Geda already knew that black catfish was nonsense, and became more and more curious about this strange underground cave.
Song Siyuan said nothing, looking at several more stone bridges with her flashlight, and looked at the two people with a flash of light in her eyes:
"Inferi Fish!"
Song Siyuan turned the flashlight on to the brightest and introduced them to the fish.
The Customs Volume of "Natural History" once recorded a slightly legendary story.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a scholar named Sun Zuwang in Boyang County, Liu Song State. He learned that his mother was seriously ill and was about to die. He was so sad that he wanted to commit suicide by jumping into a river.
I thought of going down the river, but I didn't expect that there was someone dying by the river.
He persuaded the old man to let go of his desire to die. He persuaded him with kind words for several hours.
Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. The old man learned that his mother's time was short, so in order to thank him, he told him a strange secret recipe!
If the roots of the tree were pierced through the skull and the roots of the mushroom were pierced into the back, the tree mushroom could absorb nutrients from the soil and prolong her mother's life.
However, in this case, although his mother can live, she can only become an inferi. Like a plant, she cannot speak or move, cannot eat and excrete, and she will no longer have emotions. In the future, she can only rely on meat and mushrooms to survive. road.
The scholar wanted his mother to live, so he readily agreed and strictly followed the instructions.
From then on, he resigned from the post of teaching and educating people in the Boyang County public school and devoted himself to serving his mother at home. The county asked him to be an official many times because of his filial piety and integrity, but Sun Zuwang only thanked him and never accepted it, which won the praise of his neighbors.
Over the course of a few years, he discovered that the juice exuded from meat mushrooms was very special. After accidentally feeding it to his dolphins, chickens and ducks, they grew larger than usual.
As soon as this incident came out, the neighbors said that this was his filial piety to heaven and that the old man was helping him raise livestock.
In this way, Sun Zuwang made a lot of money by relying on extremely fat poultry and livestock.
Some people make money, and some people are jealous.
His neighbor Chen Zhongshu was a fishmonger. Seeing that the livestock raised by Sun Zuwang were so fat, he also wanted to imitate his method.
However, his father is still alive and well, so he cannot be allowed to suffer. This is not what the Son of Man would do!
If my father was paralyzed and half dead, he probably wouldn't have suffered.
Um? hemiplegia!
can i? can i?
able!
Uncle Chen Zhong thought of the jingling silver coins and the lard, so he found a reason to trick his father into the fish pond, deliberately causing him to fall into the water and drown him half to death. When he was fished out, he became a half-dead "vegetative"
Then he copied the gourd and drew the scoop, and created the Ganoderma lucidum corpse in the same way.
After everything was done, Uncle Chen Zhong used meat mushrooms to feed the fish in the river pond. Seeing that the fish in the river were taller than humans, they would definitely be fetched a good price. He was so happy that he forgot about it. He slipped and fell into the pond.
These river fish were bigger than him. As soon as they saw something falling into the water, they immediately swarmed up and bit Uncle Chen Zhong until nothing was left.
After that, the river fish's eyes became red and it flopped around in the fish pond day and night, as if something was trapped in the fish's belly.
Shortly after Chen Zhongshu's death, his father actually woke up and fed the fish with pickled fish every day. The river fish were as fat as domestic pigs, and when they were slaughtered, they cried loudly.
Folks in the countryside said that this river fish was transformed by Uncle Chen Zhong. It was classified as a legend for a while and was recorded in the natural history as "Yin corpse fish".
The so-called corpse pigling is a side method of feeding fish with corpses.
"So, this thing must have been deliberately created by people to feed these black catfish, but what's the point of this!"
Song Siyuan kept nodding her head at Ge Da's words:
"Yes, looking at the round-neck robes they are wearing, they may be boys and girls from the Haidong Shengguo era, so the construction time of this underground catfish pond should be at the same time as the Jiaolong Temple."
"I guess that this underground cave and the Jiaolong Temple were both built by the ancestors of the Chao family to protect the tombs, but the order is different."
"In what order?"
Seeing that Yue Guanchao and Geda didn't understand much, she explained to them:
"The legend of the evil dragon in Tianchi emerged as early as the early days of the Haidong Sheng Kingdom. It is a derivative of the East China Sea Spirit God and can be regarded as the clone of the Dragon God."
"The imperial family wants Du Yin Zun's mausoleum to last forever. There are many ways to protect the mausoleum. Taking strict precautions is a stupid method. The smartest people know how to use folk myths to influence the people and always achieve their goals. "
"At that time, Changbai Mountain erupted and the Tianchi Lake boiled. The court family naturally spread rumors about the angry dragon. When it spread to the countryside and people, the rumors became reality."
"It was also at this time that they proposed to build a Jiaolong Temple by the Tongtian River to appease Lord Jiaolong. Naturally, everyone supported it, and the Jiaolong Temple was naturally established."
"Their first step was accomplished."
Song Siyuan looked at the large sarcophagus:
"The second step is how to make the people believe that Lord Jiaolong really exists."
"Only living animals can do this. They found a way to raise corpses to feed black catfish. Over time, the catfish atmosphere will become abnormal. When people see such a big catfish, they will be superstitious and think it is a god. trace."
"The first two steps are not the most difficult. The most difficult thing is how to form a customary rule so that the people fear and respect Lord Jiaolong and reduce their opportunities to spy on Tianchi."
"This is the third step of worshiping God."
