs are similar to human arms, except that the palms of the hands are webbed, and the lower half of the body is a fishtail.
Let's say it's a mermaid, but it's different, this corpse is covered with fish scales except for the face, and it looks much uglier than the legendary mermaid, and you can only vaguely recognize it as a female.
Just when everyone was talking about how to deal with this strange corpse, everyone found that there was a colorful light at the bottom of the well, and it seemed that there was something strange hidden at the bottom of the well.
The villagers did not dare to make their own decisions, so they told the village chief about the matter, and the village chief could not make up his mind, and finally convened a village meeting to discuss the matter, and finally voted to send a few watery offspring to dive into the bottom of the well to find out.
Yan Jun was one of the young people who was selected at that time, and he and three other fellow villagers put on the diving suits that the village had raised money to buy, and jumped into the well to dive into the dark depths.
I don't know how many meters I swam down, and the waterproof searchlight in Yan Jun's hand shone on the blue side in front of me, flashing and flashing, but I still couldn't see what was shining.
Yan Jun was young and bold at that time, and when he saw the movement, he swam forward for a while, and suddenly his leg was pulled by the people accompanying him behind, and his pull also made Yan Jun stop sneaking.
This time, looking down at the place where the light was shining, they finally saw what the blue light was, and at the same time almost scared the swimmers to death.
It turned out that there was a group of corpses in front of them, and the corpses were glowing with blue points of light, which looked extremely gloomy under the light of the flashlight.
But what is strange is that these corpses have been soaked in the sea for an unknown amount of time, and there is no sign of decay, but lying still at the bottom of the water and arranged very neatly, as if they have just died.
It was the first time for everyone to see so many corpses together, and Yan Jun felt the hairs on his body stand up, and at the same time, he also found that these large numbers of corpses were very similar to the strange corpse that surfaced from the well.
A junior plucked up the courage to swim over, and when he saw that there was no danger, he beckoned everyone to swim over.
Although Yan Hua was afraid, he still swam over with everyone to check the situation.
The corpses appeared to have died of natural causes, with no scars on their bodies, but they were clearly placed under the water in a special orientation.
Just when everyone was guessing what was going on, Yan Hua saw that the seven brilliances lit up not far in front of him again.
Several of them noticed the place where the light was emanating and swam towards it, only to find that it was a fist-sized orb of light when they got closer.
Rich, this is a priceless treasure, maybe it is the legendary pearl of the night, everyone scrambled to swim towards the orb, everyone wanted to be the first to get the orb, completely forgetting that the danger was coming.
Just as they were about to approach the orb, the bead suddenly moved, and it seemed to realize the greed of Yan Hua and the others, and it actually swam like a living thing, away from the plundering of everyone.
Yan Hua and the others were red-eyed, and they were all chasing after them, but no one thought about why such a strange thing happened.
When Yan Hua was chasing the orb, he suddenly felt that something was wrong behind him, he instinctively looked back, and was suddenly startled by the scene in front of him The corpses of the half-man, half-fish lying on the bottom of the sea actually came to life, and pounced on them with teeth and claws At this moment, everyone was frightened, and they no longer dared to pursue the orb, and they all swam in the direction they came, desperately trying to escape from this strange place.
Fortunately, this group of young men had been fishing all year round, and the water was very good, and the speed of swimming was unmatched, and they shook off the floating corpses that were chasing them, and swam out of the well and crawled back to the ground.
The villagers watching from the well saw their pale faces and were about to ask what had happened, when suddenly they heard a loud noise, the well collapsed, stirring up dust in the sky, and the villagers who were watching the bustle quickly fled to safety.
When Yan Hua and the others regained their senses and told everyone what had happened, few people believed what they said.
In the end, the village chief sent a message, telling everyone to go back and rest, and then dig the well tomorrow, and then send more people with weapons to dive underwater to confirm the incident.
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But something even stranger happened, after digging for many days, no more water came out of the well, and the dug out was only the loess and stones, as if the well had never seen water at all.
Gradually, some people felt that things were very strange and began to believe what Yan Hua and others said.
But the village chief insisted on going his own way, and still arranged for people to continue digging.
At this time, the village presided over the annual temple of the dragon to speak, he thought that this was a sea eye, maybe the villagers wanted to steal the treasure and disturbed the gods at the bottom of the sea, so the gods appeared to prevent them from snooping into the secrets hidden deep in the seabed.
However, the village chief was obsessed with money, and he was so bent on getting the jewel that he refused to listen to whoever came to persuade him, and insisted on digging the well again.
Miaozhu and the village chief had a dispute because of this matter, neither of them could convince each other, and the people who participated in digging the well were also tired, and at the same time they were worried that they would anger Shenlong as Miaozhu said, so everyone did not wait for the village chief's orders, and dispersed in twos and threes.
Seeing that the people were not in harmony, the village chief had no choice but to give up, and prepared to hold a mobilization meeting in a few days to let the villagers continue to dig the well.
But things took a turn that night.
Speaking of this, the old man's face seemed to be distorted, and after a long time, he slowly said, "The divine dragon has turned into a demon since that night. ” He said it bleakly.
Qi Lu wanted to continue asking, but he shuddered coldly, because he felt the pain in Yan Hua's heart.
That night, the village chief's daughter felt a strange itch in her neck and couldn't help but scratch her hands all night.
She scratched a lot of wounds, and by the next day, the wounds were scarred and looked very ugly.
The village chief's daughter scrubbed for hours before she cleaned her neck.
Then I looked in the mirror and saw that there were large patches of fiery red tender skin on both sides of the neck, and the scars on the surface of the skin took on the shape of black-purple or brown water chestnuts, which were overlapped and had jagged protrusions on the edges, which looked like fish scales.
The village chief's daughter was so frightened that the mirror fell to the ground and shattered, and her husband panicked and hurried to the village barefoot doctor to see him.
When the doctor came, he was helpless and recommended that the woman be sent to a hospital in the city for treatment.
The family traveled to hospitals all over the province, and the doctors had never seen this strange disease with fish scales on the body, let alone an effective treatment plan.
The family had no choice but to return to the village, but the matter was not over, the scales on the woman's body grew more and more, and then spread all over the body, and new wounds formed in some places with long scales, and from time to time yellow-white mucus flowed, exuding a foul-smelling fishy smell.
The woman became such a person, and the people in the village were sympathetic at first, but later they all regarded her as a monster and avoided her. i0 t1706231537: