"Li Yishan has his first famous work: the pearl of the sea and the moon has tears, the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking, the son knows, why does the bead have tears?"
Kong Zhou put down the wine gourd and looked up and asked.
Liu Xuzhu was interested, "I would like to hear about it." ” Jinhua's "Naturalist" records: There are sharks in the South China Sea, and the water dwells like fish, and its eyes can cry beads, and the name of this allusion is called shark people crying beads.
It means that there is a shark in the South China Sea, which lives like a fish in the water, and when it cries, its tears can turn into beautiful pearls.
The Taiping Yulan also recorded a story that there was a mermaid called Quanke in the South China Sea, who came out of the water to play and lived in a house for many days, and when she saw that the rice jar was empty, and the master was going to sell silk yarn to make a living, she asked the master for a vessel, and wept bitterly at it, and her weeping tears turned into beads, filled a plate, and gave it to the master to help him get through the difficulties. ” "These fishmen are really kind-hearted."
Liu Xuzhu sighed.
The corners of Kong Zhou's mouth curled, and he let out a cold snort, "The house is kind-hearted, do you know how they will end?"
” "How are they?"
"The fish man can cry a limited number of tears in his life, if he weeps too much, he will become a blood bead, and the fish man who weeps blood beads may be blind in the light, and the heavy one will die soon.
But when they saw how precious the pearl was, they imprisoned the fish-man and whipped her day and night, making her weep all day long, and collecting the fish-man's tears to sell for money. ” "So, the fishman who saved people later died in tears?"
"Yes, she only wanted to save people, but she didn't think about it, but she aroused the evil thoughts of human beings, and finally put her life on the line."
Liu Xujiao suddenly remembered something, he frowned and looked at Kong Zhou, "By the way, I once heard Xi Cheng say that in the past, there were often pearl sellers in the night market in this village, and I also had a dream that the people in the market had become fish people with fish tails, isn't it."
Kong Zhou lowered his head, "You guessed right, this bridge is built by the fishmen, after they go ashore, it takes a stick of incense to change from the fish's tail to a human body, this bridge is to keep the fish's tail from being worn out on the sand, gravel and mud by the river, and specially built, after crossing this bridge, the fishmen will enter the human world, and exchange pearls for what they need." ” Liu Xuzhu suddenly realized, "No wonder this bridge is in the water at one end and at the entrance of the village at the other, it turns out that it is a passage connecting the two worlds."
His eyes lit up, his voice amplified several times, and he almost shouted, "So, isn't that Miss Leng a human, but a fish man?"
” Kong Zhou nodded slightly, "So before she died, all she thought about was this bridge, she wanted to go back to the water, but there was a great drought at that time, if she wanted to go back, it was no longer possible." ” "Then there are only two questions left, first, why did Miss Leng grow up in the Leng family since she was a fish man; Second, why did she want to go back when she became an adult, and why did she die tragically at the hands of those villagers. ” "I can only think of half of the first question, you just said that there were people in this village who used to sell pearls at the night market, and judging from the appearance of this coral bridge, those fish people and the villagers should have been in contact with each other for a long time, so the relationship between the fish people and the villagers should have gotten along well at that time.
Maybe one day, those fishmen encountered some insurmountable difficulties, so they entrusted Miss Leng to one of the villagers, and that person was Master Leng. ” Brother Kong's reasoning is right, which explains why there are no fish-people in the river now, because they are likely to be wiped out because of that difficulty.
But what kind of problem did they encounter that left Miss Leng alone in the entire group?
” "That's the other half of the question that I can't answer, and as for the second question, I think it's very likely to be connected to the first one, so as long as we figure out the reason for the fish-man extermination, it will have a solution."
At this point, the context of the whole thing has gradually become clear, but the mystery of the fish-man extermination is still unsolved, and they can only stand still and cannot move forward at all.
The wine in Kong Zhou's gourd was almost drunk by him, and he simply turned the wine gourd on his index finger leisurely, round and round, faster and faster.
"Big brother, hey, Brother Kong, it turns out that you are also here, I have been looking for you for a long time."
Xi Cheng's voice came from the other end of the bridge, the wine gourd stopped rotating, and stopped steadily in Kong Zhou's hand, his still messy heart also settled down in an instant, and a pair of eyes watched the child panting towards him quietly.
Xi Cheng gasped for a long time before straightening up, he looked at the two people in front of him, "I asked for some news, about the great drought ten years ago. ” "What is it?"
Liu Xuzhu hurriedly asked.
"Erniuzi's mother said that the drought that year was because the people in the village offended the dragon king, so there was no rain for three consecutive years, so that the river dried up, and the seedlings died of drought.
"Lord Dragon?"
Kong Zhou repeated these three words, then looked back at the surging river, and did not speak for a long time.
"Brother Kong, did you think of something?"
Liu Xuzhu was afraid of interrupting his thoughts, so he asked in a low voice.
"I'm wondering why that fish-man should have lived in the South China Sea, but why did he come to the Jade River to thrive?"
"Leaving home is usually a last resort."
Liu Xuzhu said to himself.
"I have no choice but to do so."
Kong Zhouwu repeated these four words, he suddenly clenched the wine gourd, looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, "Yes, they were forced to leave their hometown and come to the Yuhe River, thousands of miles away, but what they didn't expect was that the thing that forced them to leave their hometown did not stop there, and many years later, they came to the door again." ” Liu Xuzhu listened a little stupidly, "Who forced the fish people to leave the South China Sea?"
” Kong Zhou laughed, "Dragon King." ” There is a story in the "Notes on the Water Classic": it is said that a scholar caught a small snake when he was a child and raised it, and when the snake grew up, the scholar carried it on his back, so it was named "Dansheng".
But as the snake grew bigger and bigger, the scholar could no longer carry it, so he released it into the swamp.
After many, many years, the serpent turned into a giant serpent and devoured pedestrians near the swamp.
At this time, the scholar was already old, and when he heard about it, he came to visit the swamp.
The serpent came out to attack, so the scholar called: "Dansheng", and when the serpent heard it, he hung his head and left.
When the people in the county town heard about it, they arrested the scholar and wanted him to be put to death.
Dan Sheng heard the scholar sighing in the cell, and his heart was resentful, so that night, the entire county fell to the bottom of the lake, and only the cell where the scholar was held was left on the ground.